Finding Your Voice: Empowerment After 50
How Trusting Yourself, Your Faith, and Your Voice Becomes Power After 50
There comes a time in life when reality hits you in the face.
Losing a job is more than losing a role. It is the loss of identity, routine, and the confidence built over years of showing up and doing the work. When that happens later in life—without a plan to start over—it forces you to confront questions you never expected to ask.
One of them is this:
Can I depend on myself?
That question is what led to the creation of Imagine Over 50.
Loss as a Turning Point
Starting over after 50 is not something most people prepare for. You cry. You grieve. You feel angry, frustrated, and at times, invisible. Those emotions are real—and they matter.
Emotions matter. When we ignore them, they can affect our mental health.
What many people don’t realize is that loss also demands courage. The courage to find your voice when the structure is gone. The courage to stop staying silent. The courage to show up anyway.
Finding your voice means no longer shrinking yourself to fit expectations.
It means standing in your truth—without apology.
Trusting Intuition and Inner Wisdom
I often remind my listeners and readers that they already have the power to empower themselves. Recently, I had to take my own advice.
In moments of doubt, I returned to the words that have become my anchor:
- I am strong.
- I am worthy.
- I am intelligent.
- I am resilient.
Wisdom has a way of showing up when we least expect it—not loudly, but quietly. In still moments, you begin to trust that God has your back. That your prayers are heard. That you are not walking this path alone.
Sometimes guidance comes as faith.
Sometimes it comes as intuition.
Sometimes it arrives as a whisper—call it a muse, call it inner knowing.
What matters is that you acknowledge it.
Reclaiming the Power of Your Voice
All of my life, I worked in broadcasting—telling stories, shaping messages, and often being told what to say and what not to say. That was the job.
But when the job ended, the script did too.
Starting over later in life forces you to rely on your inner compass. There is no approval process anymore. No producer. No rules. Just you—and what you know to be true.
Through Imagine Over 50 and my travel agency, I see this need everywhere. People over 50 are not asking to be rescued. They are asking to be heard. They are asking for peace—without judgment, stereotypes, or nasty innuendos.
As I listen to women from all walks of life, one truth becomes clear:
Women have worked hard—often without recognition.
Too many have been told they are not good enough.
For years, I heard that too.
And now I say this clearly:
That narrative is false.
Influence After 50
Influence doesn’t disappear with age. It deepens.
When you share your voice honestly—your fears, your faith, your resilience—you give others permission to do the same. Someone reading your words realizes they are not alone, and that recognition can be life-changing.
Finding your voice doesn’t mean having all the answers.
It means trusting yourself enough to speak.
That is empowerment.
That is influence.
And that is what this stage of life is truly about.
