The Midlife Rebel Podcast

Renaming The Show - Why Life, Health & The Universe is Rebranding

• Host - Nadine Shaw - Midlife Rebel; Natural Wellness Advocate, Astrologer, Gene Keys Guide,Human Design Enthusiast

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The moment you decide midlife isn’t a cliff but a launchpad, everything changes. Today I'm unveiling our new name—Midlife Rebel—and the story behind it: a clear mission to help women rewrite the script on health, purpose and identity without the stale narrative of decline. From the early days post-COVID to 120 guest interviews, this journey has been a slow, steady build powered by curiosity, community and a refusal to shrink.

In this short introduction of the new name, from Life, Health & The Universe to Midlife Rebel, I talk about the turning points that shaped this podcast, including quitting alcohol in January 2022 and a Human Design reading that nudged the show into being. You’ll hear how the interviews evolved from friendly chats to expansive conversations with new voices, and why tightening the niche matters for discoverability and impact. This isn’t a cosmetic change; it’s a commitment to meet women where they are—peri-menopause and menopause questions, brain fog, hormone shifts, career pivots, purpose rumbles—and offer both inspiration, answers and actionable tools.

The Midlife Rebel podcast is where smart meets soulful—a movement for women who are done playing small and ready to rewrite the midlife story. We challenge convention, prioritise our health and wholeness, and live by intuition instead of expectation. We question everything that no longer fits and honour what does.

Each week, I’m joined by guests who bring their wisdom, professional expertise, and lived insight—offering perspectives that spark transformation in health, vitality, spirituality, and purpose. Together, we explore what it really means to thrive in midlife—physically, emotionally, and soulfully.

In this episode, I share the behind-the-scenes of the rebrand—new site links, guest directory updates, YouTube refresh—and reassure you that the mission remains the same: bold stories, real insight, and heart-driven truth.

Because there's a little bit of rebel in all of us.

