287 Who Am I Now? The Quiet Work of Creating Your Second Chapter Identity

When you’ve spent decades building a successful professional life, the identity that brought you success can become the very thing that constrains your future happiness.  That robust self-concept shifts when you make a major life change, whether it’s a career transition, an empty nest, or a shift in partnership.  All of these experiences can lead to the unsettling question: "Who am I now?"

Join Kathy as she explores The Quiet Work—the essential inner process that allows you to move from feeling untethered to intentionally designing your next life chapter with confidence and clarity.

Here’s what we cover:

  • How the identity that built your success may now be constraining your future;

  • How to honor your past self, release the grief and determine next steps; and

  • A brief exercise that will help you align habit with your future self vision.

This episode provides thestrategic framework you need to transformuncertainty into intentional self-creation.

➡️ FREE RESOURCE: If you’re ready to begin the reflective work that creates a new framework for your life, Kathy has created a special gift just for you!  It’s a guide called 5 Questions to Explore a Soulful Second Chapter.  It contains the type of reflective work that gave her the courage to make her midlife transition.

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