38 Degrees North Blog

We talk a lot more openly now about women and childlessness. About fertility. IVF. Broodiness. The emotional impact of not becoming a mother. And rightly so. But there’s another conversation happening quietly in the background — often invisible, often unspoken. The experience of men who never became fathers. On a recent episode of The Midlife […]

The world has sped up. You can feel it in your body. The constant notifications. The pressure to keep up. The relentless stream of news, emails, AI updates, uncertainty, opinions, expectations and noise. Most people are no longer simply stressed. They are chronically overloaded. And while we’ve become very good at talking about productivity, optimisation

Infidelity doesn’t just break a relationship. It breaks certainty. It shakes your identity, your nervous system, your self-worth, and your trust — not only in another person, but often in yourself. In a deeply honest discussion on The Midlife Mentors podcast, James and Claire explored one of the most emotionally difficult experiences many people face

What if the biggest mistake we’ve been making about midlife is believing it’s the beginning of the end? In a powerful conversation with The Midlife Mentors, Lyndsey Simpson challenged many of the outdated assumptions society still holds about ageing, work, retirement, purpose, and reinvention. As the founder and CEO of 55/Redefined, Lyndsey works with over



I’m sure it does, because I was once you. Struggling with a career, a relationship, time, money, myself… • You’re just not loving what you see in the mirror anymore and you long for more energy • You’d love to boost your self-confidence and feel sexier • You want to embrace life with more positivity

When you take ownership of your life, you realise a lot of things. One of those things is that you are 100% in control of yourself, your time, and what’s possible in your life. Too often we adopt the belief that we “can’t have it all” or that we “must choose.” We must choose a