It starts as a whisper. A restlessness. A sense that the life you built, the identity you wear, the role you play, doesn’t quite fit anymore.

Maybe you’re a few years into a leadership role that no longer lights you up. Or maybe your kids are grown, your business is stable, and you wake up one day thinking, “Now what?”

The problem? We’ve been taught that reinvention has an expiration date. That by a certain age, your path is supposed to be set in stone. Change is for the young, the bold, the reckless. Everyone else? Stay in your lane.

But that thinking is not just outdated, it’s deeply limiting. And it’s costing us some of the richest chapters of our lives.