BestBeyond50 with Ellie Hewitt
You have more ahead of you than you think.
BestBeyond50 is the podcast for women in their 50s, 60s and beyond who are done waiting and ready to design what comes next. Each week, economist, entrepreneur and life coach Ellie Hewitt shares honest conversations, practical frameworks and the science of living well in your second chapter.
Ellie built a multimillion-pound property portfolio and launched a coaching business — after 60. She knows from her own life that the years ahead can be the most creative, free and fulfilling ones yet.
Topics include identity, purpose, income, health, longevity, relationships and the art of designing a life that actually fits who you are now.
Your best years aren't behind you. They're being designed right now.
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For most of your adult life, the answer to "who are you?" was easy. You were someone's wife, mother, daughter, colleague, carer. The roles were the identity. And they were enough. Until they weren't. In this final episode of the first series, Ellie asks the question that sits at the heart of everything BestBeyond50 is built around: who are you when the roles fall away? Not who you were. Not who other people need you to be. But who you actually are — underneath all of it. This is not a comfort...
6 Aug 2026
Midlife and Alcohol- The Honest Conversation
This is the episode a lot of women have been waiting for — and the one that's hardest to have. Alcohol use among women over 50 has risen significantly in the last two decades. The reasons are complex — stress, loneliness, habit, the cultural normalisation of wine o'clock — and the consequences are more serious for women than is widely understood. In this episode, Ellie has the honest conversation. Not a lecture. Not a recovery narrative. A frank, warm, evidence-based discussion ...
30 Jul 2026
5 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself Before 60.
Not a quiz. Not a test. A conversation — with yourself. In this episode, Ellie works through fifty questions designed to surface what you actually think, want, value and fear — as opposed to what you've been told to think, want, value and fear. Some of these questions are practical. Some are philosophical. Some will be easy. Some will stop you in your tracks. All of them are worth sitting with. This episode works best with a journal open. It's an invitation to the kind of...
23 Jul 2026
The Daily Choice: Philosophy Meets Real Life
Ideas don't change lives. Decisions do. And decisions happen in the ordinary moments of everyday. Key theme: The series finale — bringing everything together into daily practice, and a warm invitation to the full BestBeyond50 world. We've covered a lot of ground together in this series. Longevity, regret, health, agency, relationships, purpose. Big ideas — ideas I hope have shifted something in how you see this chapter of your life. But today I want to come all the ...
16 Jul 2026
How to Find Your Purpose When the Old Answers No Longer Fit
What is your life for? Not what it was for. What is it for now? Key theme: Using the Ikigai framework to find or redefine purpose in the second chapter. Of all the conversations in this series, this is the one I find myself returning to most. Not because it's the most practical — though it has profound practical implications. But because it sits at the centre of everything. The question is: what is your life for? Not what have you achieved or survived. What is it for, righ...
9 Jul 2026
The Most Powerful Longevity Tool Isn't Exercise — It's This
The Harvard Study followed people for 80 years. Here's the one thing that mattered most. Key theme: The science of relationships and longevity — and a first invitation to join the BestBeyond50 community. We've talked about sleep, movement, nutrition, and purpose. All important, all within your power. Today I want to talk about something that may be more powerful than any of them. The Harvard Study of Adult Development followed people for over eighty years — one of the long...
2 Jul 2026
Retiring 'Retirement': What 40 Years Actually Means
The traditional idea of retirement was designed for a world where people lived to seventy-two. You're going to outlive it. Key theme: Why the retirement mindset is not just limiting but actively harmful — and what a second lifetime looks like instead. The word retirement is doing a lot of quiet damage. Not the idea of rest — rest matters. But the framework: the idea that there is a point at which the productive, purposeful, forward-moving part of life ends and something quieter b...
25 Jun 2026
The 5 Pillars Every Woman Over 50 Needs to Protect
Your body is not an aesthetic project. It's the infrastructure your entire second chapter runs on. Key theme: The five evidence-based pillars of health in the second chapter — and why this is about capacity, not appearance. We've inherited a way of talking about health that is quietly working against us. We frame it in terms of appearance — weight, how we look, whether our body matches a standard designed for much younger women. That framing loads health with judgement and shame,...
18 Jun 2026
What's Really In Your Control — And What Isn't
Stop spending energy on what you can't change. Start investing in what you can. Key theme: The honest distinction between luck and agency — and why confidence follows action, not the other way round. Here's the question that sits underneath everything we discuss in this series: how much of this is actually up to me? It's a fair question and an important one. Some things genuinely are outside our control — genetics, timing, the circumstances we were born into, the things th...
11 Jun 2026
Is This Your Sliding Door Moment?- How to recognise it when it happens
Small choices made now compound into dramatically different lives. Which version are you building? Key theme: How ordinary daily decisions compound over decades — and the fork you are standing at right now. Imagine two versions of yourself at eighty. One is vital, purposeful, connected, and independent. The other is diminished — not through catastrophe, but through the quiet accumulation of deferred decisions and years of drift. Both of those versions begin here. In choice...
4 Jun 2026
Why Your Doctor Can't Help You Design a Long Life
The NHS is extraordinary. It just wasn't built for what you actually need. Key theme: The difference between lifespan and healthspan — and why prevention needs to be your responsibility. When was the last time you went to your GP and the conversation was about how to feel extraordinary? About having more energy, more clarity, more vitality for the next thirty years? The answer, for most of us, is never. Because that's not what the appointment is for. Our healt...
28 May 2026
The Best Chapter of Your Life Hasn't Even Started Yet. Here's Why.
Strapline: The best chapter of your life hasn't started yet. Here's the evidence. Key theme: Introducing the BestBeyond50 mission — and the case that fifty is not the beginning of the end. If you've ever had the quiet, persistent feeling that your best years are still ahead of you — this episode is where we begin. I'm Ellie Hewitt: founder, entrepreneur, and economist who discovered in her early sixties that the most purposeful chapter of her life hadn't started yet....
28 May 2026
The Regret Compass: How to Use What You Wish You'd Done
Regret isn't a trap. Used properly, it's the most precise compass you have. Key theme: Reframing regret as a forward-looking design tool — and the Regret Audit exercise. We're not supposed to have regrets. The culturally approved position is: no regrets, own your choices, move on. I want to challenge that — quite fundamentally. The research on what people regret most at the end of their lives is consistent and sobering: it's almost never the risks they took. It's the paths...
28 May 2026
Stop Drifting. Start Designing Your Next 30 Years.
Most people plan everything except the most important chapter of their lives. Key theme: Treating longevity as a design project — and the four questions that make it real. We plan our careers, our homes, our holidays. We plan other people's lives with extraordinary care. And then we arrive at fifty or sixty with thirty years ahead of us — and no plan at all. That gap between the life you're drifting into and the one you could be designing is what this episode is abo...
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