Midlife Brain Power Reset

Your brain isn’t broken, and you’re not “lazy” or “unmotivated.” When midlife feels foggy, reactive, or scattered, the more honest label is mental overload and it can quietly steal your memory, your patience, and your peace.

We talk through what overload looks like in real life: performing on overdrive, living in survival mode, saying “I’m good” or “I’m fine” while you’re one small trigger away from snapping, and wondering why simple decisions suddenly feel heavy. Then we shift into tools that actually help, starting with language. The words you repeat become the story your brain practices, so we share midlife reframes like “I’m sharpening my mind” and “My next chapter deserves my focus” to rebuild confidence and clarity.

From there we get practical with focus and cognitive fitness. We break down a 10-minute reset that trains attention, reduces distractions, and proves multitasking is a myth. We also cover simple brain health habits you can do today: reading, puzzles, learning something new, deep conversation, and journaling by hand to stimulate the brain differently than typing. To pull it all together, we offer a “My next chapter” map and a seven-day brain power challenge built around movement, one-task focus, meaningful connection, and five minutes of stillness.

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A New Level Starts In Mind

Coach Stacy 0:09

What if your next level is not waiting on more money, more time, or more motivation? What if the real shift begins with how you protect your peace, sharpen your focus, and train your mind for the life you still deserve? Well, tonight we're talking about how to strengthen your brain power in midlife so you can think clearer, stress less, remember more, and move into your next chapter with power, purpose, and possibility.

Coach Wayne 0:47

You found the midlife revolution unleashed, the space to embrace your wisdom, reignite your passions, and move boldly into what's next. I am Coach Wayne, the VIP coach.

Coach Stacy 1:00

And I'm Coach Stacy M. Lewis. We're here with insights, stories, and strategies to fuel your midlife journey. So take a breath, lean in. Your revolution starts now.

Coach Wayne 1:17

Stay say. And here in Florida, it is still sunny and bright, and I'm loving it.

Coach Stacy 1:29

Yay! Yay, there really is something about that light, right? That helps you really feel a little bit more alive. And so I'm loving it too. I'm feeling well lit naturally, and want to welcome our listeners to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. I am Coach Stacy M. Lewis, a nonprofit executive, a midlife woman's coach, a lover of God and his people, and always excited to be here with my coach, Coach Wayne. Woo woo, introduce yourself, Coach Wayne.

Coach Wayne 2:06

Thank you, Stacy. A pleasure. Always nice to catch up on a Thursday so we can do this thing for the people. And I am Coach Wayne, the VIP coach. I work with midlife black men, helping them to navigate midlife so their second half can be their best half. Today, Stacy, today, you know, we got to talk about this because a lot of folks are looked on as unmotivated, lazy. And when you come down to it, it's neither. It's really that they are overloaded, mental overloads. So today we want to talk about taking care of the brain.

Coach Stacy 2:53

Yes, indeed. And I can't tell you how relevant this episode is for me. I have been working so hard, many deliverables, late evenings, then trying to get some of my own business in there. And my goodness, how fried my brain has become. And so I'm really looking forward to the conversation, to the learning, to the sharing of this training our brain really as we celebrate mental health awareness month. This is a great time to talk about this, Coach Wayne.

Coach Wayne 3:40

It is. And speaking of brains frying, Stacy, I'm glad that you are aware, first of all. That's the first step. And you're going to be doing something about it, right? Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. That is indeed. I I was spending my whole day writing notes today for clients, Stacy. And just now, as we were in the green room, I told you, I'm going to go get me a yogurt. And I ran in the refrigerator, got the yogurt, got the spoon, went to the kitchen, washed my hands, and I came back in front of you without the yogurt or the spoon. Because I must be fried, overload.

Coach Stacy 4:22

I I thought you came back with the spoon, but no yogurt. But either way, the spoon was there. It's truly reflective of what it is we we're talking about, right? In this season of our lives, there's so much mental overload happening. And to your point, we need to call a thing a thing in order to really acknowledge like what is causing the mental overload. And so you just talked about the, you know, got the capacity of the day that you were doing so much brain work during the day. And so, you know, it's not that we're lazy, it's not that we're unmotivated, and we're we're not losing our age, you know, our edge just because of our age. But oftentimes we are mentally overloaded and we need to acknowledge that and begin to really work on that.

