Have you ever had a moment during perimenopause where you thought...

Wait. Haven't I done this before?

If you've been through puberty, you already know what a hormonal shitshow can look like. And now, a few decades later, some of us are getting the sequel.

Only this time, we're calling it Cougarty.

In this episode, we're getting into the strange parallels between puberty and midlife, what the hell a being a cougar means (to me), and why I think there's a lot more to this whole Cougarty thing than you might expect.

It's funny. It's a little ridiculous. It gets unexpectedly deep.

Basically, it's puberty.

Again.

But this time, we know some shit.

Welcome to Cougarty, Hotties.

You're not aging out. You're heating up.

Midlife Hottie is hosted and produced by Kelly Wood, Women’s Empowerment Coach, and Founder of Brand New Day Coaching.

Music: “Leopard Print Elevator” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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September has a way of making us want to get our shit together.

New routines. New goals. A fresh start before the end of the year.

But what if we stopped treating the final months of the year like one last productivity sprint?

In this episode of Midlife Hottie, Kelly takes a closer look at the viral “September Lock-In” trend and asks a different question: What if we locked in on ourselves?

Because after decades of being locked in on everyone else, maybe midlife is the time to get intentional about what actually deserves our energy.

Consider this your invitation to lock in, not lock down.

Midlife Hottie is hosted and produced by Kelly Wood, Women’s Empowerment Coach, and Founder of Brand New Day Coaching.

Music: “Leopard Print Elevator” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Perimenopause is having a moment. It’s all over social media, in the news, in celebrity conversations, and women are finally talking about it out loud.

But here’s the thing: perimenopause is not a trend.

In the very first episode of Midlife Hottie, Kelly talks about why this conversation matters, how women have been navigating the menopause transition for generations without the language or information to understand what was happening, and what changes when we finally start turning the lights on.

Because the conversation may be new, but the experience is not.

We’ll talk about the power of having language for what you’re experiencing, advocating for yourself in healthcare, and why midlife can be an invitation to stop putting your health and wellbeing at the bottom of the list.

This is just the beginning. Welcome to Midlife Hottie, a podcast for women who are done shrinking.

Resources

Looking for a menopause-informed healthcare practitioner?

The Menopause Society offers a searchable directory of healthcare professionals who provide care for women through perimenopause and beyond, including practitioners with the Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP) credential.

Find a Menopause Practitioner:
https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx

Note: Inclusion of The Menopause Society directory does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any individual practitioner.

Midlife Hottie is hosted and produced by Kelly Wood, Women’s Empowerment Coach, and Founder of Brand New Day Coaching.

Music: “Leopard Print Elevator” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is the official trailer for Midlife Hottie, a podcast for women who are done shrinking.

If you have been moving through midlife and quietly questioning who you are becoming, if your body, identity, relationships, or sense of purpose feel like they are shifting in ways you did not expect, you are not alone.

Midlife Hottie is a space for honest conversations about perimenopause, identity, self-worth, confidence, reinvention, and the deeper question so many women arrive at in this season: Who am I now and who was I before I learned to perform being a woman correctly?

This podcast is about what it means to stop disappearing inside your roles and start returning to yourself, messy, powerful, changing, and fully alive.

Through solo episodes and conversations with real women, we explore midlife not as a decline, but as an unveiling.

This trailer is your first glimpse into what is coming.

Midlife Hottie is hosted and produced by Kelly Wood, Women’s Empowerment Coach, and Founder of Brand New Day Coaching.

Music: “Leopard Print Elevator” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/