4 Lessons About Turning 40
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
I've noticed something curious in my community of 40-something women: the pervasive feeling of resignation that life is pretty much over, that it's too late to try something new, and that feeling stronger and more confident at this might as well be a unicorn fantasy. The feeling that the best years of our lives are gone and that we should just roll over and accept that we will never feel stronger, more capable, and more confident.
Well fuck all that. Ladies, we aren't going out that way.
It's not about trying to get back to where we were 10 or 20 years ago and beating ourselves up about it. Rather, it's about accepting and embracing where we're at right now...and seeing ways in which we are strong, powerful, and wise.
Today, I turn 40 and I'm sharing some reflections on four important lessons life has handed me about getting older. There are easily dozens more but these four are ones that resonate with me a lot right now. I'm not about to hide or apologize for my age. I believe 40-something women can be strong and take up more space...and I hope you'll reconsider if you've started giving up.
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On this episode:
- Why we shouldn't have shame about getting older
- The whole point in nourishing our bodies
- 4 lessons I've learned about getting older
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 180 of Harder to Kill Radio. It's the Fierce Love |
| 0:06.8 | Edition of this podcast and I'm your host Steph Groddro. If you're new to the podcast, |
| 0:14.2 | welcome because I'm getting all these amazing messages |
| 0:17.5 | that new people are finding the show, which is rad. |
| 0:21.5 | Every Tuesday, I do an expert guest interview and then on Fridays I turn the mic on myself |
| 0:26.8 | It's kind of a way of me keeping myself accountable, but I turn the mic on myself and do a solo show that I call the Fear Slope Friday edition where sometimes I rent, sometimes I get kind of serious, but just talk about things that are happening in my community, things that I'm noticing, things that I'm |
| 0:45.0 | I'm noticing things that I feel strongly about so you kind of get the best of both worlds on this show and I'm really |
| 0:51.0 | excited about today's episode because I'm really excited about today's episode |
| 0:52.8 | because I'm gonna be sharing with you |
| 0:56.0 | some lessons that I've learned in my life, |
| 1:00.3 | specifically things that I've learned |
| 1:02.4 | as I've gotten older, because today is my |
| 1:03.7 | specifically things that I've learned as I've gotten older because today is my birthday. |
| 1:05.9 | Today, actually today, February 22nd, |
| 1:09.4 | I love my birthday, Tu Tu Tu Tu Tu. |
| 1:12.0 | But February 22nd is my birthday and not only is it my birthday, but |
| 1:16.5 | today I turn 40. And I'm really proud of that. I'm proud that I've kept myself alive this |
| 1:21.9 | song, but in all seriousness, I'm proud that I've kept myself alive this song but in all seriousness I'm really |
| 1:24.3 | proud to say that I'm 40 and I think that as a woman approaching 40 and being 40 |
| 1:32.1 | now and entering into that decade there is a lot of |
| 1:36.8 | fear there's a lot of |
| 1:39.2 | almost shame sometimes in being older and in this episode I want to talk about some of the things that I've |
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