Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered

SPECIAL EDITION:  Honoring Dolly and Gloria: Reinvention, Purpose, and a Life That Lifted Others This week on Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa are honoring Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem — two extraordinary women we recently lost who lived with purpose, used their voices boldly, and made life bigger for other women and the world. They were different in style, different in...

EPISODE 24: The Imposter Syndrome Episode — You're Not a Fraud, You're Just Brave You're not a fraud. You're just brave enough to try something you've never done before — and that feels exactly like imposter syndrome.  In Episode 24 of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa pull back the curtain on one of the most whispered-about experiences of midlife re...

SPECIAL EDITION:  OUR SIX-MONTH MILESTONE EPISODE:   What You’ve Taught Us and Where We’re Going Six months in, and we’re taking a moment to celebrate. In this special milestone episode, Anne and Melissa look back on what started as an idea and has become one of the most meaningful parts of their week — and a growing space for midlife women (and men!) who are hungry for honesty, tools, connection,...

EPISODE 23: Finding Your Community in Midlife You don't need more friends. You need the right ones. In Episode 23 of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa get honest about something most midlife women are quietly struggling with — building (or rebuilding) a real community in a season of life where friendships shift, change, and sometimes disappear without warning. The kid-e...

SPECIAL EDITION:  Built With Purpose: Caring for Aging Parents and Creating What Families Need This one's going to hit close to home and on your heart for a lot of you. In this special edition of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa sit down with Andrea and Rich Miller and their Clinical Director, Cynthia Piedra-Malagon, RN, BSN, CHPN, ACHC-CC — the family and brains behin...

Episode 21:  When Your Kids Become Your People: Evolving From Parent to Friend We spent years managing schedules, solving problems, worrying constantly, and trying to keep them safe. But what happens when your child grows up — and suddenly the relationship starts to change? In this episode, Anne and Melissa talk about the beautiful, awkward, emotional shift from parenting to adult friendship. They...

Episode 20:  Being Seen, Heard, and Helped: Your Relationship with Midlife Care Are you tired of being told your symptoms are “just stress” or “part of getting older”? In this episode, Anne and Melissa talk about one of the most important relationships in midlife: your relationship with your care team. This is a conversation about being seen, heard, and helped — not dismissed, rushed, or talked ou...

SPECIAL EDITION with Daniel Olexa: Spirituality without the WOO WOO, Reinvention, and the Male Midlife Experience What if spirituality wasn’t about airy ideas or polished language, but about how you actually live on a random Tuesday? In this special edition, Anne and Melissa sit down with Daniel Olexa, a Master Certified Coach and Hypnotherapist for a grounded, honest conversation about spirituali...

Episode 19: Spiritual But Make It Real: Finding Meaning Without the Woo Woo Ever feel like the wellness world is telling you to “raise your vibration” when you’re really just trying to make it through a Tuesday? In this episode, we’re talking about spirituality in a way that feels real, grounded, and actually livable. No performance. No pressure. No pretending you need to become someone else to fe...

Episode 18: What Do You Want to Be Known For? Building Your Legacy Now What do you want to be known for — not someday, but now? In this episode, Anne and Melissa explore what legacy really means in midlife. Not fame. Not perfection. Not being impressive. But the emotional, relational, and everyday imprint of how you live, love, lead, and show up. This conversation is a thoughtful reset for any wom...

Episode 17: The Permission Slip: Giving Yourself Permission to Want More What if wanting more doesn’t make you selfish… what if it makes you honest? In this episode, Anne and Melissa talk about the quiet but powerful longing so many women feel in midlife — for more joy, more peace, more rest, more purpose, more truth, and more room to be fully themselves. They unpack why so many women wait for per...

Special Edition: Starting at 50:  What It Really Takes to Reinvent Yourself with Martha Bourlakas What does it really take to reinvent yourself in midlife? In this special edition, Anne and Melissa sit down with Martha Bourlakas , founder of Storied Goods , to talk about the mindset, courage, and self-belief it takes to start something new at 50. Martha shares how a simple idea in her kitchen grew...

