REDESIGNING MIDLIFE | Workout Motivation Over 50, Nutrition Facts, Health & Wellness, Fitness, Exercise Inspiration, Menopause Symptoms, Self-Care, Midlife Crisis

Today we are talking to Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Stacie Grossfeld about how to avoid injury, as well as all things Arthritis, Osteoporosis, and Sarcopenia as we age. Moving into your midlife involves a lot of factors and that’s why it is so important to be educated to help you physically age gracefully. I know we all have a lot of plans on ways we want to spend this most valuable time. So get on it....

I'm feeling pretty empowered after talking with founder of the Divine Living Brand and author of "The Audacity To Be Queen" this week. She really got me to thinking about what it means to be feminine and how the feminine instinct has been injured so long by the need of all women to express their masculinity to get ahead. Mike had to STAND BACK this week in case I was going to blow e...

Dr. Kelly Casperson is here to talk all things sexual health after 50. And not only that, we're talking about the things we need to talk to our adult children about as they start their sexual lives. Takeaways from today: 1. Basics:  a. Menopause means it’s been one year and one day since your last period. b. The average age of menopause is around 51. and c. for ten years prior to menopause, w...

It's a somber FNBB as we are toasting the life of Tedi Ellen Vaughan, Mike's mom. She passed away from liver cancer on Monday morning.  She LOVED the Friday Night BeerBlog and so we persist and dedicate this week's recording to her and her memory. Life is good everyone - DO NOT wait for the AFTER - Live now. Love now. Spend now. Dont' wait - Time is the our precious commodity a...

We prepare our children for years to finish strong and be read to leave the nest. But sometimes we forget to prepare ourselves and end up dealing with a lot of feelings of sadness and loss. Allie Hill from Allie Hill Coaching is here to let you know you aren't alone and that there are some great ways to deal with the feelings you are having. Takeaways: Remember that it is possible for you as...

Well friends - I dropped my microphone on Friday and it didn't work tonight, but then I got it to work and it sounds like crap. I don't know. I guess I'm due a new one.  Anyway - we're talking about Hot Flashes and Manopause - WHA? Is that a thing? We hope you enjoy the podcast - poor audio and all. It's all good. We're not professionals. Have a great week - till next...

Jackie Hope and her husband Ray went all in on Mountain Sports after a trip to Japan inspired them.  They were near 50 years of age and decided to go all in trying out and discovering this new passion. It didn't matter that Jackie had never considered herself an athlete, they just surrounded themselves with knowledge people and took it step by step. Takeaways: Look for people to surround your...

On this 53rd edition of the Friday Night BeerBlog on The New Old You we are talking about ADULTING and how it NEVER, EVER ENDS. You think it will once you get past this phase, but then no, another phase starts. But that's life. Whether we expected it or not. The best thing is that none of us are adulting alone. We're all in this together.  Get support and Give Support. That's all -...

Children below. Parents above. Stressed-out caregivers in the middle, who spread themselves thin between managing demands from spouses, careers, home, health and more. Also known as the "Sandwich Generation" or the "Sandwich Zone", as my guest today, Karen Osborne describes it.  Takeaways: It’s so easy to loose yourself in the pressure being in the sandwich zone, so you need to...

On this week's Friday Night BeerBlog I am explaining to Mike why winter is a good thing. The days are long, dark, and cold, but if you use it the right way and suffer in the dark months, you can debut something amazing come spring and summer.  Hence, my dry January and no dessert February. Winter is a good thing. I promise. At least that's what I keep telling myself. Enjoy! Then SUBSCRIB...

Nancy McElwain is on the podcast today to educate us on menopause and the importance of sex hormone testing.  So often we are left to "figure it out" ourselves, but much like when we learn about the birds and bees, we need to have someone sit down with us to explain this menopause thing so that we don't think we're crazy or that we need to take some sort of pill to mask the sym...

Tonight's Friday Night BeerBlog is all about DRY JANUARY! Who came up with that? Why would anyone want to go dry when it's cold and there are 5 weekends to power through. Well, I did this year. And I'm sharing the things I learned from it. Thanks for listening and be sure to SUBSCRIBE, RATE and REVIEW, but only if it's good Mike says. Getting ahold of me is a no-brainer. You ca...

