Why Women Over 40 Feel Overlooked and What to Do With That Feeling
There's a feeling a lot of women carry into their forties and fifties that doesn't quite have a name. It's not burnout. It's not a midlife crisis. It's something quieter and older than that — a low hum that tells you something needs to change, even when you can't explain exactly what or why.
In Episode 21 of Just a Number, Trish gets personal about that feeling. Where it comes from, what gets in the way of listening to it, and why the fact that you are changing right now is not something to manage or minimize. It's something worth paying attention to.
This episode doesn't have a to-do list. It doesn't have action steps. What it has is an honest conversation about what it means to be a woman in the middle of becoming someone new — and why the experience and wisdom you've built over decades belongs entirely to you. You can also read the full transcript here.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Feeling restless or ready for something different in your forties or fifties is not a crisis it's the woman you've become knocking on the door of the life you haven't built yet.
Being put out to pasture is real, it's not just a workplace phenomenon, and naming it plainly is the first step to understanding why you feel the way you do.
The woman you are at forty, fifty, or sixty has something the twenty-year-old version of you didn't decades of earned perspective, real experience, and the kind of wisdom that only comes from actually living through things.
The voice in your head telling you it's not logical or practical is not wisdom talking it's fear dressed up to look like wisdom, and there's a difference.
The hardest part of making a change isn't the leap itself it's giving yourself permission to take it, and nobody else can do that part for you.
You don't have to have an answer to the question "what kind of woman are you becoming?" right now you just have to be willing to let the question walk alongside you for a while.
This episode is just the beginning of a thread Trish is pulling on. Send her a DM on Instagram and tell her: what kind of woman are you becoming? There's no right answer. She just wants to hear what's true for you right now.
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Or reach her directly: trish@tlc-creative.com