Everything’s Perfect Except… We’re Having a Midlife Crisis

No Phone a Friend this week. Just a real conversation about midlife, purpose, and what happens when the decade that defined you quietly ends.

Donald admits live on air that he might be having a midlife crisis…and Autumn realizes she may be right there with him.

What follows is one of their most honest conversations yet: the end of the Beachbody era, losing the version of life where 20,000 people knew your name, rebuilding your identity when the thing that defined you changes, and wondering whether this chapter is “starting over” or actually a rebirth.

They get into the weird post-pandemic feeling that never completely went away, social media turning from something fun into a full-time production studio, doom-scrolling instead of doing the uncomfortable thing, and comparing yourself to people whose entire job is making their life look effortless.

Donald talks about being 20+ programs deep and suddenly going blank while cueing workouts, wondering if he’s already said everything there is to say. Autumn shares the moment ChatGPT stopped helping her write beverage copy long enough to basically ask, “Where is the joy in your life?” — and yes, apparently the answer included buying herself flowers.

Oh, and before any of this, Autumn unloaded 2,200 pounds of beverage cans from a semi-truck at 8:30 in the morning, with no ramp, in full hair and makeup, while setting up a tripod to film the whole thing.

Because entrepreneur life.

Maybe it’s a midlife crisis. Maybe it’s burnout. Maybe it’s realizing that the life you worked so hard to build isn’t supposed to stay exactly the same forever.

Or maybe it’s a rebirth.

🎙 TIMESTAMPS

0:00 — 2,200 lbs of cans. No ramp. Full makeup. She did it anyway.

1:06 — Farmers market: flowers, prosciutto & one too many plums