Menopause Moguls™ Podcast with Dr. Joy'El: Strategies to Promote Perimenopause/Menopause Health, Wellness & Entrepreneurship

My daughter built a business and unfortunately it was shut down in 2 days! But her reaction through it all did not involve mind-drama like I had when I first started building my business. In this episode, I discuss how child-like hope and faith can lead us to success in building a business in these midlife years.  And with hope and faith, we change the relationship with ourselves, we stop rehearsi...

It takes a village to raise a child is an African proverb that means an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to grow in a safe and healthy environment. I believe it takes a village to grow an adult. We are still growing into our FULL selves, still becoming our best selves. And this growth requires certain things from different relationships in our lives. In thi...

My panic attack while getting a MRI of my brain reminded me to stop rehearsing tragedy in my life. When I was trying to build my future and also navigate through perimenopause, I rehearsed tragedy often....by predicting failure for everything which kept me stuck in confusion which prevented me from taking actionable steps toward my goal. In this episode, I share how I continue to learn to change m...

Many of us only associate Grief  with Death of someone we love but  it can also be experienced when anything you expected or hoped for is not your reality. I realized that this post-Covid journey, my introduction to perimenopause and my entrepreneurial journey have all been met with grief...so let's talk about the 5 stages of Grief....Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance....an...

Well, Covid did it again....disrupted me...my business...my whole damn life. So it continues.... After SO many emotions which included a lot of anger, I've learned to accept where I am mentally, physically and emotionally and re-learn Me again. Tune in to hear more about my relationship with Covid and with myself as I walk a different walk in this post-Covid journey. Please Subscribe, Review...

Well, Covid did it again....disrupted me...my business...my whole damn life. I'm finally ready to start sharing my story of my 2nd Covid experience.....the many trials and tribulations of my health journey in this season of my life. And if you've been following me for awhile, you know I had a very interesting experience with Covid the 1st time around in 2022 (check out Episode 69 ) and a...

I am a recovering control freak, but I still slip back into wanting to control the outcome of everything I do, especially in my business. I wanted to control what was happening to my body…the hormonal changes. Many of us have a need to be in control which is understandable, we want to be in control of our lives at all times.  And we know there are things that are beyond our control but we still wo...

If you wanna build a business after 40, you need to lose weight. But stop trying to lose weight. And Diet and Exercise is NOT enough to lose weight. Wait, what? Let me explain… In this episode, I discuss how I turned my focus from losing physical weight to losing other ish that was weighing me down which changed the trajectory of my life. I created my Menopause Moguls™  online group coaching progr...

Black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs....but at what cost. Black women are biologically aging faster than white women. Women of color tend to enter perimenopause and menopause at earlier ages than their white peers, have longer transition periods, and experience more intense hot flashes and vaginal symptoms. In this episode, I discuss the disparity in menopause experiences, wh...

Menopausal Transition can affect all the relationships in your life...the relationship you have with your husband or significant other, your children, other loved ones, your friends, your colleagues at work, your clients or patients. It affects how you show up in the world and in these relationships. In this episode, I discuss the importance of starting with a foundation that is built upon you val...

I reached out to a friend and asked how she was doing…she responded “I’m surviving.” I reached out to another friend and asked the same thing…she responded “I’m maintaining.” This bothered me because I don't want us to "just survive" out here in these midlife streets, I want us to THRIVE. We are all capable to survive but do we have the capacity to thrive? My kids asked me to be one...

I remember thinking about a business plan and the steps to make one. I remember my clients wondering about which systems or protocols and standard of operations they will use for their business. I attended multiple webinars to get information on starting an online business. After a webinar, I had a spiral notebook full of notes but still didn’t know how to start.  I had notes on registering a busi...

My menopausal symptoms (night sweats, irritability, acne, memory loss, exhaustion) made me very uncomfortable. It was uncomfortable when I decided to prioritize myself. It was uncomfortable when I decided to start building a business. I was making my discomfort mean "I'm not supposed to do this thing." I realized that the discomfort is actually what I needed to grow into my full sel...

