The other day, I caught myself doing that very midlife thing where you’re making a cup of tea, and suddenly you’re also having an existential moment.
You know the one.
One minute you’re standing in your kitchen, half scrolling, half living… and the next you’re thinking, “I’m really about to be fifty”, not in a panic kind of way, not in a denial way, in a… “Oh, this is real, this is happening, this is mine”, and I want to treat it like a season I get to curate.
So I’m starting something new 😉. It’s called 85 Weeks to Fifty.
From 1 March 2026 to 18 October 2027, I’ll be sharing one interview every week with a woman in her 50s. Same questions every time. Short, honest, straight to the point. The kind of answers you read and feel in your chest. Like someone’s just put language to what you’ve been sensing but couldn’t quite name.
Because here’s what I’ve noticed: Women in their 50s don’t do performative wisdom, they don’t dress things up to be palatable, they don’t sprinkle truth with sugar just so it goes down easier. They tell you what they stopped doing, what they stopped tolerating, what they stopped apologising for. And they tell you what's got better, what got quieter, what got truer, what finally started to feel like freedom.
I’m doing this as I walk myself towards 50, too. Quietly gathering wisdom, borrowing bravery, letting other women’s clarity hold up a mirror to my own becoming, not because I need a blueprint, but because I don’t want to arrive at fifty like a woman who rushed through the doorway with her eyes half closed. I want to arrive awake.
Want to be featured?
If you’re 50+ and you’d like to be part of this series, I’d love to hear from you.
Email me at hello@kiransinghuk.com with:
Your name
Your age
Where you’re based
A sentence on what season of life you’re in (rebuilding, expanding, starting over, softening, thriving… whatever’s true)
And I’ll reply with the questions, no Zoom, no calls, no pressure. You can answer as much or as little as you like. This isn’t about being impressive. It’s about being real.
Let’s make midlife feel like what it really is: A Beginning & a Becoming.
Email: hello@kiransinghuk.com
Subject line: 85 Weeks to Fifty
