Episode 38: Are YOU Brave Enough For Love?

It’s now, in midlife, that the last thought on your mind is to be “resilient and courageous”.

Ever feel like you're teetering on a high wire, blindfolded, with the world watching below? One minute, you're conquering life's great balancing act, and the next - whoosh - you're in free fall.

 I get it. 

The midlife rollercoaster is not for the faint of heart. Fear, uncertainty, and change are the nasty gremlins that come along for the ride, uninvited.

Yeah, you've been shoved into the deep end. The kids are off, career's taking a twist, body's playing mischief, and all you've got is a lousy life preserver called 'courage.' 

Really, universe?

But hold up! WHAT IF this courage could be your life raft, your North Star navigating you through this seemingly impossible stage? 

How about we unravel the magic of what it takes to get through all of it…the fear, the uncertainty and the change?  Like a boss. Like a Beautiful Warrior.

Are you up for it? It all starts right here.

This is where you train as a "Beautiful Warrior". This week's training? How to be Resilient and Courageous and PROUD of your Midlife Self.


1.  What does it mean to be reslient and courageous?
2.  How you can build resilience and courage.
3.  How to live life as a resilient and courageous woman.


See in you inside!

Here is the link to the transcript, if you prefer to read it rather than listen.

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

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Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

Midlife is a time when you start to ask, "Who am I now? What's next?"

Change is, for women, inevitable. It's easy to lose your courage and stop believing in yourself.

Challenges are everywhere and you wonder if you have what it takes to actually make it through in one piece. 

The answer is YES YOU CAN! Enter the "Beautiful Warrior".

Who is she?

 A beautiful warrior is a woman. A woman just like you and me, who turns her midlife experiences into powerful tools for transformation, growth and empowerment. 

She's a beacon of courage, of resilience, of strength, who navigates life's challenges with the grace of a swan.

In this episode, Life Coach Bernice McDonald shows you 3 Ways to Master Your Inner Strength:

1. Recognize the Power of Experience
2. Embrace Your Courage
3. Radiate Your Beauty

There is no one like you and that means there's no one like you who can live your life with as much mastery as you can.

Come on in and be transformed!

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

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Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

Are you wondering what the secret is to finding your passion - it seems that everyone expects you to know but maybe you're confused about the whole idea and wondering if it's something that is really going to matter?

Discovering your personal mission, your life's purpose is like finding your compass in the forest. It doesn't eliminate the trees, but it does show you the direction. 

It illuminates your path, adds meaning to each step you take, and brings a sense of fulfillment and joy.

Think about who you want to be - what you want to contribute to this world. 

You’re amazing in your own unique way, and it's more than okay to acknowledge that. In fact, it's necessary. 

In this podcast I'm going to show you how to:

• How to recognize your true passions
• 5 Steps to actually defining how YOUR passion, along with your core values, merge into a combination that creates purpose.
  • Step 1: Reflect on your passions and values.
  • Step 2: Visualize your ideal self.
  • Step 3: Identify your unique strengths.
  • Step 4: Make your mission statement. (with lots of examples)
  • Step 5: Take action. (with lots of examples)

To live this life fully without feeling it's a tedious, tiresome journey filled with potholes and plots, you need to have something to focus on that fills your heart with joy.

This is one of the key qualities of a Beautiful Warrior.

Come in for a listen and be inspired to think creatively about a life you'll love.

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

Many of us by midlife are afraid to make decisions because we’re afraid the past equals the future.

The amazing news about life is this: the past does NOT equal the future. Every phase is a new canvas. And you hold the paintbrush in your hand.

THIS is when decide: Beautiful Warrior of Shrinking Violet? 

Your Beautiful Warrior is YOU taking charge. 

YOU becoming the boss of your brain and not listening to all the stories it tells you. 

Truth is, your brain is just trying to protect you. That’s its job. And it just wants to keep you safe.

In this podcast we talk about 3 Thoughts of a Beauiful Warrior. Thoughts that create passion and purpose. Thoughts that train you to live through your midlife crisis as a woman and beat the fear of aging.

• Learn and practice the 3 thoughts that transform the fear of not being good enough to believing in yourself
• Discover the incredible gifts the past has given you that are your key to the promise that the past does not have to equal the future.
• Embrace the qualities of a Beautiful Warrior rather than living in the fear of losing control of your life in the second half.

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

Someone calls you 'fat'.

Someone says your work isn't up the standards of the company and to do it again.

Someone says your work is wonderful and to be sure that same level of quality shows up on the next project.

