Our brains are literal miracle workers. Every day our brain does many different things. our brain helps us comprehend, and feel, and smell. It signals an urge for things like chocolate and sleep. It detects pain and pleasure, helps us balance, produces language, and feels empathy. We need our memory to learn anything. In fact, we use it every … Read More
Episode 69: Toxic Positivity
Pushing positivity at the wrong time can be detrimental to us and also ruin relationships. Sure a positive outlook can be helpful, except when we force it on others like a veneer coating. When we push negative emotions away we avoid dealing with them and they always come back to haunt us. Negative emotions can keep popping up like a … Read More
Episode 68: Stop thinking of Fitness as a Hobby
Investing in your health bank is a lot like investing in your financial nest egg. Think about it this way. What good is having ample finances if your midlife health and fitness are preventing you from enjoying your hard-earned nest egg? Your future brain, bones, and heart are depending on you to make choices that can optimize your ability to … Read More
Episode 67: Why Black Friday Fitness Sales are Unauthentic
Episode 67:Why Black Friday Fitness Sales are Unauthentic Have you ever bought something just because it was on sale and never used it? If you have {and who hasn’t?} it feels yucky to have wasted your money.Now think about all the fitness and diet sales that pop up from Black Friday to January first.It happens every year.People invest huge … Read More
Episode 66: On Being Sexy, Beautiful and Powerful in Midlife with Ellen Albertson
Listen Now: Show Notes: Midlife and menopausal women are powerful, beautiful, and sexy. This discussion will fire you up to own your power in midlife and menopause. Of course, women over 40 are faced with the classic challenges of menopause. However, we are owning it. We are not ashamed of natural aging like previous generations. This is an opportune time … Read More
Episode 65: Sleep Deprivation is Down right Dangerous with Katie Pitts
Listen Now: Show Notes: When Katie Pitts was a new mom she literally never slept. It got so bad that she looked up adoption agencies because she thought she couldn’t possibly be a good mother. After some intense research, Katie put some strategies together. As a result, she and her child’s life were literally transformed. A few years later she … Read More
Episode 64: Carrot or Stick What Really Motivates You?
Listen Now: Show Notes: Are you more motivated by carrot or the stick? Well when it comes to working on fitness for women over 40, you may be surprised by what can work be helpful. This episode is taken from pieces of training I have done with midlife women working on healthy nutrition habits. Carrots and sticks have a place … Read More
Episode 63: Eat Deliciously to Delay Dementia with Annie Fenn, MD
Listen Now: Show Notes: Our diet and lifestyle habits in midlife, have a major impact on the probability that we will develop dementia later in life. Today we are talking about how midlife health and fitness, specifically in the kitchen, can impact tiny changes in our brain that later can show up as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is … Read More
Episode 62: Intermittent Fasting: Sex Inequality is Real
Listen Now: Show Notes: Intermittent fasting is enjoying a popular weight loss/fat loss diet approach. But the fact of the matter is that Intermittent fasting does not affect men and women equally. Seems unfair, I know. That first meal after breaking the fast is very very important. Planning ahead for the meal after the fast can make all the difference … Read More
Episode 61: Rules not to Follow: People Pleasing and Perfectionism
Listen Now: Show Notes: Failure. Success. Progress. Perfection. One of these things is not like the other. Do you get the feeling that you are not living up to your potential? Is it a gnawing feeling that makes you feel like you need to do so much more? It likely is due to the unwritten rules that dictate we have … Read More