Fire Up at 55 Plus

Let me tell you what I hear from women like you, like me, all the time: “I really should get rid of some things … old things, outdated things." And the brain's knee-jerk response? “But they’re perfectly good.” Talk about an energy drain!

Here, Laurie explores the deeper reasons midlife women keep wardrobes in frustrating limbo: inherited scarcity messages, Depression- and wartime-thrift values passed down through families … 1950s and 1960s gender norms that praised female self-denial, and the lasting guilt many still feel about spending money on themselves. Historical and psychological research shows these patterns are not random. They...

As many listeners move through spring break season, I’m revisiting one of the most joyful episodes from my Fire-Up archives. Originally released in August 2023, this episode explores the cultural phenomenon of Barbie, the blockbuster movie at the time, and why the world’s most famous doll has inspired generations of us to imagine bigger lives. After several recent episodes about stress and resilience, this conversation offers a lighter moment with the reminder that possibility, reinvention, and dreaming big never expire.

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If your mornings feel slow to start and your afternoons suddenly collapse around 3 p.m, you are far from alone. Many midlife-plus women assume their energy dips mean something is wrong with them — that their motivation has faded, their discipline is slipping, or their body is simply wearing out. But that assumption misses what science actually shows. Energy is our Fire Up podcast word of the year, and to recapture it you need to know that powerful hormones, sleep quality, blood sugar, and circadian rhythms rise and fall all day. This roller-coaster takes us on a ride of ups an...

We’ve been talking lately about something subtle, but powerful: what happens after you begin to change. You start making progress and feeling stronger—more clear and capable. And then … doubt creeps in. Or uncertainty. Or the quiet question, “OK, now what?” Today we go straight to the heart of that moment. Originally recorded as Episode 57, this podcast is about coaching questions, understanding your backstory, and options for outside support.

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Feeling unsettled after you’ve made progress? You’re not imagining it, and nothing has gone wrong. It’s normal to expect relief once a problem is solved and then be ambushed by feelings of doubt, restlessness, or hesitation that rush-in just as things begin to improve. Today we build upon ideas from earlier episodes (104 and 105) about stress, now revisited through a new lens. I'm reframing those ideas to a address and conquer the unsteady feeling that crops up once progress is underway.

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The most dangerous moment in change isn’t failure — it’s success. That’s when self-sabotage gets sneaky. And if you’ve felt that wobble, you’re not broken and nothing has gone wrong. In fact, that uneasy feeling is often a sign that you’re exactly where growth asks you to stay. You haven’t overshot. You haven’t tempted fate. You’re standing on ground you’ve already earned — and the work now isn’t to retreat, but to remain. Let your nervous system catch up to the progress you’ve made and decide that this version of you gets to keep going an...

If your nights have started to calm (especially after the recent episode on fixing nighttime eating) and a little voice inside you is saying, “Don’t mess this up now. “Get stricter,” that’s the boomerang showing up. It’s the reflex many women have after years of dieting. The moment things begin to work, the urge to tighten rules, eat less, and “lock it in” kicks back in. But that instinct, as responsible as it might feel, is often exactly what sends momentum backward.

Here we unpack:

Let me say this plainly: If nighttime eating doesn’t change, weight loss stays fragile. It doesn’t matter how motivated you feel in the morning. It doesn’t matter how “good” you think you’ve been all day. In fact, the very discipline you’re white-knuckling through — eating too little, holding back, following rigid rules — is often what creates the hunger and chaos that show up at night. … So listen on.

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If you’ve ever said: “I eat fine all day, but then I lose it at night,” or “Why can’t I just stop?” or even, “Something must be wrong with me,” today we offer relief. You’ll discover that nighttime eating is not a character flaw, it’s a signal. Building directly on the recent Fire Up episode number 131, I’m turning to a pivotal public conversation led by Oprah Winfrey titled “The Life You Want Class: The State of Weight.” Why? Because as popular as Oprah is, most women never saw this impactful show on her network and it packs a punch for w...

You got building blocks for an energy toolkit in the last episode, number 129, with your system for building it, banking it, and guarding it. And today we’re doing something just as powerful: we’re going to talk about how your energy was taken from you in the first place. Because for women over 55, it isn’t just about hormones or aging. It’s about decades of dieting, deprivation, and self-discipline that trained your body to survive instead of thrive. And once you understand this? Everything you try to do from here on out becomes easier, energized, and truly doable.<...