Someone tells you that your son may have cancer.

Someone tells you that your mom is going to need extra care and you're the only sibling near her.

Challenges. Something new and difficult that is going to require great effort and determination to get to the other side.

LIFE IS FULL OF THEM.

This is when it's time to call in your midlife-self's Beautiful Warrior. What does she look like? You'll find out her distinct (and very life-saving) qualities in this episode.

6 Qualities to embrace. You'll discover:

• Is she invincible?
• What does she believe?
• How risk will strengthen her.
• How she treats others.
• What's she thinking?
• Where is her power?

See you inside.

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

Have you ever downplayed your own work because it wasn't as good as someone else's?

Or changed your mind about submitting something, cooking something, doing something because you believed what you could give wasn't very good?

These are symptoms of the "I am not enough" way of life. And it's this thinking that will cause you to become smaller and smaller as you get older.

Midlife is the time to take a good hard look at this because you don't want to spend the rest of your life withdrawing, feeling 'less than'.

Needing to know that you're competent is a key component to having good self-esteem. In this podcast we talk about 3 ways you can build your belief in yourself.

Wisdom from the podcast:

"So step back. Be the friend, the mom, the boss you wish you could have had. Say the same things to yourself that you wished you would have heard from them."

Bernice McDonald

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

WHAT IF Midlife were actually a Call To Adventure?

The only way you hear that Call is to connect to that very quiet place deep inside of you. That's where you'll find your heart.

This is a powerful place. A place from which you can learn to be yourself...shut out the noise of what everyone else thinks you should be, tells you to be.

The Call challenges us to look deeper into how life has been molding us, preparing us for this time just ahead. A new phase. Midlife.

Find the answers to that calling and everything else will fall into place. 

Purpose becomes the reason for our lives and the foundation we can use to make all our decisions and choices for the rest of our lives.

You have so much to offer, and the world needs what you have to give.

It's never too late to find a new purpose. A new reason for living.

Let's look at how that can be done. Come on in or download the transcript.

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

Ever walk into a crowded room and feel all alone?

There is nothing like feeling as if you are in the wrong place. Don't belong. Are not wanted somewhere.

WE ALL FEEL IT. And, for women, midlife can magnify this because so many places where they felt at home and needed are shifting. Changing. 

So how do we handle this? How do we make that vital decision to stay engaged with our lives by building up the crucial connections that our hearts need so badly?

That's what we're talking about here. How to become a Beautiful Warrior and face this midlife challenge.

In this podcast you are going to learn:

• What to do when you feel all alone
• A Secret skill you can learn when you walk into a room of strangers
• How changing on thought can help you relax and connect
• How you can believe in yourself and what you have to bring to the table

Come in and join us as we become Midlife Women on a Mission!

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

Your heart is the most beautiful thing about you. And in that beautiful heart, you'll find every need that shows you how to find your passion and purpose.

The 2nd need of your heart is SIGNIFICANCE. To know and value who I am.

In this podcast I'm talking about YOU, a potential Woman on a Mission.  And, because of that, you are a potential Beautiful Warrior.

YOU who have walked through life with all of its hills and valleys, challenges and disasters.

It's not the bombs that go off in your life or the boulders that flatten you when they drop out of the sky unexpectedly...it's the meaning you give to every event that happens.

It's all dependent on how you see what's happened in your life and how it shapes how you see yourself. Midlife creates a crisis of identity.

You are discovering who you are all over again. Who will you allow to tell you who you are?

Come on in and I'll help you answer that question.

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.

"I'm good with life as long as it never changes and doesn't give me any surprises."

Don't you wish you could have this level of control? Sometimes we think that, if we did, we would feel safe and certain.

Wait a minute! Is that really how we want to live our lives? We're talking about that question in this podcast.

Is safe and careful over-rated? Even boring?

You're going to find out the secret to feeling ALIVE here. The secret that is the basis for growing a Warrior Heart.

And all Midlife Women On A Mission need a Warrior Heart.

Come in for a listen. 

Download here:  FREE e-Book:  How To Find Your Passionately Personal Midlife Mission

____________________________________________________
Are you in the struggle of navigating midlife with grace and power? I hear ya!

How about a daily injection of "Beautiful Warrior wisdom" injected into your day?

"The Way of the Beautiful Warrior." Our brief daily emails provide insights and inspiration, turning the challenge of midlife into an empowering adventure.

Click this link and embrace your journey as a Beautiful Warrior today.