How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You…
Welcome to the Mastering Midlife Podcast where we explore life at it’s most stressful, and most productive.
Featuring conversations with experts in the field of Mental Health, Executive Leadership, Business, Health, Exercise, Nutrition, Sex and Relationship. Midlife is a powerful time, and together we will learn to “thrive when the world asks the most of us.”
I speak daily to successful men and women who are Sales Leaders, Executives and Entrepreneurs who know how to get to the top. The common issue I hear is that drive and motivation that propelled us to success in our 20s and 30s, is unsustainable into our 40s and 50s. We need to create a different way to keep the fire, be creative and maintain our sanity. All the while, still growing our business and supporting our families.
To thrive with sustainable success, we need a new level of Mastery around Leadership, Money, Success, Relationship and Health for this next chapter in our career and life. The pressures of promotions, increased goals, kids, college, elderly parents and our own health siphon time and energy from our once relentless pursuit of success and a new set of tools need to be developed
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On the Mastering Midlife Podcast we try to cover every topic in every area that you could possibly encounter on your journey through life. An impossible goal, of course.
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