Messy Midlife: It’s Not A Crisis, It’s A Calling to Connect

About Messy Midlife: It’s Not A Crisis, It’s A Calling to Connect

Messy Midlife: It's Not A Crisis, It's A Calling To Connect. The podcast for men and women 35 to 65 navigating the messy middle years. Hosted by Jody Brooks, a UK-based Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach and midlife transition specialist, Messy Midlife is where the complicated, courageous, and sometimes chaotic middle of life gets talked about honestly. Through candid conversations and practical coaching insights, Jody explores identity and reinvention, self-trust, core values, morning awareness practice, midlife habits, burnout recovery, and what to do when the version of you that got you here no longer fits. This is a midlife podcast for grown ups asking bigger questions. Who am I now. What matters next. How do I rebuild without burning everything down. If you are feeling loss of identity, fear of the future, overwhelm, anxiety, or a quiet sense that you have lost yourself somewhere along the way, you are in the right place. Each week you get two solo coaching episodes and one guest conversation. Expect real stories about burnout, addiction recovery, perimenopause, menopause, career pivots, empty nest, divorce, grief, and finding purpose after 40. Alongside experts on positive psychology, resilience, workplace wellbeing, mental health, and authentic living. No clinical language. No perfect answers. Just honest conversations for anyone in the messy middle of life. Jody's work is rooted in his Nine Principles of Authentic Living: Awareness, Understanding, Trust, Honesty, Empowerment, Nurture, Transformation, Integrity, and Compassion. Each season of the podcast explores one principle in depth, so you can follow the show as a full personal development journey or drop in for the episodes that speak to where you are right now. If you love Mel Robbins, Brené Brown, Simon Sinek, Jay Shetty, Brendon Burchard, Johann Hari, Dan Harris, Louise Hay, or James Clear, this podcast belongs in your library. Warm, non-judgmental, and grounded in lived experience, Messy Midlife sits at the intersection of life coaching, midlife reinvention, and self-discovery. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Follow the show for honest stories, useful tools, and a reminder that what feels like a crisis is actually a call to reconnect with yourself. F ind Jody: www.authenticcoaching.me Instagram: @messymidlife_podcast and @the_authenticcoach Website: www.messymidlifepodcast.world Messy Midlife is hosted by Jody Arran Brooks, Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach, midlife transition specialist, and school governor based in St Leonards-on-Sea, England.

Publisher

Jody Brooks Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach

Category

education · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Apr 2026

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Midlife Honesty: How to Turn Your Inner Critic Into an Ally (S4 EP12, Season Finale)

   Connect With Jody The Guardian is not the enemy. He was hired for a reason. This week, we thank him, and we promote him. How to turn your inner critic into an ally is the finale of Season 4, and the answer is smaller and kinder than the internet will tell you. It is not about defeating a voice. It is about noticing that the voice was hired a very long time ago, has been doing the job it was hired to do, and might, in Week 4 of an honest month, be ready to be given a slightly different role. ...

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   How to Find Your Real Values: Read Your Calendar (S4 EP11)

   Connect With Jody Your calendar tells you what you actually value. It does not care what you would like to value. How to find out your real values is the most useful question I know for anyone at a midlife pivot, and Stephen Keys, in Singapore, has one of the most honest answers I have heard. He says, quietly, that your values are what your calendar says matters. Not what you would like your values to be. What last week's diary actually shows. My guest today is Stephen Keys. Stephen and I ar...

3. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Making Honesty a Daily Habit, Not a Confession (S4 EP10)

   Connect With Jody The habit is a pause. That is the whole habit. Everything else just hangs off it. How to make honesty a daily habit is the whole of Week 4 in one sentence, and it is smaller than you think. The habit is a pause. That is the whole habit. The calendar, the cupboard, the tower, the journal, are just things to hang the pause on. Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 4 of Messy Midlife. Season 4 is Honesty, and this is the Monday opener of Week 4. Week 4 is Integration, and the spine ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Contact Messy Midlife: It’s Not A Crisis, It’s A Calling to Connect

Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.