The New Old You is a YEAR OLD! And I've brought back my very first guest, Betsy Green, to talk about all things 50+, updates on what has happened since last year, and what we look forward to this year. We discuss all of the unknowns of Covid as we head into 2022 and beyond. How it affects our kids, how it affects us. We even touch on regrets and how since we don't know what is going to h...

The Friday Night BeerBlog is BACK on The New Old You. It's a long story and we explain in tonight's reading, but I think it's a good thing. Maybe you will, maybe you won't. But having just one podcast to take care of will be easier on this lady over here. And by lady, I mean me. We hope you enjoy our little take on life this week. And we'll see you back next Friday night....

Lindsay Pinchuk was put on my path for a reason and I couldn't be happier. She is a master entrepreneur/founder that is here to give us the confidence to believe that even if we are over 50, it is never too late to start your own business. Takeaways: 1. It is NEVER too late to make a change or to start a new business! It doesn’t matter how old you are. 2. Look to fill a need or a void for you...

Susie Miles didn't make a sudden pivot to leave her television job after 20+ years. She exercised what we called a "Slow Burn Pivot" where she planned for 4 years for her career pivot. She wanted to make sure she was ready in all ways, mentally and financially. And because of her planning, she has found herself successful and FREE. Here are some takeaways from our conversation today...

Mindset Coach Leah Jantzen is here to dust us off from our failed resolutions and help us put a plan together to make real change. She encourages us to start small, create good habits and build on those to develop confidence in ourselves. Some takeaways from our conversation include: 1. The process of getting started in something new is - being bad at something, working through it, getting better....

Nutrition therapist and exercise physiologist Nancy McElwain is talking about the benefits of whole food nutrition and how it helps heal the body by dealing with issues of individual systems as part of the whole. She also gives us advice on  charging the body up to help deal with the aging process. Among the topics are: 1. Holistic nutrition looks at the inter-connectiveness of things and how the...

Olivia Jaras is an absolute powerhouse. I am just in awe of her work with women to help them realize what they are worth and get paid that amount.  Takeaways: Women need to know what they are worth and know how to ask for it. All women have a gold mine between their ears and they just have to learn how to use it. As a society we determine a person’s worth based on the price tag they have. Whether...

Sandi McKenna is a powerhouse and has an amazing story to tell, up through her travels on her travel show - MidLife Road Trip to becoming a Private Investigator during the pandemic. Now she has added podcast host and is launching "Unforgettable Conversations" this week. Sandi and I talk about her journey and then we get down to how conversation has become a lost art and how to go about r...

Author Christian de la Huerta has so many amazing things to share and teach us about the hero's journey,  ego, the soulful self, and power plays as we discuss his book " Awakening the Soul of Power: How to Live Heroically and Set Yourself Free". Some takeaways: The empowerment of women is the single most important thing that needs to happen in the world in order in bring balance to...

Today I am sitting down with estate attorney Nicole Willet-Jones who is sharing such important information about getting our estate affairs in order to give us piece of mind in this area. The things we talk about today: 1. Things to think about going into estate planning - a. What is your goal? Who are you taking care of? b. How do you own things? Joint or Individual c. Getting organized d. Person...

You have found The New Old You and I’m your host Lesley McShane.  If you’re like me, you wear a lot of hats. wife, mother, sister, daughter, employee and you’re over 50. When I turned 50, there was total shock at how fast I got here. I felt fabulous on one hand, but completely lost on the other.  How did I get HERE? And why isn’t HERE where I want to be? After listening to other women, I learned I...

Leslie Lindsey Davis lost 100 pounds. And she did it by putting a stake in the ground and deciding to become healthy in three ways: Physically, Emotionally, and Mentally. In today's episode she shares ways for all of us to fuel our journey to lose weight by filling the the self-sized hole that we may have in our lives. Takeaways: 1.  A lot of times when we are starting a journey to discover o...

Welcome to this special Christmas / Holiday special of my podcast and of the Magical Midlife podcast. The host of Magical Midlife and my friend Lindsay de Swart and I decided we wanted to do something special for this time of year so we decided to sit down together and share our thoughts of Christmas, of podcasting, of following a gut feeling, of dreaming big for 2022, and all of our hopes and dre...