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Redefining Life after 50: How to Manage Midlife Change and Come Out from Under the Covers

Is dealing with midlife change making you want to just pull the covers over your head? You’re not alone! Managing midlife change can be a stressful time that leaves the best of us feeling bewildered and anxious as we struggle with aging, mortality and maintaining our sense of purpose. Is anybody really ever prepared for […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

July 16, 2019

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Life after 50: Looking for Answers to Reinvent Your Life? Don’t Be Afraid to Ask Questions!

Today, we discuss the importance of learning and asking questions when looking for guidance and answers to reinvent your life after 50. One interesting observation in this regard, women are less likely to ask questions than men. Academic studies point to a lack of confidence or fear of “not seeming clever enough” that keeps women […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

May 23, 2019

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Reinventing Life After 50: Learning to Adapt, Overcome and Tap Into Your Inner Wisdom & Confidence!

What does it take to reinvent your life after 50? From the Marine Corps to Mentor, Tami McVay knows what it means to find your courage, give yourself credit for the wisdom you’ve acquired, put a plan in place, and then learn to adapt and overcome! She operates with the belief that to create the […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

May 7, 2019

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Struggling with the Decision to Have Children, or Not? Advice from Those Who’ve Been There!

Are you, (or is your adult child), among the growing number of women (and men) today struggling with the decision of whether or not to have children? The childfree conversation has taken on a life of it’s own on 2nd Act, with young women seeking input and advice from those of us who’ve been there! […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

April 18, 2019

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Single Mother by Choice: A Candid Look Back on the Convoluted Choices to have a Baby Alone after 40!

Has your longing to have a baby after 40 driven you to contemplate single motherhood by choice? Today’s behind-the-scenes conversation with writer and radio host Treva Brandon Scharf was captured after we concluded our first interview, but the camera was still rolling. Treva recalled the time when her biological clock stopped ticking and her only […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

March 26, 2019

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Recreating Life after 50: Are You Settling for Less than You REALLY Want in Life and Love?

Whether you are in an unfulfilled relationship, working at a job you hate, or in the midst of recreating life after 50, have you been settling for less than what you really want or think you deserve? If so, you’re not alone. By the time we reach midlife we’ve been conditioned to believe that we […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

March 5, 2019

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Recreating Life After 50: Becoming a Woman of Value. Learning to Speak Up and Get What You Want!

Are you a woman recreating your life after 50? If so, chances are you were raised with outdated and often destructive “nice girl rules” that have kept you from making waves, going after your own needs, and becoming a woman of value who goes after what she really wants. Not so in your second act! […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

February 19, 2019

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What’s Holding You Back from the Life You Really Want? Emotional Baggage and Getting Unstuck

Due you feel stuck in certain areas of your life? Maybe you feel stuck in an unfulfilled relationship, struggling on the dating scene, a job you hate, mounds of debt, or excess weight you just can’t seem to lose? Paige explains how unresolved losses in our past could be the reason we are unable to […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

January 2, 2019

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Reinventing Life after 50: Learning to Reframe and Embrace Major Life Changes as We Age

As we age, major life changes are inevitable. From our bodies, to our lifestyle, career, family, and more, change is happening all around us. And for most of us, as we age change is a scary proposition. We expect change to “be bad”. Today, Paige offers helpful advice on reframing how we come to view […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

November 6, 2018

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Reinventing Life after 50: Making a Midlife Career Change and Finding a Job You Love after 50

Are you looking to make a midlife career change or getting back to work after 50? Perhaps you are going through divorce after 50, how do you reenter the workforce after years of staying at home to raise your kids? According to Life and Career Coach Darrell Gurney, it’s absolutely possible to make a complete […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

October 26, 2018

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Recreating Life after 50: When was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

As Darius Ruker’s lyrics question: “When is the last time you did something for the first time? Yeah, let your yourself go, follow that feeling, maybe something new is what you’re needing.” Absolutely! As we age, doing new things is essential for mental and physical health, and can bring new joy and enthusiasm into our […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

October 22, 2018

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Life after 50: Do You Feel Like You’ve Lost Your Relevance?

If you’re feeling like you’re becoming less relevant in life after 50, you are not alone. Feeling like we’ve lost our relevance is one aspect of aging that seems to hit all of us in one way or another. We retire and our job goes on without us. Our children are grown and don’t need […]

Silke Schwarzkopf

October 9, 2018