Mixing Up Midlife

Dr. Cari Schaefer, DACM is the founder of Wise Woman Emerging, a platform midwifing women through the menopausal change. Her vision is to restore women with the empowerment, lost in our current culture, of this phase of life and help them find the optimal mental, spiritual and physical balance she knows is possible.

Dr. Cari brings over 22 years of experience as a healthcare provider, educator and lecturer, as well as her knowledge as a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Nationally Certified herbalist and author of the Amazon best-selling book, The Food Solution.

Dr. Cari has guided thousands of people to identify and remove the barriers blocking them from feeling good, so they can claim the life of their dreams.

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Happy Thanksgiving! After last week's episode with Erica Schulte King about finding friends as empty nesters, we talk about making connections in our own social communities and how we might make them stronger and more robust. We invite you to add suggestions! We're giving gratitude for our listeners and those who have become friends. We move into holiday movie watching, game playing and a bit of imbibing

Please listen to The AnnaLogues ep.53 on Gratitude. Anna has a beautiful episode and practice.

Weekend Watch Holiday Movies:

Spirited Apple TV+

The Santa Clauses Disney+

Christmas With You Netflix

Dash & Lily Netflix

Home For Christmas Netflix sorry! We called this home for the holidays

A Christmas Story Sequel

Games to Play

New Phone Who Dis

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

Saran Wrap Ball

Exit

Chameleon

Blank Slate

Jack In The Box

Holiday Cocktails:

Spanish Espresso Martini

Pumpkin Spice Milk Punch

TikTok Talk:

@likeablecocktails

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What happens when you ask a vulnerable question about your life as an empty nester on TikTok ? Our guest, Erica Schulte King found out when she opened up on the social media app about finding it tricky making new friends. The comments that she got in her now viral video, encouraged her to take action and to arrange a meet-up of women in Minnesota who were interested in creating connections, too. She also formed a company, built a website and formed an advisory board with some of the women from that meet up to take this idea further .

We know you'll love Erica as much as we did and we encourage you to follow along on this journey. She's going to be doing great & good things.

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Friends for 40 years, Terri & Melissa have weekly conversations with and about women who are in the most exquisite time of their lives-The Midlife years. Join them for a journey into a more adventurous life through curiosity, conversation and connection.

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We're asking ourselves, at the ages of 57 & 58, Is it too late to start a skin care routine and do we have what it takes to keep up on all the things from cleansing, toning, cupping, moisturizing to Frownies and special pillows. We talk about 5 alternatives to botox and What the heck does Vitamin C do? The discussion turns to Pro-Aging vs, Anti-anging, Diane Von Furstenberg and taking care of yourself in an authentic way.

TikTokTalk:

Spiders

Dogs

Try It or Buy It

Frownies

Peter Thomas Roth eye cream

Plexiderm

Sleep and Glow Pillow

Botox in a Bottle

Daxxify ( Like Botox, but lasts longer)

Weekend Watch:

House of DVF Reality Show

Killing Eve

Love Is Blind

What We're Reading

The Midnight Library

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Hot & Flashy Skincare Guide

Pro-Aging vs. Anti-Aging

The Budget Dermatologist 5 Alternatives to Botox

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What scares you and keeps you up at night? On today's show we talk to a listener and fellow podcaster, Anna Garrison, who isn't scared when she meets "spirited" friends. Join us as Anna tells us her experiences photographing homes where some of the past residents still reside. Melissa is afraid of the top two most common things that scare people, but clowns, which are not on the top 5 list, freak both Terri and Melissa out. How about a jump-scare or a haunted forest? Oh, and Happy 3 year anniversary to Mixing Up Midlife. Thanks so much for listening!

Weekend Watch:

The Watcher

28 Days Haunted

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Why does reading, something that gives us so much joy, seem so difficult? Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?

Today, Terri & Melissa talk about their difficulties with reading as they age. Melissa comes in with the science of why it may be harder to read as we age. Look below for great lists of how to make reading a habit again, what the Washington Times suggests you read at what age and what the Fairfax County Library says about audiobooks.

