Rebellious Wellness Lifestyle

Dr. Michael Green loves delivering babies! So why is he appearing on a podcast for over 50 women? Because his second passion is helping women feel better, feel like themselves so they can enjoy the second half of life. He is the head of clinical operations at ByWinona.com, whose mission is “To create a world where the second half of life is even better than the first.” He’s also a full time OB-GYN...

J. Ann Dunn, suffered with depression for almost 50 years and with Fibromyalgia for decades. As a Doctor of Chiropractic trained in functional medicine as well, she tried everything she knew to heal herself. Nothing worked. She had a successful practice in New Mexico for 30+ years and was bothered by those few patients who didn’t respond to tools she used on all her patients–nutrition, structural...

You might say this is a departure for this podcast, for me as Rebellious Wellness. You have a point. Here’s why I had Mary Henderson , international personal branding and digital business specialist, as a guest. Many of my people are women entrepreneurs at Be More Marketable and here. Of the many, a good percentage of them are second careerers or looking to get into their own business. Another pie...

Morgan Adams is a double certified sleep coach. Here’s how she got started. “I was desperate to get a good night’s sleep after an unexpected crisis rocked my world in my mid-thirties. As a Pharma rep, I didn’t have the luxury of “sleeping in” after staring at the clock all night. That’s when I got my hands on a popular, physician-prescribed sleeping pill—because when you work in the Pharma field,...

Are you a grandma? Fifty is old enough to have that title. By sixty many women will be lucky enough to join to club. I became a grandma-or Gigi as my grandson calls me — in 2021. Like my guest, Marsha McLean, founder of Grandmas 2.0 , I was not ready for that.

Who among us relishes talking about death? Specifically our deaths or those of the near and dear to us. Which is weird because if you’re alive, you’re in for a penny in for a pound kind of thing, with death. End of life conversations, though hard to start, can bring you closer to the person whose life you are helping to plan. My guest, Jane Duncan Rogers, was thrown into a situation where she had...

So you think you know how a lack of deep sleep affects you? Unless you follow someone like Matt Walker , the preeminent neuroscientist specializing in sleep, or one of his colleagues around the world, you may miss out on information that will encourage you to make sleep a priority. And increase the likelihood of aging in good health. It’s no secret that as we age, regular, sound, sleep seems to el...

If you’ve been around Rebellious Wellness at all, you know that BHRT, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, is a therapy I support for relief of perimenopause and menopause symptoms. And that’s what most people think of it for. But it’s so much more than just symptom relief. My guest, Monica Molenaar, shares her story, the science, and the reasons she co-created MyAlloy.com .

And every symptom doesn’t tell the whole story. Matter of fact, so many states of ill health have overlapping symptoms. Menopause symptoms like poor sleep, weight gain, irritability, or lack of focus can also be caused by a thyroid imbalance. My guest, Kyria Perero, is a total health/holistic health practitioner. She is trained in functional health coaching which means she looks at the whole perso...

It’s a fun meme, the whole something is the new. Like fifty is the new forty. And sixty is the new fifty. Sure, fifty today looks nothing like it did just one generation ago when fifty was “over the hill.” We are more engaged, take better care of ourselves, are more active. This doesn’t change the fact that there are physical changes going on in these more active bodies. Aging changes us on the in...

What if CBD could play a role in helping people get and stay sober? And not only get sober by curbing addictive cravings, but help them once they're in sobriety with depression, anxiety, and mood issues. Today’s guest, Thomas White believes it does and he has the science to prove it as well as a large volume of testimonials. His company, Exact Nature , focuses on helping people with addiction, ove...

In this shortie I talk about what a supplement is. What to look out for. What supps are supportive of health and healthy aging, and where to go for the kind of information on certain brands that will ensure you get a safe product at the best price.

Kelli Nelson planned on living the happily ever after kind of life. But at 50 she found herself divorced. She told me, “until after my marriage ended, which was six months before my 50th birthday, I realized I had no retirement, no future, no anything to look forward to because I had wrapped it all up in I’m gonna be married happily ever after.” She’s not the only woman this has happened to and sh...

