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Are you navigating a midlife career or life transition and finding it harder than ever to trust what you actually know?

When you have spent years making decisions based on responsibility, logic, and other people's expectations, the quieter voice inside you - the one that knows - can become almost impossible to hear. This episode goes beyond strategy and practical steps. It is about what it actually takes to reconnect with yourself when life is asking you to change, and why so many accomplished women are discovering that the most important transition they will ever make is the one that leads them back to their own inner knowing.

This conversation is with Gail Harris, certified ghostwriter specializing in women's memoirs, award-winning memoirist, and author of Your Heart Knows the Answer: How to Trust Yourself and Make the Choices That Are Right for You. Gail's work sits at the intersection of storytelling, self-trust, and healing - and what she shares here will stay with you long after the episode ends.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why your inner wisdom goes quiet during a life transition - and the simple but profound practice of witness consciousness that helps you separate who you are from what you are thinking and feeling
• How the act of claiming your own story through writing or reflection can be one of the most powerful tools for rebuilding self-trust during a midlife career transition - and why the deeper you go into your own experience, the more universal it becomes
• The one question Gail believes every woman should be asking herself right now - and why having a "pole star" changes everything about how you navigate change, make decisions, and find your way forward

Press play to hear an honest, grounded conversation about learning to trust yourself again - and why the voice you have been looking for has been there all along.

If this episode stirred something in you, download the free 28-Day Confidence Guide for daily practices that help you reconnect with yourself and rebuild self-trust from the inside out. And if you are ready to talk through where you are and what your next step looks like, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita.

You can find Gail Harris here:

Website: https://goldengostwriting.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gail-harris-269a219/

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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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What if the phase of your midlife transition that feels the most uncertain and untethered is not a sign that something has gone wrong - but the place where everything important is quietly taking root?

Most women navigating a career or life transition want to move through the uncomfortable in-between as quickly as possible. The pressure to decide, to act, to just feel like something is moving again is real - and it is exactly what causes so many accomplished women to end up six months later feeling like something is still missing. This episode offers a reframe that may change the way you experience where you are right now.

Drawing on the work of William Bridges, who spent decades studying how humans move through change, this episode unpacks the three phases of any transition - and makes the case that the phase you most want to escape is the one that holds the most important information about who you are becoming.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why the in-between phase of a midlife career or life transition is not empty - and what is actually happening inside it when everything on the surface feels uncertain and still
• How rushing past the neutral zone leads accomplished women to take action driven by urgency rather than alignment - and why the outcome always feels like something is still missing
• Two powerful questions from William Bridges that Kavita uses with almost every coaching client to help women in transition identify what is ready to be released and what is quietly waiting to begin

Press play to find out which phase of your transition you are in right now - and what this season of your life may be asking you to notice before you take your next step.

If you are in the in-between right now and ready to do the real work of the neutral zone rather than rush past it, schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita - just the two of us, figuring out where you are, what's ending, and what aligned action actually looks like for you. Or take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz to get clear on where you are and what may be waiting on the other side.

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Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.

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Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com

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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What if the grief you feel alongside the joy of a milestone is not something to push down - but the most honest signal you have about what this season of life is really asking of you?

Many women navigating midlife find themselves caught between two true things at once: profound happiness for someone they love, and a quiet, unnamed sadness they don't quite know what to do with. That combination can feel disorienting, even wrong. But it isn't wrong. It is one of the clearest signs that a real transition is underway - one that deserves to be understood, not suppressed.

This episode is a deeply personal reflection from Kavita Ahuja. It draws on the work of psychologist Susan David, transitions researcher William Bridges, and anthropologist Arnold van Gennep to make sense of what happens when someone you love steps fully into their life - and what that crossing asks of you in return.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why feeling grief alongside joy during a life transition is not a contradiction - and what Susan David's research on emotional agility reveals about the cost of pushing difficult feelings aside
• How William Bridges' concept of the "neutral zone" explains the disorienting in-between phase of any career or life transition - and why this uncomfortable space is also where the most important inner work happens
• Two powerful questions that can help you move from sitting with an ending toward genuine clarity about what is waiting to begin in your next chapter

Press play to hear an honest, grounded reflection on letting go, crossing thresholds, and discovering what becomes possible when you stop treating the ending as something to get through and start listening to what it is telling you.

If this episode brought something up for you - a milestone you're sitting with, a role that is shifting, a transition you haven't quite named yet - schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita to begin moving through it with clarity and intention.

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Schedule a Clarity and Next Chapter Call with Kavita

Take the Career & Life Fulfillment Quiz - find out what's holding you back and how to move forward with confidence.

Connect with Kavita on LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook

Visit itsmytimenowcoaching.com

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.