Magnificent Midlife

Susan Saunders is the co-author of the best-selling book, The Age-Well Project, and author of her latest book, The Age-Well Plan which is a blueprint for how to age well. Susan's already been on the podcast to tell us all about what we can do to age well. That was Episode 76. This time, we're going to talk specifically about what we can do to promote our brain health.

We talk about:

• Why brain health is so important and personal to Susan
• How she lives with the knowledge of having the APOE gene
• How inflammation hurts us as we age
• How to reduce the impact of inflammation
• What "zombies" are when it comes to ageing
• How to reduce and prevent zombies in the body as we age
• What fisetin and quercetin are and where we can find them in our everyday diets
• The Mediterranean diet
• Understanding our ancestors' diets and how it can help us in the modern world
• Intermittent fasting – what it is, why it's good and why people like Susan do it
• The benefits of taking a cold shower
• Why we need to think about our gut health and why it's an important part of eating for the brain health
• Foods that can protect our brain health

And more!

Find out more about Susan:

Susan's website

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Susan's books: The Age Well Project | The Age Well Plan

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?

Mariann Aalda is an American actress, a performance artist, a stand-up comedian, and an age-full evangelist. She considers age to be her superpower and is determined we should all age shamelessly.

We talk about:

• Eliminating ageism by being age-full
• Mariann's career in acting
• What helped Mariann get back into acting
• Clubhouse as an important platform that gives everyone a voice
• Mariann's views on menopause
• Why saying "No" is so important
• Being diagnosed with cancer and how it changed Mariann's view on life
• Why it's important to know your limits
• What Mariann does in terms of fitness
• What we need to change in the world to enable women to age shamelessly
• Mariann's solo show, "Getting old is a bitch, but I'm gonna wrestle that bitch to the ground"
• Embracing female dominant characteristics
• Learning how to pivot in life

And more!

Find out more about Mariann:

Mariann's website: mariannaaldainherprime.com

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?

Karen Skidmore is a marketing consultant and business advisor with a particular interest in helping midlife women scale their small businesses without burning out. She's also had a lot of reinventions as she has moved through her midlife shifts.

We talk about:

• How Karen successfully made the transition from working in a corporate world to building her own business
• Why Karen was always ahead of the curve
• How Karen managed to balance family life and business in an ongoing basis considering different transitions
• The potential of businesses going virtual in reaching global audience over the coming years
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
• Karen's Embrace 2.0 event
• What inspired Karen to write her book, "True Profit Business"
• Karen's journey in figuring out what kind of business really suited her
• How Karen sees business as three energies
• The systems and processes that we can apply to life and at the same time, in our business
• Having a routine to support you
• How we can factor in our cycles
• The different energies we have as we go through a menstrual cycle
• What a moon cycle is

And more!

Find out more about Karen:

Karen's website: karenskidmore.com

Know more about Karen's Embrace Festival

Karen's book: True Profit Business: How to play your bigger game without burning out

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Book mentioned in the interview: Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?

Michelle Weidenbenner is an author, speaker, and podcaster. She's also the proud mother of a recovering addict. She has made it her mission to help other mothers of addicts.

We talk about:

• Michelle's story and how she came to do what she does
• How she came to terms with what was happening in her family and how she dealt with it
• How Michelle advises women to cope and deal with their child's addiction
• The crippling fear that Michelle used to feel
• What faith means to Michelle and how it has helped her
• The advice she'd give to someone who doesn't have faith, to help with addiction
• What mothers can do if they have concerns about their child becoming addicted
• Why letting go is a key theme of Michelle's work when working with women
• The steps in letting go
• What Michelle wants moms to know about addiction and looking after their addicted child

And more!

Michelle's website: michelleweidenbenner.com

Download Michelle's Guide: Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, 7 Steps to Self-Recovery

Join Michelle's Facebook Group: Moms Letting Go

For Sisterhood and Support, join: All-Mighty Mom Tribe

Read Michelle's Books: Amazon Book Page

Listen to Michelle's podcast: Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?

Meet Alexandra Boyd, a woman of many talents! She's an actress, in Mr Holland's Opus, Titanic, and Coronation Street to name just a very few, a screenwriter and film director, a video games icon, a singer, and a campaigner. She's also been incredibly brave recently in her personal life for love!

We talk about:

• How she crossed the ocean for love in midlife
• How she made the decision to give up one life for another one
• What it's like living in a mobile home in the woods
• Moving from being in front of the camera to behind it
• About her feature film Widow's Walk and how that came to be made
• Basing her film in the county where she grew up – Suffolk
• How she secured Virginia McKenna in one of the lead roles
• Holding the film premiere at Bafta
• Championing other women in the film industry through her new foundation, Artemisia's Daughters

And more!

Find out more about Alexandra:

Alexandra's website: www.alexandraboyd.co.uk

Her foundation: www.artemisiasdaughters.org

Her film: Watch the trailer of Widow's Walk here.

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?

Maryon Stewart is known as the pioneer of the natural menopause movement. She created a non-drug but scientifically based program to overcome issues associated with menopause and has helped thousands of women. She's written 28 books and is also a campaigner for education around drugs. She's made it her mission to ensure women have all the information they need to manage menopause effectively without the need for medication in most instances.

