Midlife with Courage

In this solo episode, Kim talks about a new piece of artwork that helped her realize that too many of us are waiting for something to happen or come to us before we live our life.

What do you think? What are you waiting for?

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The SolPlanner is here! You all know how much Kim loves her SolPlanner and if you are a paper planner person, you should check it out! The 2024 version is now available and you can get yours today by clicking this ⁠LINK.⁠ This will take you to the SolPlanner website where you can see the three different options and choose one for you and/or a friend. Please note that this is an affiliate link and while I do get a monetary reward for each purchase, this does not affect your cost. You can also find the link on the Resources page at www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Kim Benoy RN is an Aromatherapist, wife, mom and business owner who has a passion for inspiring and motivating women over 40 to live every moment. Join her each week on this podcast and check out more information on her website www.midlifewithcourage.com

Brittany Cano is a passionate advocate for holistic health and wellness and is dedicated to empowering others to connect with themselves to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives. As a Registered Nurse, she found herself wondering how she could help patients lead better lives so they could avoid becoming a patient. She sees herself as a bridge between conventional medicine and holistic wellness and she talks with Kim about what that means and how it looks for her. Brittany has become a sought-after public speaker, personal trainer, holistic health coach, mindfulness and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) practitioner, Reiki healer, and yin yoga instructor. She talks about ways she helps her clients find their inner calm and safety to live the best life possible.

You can find Brittany at www.HolisticNurseCoaches.com where she offers some free gifts as well as her coaching services.

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The SolPlanner is here! You all know how much Kim loves her SolPlanner and if you are a paper planner person, you should check it out! The 2024 version is now available and you can get yours today by clicking this LINK. This will take you to the SolPlanner website where you can see the three different options and choose one for you and/or a friend. Please note that this is an affiliate link and while I do get a monetary reward for each purchase, this does not affect your cost. You can also find the link on the Resources page at www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Use your oils! If you have essential oils that you don't know or remember how to use, you need this service. To let Kim know you are interested in Blooming Branch Buds videos, go to thisLINKto get started.

Kim Benoy is a Registered Nurse, Aromatherapist, podcast host/producer, wife, mom and animal lover who has a passion for teaching others about safe healthcare options including essential oils. To learn more about her, go to her website at www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Clementine Moss is a hard rock drummer, singer, songwriter, spiritual counselor and author. Some of the items on this list may not seem to "match up" and Clem talks with Kim about how her contemplative practices have helped her to be fully present in all aspects of her life, including onstage. She talks about those inner voices and really listening to find out where they are coming from and their purpose in order to live your life the way you want to.

You can find out more about Clementine, including her book From Bonham to Buddha and Back: The Slow Enlightenment of the Hard Rock Drummer by going to her website: www.clemthegreat.com. If you would like to check out her book on Amazon, just click this LINK.

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Use your oils! If you have essential oils that you don't know or remember how to use, you need this service. To let Kim know you are interested in Blooming Branch Buds videos, go to thisLINKto get started.

Kim Benoy is a Registered Nurse, Aromatherapist, podcast host/producer, wife, mom and animal lover who has a passion for teaching others about safe healthcare options including essential oils. To learn more about her, go to her website at www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Susan Gold is currently living in bliss. Her childhood was-as she puts it-brutal-and she left home for New York City as soon as possible for a career that included matching celebrities with brands. She talks with Kim about working with her childhood idol Barbara Walters and Andy Warhol among others in both NYC and a television production career in LA. Eventually she found the person she calls her "guru" and her experiences with him taught her how to love herself again. This courageous woman has a story you will love to listen to.

Susan helps others who are interested in transforming their trauma into freedom and has also written a book called Toxic Family: Turning Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom which can be found by going to her website https://www.susangold.us/.

Susan reminds us that as we are learning to live from our hearts, it's a long process but we need to keep holding on until the miracle happens.

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Use your oils! If you have essential oils that you don't know or remember how to use, you need this service. To let Kim know you are interested in Blooming Branch Buds videos, go to thisLINKto get started.

Kim Benoy is a Registered Nurse, Aromatherapist, podcast host/producer, wife, mom and animal lover who has a passion for teaching others about safe healthcare options including essential oils. To learn more about her, go to her website at www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Margie Schmid is a certified Holistic Nutritionist and former principal who's story includes caring for her kids and grandkids, her mother and herself. She is a Minnesota native who found herself in Nebraska for 31 years but always wanting to get back home. She had that opportunity about 4 years ago and has been on a journey of caring for her mom before she passed and starting a new way to share health and wellness through nutrition, retreats and wisdom talks. Margie has found a balance in life that includes volunteering, time with her grand babies and what she calls her "micro-business." Margie also offers up some great tips for taking care of yourself through nutrition. Her passion is to leave people better than how she found them and help them be healthier.

To learn more about Margie and what she offers, you can email her at [email protected]. Sign up for her newsletters for recipes and tips for better nutrition.

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Use your oils! If you have essential oils that you don't know or remember how to use, you need this service. To let Kim know you are interested in Blooming Branch Buds videos, go to this LINK to get started.

Kim Benoy is a Registered Nurse, Aromatherapist, podcast host/producer, wife, mom and animal lover who has a passion for teaching others about safe healthcare options including essential oils. To learn more about her, go to her website at www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Kristin Rehkamp is a mom and business owner who has found herself through the journey of helping her daughter through a health crisis and more. She talks with Kim about navigating the mental health care system (or lack thereof), making the decision to simplify life as a family, starting a local and online business and finding peace. She shares her story with honesty and gratitude and everyone needs to hear it.

