The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions

What if you could start living your reason for being this week, without quitting your job or changing everything at once?
So many people in a career or life transition believe their Ikigai, their reason for being, only begins after one big move. Continuing the rediscovery step of the Pyramid of Reinvention and building on Monday’s episode 348, this Thursday check-in shows how your purpose can start showing up in small ways in the work and life you already have. Through a story from Ikigai co-author Francesc Miralles and two women Kavita interviewed at the Ikigai in Nature retreat in Zermatt, Switzerland, Llynne Plante and Liza Solonos, you’ll see how small steps can open the way to your next chapter.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why your reason for being doesn’t have to wait for one big leap, and how small steps often lead to bigger changes with a careful plan behind them
What a 7 a.m. coffee shift taught the co-author of Ikigai about living your purpose in the work you already do, and how two real career transition stories put it into practice
Three simple ways to begin bringing your reason for being into your life this week, and how your energy can guide you toward career clarity
Press play to find the first small step that brings your reason for being into your life now, and let the next one become clear from there.
Haven’t gathered the pieces of your Ikigai yet? Start with the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment, which takes about five minutes and shows which of your four dimensions are alive in your life right now.
To hear Kavita’s full conversations with Llynne and Liza, listen to Episode 215.
And if you’d like to do this work alongside other women in transition, join the waitlist and share your thoughts for Kavita’s group program and community opening in January.

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This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
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Have you uncovered your strengths, passions, and values, yet still can’t see how they add up to a clear direction for your next chapter?
So many people in a career or life transition already hold the pieces of their purpose. What’s missing is the picture that connects them. Continuing the rediscovery step of the Pyramid of Reinvention, this episode shows how your Ikigai, your reason for being, comes together into one guiding statement for your life and career. Through the story of a client who said reading her statement made her feel like she had wings and could fly, Kavita’s own evolving statement, and insights from Ikigai co-author Francesc Miralles, you’ll see what becomes possible when the pieces finally fit.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why finding the pieces of your purpose can still leave you feeling unsure, and why your reason for being is not missing, only unassembled
How the overlaps work: your strengths and passions give you your how, your values and contribution give you your why, and together they become your Ikigai statement
Four simple steps to write your own guiding statement, and how to use it as a compass for career clarity when an impressive-looking opportunity doesn’t fit who you are
Press play to start putting your pieces together and give your next chapter a direction you can trust.
Start gathering your pieces with the free Ikigai Clarity Assessment, which shows you in a few minutes which of your four dimensions are alive in your life right now. If you’d like someone beside you to find your overlaps and shape your statement, book a Complimentary Clarity Call with Kavita. Or, if you’d rather do this work alongside other women, join the waitlist and share your thoughts for Kavita’s group program opening in January.

Episodes mentioned:
Episode 346: The Pyramid of Reinvention overview
Episode 326: Kavita’s own Ikigai, at 60 
Kavita’s interview with Francesc Miralles, co-author of Ikigai 

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Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.
Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
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Does so much in your life feel off right now that you don’t know what to change first?
Once you admit one thing isn’t working, it can start to feel as though nothing is. Your career, your health, your marriage, your friendships, even your evenings all seem to need fixing at once, so you either want to blow it all up or you freeze where you are. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday’s episode 346 on the Pyramid of Reinvention, Kavita takes you through the first step of that climb, rediscovery, so you can see clearly where you are before you decide where you’re going in your midlife career and life transition.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why overwhelm in a life transition so often freezes us in place, and the honest alternative to either changing everything or changing nothing
How the Wheel of Life, a simple circle that scores each area of your life from one to ten, reveals where your energy is really being drained, and why the biggest surprise is often the most important part
The one question that shifts you from what’s missing to what’s possible, and how to choose the single area that can lift all the others
Press play to find out where to begin, and let yourself imagine what a 10 could look like in your own life.
Kavita would love to send you her Wheel of Life exercise so you can do it this week. Email her directly at Kavita@itsmytimenowcoaching.com and she’ll send you the Wheel of Life diagram and the exercises to go with it.
And if you’d like to climb the Pyramid of Reinvention alongside other women in the same season of life, Kavita is creating a group program and community for exactly that, opening in January. Share your thoughts in this short survey to help shape what it becomes.
Click here to see the Pyramid of Reinvention

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Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.
Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
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Do you know something in your life needs to change, but have no idea where to begin?
It might be loud, like a layoff, a divorce, or a house that feels too still after the kids have gone. Or it might be so subtle you cannot name the day it started. Either way, the pull is to do something fast, and those changes rarely last. The answers live in the in-between, in a deliberate pause before you act, and this episode gives that pause a clear path through your career change or life transition.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why so many of us jump straight into action in a career change, and why those changes so often don’t last
The six steps of the Pyramid of Reinvention that take you from “something has to change” to a next chapter that truly fits
A simple way to see where you are on that path right now, so you know exactly where to begin this week
Press play to find where you are on the Pyramid of Reinvention and take the first step toward a next chapter that truly fits you.
If the idea of climbing this pyramid alongside others in the same season of life appeals to you, Kavita is creating a group program and community for exactly that, opening in January. Before she finalizes it, she would love to know what would help you most. Share your thoughts in this short survey to help shape what it becomes.
Click here to see the Pyramid of Reinvention

_________________________
Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.
Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
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Have you been circling the same brave step for weeks, maybe years, waiting for a surge of courage that never quite arrives?
Most people in a life transition think the problem is that they are not brave enough yet. The truth is kinder, and far more useful. You do not have to generate all of your courage on your own. You can borrow some from the people around you until you have built up enough of your own. In this Thursday check-in, a companion to Monday's conversation with Andrea Maizes in episode 344, Kavita picks up on one idea from that episode and turns it into a small, doable invitation for the week ahead.
In this episode, you'll discover:
What borrowed courage actually is, and why watching another person be brave becomes real proof that your next step is possible for you too
Why the judgment you are bracing for is almost always a story you are telling yourself, and what tends to happen when you finally let people in on what you are working toward
How to choose one small act of rebellion this week, something that stretches you a little rather than terrifies you, and why that one honest act teaches you something fear never will
Press play to borrow a little courage, choose your one small act, and take the step you have been circling in your midlife career and life transition.
If the idea of borrowing courage from a circle of other professional people in the same season of life speaks to you, Kavita is considering creating a small group program for people navigating career and life transitions together, uncovering their ikigai, your reason for being, and lifting each other up through each next brave step. Add your name to the waitlist here. There is no commitment, only a way to let Kavita know you are interested, and she will share details as they take shape.

_________________________
Take the Ikigai Clarity Assessment and find out which of your four Ikigai dimensions may be out of alignment.
Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
This podcast explores career and life transitions, helping women find clarity, confidence, and purpose through Ikigai and self-discovery. We cover navigating change, overcoming self-doubt and limiting beliefs, finding your purpose-driven career, and building the courage to start your next chapter - whether you're facing a career transition, life transition, or midlife reinvention.
itsmytimenowcoaching.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube