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Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

224 - Combating People-Pleasing, Imposter Syndrome, and Aging Fears

Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

Education, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Spirituality, Relationships, Parenting, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Are You Living Your Life—Or Someone Else’s? 

This week on Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re answering your questions on how to reconnect with yourself, release negative emotions, and find strength from within. From people-pleasing to imposter syndrome to midlife fears, this honest conversation offers comfort, clarity, and encouragement for anyone ready to write their own chapters.

💬 Barb opens up about her journey with imposter syndrome and how she discovered true confidence and inner strength.

💬 Michelle shares candid reflections on the fear of aging and how she’s learning to live authentically, aligned with her own desires rather than societal expectations.

Episode Highlights

  • Viewing peace as strength and learning to prioritize your own needs
  • Accepting and honoring your emotions without judgment
  • Finding comfort and confidence in your own presence
  • Releasing the self-criticism around aging and life timelines
  • Building confidence when imposter syndrome creeps in

Happiness and peace aren’t found outside of us—they’re choices we make every day. Tune in to discover how to start living the life you choose, with more joy, authenticity, and true success.

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💛 Episode Topics:

  • Redefining peace as strength
  • Giving yourself permission to feel
  • Unlearning survival mode
  • The blessing of aging
  • Releasing self-judgment
  • Realigning with your dreams

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every home. Hi everyone. Welcome back to Life Happens with Barb and Michelle. We are so excited to be

0:35.1

back chatting with you all this week about life's most interesting

0:38.1

and meaningful topics. If you've been along with us this month, you'll know that our theme of our

0:44.0

topics has been finding peace amongst the chaos, which is, you know, pretty timely as we think.

0:50.6

And so this week, we're going to be answering some of the questions that you sent in on this topic and more. And as you all probably know by now, you love a Q&A topic or a Q&A episode. So we've got good ones lined up for you today. We do. Thank you. Hi, Michelle. How's it going? Good. You're excited for this one. I am. And we love it that you take the time to ask us questions. It means a lot to us. So thank you. We're excited to dive into your questions. Yeah. So the first question that we got was from someone who said that, oh, you're going to like this one. I mean, you're going to like all of them. but... Yeah, I'm always a little bit like, okay, what's the first one going to be?

1:30.9

I know, I love in this instance, at least, that I feel like I have control over... You do. Like, you don't know what's going to come out first. I have no idea. Yeah, just so you all know. we get all the questions and I have no idea what she's going to lead with. She's the boss.

1:45.0

The puppeteer. She's the boss.

1:45.0

The puppeteer. Yes. So this person asked, I struggle with feeling my emotions. Is this related

1:54.0

to being a people pleaser? What can I do to fix this? So I guess a three-prong question. But when I saw that first piece, I'm like,

2:03.8

this is a question for you for sure. I guess, first thing I want to say is you're not alone.

2:08.9

Yeah. I don't think I've met a person. So I'm 68. I don't think I've met a person along the way,

2:17.1

not only in my journey of doing

2:20.4

this work and all of the things in trying to help, you know, people find their, you know,

2:24.9

their center core and who they are. But I don't think even in business or anywhere, have I found

2:29.1

one person that is comfortable and really practices feeling their feelings or really understanding and feeling

2:36.2

their emotions. So you're not alone. It was a long way to say you're not alone. You're in the same

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