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The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#87. On Rediscovering Your Strengths, with Kavita AhujaJoin Kavita Ahuja as she discusses the importance of identifying and celebrating your strengths! As women especially, we often don't recognize, let alone celebrate our strengths and successes.Why is it important to do this? And where do we even begin?Follow along with Kavita as she takes you through the Pyramid of Reinvention - with the first step being Rediscovering Yourself. Take some time to reflect on exercises which she takes you through, and see what opens up for you as you celebrate yourself.This training will give you inspiration, g...2023-04-2518 min
The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#85. On Assessing Your Current Life Situation, with Kavita AhujaWelcome to this week's episode of The Midlife Reinvention podcast, where Kavita discusses the topic of transitions in our lives, and how we can take the first step towards rediscovery by assessing our current life situation. She talks about understanding the difference between a midlife crisis and a midlife transition, and explores the U-Curve of happiness. She discusses the 3 phases of a transition, including triggers, decision and action.Kavita will take you through her proven process of rediscovery called the Pyramid of Reinvention and will take you through an exercise on how to as...2023-03-2115 min
The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#80. On How To Have a 2023 Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, with Kavita AhujaJoin Kavita as she welcomes you to a New Year of possibilities, her first podcast of the year, and the 3rd season of The Midlife Reinvention podcast! She discusses why she is doing this, and it is simply: To help you realize the greatness of who you really are, at this moment. Does the work you are doing right now make you happy? What we do everyday is so important. We spend most of our days doing some kind of work – shouldn’t this work align with who you are, your values, your passio...2023-01-0915 min
The Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#72. On Celebrating Our Listeners, Our Guests, and Our Podcast Milestones, with Kavita AhujaWe are thrilled to celebrate so many things, including that The Midlife Reinvention: A Power Purpose Play Podcast has been selected as one of the Top 20 Midlife Women Podcasts on the web! https://blog.feedspot.com/midlife_women_podcasts/We could not have done this without you, our wonderful listeners, for tuning in every week and for sharing our podcast to your friends and family. You are the reason I am doing this, and it is you I have in mind as I record my solo episodes a...2022-09-1920 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#70. On Our First Days, with Kavita AhujaJoin Kavita, as she muses about our first days! As she watched the children in her neighborhood embarking on their first day of school - and witnessed their nervousness and excitement. She saw how this day brings sadness to the parents who separate from their kids, yet pride at what they have become. As we pack our kids off to school, and settle back into our own lives – what is ahead for us? We all have the same feelings when we start something new. We have worry – will we be able to succeed? Fear – are people going to like me? Exc...2022-09-0607 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#68. On the Transformational Power of Coaching, with Kavita AhujaJoin Kavita Ahuja as she discusses the transformational power of coaching. Coaching is about looking forward to what is possible. It is about visualizing what you want and achieving that vision with confidence and concrete planning. It is about lessening those inner voices and critics which tell us we can’t do something and flip it around - and instead say, Yes I can! It is about putting yourself first and that is not selfish - it is about investing in yourself, so you can show up better for everyone else. She discusses her own tran...2022-08-2211 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#59. Kavita Ahuja: On Life Lessons From a Little Bird!Join Kavita Ahuja in this short solo podcast episode as she tells a story of a little bird who was trapped in her house, and the life lessons we can learn from it. It's all about our comfort zones and how we react when we are taken outside of them. When we, as humans, find ourselves in similar situations - outside of the regular routine, or what we are used to - we also panic. We “fly around” like the little bird - flitting from one place to the next - banging our heads against the proverbial windo...2022-05-2413 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#48. Kavita Ahuja: On Loving Yourself FirstOn this Valentine’s Day, enjoy this mini podcast episode where Kavita shares her thoughts on the importance of Love, and Loving Yourself First. She discusses Why she created Power Purpose Play, and why she believes you have the potential to be who you want to be, and do what you want to do. In the process, we can make the world so much more positive. Do you love yourself? Why or why not? Celebrate all the good things about you, and love yourself. “Love yourself first my friends, and you will see how much ea...2022-02-1408 min
