Personal Development Mastery: Clarity for Midlife Professionals in Transition Why Midlife Professionals Feel Disconnected from Their Work and Identity, and How to Find Career Clarity, with Shelley McIntyre | #570
Are you a midlife professional feeling a growing disconnect between your career success and your personal fulfillment?
Many Generation X professionals reach midlife with impressive achievements, yet silently struggle with a deep sense of dissatisfaction, identity confusion, or the haunting feeling that time is running out to live a truly meaningful life. This episode offers a compassionate, insightful roadmap for those questioning their current career path and seeking a purpose-driven reinvention.
- Discover why high performers often feel disconnected at midlife, and what to do when the “mask” you’ve worn at work no longer fits.
- Learn practical ways to explore new possibilities through tiny experiments, identity redefinition, and values discovery.
- Hear a deeply personal story of transition from corporate leadership to purpose-led coaching, with actionable advice on navigating financial fears, identity loss, and uncertainty.
Listen now to learn how to begin designing a life and career that reflects who you truly are – not just the role you've always played.
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KEY POINTS AND TIMESTAMPS:
00:41 - Introducing Shelley McIntyre & the midlife disconnect
03:04 - Masks, midlife reckoning and inner identity
06:53 - Options, evidence and experimenting with possibility
09:17 - Values, meaning and redefining what work must provide
11:18 - Shelley’s personal transition story
16:26 - Practical first steps: finances and portfolio careers
19:33 - Challenges of transition: uncertainty, off-gassing and relationships
24:14 - Identity, masks and rediscovering what you love
30:16 - Professional identity, caring professions and essence work
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MEMORABLE QUOTE:
"All knowledge is rumor until it is in the bones."
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VALUABLE RESOURCES:
Shelley's website: https://burnthemapcoaching.com/
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Coaching with Agi: https://personaldevelopmentmasterypodcast.com/mentor
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🎙️ Want to be a guest on the podcast?
Message Agi on PodMatch: https://www.podmatch.com/member/personaldevelopmentmastery
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Conversations and insights on career transition, career clarity, career change and career pivots for midlife professionals, including second careers, new ventures, leaving a long-term career with confidence, better decision-making, and creating purposeful, meaningful work.
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Career transition and career clarity podcast content for midlife professionals in career transition, navigating a career change, career pivot or second career, starting a new venture or leaving a long-term career.
Discover practical tools for career clarity, confident decision-making, rebuilding self belief and confidence, finding purpose and meaning in work, designing a purposeful, fulfilling next chapter, and creating meaningful work that fits who you are now. Episodes explore personal development and mindset for midlife professionals, including how to manage uncertainty and pressure, overcome fear and self-doubt, clarify your direction, plan your next steps, and turn your experience into a new role, business or vocation that feels aligned.