Power Shift


At 25, they tell you, “You’re worth it.”

At 55, they’ll ask you to worry about your Vitamin D levels.

But the woman you are in your 40s? The fierce leader, perhaps the designated caregiver, perhaps the boss, they warn everyone about—Nobody built anything or any content around this version of you. The one who is running a team, holding up your family and is done answering questions no one would dare ask a man.

There's no playbook for this stage of your career and life.  So we set out to create one with women like you. For women like us. 

Welcome to Power Shift. Coming soon on Youtube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

What is Power Shift?

Welcome to Power Shift. A podcast hosted by Sandra Colhando — executive coach and co-founder of TransforMe Learning & Leadership Solutions. She has spent decades working with women navigating the most complex and least-talked-about phase of professional life. Season 1 is built around a single theme: The Inflection Point. Women who faced a moment that changed everything, and how they pivoted.

This show exists because there's almost no content built specifically for women in their 40s who are still building. Not winding down. Not ascending. Standing tall in the middle of a career that has 20 more years in it — grappling with fears and identity questions that most leadership content, still largely built around men, doesn't know how to address.

The 43-year-old CHRO wondering if the rules she played by still apply. The senior leader who was passed over and is figuring out what comes next. The founder who left corporate in her 40s and is still making sense of what that cost and what it gave her. The one who chose motherhood in her 40s while navigating a leadership role. This show is built for them.

Sandra isn't an outsider to this conversation. She's walked this road herself, and alongside hundreds of women she's coached. She doesn't interview — she becomes a confidante.

Subscribe to catch every conversation.

What if life after 40 isn't about slowing down, but about stepping into the most powerful version of
yourself? I'm Sandra Burkander, entrepreneur, executive coach, mother, immigrant, and a
woman navigating my own 40s. At the peak of my career with a successful business we had
spent years building in India, I moved to Australia with my family and found myself building again.
My business, my network, my identity, my sense of belonging, and while all of that was
happening, life too was changing.
My body was changing, health challenges appeared, my children were entering their teens, and
professionally the stakes were getting higher. Because our 40s can be when we step into the
biggest roles, more influence, more responsibility, yet often with fewer women ahead of us
showing us how to navigate it all. I realised I didn't want to simply push through another chapter, I
wanted to reclaim it, and that became the inspiration for PowerShift, women redefining leadership
after 40.
I'm sitting down with extraordinary women, senior leaders, entrepreneurs, and change makers
who navigated their own inflexion points, not just to hear what they achieved, but just to discover
how they did it, what did they unlearn, what helped them through the hard parts, and what do
they know now that they've pushed their more earlier. Because if there's one thing I believe,
deeply, it's that we are not done becoming. It's never too late to change direction, to answer new
calling, to lead differently, to reclaim our lives.
This is PowerShift, and maybe your most powerful chapter is still ahead.