Midlife A La Bahareh

About Midlife A La Bahareh

Midlife à la Bahareh is a podcast for high-achieving people in midlife who look successful on paper but feel something deeper asking for attention. Hosted by Bahareh, each episode explores the hidden tensions, quiet disconnection, identity shifts, and search for meaning that often emerge in this season of life. Through honest reflection and grounded insight, the podcast helps you see more clearly what feels off, what matters now, and how to move forward with greater alignment, self-respect, and purpose. If you’re in your forties, fifties, or beyond and know there has to be a more truthful way to live, you’re in the right place.

Publisher

alabahareh

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Oct 2023

Latest episode

9 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Aug 2026

   Episode 25 - When You Build a Beautiful Life on Someone Else's Land

   Episode 25 - In this episode, I explore what happens when you build a beautiful life on values that were never fully yours — inherited expectations, absorbed definitions of success, old loyalties, approval, security, usefulness, or the need to be impressive. We look at how high achievers can spend years building something real, admirable, and successful while still feeling strangely displaced inside it. The work may be real. The sacrifice may be real. The life may function. But if the foundation is built on borrowed values, it may still not feel like home. This episode explores why we often keep renovating the “house” instead of questioning the “land,” how certain values can come to own too much of our lives, and why midlife can become the moment when we finally ask whether the ground beneath what we built is still truly ours. I also share reflection questions and a practical Land Survey exercise to help you identify one area of your life that may be built on an inherited value, understand how that value has served you and what it now costs you, and name the value that feels more honest to build from now. If this episode resonates and you want support doing this work more personally, visit Sage In You Coaching to learn more. This podcast reflects my own views and is shared for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Please seek qualified professional support for your specific situation.

2. 

   30 Jun 2026

   Episode 24 - The Moment Before You Override Yourself

   Episode 24 - In this episode, I explore the tiny moment before self-override — the moment when something in you already knows your truth, preference, limit, or no, and you move past it so quickly that it almost looks like maturity. We look at how high achievers can become highly skilled at turning inner truth into external smoothness. Being flexible, capable, generous, and easy may have once helped you belong, succeed, or feel safe. But over time, the same pattern can become a quiet form of self-abandonment. This episode explores the difference between clean flexibility and self-erasure, why resentment is often abandoned truth returning with a sharper voice, and how old protection strategies can keep answering for your present-day self. I also share reflection questions and a practical one-breath exercise to help you notice when you are about to override yourself, identify the identity you may be protecting, and pause before letting the old version of you answer. If this episode resonates and you want support doing this work more personally, visit Sage In You Coaching to learn more. This podcast reflects my own views and is shared for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Please seek qualified professional support for your specific situation.

3. 

   14 Jun 2026

   Episode 23 - What Rumi Knows About the Ache Beneath Achievement

   Episode 23 — Some of what you call ambition may actually be longing in disguise. In this episode, I explore the quiet ache that can live beneath achievement — the feeling that another goal, milestone, or visible success may bring relief, but not necessarily return. We look at how high achievers can translate every inner ache into something to fix, improve, pursue, or optimize. Drawing on the wisdom of Rumi, we explore the difference between clean ambition and disguised longing, why relief is not the same as return, and how the ache beneath success may be asking you to come closer to yourself rather than push harder toward the next thing. I also share reflection questions and a practical exercise to help you notice what you may be calling ambition that is actually longing, identify which achievements give you relief but not deeper contact, and begin pausing before turning every ache into an assignment. If this episode resonates and you want support doing this work more personally, visit Sage In You Coaching to learn more. This podcast reflects my own views and is shared for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not medical, mental health, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Please seek qualified professional support for your specific situation.

Reach and audience

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

Spotify

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 14 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

9

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51