After 23 years as a successful corporate litigator, Lorie Eber walked away at 49 without knowing exactly what would come next.

Leaving law meant leaving an identity that had defined her. “My whole sense of being was Lorie the lawyer,” she remembers. Suddenly the question became: Who is Lorie without the lawyer?

A decade of exploration eventually led Lorie to wellness coaching, teaching and healthy-aging education. Now, at 70, she’s discovering that reinvention doesn’t happen just once.

Lorie and Agnes talk about adapting to an aging body, metabolism, strength, sleep, stress and our relationship with food — including why doing exactly what worked when we were younger may no longer work today. As Lorie says, “The rules have changed, but nobody makes an announcement.”

But this conversation goes well beyond wellness. Lorie talks candidly about the cost of being relentlessly career-driven, friendship and connection, her marriage, learning to rest, finding purpose and deciding how she wants to spend the years ahead.

We talk about:

• Walking away from a successful career at 49
• Losing a professional identity and finding yourself underneath it
• Why reinvention can take years
• Adapting movement and eating to an aging body
• Health versus thinness
• Sleep, stress and metabolism
• Friendship, connection and purpose after 60
• Learning to rest — even when you’re very bad at it
• Giving ourselves more grace as we age

Because perhaps reinvention isn’t always about becoming someone new. Sometimes it’s about deciding what we no longer need to prove.

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