Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how creativity transforms women in midlife with artist Kelly Herrick. Kelly believes that menopause is not just about hormones, it’s a season that offers so much more. In this episode she explains how this is the most creative crucible of our lives, it’s the most creative transformation of our lives. The conversation around creativity is rising up in so many women in midlife, there is a creative heartbeat that can be sensed. Within the...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Shannon Schottler talks about navigating midlife transitions with grace. In this episode Shannon shares the 4 stages of midlife transition and practical tips to help identify what stage you are in. Each stage has its unique qualities, benefits and strategies. As far as the next best steps, Shannon takes listeners through each stage and uses her own life (as well as mine) as examples to demonstrate what that might look like. This conversation is very practical and...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, Dr. Deepti Gandhi helps listeners curate how to build your midlife toolkit. In this episode she shares her top seven tools for your midlife toolkit. Dr. Ghandi firmly believes in empowering female patients with education and knowledge so they can make well informed choices. When it comes to hormone and midlife health, women are often frustrated with the quality of care they are receiving. It’s important for women to remember that they are the best expert on their...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we discuss understanding and preventing dementia with Dr. Mitch Clionsky. Dr. Clionsky and his wife have written a book called, “Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain”. Knowing that 80% of people over 55 are worried about getting Alzheimers or other dementias, they brought together the resources to help prevent that reality. The good news is that half of all dementias are preventable. Dr. Clionsky wants listeners to understand how to start the...

Today we are answering the question- do you have adult onset ADHD- with Tracy Otsuka. Tracy is a certified ADHD coach and the author of “ADHD For Smart Ass Women. She believes that there is a peri-menopausal onset of ADHD caused by changing estrogen levels. Since there has not been a lot of research into what ADHD looks like in women, many women are misdiagnosed or mis-medicated. Tracy is on a mission to educate as many women as she can about the results of her research on adult onset ADHD in...

Today on Feminine Roadmap my guest Katrina Foe talks about cancer freedom. As a cancer thriver herself, she brings not only her medical knowledge to the table but the experience of her own cancer journey. Katrina is passionate about helping middle aged women with cancer. Her focus is on using natural solutions to help with the underlying causes of cancer understanding that those solutions can also increase the success of traditional treatments. When you support the body, the body itself can...

Today on Feminine Roadmap Susan Lazar Hart talks about creating the life you choose. We often live in the world feeling that we have no choice, Susan would say that even thinking we have no choice is a choice. She encourages listeners to sit with the question: who do I want to be and where do I want to go next? Fundamentally, you do have a choice. It’s important that our choices be in alignment with what we want to create in the world. When we stop, get quiet and allow things to come to the...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about unleashing your true potential with Alicia Berberich. Alicia is passionate about helping women unleash their true potential so they can become who they were meant to become. Her goal is to help women release the shackles that bind them to their old way of thinking so they can achieve their goals. Alicia encourages listeners to take a tiny step outside of their comfort zones and try something new, see where it may lead. Often we feel that our true...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we’re talking about building courage in midlife with Sheree Clark. Sheree is a Midlife Courage Coach who helps women build the courage to become their best selves. Midlife is often a time of reinvention, figuring out what’s next and along with that can be timidity, apprehension or even fear. The beauty of courage is that it doesn’t have to be a broad sweeping step, it can be done in small, purposeful shifts. Often a shift in our paradigm is the catalyst that empowers...

Today Dr. Bill Rawls shares how his own health decline led to his passion for cellular wellness and aging. Dr. Rawls explains how the concept of cellular wellness applies to every area of health. Through his journey he recognized an uptick in illness and wanted to offer solutions to that. There are five factors to every illness: bad diet, environmental toxins, chronic mental stress, inactivity, and the microbe factor. The body accumulates harmful microbes throughout their lifetime and when...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Val Brown shares strategies to help you turn your setbacks into stepping stones. Val firmly believes in the power of stories – change your story and you’ll change your life. After she lost her love of over 40 years, she found herself lost and the identity she had held was gone. Her grief journey was the catalyst for the passion to help others understand their own journey, to honor every part of it. She encourages listeners to pause and recognize where they find...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Alison Jacobson shares her story of overcoming adversity with courage. After the loss of her son and her marriage along with bankruptcy, Alison found her life in a state of chaos. In this episode she talks about what that season of her life taught her about courage, empathy and grace. One key lesson was to hang on and hold your ground while the ground underneath you is shaking, hold firm until it settles. She encourages listeners to insist on peace in their...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Kelly Howard, founder of Fit is Freedom, shares how to be active and ageless for life. Kelly’s goal is to empower women to get back to moving their bodies, get fit so they can have fun and live well. The beauty of her message is to do things that make you happy, have fun moving your body and regain your health. She wants listeners to go beyond being motivated by their outside appearance and reconnect with what will make them feel strong and healthy. If we give...

Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Rachel Freiman talks about unleashing your strongest, most empowered self. Rachel is a lover of lifting heavy things and is passionate about helping others unleash their strongest, most empowered selves through education and mindset training. She shares how your health is the most important asset you have and it is so much more than the number on the scale. Diets are not designed to last, they are short term strategies that keep us locked in a loop of struggle....

Today we are talking about what self-sabotage really is with Tanja Shaw. Tanja reveals the layers of self-sabotage- why when we know what to do and then don’t take action and doit. In this episode you will learn strategies to break through and finally get consistent. When we are out of alignment with who we want to be, that creates a low-grade pain point in our lives. Once we achieve greater integrity with ourselves by keeping the promises we make to ourselves, that pain point begins to...

Today’s guest Brenda Ridgley talks about building connection and friendships in midlife. Her passion is to help women reconnect to passion, purpose and most importantly people after decades of letting that go. It’s all about building a tribe of support for ourselves and others. Brenda encourages listeners to build a life alongside a friend, walk through it together. Friendship allows us to share our struggles together and become a soft place to land for each other. She firmly believes we are...

Today if you struggle with people pleasing this one’s for you. My guest Amy Green Smith, life coach and communication expert, shares some insights to help empower people pleasers. She talks about the origins of people pleasing, why we people please, and when people pleasing makes sense. Amy defines people pleasing as sacrificing something of self to make sure that other people are happy. Often it’s rooted in a feeling of self inflicted sense of threat, lack of value or unworthiness. When...

Be willing to take a chance and go for it is the message of today’s guest Diane Height. Diane found herself in midlife facing a very different future than she had planned. Shortly after retiring her marriage came to an end and with it what she thought she’d being doing with her life. This unexpected turn of events led to Diane resurrecting a dream to live and work in a foreign country. In this episode, Diane shares her journey from being married and riding off into retirement sunset to...

Today we are digging into Lessons from buying an RV and driving off into the wild blue yonder with Jenell Jones. Jenell is the owner of Wandering Individuals Network RV Club and lives full time traveling in her RV. The beauty of Jenell’s journey is that she began this solo traveling journey alone but found her tribe then bought the club that would connect them. In this conversation she talks about how to create the shifts you want in your life and being comfortable with it on your own terms....

Today on Feminine Roadmap: Aligning your life with what your body needs with Katie Bramlett. Katie is the co-founder of We-Shape, a company that creates personalized workouts that meet you where you are. Today she talks about their mission to change how and why people exercise. The goal is to focus on why we move our bodies, to feel good, have energy, and connect with our body. Toxic diet culture focuses on external outcomes, pushing through, and a number on the scale. Switching from the...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, my guest Dr. Mindy Pelz is on a mission to help women understand the impact of neurochemical changes during menopause. Dr. Mindy is opening up the conversations around recognizing and accepting how our minds, bodies, and emotions change. She firmly believes that understanding how these neurochemical changes impact us emotionally and mentally empowers us to lean in and begin to graciously move through menopause. As we understand what is emotionally changing and what...

Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how to take courage and go for what’s next in your life with Terry Yoffe. Terry wants to have extraordinary conversations around creating change about age and our potential. She encourages listeners to consider how they can have an impact and make a change in your world. It’s key to identify where you feel you have the ability to live the life you desire. We come to midlife and beyond with a experience, knowledge, wisdom and a certain set of...

Today on Feminine Roadmap, it’s OK to say it out loud, honesty about depression with Susan Paradis CEO, Business Owner and Single Mom . Susan shares her experience with battling lifelong depression in the hopes of helping other people. In this episode she talks about her own journey of discovery, what she has found works for her, what hasn’t, and how she has navigated it. Her goal in sharing is to help normalize the conversation about depression and how we can work together to manage it....

Today on Feminine Roadmap: Finding what an empowered life looks like to you with Diana Percovic, founder of Good Girl Mafia. Diana is a leader in empowerment for women and is on a mission to change the way female empowerment is defined and expressed. The culture surrounding female empowerment is often very disempowering and we, as women, have the opportunity to challenge that. Diana points out that we tend to think in a linear fashion, we are motivated toward something or motivated away from...