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Midlife Rising
This is not just another midlife podcast about belly fat, Botox, or bone broth.
We’re not here to help you stay young, offer makeup tips, or share recipes to sneak kale into your brownies. If you’re looking for hacks to stay small or “age gracefully,” this might not be the space for you.
We’re here to burn down the old rulebook - and help you rise from the ashes.
We unpack the invisible systems and internalized conditioning that keep midlife women stuck, over-functioning, and exhausted. We talk…
Episodes
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55: The Energetics of Time: Get Time Back In a System That Doesn't Give
The Energetics of Time: Get Time Back In a System That Doesn't Give What if time wasn’t something to chase, control, or beat, but a relationship you could…
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54: The Hidden Beliefs That Keep You Running Out of Time
You've tried the planners, the apps, the time-management hacks. So why do you still feel like there aren't enough hours in the day? It’s because all the…
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53: Why Time Management Fails Women Over 40 (And What to Do Instead)
Why Time Management Fails Women Over 40 (And What to Do Instead) Bought every planner and still feel like you're behind? It's not a personal failing at time…
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52: Why You Keep Circling the Life You Want (And Never Land It)
You know what you want - the new career, the business, the trip, the relationship. So why do you keep circling it instead of landing it? Today, we break down…
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51: The Cost of Making Menopause a "Medical" Issue
We need to talk about something that's been irking us: menopause got turned into a diagnosis, and it's quietly keeping women out of leadership. Somehow…
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50: Companies Are Getting Menopause Completely Wrong
The media says menopause is costing companies billions in lost productivity. We dug into the research - and found the story is backwards. Jen has been…
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49: The Menopause Paradox: Why Your Brain Fog Might Be Your Leadership Edge
Why Your Brain Fog Might Be Your Leadership Edge. You’ve been losing your train of thought in important meetings way too often these days. Laughing it off but…
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48: What Orcas Know About Aging That We've Been Missing All Along
What Orcas Know About Aging That We've Been Missing All Along Trillions of dollars are being put towards an industry to fight a perfectly natural process. The…
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47: The Grandmother Hypothesis - Why Menopause Isn't a Decline
Why Menopause Isn't a Decline...If you've been telling yourself that aging is decline, this episode is your wake-up call. Sheri and I are pulling back the…
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46: Night Sweats: Three Things Nobody Tells You
Night Sweats: Three Things Nobody Tells You You wake up in the middle of the night soaked. PJs drenched, sheets drenched. You throw off the covers, change, put…
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45: What No One Tells You About UTIs After 40
What No One Tells You About UTIs After 40 - Body, Mind, Spirit Have you suddenly started getting UTIs in your 40s or 50s and wondered why? You're not doing…
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44: How to Set Boundaries Without Guilt (and the Nervous System Secret No One Tells You)
How to Set Boundaries Without Guilt (and the Nervous System Secret No One Tells You) Do you find yourself saying "yes" when every part of you wants to say…
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43: You Don't Have a Hormone Problem. You Have an Alignment Problem.
You Don't Have a Hormone Problem. You Have an Alignment Problem. What happens to your body when you stay in a misaligned life? Most women in perimenopause…
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42: Why "I Need a Vacation" Is a Sign Something's Wrong (And What To Do About It)
Why Needing a Vacation Is a Sign Something's Wrong (And What To Do About it) If you're living for the weekend or counting down to your next vacation, this…
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41: Unhinged: What Your Aching Hips Are Really Trying to Tell You
Unhinged: What Your Aching Hips Are Really Trying to Tell You If your aching hips are keeping you up at night (or from walking normally during the day) this…
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40: Stop Trying to Get Back to Who You Were. Do This Instead.