Coach Wayne 5:25

Yeah. And again, Stacy, today, once again, this is not about shame in the game. We're just calling it as it is, and we want to help to have you get some strategies to protect and to strengthen your mental power.

Coach Stacy 5:45

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Think about all of the things that we're we're doing, right, on a daily basis. We're managing our careers, our businesses, we're dealing with the bills and the parents and the offspring, the children, the young children, the adult children, the relationships, the health concerns. Oh my goodness, you know, disappointments, grief, so many things that we are dealing with. It should be no surprise to any of us.

Coach Wayne 6:18

Yeah, and people of color in particular states. Absolutely.

Coach Stacy 6:21

Yeah, yeah. God, no, talk about that.

Coach Wayne 6:23

Yeah, we we tend to be performative by nature because we gotta we gotta show up and we can't fall into that negative stereotype that is given to us so often by media and others. And so we're approving and we're pushing and we're performing and we're we're doing providing. And oftentimes we just fail to not only admit that we're burning ourselves out, but to even recognize it. It becomes the norm to be, you know, we think it's a medal to walk around saying, boy, we're working so hard.

Coach Stacy 7:01

Or to your point, we think it's normal and expected to walk around kind of stressed out and forgetful and you know, irritable and procrastinating and just confused or feeling disconnected. I cannot tell you, Coach Wayne, how many sisters I have had the gift of coaching, where it was so very clear that the level of emotional numbness or disconnection was high, often because of the the mental overload. So the mental overload is definitely real. To your point, no shame in the game, but this is something that we need to talk about and normalize so that we can, you know, deal with it.

Coach Wayne 8:01

So I have a question, and if somebody wants to answer this, or we can just throw it out there for folks to think about. Why is it that so many high performing folks not admit that they're functioning on overdrive overload? What's up with that?

Coach Stacy 8:19

Yeah, I it's funny. I I have been that that high functioning person before, and I think sometimes we feel like the acknowledgement or the slowdown is going to impact the level of our function. Although it is realistically the opposite. You know, we we're functioning and driving and feel like if we downshift a little bit, if we take a day off, if we kind of sit a little bit more silent in the meeting or show up fully present, but not actively engaged, that we're then going to be seen differently, or even perceive ourselves differently as oh, now I'm not really, you know, I'm not functioning, I'm not high functioning, I'm not delivering the way I would. And for me, that's one of the things that you know I can acknowledge have come up in my own experience. What are your thoughts, Coach?

Coach Wayne 9:26

Well, sometimes you got to recognize that we're not losing our minds. We just simply need to reset, right? And and reset doesn't always sound like another retreat and a motivational speech, right? Sometimes it's it's a lot more than that. And again, don't hold on to everything we have to become vulnerable and share and and be authentic and honest to firstly ourselves.

Reframe The Midlife Story You Tell

Coach Stacy 9:58

Right. I agree with you fully. Let's take a pause to say good evening to Sister Audrey. It is always good to have you. You are our favorite therapist. Gotta say it. Gotta say it. Welcome to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. Coach Wayne, you know, I the when when you drop the little nugget about it's not another motivational speech, right? I think that that is so, it's so relevant because it it is from that push-through, press-through mindset, right? And particular in the high-functioning arena, when we have a lot of deliverables, we feel like, oh no, I just need to psych myself up, or I, you know, I need to to call my coach and and have my coach pump me up, pump me up, pump me up. And the reality is sometime you need to step back and begin to breathe. And so, as we get to later in the episode, we'll talk about some strategies, some tips, but I I think it's so important to reveal what's going on so that we can heal what's going on.

Coach Wayne 11:10

Yeah. And you're saying we gotta say, well, you know, Stacy, we are always saying, even if it's not allowed to ourselves, and the language that we use as midlifers, we have to be very careful because we know words words cast spells. So the language that we use oftentimes, like I'm getting old, I'm too old for that. You know, my memory, my memory's so bad, we we start manifesting that behavior.

