EP 36: Barbara Bradley Hagerty - Life Reimagined

At the age of 53, Barbara Bradley Hagerty was experiencing chronic vocal cord pain along with losing her voice.  It was hindering her work as an on-air reporter at NPR.  Other life experiences also had her thinking she might be headed for a midlife crisis.  As any good reporter would do, she decided to follow the story and spent the next couple of years examining that stage of life called “midlife” and how we might thrive.  Hundreds of interviews with brain scientists, researchers and psychologists came together in a book titled Life Reimagined where she also examined her own midlife journey. What she found is that we’ve bought into a myth that midlife brings with it the inevitable midlife crisis. Instead, she found that midlife can be a time to “refocus our energies, and transform the ways we think about the world and ourselves.”