Kristin has written a lovely book called Finding Us: A Mother's Memoir of Braving Mental Illness with her Young Daughter which is written as a journal and letters to her daughter. You can find it HERE on Amazon. Kristin also has a gift shop called La Vie Est Belle and speaks about advocating for mental health resources at various events. You can find her on her social media and website at the links below:

Website: shoplavie.co Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lavieestbellegiftshop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lavieestbellegiftshop/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/la-vie-est-belle-llc

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Are you one of the 90% of people I talk to who have essential oils sitting around the house not being used? Or are you new to oils and have no idea how to use them? Or maybe you have an oil that you are unfamiliar with and need to know how to use it.

I have help! I am starting a new monthly oils subscription that is as easy as opening your email. Each month you will get at least 1 video (no more than 2 per month) explaining how to use a specific oil in 5 minutes or less. Very easy and convenient! To let me know you are interested, click this LINK and I will get back to you.

Kim Benoy, RN and Aromatherapist, is passionate about educating you about using essential oils safely. To learn more, check out her website www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Katherine Baldwin had an amazing career as a political journalist which took her all over the world. While she considered it a dream job, she found herself burned out in her mid 30's and needed a change. Listen to her story as she talks with Kim about her journey of discovering her "wake-up" calls and what she did to refocus on herself and what she needed and wanted in her life. She shares her "rock-bottoms" and how she helps others realize that you don't need to go that low to find yourself. She also shares her story of finding love after 40 and how her idea for her book came from the sky on a beach walk one day.

Katherine Baldwin is a relationships coach, midlife mentor, wellbeing speaker and author who supports and empowers midlife women to love themselves, create lives that they truly love and find healthy love. Katherine is a former international journalist for Bloomberg and Reuters. She worked as a foreign correspondent in Latin America and a political journalist based in the British parliament, during which time she travelled the globe with prime ministers and reported on politics, conflicts, a tsunami, an earthquake and two terrorist attacks. Yet throughout her high-profile career, Katherine was binge eating, binge drinking, over-working and engaging in unhealthy romantic relationships, eventually burning out and breaking down in her thirties.

Single, childless, burnt out and broken, Katherine found the courage to transform her life. She learned to love herself, found healthy love and marriage in her forties, published her first book, 'How to Fall in Love', and launched a successful coaching practice, using her experience and expertise to help others to make courageous changes in their lives and relationships.

Learn more on her website: www.katherinebaldwin.com or follow her on social media: [email protected] Twitter-@fromfortywithlove

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Kim Benoy is a wife, mom, RN and Aromatherapist who loves to inspire you to live every moment through her podcast and her work with essential oils. To learn more about her and her passion, go to her website www.midlifewithcourage.com and subscribe to her newsletter.

Korinn Hawkins has a passion for helping others to connect to themselves. She lost her husband Corey three years ago very unexpectedly and she talks with Kim about the journey with her two children and learning to move forward. She used what she calls her "bag of tricks" to navigate the process of bringing herself and her children through a dark place and the blessings that have come from the journey.

Korinn courageously shares her story including her strong belief that emotions need to be felt and expressed and how she helped her children do that as well. She encourages everyone to "Live your Heart. Because in learning how to listen to your heart, and letting it be expressed, you are opening yourself to living the life your heart truly wants for you."

Korinn S. Hawkins is an author and a meditation instructor. Hawkins has a background as an energy therapist and is a trained AcuEnergetics® Meditation Instructor and Practitioner. She has written and illustrated several children's books and the self-help memoir: The Four Relationships: Seeking connection in a world of disconnect. She offers meditation online through her website and at her YouTube channel Open Heart Living where she hosts 365 Days of Open Heart Living.

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Are you one of those people who have a whole bunch of oils sitting around and you have no idea how to use them? Kim has a solution for you. Join her September 18th at 7 pm CST for a Back to Basics Aromatherapy class. She will teach you how to use your oils safely to support your health and wellness. Go to her Facebook page and sign up for this free zoom class HERE.

Kim Benoy RN is a wife, Mom of grown up daughters and Aromatherapist. She is passionate about inspiring other women over 40 to live every moment by sharing inspiring stories of women who have done that themselves. To learn more about Kim go to her website www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Christina Flach is a world renowned makeup artist to the stars who has worked with celebrities, magazines and big name brands but she is much more than that. She has experienced loss in her life which propelled her to do good for underprivileged children and honor her husband and son. Listen to this episode to hear more from Christina about her bumpy road and her focus on coming from a place of gratitude despite the losses. She also indulges Kim's "fan girl" tendencies by sharing about her experiences with her favorite celebrities and shares some skin care and makeup tips for those over 40.

Christina is the creator and CEO of her own makeup brand, Pretty Girl Makeup. Christina also writes articles detailing the must know tips, tricks, and hacks of the makeup, wellness, and nutrition industries. You can find more information on her website including links to her cruelty-free lip gloss .

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Kim Benoy, RN is a wife, mom of grown up daughters, dog mom and Aromatherapist. She has a passion for helping women find their courage in midlife by sharing inspiring stories of other women who have learned to live every moment. To find out more about Kim's story go to her website www.midlifewithcourage.com.

Kim fills you in on what's been happening this summer and gives a little preview of fall activities including some new products she is working on. She shares her plans for helping you learn more about aromatherapy through her weekly videos or lives and other news.

She ends this solo episode with some heartfelt messages about losing someone and her plans to keep making memories and of course, living every moment.

If you would like to learn more about what Kim is up to, check out her website: www.midlifewithcourage.com or follow her Facebook page called Midlife with Courage to keep up to date on all the things.