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Fire Up at 55 Plus

Laurie Adams

123 episodes

1 day ago

Ever make a vision board and forget to look at it? Let’s fix that. In today’s episode I help you get your dreams out of your head and onto a vision board, more specifically your very own Identity Board, that actually works. The board we build for you will draw your attention and inspire actions to create your best life yet in your empty nest/second act years. Does this sound like you: Stuck in diet after diet, weighed down by the struggle Download my free 3 Steps to Self Start Your Weight Los...

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Ever make a vision board and forget to look at it? Let’s fix that. In today’s episode I help you get your dreams out of your head and onto a vision board, more specifically your very own Identity Board, that actually works. The board we build for you will draw your attention and inspire actions to create your best life yet in your empty nest/second act years. Does this sound like you: Stuck in diet after diet, weighed down by the struggle Download my free 3 Steps to Self Start Your Weight Los...

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Self-Improvement

Society & Culture,

Health & Fitness,

Episodes (20/123)

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122. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 6: Pin It, See It, Live It

Ever make a vision board and forget to look at it? Let’s fix that. In today’s episode I help you get your dreams out of your head and onto a vision board, more specifically your very own Identity Board, that actually works. The board we build for you will draw your attention and inspire actions to create your best life yet in your empty nest/second act years. Does this sound like you: Stuck in diet after diet, weighed down by the struggle Download my free 3 Steps to Self Start Your Weight Los...

3 days ago

13 minutes

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121. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 5: The Weight of a Dream

How heavy does your best-life dream weigh upon your mind? Moving Vision into Tangible Form is the subtitle of today’s episode. In this Becoming Her series, we’re exploring what it takes to reinvent your identity in your second act. And today, we’re going to talk about why keeping your dreams in your head is not enough — and how moving your deepest desires into words on paper can be the very first rung on the ladder to transformation. Does this sound like you: Stuck in diet after diet, weighed...

1 week ago

12 minutes

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120. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 4: A Vision Board isn’t Decoration, it’s Identity by Design

Here comes the centerpiece of our best reinvention steps! Although it’s Podcast No. 120, this is the fourth episode in our “Becoming Her” visioning series. If you’ve been with me for the past few weeks, you know we’ve been building your transformation blueprint step by step in this unique series of advanced ways to really see and realize the reinvented you! It’s titled Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention. It’s grounded in a three-piece foundation: Time Mastery, ...

3 weeks ago

17 minutes

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119. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 3: Stop Waiting—Start Creating, Your Future Starts Now

It’s high time you had tangible proof of the transformed life you’re building. And although it’s Podcast No. 119, this is the third episode in our “Becoming Her” visioning series. Remembering our framework is “Time … Creativity … True Vision,” in the last broadcast we learned about specific tools linking time to creativity. Lingering is no longer an option. But exactly what do you need to face and overcome in order to create? The simple answer is “waiting,” but the hard truth is “procrastinat...

1 month ago

13 minutes

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118. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 2: Where Time Meets Creativity

Your transformation blueprint keeps building, and today we’re adding another bold line to the page. In this, the second in our “Becoming Her” visioning series, we add to the enhanced skills that will take you far beyond most "reinvention" steps. Last week we dove into time mastery as the new engine of vision. Today you’ll learn why and how honoring your calendar is an invisible contract with yourself. More importantly you’ll discover how putting pen to paper becomes your most powerful tool fo...

1 month ago

11 minutes

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117. Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention | No. 1: Time Mastery is the Engine of Vision

"Words matter," you’re always hearing from me. The words that resonate with you, and you alone, have served as your rough draft for reinvention at midlife and beyond, for that “second act,” best life ever you want and deserve. Remember, this 2025 story of renewal is being authored beautifully by you, uniquely for you to put people-pleasing and your old story behind. Now? Well it’s time to illustrate the exciting new life tale you’re ready to tell. How? With a vision so real, it reveals and co...

1 month ago

15 minutes

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116. 5 Minutes for Your “Second Act” Future Sight | This is Your Intro to True Midlife-Plus Vision

The time for dropping hints is over! Today is the quick quick quick introduction I want you to have for the step-by-step visioning series that drops next time. If, like many midlife women who put themselves last, this is the real deal to revive your dreams, capture them and create a vision that becomes your new, true identity. Spoiler alert! This is the shortest podcast I’ve ever recorded … just five minutes to give you notice and spill on how we’ll get started. This is going to be fun (and f...

1 month ago

5 minutes

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115. Grab That Dream and Never Let Go! | Ignite Your Start for the Best Midlife Ever

This favorite early episode is coming full circle as I gear up to present a series on valuable visioning for your giant leap to go from stuck to successfully engaged. Listen now to this timeless inspirational podcast that first aired in May of 2023 and still rings true. So step into your ruby-red slippers (hint hint) and hear how to spark your start with new eyes! To reclaim your potential with guidance for the midlife-plus dreams and goals mean the most to you, come work with me one-on-one! ...

2 months ago

13 minutes

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114. Don’t Let Future You Down, Follow Habits 2.0 Now | Level Up Micro Actions for Massive Identity Change

Habits 2.0 could have been the title of last week’s episode where you learned how to take the wisdom of such small-steps advocates as James Clear, author of Atomic Habits. With the new super-tool, The Progress Principle by researcher Teresa Amabile, you discovered how your deep emotions fuel your path through the discomfort of change to sustainable actions. Today I elaborate what that means for future you—the midlife you who embraces your best life ever. To reclaim your potential now and reac...

2 months ago

12 minutes

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113. Meaningful Steps Spark Your Big Changes | What is my Why to Propel Progress Now?

