The courage was always yours. You just kept giving it to everyone else. In each episode, Lisa Blanchet explores what it looks like when women in midlife stop living for everyone else and give themselves permission to...
The Courageous Middle Podcast
The courage was always yours. You just kept giving it to everyone else. In each episode, Lisa Blanchet explores what it looks like when women in midlife stop living for everyone else and give themselves permission to start choosing themselves, one honest, imperfect, courageous step at a time.
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#28: Grateful for Yourself
Most of us can name what we'd change about ourselves in a few seconds. How often do we stop and feel grateful for who we are? Lisa shares a personal story about her legs and how she stopped comparing them to everyone...
At 30, Lisa was the woman people called Negative Nelly. At 54, she describes herself very differently, and one daily practice sits near the center of that shift. In this episode, Lisa explains the negativity bias and...
You catch your reflection in the window in the morning, just half a second, and before you've decided anything, there's already a thought. That's your judge. We all have one, and it's fairly active in most of us. In...
I’m too old for that. I should be happy with what I have.
Thoughts like these go by so fast that we accept them as true before we even notice.
This week, Lisa looks at where those thoughts come from, and why a thought...
Changing the way you've lived for four or five decades doesn't happen overnight. If it hasn't happened yet, that's not proof you're doing it wrong.
In this episode, I talk about why real change takes more repetitions...
You've spent years being the dependable one. So when it's time to say no, the words don't come easy, and honestly, it doesn't feel like a communication problem. It feels unsafe. In this episode, Lisa breaks down why...
A woman told Lisa she needed six months to decide what needed to change in her life. Her doctor had already offered help. She said no, because taking it felt like admitting she wasn't as strong as she believed herself...
“You can have it all” was supposed to be a gift. Somewhere along the way, for Lisa, it quietly became you should be able to do it all.
In this episode, Lisa unpacks the should warrior, the invisible weight of being...
Two women, one gym, 6:30 in the morning, and neither one sounded unhappy about how much they were carrying. That's exactly what caught Lisa's attention.
In this episode, Lisa unpacks the real difference between an...
#19: Why so many women think they're the only ones
A LinkedIn post about being let go after twenty five years turned into hundreds of messages that all said some version of the same thing: I thought I was the only one. This episode is about why that silence exists,...
#18: You don't have to disappear to prove yourself
You didn't eat until four in the afternoon yesterday. The day before wasn't much different. Somewhere in the first weeks of a new leadership role, without deciding to, you start running on empty. This episode isn't...
For twenty-five years, Lisa was known as the girl who worked for the telecom company. Then the company was gone, and so was the version of her that everyone recognized.
In this episode, Lisa unpacks what happens when...
Permission to Want More, a journaling guide for the woman who is ready to stop and listen.
This guide is not about fixing anything. It's not a productivity tool or a goal-setting exercise. It's an invitation to slow down long enough to hear yourself, maybe for the first time in a while.
Input your name and email, and I'll send the guide directly to your inbox.Â
 FREE JOURNALING GUIDE.Â
This journaling guide is a gentle place to begin.
  FREE JOURNALING GUIDE. Â
This journaling guide is a gentle place to begin.
This guide is not about fixing anything. It's not a productivity tool or a goal-setting exercise. It's an invitation to slow down long enough to hear yourself, maybe for the first time in a while.
Input your name and email, and I'll send the guide directly to your inbox.Â