Welcome To Midlife: The Search For Meaning In The Middle

Nobody hands you a roadmap for midlife. One minute you’re following society’s script… and the next you’re standing there like, “Um, hello? Plot twist?” This is the chapter of creaky knees, reader glasses, zero f***s, and crystal-clear clarity. The season where wisdom hits harder, priorities sharpen fast, and you finally start choosing yourself—boldly, honestly, joyfully. Welcome to the conversations that make midlife feel real, hilarious, brave, and deeply human. Together, let’s turn this whole messy, magic adventure into the chapter you didn’t see coming—in the absolute best way.

Welcome To Midlife: The Search For Meaning In The Middle is a education podcast hosted by Lisa Steadman, with 35 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Lisa Steadman hosts Welcome To Midlife: The Search For Meaning In The Middle, a education show with 35 episodes published.

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  S2 E22: Grown Ass Woman's Guide To Midlife With Jackie MacDougall

  Jul 28, 202646 min

  In this episode of Welcome to Midlife, Gen X host Lisa Steadman sits down with Jackie McDougall, host of The Grown Ass Woman’s Guide , to talk about how to navigate midlife without the need for perfection, the desire to get stronger in midlife, and how navigate friendship, love, and empty-ish nests at this age and stage of life. They get real about aging, changing relationships, health challenges, female friendship and why women in midlife don’t need another expert telling them how to live. They need honesty, humor and permission to take up more space. #MidlifeWomen #WomenOver40 #WomenOver50 #GrownAssWoman #FindingYourVoice #WelcomeToMidlife #GenXWomen #Podcast

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  S2 E 21: Midlife Writer Resilience With Ashley Jude Collie

  Jul 20, 202655 minS2

  From Wales to Hollywood: The Writing Journey of Ashley Collie Writer and journalist Ashley Jude Collie shares his journey from Wales to Hollywood, where his career has included writing for Playboy and Sports Illustrated , interviewing icons such as Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and Anthony Hopkins, and authoring a book about film producer and former NYPD detective Sonny Grosso. Ashley opens up about screenwriting, celebrity interviews, independent filmmaking, and the realities of building a creative career in Hollywood. His story is an inspiring look at reinvention, resilience, and the power of embracing your unique voice as a writer.

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  S2 E20: Debunking Midlife Body & Beauty With Cheryl Girard

  Jul 10, 202651 minS2

  What does it look like to stop fighting your body and start honoring the life it has carried you through? In this powerful episode of Welcome to Midlife, host Lisa Steadman sits down with artist, speaker, and body-acceptance advocate Cheryl Girard to explore beauty, aging, eating disorders, healing, and the freedom that comes from owning our bodies as Gen X women. Cheryl shares the deeply personal journey behind Flesh and Soul, her striking body of work created to challenge cultural beauty standards and invite women into a more honest, compassionate relationship with themselves. She opens up about binge eating disorder, what she has learned through her own healing, and the response from women who have seen themselves reflected in her art and message. Together, Lisa and Cheryl discuss: ✨ Body positivity, body neutrality, and self-acceptance ✨ Binge eating disorder and healing our relationship with food ✨ GLP-1 medications and the pressure to be thin ✨ Aging, beauty standards, and owning our age as Gen Xers ✨ How to support teenage girls struggling with body image ✨ The greatest joys and challenges of midlife ✨ Cheryl’s growing national speaking movement Subscribe to Welcome to Midlife: The Search for Meaning in the Middle for a new Season 2 episode every week. #WelcomeToMidlife #BodyPositivity #BodyImage #GenXWomen #MidlifeWomen #BingeEatingDisorder #EatingDisorderRecovery #GLP1 #AuthenticAging #WomenOver50

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  Episode #19

  S2 E19: Midlife Sexual Shifts With Arielle Zadok

  Jul 1, 202659 minS2

  In this Welcome To Midlife episode, host Lisa Steadman sits down with Arielle Zadok, a board-certified sexologist, intimacy coordinator, consent director, holistic health coach, producer, pole dancer, and host of Birds and Bees Don’t Fck . Together, Lisa and Arielle have an honest, stigma-free conversation about sex, intimacy, desire, consent, body confidence, and reconnecting with pleasure in midlife. Arielle shares why great sex isn’t about luck — it’s about language, safety, curiosity, communication, and giving yourself permission to explore what you actually want. They discuss how women can separate authentic desire from performance, navigate hormonal shifts and changing bodies, talk about sex without making it weird, explore sensuality without a partner, and rebuild confidence through erotic safety and self-trust. Whether you’re married, single, divorced, widowed, dating again, or simply wondering if it’s too late to have the sex life you want, Arielle’s message is clear: you have not missed your window. Subscribe to Welcome to Midlife for more conversations about reinvention, relationships, hormones, confidence, purpose, and thriving in the middle. #WelcomeToMidlife #MidlifeWomen #SexAndIntimacy #FemaleDesire #SexualWellness #MidlifePodcast #WomenOver40 #WomenOver50 #BodyConfidence #Pleasure #Consent #Menopause #Perimenopause #DatingAfterDivorce #GenXWomen ##GenXPodcast

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  S2 E18: Hormone Intelligent Leadership With Mariah Prince-Allen

  Jun 22, 202652 minS2

  Midlife women are often told they’re burned out, stressed, or just tired. But what if the real issue is hormonal? In this episode of Welcome to Midlife , Lisa Steadman talks with women’s health expert Mariah Prince-Allen about Hormone Intelligent Leadership , a powerful new framework for understanding how perimenopause, menopause, and midlife hormonal shifts impact women at work, at home, and in their sense of self. Mariah breaks down why so many high-achieving women suddenly experience brain fog, fatigue, sleep disruption, mood changes, and a loss of confidence in midlife — and why traditional burnout advice doesn’t always help. She also introduces the idea of hormonal bankruptcy, what it means for women who are carrying careers, caregiving, relationships, and identity shifts all at once, and how workplaces can better support women through this chapter instead of losing brilliant talent. If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re burned out, hormonally depleted, or simply in a season where your body is asking for a different kind of leadership, this conversation is for you. In this episode, we talk about: • What Hormone Intelligent Leadership means • Why midlife symptoms are often misdiagnosed as burnout • The workplace impact of brain fog, fatigue, sleep issues, and mood changes • What hormonal bankruptcy is and why it matters • How leaders and organizations can better support women in perimenopause and menopause • Why midlife women need more support, not more shame Subscribe for more honest conversations about midlife, reinvention, purpose, relationships, health, and what it means to become more fully yourself in the middle. #MidlifeWomen #Perimenopause #Menopause #WomenInLeadership #HormoneHealth #Burnout #WelcomeToMidlife #WomenAtWork #MidlifeReinvention #GenXWomen #Podcast

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