Rock Your Midlife

How to Empower Yourself at Midlife

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” – Coco Chanel
On today's show we're talking all about empowerment. The Oxford Dictionary defines empowerment, which is a noun, as “authority or power given to someone to do something” and “the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights.”
Midlife is the time to fully empower yourself so you can step into your purpose and became everything you want to be. It's time to stop feeling invisible, unheard, or dismissed and let your people pleaser go. It's time to start to step into your greatness by nurturing your gifts and sharing them with the world.
You'll gain valuable tips and insights to help you feel and be empowered. You'll learn how to:
•Embrace accept yourself exactly as you are
•Age with grace and ease
•Get back in touch with what you REALY want
•Heal from betrayal
•Be your own champion
•Stop surrendering your own power
•Redefine what it means to grow older
•Use specific practices to empower yourself
Buckle up it's going to be a power packed show that will empower you to Rock Your Midlife!

Rewrite Your Story Transform Your Life and Change the World

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author
What's your story?
In today's episode we explore the stories we tell ourselves and others and why stories matter. We'll cover:
How to change your story.
Powerful ways to become empowered
Eating right tips for active women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s
Why midlife is the time to try new things
he importance of self acceptance and being truthful about your capabilities and where your body is
At midlife, you’re gifted with an entire second adulthood to know and love yourself on a deeper level. To figure out who you are and what you want. To take all the mistakes you made in your first adulthood, throw them in a makeover blender, and create a smoothie of an existence.
Nothing is written in stone, and anything and everything is possible. How do you start to transform so you can Rock Your Midlife? You change your stories. By changing your stories and taking action, you can become the woman you’ve always wanted to be.
Annette, Simmons, author of, Drinking from a Different Well: How Women’s Stories Change What Power Means in Action will discuss how women can learn to trust their instincts, tell their stories, and benefit the common good.
Then Jennifer Maxwell, co-founder of the original PowerBar energy bar, will share her amazing story of how she healed through music after the death of her husband. Plus, she'll tell us about her new company JAMBAR and share secrets to positive aging and staying vibrant and healthy at midlife.
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Manage Menopause and Boost Your Mood with Ease

On this week's show we're talking about two once taboo topics: Menopause and depression
Each year 1.3 million American women enter menopause - the time when menstruation officially stops. Millions more will go through peri-menopause.
Here's another fact: women at midlife have the highest rate of depression for any group by gender and age - 12.3% about 1 in 8.
Hot flashes, fatigue, insomnia, brain fog, moodiness, weight gain - these are just a few things that women may experience at midlife. How do you deal and get the support you need through every stage of menopause?
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all regimen when it comes to managing menopause and boosting your mood at midlife. We each need to figure out: What works for me?
Fortunately, there are numerous options to support midlife women and help them thrive as they transition through menopause and into their second half of life.
Today's show is going to give you keys that will empower you to take charge of your mental and physical health.
Here's what we're dishing about
• Real solutions to deal with the changes your experiencing as you go through menopause
• The latest medical treatments for your symptoms
• Creative ways to manage menopause at work
• Boosting your mood by hacking your brain's happiness hormones
• Plant-based solutions designed for women

Reject Diets and Reclaim Your Food Voice

Many women struggle with their weight, especially at midlife. Hormonal changes can influence your appetite, including how much you eat and what you're craving. These hormonal changes can also cause you to store more fat.
While you may be tempted to diet, dieting is not the answer. Dieting is not sustainable, and predicts weight gain not loss. Plus, dieting increases stress which can also trigger emotional eating and weight gain around your waistline.
What's the answer? Reclaim your food voice and learn to eat intuitively and in this week's show you'll learn how to do it!
I'll be dishing with registered dietitian Julie Duffy Dillon about how you can ditch dieting forever and learn to listen to your intuitive wisdom around eating.
Plus, Julie will also share her wisdom around PCOS (polycystic ovary disease). You'll lean what PCOS is, what to do about PCOS cravings, and how it can impact menopause.
In the second half of the show we'll shift gears and talk about heart disease the leading cause of death in US women, with Tim Bilbrey. He's developed an award-winning home-based system to help cardiac patients, and will share an innovative solution for supporting cardiac patients.

Transform Your Life and Live More Consciously and Daringly

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
At midlife there is often a strong desire to get unstuck and transform your life and make your next chapter your best chapter. But how do you do it?
Transformation is different for everyone, but there are many tools that can help you and people who can inspire you. Today's guest will do both.
Our first guest, Ora Nadrich is a pioneering Mindfulness expert who will help you to connect with your higher consciousness, which she says brings us to the divine power that awaits. Instead of busily looking for answers outside of ourselves, and relying on distractions, stimulants, materialism and other external influences, Ora says we have inner resources to become more awake, present and aware.
She’ll share how you can tough this mystical place by practicing mindfulness. It's a way to rein in our random thoughts and hold us in present moment awareness. As we stay focused on the present, we’re able to look more deeply into what we’re actually feeling in that moment — and in our awareness, to transcend limited thoughts and beliefs and raise our consciousness.
Seven years ago, our second guest Antoinette Lee Toscano recovered from a traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, reversed lupus, improved kidney and gallbladder function, high cholesterol and blood pressure, significantly reduced instances of migraines, and now manages multiple chronic conditions. How did she do it? She received the gift of outdoor recreation when she learned to whitewater kayak.
Today, as a 54-year-old all-around adventure sportswoman and sponsored athlete, Antoinette will tell you how to create your new normal and live as big a life as you can envision through the 'New Normal Big Life' process.
Join us as we help midlife women get real, discover who they are, and get the tools to navigate life.