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colagard.com slash podcast. Hi, I'm Rushmastajani, founder of Girls Who Code.

Look, I'd consider myself a pretty successful adult woman.

I've written books, founded two successful nonprofits, and I'm raising two incredible kids.

But here's the thing.

I still wake up wondering, is this it? And if the best years are yet to come,

when's that going to start? Join me on my so-called midlife, my new podcast with Lemonada Media,

where we're building a playbook for navigating midlife, one episode at a time. Each week, I'll chat with extraordinary guests

who've transformed their midlife crisis into opportunities for growth and newfound purpose.

At some point, we all ask ourselves, is there more to life? I'm here to discover how to thrive in my second act, right alongside you.

My so-called midlife is out now, wherever you get your podcast.

I'm Kate Bowler, and this is Everything Happens.

I'm a historian, author, aggressively fast walker, but lately in a world that promises endless progress, even now in a pandemic, I've realized I just need to be a person.

It's hard to give up on the feeling that the life you want is just out of reach. If only you tried. Eat this food. Find that relationship.

Just get the kids graduated or the parents this kind of care. Only then will I feel different.

Better. Whole. But that's not the way this works. When I was 35, I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

And here's the very fun thing about that. The world loves you better when you are shiny,

when you are cheerful, when you still believe that your best life now is right around the

corner. I've written multiple books on

the history of the idea that you can always fix your life. So I'm going to be the one to say it.

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