Redefining Success at 47 - Letters to the Midlife Soul Series

When I was younger, success looked a lot like achievement.

Job titles.

Salary bands.

External validation.

Being the one who had it all together.

And for a while, I did.

I climbed.

I led.

I built businesses.

I raised children.

I trained teams.

I helped hundreds, maybe thousands, of people find their career footing.

But here’s what no one tells you in your twenties or thirties:

Success at 47 doesn’t feel the same.

Not when your body changes.

Not when your identity shifts.

Not when you’re bone-tired from a decade (or more) of being everyone’s everything.

Somewhere along the way, the rules I’d lived by stopped fitting.

I began asking different questions:

• What if success isn’t about pushing harder, but softening, too?

  
  

• What if it looks less like promotion, and more like peace?

  
  

• What if it’s not about being in the room, but about feeling like myself in it?

  
  

Because when you’ve lived enough years to know grief, reinvention, menopause, burnout, loss, and starting again…You stop chasing gold stars.

You start searching for your own.

Here’s how I define success now, and how I support other women to do the same:

Integrity

Not the buzzword kind. The soul-deep kind.

Am I showing up in ways that honour who I am?

Energy

Do I feel resourced, or constantly depleted?

Boundaries

Where does my time go?

Who gets my best energy?

Who gets the leftovers?

Joy

When did I last belly laugh?

When did I last rest without guilt?

Connection

Do I feel seen, or just needed?

I work with women who’ve ticked every box, and still feel unfulfilled.

Not because they failed.

Because the version of success they were sold wasn’t built for this season of life.

This is the season of honest mirrors.

Of asking bigger questions.

Of coming back to yourself, not because you’re lost, but because you’ve spent years detouring around everyone else’s needs.

So if you’re redefining what matters at 47, 52, or 59, you’re not broken, you’re awakening.

And if you need someone to walk alongside you as you rewrite the story, I’d be honoured.

With clarity & care,

Kate 

Redefining Success at 47 - from the Letters to the Midlife Soul series