Women Around a Table Eating Food (WTF): Unfiltered talk about this curious midlife. And food.

What happens when a surgeon/former engineer/board-certified OBGYN spends years learning to tell women to "run more and eat less"…and then realizes, Wait: That’s absolutely NOT the answer? She builds an entirely new model of care from scratch. In this episode of Women Around a Table Eating Food , Jen and Nic welcome Dr. Diana Kumar: co-founder of Gliss Wellness , menopause specialist, for...

So what happens when a lifelong word wrangler decides she's done pretending that menopause is a graceful transformation? She writes a trilogy about it—sharp, snarky, and wickedfuckting honest—and then she shows up at our virtual table to talk about all of it. 🫶🏻 In this episode of Women Around a Table Eating Food , Jen introduces to Nic her dear friend and author Kennerly Clay: a 25-year vet...

Divorce may happen on paper, but as our dearest of the dear friends Carrie Rosenbloom knows, the real work happens in the family system. The court can divide assets, approve parenting plans and make things official, but it most certainly can’t regulate your nervous system, heal heartbreak, or transform two furious humans into emotionally evolved co-parents by next week. In this episode of Women Ar...

So, Friends: What do we do with all.our.stuff—and all of our PARENTS’ stuff—and all the weird feelings we have about the stuff we have? On this week's Women Around a Table Eating Food podcast, we invited professional organizer Tracy Hoth (rhymes with “both”) to help us better understand the psychology around clutter, and within minutes it was clear this convo was about way more than junk drawe...

Former television sports producer-turned-physical therapist Bridget Twedt, PT, DPT, knows a thing or two about reinvention. In this episode of Women Around a Table Eating Food, Norwalk, Connecticut's High Road PT co-owner dishes with Nic and Jen about her path from covering the Olympics to physical therapy , entrepreneurship , and helping people move through pain with more strength and trust i...

What if your symptoms are not signs that something is wrong with you, but signals that something in you needs care? In this episode of Women Around a Table Eating Food , Jen and Nic welcome marriage and family therapist, somatic practitioner, and all-around healing force Heather Waxman, LMFT, (who also happens to be Nic’s wife). Together, we talk about burnout, over-responsibility, nervous system...

Friends! We’re back for Season 2 and we’re easing in the only way we know how: “Hey girl, hey,” a little chaos, and an honest check-in about what midlife is really doing to us. In this Just Us episode, we talk midlife feelings, women’s health, and friendship…starting with the story behind Nic’s surprise basal cell carcinoma and Mohs surgery (which turned into a much bigger facial deal than expecte...

One year ago, this podcast was just an idea and a table. Now it’s a season and a ritual, with new people in our lives who feel like friends. In this "Just Us" season finale of Women Around a Table Eating Food, Jen and Nic gather with Nic’s wife Heather and Heather’s bestie, Samantha, family to dish on what the past year actually cracked open: sacred rage, creative risk, midlife bods, chosen fam, g...

Your body is changing. Ours are too. And honestly? What the actual fuck. In this Just Us episode of Women Around a Table Eating Food , Jen and Nic talk candidly—and hilariously—about the messy realities of midlife bodies. Hot flashes. Achy joints. Softness in new places. And yes, we say the word labia. Out loud. Like grown women who are done pretending this stuff isn’t happening. (And in the middl...

Danielle Beinstein’s website says she helps people navigate the human experience—and after listening to her talk midlife, self-trust, and listening to your body, we’re believers. No astrology degree required. Pull up a chair, friends. In this episode of Women Around a Table Eating Food , Jen and Nic sit down with Danielle Beinstein to unpack the Chiron Return —WTF it is, why it tends to show up in...

The holidays have a way of cracking things open. In this very vulnerable Just Us Christmas episode of Women Around a Table Eating Food , Jen and Nic pull up a chair and talk honestly about grief, growth, and the moments that changed everything. Through the lens of A Christmas Carol , they reflect on the memories they’d hope the Ghost of Christmas Past would shine a light on—and the ones they’d rat...

Pull up a chair for an emotional, decades-in-the-making reunion. Nic and WNBA legend Chasity Melvin hadn’t seen each other since their AAU days…making this ep equal parts catch-up, confession, and two messy midlifers remembering who they were at 17 while Jen watched in awe. From AAU vans, basketball moms, big decisions, and the kind of athletic camaraderie that imprints us hard, the ladies shared...

Pull up a chair for the Thanksgiving episode Jen’s been giddy about and where Nic once again tolerated her misty-eyed nostalgia…this time, over our guest’s stories from the front line of television memory-making.  Today, we’re joined by Amy Kule …former executive producer behind the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks. (And, yes: that parade. The balloons, the Broadw...

Pull up a chair: This one goes deep into the trenches of purpose, calling, and the “Oh right: This is who I am” phase of the messy midlife. In this Just Us episode, Nic and Jen ditch the guests and dish on their professional trajectories…from when they were nudged toward therapy and writing, to a fateful fax-machine epiphany, to the gut whispers that grew louder as they hit their 40s. They trace h...

Pull up a chair because this one’s got meals and feels! In Episode 3, Nic traces the crumbs of her culinary origins to Gram’s Italian kitchen and a legacy of Christmas disguised as carbs. Jen takes you to her dad’s “variety is the spice of life” universe where meal prep’s an art and linguica’s a love language. Nic drops her fave Erin Chase lore. And the big reveal? Just how nutritionally questiona...

What does “strength” really mean? What does it mean to you, Dear Listener? In this loaded and varied conversation, world record-holding powerlifter and coach Lisa Maximus blows up the old-school rules—about women, weights, and what’s possible—one rep at a time. She gets truthy about the emotional side of fitness, why everyone (especially women) should be training for longevity, not looks, and how...

Some Swiss. A Sarah McLachlan surprise. And one determined “capture” that launched a 30-year friendship. (Spoiler: Nic snagged Jen.) In this debut of Women Around a Table Eating Food (WTF), Nicole O'Brien and Jennifer Chase-Corwin unpack how their through-line of food, friendship, and messy midlife moments became the heartbeat of their sisterhood and the backbone of this podcast that neither of th...

At Women Around a Table Eating Food (aka: WTF), we don’t sugarcoat midlife...we snack through it. We’re Nicole O’Brien (therapist) and Jennifer Chase-Corwin (journalist)—30-year best friends and curious as hell about relationships (and pretty much everything else)—and the tables between us have seen it all. Tears. Triumphs. Laugh-riots. More cheese boards than we can count (back when cheese didn&#...