Rock Your Midlife

Had bariatric surgery or started a GLP-1, and the weight is creeping back? You’re not broken, and you didn’t fail.

In this episode of Rock Your Midlife, Dr. Ellen Albertson talks with Shenelle Green, founder of Bariatric Rewrite, about the truth most people avoid: weight regain after surgery is common, and it isn’t a moral failure. Shenelle shares her own journey from addiction and nearly 300 pounds to sobriety, surgery and building a coaching company that supports women worldwide. She explains why surgery and medication are powerful tools, but they don’t fix the brain, the habits or the lifestyle.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

✔️ Why bariatric surgery is not “the easy way out”

About the guest: Shenelle Green is the founder of Bariatric Rewrite, a coaching platform supporting women navigating bariatric surgery, GLP-1s and food addiction. She’s known for telling the truth most people avoid: weight regain after surgery is common, and it isn’t a moral failure. Shenelle works with women worldwide who feel ashamed, confused and stuck after doing what they were told and still not getting lasting results. Her approach blends real-time accountability, daily support and a strong community model to help clients rebuild how they eat, think and respond to life.

🔗 Connect with Shenelle:

Website → bariatricrewrite.com App → Rewrite Lifestyle (App Store & Google Play) Instagram → instagram.com/TheBariatricRewrite

Don't feel like yourself anymore? Wondering if your best years are behind you? They're not.

In this episode of Rock Your Midlife, Dr. Ellen Albertson sits down with psychotherapist and author Kimberly Wilson, founder of Tranquility du Jour, to talk about making midlife beautiful. Kimberly shares how she navigated selling the business she built for 18 years, ending a 21-year relationship, a hip replacement and turning 50, and why she believes midlife is when women truly come into their own.

This isn't about chasing youth. It's about beauty, balance, intention and the little glimmers that make everyday life feel good again.

In this episode, you'll learn:

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🔗 Connect with Kimberly:

Successful, driven, and suddenly unable to keep it all together in your 40s or 50s? It might not just be perimenopause. It could be ADHD that’s been there all along.

🎓 Join Dr. Stella’s webinar and learn how to understand your ADHD brain → https://www.seligo.net/webinarsignup

In this episode of Rock Your Midlife, Dr. Ellen Albertson talks with ADHD coach and 2x TEDx speaker Dr. Stella Dellamora, who was diagnosed with ADHD and OCPD at 52 and told, “You’re successful, just keep doing what you’re doing.” Instead, she spent hundreds of hours learning how her brain works and built ADHD School to help other high-achieving women do the same, without the struggle she went through.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

About the guest:

🎓 Sign up for Dr. Stella’s webinar:

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Your husband just asked for a divorce. What do you do first?

According to divorce attorney Diana Romanov, it's not calling your best friend or packing a bag. It's freezing the finances. In this episode of Rock Your Midlife, Diana explains why that first move matters so much, especially for women over 50, and how to protect yourself financially and emotionally so you can move into your next chapter with clarity, confidence and dignity.

Dr. Ellen Albertson, who got remarried just weeks before this conversation, gets candid about what she did wrong in her first divorce and what she'd do differently.

In this episode, you'll learn:

About the guest:

🔗 Connect with Diana:

Perimenopause bloating, brain fog, mood swings, and 3AM wake-ups? It's NOT just estrogen. In this episode of Rock Your Midlife, I sit down with Rachel Carta, RN, registered nurse and functional nutrition counselor, to uncover the real root causes of your perimenopause symptoms, starting with your gut, blood sugar, and nervous system.

I'm Dr. Ellen, The Midlife Whisperer®, and I've been a registered dietitian for 30 years. I can tell you that so many women blame everything on perimenopause, when the answer often starts with the basics. Rachel explains the "hormone pyramid" and why blood sugar and insulin sit at the base, below thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormones. If the base is shaky, your hormones don't stand a chance.

In this episode, you'll learn:

🌿 CONNECT WITH RACHEL CARTA, RN

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Perimenopause weight gain, crash diets that backfire, and self-sabotage that keeps pulling you back — sound familiar? 💥

On this episode of Rock Your Midlife, I sit down with Terry Tateossian — midlife health coach, certified personal trainer, nutritionist, and host of How Good Can It Get. At 37, Terry went from postpartum straight into perimenopause. She was 80 pounds overweight, battling panic attacks, prediabetes symptoms, and burnout, and landed in the ER twice thinking she was having a heart attack.

