About Welcome To Midlife: The Search For Meaning In The Middle
Nobody hands you a roadmap for midlife. One minute you’re following society’s script… and the next you’re standing there like, “Um, hello? Plot twist?” This is the chapter of creaky knees, reader glasses, zero f***s, and crystal-clear clarity. The season where wisdom hits harder, priorities sharpen fast, and you finally start choosing yourself—boldly, honestly, joyfully. Welcome to the conversations that make midlife feel real, hilarious, brave, and deeply human. Together, let’s turn this whole messy, magic adventure into the chapter you didn’t see coming—in the absolute best way.
S2 E25: Welcome To Middlehood With Michele Palermo
Midlife crisis? More like a midlife creative awakening. 🔥
When writer, director, and producer Michele Palermo's life hit rock bottom, she didn't just reinvent herself. She created Middlehood, a series about the messy, magical, WTF moments of life in the middle.
In this episode of Welcome to Midlife, Michele dishes on betting on herself, financing her own show (against everyone's advice!), finding her dream cast, and proving that midlife might just be the BEST time to take a big creative swing.
Because who says you need permission to chase your dreams? Especially at this age. 💥
📺 Watch Middlehood:
https://tubitv.com/series/300017143/middlehood (https://tubitv.com/series/300017143/middlehood)
✨ Get to know Michele Palermo:
https://michelepalermo.com/ (https://michelepalermo.com/)
🎧 ABOUT WELCOME TO MIDLIFE
Welcome To Midlife: The Search For Meaning In The Middle is about the messy, funny, occasionally WTF years when the life you built meets the woman you’re becoming.
We talk reinvention, relationships, careers, hormones, grief, ambition, identity, and what happens when you realize the middle might actually be the most interesting part.
👉 Subscribe for more conversations about navigating and owning your next act.
#WelcomeToMidlife #Middlehood #MidlifeReinvention #WomenInFilm #MidlifeMagic #FemaleFilmmakers
30 Sept 2026
S2 E24: Becoming A Midlife Broad With Erin Keating
What if the best thing you could become in midlife… is a BROAD?
Not invisible. Not past your prime. Not quietly fading into the background while everyone under 35 gets called 'emerging.'
A full-fledged, knows-who-she-is, owns-her-wins, takes-up-space MID-LIFE BROAD.
In this episode of Welcome To Midlife: The Search For Meaning In The Middle, host Lisa Steadman talks with Erin Keating — Emmy-winning former TV executive, host of Hotter Than Ever, and founder of The Broad Collective — about what happens when the career you spent decades building stops fitting and you have to figure out who the hell you are next.
Spoiler: It might be the beginning of something way better.
We get into:
✨ Why women need to stop downplaying their accomplishments
🏆 The weird discomfort we have around actually celebrating our wins
🔥 Reinventing yourself after a successful first (or second or third) act
💼 Why women wait until they’re 100% qualified while men just go for it
🎙️ Finding and USING your voice in midlife
👯♀️ Why building something new can feel lonely AF
💥 What it means to officially embrace your inner BROAD
Erin also shares how walking away from her longtime career in television eventually led her to create The Broad Collective, a community for midlife women building businesses, changing careers, launching ideas, and generally refusing to disappear quietly.
Because maybe midlife isn’t about becoming a new you. It’s about finally becoming the version of you who gives fewer f*cks about what everyone else thinks.
Welcome to midlife, Broads. We’re just getting started.
🎧 ABOUT WELCOME TO MIDLIFE
Welcome To Midlife: The Search For Meaning In The Middle is about the messy, funny, occasionally WTF years when the life you built meets the woman you’re becoming. We talk reinvention, relationships, careers, hormones, grief, ambition, identity, and what happens when you realize the middle might actually be the most interesting part.
👉 Subscribe for more conversations about navigating and owning your next act.
#WelcomeToMidlife #MidlifeWomen #MidlifeReinvention #WomenOver40 #WomenOver50 #CareerReinvention #SecondAct #FemaleEntrepreneurs #TheBroadCollective #HotterThanEver
7 Sept 2026
S2 E23: The AI Studio System With Qiushi Zhang
What if the biggest disruption in Hollywood could also become one of the biggest opportunities for creators?
In this episode of Welcome to Midlife, host Lisa Steadman sits down with writer-turned-tech founder Qiushi, creator of Leyline, an AI-powered studio system designed to help independent creators take an idea from concept to finished, distributable content, without waiting for someone else to greenlight them.
After years of watching promising projects stall inside the traditional entertainment system, Q decided to build the platform she wished had existed for her, a way for creators to develop scripts, create cinematic AI-powered vertical series, build proof of concepts, explore distribution, and ultimately become their own mini studios.
Lisa and Q get candid about what AI disruption really means for writers, filmmakers and anyone navigating a mid-career reinvention, including the very real fear, uncertainty and ethical concerns surrounding this rapidly evolving technology.
They also explore a more empowering question: What becomes possible when the tools to create are finally in our own hands?
🎬 Learn more about Leyline:
LeylinePro.ai (http://LeylinePro.ai)
🎧 Subscribe to Welcome to Midlife for conversations about career reinvention, relationships, creativity, aging, ambition and becoming who you’re meant to be in your next chapter.
💬 Tell us in the comments: Does AI make you feel more excited, nervous — or a little of both?
#WelcomeToMidlife #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIForCreators #Filmmaking #Screenwriting #ContentCreators #Hollywood #CareerReinvention #MidlifeReinvention #WomenInFilm #IndependentFilm #VerticalDrama #FutureOfHollywood #CreatorEconomy #Leyline
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