

This podcast is for people over 40. The guests on this show share their past personal struggles and how they overcame them to create a life they love. It is a show about resilience, strength, and determination to make the rest of your life the best of your life.
This is the Age Slayers Podcast! Where creating your best life never gets old.
Have you ever felt like you’re living your life for everyone else?
In this inspiring episode of Age Slayers, Traci sits down with Amanda, a mom of three from northwest Iowa who spent years battling anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome, and the weight of other people’s expectations.
But everything began to change when Amanda stopped judging her emotions, stopped trying to be who everyone else expected her to be, and finally gave herself permission to simply be herself.
One of the most powerful moments in this conversation is Amanda’s reminder that we’re not meant to be background characters in our own lives. It’s time to become the main f*cking character in our own story.
Together, Traci and Amanda explore:
- Why anxiety doesn’t have to define your identity
- The danger of living for everyone else’s expectations
- How therapy, deep personal work, and a “voice detox” helped Amanda rediscover herself
- What happens when you stop judging your emotions and start accepting them
- Why life truly begins when you decide that you’re important too
If you’ve spent years putting everyone else first, this episode is the reminder you’ve been waiting for.
Because your next chapter doesn’t start when life changes…
It starts the moment you decide you matter.
If this episode encouraged you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with another woman who needs the reminder that she’s the hero of her own story.

The Age Slayers podcast is for people over 40. The guests on this show share their past personal struggles and how they overcame them to create a life they love. It is a show about resilience, strength, and determination to make the rest of your life the best of your life.
This is the Age Slayers Podcast! Where creating your best life never gets old.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts.
If you would like to be a guest on the Age Slayers podcast, contact me!