Oct 11, 2026 · 45 min · 9 segments
Carlii Lyon, personal branding speaker, coach and author of Courage to Be, joins Suzanne and Trish to talk about why so many women feel invisible in mid-life, and what it actually takes to restart a…
Suzanne AlexanderHost
Trish GregoryHostSo we can speak to... lot of external factors and we can speak to a lot of internal factors external being that you know ageism sexism are the pressures that women feel when it comes to how they look how how they show up and their physical appearance so these are the external factors that are very real and they exist But I don't necessarily think it's the most empowering thing to focus on.
I think it's more focusing on the things that we can control and they are the internal factors.
And I've had the great privilege over the last seven years that I've been out in the world talking about these topics.
I've had the great privilege of actually hearing women open up and share what are those internal barriers that are holding them back from putting themselves out there and many of my clients are in that age bracket of whether it's just before midlife or really in midlife and the the internal barriers Trish that I see my clients come up against there is that pressure of You know, I had a woman, I'll give you two stories.
I had one woman admit to me that she had spent her career always being the person who could walk into the room.
And she had now got into midlife and she wasn't looking like her 20-year-old self, which of course, we can't look 20 forever.
And because of that, those feelings of, oh, I'm aging and I'm over and done with, energetically then she was showing up as being over and done with.
But I actually think it started with that mindset that she had rather than it necessarily being just about the physical changes that had occurred.
I had another client say to me, oh, well, nobody wants to listen to an old lady.
Then on the flip side of that, I had one colleague of mine who's an amazing stylist in her 50s.
And she said to me, you know, I love being in my 50s because I can choose when I want to be visible and when I want to be invisible.
And I thought that was just such a beautiful way to flip the thinking and that she was still choosing when she wanted to be, choosing to be visible by how she showed up and the energy she brought to the room.
So we can speak to... lot of external factors and we can speak to a lot of internal factors external being that you know ageism sexism are the pressures that women feel when it comes to how they look how how they show up and their physical appearance so these are the external factors that are very real and they exist But I don't necessarily think it's the most empowering thing to focus on.
I think it's more focusing on the things that we can control and they are the internal factors.
And I've had the great privilege over the last seven years that I've been out in the world talking about these topics.
I've had the great privilege of actually hearing women open up and share what are those internal barriers that are holding them back from putting themselves out there and many of my clients are in that age bracket of whether it's just before midlife or really in midlife and the the internal barriers Trish that I see my clients come up against there is that pressure of You know, I had a woman, I'll give you two stories.
I had one woman admit to me that she had spent her career always being the person who could walk into the room.
And she had now got into midlife and she wasn't looking like her 20-year-old self, which of course, we can't look 20 forever.
And because of that, those feelings of, oh, I'm aging and I'm over and done with, energetically then she was showing up as being over and done with.
But I actually think it started with that mindset that she had rather than it necessarily being just about the physical changes that had occurred.
I had another client say to me, oh, well, nobody wants to listen to an old lady.
Then on the flip side of that, I had one colleague of mine who's an amazing stylist in her 50s.
And she said to me, you know, I love being in my 50s because I can choose when I want to be visible and when I want to be invisible.
And I thought that was just such a beautiful way to flip the thinking and that she was still choosing when she wanted to be, choosing to be visible by how she showed up and the energy she brought to the room.
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