Are you a midlife professional feeling a growing disconnect between your career success and your personal fulfillment?

Many Generation X professionals reach midlife with impressive achievements, yet silently struggle with a deep sense of dissatisfaction, identity confusion, or the haunting feeling that time is running out to live a truly meaningful life. This episode offers a compassionate, insightful roadmap for those questioning their current career path and seeking a purpose-driven reinvention.

• Discover why high performers often feel disconnected at midlife, and what to do when the “mask” you’ve worn at work no longer fits.
• Learn practical ways to explore new possibilities through tiny experiments, identity redefinition, and values discovery.
• Hear a deeply personal story of transition from corporate leadership to purpose-led coaching, with actionable advice on navigating financial fears, identity loss, and uncertainty.

Listen now to learn how to begin designing a life and career that reflects who you truly are – not just the role you've always played.

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KEY POINTS AND TIMESTAMPS:

00:41 - Introducing Shelley McIntyre & the midlife disconnect

03:04 - Masks, midlife reckoning and inner identity

06:53 - Options, evidence and experimenting with possibility

09:17 - Values, meaning and redefining what work must provide

11:18 - Shelley’s personal transition story

16:26 - Practical first steps: finances and portfolio careers

19:33 - Challenges of transition: uncertainty, off-gassing and relationships

24:14 - Identity, masks and rediscovering what you love

30:16 - Professional identity, caring professions and essence work

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MEMORABLE QUOTE:

"All knowledge is rumor until it is in the bones."

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VALUABLE RESOURCES:

Shelley's website: https://burnthemapcoaching.com/

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Coaching with Agi: https://personaldevelopmentmasterypodcast.com/mentor

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🎙️ Want to be a guest on the podcast?

Message Agi on PodMatch: https://www.podmatch.com/member/personaldevelopmentmastery

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Conversations and insights on career transition, career clarity, career change and career pivots for midlife professionals, including second careers, new ventures, leaving a long-term career with confidence, better decision-making, and creating purposeful, meaningful work.

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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

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Are you feeling the weight of the new year already, wondering if you can keep going in a role that no longer fits?

If you're in your 40s or 50s and standing at a crossroads in your career or identity, the return to routine after the holidays can reignite a quiet inner pressure: the sense that something needs to change, but you're unsure where to begin. This episode offers a grounded path forward.

• Discover the power of a simple 90-day map to help you transition with clarity and confidence.
• Learn how to move from overthinking to meaningful, focused action with just three essential prompts.
• Understand why a small, real-world experiment can be the key to unlocking your next chapter, without the overwhelm of long-term planning.

Start your year with clarity. Press play now and map your next 90 days with purpose.

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Book your Midlife Transition Map session: https://personaldevelopmentmasterypodcast.com/mentor

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Conversations and insights on career transition, career clarity, midlife career change and career pivots for midlife professionals, including second careers, new ventures, leaving a long-term career with confidence, better decision-making, and creating purposeful, meaningful work.

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Support the show

Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

To support the show, click here.

Are you navigating a major life transition, especially in midlife, and struggling with uncertainty, identity shifts, or unmet expectations?

In this heartfelt and deeply insightful episode, Hans Wilhelm returns to explore the spiritual perspective on transitions, especially during midlife. If you're facing change and feel lost without a clear direction, this conversation offers both comfort and guidance. Whether you're leaving a long-held career or questioning your next move, Hans shares timeless wisdom that helps you reconnect with your inner joy and higher self.

• Discover how following your inner joy can become your most reliable compass through uncertainty.
• Learn why unmet expectations create suffering—and how to reframe them to regain emotional freedom.
• Embrace practical techniques to shift from self-pity to empowerment and align with your soul’s purpose.

Tune in now to uncover how life transitions can become profound spiritual awakenings when you listen to your inner guidance.

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KEY POINTS AND TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Introduction, podcast mission and welcoming Hans Wilhelm

02:11 - Setting the theme: midlife transitions and lack of clarity

04:11 - Following inner joy as guidance from the higher self

11:57 - Joy as a beacon and introducing expectations

13:50 - Turning painful expectations into preferences and trusting life’s plan

20:29 - Escaping victimhood: silver linings and the three-positives practice

25:41 - Midlife transitions and loosening the grip of old identities

28:16 - Gratitude for past careers and letting go of professional labels

35:06 - Service as the highest form of love and purpose in later life

39:07 - Karma, everyday service, and closing reflections on gratitude

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MEMORABLE QUOTE:

"Unfulfilled expectations are the basis of all our physical pain, our mental pain, anything that doesn’t work the way we expect it to.”"

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VALUABLE RESOURCES:

First conversation with Hans Wilhelm: https://personaldevelopmentmasterypodcast.com/520

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Coaching with Agi: https://personaldevelopmentmasterypodcast.com/mentor

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Conversations and insights on career transition, career clarity, midlife career change and career pivots for midlife professionals, including second careers, new ventures, leaving a long-term career with confidence, better decision-making, and creating purposeful, meaningful work.

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Support the show

Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a midlife career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.

Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.

To support the show, click here.