We talk about:

• What it means to manage your menopause naturally
• Why HRT isn't the magic solution to hormonal issues
• The need for a midlife refuel
• The biggest nutritional deficiencies seen in midlife women
• The most common issues women present with who come to consult with Maryon
• The most embarrassing issues women are coping with
• Maryon's advice for low libido and vaginal dryness
• How we can improve our diet and what it helps
• Bloating in midlife and how to fix it
• Why we can get more urinary tract infections and what to do about that

And more!

Find out more about Maryon:

Maryon's website: maryonstewart.com

Maryon's book: Manage Your Menopause Naturally

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?

My guest today is Ricki Heller, cookbook author, holistic nutritionist and anti-candida crusader. She's the ultimate expert, I reckon, on making dietary restrictions work, whether because you have to for health reasons or you just want to. She's completely plant-based, sugar-free and still eats the most amazing food. This episode covers a wide range of foods you may need or want to restrict in your diet: gluten, sugar, meat, dairy, processed food etc.

We talk about:

• Candida overgrowth, its causes, and symptoms
• Holistic vs allopathic medicine and their approaches to diet
• Nutrition and its lack of inclusion in western medical training
• The mysteries of the gut biome and its effects on the body
• Alternative eating, methods, diets, and how to stick to them
• Sugar alternatives, such as coconut sugar, date sugar, monk fruit, and more
• Baking with alternatives, gluten-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free
• Junk food cravings, how and why they happen
• Emotional eating and its negative effects
• Menopause, dealing with it with a restrictive diet
• Making dietary restrictions such as dairy-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, while still being able to enjoy what you eat
• Halloween and ways that families prevent their children from eating too much junk

And more!

Find out more about Ricki:

Ricki's website: www.rickiheller.com

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Ricki's books:

Living Candida-Free, Naturally Sweet and Gluten-Free and Sweet Freedom

You may download Ricki's freebie here: Three Simple Shifts to Stay on Track Right Now

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?

Meet Rebecca Robertson, an independent financial advisor who set up her own business, Evolution Financial Planning specifically to empower women financially. She's passionate about helping women get more financially secure. She's also convinced the world will be a much better place if more of its wealth is in the hands of women, who are then able to make better decisions with it.

We talk about:

• Why it's so important for women to focus on their financial security • Why it's crucial for women to be financially empowered • How financial security enables women to make better decisions • The importance of being proactive about our finances and not abdicating responsibility • Understanding the "what if" scenarios as you get a bit older • The need for setting boundaries when it comes to money • The importance of getting good legal advice when it comes to new relationships and protecting assets • The mistakes midlife women sometimes make when it comes to money • Having your own (emergency) funds so you don't need to ask for money if you need/want it • Staying up to date with the specifics of your finances and being mindful of what you need • How women often want to understand and be more involved with investing, asking more questions than men • How many women assume money and finances is not for them but is actually what everyone needs to be doing • The importance of your social circle on how you interact with money and finance • The English approach to money and the cultural stigma around it • What Rebecca means by financial abundance • How having enough money allowed Rebecca to buy a horse • It's never too late to change your financial position • Managing your money and making the most of it • Looking at your values around your spending • Possibilities for investing money you can afford to lose • Rebecca's journey from being special needs at school to successful businesswoman • The difference to the world if more women have more of the world's wealth

And more!

Find out more about Rebecca:

Rebecca's Websites: rebeccarobertson.co.uk

evolutionfinancialplanning.co.uk

Listen to her podcast: Accelerating Your Wealth podcast

Watch her TEDx Talk: If women ruled the world…

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?

An interview with Elizabeth Solaru, the founder of Elizabeth's Cake Emporium and maker of luxury wedding cakes. Elizabeth has a fascinating story to tell about multiple reinventions including a new one accelerated by the global pandemic. She's the mistress of creating opportunity out of challenge.

We talk about:

• Elizabeth's careers before cake-making
• Being a microbiologist and working for the health service
• The trauma of child loss
• Why Elizabeth went back to college to study for an MBA
• How she started headhunting while still studying
• Making the leap into luxury cake making
• Famous clients and exotic locations
• Coping during Covid when your business is wedding cakes
• Being open to possibility and curious about how to fix issues
• Feeling the fear and doing it anyway

And more!

Find out more about Elizabeth:

Her websites:

Elizabeth's Cake Emporium | Luxury Wedding Cakes London

Create the Luxury Business of Your Dreams | Luxury Business Emporium

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?

Meet Susan Saunders, co-author of the best-selling book, The Age-Well Project and author of her latest book The Age-Well Plan, a blueprint for how to age well. The Age-Well Project is the book I wish I'd written so I was thrilled to have Susan talk to us. She will inspire you to see that you have so much impact on how you age.

We talk about:

• How Susan's family history lead her to want to age well
• How the Age-Well Project started and the research involved
• The six key areas of aging well
• Starting with a purpose: why do you want to age well?
• Getting the right nutrition
• What to include or not include in your diet if you want to age well
• The importance of fibre
• The dirty dozen and the clean fifteen
• The importance of movement
• How to do easy movement throughout the day
• Getting enough of the right kind of sleep
• How to prioritize sleep
• Having a positive attitude towards aging
• Considering the environment in which you live

And more!

Find out more about Susan:

Susan's website

Susan's books: The Age Well Project | The Age Well Plan

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Other resources:

Dirty dozen and clean 15 – UK

Dirty dozen and clean 15 - US

Environmental Working Group

Pesticide Action Network UK

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You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?