Midrising Conversations

Conversations on the middle shift — the part of midlife nobody talks about honestly.

Hosted by Gill Townsend (Central Coast, Australia) and Barbara Scalzi (Phuket, Thailand). New episodes weekly.

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This is where we talk about the stuff most women are thinking but rarely say out loud.

Midlife isn't usually a crisis. It's a slower thing — the moment the old way stops fitting, and the new shape hasn't formed yet. The middle shift.

If you've thought "Is it just me?", it isn't.

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What we talk about here

Identity shifts — when the old version of you stops fitting and the new one hasn't formed
The middle shift — what's actually happening in your 40s, 50s, and beyond
What real change looks like — not the dramatic pivot, the slower work
Both things can be true — grateful and wanting more isn't a contradiction

Find us your way

Watch on YouTube, or listen wherever you listen.

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Episodes

New epiodes drop weekly wherever you like to watch or listen.

Meet your hosts

With lived experience across business, motherhood, reinvention and global life transitions.

Gill

Australian, based on the Central Coast. Operator, builder, and the founder of Midrising. Spent years building businesses that tracked her own life stages — handmade business in her thirties, motherhood-focused in her early forties, and now Midrising for the middle shift.