Anchored Not Anxious
Do you love God, but anxiety still has a seat at your table?
You're not alone — and you're not failing your faith.
Anchored Not Anxious is a podcast for women navigating anxiety, overwhelm, and the sometimes painful journey of learning to truly trust God. Hosted by Terri Hutchinson — registered nurse and Bible teacher — each episode blends evidence-based insight with practical, honest faith. Expect real conversations, clinical wisdom, and the kind of spiritual depth that meets you in the hard places.
Because trusting God isn't always easy. But you don't have to figure it out alone.
God is with you. God is for you. You can be anchored — not anxious.
Anchored Not Anxious
Ageism After 40 Is Real: How to Reduce Anxiety and Stay Relevant at Work
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Ageism after 40 is real — and if you've ever wondered whether your best professional years are behind you, you're not alone. In this episode, I share two stories — including my moment of humility in the workplace — that reveal why the skill you least want to learn might be the very thing that keeps you employed, confident, and calm.
Because staying relevant isn't just a career strategy. It's a way of quieting the anxiety that whispers you're too old, too behind, too late.
You're not. And this episode will remind you why.
Something to think about. Something to pray about.
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What is the most troubling aspect of pivoting careers, midlife, or staying relevant in your current position?
Recently I had a conversation with a neighbor and she told me her story. She had the opportunity to learn this new application.
She wasn't crazy about it, but she thought, you know, it might be helpful if I have this, you know, on my resume.
So about a year later, when her company started going through the positions and looking for overlap and redundancy, they ended up eliminating everybody in her department except for her.
Why?
She had a knowledge that no one else had and that helped her keep her job.
You know, the same thing happened to me when I was working, uh, in clinical trial research. I was managing people that knew how to do things that I was unfamiliar with and rather than pretend or.
I mean, I think for a couple weeks I just decided to pretend I understood what they were saying, and then I realized that is not in my best interest.
I needed to humble myself and say, I don't know what these trackers, these Excel trackers are that you're using. Because I didn't have to use them in bedside nursing. Now I'm in a completely different position, still using my nursing, but in a whole another way.
I sat down with one of my associates and they taught me how to use it, what it, what the purpose was, and then I was better able to help them.
Research says individuals who are age 44 to 60 are experiencing ageism. They're being looked over for people who have a knowledge base they brought out of school or that they're bringing with them from another company.
A knowledge you don't have and it can create anxiety and overwhelm. What I'm saying is even though you don't feel like learning yet another new thing, it might be the very thing that saves your job.
It might be that thing when you have to pivot that you've got it on your resume.
It's something to pray about, but it can also, uh. Lower your anxiety if you feel like you're doing everything you can do and not just putting your head under a rug and saying, no, I don't want to. We're gonna have to keep learning new things,
Until next time.