Episode 16: Anxiety, Rage, and the Emotional Landscape of Midlife Why does midlife sometimes feel like one long emotional group text you never agreed to join? In this episode, Anne and Melissa talk honestly — and hilariously — about anxiety, rage, irritability, overwhelm, and the emotional intensity so many women experience in midlife. From sleepless spirals and people-pleasing burnout to sensory...

Welcome to Episode 15:  Therapy Changed My Life and I'm Not Whispering About It In this episode, Melissa and Anne take an unfiltered look at therapy and the role it can play in helping midlife women move beyond survival mode and into deeper self-awareness, clarity, and support. Together, they unpack the lingering stigma around asking for help, challenge the idea that women must wait for a cri...

Welcome to Episode 14: The Hidden Grief:  Mourning the Life You Thought You'd Have In this episode of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Melissa and Anne explore the often-unspoken grief that can surface in midlife when life does not look the way we once imagined it would. With honesty and compassion, they discuss the quiet losses women carry — unmet expectations, changing relationships,...

Welcome to Episode 13: Silencing the Inner Critic: The Voice in Your Head Is Lying If that annoying voice in your head has been telling you that you’re behind, not enough, too old, too messy, too emotional, or too late — this episode is your reminder that just because that voice is loud does not mean it’s telling the truth. In this honest and empowering conversation, Anne and Melissa unpack the ex...

SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE:   A HEALTHY MONEY DISCUSSION WITH ANNA BARNES CFP®, CDFA® In this special edition of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered, Anne and Melissa sit down with Anna Barnes, CFP®, CDFA® for a healthy, honest conversation about money, financial independence, and the emotional baggage so many women carry around finances. Anna is a partner, advisor, wealth and investment manager wi...

Welcome to Episode 12: Starting Over Financially: Building Wealth When You Feel Behind If you’ve ever looked at your bank account, your retirement savings, or your financial decisions and thought, I should be further along by now, this episode is for you. Starting Over Financially is a bold reminder that feeling behind does not mean you are finished. It does not mean you missed your chance. And it...

Welcome to Episode 11: From Paycheck to Purpose: Making the Career Leap Without Losing Your Mind Making a career change in midlife can feel equal parts exciting and terrifying. In this episode, we’re talking about what it really looks like to move from paycheck to purpose without completely unraveling in the process. If you’ve been feeling stuck, burned out, unfulfilled, or quietly wondering if th...

Episode 10: Negotiate Like You Mean It: Knowing Your Worth and Demanding It Too many women have been taught to be grateful for what they get, stay quiet, and avoid rocking the boat. But in this episode, we’re breaking that pattern for good. Negotiate Like You Mean It is a bold conversation about knowing your worth, owning your value, and refusing to shrink when it’s time to ask for more. Whether i...

Episode 9: Money Honey: The Financial Conversations Midlife Women Are Not Having In this powerful episode, Anne & Melissa are sounding the alarm on the financial conversations too many midlife women are avoiding. Money Honey is a call to wake up — to get honest about money, retirement, debt, savings, investing, and the long-term cost of silence. For many women, midlife brings major transitions...

Episode 8:  Falling in Love with Yourself First What if the relationship that needs the most attention… is the one you have with yourself? In this episode of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa talk about the powerful, complicated, and sometimes wildly overdue journey of coming back to yourself. Because somewhere along the way, a lot of us got really good at showing up for eve...

Episode 7:  Marriage and the Midlife Reinvention Nobody Planned For Nobody really warns you that personal growth can seriously shake up a marriage. In this episode of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa dig into what happens when one or both people in a relationship start changing — and the marriage that once worked suddenly needs a whole new blueprint. Because reinvention doe...

Episode 6:  The Friendship Audit: Who Deserves a Seat at Your Second Act Table? Friendship in this season of life hits different — and not always in a cute way. In this episode of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa get honest about the friendships that grow with us, the ones we outgrow, and the relationships that start to feel a little… off when we begin changing. Because as...

Episode 5:  When You Change — Everything Changes: What Happens to Your Relationships When You Reinvent Yourself Reinvention sounds exciting... until the people around you start acting weird about it. In this episode of Midlife: Interrupted & Unfiltered , Anne and Melissa get real about what happens to your relationships when you start changing. Because personal growth doesn’t happen in a vacuu...