IN IT with Jordan Harper and Ashley Buckler

If you’re someone who feels mostly fine but wants to get ahead of perimenopause, start here. The first signs show up years before your period changes, and they’re easy to miss.

Dr. Jila Senemar is a board-certified OB-GYN and founder of JilaMD and the Miami Menopause Collective. She explains why sleep disruption, anxiety, mood changes and brain fog usually come before hot flashes. She also shares why ferritin is a test you have to ask for by name, and why testosterone matters for women well beyond libido. She ends with the five habits she wants every woman building in her 30s and 40s, along with how to find a provider who will take your symptoms seriously.

Wherever you are in this chapter, you’re not the only one feeling it, and you may have more options than you’ve been told.

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If you’re someone who keeps your foot on the gas because this season of life doesn’t leave room to slow down, this conversation is about staying there without burning out.

Ashley’s mom, Pam, joins us to talk about where healthy stress ends and burnout begins, and what to do when you feel yourself sliding.

Drawing on research from neuroscientist Dr. Terry Wu, Pam explains the difference between chronic stress, burnout, and depression, and why dopamine is the fuel that keeps you in your peak performance zone. We talk about the three things that lower stress (control, predictability, and progress), why a fishing trip a few times a year is a vacation and not an outlet, and how rest doesn’t always have to look slow. Pam also shares what her Whoop taught her about sleep, why she traded her headphones for a speaker turned all the way up, and how leaders can keep their teams out of burnout with autonomy, clear communication, and small wins celebrated in real time.

The work will always be there. We hope this helps you make room for yourself anyway.

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If you're someone with a shelf full of half-used products who still isn't seeing results, this conversation is a reset. Your skin starts changing in your 30s and 40s, and we are launching a cleanser to support those changes!

In this conversation we dive into why Barefaced took six years to launch a cleanser and the three questions every product has to answer before it comes to market. We talk about what your skin starts losing as you age (collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid) and why most cleansers focus on taking away when your skin actually needs something given back. Jordan walks through the 10 visible signs of aging, the core four products every routine is built on, and why a routine that protects, prevents, repairs, and corrects will outperform a 12-step lineup of similar products. Ashley shares how one consistent routine took her skin from dull at 27 to glowing at 33, and why letting an expert do the thinking takes one more thing off her mental load.

Here's to boring routines that actually work, and to growing into this next chapter together.

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If you're someone who feels guilty lying on the couch while your spouse is up and moving, or who fills every spare minute so you never feel like you're wasting time, you'll recognize yourself in this conversation. Mom guilt is real, but a lot of it is a story we tell ourselves.

This is a girlfriend chat about mom guilt and where it actually comes from. We talk about why our worth isn't tied to our productivity, how the expectations we carry often trace back to the way we were raised, and why setting your own standards (like being home for bedtime or capping how many nights you travel) can loosen guilt's grip.

We get honest about trying to be full-time at everything, the trad wife and girl boss algorithms pulling us in opposite directions, and why being a seven out of 10 in some areas right now is more than okay. We also talk about protecting your energy, staying connected to friends when you can't keep up with the group chat, and why the words you put after I am matter so much.

Wherever you are in this season, you're not navigating it alone.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown Start with Yourself by Emma Grede
• Hype song: New Name Written Down in Glory by Charity Gayle and David Gentiles
  
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If you've ever wondered whether you can really have it all, or felt behind because your life isn't following someone else's timeline, this conversation is a reset.

We sat down with Anne Mahlum, founder of [solidcore] and the nonprofit Back on My Feet, to talk about going all in without a plan B, knowing your number before you exit, and why your money mindset matters no matter what's in your bank account. Anne also opens up about meeting her husband at 42 and becoming a mom at 45, and why there's no such thing as early or late.

However your story is unfolding, we hope this reminds you there's no wrong order to build a life you love.

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Season 2 is here!

Most of us are building a life without ever stopping to ask if it's the one we actually want. Sahil Bloom did the math and changed everything in 45 days. He is the author of The Five Types of Wealth and this conversation will stay with you.

Awareness is perishable. This conversation is the push to actually do something with it.

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You've read the books. You've done the work. You know better, and you still can't shake it. This episode is our season one finale, and it's one of the most honest conversations we've had this season.

Ashley takes us through her therapy journey and we discuss: 

You are not alone and this is just the beginning.

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Wobbles the Worry Monster by Wendi Meise

Raising Worry Free Girls by Sissy Goff

Jesus Calling by Sarah Young 

Loren Castle was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at 22, and baking became her therapy. That therapy became Sweet Loren's, now in 35,000+ supermarkets, with Loren at the helm.

In this episode, we get into how she survived cancer at 22 and the mindset shift that turned it into fuel instead of fear, the scrappy beginnings (a reused chocolate box, a toaster oven on the subway, and the Whole Foods meeting that started it all), and the hard lessons in packaging, branding, and customer feedback that came from standing in front of real customers every day. We also chat about marriage, the therapy work it took to stop taking each other's triggers personally, and what it meant to finally bring in a president to run the day-to-day, giving her marriage, parenting, and the business room to breathe.

We love a story about building something from nothing, and what it costs along the way.

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Most people wait until they have a plan. Michelle Grant didn’t.

Michelle is the founder of Lively, the lingerie brand she launched in 2016 and sold in 2019, and Gorgie, the energy and wellness drink she built on TikTok before she had a can, a logo, or a name. In this conversation we talk about what it actually looks like to start before you are ready, why conviction has to come before the business plan, and how to think bigger than your comfort zone will allow. We also get into the moment Lively sold and what came after, how she got back up and started over, and why the in between is the best part of building anything.

This one is for anyone sitting on an idea and waiting for the right moment.

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If you’ve ever felt like the wellness world is just one big game of information overload — you’re not wrong. And you’re not alone.

Too many supplements, too many routines, too much noise and not enough clarity on what actually moves the needle.
Four experts in nutrition, supplements, movement, and skincare got together for one conversation. Here’s what they said:
• Why blood sugar balancing has become oversimplified – and what actually matters
• The case for creatine that has nothing to do with the gym (and everything to do with your brain)
• Why you might be sleeping eight hours and still chronically under-slept
• The eating hack that helps you stop before you’re stuffed – no willpower required
• What “intuitive eating” gets wrong for women whose nervous systems are already maxed out
• Why inflammation may have less to do with what you’re eating and more to do with how you’re living
• Why skin cycling isn’t backed by research — and the four products your skin actually needs instead
• Why 80% of your skin results have nothing to do with office treatments
This started as an IN IT event. It was too good to keep in the room.

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