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Midlife Advice

For smart & sassy women over 40

Hello, friend! You’ve landed in the right place, where women over 40 come to figure out what the hell is going on with their hormones, emotions, relationships, careers, and… well, everything really.

Join me each week as we dig into perimenopause and menopause, burnout, career pivots, parenting, marriage, purpose, and the constant quest to feel like ourselves again during this wild stage of life.  

You’ll hear honest midlife advice from experts and everyday women, plus real-life tools that actually help with hormone health, mindset, nutrition, and lifestyle. And yes, we also talk about our favorite books and girls’ trips.

If you love hearing from experts, rebels, and wise women rewriting midlife on their own terms, you belong here. Hit play and let’s go.

Check out the latest episodes:

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How People Pleasing Keeps the Patriarchy Running

People pleasing feels like a personality trait. The over-explaining. The softening. Carrying everyone’s worries like it’s your job. But what if it’s also the thing keeping the patriarchy running?

That’s the idea clairvoyant and energy worker Christine Agro brings to this conversation.

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How Much Should You Keep in Savings vs. Invest? A Guide for Women Over 40

You've done the responsible thing. You built the savings, you contribute to your 401k, maybe you're putting money away for college. And you still have a nagging feeling that you're behind, because investing feels like a language nobody taught you.

Financial advisor and wealth manager, Lisa Clements, is here to tell us how much to keep in savings, why your home equity counts as part of your portfolio, the interest-rate rule she uses for debt, and exactly what to ask before you hire an advisor.

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Where Your Body Stores Stress, and How to Release It After 40

You used to be able to handle so much stress in your life and just keep going. Now your shoulders are permanently up around your ears, your sleep is unreliable, your digestion has opinions it never used to have, and none of it traces back to anything specific. Dr. Carli Axford, a chiropractor with 30 years of clinical experience and the founder of the Spinal Flow Technique, has a theory about why: your body may be holding the physical residue of stress it never got the chance to finish processing, some of it decades old.

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How to Use Breathwork for Anxiety: What Women Over 40 Need to Know

If anxiety has been showing up lately, especially the kind that seems to arrive without a clear reason or a thought you can point to, Sigmar Berg has a different explanation for where it's coming from. He is the founder of Lovetuner and a mindfulness expert who has spent over a decade at the intersection of breath, sound, and nervous system regulation, and his argument is that most of what we experience as anxiety is actually a body problem, starting with the way we breathe.

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Why You Don't Feel Like Yourself Anymore and How to Reconnect

If you've been catching yourself thinking "I just don't feel like myself" and you can't explain exactly why, there's a real, physiological reason for it. It's not only your hormones, and it's not only because you're stretched impossibly thin, though both matter. 

There's a third factor called interoception: your ability to sense and interpret what's actually happening inside your body. When it goes offline, you lose your sense of self right along with it.

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ADHD in Midlife Women: Is It ADHD, Perimenopause, or Both?

If you've been wondering whether your brain is working against you in your 40s or 50s, ADHD specialist Dr. Jennifer Dall is here to sort it out. She talks about how ADHD shows up differently in high-achieving women, why perimenopause amplifies symptoms that were always there, and what you can actually do about it today, with or without a formal diagnosis.

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Why Perimenopause Symptoms Vary So Much (And What Your DNA Has to Do With It)

If your perimenopause symptoms feel heavier, stranger, or more relentless than what the women around you are going through, it might be your DNA.

Listen in as Kim Ressler, Founder and CEO of SNiP Nutrigenomics, and I come together to explore this question: what if your genetic blueprint is shaping not just when you enter menopause, but exactly how hard the whole thing hits you?

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How to Reinvent Yourself in Midlife by Changing Your Identity First

If you've looked around at your life lately and thought, I have everything I wanted, so why don't I feel like myself? this episode is for you. I'm joined by Ellen Baker, novelist and founder of The Next Chapter Studio, to talk about reinventing yourself in midlife by doing something most of us have completely backwards: choosing your identity before you have proof you're there.

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Why Work Feels So Hard Lately for Midlife Women (Career Burnout + What to Do)

Ever catch yourself thinking… why does work feel so hard lately?

You’re showing up, doing everything “right,” and yet you feel more exhausted, more disconnected, and less motivated than ever. If you’ve been wondering if your job is even right for you anymore—or if you’re dealing with career burnout, overwork, or that nagging sense that something is off—this episode is for you.

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What to Do When Your Midlife Marriage Feels Like It’s Falling Apart

If your midlife marriage feels more like roommates than romance, you’re not alone. In this episode, I’m talking with marriage and family therapist Dr. Becky Whetstone about why so many women reconsider their long-term marriage in midlife and what to do when you start thinking, “I think I want out.”

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Do Peptides Help with Sleep, Energy, and Weight Gain in Perimenopause?

Are peptides the missing link for midlife women who are doing all the right things and still feel stuck?

If your nutrition, exercise, and sleep are pretty dialed in but you’re still dealing with low-grade fatigue, slower workout recovery, brain fog or stubborn weight gain in perimenopause, this episode is for you.

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