.jpg)
Aging with Purpose and Passion
Redefining midlife. Reclaiming purpose. Reinventing what’s possible.
Meet the women who are breaking barriers and proving that life after 50 is merely the beginning.
Aging With Purpose and Passion is a weekly podcast designed for women in midlife and beyond who are ready to embrace change, rediscover their power, and create a life filled with passion, confidence, and purpose.
Join Beverley Glazer, a Master Certified Coach, Psychotherapist, Consultant, and Mentor, with over three decades of experience helping women overcome adversity, break free from limiting beliefs, and step into their next chapter with resilience and clarity.
Through bold, transformative stories, we dive into the real conversations that matter—loss, abuse, resilience, relationships, career transitions, health, reinvention, and personal growth. Nothing is off-limits. These are the raw, honest moments that shape our lives, shared by everyday women, experts, and even influencers and celebrities who have faced life’s toughest challenges and emerged stronger.
What You’ll Hear:
✔️ Real insights and practical tools to navigate midlife transitions with confidence
✔️ Strategies to rewrite the narrative of aging, embrace your worth, and step into your power
✔️ Inspiring comeback stories that prove resilience and reinvention are possible at any age
✔️ Resilient, unstoppable women, redefining success, fulfillment, and joy over 50
This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a movement for high-achieving women ready to create a life filled with passion, confidence, and fulfillment beyond their career and past achievements.
Ready to start living boldly? Subscribe now and join a community of women rewriting the script on what it means to thrive in midlife and beyond.
🎙 New episodes every week!
Subscribe to Aging with Purpose and Passion and join a community of women rewriting the narrative of aging well. It’s time to embrace your journey, rediscover your power, and create a future filled with confidence, joy, and abundance.
Resources:
Website: https://reinventimpossible.com/
Can Bev help you? Schedule a conversation to find out: https://calendly.com/reinventimpossible/15min
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
Join the FB community: #WomenOver50Rock to connect with like-minded women and stay energized by life.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention
Stay inspired with BEV'S WEEKLY SELF-COACHING TIPS: https://reinventimpossible.com/selfcoachingtips-sign-up
Aging with Purpose and Passion
Josette Diaz: From Codependency to Empowerment and Emotional Mastery
This episode emphasizes the transformative journey from codependency to self-awareness and personal empowerment, highlighting Josette Diaz's experiences and insights. It encourages listeners to prioritize their own needs, learn to love themselves, and recognize that their past does not define their future.
• Josette's early life shaped her beliefs about worthiness
• The challenge of overcoming childhood trauma and creating healthy relationships
• Importance of therapy and self-awareness in breaking patterns
• Midlife as a pivotal period for self-acceptance and empowerment
• Practical steps for nurturing self-love and stepping away from codependency
This story is a testament to the transformative power of prioritizing yourself and breaking free from toxic patterns. Through this candid discussion, we unravel the importance of self-love and the journey to becoming your own soulmate, especially during midlife and beyond.
Thank you for listening to Aging with Purpose And Passion. If you liked this episode please subscribe and send it to a friend.
If you've interested in similar stories on Codependency, check out episodes #83 and #99 and you may also be inspired by The Reinvention Rebels podcast featuring unapologetic women 50+ who’ve transformed their lives in extraordinary ways. https://reinventionrebels.com
Resources:
josette@guidancetowellness.com
WEBSITE: http://guidancetowellness.com
https://www.facebook.com/josettesdiaz/
https://linkedin.com/in/josette-diaz/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JosetteDiazCoaches
Beverley Glazer:
Bev@reinventImpossibl.com
WEBSITE:https://reinventimpossible.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverleyglazer/
https://www.facebook.com/beverley.glazer
GROUP:https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenover50rock
https://www.instagram.com/beverleyglazer_reinvention/
Find out how Bev can help you find your purpose and passion for life: https://calendly.com/reinventimpossible/15min
Get weekly self-coaching tips to empower you through your journey 👉 Bev’s Weekly Self-Coaching Tips Start creating the balance, fulfillment, and the life you deserve—one small shift at a time.
Have feedback or want to be a guest on the show? Contact us at info@Reinventimpossible.com
Welcome to Aging with Purpose and Passion, the podcast designed to inspire your greatness and thrive through life. Get ready to conquer your fears. Here's your host. Psychotherapist coach and empowerment expert Beverly Glaser. Therapist, coach and empowerment expert Beverly.