In a world obsessed with big leaps, it’s time to rid yourself of that compulsion. For lasting midlife reinvention, radical change is not the prescription. Do not, I repeat, do not, dive into a perfectionist's pool spilling over with too many new habits. There’s nothing wrong with big dreams and desires, but there’s a lot wrong with a massive attempt to achieve them. Today you’ll hear the proven, effective way to get going on your goals now, along with the science that explains why that way is...

2 months ago

17 minutes

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112. Lighten Your Mood, Fire-Up Your Focus Fast | You Can Do It in 15 Minutes, Really!

Today we’re talking 15 minutes that ignite your soul and energize your day—not mani-pedi’s, not baths, but real-deal habits that fuel your body and mind. Yep, when the hustle-bustle of August transition from vacation to your back-to-Fall “regular” life sends your mind spinning, avoid the multi-tasking trap with proven self-support. Listen up and choose one of these self-helpers next time you really need it. To reclaim your potential now and reach for whatever midlife-plus goal means the most ...

2 months ago

16 minutes

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111. How You Can Slay The Fears of Fresh-Start Fall

Last year this episode aired in September, but as August is the true pedal to the metal moment for fresh-start Fall, a.k.a. back-to-school fall, this is the time to hear it. Ah … those feelings: your dominant, real, authentic feelings … They are the clues to what’s going on with you, from elation to depression to confusion. And I can’t think of a better example or time of year to talk about this, using what most of us have heard of as “the empty nest” syndrome. Your children may be flying the...

3 months ago

17 minutes

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110. What To Do Now When “New” Isn’t Better | How to Reinvent Without Losing Yourself

Why are you listening? … Because you’ve been longing and waiting for change in your life. Eager to realize your potential and primed to get going for transformation to move into your best life ever at midlife-plus. So, kudos to you for recognizing your desire and readiness to act upon it. We know that passing through true change includes some discomfort; that is proven. However sometimes “discomfort” doesn’t adequately describe the process you begin. If you’ve been burned by change, significa...

3 months ago

17 minutes

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109. How a Beer Changed My Calendar and My Life | Aha” Moments Aren’t Predictable, but Well-Worth the Surprise

I still get a lot of comments on this early Fire-Up episode and, of course, its title: How a Beer Changed My Calendar and My Life. It’s the true story of how a simple, even somewhat silly, moment caught me by surprise and a light bulb went off. (If you’re not in your car) grab a beer or beverage of choice, put your feet up, and hear how a long-held perception and preference was busted and then burst into new understanding of the choices we always have to transform our thinking for an expanded...

3 months ago

14 minutes

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108. Lessons from a Younger You | No One Knows Your Journey and Vision Like You Do

Here’s the challenge: So many women in midlife hit a wall, wondering “Is it too late to become who I hoped I’d be? … Have I lost touch with the ‘real me’?” Surprise! Sometimes you need a break from pushing forward for life transformation and, instead, reach back. Get curious and be excited as you discover this unique way to draw upon your old story to create your new one of transformation in your “second act” of life. To reclaim your potential now and reach for whatever midlife-plus goal mean...

3 months ago

11 minutes

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107. Recall Barefoot Days and Fireflies

What are your summer memories? … The ones that stick because they make you smile, chasing away stress, and so real that you can almost feel the moments: from running on concrete with slapping bare feet, to the juicy taste of watermelon, to the pop and shimmer of fireworks in the nighttime skies. The episode that follows is no. 15 from my first weeks of podcasting for you two years ago. Listening invites joyful recollections of summer that begin in childhood, to inspire happiness we can create...

4 months ago

16 minutes

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106. I Want What She’s Having! | Write Your Own, Overdue Permission Slip Now

Today you’ll be inspired to break the “good girl” rules you have outgrown at midlife-plus, along with permission you always deserved but never received. Say “No,” to dusty expectations and “Hell Yes,” to unapologetic joy. And get ready for five surprising stories, five fierce women, and five quotes that will make you laugh, cry, and say, “I want what she’s having!” To reclaim your potential now and reach for whatever midlife-plus goal means the most to you without distractions, come work with...

4 months ago

13 minutes

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105. Stressed or Supercharged? Part Two | From Stress Mess to Midlife Mastery

In Part One, we explored how the old model of stress was built on shaky science, and how new research gives us permission to use stress as power. Not to pretend it’s fun, but to own it as fuel. Because this is your midlife season to rise, to speak up, to take up space—not shrink to survive, let’s write a new ending to stress all around. To reclaim your potential and reach for whatever midlife-plus goal means the most to you with less stress, come work with me one-on-one! Just send an email to...

4 months ago

15 minutes

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104. Stressed or Supercharged? The Truth Revealed, Part One | The Stress Story We Were Sold, and What We Know Now

Feeling stressed out? Well, of course you are, but believe it or not that’s not always a bad thing. Midlife women do report the highest levels of daily stress compared to all other demographic groups according to the American Psychological Association. That includes caregiving responsibilities, health concerns, financial transitions, and age discrimination in work and healthcare. But don’t panic—we’re here to problem solve. Stress has layers and surprising benefits. Skeptical? That’s only nat...

4 months ago

11 minutes

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103. This is Not Your Midlife Crisis; It’s a Plot Twist! | Why Midlife Isn’t Falling Apart—It’s Finally Falling Into Place

If life feels uncertain at 55-plus, you’re not in a midlife crisis … you’re in transition. Every great heroine has a turning point in their story of you. Your next chapter starts the minute you shun stereotypes of what it means to age. Midlife crisis, invisibility, giving in to the demands or expectations of others … well, it’s high time to pivot, put yourself first and do it in a way that honors how you want to show up for yourself and the others who mean most in your life! Old is gold and y...

5 months ago

11 minutes