Midlife coaching with candor and bite.
Bullshift treats midlife as a working room, not a crisis label. Through solo coaching episodes, personal stories, and practical questions, it turns career restlessness, overwhelm, aging, purpose, and self-worth into material for steadier choices.
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Bullshift is a self-help and midlife transition show shaped like a coaching monologue with a personal edge. Its central question is not how to become a new person overnight, but how to notice the places where old expectations no longer fit. The show works through that question steadily. Episodes introduce concepts such as the hedonic treadmill, burnout, ultradian rhythms, powerful questions, purpose, self-love, and accepting help. Then the ideas get pulled back into ordinary life. A career slump becomes a chance to ask better questions. A torn Achilles opens into fears about aging, dependency, loneliness, and letting other people show up. A sleepy first date in a bowling alley bar becomes a memorable argument for rest. The show has a warm teaching rhythm. It can also be blunt, funny, and slightly unruly. That mix keeps the coaching from sounding too polished. Bullshift is especially interested in the stories people repeat until those stories start to feel like identity. It looks at why someone might say they are too busy, too overwhelmed, too afraid, too independent, or too late to change. The answer is rarely framed as a simple fix. Instead, the show asks for a different relationship to fear, ambition, exhaustion, and care. Purpose is treated as something active and current, not a distant perfect calling. Rest is treated as necessary, not decorative. Help is treated as part of belonging, not a failure of independence. The result is practical, intimate coaching for people sorting through midlife with humor still intact. It gives structure to messy transitions without pretending the mess disappears.
Made for: Bullshift is for adults in midlife who feel stuck, overextended, restless, or unsure what fulfillment should look like now. It fits listeners who like coaching frameworks grounded in real-life stories rather than polished slogans.
What sets it apart: The show pairs accessible coaching psychology with confessional, sometimes irreverent personal storytelling. Its strongest episodes make abstract self-help ideas feel testable in careers, relationships, bodies, rest, and daily choices.
Bullshift is the podcast for every person aged + who wonders, “Is this as good as life gets?” If you struggle to prioritize your life around what’s really of value...if you have a nagging awareness that something in your life is going unfulfilled...if you feel stuck...or if you’re spread too thin, then this podcast is for you. We spend nearly half our adult lives in some type of transition. This show is about making all that time more satisfying. In each episode, Midlife Transition Coach and Educator Meghan Krause, MPH, MA will share disarmingly-unfiltered insights about the vary...
A handbag becomes a boundary lesson when you're ready to stop negotiating with every should.
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A clear, humane case for treating failure as information and choosing what deserves another try.
Bullshift studies a familiar self-improvement trap: using the next goal to get away from the sting of failure. The episode ties that habit to darker thoughts that can arrive with age, then brings it down to concrete regrets: being passed over after years of work, a former spouse…
A frank midlife guide to the hedonic treadmill, fear, and a more irreverent bucket list.
Bullshift treats midlife as a transition worth taking seriously, and Megan Krause lays out its main ideas with a clear eye for what changes and what does not.
A first-anniversary check-in that treats midlife as a chance to choose again.
Bullshift uses its first anniversary to revisit early milestones and frame a familiar midlife question: what happens when an older version of life stops cooperating?
A practical case for fewer shoulds and better boundaries.
This episode looks at the mental tax of shoulds and the calmer structure that can take their place. Megan Crowsey makes a plainspoken case for constraint as a way to protect energy, drawing on a busy stretch that included launching an online shop, a podcast, and a new program…
Manifestation talk with everyday roots.
Higher consciousness with practical surrender work.
This episode introduces two guiding questions to help listeners unlock their purpose by exploring how they want to grow and give, drawing on coaching psychology and neuroscience.
Megan Krause of Bullshift presents a four-step mind map for handling setbacks and failure during the 35-to-55 midlife transition.
The host reflects on existential questions and personal vulnerabilities while recovering from a torn Achilles injury in isolation during autumn.
This episode challenges the pursuit of happiness by exploring the deeper concept of Ikigai as a reason for being beyond career and economic status.
This episode explores how to use a purpose filter to address recurring life struggles in areas like career, body image, relationships, and family, which often become ingrained as part of one's identity.
Megan Krause centers episode four on the midlife transition Bullshift is built around.
Bullshift marks its first anniversary by looking back at the first year.
Megan Crowsey opens by calling out the habit of shoulding all over yourself.
This episode provides practical advice on improving sleep by discussing common sleep mistakes, defining normal sleep, and offering an evidence-based strategy for insomnia.
This episode explores three common factors contributing to burnout, including distinguishing stress from stressors, debunking myths about burnout, and addressing midlife challenges.
This episode introduces a four-part series on burnout, explaining what it is, how to recognize it, its prevalence, and how to identify if you're experiencing it, with a focus on early midlife women.
This episode reveals three secrets to navigating midlife transitions, debunking the myth of the midlife crisis and explaining the happiness U-curve phenomenon.