Coach Stacy 11:40

That that's right, that's right. You know, as we were children or or even young adults, they were like, no, if you keep saying you can't do it, you can't do it. And so if we keep saying, you know, I can't focus anymore, or you know, I think I think my best days, my best years are behind me, that that's going to result in truth because that is what you're practicing up here, and it will result in what you practice externally.

Coach Wayne 12:12

So we're saying that midlife requires a new language, new phraseologist, new diction, just new way of saying to yourself and out loud who you are and what's happening for you. For example, let's reframe, let's let's throw some reframes in. Instead of saying I can't remember anything anymore, how about I'm training my mind to become sharper? I like that one.

Coach Stacy 12:39

Yeah, I might need to write that write that one down. Let's put it up uh on on my computer screen. I'm not too old to learn this. I bring wisdom and discipline and experience to this new season.

Coach Wayne 12:55

My best years are behind me. You've heard that one, Stacy. Too old. My years are behind me now.

Coach Stacy 13:01

Yes, I have. And I refuse that one.

Coach Wayne 13:04

What's it how how about saying my next chapter deserves my focus?

Coach Stacy 13:12

Because it really does, right? What what what you focus on, like I I all of a sudden was bombarded by about 14 different sermons I've heard over the years, right? About how what you focus on grows. What you focus on, you know, really begins to lead you or tells the tale. And so I I love that you positioned it that way. We have to remember that, you know, our brain is listening to the words that are coming out of. Do you hear the words that are coming out of my mouth? Our brain is listening to the words that we keep repeating. So what a good opportunity to remind yourself, even in this season, even if you're feeling exhausted or overwhelmed or forgetful that you get to give yourself a different story to shift the narrative, to reframe some of that negativity.

Coach Wayne 14:14

And I would prompt folks to start thinking about this. What type of talk, language that you have been using that has gotten in the way of you making powerful decisions?

Coach Stacy 14:29

Yeah. Have you been really defeating yourself, right, in that talk? And what limiting phrases, right, do we in this season as midlifers, do we tend to repeat without realizing the impact? You gave some great examples, Coach Wayne, and we have to remember those limiting phrases that we're repeating do have impact.

Coach Wayne 15:00

Of course. I call it creating opportunities, positive possibilities. So you gotta ask, even not just the phrases based, we have to ask more powerful questions of possibilities to come up with more powerful opportunities to to you know lead a better life.

Coach Stacy 15:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And make sure that that that self-talk is really about confidence, not about the negativity, right? That really is something that is empowering you as you say it to yourself as opposed to tearing yourself down, which I don't know about you, Coach Wayne, but I can do that well enough. I have to remind myself that you know what, change, shift that language.

Coach Wayne 15:46

Moi, moi too, me too, yes.

Coach Stacy 15:50

I've been studying my languages to say you brushed up on that French, all right, all right.

Stress Signs And Survival Mode

Coach Wayne 15:55

That's right, that's right, that's right. That Jamaican French with a little Spanish. Stacy, we talk about language and uh you know it it's stress. We're talking about stress now. We create that for ourselves too, and we're talking about overload for the brain and the mind and mental health, and it affects a lot of things, it affects our mood, it affects our focus, our memory, our patience, the way we show up.

Coach Stacy 16:35

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It really does. It affects our creativity and what it is we're putting out into the world. Stress is a is a beast, right? It it definitely, it also, you know, we talked in a couple of episodes ago just around, you know, how holding on to stress, how it often impacts your heart and and your weight and things of that nature. And so so often people think that they're just tired, but it could be more so that they're you know in survival mode, just yeah, just pedaling, right? And that chronic stress can really even make the simplest decision feel heavy.

Coach Wayne 17:21

Yeah. With the brothers, this is something that happens for us. How are you doing, bro? I'm good. You know, that's not true. And you say you're good, but you're tight and you're you just need to unwind. You are caring too much. And so, as we talk about mental health, this is a special yell to the brothers. Stop being, I'm good. All right, and and and reach out and be honest, and let somebody else who cares about you pour into you, right? Yeah. So you can be okay and stop walking around so wound up.