If you’ve ever wondered why your goals didn’t stick, even when you were motivated, this episode delivers the missing answer. Here we move beyond inspiration and into practical, research-backed tools to help women 55+ finally restore the energy—physical, mental, and emotional—needed to create real results. We’re fixing the energy drains that sabotage progress and replacing them with simple systems that actually deliver long-lasting transformation.

I’m Certified Life, Weight Loss, and Productivity Coach Laurie Adams, and if you’re ready to move forward with new energy but no more delay, come work with me one-on-one...

Welcome to 2026—a Year of essential Energy. After months of building vision, clarifying identity, and designing the life you want, there's one critical piece we haven't addressed: the fuel to make it all happen. In this transformative episode, we reveal why ENERGY is a Word worth using throughout our broadcasts and why ignoring it simply isn't an option anymore.

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Why, why, oh why do we still cling to the tradition of making New Year’s Resolutions? Because, on January 1st, they promise to be so effective? Nope, nope, nope. They’re so superficial that the second Friday in January is now well known as “Quitters Day,” when nearly 25 percent of resolutions are dropped flat. In this popular episode listen up to learn why it’s time to drop the resolutions list off of your annual to-do list and discover how true life transformation is actually achieved.

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What if one sentence could expose the beliefs that either limit you or accelerate you in your second act?

“Age Doesn’t Matter Unless…”

This isn’t a clever phrase — it’s a diagnostic tool for your identity, vitality, and future. How you rewrite the sentence counts.

In this encore episode, you’ll challenge the hidden biases that society still holds about women over 50: that ambition expires, that learning slows, that creativity fades, and that goals shrink with each birthday. Research continues to show the opposite — women in midlife and beyond are launching companies, earning...

You discovered the true value of a Word of the Year in Part 1. Now, in Part 2, it’s time to make your chosen word real. Rejecting perfection or pressure, you’ll learn how to create a grounding practice that connects directly to your word: a personal morning routine. Updated with fresh insight and a modern identity-focused approach, this episode reveals how a “just right” start to your day builds traction and evidence of who you’re becoming.

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Here’s the truth: Your Word of the Year gives your identity a direction and your morning routine makes the identity real. One is the compass and the other is the daily practice of walking toward it. Pair the two to design your days, instead of reacting to them.

I’m Certified Life, Weight Loss, and Productivity Coach Laurie Adams and if you’re ready to move forward with new vision and no more delay, come work with me one-on-one! Visit my website laurieadamscoaching.com, to schedule a no-pressure conversation/Q & A about individual coaching. We’ll explore...

What if Thanksgiving didn’t have to come with side dishes of stress?

In this entertaining Fire Up at 55-Plus episode, coach Laurie Adams helps you transform generational clashes into meaningful conversation. You’ll learn the art of keeping calm when old stories resurface, how to redirect hot topics with humor and empathy, and why curiosity is your best conversation tool.

Laurie shares the intriguing list of seven generations—from The Silent Generation through Millenials—along with insights from psychology and coaching on how to manage differences and then respond (not react) when opinions clash.

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Today we wrap up our package of seven episodes in my vision how-to series. With this finale of “Becoming Her: Your Blueprint for Identity Reinvention” you’re well-equipped now to pin down dreams into unquestionable action. We’ve woven my advanced framework of Time Mastery, Creativity, and True Vision into a method you can follow and then build upon for the identity that reflects your deepest desires. Now you only need ignition to stop collecting inspiration and start becoming it. Today’s concluding episode is titled: The Vision in Motion—Living Your Identity Without Looking Back!

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Ever make a vision board and forget to look at it? Let’s fix that. In today’s episode I help you get your dreams out of your head and onto a vision board, more specifically your very own Identity Board, that actually works. The board we build for you will draw your attention and inspire actions to create your best life yet in your empty nest/second act years.

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How heavy does your best-life dream weigh upon your mind? Moving Vision into Tangible Form is the subtitle of today’s episode. In this Becoming Her series, we’re exploring what it takes to reinvent your identity in your second act. And today, we’re going to talk about why keeping your dreams in your head is not enough — and how moving your deepest desires into words on paper can be the very first rung on the ladder to transformation.