Stop Trying to Get Back to Who You Were. Do This Instead. If you've ever looked in the mirror and thought "I don't recognize myself anymore", this episode is…
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39: The 3 Hidden Patterns Keeping You From a Life That Feels Fulfilling
The 3 Hidden Patterns Keeping You From a Life That Feels Fulfilling We've heard many midlife women talk about their second chapter in three key ways: “I should…
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38: What the Wellness Industry is Missing About Midlife
What the Wellness Industry is Missing About Midlife If you feel like you've been doing everything “right” in midlife - following all the biohacking and…
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37: You're More Stressed Than You Think (Even if Nothing is "Wrong")
You're More Stressed Than You Think, Even if Nothing is "Wrong". If you’ve been telling yourself “I’m fine… nothing is really wrong,” but you have menopause…
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36: The Hidden Energetics Keeping You Feeling Unfulfilled in Midlife
The Hidden Energetics Keeping You Feeling Unfulfilled in Midlife So many midlife women aren’t unhappy… but they’re not fully alive either. It sounds like... “I…
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35: Why Midlife Women Are So Hard On Themselves (and How to Stop)
Why Midlife Women Are So Hard On Themselves (and How to Stop) Have you ever caught yourself thinking… “Why can’t I keep up like I used to?” “What’s wrong with…
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34: Here's What's Wrong With the Body Positivity Movement
Here's What's Wrong With the Body Positivity Movement The body positivity movement has done a lot of good… but is it actually helping women in midlife, or is…
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33: Why "No Is a Complete Sentence" Rarely Works
No is NOT a Complete Sentence. So many of us want to believe “no is a complete sentence” and will try to will ourselves into saying it. But this line falls…
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32: Five Hidden Reasons Midlife Women Wake Up at 3 am
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary If you're a midlife woman who is waking up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep for 2 hours, the first step…
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31: How to Stop Ruminating in the Middle of the Night
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary Waking at 2 AM with your mind racing? In this episode, we unpack why we ruminate at night and the surprising steps that…
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30: How to Set Soul-Aligned Boundaries Without Guilt
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary Have you ever said to yourself, "I just need better boundaries"? But when you try to maintain your own boundaries, you just…
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29: Why Confident Women Start Questioning Themselves in Midlife
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary Why Confident Women Start Questioning Themselves in Midlife If you’ve ever thought “I’m confident… so why do I still not speak…
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28: How to Clear What's Blocking Your Intuition
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary Feeling stuck when it comes to decisions in midlife? In this episode, we explore why intuition gets quiet - from conditioning…
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27: Why Finding "Your People" Feels So Hard in Midlife
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary If midlife has you feeling lonelier, more disconnected (even from longtime friends), or like you suddenly don’t fit like you…
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26: The Hidden Addiction Behind Midlife Burnout
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary If you can’t slow down...if rest feels uncomfortable…or if you’re always “on the go” even when you’re exhausted...then this…
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25: You Don't Need More Time Management Tools. You Need a Better Relationship With Time.
You Don't Need More Time Management Tools. You Need a Better Relationship With Time. What if the way you’ve been taught to think about time is the very thing…
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24: Four Ways to Manifest What You Actually Want in Midlife
Get the Midlife Sleep Sanctuary If you’ve already let go of New Year’s resolutions, the next question is this: How do you intentionally open the year you…
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23: New Year's Resolutions are the Worst Way for the Spiritual Woman to Thrive in Midlife
What if New Year’s resolutions aren’t failing because you lack discipline, but because they’re working against your nervous system? For spiritual women in…
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22: Why "I've Got This" is Costing You More Than You Think
So many midlife women pride themselves on being strong, independent, capable - the one who doesn’t need help, who pushes through, who holds it all together…
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21: Why Cortisol Spikes During the Holidays for Midlife Women (And How to Calm It)
The holidays are supposed to be joyful…but they can really crank up the cortisol for many women, especially those over 40. Not because we’re too old to handle…
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20: What's Really Behind Your Night Sweats (and How to Stop Them)
If you've ever woken up with a night sweat, you'll know exactly what we're talking about in this episode. You wake up in the middle of the night, soaked…
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19: The Subconscious Beliefs Sabotaging Your Weight Loss
If you’ve ever sworn you’d "start fresh" and eat clean on Monday, only to find yourself mindlessly snacking in the pantry by Wednesday, this episode will feel…
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18: How to Prevent the Holiday 5 (lbs) Without Missing the Fun
Dieting is the worst way to lose weight. Especially coming up to the holidays! I know, it’s counterintuitive to all we’ve been told. But deep down, you…
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17: The Hidden Energetic Blocks Behind Midlife Fatigue, Fog & Disconnection
Have you ever felt like you're just so tired of stifling yourself? Your voice, your intuition, your soul's desires? We definitely felt that way and it started…
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16: Why Supplements Aren’t Working: The Missing Link to Calming Your Symptoms
If you’ve been trying supplement after supplement, hoping something will finally bring your energy back, or white-knuckling your way through perimenopause…
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15: Why Overthinking Is Keeping You Stuck (And What to Do Instead)
Do you ever feel like your mind is running a marathon while your body is stuck in place? If every decision, (even sometimes the small ones) requires endless…
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14: Is Your Perfectionism Stealing Your Energy and Fueling Your Menopause Symptoms?
