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PODCAST

Conversations for women navigating midlife.

Hosted by Gill Townsend in Australia and Barbara Scalzi in Thailand — two Gen X women comparing notes from very different corners of the world.

Midrising Conversations is about what life really looks like in your 40s, 50s and beyond - careers, relationships, families, money, health, getting older, starting again and everything nobody really prepares you for.

Some weeks it’s Gill and Barbara comparing notes on what’s happening in midlife right now. Other weeks we bring in brilliant guests with stories, experience and expertise worth hearing.

Midlife. No filter.
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Start where you are

Find the conversation you need today.

Who am I now?

Identity shifts, invisibility, confidence and the roles that no longer fit.

 Start with Ep 2: Identity: It’s Not a Crisis, It’s a Shift →

Work and ambition

Career change, redundancy, entrepreneurship and wanting something different.

 Start with Ep 3: It’s Not Too Late →

Relationships

Marriage, friendship, family, boundaries and being the dependable one.

 Start with Ep 11: Midlife Is When You Stop Performing →

Bodies and ageing

Menopause, style, visibility, health and inhabiting a body that is changing.

 Start with Ep 6: Is This Perimenopause…? →

What comes next?

Clarity, reinvention, momentum and building a life that feels like yours.

 Start with Ep 4: You Don’t Want a New Life →

Latest episode

Midrising Conversations | A Podcast for Women in Midlife

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Midrising Conversations | A Podcast for Women in Midlife

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