The Courageous Middle Podcast

The Courageous Middle Podcast

Hosted by: Lisa Blanchet

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...

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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...
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#27: Gratitude Changed My Life

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...
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#26: Why you judge yourself so fast

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...
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#25: Whose Voice is That?

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...
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#24: We Were Never Meant to Change Alone

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...
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#23: How to Stop People-Pleasing at Work

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...
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#22: The reason you won't ask for help

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...
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#21: I should be able to do it all

“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...
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#20: Why you never have time for yourself

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...
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#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,...
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#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...
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#17: You without your job title

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...
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