Revive your midlife career: how to grow in your role, change jobs or turn a side hustle into a business
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Trish & Lorraine are joined by career expert Helen Tupper for expert advice on how to take your career in the direction you really want, whether it’s stepping away & starting anew, setting up a side hustle or finding opportunities for growth & reinvention if you’re feeling stuck. Discover how to spot all the learning moments in your day to increase your impact & ground your confidence as well as the importance of a ‘To Think List’ as well as a quick & easy question to ask AI to boost your self awareness & career potential.
Plus: Two surprising energy boosters tried & tested; Lorraine takes on another Gladiator fitness challenge
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The Rest & Revive clinic & The Well Clinic
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, it's a few tech issues there coming in. |
| 0:11.6 | Anyway, morning, my midlife warriors. |
| 0:14.7 | Gosh, honestly, I hope everything is well. |
| 0:18.1 | Now, we usually record our little show a few days before it goes out, |
| 0:21.8 | because we're not live. And I'm, as we speak, Trish, I am currently running the Brighton and |
| 0:28.7 | Hove 10K with my 23 year old daughter. Well, I say with her. I mean, I suspect that by this point, |
| 0:35.1 | she's miles away and I'm running, you know, at the speed of one of those marathon runners with a massive fridge on my back or wearing a diving costume. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, good luck because you are officially the postcards for midlife gladiator. |
| 0:48.9 | You took on that role last year, I think. |
| 0:51.2 | It's true. |
| 0:52.7 | But I know you're a midlife woman. Like all of our midlife listeners, you're going to give it your all, however far behind your daughter. I will finish. You will finish, you will go for it. But I have to say, the things we do for our children, I mean, it knows no bounds, because you're only doing that because she asked me to. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, she asked you to do it. |
| 1:12.4 | Do you know what I did recently? |
| 1:14.6 | So I drove to Carr Schulton on a Sunday morning to pick up a chest of drawers for Esby that she bought on Facebook Marketplace. |
| 1:24.3 | And the car broke. |
| 1:25.5 | She wasn't with me. |
| 1:26.2 | She was still in bed, by the way. |
| 1:28.6 | The car broke down and got a bit stuck there just say yes don't we yes i'll do that for you that was my monday |
| 1:35.8 | completely my annals wiped out but anyway we do we do a lot of these things but um listen |
| 1:42.7 | while you're plodding along i can tell listeners that we |
| 1:45.2 | have an action packed show today our guest is going to be helping us to make the most of our careers |
| 1:50.2 | or perhaps even start a whole new one because we know so many of you like us we did it are thinking |
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