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Welcome to the Midlife Rebel Podcast. It's time to rewrite the Midlife story for women who refuse to be put in a box. Because maybe midlife isn't a crisis. Maybe it's an awakening. That's right, you're now listening to the newly named Midlife Rebel Podcast. And I'm here today to share a little bit about why I've decided to rename and rebrand the podcast, which up until now has been called Life, Health, and the Universe. So before I go any further, I'd just like to take a moment to thank you, the listeners, for continually showing up and supporting the podcast. It sounds a bit cheesy, but the reason I keep showing up is because of you. There it really wouldn't be a podcast if it wasn't for you. I also want to acknowledge the guests. I've now recorded episodes with 120 guests, and I've got more already scheduled to record with. So we're on our way to 150 guests, which is very cool. And those guests have all, in their own way, enriched the podcast with their insights, knowledge, and wisdom. So I just wanted to take you on a little journey back to when the podcast was released in 2022. At the time, it was kind of, you know, just at the end of the COVID years, as I call them. And at that time, I had a small online business coaching women in creating healthy habits. If you go back and listen to some of the early, very early episodes of the podcast, you'll find ones that do relate to that topic. And as a small business, I was trying to reach more people. I was looking for ways to extend my reach. And along with that, I had a big, fat, lingering question around what my purpose was, is. So at the beginning of that year in 2022, I'd also stopped drinking alcohol and I was seeking answers to lots of questions I had about this turning point in my life. Loads of stuff came up. And actually, there is an episode that you might want to dig out of the archives where I talk about my journey through stopping alcohol. So then in February 2022, so I stopped drinking in January. In February 2022, I had a human design reading with Peter Bastion, who's since been a guest on the podcast. And it was really uh, I really wanted this reading because I had some big questions. What's my purpose? Who am I now? What should I do? What's my path? So these were all these big questions, and I didn't have the answers to any, but I felt a little bit lost. Peter, along with taking me through my human design chart, said, What about a podcast? And I could say that the rest is history. There's a bit more of a story about it. I had already planned to record the first episode with Patty Sage, which you can go back and listen to. And I've also had two subsequent interviews with Patty, which are really cool. She's an amazing uh woman, so you can go back and listen to them as well. So I started the podcast. It was first released in March 2022. And it's grown. It's been, it hasn't been a slow pro process. Um, I mean, it has been a slow process, rather. It hasn't been easy all of the time, but it it has kept going. And the thing that's kept me going is that you guys keep turning up. Every week I get downloads, the podcast gets downloaded, and the guests keep coming. So that's really been my driving force. It's just like as long as these things keep happening, this is my sign that I should keep going with it. I have been stretched by the challenges of meeting so many new guests. At the beginning, a lot of the guests that I interviewed were people that I knew. So the conversations uh flowed much more easily. When you're meeting new people all of the time and trying to get their message out there into the world, it has proved challenging at times, and I've been working on improving my skills as a host and asking the right questions and trying to keep those conversations interesting and on point for you, the listeners. It hasn't always been easy, but you know, that's where growth happens, right? Um, and again, I yeah, you're always on my mind when I am recording with those guests. So now I've reached a point where I'm trying to find more ways to reach more listeners because there is a lot of information on this podcast. We've had 120 guests. There's so much valuable information, and the goal is to support you, the listeners, in your journey to self-improvement, whether that's improvements in your health, whether that's improvements in your personal lives, finding your purpose, so on and so forth. All those things that have been included on the podcast so far. So I've reached that this point where I'm trying to reach more listeners, and I've been diligently learning about ways to do that, about ways of improving podcast reach. And one of the ways of doing that is by defining uh a niche and that kind of having gone through that experience with my online membership, which unfortunately I didn't have great success with, I have um cringed a little bit about this experience, but I decided to knuckle down and really think about what it was that uh who it was that I was serving. And that's where the midlife rebel came from. There have been a whole bunch of other synchronicities that have just sort of said to me, yes, this is the right thing, this is the right word, these are the right words, these are the right people. And this is definitely um an essence that I have inside me because I'm kind of like, don't like being told that when you reach midlife, everything's downhill, that your health is going to go downhill, that your hormones are gonna go out of whack, that you're gonna go a little bit crazy with brain fog and all of those things. And yes, we do experience some of those things in our midlife, some of us more than others. However, we get to rewrite the story about how we use that language, about what that experience is like for us, um, and embody it rather than hate on it, rather than say, you know, that this is troublesome for us. So that's definitely part of my essence in creating this podcast. And it's come to this point for me to discover that. As I said, there have been some other synchronicities around actually my astrological chart and some activations that are happening within my astrological chart right now. Not only around healing. Um, for those of you who do know a little bit about astrology, I've been going through my Chiron return, which is something that happens in our early 50s. So not only that, but there's a little bit of rebel written into my blueprint, and I'm gonna embrace it. So I decided to um, I decided, yes, that sounds right. And I had I talked to a couple of people and said, look, I'm am I on the right track? And I've had a resounding yes. As soon as I say midlife rebel, the women I've spoken to have been backing that up 100%. Then I've continued to explore um the idea of rebranding the podcast. So not only using midlife rebel in the conversations, not only using midlife rebel in the descriptions of the podcast as a way of uh women reaching the episodes more, but about reband rebranding the podcast. And it sounds big and scary, and it is kind of big and scary because it feels risky. But for you that are already listening to it, there is not going to be a whole bunch of change of the actual content. This is really about just trying to reach more people, more women who are in that lit mid midlife experience that want to rewrite the story of what it means to be in midlife. So this is really just letting you know that the change is happening. It's not gonna be, I'm not gonna be going through the entire process in one hit because I'm a one-woman show, and so I'm gonna do it step by step. So over time you will see some changes, but they're not gonna be happening all at once. So there is gonna be a little bit of overlap. The biggest one is probably gonna be seen, that overlap is probably gonna be seen with the website. So I have a website which includes a guest directory of all of the guests that have been on the podcast, along with links to their episodes and links to all of their pages, um, you know, their websites, their socials, so that if you are interested in exploring more of what they do, you can do that all from one place. Plus, it's a place you can go if you want to have a yeah, find out a little bit more about the people that I'm talking to, or just play a little bit of Lucky Dip and you know, find a new episode to watch. Um is a good way of doing that too. So the website um is gonna take a little bit of work just with changing all the URLs, redirecting, that sort of thing. So I'm gonna I'm gonna be doing that over um the next little while, but it's not gonna happen all at once. So there will be some stuff that still says mid uh life, health, and the universe on it until I make all of those changes official through um URL website and and changing all the links and that sort of thing. You I don't know if you knew, but you can actually access the podcast through YouTube. Um, I actually really enjoy watching uh interviews of podcasts um rather than listening, or not rather than, but um instead of watching telly, actually on the weekends, I'll often watch a podcast. So at the moment, that will also still be um life, health, and the universe if you find it on YouTube. But over time I will also be changing that to uh Midlife Rebel. And that's it. Um I yeah, I just wanted to share a little bit about that journey and uh why I've decided to change the name and uh rebrand the podcast. Um, it's all in the name of changing or rewriting the story of what it means to be in midlife and um yeah, exploring all of the ways that we can embrace our midlife, we can understand more about our health, we can start to explore our purpose, and we can learn from the wisdom of all of the people that have joined so far. Thank you so much, listeners from all over the world. I really appreciate you uh coming on this journey with me. And yeah, let's let's embrace the midlife rebel.