TikTokTalk:

One Thing About Me- The Rosenthals

Try It or Buy It

Trader Joe's Micellar Makeup Wipes

Face cupping

Weekend Watch:

Bad Sisters Apple TV

The School for Good & Evil Netflix

What We're Reading:

Killers Of A Certain Age Deanna Raybourn

The Midnight Library Matt Haig

Understory

Cocktail:

The Crusty Rim Cocktails

The Clever Winifred

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https://nerdfighteria.info/v/sSlM2yV7ZcM/ has a youtube video in there (for those of us who don't like to read lol

https://www.alexbirkett.com/why-you-should-read-50-books-a-year/ Should we go for 50 books in 2023?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/entertainment/books/100-books-for-the-ages/

To jumpstart reading we can use these ideas:

https://www.mindjoggle.com/best-books-start-reading-habit/

For tips on how to develop the reading habit, this article seemed more detailed than the simple "turn off your phone…"

https://nickwignall.com/reading-habit/

Books with over 50 characters https://bookgirlsguide.com/books-with-characters-in-their-50s/

From The Fairfax County public library: Is Audiobook listening Considered Reading

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How do you feel about your hair? Does it give you confidence or is it something you barely think about?

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We are talking about Bad Sisters today, the Apple TV+ dark comedy about 5 sisters in Ireland, who conspire to kill their misogynistic, emotionally abusive brother-in-law to save their sister.

Hot Flash:

Alex Jones to pay 1 Billion in damages to Sandy Hook Families

Weekend Watch:

Bad Sisters Apple TV+

TikTok Talk:

Negroni Spagliato With Prosecco

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What do curiosity, a panic attack, whale watching and Taylor Swift all have in common? A wild ride of an episode! Terri & Melissa talk about a failed festival, root canal, whale watching, Taylor Swift & Emily Dickinson. We've got a hot flash, your weekend watch, more than one TikTok Talk and if you're really lucky, you'll get to see the poetic lyrics of the band that never was- Turned On 21. You'll have to join us on social media to see that!

Hot Flash:

Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard

Weekend Watch:

House of The Dragon HBO Max

Bad Sisters Apple TV

Hocus Pocus 2 Disney+

TikTok Talk:

Skin Cycling, Dr. Whitney Bowe

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Taylor Swift Midnights Mayhem With Me

TikTok user Barbarella Emily Dickinson/Lover House/ Swifttok

TikTok user almondmilkzo for Swiftie Town Halls

TikTok user swifttokdective because her reactions are priceless

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Episode 133 Living Curiously With Sarah Davanzo

Episode 37 How to Develop Intuition with Tina Conroy

RESOURCES AND SOURCES :

Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Gives Away The Company

The Ringer-Verse Podcast a Spotify original

Emily Dickinson Envelope Poems pdf

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How is your curiosity manifesting? Cultural Strategist and Quantitative Futurist, Sarah Davanzo is back, talking about the four modalities of curiosity: Think, Feel, See & Do. It's a wild ride of a conversation, and we loved every minute of it.

Sarah DaVanzo is a Cultural Strategist and Quantitative Futurist with >70% accuracy (a.k.a. "superforecaster") who has helped over one hundred businesses future-proof. Her futurized insights have featured in Time, The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Co., The Guardian, Wired and two TEDx talks. After living/working internationally and cross-culturally for two decades in 22 countries, today Sarah leads the Data Office (insights, intelligence & foresight) for one of the world's most interesting sustainable companies, Pierre Fabre. When she is not teaching "tomorrowing" methods she is promoting diversity, equity, inclusion & access (DEI&A) in the futures field via the CURIOUS FUTURES project. She also produces handmade collectible art zines, such as Insight Alchemy. Her book showing how foresight DEI&A can prevent f@*ked futures, synthesizing seven years of original research and experiments, will be published in 2023.

Live Curiously!

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Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast And Slow delves into the two systems in our brain and how they can affect us on our daily judgments and decisions.

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