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Here comes the centerpiece of our best reinvention steps! Although it’s Podcast No. 120, this is the fourth episode in our “Becoming Her” visioning series. If you’ve been with me for the past few weeks, you know we’ve been building your transformation blueprint step by step in this unique series of advanced ways to really see and realize the reinvented you!  It’s titled Becoming Her: Your Vision Blueprint for Identity Reinvention. It’s grounded in a three-piece foundation: Time Mastery, Creativity, and True Vision. With so many impactful tools and teachings in this series to date, today I recap w...

It’s high time you had tangible proof of the transformed life you’re building. And although it’s Podcast No. 119, this is the third episode in our “Becoming Her” visioning series. Remembering our framework is “Time … Creativity … True Vision,” in the last broadcast we learned about specific tools linking time to creativity. Lingering is no longer an option. But exactly what do you need to face and overcome in order to create? The simple answer is “waiting,” but the hard truth is “procrastination.” Building upon the idea of a contract with yourself, here you discover how procrastination harms building new identity and...

Your transformation blueprint keeps building, and today we’re adding another bold line to the page. In this, the second in our “Becoming Her” visioning series, we add to the enhanced skills that will take you far beyond most "reinvention" steps. Last week we dove into time mastery as the new engine of vision. Today you’ll learn why and how honoring your calendar is an invisible contract with yourself. More importantly you’ll discover how putting pen to paper becomes your most powerful tool for vision and creativity, and that’s a skill that will serve you in all aspects...

"Words matter," you’re always hearing from me. The words that resonate with you, and you alone, have served as your rough draft for reinvention at midlife and beyond, for that “second act,” best life ever you want and deserve. Remember, this 2025 story of renewal is being authored beautifully by you, uniquely for you to put people-pleasing and your old story behind. Now? Well it’s time to illustrate the exciting new life tale you’re ready to tell. How? With a vision so real, it reveals and completes what’s only been percolating in your mind up to now.

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The time for dropping hints is over! Today is the quick quick quick introduction I want you to have for the step-by-step visioning series that drops next time. If, like many midlife women who put themselves last, this is the real deal to revive your dreams, capture them and create a vision that becomes your new, true identity.

Spoiler alert! This is the shortest podcast I’ve ever recorded … just five minutes to give you notice and spill on how we’ll get started. This is going to be fun (and fulfilling)!

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This favorite early episode is coming full circle as I gear up to present a series on valuable visioning for your giant leap to go from stuck to successfully engaged. Listen now to this timeless inspirational podcast that first aired in May of 2023 and still rings true. So step into your ruby-red slippers (hint hint) and hear how to spark your start with new eyes!

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Habits 2.0 could have been the title of last week’s episode where you learned how to take the wisdom of such small-steps advocates as James Clear, author of Atomic Habits. With the new super-tool, The Progress Principle by researcher Teresa Amabile, you discovered how your deep emotions fuel your path through the discomfort of change to sustainable actions. Today I elaborate what that means for future you—the midlife you who embraces your best life ever.

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In a world obsessed with big leaps, it’s time to rid yourself of that compulsion. For lasting midlife reinvention, radical change is not the prescription. Do not, I repeat, do not, dive into a perfectionist's pool spilling over with too many new habits. There’s nothing wrong with big dreams and desires, but there’s a lot wrong with a massive attempt to achieve them. Today you’ll hear the proven, effective way to get going on your goals now, along with the science that explains why that way is best. Listen up to get inspired, knowing that your doa...

Today we’re talking 15 minutes that ignite your soul and energize your day—not mani-pedi’s, not baths, but real-deal habits that fuel your body and mind. Yep, when the hustle-bustle of August transition from vacation to your back-to-Fall “regular” life sends your mind spinning, avoid the multi-tasking trap with proven self-support. Listen up and choose one of these self-helpers next time you really need it.

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Last year this episode aired in September, but as August is the true pedal to the metal moment for fresh-start Fall, a.k.a. back-to-school fall, this is the time to hear it. Ah … those feelings: your dominant, real, authentic feelings … They are the clues to what’s going on with you, from elation to depression to confusion. And I can’t think of a better example or time of year to talk about this, using what most of us have heard of as “the empty nest” syndrome. Your children may be flying the coop out of high school, to college o...