Cathleen Toomey , the brains behind the Seniority Authority website and podcast likes to say “Seniority Authority exists because of cocktail parties.” Knowing she worked in a retirement community people often came to her with questions like, “I think my mom may have dementia, but maybe it’s typical age related, memory loss. How do I tell the difference?” And “What the heck is assisted living and h...

Menopause can take a woman down with hot flashes, mood swings, sleep interruptions, weight gain, and even the dreaded “Bingo wings.” What are those you ask? According to my guest, Magic Barclay, “They are the low hanging fat wings many women get as we age through menopause.” At least that’s what they call them in Australia. Magic — that’s her real name — is a (w)holistic healer who works mainly wi...

Jennifer Arthurton was by all measures successful. Mom, wife, corporate exec, perks travel, all the things. Yet for a long time there was that small voice asking, Is this all there is? She had done what she was taught to do. Good grades, good schools, work hard, achieve. Then, in the year leading up to her 50th birthday she found herself myself divorced, unemployed, empty nester. And I was bedridd...

Running a marathon, summiting Mount Rainier, completing a double century bike ride, and competing in a bodybuilding show are the things my guest, Haley Shapley does in her spare time. Day to day she is a freelance writer whose first book, “Strong Like Her” traces the evolution of women and physical strength. She tells stories of elite athletes and people like me and you. “I start in ancient times...

According to my guests, John and Sita, founders of The Bendable Method, fascia is little understood and definitely under appreciated. Their method, “is a specialized form of resistance stretching that works on the fascia along the energetic meridian lines that influence every aspect of your health. The Bendable Body Method facilitates healing on multiple levels — biomechanical, physiological, emot...

Even this successful marriage and family therapist woke up one day and found herself in total overwhelm. She loved her work and the difference she was making, but she forgot about boundaries and self care until she was “toast.” My guest is Phyllis Ginsberg. “I had high stress. I was starting to feel the effects in my body, was disconnecting from friends, not exercising. And boy, did it take a toll...

Russ Thornton knows what women want– and need– when it comes to money and planning for the future. He’s unique in the world of financial planners in that he specializes in women over 50. This makes him the perfect guest for this audience. His passion for working with women started with his mom. Although she could have retired more than comfortably, she didn’t plan well, didn’t have any sound finan...

Maggie Sarachek and Abbe Greenfield are besties and have been for decades. They met as undergraduates at U Penn in the 1980s. Neither thought of themselves as particularly anxious. Sure they had bad stomachs, but didn’t most students on the Penn meal plan? They also worried a lot, but we figure they owed that to our Jewish parents. What they didn’t know then was that they were both experiencing th...

Melissa Davey changed careers at 65 and become a documentary filmmaker. For more than two decades she worked at GENEX Services Inc., where she was recruited to build and operate the company’s Social Security representation division. Prior to GENEX, Melissa had almost twenty years of diversified experience in the field of disability. Her second act is fueled by a lifelong passion for film and story...

Keri Gans is a no-nonsense New Yorker who happens to be a registered dietician. She’s also a bit of a celebrity. She’s been interviewed by or quoted in Forbes, Prevention, Women’s Health and Newsweek, to name just a few. In part because she’s an expert in nutrition and charismatic. But also because she has unconventional ideas about how to be healthy. (Sounds like someone I know…) “Like, could you...

Thousands of (mostly) women have gone to a doc because they don’t feel like themselves only to leave frustrated and sick to death of hearing, “This is what happens at your age”, or “It’s all in your head, nothing’s wrong.” They—maybe you—have said things like: I’m gaining weight, I’m cold all the time, my hair is getting thin, my sleep is awful, I’m in a fog. To be fair to the docs who hear these...

My guest this week is Erin Baute. She is an expert in The Enneagram assessment. She has been using it for 12 years and is a certified Enneagram teacher and trainer. Her background is in Human Health and Development. Erin told me: I geek out, I get excited by making behavior change. So I studied public health in graduate school. I’m getting my PhD in organizational psychology now, and I’m really in...