Beverley Glazer:Glazer, what happens when you finally put yourself first and say yes to yourself and follow your dreams? Welcome to Aging with Purpose and Passion. I'm Beverly Glazer, and I help women achieve success that they know that they deserve, in their lives as well as their careers, and you can find me on reinventimpossiblecom. Josette Diaz is a self-awareness coach who transformed her life once she stopped living for others. She stopped living for others. She navigated a childhood of codependency and abuse to finally break free of her toxic patterns. Today, seasons of the Soul is her signature system that empowers women to embrace their authority and reclaim their powers, no matter how old they are or how difficult life has been in the past. So let's dive right in, josette welcome. Thank you so much, beverly. Good to see you today. Oh, you could say so much to so many women. Josette, you grew up in a dysfunctional family and I mean we all have dysfunctional families, right? But your particular family was so alienating from you you actually believed that you had wrecked your mother's life. Why did you think that way?
Josette Diaz:Ever since I can remember, my mother used to always cry about her current circumstance, where she was living, and whenever I would ask questions about, you know, normal questions that children always ask their parents when did you and daddy get married and were you happy when you had me my mother always recapped the same story that she got pregnant with me. She was 18 and she got married when she was five months pregnant with me, and so she, you know, got married only because she was having me, was the story I always got, and it wasn't until I was 23 that I found out that my parents were always planning on getting married. Just getting pregnant sped up the process. Yet I grew up living with the storyline and the impression that everything that made my mother cry had to do with the fact that she got married because of me.
Beverley Glazer:Oh my. So how did that belief affect the decisions in your life?
Josette Diaz:Affect the decisions in your life. It really it navigated really rocky relationships, always seeking a certain amount of worthiness, because I didn't know how to even define worthiness growing up and I was never given any kind of guidance or cues. And so, luckily for me, I did have this, you know, internal knowing that there was more, there was something else, and I had no idea what it was. I had to seek it out and find it myself. Yet growing up that way with a parent, really led me to have relationships that didn't serve me. So I learned the hard way in a lot of different situations.
Beverley Glazer:Sure, so you were always trying to please your mom.
Josette Diaz:Yes, always making sure that, like her world was secure, that she felt, you know, safe, that anything that I could do to bring her comfort I felt was my job. I felt it was my job to provide her with the things that she was lacking.
Beverley Glazer:And how did that impact your relationships with other people?
Josette Diaz:It made me a huge people pleaser. I'm, you know, a recovering over giver, a recovering people pleaser not being able to say no, twisting myself up in so many different ways emotionally, trying to figure out how to get something done to help someone in order to find that worth that I was seeking, because I was not given that type of reflection growing up.
Beverley Glazer:Yeah, but then your mom divorced. Did that change the dynamics in any way for you?
Josette Diaz:She, yes, she married someone that impacted, I think, my life tremendously, and it wasn't a positive, wasn't a positive, and so, and that just brought on even more reassurance that I was always needing to prove that I was worth something more.
Beverley Glazer:So it didn't help? No, it didn't help.
Josette Diaz:I would love to say that it was the opposite. Yet it wasn't. And you know it took me years to go through figuring out that I didn't have to be victimized, that you know, sometimes if you've been given circumstances that are hard to overcome. So I was sexually abused by her second husband for years, from the time I was 13 until I was 18. Finally, when she divorced him, that dissipated. Yet you know, in that whole process I could see myself as a victim, you know, perpetually, and that that would be my life and I could stay in that. I chose not to. I chose that I wanted something else. I wanted to find who I was, and so I worked really hard and diligently, very focused on not being a victim.
Beverley Glazer:And how did you do that? I mean, you went from one relationship to another one. You were a giver, and how did you just change?
Josette Diaz:I think that one of the things as hard as it was. Growing up, I went to 14 different schools, and that was really hard as a kid, so I never felt like I fit in. You know, you're walking in the door already not feeling like a worthy person, and so other people children see that, and it's kind of the survival of the fittest right, and so it was challenging everywhere I went, and what that taught me, though, was how to be tenacious, how to recognize my good rather than not seeing my good, and being able to have build on my own self-belief was just something that I focused on growing up, to a certain extent, the best I could with what I had. I'm not saying it was like some big high awareness thing, it was just little moments of like well, I know I'm better than that, I know that I'm good at this. Well, I know I'm better than that, I know that I'm good at this.
