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011: Why Midlife Changes Everything: How to Redefine Success On Your Terms
Episode 1122nd June 2026 • Good Girl Rebellion • Anna Campbell
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Do you ever find yourself wondering whether the life you’ve built still works for you?

Do you feel less willing to tolerate things you used to accept, less interested in making everyone comfortable and more aware that your time and energy matter?

Do you sometimes look around and think: this all looks successful on paper… so why doesn’t it feel quite right anymore?

If that feels familiar, this episode is for you.

This episode of the Good Girl Rebellion podcast is a little different from usual.

Before the podcast existed, Anna joined relationship specialist Katie Rossler as part of the Behind the Transformation summit for a conversation about perimenopause. Katie kindly gave permission for the interview to be shared because while the conversation starts with hormones and midlife, it quickly becomes something much bigger.

Together, Anna and Katie explore why midlife can feel like such a turning point for women and what happens when the strategies that made us successful no longer feel sustainable.

They discuss good girl conditioning, identity, productivity, boundaries and the possibility that what we often experience as frustration, irritability or restlessness may actually be information.

Instead of being signs that something is wrong, maybe they are signs that something is changing.

This is a conversation about redefining success, becoming more intentional and asking whether the life you’ve built still reflects what you actually want.

In this episode:

• Why perimenopause can become a moment of recalibration rather than decline

• Good girl conditioning and what happens when being capable and accommodating no longer feels sustainable

• Why anger and irritability may be information rather than something to suppress

• The idea that our nervous system can start withdrawing consent from overfunctioning and people pleasing

• Identity audits and asking whether the life you’ve built still fits

• Renegotiating our relationship with productivity, ambition and success in midlife

• Boundaries, resentment and learning to pause before automatically saying yes

• Becoming more visible, less people pleasing and creating a life that feels more aligned

• Why asking “how do I get back to who I was?” may be the wrong question

• Becoming more yourself rather than becoming somebody different

If you’ve been feeling the tension between who you’ve always been and who you’re becoming, this conversation is for you.

It’s time.

Find Katie:

Website: www.katierossler.com

Podcast: www.thebalancecodepodcast.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katie.rossler/

Find Anna:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annaccampbell

Book: Good Girl Rebellion: Build the Business, Break the Rules, Be Limitless https://www.goodgirlrebellion.com/ggr-book

The Good Girl Rebellion audiobook is published this week. You can order it here

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