Mikelann Valterra is a financial psychologist and author who helps women transform their relationship with money to create a life they love. My biggest takeaway from this conversation was that the more you know about your spending, the less you will have

I was surprised by this interview so many times: Dry farming with no electricitywhat?Founding said farm at 16, and sticking with it for 23 years? Colon cancer diagnosis at 37, and beating the odds with a full recovery, thank heavens. Oh, and gray hair at

Dr. Louann Brizendine completed her degree in neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine and did her internship and residency at Harvard Medical School. In this episode we talk about her new book The Upgrade: How the Female Brain

Erin Hupp has been creating beautiful ceramics for more than 20 years. But it wasn't until she was knee-deep in a successful career in law that she made ceramics her main gig. After earning her law degree, the San Francisco-based artist practiced land-use

If you're navigating midlife and think it's time to give up rocking (or trying to rock) a smokey eye look, this episode with disabuse you of that thought (also see Carine Roitfeld.)I met makeup artist Brigette Caille through the #silversisters network on

The fact that spellcheck still doesn't know how to spell perimenopause kind of says it all. A wide-ranging lack of knowledge and utter confusion (even among gynecologists) around perimenopause, menopause and women's health during this transitional time of

Introducing: Brad King, the first man on The Mean Show podcast!I talk in my recorded intro a lot about Brad being supportive of women, which is obviously awesome. He gave female authors a platform when Covid descended upon us all and no one could do book

Today's episode features Nina Lorez Collins, chief creative officer for Revel, an events and community platform for women over 40. She's also the founder of The Woolfer, which Revel acquired earlier this year. In 2015 she started a closed Facebook group c

Karen Randall helps women at midlife explore the questions that not many on Instagram are talking about. As we look at our changing faces in the mirror, many of us ask: What's next for me? What path do I take when it feels like my best years are behi

This is a super-long one, but I just could not bring myself to make it shorter because I loved every minute of this conversation.To make it easier to navigate, I have broken it down for you below. Listen to it beginning to end (which, you know, I totally