What If You’re Not Starting Over, But Waking Up?
Midlife Reinvention, Courage & Trust with Elizabeth Elfenbein
Midlife Reinvention Has So Many Possibilities
What if the life you’ve worked so hard to build no longer feels like the life you’re meant to live?
For Elizabeth Elfenbein, founder of Under the Sisterhood, reinvention didn’t begin with a perfectly mapped-out next chapter. It began with an unraveling.
After decades of success in advertising, Elizabeth made the courageous decision to leave behind both a career and a marriage that had defined so much of her life. She describes it as jumping off the mountain without knowing where she would land.
What followed wasn’t simply starting over.
It was an awakening.
In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, Elizabeth and I explore what happens when we stop looking outside ourselves for answers and begin listening to the voice within. We talk about uncertainty, courage, identity, trusting your gut, and why sometimes the things that unravel us create the space we need to discover who we are.
Elizabeth also shares how her own desire to reclaim her voice became the spark for Under the Sisterhood, a global storytelling platform dedicated to ensuring that women’s lived experiences are seen, heard, valued, and documented.
And now that mission is expanding in an exciting new way through the Under the Sisterhood documentary, which premiered this week in New York City. I had the incredible privilege of being part of the film and celebrating its premiere alongside Elizabeth and an inspiring community of women.
✨ In this episode, we explore:
🔥 The courage to leave what’s familiar — even when you have no idea what comes next
🌱 Unraveling as awakening — how losing an old identity can create space to discover who you really are
🎙️ Reclaiming your voice — and how Elizabeth’s own journey inspired her to help other women claim theirs
🧭 Learning to trust yourself — listening to your gut, noticing what feels off, and honoring what you know deep down
🌍 The power of women’s stories — and Elizabeth’s vision for documenting women’s lived experiences across ages, cultures, and backgrounds
🎬 Taking Under the Sisterhood to film — how the documentary came to life and what Elizabeth hopes it will spark in women everywhere
💫 Making peace with uncertainty — because you may not know what “okay” is going to look like…and that’s okay
As Elizabeth reminds us:
“Those roads less traveled are very interesting roads. You get to know who you are. You get to know your capacity.”
Maybe reinvention isn’t always about becoming someone new.
Maybe it’s about waking up to who you are now.
🎧 Press play and join us for a conversation about midlife reinvention, courage, self-trust, women’s voices, and the extraordinary possibilities waiting on the other side of uncertainty.
💜 Connect with Elizabeth Elfenbein
Want to learn more about Elizabeth and the work she’s creating to amplify and preserve women’s lived experiences?
🎙️ Under the Sisterhood podcast
🌐 Under the Sisterhood website
📱 Instagram: @underthesisterhood
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethelfenbein/
🎬 Under the Sisterhood documentary: https://www.underthesisterhood.com/docuart-tour
✨ Ready to Get Curious About YOUR Next Chapter?
If this conversation has you wondering what might be stirring inside of you, download Wendy’s free guide, 5 Questions to Spark Your Curiosity & Inspire Your Reinvention Journey.
Sometimes reinvention doesn’t begin with having all the answers. Sometimes it begins with asking a better question.
✨ Download 5 Questions to Spark Your Curiosity & Inspire Your Reinvention Journey
🎧 This Month’s Podcast Partner
Wendy is delighted to be partnering this month with her friend Suzy Rosenstein, host of Women in the Middle®: Loving Life After 50.
Suzy’s podcast helps women over 50 get unstuck, ditch career boredom, and create second chapters with less regret and more possibility through practical coaching, candid conversations, humor, and inspiring interviews.
🎧 Listen to Women in the Middle®: Loving Life After 50
And remember, Rebel: it’s never too late to bet on yourself and never too late to reinvent. Midlife reinvention is waiting for you!
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