The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

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Have you ever wondered if it is too late to start over after the ground has shifted beneath you?
If you are in the middle of a midlife career or life transition, where a layoff, a relationship ending, a diagnosis, or simply a quiet sense that this is no longer me has cracked open the life you spent years building, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are. My guest, Deborah Knight, has lived through layoffs, single motherhood at 42, marriage to a partner battling addiction, the loss of her home, and a cancer diagnosis that launched her into surgical menopause. What she shares is not a polished comeback story. It is an honest look at what it actually takes to rebuild, and why the possibility you are looking for is almost always hiding in the in-between.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why a life quake is so often not the end of your story, but the beginning of the most honest version of it, and how to find the possibility hiding in the in-between
How to let the colorful, fully expressed version of yourself back into the room after years of staying "beige" to fit in, stay safe, or meet everyone else's expectations
Why you are never starting from scratch in a midlife career and life transition, and how every skill, every hard-won lesson, and every quiet strength becomes the ground you get to rebuild on
Press play to hear a conversation that will remind you that you are not too old, you have not missed your window, and the most honest chapter of your life may still be ahead of you.
Have a question about your own journey? Ask Me Anything! Send it to me for a future episode: Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com
If Deborah's story is sitting close to home and you are ready to stop circling and start moving, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita for one real conversation about where you are and where you are meant to go, or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see what is quietly holding you back from your next chapter.

About the Guest
Deborah Knight is an entrepreneur and strategic communications expert with more than 25 years of experience helping leaders, public figures, and brands shape their voice and tell their stories. She is the author of the forthcoming book Menopause Speaks and serves as a patient advocate and spokesperson for Mount Sinai Hospital's Mature Women's Health Initiative.

You can find Deborah here:

Website - https://www.dkpr.ca
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/menopausespeaks/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahknight/

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This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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What did you love doing as a girl, before life told you to be practical?
If you have spent decades inside the playbook of career, family, and what you were supposed to want, there is a good chance you have left someone important behind: the girl who knew exactly what made her come alive. In this Thursday check-in of the My Story series, Kavita continues unpacking ikigai, this time exploring how your buried passions are not nostalgia. They are signals, and they hold real information about your purpose and your next chapter.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why the things you loved as a girl were never random, and what they reveal about your ikigai today
The difference between anabolic and catabolic energy, and how reconnecting with a buried passion shifts the energy of your whole week
A simple reflection to begin recovering one buried passion this week, without having to overhaul your career
Press play to meet the girl in you who went quiet, and to start letting her energy back into your life.
If a question is rising in you about Kavita's journey, your journey, or the dreams you buried along the way, send it to her at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. Ask Me Anything throughout this My Story series.
If this episode stirred something in you, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your own ikigai is asking to be reclaimed, or book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to explore what your next chapter could look like.

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Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
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Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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From the outside, your life looks right. The career, the marriage, the achievements that everyone around you agrees count. From the inside, something has started to whisper a question you have been dismissing as exhaustion or burnout or just a hard week.
Most of us follow a playbook through our thirties and forties without realizing we are following one. The values our parents handed us. The script our culture wrote. The version of success we never stopped to question. It works beautifully for a long time. Until the day it doesn't.
In this episode, you'll discover:
The playbook many women unknowingly follow through their thirties and forties, and why it works beautifully until it doesn't
The gremlins quietly whispering underneath a life that looks right, and the early signals you may be dismissing as exhaustion, hormones, or burnout
The moment those whispers became impossible for Kavita to ignore, and what it cost her to dismiss them for too long
Press play to hear the story behind the couch moment Kavita has never shared on the podcast before, and to recognize the inner critics or gremlins that may already be quietly asking you the question you are not yet ready to answer.
If a question is rising in you about Kavita's journey, your journey, or the chapter you are quietly questioning, send it to her at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. Ask Me Anything throughout this My Story series.
If this episode resonated and you sense your own whispers asking for a change, take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to understand where you are right now, or schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to start finding career clarity on what's next.

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Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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Have you ever looked at the life you've built and quietly wondered why it no longer feels like yours, even though nothing on the outside looks wrong?
Every career and life transition is, underneath everything, a conversation with your values. The values that carried you through your earlier chapters are not always the same ones calling you forward into who you are becoming, and learning to tell the difference is some of the most important work of midlife. In this Thursday mini, a companion to Monday's episode 308, Kavita picks up one thread from her own story and follows it further: what happens when a new value starts knocking on the door, and what it means for your ikigai when you let yourself answer.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why the values that built your earlier chapters can quietly go out of alignment during a midlife career transition, and how to notice when it's happening
How your ikigai shifts as your strengths, passions, values, and what the world needs from you all evolve through every season of life
A simple values exercise to help you name what is still leading you forward and what you have outgrown with love and respect
Press play to begin the quiet, honest conversation with your values that every meaningful life transition is asking you to have.
If you're sensing that your values are shifting and you're ready to explore what your next chapter wants to look like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where your career and life are most asking for your attention right now.
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Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.

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Have you ever felt like the woman you are today is missing something the woman you used to be already knew?
This week marks the start of a brand new series called My Story, where Kavita finally answers a question one of her clients asked that she had been quietly avoiding for five years. As you sit in your own career or life transition, this series is an invitation to listen for yourself in someone else's story, to notice where your themes echo, and to remember the courage that has been sitting inside you all along, waiting for you to claim it.
In this episode, you'll discover:
The cultural roots and family story that shaped Kavita, and why your own history holds essential clues for navigating change today
How the values that built your life in your twenties and thirties may no longer be the values calling you now, and what that signals about your next chapter
The one reflection question to sit with this week that can shift how you see your story and your capacity to move through this life transition
Press play to remember the bravery already written into your story, and to begin recognizing the version of it that is asking to lead you into what's next.
Ask Me Anything:  If there is a question burning in you about Kavita’s  journey, your journey, or anything in between, send her an email at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com. She  will be answering your questions in the episodes ahead..
If something in this episode is stirring in you and you are ready to explore what your next chapter could look like, book a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to see where you are right now and what is calling you forward. 
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Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.
Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.