Coach Stacy 18:00

Yeah, you know, for for many sisters that I encounter, the normal response is, I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. Yeah. For our listeners, you know, I'm just smiling big and nodding my head back and forth, right? I'm fine. But they're really not fine. There's so much going on, and all of that is just bubbling up right behind the mask.

Coach Wayne 18:31

Absolutely, the mask and bubbling up. And oftentimes it's just you're just a strike pin away from implosion.

Coach Stacy 18:39

Yeah.

Coach Wayne 18:40

And if somebody's in your space from explosion, and so you want to manage that. There's some relatable signs, you know. You walk into a room and then you forget why. Why you well, I don't know if it's happened to you, Stacy. Happens to folks when they're getting old and stressed out.

Coach Stacy 18:59

Yes, yes, and yes, and recognizing that going back to what we said earlier, it's not about saying, you know, oh, I'm getting old. It it is about that focus, right? Like what was I going to do? We're moving so fast. And with our stress levels and our responsibilities, you know, for me, I realized that I I can't pour out for as an empty vessel. And so during this season, recognizing that, you know, I I need I need to take some time off. Like I was walking into rooms and I'm like, what did I come in here for? Right. I'm doing the laundry and then I go to get something that's in the hamper and I get to my room. Oh, what did I come in here for? How often do we do that, right? Or have to read the same thing over and over as if as if we lack comprehension. It's not that we lack comprehension, it's just that we're stressed out sometime.

Coach Wayne 20:09

And very often you're working with folks who just are indecisive. They're indecisive because they're carrying too many things, they're overwhelmed, overloaded, burning out. You know, it's not, listen, some folks think that they think that they'll get a medal or saving their PTO and hoping that they get an attaboy or at a girl because they have not been off or out. You got PTO for a reason. And you can take a mental health day or two, do it.

Coach Stacy 20:43

It I couldn't agree with you more. And we, you know, as a as someone that you know runs partners to run an organization, it is there, you could see when people are banking their time or taking an hour here and an hour there. And, you know, that's that's why many companies, businesses implement these rules where it's like, okay, you can only carry over five hours, right? You're not carrying over all of your time year to year to year, because the whole gift of time from a company is to take it and refresh and restore. And I will say to you, Wayne, when I submitted for five days off, just five days, right? I I got a lot going on, just five days. And you know, this one day I need to work a couple hours, and then then one day in the middle of the week, I'm running a couple of meetings. So, but just five days off. I cannot tell you how many times my colleague, the CEO, wrote to me. She was like, I'm so glad you're taking some time off. I'm so glad you're taking some time off because it's part of that the signs that I was giving out. Right, we're talking about the the signs that happen when we're all stressed out and brain fried. The signs that I was giving out were clearly impacting, right? If she's writing me back saying, I'm so glad you're taking some time off.

Coach Wayne 22:16

Get out of here, Stacy. Who's still behind you?

Coach Stacy 22:20

You know, I would never miss an episode though. You know what I mean? I don't want to do that. So good luck. Thank you. And like like therapist Audrey is saying, right? Sometimes we're just we're also so easily distracted because of the stress levels that we're that we're carrying.

Coach Wayne 22:39

Yeah. And a lot of times we are functioning, again, our community, we function so often in that survival mode that, you know, it's hard to smell when the burnout candle is being kindled. We're just there all the time. And so the warning signs, it's kind of like if you're driving your car all the time, Stacy, with the engine light on, and you say, Oh, I know what it is. It needs a spark plug or or whatever. Spark plugs don't exist, but I'm just using the reference here. But whatever is happening, and something really goes wrong, you can't tell that it's really about to die on you because you've been functioning in a defunct kind of way for so long. And that's what happens when you're stressed out in survival mode, and you don't do what you are doing right now, Stacy, checking in to take care of self.

Coach Stacy 23:34

Yeah, yeah. So, as coaches, we encourage you to ask yourself what does survival mode look like in this season of my life? And is that where I am in survival mode?

Focus Is A Real Superpower

Coach Wayne 23:48

Yeah. Focus is really a superpower. Uh, this idea of us multitasking, it's a myth, folks. I know we do a lot of stuff, we go into business and wind up doing busy work, right? But let's face it, you can't really give your best at five things at the same time. So focus. It's important to focus, you know, and all there are strategies that for another meeting we can talk about that, Stacy, where you delegate responsibilities or just delete certain things, but focus.