The menopausal transition can be a disruption. The mental and physical changes can disrupt your life. There could also be disruptions as you start building a business in this season of your life. In this episode, I discuss some personal disruptions, how I've been able to continue work in my business through the disruptions and how I teach my clients to do the same. I created my Menopause Mogu...

Giving ourselves permission to fail puts us in a position to win. But we have to give ourselves permission when we are navigating through the midlife transitions like perimenopause and becoming an entrepreneur.  When we give ourselves permission to change, to rest, to fail, then we get closer to the woman we were designed to be. In this episode, I discuss what it looked like when I gave myself per...

You do NOT want to miss this conversation with one of my AMAZING clients, Dr. Laryssa Creswell! Dr. Laryssa Creswell is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maryland and the District of Columbia, as well as a board-certified & licensed music therapist in Maryland. Additionally, she is a Maryland Board Approved Clinical Supervisor.  She has a wealth of knowledge in program development...

Here’s the number one thing that is holding us back from navigating through the menopausal transition and then subsequently transition into entrepreneurship… We are too committed to the old or prior version of ourselves…how we used to do things, how we used to look, how we used to feel.  In this episode, I share the Secrets to Building a Thriving Business while Navigating through Midlife Changes:...

Did you catch the Menopause Moguls Live series in my  private Facebook group ? In this episode, one of my Amazing clients shared her hesitancy about starting Menopause Moguls… “I was afraid that I wouldn’t stay committed to the process.” Ladies, I know we’ve all wanted to do certain things but didn’t do it because we were afraid we wouldn’t finish what we started for many reasons….we get too busy,...

Mommy guilt is REAL. The guilt of starting a business can also pull us away from stepping into our next level. Menopause can be the bridge to you becoming a Mogul after launching a business. In this episode, I discuss work-life balance ( which I think is trash) vs self-balance and how to incorporate the latter in building then launching your business during midlife transitions. I created my Menopa...

There are so many changes that can occur when transitioning into menopause and into entrepreneurship. I realized a Fear of Change equates to a Fear of Loss.... Losing the way we used to do things, Losing the way we used to feel about ourselves, Losing the way we looked, the way we looked at ourselves, Losing our identity, Losing our sex appeal or sexual desire. In this episode, I discuss how I  ha...

I realized that I've been doing HARD things most of my life. Then here come Perimenopause that was also HARD.  I struggled to keep a happy face when I felt like literally a "hot mess," until I couldn't take it anymore. After I risked my life as well as the life of my children, I had to make a change. Deciding to start a business also came with doing HARD things. In this episode...

I was talking to a friend on her birthday who just turned 40, and she was a little sad because she was not where she wanted to be....the business she wanted and the house she wanted had not manifested yet. Why do we put deadlines on our dreams? Why do we beat ourselves up when we hadn't "made it" by age 40, or age 50? In this episode, I want to invite you to the idea that your 1st 4...

When you've been conditioned to be a "worker bee", it can be hard to transition into a different version of yourself. Now what does the "worker bee" have to do with the menopausal transition and your dreams of launching your own business, stay with me and let me explain. In this episode, I discuss how we all may start off as a regular "worker bee" but we have pot...

As high-achieving Black women, we are conditioned to be Super Human. Conditioned to DO ALL the things to be acknowledged, to be seen, to be heard. I had to work twice as hard to get into med school and in medicine to prove to people that I belonged. I got caught up in the DOING. Then, when I stopped DOING, I didn't think I was WORTHY. In this episode, I discuss how I had to learn to be a Huma...

You ever feel like you can barely keep your head above water doing ALL the things. Putting pressure on ourselves to do everything in a 24 hour period, taking care of our responsibilities in our career, taking care of kids, taking care of parents, any other outside responsibilities-a committee, active in community. You're treading water to stay afloat but you're not going anywhere. Your h...