Episode 34: Work, Worth & What’s Next w/ Coach Shelby McGuire Canlas

Welcome to Men, Menopause & Miracles — the podcast where midlife isn’t a crisis to survive, but a crossroads rich with wisdom, courage, and choice. This is a space for women who’ve done everything right, climbed the ladders, carried the load, and are now hearing a deeper question whisper… What’s next, and what actually fits now?

I’m Suzanne, your host and Your Midlife Wingwoman.I’m here to walk beside you as careers evolve, identities shift, and old definitions of success loosen their grip. Together, we’ll explore the real conversations happening behind closed doors. The ones about work that no longer light you up, ambition that wants to be redefined, relationships that change, and the quiet miracles that happen when you finally trust yourself.

Each episode brings honest dialogue with coaches, experts,and women who’ve stood at this threshold and chosen alignment over autopilot. Not quick fixes. Not reinvention theater. Just grounded guidance, lived wisdom,and permission to claim the next chapter on your own terms.

Today we explore what really happens when midlife womenstand at the intersection of experience and possibility and have more freedom in the choices they make. Navigating career transitions not as a leap into the unknown, but as a return to self.

So, take a breath, settle in, and lean forward.Your midlife isn’t ending.It’s coming into focus.

This is Episode 34 titled ‘Work, Worth & What’s Next’.

My guest today is fellow coach Shelby McGuire Canlaswho is board certified in Career and Life Coaching specializing in Personal Coaching for Career & Life Success. She provides a fresh perspective for creative and corporate professionals who are ready to make their dreams real, achieve goals, and get shit done! Shelby is primarily based in SouthernCalifornia and serving clients globally.

Shelby has always had a knack for getting inside people'sheads (…in the best possible way) with her background in sociology, psychology, and all things human resources. With her robust background and toolbox, I wanted Shelby to share what she’s seeing when getting inside the heads of her midlifeclients and helping them at this stage of their careers or pursuits.

We'll dive into questions around things like:

• Origin Story and Lens
• The Midlife Wake-Up Call
• The Invisible Barriers
• Transformation and Reclamation
• Reinvention in Real Time
• Redefining Success
• Wisdom and Integration

If you want to not just change your habits but rewire your brain for greatness you can find Shelby at www.yourkeyforward.com for 1:1 personal coaching, corporate or professional coaching and a list of herupcoming events.

Thank you for joining me here at the Men, Menopause& Miracles podcast. It’s my hope today’s episode resonates with women in the middle of or ending successful careers, starting or ending businesses and most importantly who are starting to listen to who they are at their core.

You’ve built credibility, carried responsibility, and checked the boxes. And yet, something inside you is asking for more truth, more alignment, and maybe even a different way of working altogether.

This isn’t about starting over. It’s about starting from here.

Thank you for being with me and Coach Shelby today. Be sureto send a Like, click Subscribe or Follow so you’re notified of each new episode that drops every Monday. If this episode gave you a boost of confidence about your midlife career choices, share it with another woman who can use someof the same.

I’m Suzanne - Your Midlife Wingwoman…reminding you that midlife career change is not a pivot, it’s a reckoning with wisdom. And you don’t walk this threshold alone. Untilnext time — trust what’s stirring. Stay curious, stay brave and let yourself become the woman you no longer have to explain.

Bye for now!

Suzanne xo