Why are you listening? … Because you’ve been longing and waiting for change in your life. Eager to realize your potential and primed to get going for transformation to move into your best life ever at midlife-plus. So, kudos to you for recognizing your desire and readiness to act upon it. We know that passing through true change includes some discomfort; that is proven. However sometimes “discomfort” doesn’t adequately describe the process you begin. If you’ve been burned by change, significantly fear it or are obsessed with makeovers to the point of “burn it all down” mentality, it’s time to pau...

I still get a lot of comments on this early Fire-Up episode and, of course, its title: How a Beer Changed My Calendar and My Life. It’s the true story of how a simple, even somewhat silly, moment caught me by surprise and a light bulb went off. (If you’re not in your car) grab a beer or beverage of choice, put your feet up, and hear how a long-held perception and preference was busted and then burst into new understanding of the choices we always have to transform our thinking for an expanded life.

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Here’s the challenge: So many women in midlife hit a wall, wondering “Is it too late to become who I hoped I’d be? … Have I lost touch with the ‘real me’?” Surprise! Sometimes you need a break from pushing forward for life transformation and, instead, reach back. Get curious and be excited as you discover this unique way to draw upon your old story to create your new one of transformation in your “second act” of life.

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What are your summer memories? … The ones that stick because they make you smile, chasing away stress, and so real that you can almost feel the moments: from running on concrete with slapping bare feet, to the juicy taste of watermelon, to the pop and shimmer of fireworks in the nighttime skies. The episode that follows is no. 15 from my first weeks of podcasting for you two years ago. Listening invites joyful recollections of summer that begin in childhood, to inspire happiness we can create for any age.

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Today you’ll be inspired to break the “good girl” rules you have outgrown at midlife-plus, along with permission you always deserved but never received. Say “No,” to dusty expectations and “Hell Yes,” to unapologetic joy. And get ready for five surprising stories, five fierce women, and five quotes that will make you laugh, cry, and say, “I want what she’s having!”

To reclaim your potential now and reach for whatever midlife-plus goal means the most to you without distractions, come work with me one-on-one! Just send an email to hello@laurieadamscoaching.com to schedule a no-pressure conversa...

In Part One, we explored how the old model of stress was built on shaky science, and how new research gives us permission to use stress as power. Not to pretend it’s fun, but to own it as fuel. Because this is your midlife season to rise, to speak up, to take up space—not shrink to survive, let’s write a new ending to stress all around.

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Feeling stressed out? Well, of course you are, but believe it or not that’s not always a bad thing. Midlife women do report the highest levels of daily stress compared to all other demographic groups according to the American Psychological Association. That includes caregiving responsibilities, health concerns, financial transitions, and age discrimination in work and healthcare. But don’t panic—we’re here to problem solve. Stress has layers and surprising benefits. Skeptical? That’s only natural, so over two episodes I’m revealing all to help you rewrite the story of stress in your life for a happier, mor...

If life feels uncertain at 55-plus, you’re not in a midlife crisis … you’re in transition. Every great heroine has a turning point in their story of you. Your next chapter starts the minute you shun stereotypes of what it means to age. Midlife crisis, invisibility, giving in to the demands or expectations of others … well, it’s high time to pivot, put yourself first and do it in a way that honors how you want to show up for yourself and the others who mean most in your life! Old is gold and you’re a gem worth uneart...

Moving out of a stagnated story can be desirable and daunting as you move into midlife and then beyond. When you yearn for more, figuring out exactly what “more” means to you, can be elusive. If putting everyone else first has been a lifelong, ingrained habit, by definition, your desires have been last. For many of us who learned early on to tamp down our wants, and dreams, being seen and not heard and deferring to our elders and authority figures … well we often still don’t know how to discover and claim what we really want.

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Today we pick up your 2025 story of renewal following a story of my own from last week where the recurring theme was kindness. Today I also complete the story of kind inspiration I received from the youngest wise ones in my life. Discover in today’s episode the real evidence of how kindness—observed, appreciated, and practiced—truly factors in to a transformed and best life ever in your 50s and beyond!

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