Coach Stacy 24:27

Yeah, really, really putting those things uh, but you know, writing them out, getting them out of your brain so that you can begin to prioritize, you know, these distractions, like you said, multitasking is a lie. It's just it just it just doesn't work. We're really just fooling ourselves. The distractions really that is one of the biggest enemies to our productivity, to our memory, you know, to our connection, right? How often are you engaged with people and they're they they got their phone that's buzzing, you know, to our clarity, these the we have to really pay attention to when we're being distracted, and what are the opportunities to take a beat, you know, put the phone down, or and as the little kids would say, look at my eyes, right? Pay attention.

Coach Wayne 25:28

That's funny, Stacy.

Coach Stacy 25:30

Look at my face.

The Ten Minute Reset Exercise

Coach Wayne 25:33

That's that's true. To add to what you were saying, Stacy, you touched on it. Let's share a simple tool. It's just a quick 10-minute focus exercise for reset. And it starts with number one, pick one task. One, create whatever plan you want, ranking, pick one, and then put your phone away or your tablet or whatever it is that's a distraction, set a timer or an alarm for 10 minutes. Call Siri or Alexa or something and say, give me 10 minutes, and then do only that one thing for 10 minutes undistracted. And then if your mind wanders, get it back on time gently, be kind to yourself, and get back in until the 10 minutes is done.

Coach Stacy 26:30

Yeah, that is it's such a good practice, right? Because it's it slows you down, and the one thing makes you focus. Just the one thing, one thing, and put the phone away. Don't use the phone as the timer, because then what's gonna happen?

Coach Wayne 26:50

You gotta get on that.

Coach Stacy 26:51

Nobody's gonna text you, you know. You're gonna get a notification, and then you are distracted.

Coach Wayne 26:58

That's right. And and Stacy, you know, in a sense, that's what we do oftentimes as coaches, help people with mindfulness, just even eating, right? Go sit down and take take the phone out of the dining room so you can focus on every morsel of food that you put in your mouth and enjoy that. Breathe it in. Don't be distracted with the phone and continue with the overwhelming with the distractions.

Coach Stacy 27:27

Yeah, and I would add, Wayne, before we move on, that that is, you know, that 10 minutes is even a good practice in relationships, right? Just really giving someone 10 minutes of real focus. How many of us simply want to be seen? Yeah. And that 10 minutes of real focus, you know, okay, I've honey, I've got 10 minutes, right? Whether it's your offspring, someone you work with, your spouse, your partner, I've I've got 10 minutes. Yeah. You know, let's let's talk. Let's, you know, just sit here and look at each other or hold hands or whatever it is, right? The one thing, but it can really be a benefit to relationships as well. And Dr. Audrey says, Yep, powerful exercise.

Coach Wayne 28:27

All right, you're winning. Listen, you do not need always, anyway, more hours in your day or more hours. What you need sometime is just more presence in the hour that you have.

Coach Stacy 28:41

Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. That's good.

Coach Wayne 28:45

Let's let's uh talk about some brain exercise that folks can use, Stacy.

Coach Stacy 28:53

Yeah, the brain is like what? It's like the body, right? We we, you know, Wayne. I know you go to the gym, you post your your little gym snippets sometime, you know, making sure everybody sees y'all pumped up. Um but you know, we we need to take our brain to to the brain gym sometime. And so I love talking about brain exercises from a standpoint of simplicity, yeah, right? It's not like you have to go someplace and you know pay a thousand dollars. Some brain exercises are simple, yeah.

Coach Wayne 29:34

Word games, puzzles, reading. You know, they say leaders are readers, and if you to your point, Stacy, if you don't use it, you lose it. So the brain prunes, right? If you're not using parts of it, and so challenge the brain. You're not too old to take up a course and learn to do a skill that you never had the first 40 years of your life.

