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The Stage is a podcast for curious humans who refuse to sleepwalk through midlife.Hosted by Rita Hausken and Torild Boe – two global thinkers shaped by real-life upheaval and reinvention – these conversations span the whole spectrum of being human: health, relationships, loss, leadership, purpose, ageing, identity, travel, reinvention, and the stories we rarely say out loud.Rita lived through the unimaginable as she walked alongside her son Benjamin through a life doctors said would be short and later through the heartbreak of losing him, finding her way into a new reality.Torild redefined...

When my son Benjamin (age 2) was diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder Hurlers Syndrom (MPS1), told he´d die between age 7-12, I was advised to leave my job, wait for him to die, then get back to my life. I did the opposite. I swore to never let someones limiting beliefs, experts or not, become my beliefs. I shared my ideas regardless how crazy they sounded and receive with gratitude. Here you'll hear stories from around the world where the word IMPOSSIBLE simply mean I`M POSSIBLE. You'll meet passionate doctors, patients and families who took it as an opportunity to make a difference.