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🧡 Helping you find a career you truly love that feeds your soul AND your finances
😊 Turn Sunday scaries into Monday motivation
🧭 Creator of the ultimate career-finding course "Become Your Own Pathfinder" 🧡 Helping you find a career you truly love that feeds your soul AND your finances
😊 Turn Sunday scaries into Monday motivation
🧭 Creator of the ultimate career-finding course Become Your Own Pathfinder

29/10/2026

Last Thursday, we had one of the most incredible nights for women in mid-life, and it made something even clearer to me:

Women are extraordinary.

I speak to so many women who reach a point in their lives where they feel the possibilities getting smaller. Career, health, wellness, style; ageism spins a narrative that all of these facets of our lives must fall off a cliff the minute we turn 50. But that's not true, is it? It's a story we are told.

We're encouraged to Botox our CVs and minimise our ages to get noticed, It's incredibly reductive, when there is THIS MUCH POTENTIAL still living in all of us.

I say potential, yes, because there is yet more room to grow post mid-life. I see women being extraordinary relationship builders, connecting people, remembering the little things that make people feel seen and heard. I see women helping in rooms every single day, and it was magical to not only gather with them last Thursday, but to speak to them about how valuable their skills, expertise, and perspectives are as they enter midlife.

'BECOMING: The Next Chapter is Yours' was the brainchild of me and three other amazing women. We hoped it would be a place for others to land and remember how full of possibilities the next chapter is. Gatherings like this are what help us remember to take control of the narrative, get out of our own damn way, and make a plan to go after what WE want.

What a night, and to all who attended as well as the three amazing women who co-created this space with me, thank you! What a memory to take into the end of the year.

I've summarised my talk from the evening into an article, which you can find in the comments if you're interested. It's all about finding purpose in mid-life, flipping the script on the narrative as a mid-career woman, and figuring out what's next.

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26/10/2026

If we don't begin with the soul, then it doesn't matter what we do in our careers; it just won't stick.

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I'm Liz Barry, a life and career coach. I help mid-career women figure out what's next, so if you'd like help finding the path ahead, feel free to follow along.

21/10/2026

I call values 'decision-makers' when it comes to career alignment, and that sometimes surprises people. Here's why they matter so much...

(P.S. If you're curious about your values and what they might have to tell you about your career choices, I've left a little resource in the comments for you).

19/10/2026

Soul-first isn’t just my coaching philosophy; it’s how I try to run my actual life! That looks like:

👉 Checking in with my body compass before making big decisions.

👉 Signing up to improv classes, because it looked fun and fed my soul.

👉 Noticing when two hours in a cafe with my journal is more vital to my health than another load of washing.

It’s a habit, like the many positive ones I help women build inside the Pathfinder Program and my coaching practice. You’ve got to walk the walk, right?

Living and thinking this way helps me stay in touch with my own path. It’s easy enough for any of us to get lost if we stop looking at the map, but luckily, we have access to our best navigational equipment 100% of the time.

Practice and habit keep that connection to the soul and body clear enough to hear what’s next, and that’s why I not only love this approach, but embody it as often as possible.

Can you remember the last time you checked in with yourself like this?

14/10/2026

If Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay looked at the top of Everest and said, "I'm getting up there in one go," they never would have made it to the top. Careers are the same way.

Link to the free resource for getting unstuck in the comments below

12/10/2026

Three small signs your career isn't fulfilling you the way it used to...

There are three signs I watch for with clients. None of them feel particularly dramatic on their own, which is why they’re so easy to ignore for years at a time.

Which of these signs do you recognise?

1: You feel more indifferent now. Not bad enough to leave, not good enough to love where you are. Going through the motions and living for the weekend.

2: Your body compass is warning you to turn away. You might be sleeping worse, or crawling home with no energy left for living.

3: Your values are clashing. Something you value (accountability, respect, creative space) isn't being honoured at work, and you can sense that wrongness.

Feeling aligned and fulfilled at work is entirely possible! It feels like looking forward to most Mondays, meeting challenges with purpose, and doing work that feels meaningful because it has a positive impact.

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I’m Liz Barry, life & career coach. I help mid-career women figure out what’s next! If your career isn’t feeling aligned, follow along for help finding the path ahead. Find more at https://www.lizbarry.com/courses-hub.

07/10/2026

There's a narrative out there at the moment that women over the age of 50 are really struggling to find work. The algorithms are sexist, that's a fact... but I'd like to flip the script.

