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Welcome to I Choose Me, a podcast about the choices we make to come home to ourselves.

Today's guest has been called a midlife advocate. She is

screaming into the void that we should celebrate this time of our lives because for so long,

midlife was framed as a decline, a crisis, something to fear, especially for women. But Stacey London is one of the people who helped

flip that script. So this conversation is about style as a practice of choosing yourself. It's

about aging without apology. And it's about being brave. I can't think of a better person to help us

navigate what midlife can actually be, powerful, expansive, and deeply our own. Welcome, welcome,

welcome, the incomparable Stacey London. Hello. You are being called a midlife advocate.

I mean, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't not resonate. Right. I just, right, it's just such a big

term. And I never realized that, you know, I would want to advocate for any part of life more than any other, right?

I'm a life advocate.

I want you to go ahead and do whatever it is you want to do, have whatever you want to have.

But I did not realize, even though I, you know, I identify as a woman, I have been a woman my whole life,

I have been subjected to the same kind of patriarchal lenses we all

have, but it did not occur to me how hard getting older was going to be, just on almost every level.

Yeah, nobody prepped us for this. No. And I'm like, did I miss a course? Did somebody like do the how to grown up well

while I was like out of school? But I think about how much I've used algebra. And I wonder how much

better it would have been if somebody had been like, here is a class on emotional regulation. Here is a class on financial investment

as you age. I mean, all these things that I wish that I had known much earlier in my life.

I wish I knew how to sew, how to cook, forget about like, what happened to Homack?

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