Coach Stacy 29:56

You're absolutely right, Coach Wayne. I'll tell you, my cousin is about to be 88, and she'll be 88, I think, on Saturday. So happy birthday, Beverly. She sometime, and sometime I want to argue it just for the the financial cost of it, but she has a subscription to the Sunday New York Times. Do you know how much that is? That's like $40 a month or something like that, right? But she gets the paper once a week, the Sunday edition. It's it's probably like this thick. Yeah, yeah. Right? About three, four inches thick. Yeah. And but I believe that it helps, you know, it helps her, it gives her something to do. She's reading, she's thinking, and you know, she's engaging in in doing something that is not just sitting around. And we've talked about in other episodes the downsides of lack of stimulation, the downsides of lack of movement. And you know, that that lack of utilizing your brain definitely has a downside. So we certainly want to encourage you to recognize the simplicity of reading, learning something new, like you were saying, you know, solving problems and even deep conversation. You ever get into one of those conversations? And you know, you're really thinking, you're thinking in real time, and you know, you're conversing and you're processing their ideas and they're processing your ideas.

Coach Wayne 31:56

Yep.

Coach Stacy 31:56

That's that's that's simple brain work right there.

Coach Wayne 31:59

You know, I wasn't gonna leave without this one, Stacy, because it's one of my favorite journaling. Journaling, right? Because the journaling piece, and I don't mean journaling necessarily typing it out, I'm talking about writing. I love yeah, I think relatively speaking, I have pretty decent penmanship. So I I like the cursive and the curls, and and but it does something. It is it's been shown that you're right. When you write, you engage different neurons more so than when you are just simply typing something. So if you can write, you're really stimulating the brain and helping it to group, juice up and grow.

Coach Stacy 32:38

Juice, juice up, yeah.

Coach Wayne 32:40

Let it let it happen, let it flow, write. Yeah, read, write.

Coach Stacy 32:44

Yes, you are absolutely right. And and Dr. Audrey, I will tell Beverly, you said happy birthday. The reality is that this season of midlife is truly a powerful time to reassess your health, your careers, your relationships, your money, your purpose, your peace, your personal growth in ways that are fostering your mental health, in ways that are fostering you not feeling so stressed and unfocused, but in ways that are fostering you really moving forward and inspired about being in midlife. I'm I'm still celebrating the richness of midlife. I'm telling you, Coach Wayne, telling you.

Coach Wayne 33:45

Shall we uh give a simple exercise, your next chapter map, or shall we get into uh the seven-day brain power challenge?

Coach Stacy 33:54

I would say let's give a simple because I think the seven-day can will we'll follow up with the seven-day, because you know, a little simple and then a little bit more complex. So why don't you go with the simple?

Build Your Next Chapter Map

Coach Wayne 34:05

All right, all right. Don't push me. My next chapter. So put this phrase in the center of a page. My next chapter. Then create branches, and the branches will be various dimensions of your daily life, right? Health, career, relationships, money, purpose, peace. What else you got there, Stacy? Faith, yeah, faith, faith, yeah, personal growth, and then on each branch, just write down one thing that needs your attention.

Coach Stacy 34:43

One thing. Yeah. One thing. Because if you're anything like me, you know, I'm writing six things under each branch, and then it gets overwhelming, and then I'm distracted, and then I lose focus. So let's really take that one thing to heart because it it really, it really is helpful to be able to focus on the one thing.

Coach Wayne 35:08

And here's what you do, Stace. I think if you do that and you write that one thing, give each one thing that 10-minute focus exercise we talked about before as a strategy to move the needle.

Coach Stacy 35:21

Yeah, yeah. I really like that, Coach Wayne. You you're a little on fire tonight, a little on fire. Yeah.

Coach Wayne 35:30

The pineapple is making me feel good.

The Seven Day Brain Challenge

Coach Stacy 35:34

Well, let's let's let's share the seven-day brain power challenge. And maybe what we should do, Coach Wayne, I think I have an idea, is maybe we should we should actually do a little challenge on on our social handles. Uh, we should put this this seven-day challenge on our social handles to really encourage our midlife revolution unleashed community to engage in this brain power challenge. On day one, right? On day one, you're gonna change your language. You're gonna stop saying, I'm losing it. You start saying, I'm sharpening my mind. What's day two, Coach Wayne?

Coach Wayne 36:17

Move that bar day, yeah. Take a 20-minute walk or do some kind of light movement. Get off the hiny. Yes, days.

