Made for More — Holistic Health and Purpose for Women in Midlife

Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought: "What happened to me?" It’s not always that you don't recognize your face—sometimes, you don't recognize your life. Maybe during a stressful season, health changes, or navigating menopause symptoms, you lost touch with the woman who used to trust herself, take risks, and speak up. If you are trying to find yourself again in midlife,...

Are you tired of starting over? You begin the week with the best intentions — and by Wednesday the habit is gone. You're not lazy. You're not broken. You just need a system built for your real life, not your ideal one. In this episode of Made for More — the podcast for women in perimenopause and midlife who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving — Karen Renaud breaks down exactly w...

Are you exhausted from fighting your own body? Frustrated that nothing seems to work no matter how hard you try? What if the problem isn't your body — but your relationship with it? In this episode of Made for More — the podcast for women in midlife who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving — Karen Renaud explores the science of the mind-body connection and offers a reframe that chang...

Have you ever had that persistent feeling that there's more for you? More energy. More meaning. More of a sense that you're living the life you were actually made for? It may be a signal. In this episode, Karen Renaud introduces the SPIRE model of whole-being happiness — developed by Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, Dr. Maria Sirois, and Megan McDonough at the Wholebeing Institue in Massachusetts— and...

Feeling stuck is one of the most frustrating experiences there is. You know what you want. You know what you need to do. And you cannot make yourself do it. But here's what most people don't understand — feeling stuck is almost never about capability or discipline. It's about self trust. And self trust can be rebuilt. In this episode, Karen Renaud breaks down the neuroscience of why we...

If you feel tired all the time — even after a full night's sleep — this episode is for you. Most women assume exhaustion is about sleep, diet, or discipline. But what's actually happening in your body is far more interesting — and far more fixable — than that. In this episode, Karen Renaud breaks down the science behind chronic exhaustion, what cortisol is actually doing to your body, and...

Do you remember when you used to show up for your life without second guessing every decision? In this first episode of Made for More, host Karen Renaud gets raw and real about the moment she chose fear over faith — and how that one decision quietly became a pattern that lasted years. If you're a woman in midlife who feels stuck, exhausted from the cycle of starting over, and wondering why not...