{"podcast":{"title":"Her Intentional Reset: Career changes and second acts for women in midlife","slug":"her-intentional-reset-7728413","podcast_index_feed_id":7728413,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/her-intentional-reset/","website_url":"https://www.herintentionalreset.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/c9c80ed7-edb9-4873-87fc-41db04f803d6/Podcast-Cover-Art-Copy-of-Intentional-Reset-1.jpg","author":"Molly Wipperfurth","episode_count":20,"summary":"Her Intentional Reset is the podcast for women in their mid 30’s, 40s and 50s navigating midlife career change — whether you're eyeing a full career pivot, building a second act, or just wondering if the career you chose 20 years ago still fits. Host Molly Wipperfurth talks with real women who've made the leap: from corporate to creative, from climbing the ladder to building something new. Every conversation covers the practical realities of career reinvention — the finances, the trade-offs, the timeline, and what life actually looks like on the other side. If you're a woman in midlife rethinking your career, this is where your next chapter starts. If HIR has been valuable to you, you can support the show here: https://ko-fi.com/herintentionalreset No pressure — just making it easy for listeners who want to say so. CONNECT WITH HIR Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/herintentionalreset.co/ Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587329908947 Website: https://herintentionalreset.com/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGntCEey4YretrZ39A7mINUiy-Dmz7iRv0BDLhY2OcDQkfqMmMGK8--zTX20RE_aem_d_Ys…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T18:17:57.280427+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-intentional-reset-7728413"},"episode":{"title":"Leaving Healthcare to Build a Travel Company: Midlife Career Pivot | Melanie Kiss, Chicas Abroad, Ep. 15","slug":"leaving-healthcare-to-build-a-travel-company-midlife-career-pivot-melanie-kiss-chicas-abroad-ep-15","published_at":"2026-06-23T08:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-intentional-reset-7728413/leaving-healthcare-to-build-a-travel-company-midlife-career-pivot-melanie-kiss-chicas-abroad-ep-15","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/her-intentional-reset-7728413","url":"https://herintentionalreset.com/all-podcasts/draft-15-melanie-kiss","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/5de06f7d-28da-488b-8cb4-67a4c8281b66.mp3","summary":"Melanie had every reason to stay: the title, the paycheck, the 401(k) she’d be walking away from as a single woman with no one to fall back on. Then a mentor asked her one question that made all of that beside the point — how many women are you NOT reaching by playing it safe? ABOUT THE GUEST: Melanie Kiss spent nearly 30 years in healthcare before founding Chicas Abroad, a women’s adventure travel company she built on the side and didn’t go full-time on until 48. Now the author of two books — a practical travel guide and a reinvention memoir, When the Compass Shifts — she walks through the thoughtful, strategic five-year transition: the money math, the mentor question that reframed everything, and the dream she’d buried since she was 16. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: [03:31] Why she launched an adventure travel company in the middle of COVID, when no one was traveling [10:25] The single question from her mentor that flipped her from “I can’t afford to leave” to going all in [29:30] Why she wrote When the Compass Shifts — a reinvention memoir with reflection questions for women rethinking their next chapter [34:26] How she found her direction by noticing where her mind wandered — a dream she’d had since 15 [41:26] Which corporate skills transferred straight into entrepreneurship — and the practical pieces (pricing, profit, contractors) she had to learn from scratch [51:07] Her mantra: get out of your comfort zone — and why she holds her clients to it too GUEST LINKS: Chicas Abroad Website: https://www.chicasabroad.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chicas_abroad/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chicasabroad LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chicas-abroad/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniekiss/ Podcast: Chicas Chat Book — Adventure More, Worry Less:…","meta_description":"Melanie had every reason to stay: the title, the paycheck, the 401(k) she’d be walking away from as a single woman with no one to fall back on. 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