Are you constantly running on empty? If you're a midlife woman who feels like she has to do everything perfectly, you're not just 'busy', you're trapped. That…
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13: The Subtle Signs People Pleasing is Running Your Life
You’ve spent decades putting everyone else first. You stifle your voice so you don't rock the boat or upset anyone. You're always making sure everyone is…
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12: The Hidden Purpose of Menopause Symptoms
We all know that our hormones shift during menopause, but what if there's also something changing that's much deeper? In this episode, we uncover the hidden…
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11: Why Rest Feels Like a Luxury in Midlife
Wondering why rest feels impossible even when you're exhausted? Last episode, we talked about why sleep gets so disrupted in midlife. And today we’re going…
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10: Why the Quick Fixes Won't Save You From Sleepless Nights (And What to Do Tonight)
Imagine this: you finally get into bed exhausted. You drift off. And then like clockwork, it’s 3 a.m. You’re wide awake, staring at the ceiling, your mind…
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9: Masculine vs. Feminine Energy: The Way You’ve Been Living Fuels Midlife Symptoms
Some women think peri-menopause symptoms are purely a physical problem. They're wrong. Of course, many symptoms manifest as physical ones. But what if the…
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8: You Won't Fix Your Menopause Symptoms Unless You Do This Too
If you feel like you're going crazy...like, with midlife irritability that you know isn't "you", or even rage events that are nonsensical - this episode is for…
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7: The Hidden Connection Between Busyness and Menopause
Are you a woman in your 40's, feel like you've been running at full speed for way too long, and can’t keep it up much longer? This episode is for you. I hate…
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6: Get Out of the Over-40 Brain Fog & Multiply Your Productivity
This episode is for the woman who has walked into a room and forgot why you were there; lost your train of thought mid-sentence; or read the same paragraph 3x…
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5: The Truth About Midlife Belly Fat (and How to Fix It)
A huge lie we’ve been told about aging is that belly fat is just inevitable. And of course, we would believe this, because when you look around, many midlife…
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4: The Biggest Lie You've Been Told About Aging as a Woman
When someone asks you how old you are, what happens? Do you cringe? Lie? Shamefully (or defiantly) tell the truth? This cringing feeling about aging is exactly…
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2: The Unsaid Truth About Menopause
You might think that in today’s world, we can talk about menopause. We say, think again. Of course, it’s become more normal to share the hot flash humour with…
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3: Why Rest Feels Impossible: The Hidden Forces Draining Midlife Women
If you’re a woman over 40 juggling work, aging parents’ doctor’s appointments, and the constant pressure to be more, do more, give more - while battling…
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1: The Missing Link Between Menopause and Burnout Every Woman Over 40 Should Know
What if the night sweats, sleepless nights, and hot flashes you’re feeling aren’t “just menopause”? And, what if the usual fixes are actually what's keeping…