How to Make Friends After 40 (and When to Let Go)

by | August 11, 2026 | Podcast, Self Discovery | 0 Comments

Lisa Steadman was twelve years old, playing with Barbies in her bedroom in Saudi Arabia, when her mother walked in and said, "Your dad doesn't love me anymore." Lisa cried. Then she started solving her mother's marriage. She'd never kissed a boy. She had zero business...
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What Did I Do Wrong? When Your Adult Daughter Won’t Talk to You

by | July 28, 2026 | Family, Podcast, Self Discovery | 0 Comments

Pam Tronson on adult daughters, accountability, and letting go There's a moment in every mother's life when the job description changes and nobody sends the memo. This week's guest lived it, worked through it, and now spends her career helping other women do the...
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Want to Reinvent Yourself After 40? Here’s Why You Don’t Have To.

by | July 14, 2026 | Career + Money, Health: Body + Mind, Self Discovery | 0 Comments

Somewhere between raising kids, building careers, and holding everyone else's lives together, a lot of us decided who we are. We didn't do it on purpose. We just repeated the same thoughts — I'm the responsible one, I'm not athletic, I'll never be organized, I'm lazy...
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You Deserve Peace and Calm. Here’s Where to Start.

by | June 9, 2026 | Career + Money, Family, Podcast, Self Discovery | 0 Comments

When Maria Fraietta's dad died, she flew to New York with her brothers to figure out what comes next. Her brother had a box. He said it had everything they needed. It had a will, a few papers, but that's pretty much the end of the info. He hadn't even shared whether...
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The 40% Problem: What Your Employee Benefits Portal Isn’t Telling You

by | June 2, 2026 | Career + Money, Podcast | 0 Comments

There's a stat that Wallis Wilkinson Tsai dropped in our conversation that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. By the time you're in your early 50s, your odds of a new cancer diagnosis are 1 in 35. And beyond cancer, 1 in 4 people in their 50s and early 60s...
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She Was Love Bombed, Isolated, and Almost Robbed — 4 Months After Her Husband Died

by | May 5, 2026 | Career + Money, Family, Podcast, Self Discovery | 0 Comments

Do you think your elderly parent could be talked into a financial scam? I asked this recently in the Grown-Ass community. 43% said they already worry about it. For 28%, it's already happened in their family. And the stories that came in were from people who described...
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Motherless Daughters: How to Survive Mother’s Day Without Your Mom with Hope Edelman

by | April 27, 2026 | Family, Podcast, Self Discovery, Video | 0 Comments

Mother's Day is right around the corner. And for a lot of women, it is not a simple day. Whether you lost your mom years ago or recently, whether your relationship was loving or complicated or somewhere in between—this time of year has a way of bringing everything...
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You’re Not Lazy. You’re Overwhelmed. Here’s What’s Actually Going On.

by | April 9, 2026 | Health: Body + Mind, Podcast, Self Discovery, Video | 0 Comments

Let me ask you something. How many times this week have you looked at your to-do list (the real one, the one that lives in your head at 2am) and felt a wave of shame wash over you? Maybe it's ... The will and trust you haven't done. The call you keep putting off. The...
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Life Insurance for Women Over 40: What You Need to Know Before You Buy

by | March 30, 2026 | Career + Money, Podcast, Video | 0 Comments

It's a tale as old as time. Four male investment managers try to tell a woman that a product she's interested in doesn't exist. How does she know they're wrong? She literally traded them when she worked at Goldman Sachs. That's just one moment that inspired Wallis...
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The Real Reason Women Over 40 Can’t Stick to Their Health Routines

by | March 13, 2026 | Health: Body + Mind, Podcast, Self Discovery | 0 Comments

Let's just start here: no one has ever guilted or shamed their way to better health. Not once. Not ever. And yet that's basically been the wellness industry's whole business model. This episode is the antidote to that. I'm talking with Courtney Townley, health coach,...
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