Hello Gabi here. Welcome to a special episode of the Midpoint. A lot of us are taking a break over the summer

so I thought it would be a good idea to take stock and listen back to

some of the brilliant conversations I've had with my guests over the last year also.

And speaking of taking a break, if you are heading away, remember you can always take

the midpoint on

holiday with you in book form as well. The midpoint plan is out now. It's full of

my guests and experts wisdom and advice and suggestions as to how you might incorporate all their knowledge

into your life. Hence the title, the plan. Anyway, on to this episode. I've learned so much from listening

to my guest talk about what it means to be at the

midpoint in life, but one of the things that comes up time and time again is the idea that the

midlife crisis is not inevitable.

Midlife and crisis are not mutually exclusive and in fact you can turn the whole thing on its

head and look at it as an opportunity.

It might not always feel that way, but so many of my brilliant guests spoke about this and when I talked the Reverend

Kate Botley she described it as more midlife blessing than midlife crisis and that

is what is inspired today's show.

Comedian Lee Mack gave up drinking, became vegan, and started exploring Buddhism in his 40s.

There's definitely a midlife crisis joke in there somewhere, but I'm going to leave that to the professionals.

All jokes aside though, I loved Lee's perspective on the potential for change in this phase of

our lives so we're going to kick things off with him.

Yeah I mean I'm very careful to talk about it is because it sounds like I am saying I'm a Buddhist

when in fact I'm interested in Buddhism and they did a podcast.

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