Josette Diaz:You know, it's those little things that, just you know, I knew, instinctually, that little voice within me rose and spoke up, and I listened, I paid attention, so I had little moments that led me into my adulthood that I pursued and was always very interested in psychology, how the mind works, how emotions are and how they interact in your world, and so I was going to therapy when I was 18. That helped. I also found the study of metaphysics to be tremendously impactful in my life, and that is the one path that I would say led me to so many things that opened the next door, the next door and the next door when I was 21. I was married at the time. I got married young and and through that marriage I learned a lot about myself and really built upon a level of confidence. And then I had this period of time outside of that marriage that my confidence just soared, and I found that through my career.
Beverley Glazer:Okay. So you had different relationships. You married, you had children, you lived your life.
Josette Diaz:Were there patterns from your past that kept on creeping in? Oh, absolutely Self-doubt. It was a. I had to really find the skill sets that I felt I thrived in, and my career really helped me with that. I really found that like, hey, I'm not really mediocre intelligence, I'm actually quite smart, and so that was, that was very eye opening in my career and and I advanced and I, you know, kept getting promoted.
Josette Diaz:I ended up running a department. I worked in an academic medical facility. I, you know, had a very big job. I absolutely loved it. This is where I really gained my momentum and my worth rose and I really saw myself as this empowered, powerful, intelligent woman who had confidence, who no longer had to live in the darkness of feeling not worthy and recognizing that as an adult, you can see your parents a little clearer. You know, my mother didn't do anything to try to hurt me. She just did the best she could with what she knew at the time and she was really young. And so to give yourself that amount of grace to, to find the forgiveness in your heart and really give it to yourself for one, believing that you could even be created on this earth and not be worth much Was a big lesson.
Beverley Glazer:The turning point shows that when you realize that you had to prioritize yourself. You couldn't continue just living for your mom and living for everybody else. What was the turning point? When you realized I matter.
Josette Diaz:That's a big one, because, although I built this career and I had found, I felt, I found my voice, I found myself I found myself in another marriage that was not healthy for me, where I was in a situation where it was my mother all over again in a way, and so when that occurred, I realized what I didn't know, and so when I kept wanting to have the stability of family life, it was something that I've always wanted. You know, I didn't have it growing up and I wanted that for my children, and so it was very important to me, and so I stayed in that marriage as long as I could until life said no more. It wasn't my choice, it just life just shifted and there were changes that occurred that I then was propelled into a different life situation, and when that happened it was so discombobulating. I was very like, you know, having to pull back into myself the things that I love about me and really start to recognize that I've put myself in harm's way by not paying attention or making decisions.
Josette Diaz:When you are in moments of emotional overload and they lean into desperation, you know those moments are never the best moments to make decisions about things, and so if I were to step back and be more discerning about my life and to really start paying attention to the patterns and the habits of the way that I was brought up and how it affected the decisions I made affected the decisions I made and that I kept myself in certain patterns and habits based on feelings that might've been more dormant, yet, when they rose, put me right back into those habits.
Josette Diaz:So if that feeling intensified, I was right back in the pattern, which then, you know, put me in places where I made decisions that weren't good for me and engaged with people that weren't good for me, and so unraveling all of that was, um, I believe, the perfect season, because I hit midlife, and I really honestly believe that in midlife is our arrival point, where our wisdom just bubbles up to the point that, you know, we embrace it and as women, we start to see things a lot clearer, and that those were the things that led me to beginning to really find the process of empowerment, how to go about it, and to start really mastering myself emotionally.
Beverley Glazer:And what was the biggest personal shift you made when you finally said yes to yourself?
Josette Diaz:I'm a person. It was stepping into, um, into being a self-awareness coach because, uh, all of the things that I've been through, I've done a lot of study along the way. So, although I may have, like, made my mistakes and I may have lived in circumstances that didn't really serve me, that only harmed me, that kept me in this internal prison, there was a level of comfort with that, as much as it was terrible. And so, um, out of all of those experiences, um, I've been able to find the shortcuts to help other women with that, and I don't feel that I'm the only one who has felt internally imprisoned by themselves, and I know that many women experience a lot of the same things that I've experienced. Maybe their story's different, maybe it's not as intense, yet there's every.
Josette Diaz:Everything is relative, and so even the smaller or maybe less I don't know dramatic things that can happen in life can have the same effect on a person, and so the you know, this is where I said yes to this dream that I always had to help women, because I felt so emotionally dwarfed and that I couldn't express myself, that I couldn't really be who I wanted to be and who I knew inside, that I truly was, and I always had that desire, since I was a child, being raised by a mother who really demanded her needs were met.