Coach Stacy 36:31

Yes, indeed. On day three, you're gonna challenge your brain. You're gonna read, do some journaling as Coach Wayne talked about, maybe a puzzle, or have a deep, meaningful conversation.

Coach Wayne 36:48

Day four, day four. We're down to day four, folks. You're gonna do one thing. Take take one single task and practice what we just showed you. Zoom in, full attention for 10 minutes. If you can do more, do more. But 20 is probably where you want to give it a break and get back in. One thing, day four.

Coach Stacy 37:12

One thing, day five. You're going to map just one area of your life. You're gonna write down one goal or one problem, and then branch out possible next steps.

Coach Wayne 37:31

This one, Stacy. You may have to go look for the person to get this right if you don't have the right circle. Have a meaningful conversation with someone who helps you to think, not a naysayer or just a blabbermouth, but someone that's gonna stretch you a little bit to think and have a uh a real involved, a profound type of conversation.

Coach Stacy 37:57

Yes, I love it. And day seven, we're gonna practice a little stillness. We're gonna spend five quiet minutes breathing, praying, meditating, or reflecting. This is our seven-day brain power challenge, and I'm challenging my co-host and partner in podcasting crime to work together to put out there this seven-day brain power challenge so that we can really see some momentum from our midlife revolution unleashed audience.

Coach Wayne 38:45

Trust me, Stacy. When I'm done with these folks, you're gonna have some folks with some big heads walking around town.

Coach Stacy 38:54

That's okay. As long as they're feeling on top of their brain power, they are focused, they are not stressed. I'm all about it. I'll take the big heads.

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Coach Wayne 39:05

That's right, that's right. So before we go, Stacy, want to remind folks if you haven't done that yet and you've been checking our podcast out, you gotta give us a little bit of a like and subscribe to us. That way the word gets out to more folks, and we feel like we're accomplishing and having impact more widely. So do that.

Coach Stacy 39:25

That indeed is the goal. That's the goal. I appreciate you always remembering to say that and share this episode with someone that you know that might really need a little boost in the brain area.

Coach Wayne 39:41

Train your mind, protect your peace, feed your focus, strengthen your next chapter. Stace. How will the good folks find you for some massive level coaching?

Coach Stacy 39:58

I can be reached at the StacyMlewis.com. And certainly, if you are catching this on any social media platform, know that you already know how to get in touch with me. And our contact information is always in the show notes. Coach Wayne, what you got?

Coach Wayne 40:19

Hey, folks, jump on my website, viptransformative living.com, check out my handles, and just roam around. Hit me up, and I'm happy to uh get with you.

Coach Stacy 40:31

Yeah, check out his uh free assessment, y'all. Don't miss that opportunity. Thank you, Stacy.

Next Week Retirement Reimagined

Coach Wayne 40:39

So, Stace, next week, what we got for the folks? We have a special show.

Coach Stacy 40:44

Yeah, yeah, we do. We're gonna have a really rich conversation with the special guest about retirement, but not retirement like your parents' retirement. Retirement in this midlife season, retiring a new way with a new mindset. It's gonna be a great episode with our guest screen. So check it out. Check it out. See, see, I'm already my money colors, JC. I'm ready, I'm ready.

Coach Wayne 41:15

I'm a week early. I got my money. Show me your money.

Coach Stacy 41:18

You are wearing the money colors, man. You're wearing the money colors. I know, Coach Wayne, that tonight has indeed been a joy. And I know that I'm gonna see you at the top.

Coach Wayne 41:32

And I know that I supporting you as always. We're gonna do this again next week, same time with our special guest.

Final Encouragement And Sign Off

Coach Stacy 41:44

That's right. Thank you so much for listening to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. See you next week. Thanks for tuning in to Midlife Revolution Unleashed. We're grateful you're part of this journey.

Coach Wayne 41:56

If you love this episode, share it, subscribe, and hit that notification bell so you don't miss another episode.

Coach Stacy 42:03

I'm Coach Stacy, and I'm cheering you on.

Coach Wayne 42:06

And I'm Coach Wayne, and I'll see you at the top.