Midlife Remix Executive Recruiter on Midlife Career Challenges and Finding Purpose
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Sep 30, 2025 Paige Scott, a senior search leader with 20+ years placing executives in asset management, shares candid reflections on midlife career shifts. She discusses authenticity over performance, navigating multi-generational teams, saying no and setting boundaries, avoiding the underemployment trap after 50, and using manifestation journals to rebuild purpose and energy.
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Settling Into Authenticity After 50
- Authenticity becomes easier after 50 because life experience reduces the need to perform.
- Paige says settling into your skin amplifies alignment, satisfaction, and impact at work.
Manifestation Journals After Divorce
- Paige rebuilt after a three-year divorce using manifestation journals and personal work.
- She now coaches over-50 candidates through fear, layoffs, and reinvention with the same journal practice.
Refuse Roles That Demand Performance Theater
- Do not take roles where you must perform someone else's persona; seek alignment instead.
- Paige argues the exhaustion of pretending isn't sustainable and better fits come from showing your genuine self.