Rethinking Success in Your 40s: Leadership, Motherhood and Chronic Health Challenges

In this episode of The Forties Formula podcast, hosts Jasmin Dhillon and Amanda Lim sit down with AMY KUNROJPANYA, a global executive and multilingual leader, to talk about the parts of professional success most people do not see. They explore how women manage ambition, leadership and motherhood while contending with chronic pain and women’s health concerns such as endometriosis. Amy shares practical approaches to setting boundaries, improving work-life balance expectations, navigating nonlinear career progression and advocating for medical care. Listen to understand success without performance culture and leadership without outdated expectations.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 – Episode Snippet

00:55 – Introducing our guest, Amy Kunrojpanya

03:07 – The shiny path illusion

04:02 – The true cost of high ambition

05:12 – Patience with self

06:09 – Age perception and leadership

07:58 – Authentic leadership and nonlinear careers

09:18 – From language exposure to fluency

13:32 – Unlearning old leadership models

16:06 – Fearless Pursuit + Empathy + Heart

18:19 – The Motherhood Guilt Paradox

20:48 – Boundaries at work and home

21:27 – Fuel Your Forties

22:34 – Life beyond work-life balance

28:21 – Advertisement: Cozy Earth

29:32 – Health sacrifice isn’t a badge of honor

32:02 – Chronic pain changes you

35:10 – Movement is medicine

37:18 – Advocacy starts with listening to the body

41:15 – Women’s health research and data gaps

43:41 – Hormonal health, reproductive health and contraception

45:53 – Advertisement: Love, Indus

47:04 – Hot or Hype

52:30 – The 40s formula: Pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it

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