Life in Transition Podcast

Dr. Angela Carek spent 17 years building a career in corporate law. She had the credentials, the income, the title. And then she hit the abyss. In this episode, Art talks with Angela about what it actually feels like when the plan you executed perfectly stops working, how to hear the quiet voice inside before things fall apart, and the small steps she took to rebuild from scratch. Angela's story moves from professional tennis to big law to burnout to coaching, and what she found on the other side was more real than anything she'd planned for.

The Life in Transition Podcast, hosted by Art Blanchford focuses on making the most of the changes we’re given every week. Art has been through hundreds of transitions in his life. Many have been difficult, but all have led to a depth and richness he could never have imagined. On the podcast Art explores how to create more love and joy in life, no matter what transitions we go through. Art is married to his lifelong partner, a proud father of three and a long-time adventurer and global business executive. He is the founder and leader of the Midlife Transition Mastery Community. Learn more about the MLTM Community here: www.lifeintransition.online. Resources: Life in Transition: https://lifeintransitionpodcast.com/ Join Our Community: https://www.lifeintransition.online/ My new book PURPOSEFUL LIVING is out now. Order it now: https://www.amazon.com/PURPOSEFUL-LIVING-Wisdom-Coming-Complex/dp/1963913922 Our Sponsor: Verity Partners. Please check them out at http://verity.nm.com/lifeintransition The views and opinions expressed on the Life In Transition podcast are solely those of the author and guests and should not be attributed to any other individual or entity. This podcast is an independent production of Life In Transition Podcast, and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained. Copyright 2026. #lifeintransition #midlife #midlifegrowth

Mitesh Jani spent years running two dental clinics, managing staff, putting out fires, and quietly putting the things that actually mattered to him in what he calls the someday box. COVID forced everything to stop. During those two months at home, he found a decade's worth of personal writing he'd set aside and realized two things: he'd stopped doing the work he loved, and what he'd written was worth sharing. That realization didn't change his life overnight. It changed it five minutes at a time. A short writing practice led to a book. The book led to a business pivot. The pivot led to a life he actually wants to be living. This conversation is practical, honest, and built for any man who knows what he wants to do and keeps putting it in the someday box. Connect with Mitesh Jani: selfworth.ca Instagram, Twitter, YouTube: @selfworthca

The alpha male movement is everywhere right now. But it's a trap. In this solo episode, Art makes a direct case for why performing masculinity is just trading one prison for another, and why the men who go hardest on the alpha identity are usually the ones most afraid of what they'd find if they stopped making noise long enough to sit with themselves. Art calls it the deep dark alone. Most men spend their whole lives avoiding it. This episode is about why going through it is the only way to real strength, and why the second half of life only makes sense on the other side of that walk.

Celinne Da Costa was eight years into a thriving coaching business, making more money than she ever had, with a full client roster, when something told her to stop. Not wind down. Stop. Fully. A sacred pause she could not logically justify and could not ignore. What happened during that three-month sabbatical, and what came after it, became the foundation of her USA Today bestselling book The Burning Ground and the clearest map she has for leaders who are being called to evolve but don't yet trust themselves to make the leap. This is a conversation about intuition, ego, the burning ground that precedes every real transformation, and what it actually means to follow your soul when it asks you to do something your current identity would never approve of. Connect with Celinne Da Costa: celinedacosta.com Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook: @celinedacosta YouTube: Celinne Da Costa Channel Book: The Burning Ground available at celinedacosta.com/book