THE Podcast for Midlife | Experience 50 A midlife podcast… because 50 is tricky. If your friends are telling you how great their 50s are, they’re lying. Okay, maybe not lying… but not telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I’m Mary Rogers asking you to…
“I was at first very tempted to just shut down and Bonsai myself- keeping myself emotionally protected from love.” Karen Salmansohn, best selling author of Prince Harming Syndrome On occasion, does a choice of words just strike you? In reading Karen Salmansohn’s book, Prince Harming Syndrome, about choosing better men, the above quote hit…
Yes, our generation created millennials. For good, for bad. Entitled, narcissistic, lazy? Simon Sinek is interviewed on how corporations manage this group that was raised with “failed parenting strategies”. A friend brought this video to my attention and it is absolutely worth your time to watch it.
Making Midlife Easier: Five Powerful Phrases To Lean On Midlife can be tough. So, let’s make it easier. I consistently hear from my Experience 50 Podcast listeners that they never expected this stage of life to be so exciting or so challenging. Some don’t even recognize their feelings, can’t even…
In midlife, the month of June is a significant period in making decisions about marriage and divorce. Why? Because it is the month of high school graduations. Many husbands and wives have waited until their youngest child graduates from high school to file for divorce. What one spouse finds to…
Later today I’m appearing as a guest on Todd Sargeant’s morning radio show in Australia. Yes, Australia. Apparently Australian midlifers are just as happy, restless and/or miserable as they are here in the U.S., where I live. The same can be said for Japan, Hungary, Canada and the other 50…
March 13, 2016… Full disclosure: I know the author, Shenandoah Chefalo. We live in the same city in Northern Michigan, I know her husband, we have many mutual friends, and I like her. I like her a lot, even though when we first really talked to each other she warned…
Unless you waited until age 45 to have kids, (in which, case may I say, “what were you thinking???”), I am guessing that the holiday season has become a bit less hectic and crazed than in years past. No school concerts, no must have (but impossible to find) gifts from the toy…