IT´S IN YOU! Career & Leadership Coaching for Women
IT´S IN YOU! The Podcast for Women Ready to Own Their Career and Lead on Their Terms
Are you done waiting for permission?
Tired of the pressure to prove, perform, and fit a mold that never felt quite right?
Welcome to IT´S IN YOU! – the career and leadership podcast for women ready to step into their full potential, create success with clarity, and lead with courage and authenticity.
Hosted by Katharina Engelhardt – career and leadership coach, keynote speaker, and senior director at Adidas – this podcast is your honest, empowering, and strategic companion for navigating your next step, moving up, or reimagining your career entirely.
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- Real stories, practical tools, and zero business fluff.
- Topics that matter: visibility, ambition, career clarity, self-leadership, motherhood, work-life integration, and shaping your own definition of success.
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IT´S IN YOU! Career & Leadership Coaching for Women
Visibility After Fifty with Viola Haderlein
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Visibility After Fifty with Viola Haderlein
What if visibility after 50 is not about being louder, more polished, or more strategic but about becoming more yourself?
In this episode of It’s In You, I sit down with Viola Haderlein to explore visibility, identity, aging, menopause, and the powerful shift that happens when women stop comparing themselves to their younger selves.
Viola works with women 50+ through photography, styling, branding, and her book project 50x50+, helping women become visible not only online, but in real life. In our conversation, we talk about why visibility is not just a marketing topic, but a deeply personal one: how we see ourselves, how we want to be seen, and what version of ourselves we are ready to embody.
This conversation is an invitation to stop fighting aging, stop waiting for permission, and start seeing midlife as a phase of transformation, clarity, and presence.
Key Takeaways
- Visibility after 50 starts with identity, not strategy
- Menopause can be confusing, but also deeply transformational
- Comparing yourself to your younger self can keep you stuck
- Anti-aging language often works against self-acceptance
- Time awareness can create clarity instead of fear
- Embodiment helps women experience their future self today
- Style, colors, and images can support identity and presence
- Visibility is not only online — it happens in real human connection
- Women 50+ are a powerful part of society and deserve to be seen
- Midlife can become a moment of reinvention, not disappearance
Sound Bites
“Visibility is not only social media.”
“The most dangerous comparison is the one with your younger self.”
“We want to age — and we want to age healthy.”
“Visibility starts with the why.”
“You have an impact.”
Episode Chapters
Introduction & Viola’s work
Visibility, style and personal branding 50+
Women over 50 and disappearing from professional spaces
Corona, menopause and identity shifts
The danger of comparing yourself to your younger self
Why anti-aging needs to disappear
Time awareness and the 9000-day reflection
Where visibility really starts
Embodiment, future self and photography
Signature questions
Viola’s 50x50+ book project
Closing reflections
About Viola
Viola helps expert women 50+ become successfully visible as personal brands through photography, video, image film, styling, and embodiment. Through her 50x50+ book project, she brings together powerful women over 50 and makes their stories, presence, and transformation visible.
You can find Viola Haderlein on LinkedIn and at violahaderlein.de.
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