After years of extreme dieting and hours of cardio that only made things worse, Terry flipped everything upside down — and lost over 80 pounds after 40. Her secret? More protein, strength training, counting macros, less cardio, and healing the mindset behind the weight.

In this episode, you'll learn:

If you're a woman in your 40s, 50s, or 60s struggling with menopause weight gain, hormonal changes, or midlife burnout, this conversation will help you go from surviving to thriving. 🌹

🔗 CONNECT WITH TERRY TATEOSSIAN

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👍 If this episode helped you, like, subscribe, and share it with a girlfriend who needs it. Tell me in the comments: what's your biggest perimenopause struggle right now?

A neurologist told her to get her living will in order — that she had 3 years to live. Two and a half months later, she's drawing clocks, remembering birthdays, and getting her life back. 🧠

In this episode of Rock Your Midlife, I sit down with Dr. Clint Steele — brain health, nervous system & dementia prevention specialist with 30+ years of clinical experience, founder of The Better Brain Company, and bestselling author of "101 Brain Hacks to Prevent and Even Reverse Dementia (Including Alzheimer's)." He's followed by over 1 million people and is on a mission to save a million lives from dementia — and after this conversation, I understand why.

If you're a woman over 40, 50, or 60 struggling with brain fog, memory loss, forgetfulness, or you're scared about cognitive decline, dementia, or Alzheimer's — this episode will change how you think about your brain. Because cognitive decline is NOT an inevitable part of aging, and prevention starts NOW.

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Whether you want to boost memory, improve focus, clear brain fog, prevent dementia naturally, or simply protect your brain health for the next 20–30 years — grab a pen. This one's packed.

💬 Tell me in the comments: which brain hack are you starting TODAY?

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I'm Dr. Ellen Albertson, The Midlife Whisperer, and in this episode of Rock Your Midlife I sit down with Katya Johnson and Christi Hucks, the co-CEOs of Atmosphera — a clean, climate-curated skincare brand built at the intersection of beauty, science, and sustainability. We get into what's actually hiding in conventional skincare (the U.S. bans only a fraction of the ingredients the EU does), why "organic" doesn't automatically mean safe, and how Atmosphera's climate-curated approach means the moisturizer that works in a hot, humid climate is the wrong one for a cold, dry one.

I also ask Katya and Christi about their own reinventions — Christi left a career in law, Katya spent 15 years in corporate tech marketing — and how those paths led them to build a skincare brand rooted in "aging well" instead of anti-aging fear-marketing. If you're a woman in your 40s, 50s, 60s or beyond who's ready to trade a complicated 10-step routine for a simple ritual that actually protects your skin barrier, this conversation is for you. I partnered with Atmosphera because I believe in it — use my link below and save 10% on your Climate Bundle.

🌿 Shop Atmosphera + save 10% on your Climate Bundle (my link): https://atmospherabeauty.us/drellen 

Free shipping on orders $150+, and every Atmosphera product comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. New Rock Your Midlife episodes drop weekly to help women make their next chapter their best chapter.

I sat down with Dr. Carli Axford, founder of the Spinal Flow Technique, to talk about something midlife women almost never hear from their doctors: why your body physically stores stress and trauma — and how that shows up as chronic pain, menopause symptoms, and nervous system dysregulation.

In this episode, we get into:

Dr. Carli Axford is a chiropractor with over 30 years of experience and the founder of the Spinal Flow Technique, a healing modality now practiced by more than 4,000 certified practitioners worldwide. Her upcoming Hay House book, "Awaken Your Spinal Flow," releases in 2027.

If you're a woman in your 40s, 50s, or 60s dealing with unexplained pain, fatigue, or anxiety and you've been told it's "just hormones" or "just aging" — this conversation will change how you think about healing.

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Let me know in the comments: what is your body trying to tell you right now?

What if I told you that despite hot flashes, shifting relationships, and the endless challenges of adulting, your happiest years may actually be ahead of you?  

Welcome back to the Rock Your Midlife podcast! I'm Dr. Ellen, The Midlife Whisperer, and today we are diving into what decades of positive psychology research say about the fascinating U-shaped happiness curve. We often feel like our happiness hits rock bottom between the ages of 45 and 50, but the science shows that it doesn't continue downhill—it starts to climb right back up! 

In this episode, I break down the crucial difference between fleeting hedonic happiness and deeply fulfilling eudaimonic happiness. Plus, I'm sharing 10 science-backed, intentional daily habits you can start using today to move up that happiness curve faster. From practicing specific gratitude and leaning into your Human Design, to moving your body and protecting your peace, we are redefining what it means to live authentically in midlife.