Tommy Talk: TURNING 40: MIDLIFE CRISIS OR MIDLIFE AWAKENING?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of “Tommy Talk,” Tommy discusses hitting the big 4-0. Turning 40 often comes with a lot of noise. Society loves to call it a midlife crisis, but what if it’s actually a powerful awakening? Today Tommy is exploring what really happens when you step into this pivotal decade. From shifting identities and changing priorities to deeper self-awareness, confidence, and clarity, Tommy talks honestly about growing older, reinvention and redefining success on your own terms. Whether you’re approaching 40, already there, or reflecting on what life has taught you up to this point, this episode shows you that “midlife" is not an ending. It’s just the beginning baby, and we are just getting started.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 0:07.8 | Hey guys, welcome to Tommy Talk. And today's topic is turning 40. Midlife crisis or |
| 0:15.8 | midlife awakening. So for all of my 1980s babies, I was born in 1986, we're turning 40. We are turning 40. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm turning 40 on January 28th. And I'm entering this year very reflective about it. It's, |
| 0:32.7 | it's kind of like your life, not to sound dramatic, but flashes before your eyes. You have all the memories |
| 0:38.3 | coming back to you from childhood and teenage years and 20s and 30s and you start thinking |
| 0:43.6 | about everything that's really shaped you up until this point. The people, the jobs, the |
| 0:50.6 | experiences, the relationships, I mean, everything. I just keep thinking about literally what I have |
| 0:57.2 | had to go through to be standing here today approaching 40 years old. It's this somewhat of a life |
| 1:04.3 | review. And I guess that maybe is what happens at midlife. I don't know. I've never been this age |
| 1:09.2 | before. But it's so weird because in so many ways, |
| 1:12.5 | I still feel like that 16-year-old boy running around the suburbs of New Jersey, driving in my |
| 1:18.2 | sky-blue Toyota Camry, and now I'm here. Now I'm here. So I think a big milestone birthday, |
| 1:25.4 | even if you're not turning 40 per se, maybe 50 or 60 or even 30, I think it's a big deal in so many ways because you just can't believe how you got here, right? |
| 1:38.7 | And I think people always have this assumption that, oh my God, 40, midlife crisis, you're over the hill, right? I feel like coming up when my parents were crisis you're over the hill right i feel like coming up |
| 1:45.4 | when my parents were turning 40 over the hill was a big thing you would see the cards and the parties |
| 1:50.2 | and everything was over the hill over the hill over the hill i can't say i really see that nowadays anymore |
| 1:55.2 | which is kind of interesting but you saw a lot of it and you still have this this this kind of feeling of, well, am I in life? |
| 2:04.3 | I guess I am on paper. |
| 2:06.1 | And what's really funny now is I have these great, great, we'll call them Gen Ziers, |
| 2:10.9 | who work for me at my show. |
| 2:12.8 | And a lot of Gen Zers who come on my show will look at me and they find out my age and |
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