Josette Diaz:First, that I dreamt of that to be influential, to be a force to lead others, and women particularly, and maybe that's the generation I was raised in. You know, I'm an early Gen Xer, so that's, you know, that's possible. That's why that, you know, occurs that way. Yet, when you know, my life changed. I was 47 years old and I went. Now is the time I knew, even when I was going through all the pain and the trauma and all the things that were happening around me, I knew deep down inside of me that this was my moment, because I believe that what's meant for you is going to find you and it's not going to let you go.
Beverley Glazer:What's one step that a woman can take today, Joseph, if they want to break through that codependency feeling One step, what would you tell her?
Josette Diaz:to tell her? That's a really good question and I think there's like a several different answers I could give. The one that I think matters the most is to look inward to your heart and to really deeply start loving yourself first and to be your own soulmate. Don't look for it outside of yourself. It's all right here within you.
Beverley Glazer:Yes. What advice would you give to a woman who feels trapped in her responsibilities that she did not choose, much like yourself?
Josette Diaz:I think that that can be a complicated answer because I think that it depends on where you are in your life. I know that for myself. I chose to stay in my circumstances because I had a young child and I weighed what was important to me and felt I could handle it until I couldn't handle it and felt I could handle it until I couldn't handle it. And so I would never say to someone make big changes. I would say, go internally, start working on you.
Josette Diaz:If you're in a situation that is I mean, we're talking about nothing that is harming you in a sense of physical harm, that kind of thing so I would really start looking within to understand yourself so that when you are ready to release yourself from the situation, then you have some tools underneath you that as the difficulties rise which they will you will have tools in order to manage them, rather than finding yourself back in the situation over and over and over. It's like if you're trying to get out of a hole and it's all dirt around you, if you don't have something to hold on to or to help you kind of give you a step up, you're going to keep sliding back down. So my advice would be to really start working on yourself internally. And as you take those steps and gain that knowledge about yourself and expand in your awareness, you're going to have the tool sets the tool set to bring yourself out of that situation when you're ready for it.
Beverley Glazer:I agree with you 100%. Don't make rash decisions. It's not black and white. Do the research. Do the research and so that you have the ground rules and the strength and the support system to move forward. I want to thank you, Josette. Josette Diaz is a self-awareness coach who transformed her life. After spending a lifetime of living for others, she navigated a childhood of codependency and abuse and finally she broke free of her toxic past. Today, Seasons of the Soul is her signature system. She empowers women to embrace their authority and reclaim their power, no matter how old they are or how difficult their life was in the past. Here are some takeaways from this episode you are not responsible for other people's happiness. Self-awareness is the key to change. Your past does not define your future, and saying yes to yourself is not selfish. It's necessary For similar episodes on codependency and personal growth. Please check out episodes 83 and 89 on aging with purpose and passion. And where can people find you, Josette? And?
Josette Diaz:where can people find you, josette? They can find me on Instagram. I'm really active there. I also have a YouTube channel and I'm in all the other places LinkedIn and Facebook.
Beverley Glazer:I'm most active in Instagram and YouTube, though Terrific, and all her links are going to be in the show notes And're on my site too, which is reinventimpossiblecom. If you've enjoyed aging with purpose and passion, please check out reinvention rebels podcast. It features bold, unapologetic women over 50 who've transformed their lives in extraordinary ways, because it's never too late to shine brighter and live a life you love. That link will also be in the show notes, too. And now, my friends, what's next for you? Are you just going through the motions or are you really passionate about your life? Sign into my newsletter to get weekly self-coaching tips that will empower you through your journey.
Beverley Glazer:That link where do you think it's? In the show notes below. You can connect with me, beverly Glaser, on all social media platforms and in my positive group of women on Facebook. That's Women Over 50 Rock. And if you think I can help you find your purpose and passion in your life, please schedule a Zoom, and that link is in the show notes too. I want to thank you for listening. Have you enjoyed this conversation? Subscribe so you won't miss the next one, and send this episode to a friend. And remember you only have one life, so keep aging with purpose and passion.
Speaker 1:Thank you for joining us. You can connect with Bev on her website, reinventimpossiblecom and, while you're there, join our newsletter Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Until next time, keep aging with purpose and passion and celebrate life.