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Denise Kirtley: Stop Chasing Your Thirties
Description
We're bringing back our May 2025 conversation with Denise Kirtley, the founder of Rebellion Body. As we look back on this message, Kirtley is preparing to head to the Super Age Games with the event's largest team yet, more than 50 women strong. Kirtley built her coaching business on the idea that midlife is not a decline to manage, but a version of life women get to design on purpose. In this conversation, she explains why belief, not willpower, is usually the first thing that has to change before a body does. She also gets into the backlash she receives for posting bikini photos in her fifties, her wariness about AI-generated bodies flooding social media, and why she thinks the phrase "50 is the new 30" gets the whole conversation backward. Listeners will come away with an answer to the question that stalls most people before they ever begin: what do you do on the days you don't feel motivated at all?
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Key Moments
"I always like to say my new thing is 50 is the new 50."
"I think people think motivation is like this mythical thing that all of a sudden the clouds open and you get the sign from the heavens that ‘Now is the time.’ It doesn't work that way. You just do it."
"We cannot worry about the things that naturally happen as we age."
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