Show Notes
What if turning 40 is about finally becoming brave enough to ask what do I actually want?
This week on Self Care Club: The Midlife Edition, we’re talking fearlessness, resilience, reinvention and what happens when you stop living according to someone else’s expectations.
Our guest is Vicki Anstey - who is an inspiring example of midlife reinvention, resilience, identity, courage and pushing your own limits. A double world record-holding adventurer, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, human performance coach and author. After a career in marketing and building a successful fitness business, Vicki’s life changed dramatically at 40. She ended her marriage, entered SAS: Who Dares Wins, rowed unsupported across the Pacific Ocean and cycled 3,000 miles across America as part of record-breaking teams.
But this conversation isn’t really about rowing oceans or cycling across continents. It’s about fear and what happens when you stop letting it make your decisions.
We talk about confidence and ageing, resilience, failure, friendship under extreme pressure, starting again in midlife, and whether women have been taught to settle for smaller lives than they actually want.
Vicki also tells us about her brilliant book, Other People Are Like The Weather: Stop Managing the Forecast, Start Mastering Yourself and why learning to manage ourselves rather than trying to control everything around us might be one of the biggest lessons of midlife.
In this episode:
What fear really feels like when you’re doing something terrifying
How to build resilience
Why confidence can come from experience
What women underestimate about themselves as they get older
Living according to someone else’s “forecast”
Failure, setbacks and learning to trust yourself
Why women need to stop asking for permission
You can learn more about Vicki here: https://vickianstey.co.uk/
Instagram: @vickianstey
Other People Are Like The Weather: Stop Managing the Forecast, Start Mastering Yourself is available now.
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