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Come along October 22nd for “BECOMING: The Next Chapter Is Yours”. This event is the first of its kind in Aotearoa, three-hour evening is built for women taking on the next stage of life. I'd love to see you there: https://events.humanitix.com/becoming-the-next-chapter-is-yours

05/10/2026

When was the last time you thought of the universe as a helping force in your life? Even though I touch on this concept often, I can still sometimes forget how powerful visualisation and manifestation can be.

We live in a highly intelligent and responsive universe. Whether you’re aware of the process or not, you’re co-creating your reality through the thoughts, words, and behaviors you choose minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

It’s not a hack or shortcut to getting what we want. Just thinking about something usually isn’t enough to bring it into being.

That’s why, as much as possible, you must strive to be decisive, clear, and specific. Wishy-washy goals get wishy-washy results.

All the time, the universe is conspiring to help us. To help you. I’ve seen it over and over again, not just in my life, but with the Pathfinders who learn to create enough clarity to invite that luck into their lives.

In fact the career theorist Professor John Krumboltz of Stanford University developed The Theory of Planned Happenstance that values chance, luck and serendipity and builds on the five skills of curiosity, persistence, flexibility, optimism and risk-taking.

So, here’s a question you might not have asked yourself recently: what do you want to be possible in your career, right now?

We’re talking about all of this and more at BECOMING on October 22nd; an event by women, for women, who want to find positive change in the next stage of life.

28/09/2026

Last week I gave a six-minute presentation to my NZ Business Women’s Network group about the world women are navigating right now — ageism, gender bias, AI and a rapidly changing world of work.

One of the things I mentioned was the growing conversation about whether women are getting less visibility on LinkedIn and the algorithms increasingly being used in recruitment and hiring.

Today, a woman in my NZBW group tagged me in a LinkedIn post where she’d dug further into the LinkedIn algorithm.

That sent me down a rabbit hole. And what I found was fascinating.

Women had been changing the gender on their LinkedIn profiles to male — and some saw their reach skyrocket.

So a man called Daniel decided to test the opposite. He became Daniela. He changed his backend gender to female, his display name and his pronouns. Nothing else.

At one point, his reach dropped by 48%.

Now, Daniel himself was very clear that this wasn't a scientific study. And LinkedIn says gender, age and race aren't used as signals to determine the visibility of content. But it raises a fascinating question.

What happens when technology learns from a world that already contains bias?

And as a career coach who works predominantly with women in midlife, I’m particularly interested in what happens when these systems sit between women and opportunities.

Because we can't control every algorithm and we can't control someone else's assumptions about our age or gender.

But we CAN focus on what we can control.

And one of the greatest resources women have is something we're already incredibly good at: building relationships.

By midlife, you've spent decades building friendships, professional connections, relationships and goodwill — often without even thinking of any of it as a “network”.

Think of all the relationships, connections and goodwill you’ve built over the course of your life. That’s your network.

I've written more about the LinkedIn experiments, bias, AI, relationships and why I think your next opportunity may come through a person rather than an algorithm in my latest blog.
👉 see blog post link in comments

And I’ll be talking more about this at BECOMING: The Next Chapter Is Yours, an evening event for women in midlife in Auckland on 22 October.

I’ll be sharing practical strategies to help you get clearer on what you want in this next chapter and how to start going about getting it.

If you’re a woman in midlife wondering what’s next, we’d love to have you there.

👉 Registration link is in the comments.

21/09/2026

I keep coming across a phrase that really bothers me: “Botox your CV.”

It’s advice being given to women in midlife who are looking for work.

Strip your CV back to the last 7–10 years.
Remove dates that might reveal your age.
Leave out earlier roles.
Make yourself look younger on paper.

Think about what we’re actually asking women to do.

You arrive at 50 with decades of hard-won experience, knowledge, relationships, mistakes, successes and wisdom…
…and the advice is essentially to hide a whole lot of it.

Make yourself smaller. Make yourself younger. Make yourself easier for the recruitment system to digest.

This really bothers me.

Especially when women are already navigating ageism, a rapidly changing world of work, AI and technology playing an increasing role in recruitment — AND their own internal narrative:

Who’s going to hire me at my age?
Have I left it too late?
Maybe I should just be grateful I have a job.

At 50, you could have another 30 or 40 years ahead of you.

What if some of your most meaningful work is still ahead of you?

This is exactly the kind of conversation we’re creating space for at BECOMING: The Next Chapter Is Yours on 22 October.

An evening for midlife women to explore who they are now, what they want and what they’re becoming next.

There are only 14 tickets left.

✨ Come and join us. Ticket link in comments

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