Becoming Your Best VersionA Conversation With Power Purpose Play Founder, Kavita AhujaKavita Ahuja is an entrepreneur and founder of Power Purpose Play , a global platform dedicated to advancing the personal growth and inner power of women in midlife. She is the host and visionary behind the successful podcast, “The Midlife Reinvention”, a course content creator, an accomplished writer and a Personal Transformation and Transition Coach. At age 52, Kavita, who also holds a major in Biology and an MBA, left an extremely successful corporate pharmaceutical career of almost 25 years, took control of her health, her spirituality and her personal relationships, and found her next true calling, which is to help women find...2021-11-1224 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#32. Kavita Ahuja: On Being VulnerableBe inspired as Kavita, founder of Power Purpose Play speaks from the heart about her thoughts surrounding vulnerability, and how, as Brene Brown describes, “Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.” We all experience some form of vulnerability at different times in our life. The key is to try to detach yourself from the consequence of your actions, don't be so concerned with external validation, and try and let go of that Gremlin that tells you, "I'm not good enough".There is catabolic energy or a destructive tearing down...2021-10-0110 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#29. Kavita Ahuja: On Realizing Your DreamsJoin Kavita Ahuja, Founder of Power Purpose Play https://powerpurposeplay.ca/ as she muses about the importance of realizing our dreams. She talks about how dreaming is not just for children, and somehow, as adults we have just stopped doing that. Her message is to DARE to DREAM, and that despite our perceived insecurities and lack of confidence, if we put our true intentions out into the world, the realization of our dreams is possible. Kavita celebrates the launch of our signature course: It's My Time Now: How to Rediscover Yo...2021-09-1008 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#27. Kavita Ahuja: On Turning 55!In this 26th solo episode of The Midlife Reinvention podcast, Kavita Ahuja, founder of Power Purpose Play https://powerpurposeplay.ca/ muses on what it means to her to turn 55 years of age. Society puts so many labels on each of us and how we should behave or what we should be doing at different stages of our lives. Kavita wants to turn those stereotypes on their head and take the word "crisis" out of midlife!Instead, midlife is a time for renewal and rediscovery, and a time when we should be looking within us for the answers...2021-08-0715 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#20. Kavita Ahuja: On Rediscovering Yourself in MidlifeKavita Ahuja, founder of Power Purpose Play, celebrates the 20th episode of The Midlife Reinvention Podcast! As she contemplates the incredible experience it has been, she stresses the fact that Midlife is NOT a crisis - it is an opportunity for each of us to step into our individual greatness and rediscover who we are and bring that out into the world. Kavita discusses what she terms, "The Pyramid of Reinvention" which consists of 6 steps: 1) Rediscovering Yourself - your inventory (skills, talents), your passions, your values, culminating in the discovery of your Reason for Being; 2) Visioning Yourself...2021-06-1812 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#11. Kavita Ahuja: On AchievementsJoin Kavita Ahuja on this special bonus episode of The Midlife Reinvention, as she discusses achievements, and how, especially as women, we need to acknowledge, celebrate and share each of our achievements with the world. It's not about comparing ourselves to others; it's about setting goals within ourselves which we strive to exceed.Kavita Ahuja, host of The Midlife Reinvention Podcast, is the Founder of Power Purpose Play, a Global Platform for Women who are charting a new course in midlife to reinvent themselves. At the age of 53, Kavita, who holds a major in Biology and an...2021-04-2113 minThe Midlife Reinvention: How to Find Your Ikigai, Deal with Imposter Syndrome & Build Your Confidence in Career & Life Transitions#2. "Choose to Challenge" - launch episode of The Midlife Reinvention on International Women's Day!On this first episode of The Midlife Reinvention, your host, Kavita Ahuja, founder of Power Purpose Play https://powerpurposeplay.ca/contact-us/, tells you who she is, why she created this community and podcast, and why you should care!On this, International Women's Day 2021, the theme is "Choose to Challenge" and Kavita tells you a bit about her background and why she chose to challenge what was traditionally expected of her, and why she created Power Purpose Play https://powerpurposeplay.ca/ This community and this podcast brings women...2021-03-0508 min