Wellness Junkies | Beauty & Wellness Tips, Hacks, Recs & Reviews for Women 40+

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Most workouts don't come with a bass drop and a room full of women who have stopped caring what they look like. Dance parties for women over 40 have become a popular way to blow off steam without a late night or a guilt trip. On this episode of Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman talks with Laura Baginski, co-founder of Earlybirds Club, the sold-out dance party movement now running in 40 cities nationwide.

Laura built the club with her high school friend Susie Lee while Susie was living with stage four cancer. Laura shares the origin story, the blizzard that almost canceled their first event, and the phrase Susie asked every guest to live by, one that still opens every party today.

Expect relatable wellness conversations about why an all-women dance floor changes how people move, plus the one detail on every venue rider that has nothing to do with music. It is one of the small touches that keeps people coming back to these dance parties for women over 40. Laura also shares her own wellness tips, from her real sleep routine to the one skincare product she reorders on autopilot.

If you want proof that a dance party for women 40+ can double as therapy, a workout, and a reunion with your own joy, press play. Find more episodes like this on Wellness Junkies, one of the best wellness podcasts for women chasing midlife friendship and joy without the overwhelm.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Welcoming Laura Baginski To Wellness Junkies

01:03 The Idea Behind Earlybirds Club

04:29 Laura's Career Before Dance Parties

05:37 The Blizzard That Almost Sank Launch Night

07:37 Selling Out And Expanding To Forty Cities

09:44 Why An All Women Dance Floor Feels Different

17:07 Running The Business Through Local Ambassadors

21:16 Remembering Co-Founder Susie Lee's Legacy

25:41 Advice For Women Who Hate Dancing

34:06 Laura's Wellness And Beauty Rapid Fire

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REPLAY! You can be doing everything right and still feel wiped out by 2 p.m. That drained, running-on-empty feeling is one of the most common complaints Lindsey hears from the women she works with, and it usually has nothing to do with willpower. This episode gets into what's actually driving low energy in midlife.

Amy sits down with Lindsey Kaszuba, wellness mentor and founder of Health Club Collective, for a conversation about mindset and health that goes beyond another meal plan or supplement stack. Lindsey has spent years helping women simplify wellness without losing their minds in the process.

She breaks down her energy bank concept, the idea that everything you eat, watch, and do either fills your tank or drains it. Lindsey also shares why she stopped weighing herself and what that choice uncovered about her own relationship with the number on the scale. It ties directly into the mindset shift around health she now teaches her clients.

If low energy in midlife has you searching for answers, this episode offers simple health habits you can actually stick to, no complicated morning routine required. Amy and Lindsey talk through practical wellness hacks and what it really takes to learn how to feel better in your body at this stage of life.

Tune in to the full conversation and start making small shifts that actually stick.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Welcome and Meet Lindsey Kaszuba

01:25 What a Wellness Mentor Actually Does

02:55 Why the Mental Work Is Hardest

06:38 Lindsey's Disordered Eating and Path to Coaching

10:36 Fighting Your Body Less in Midlife

14:17 The Energy Bank and Simple Plate Rule

28:22 Breaking Up With the Scale for Good

34:26 Small Habits for Silence and Sleep

39:01 What's Broken in the Wellness Industry

42:43 Favorite Wellness, Beauty Hacks, and Routines

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REPLAY! This is a favorite episode from the archive, back by popular demand.

Most of what slows aging happens years before anyone considers surgery. That's the case Dr. Ruslan Zhuravsky makes in this episode of Wellness Junkies, and it starts with skincare tips most women skip entirely.

Dr. Zhuravsky is a board-certified facial plastic surgeon and founder of Z Face Plastic Surgery in South Florida. He's known for pushing back on the trend of copying celebrity faces instead of building beauty routines around your own anatomy. He joins host Amy Sherman for a warm, honest conversation about what works.

He shares the exact wellness and beauty hacks he uses himself, including what sits next to his toothbrush every morning. He explains why microneedling only works if you layer the right ingredients underneath it, what exosomes do, and why some popular under-eye treatments deliver far less than the marketing suggests.

For anyone curious about surgery down the line, he explains the real difference between a mini facelift and a true deep plane facelift, why some surgeons perform the procedure on patients in their thirties, and why chasing natural facelift results too early may not deliver the outcome you expect. Press play for the skincare tips worth stealing long before you consider anything more invasive.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Meet Dr. Ruslan Zhuravsky and His Natural Approach

02:12 Defining Aging Well Beyond Quick Fixes and Trends

03:34 The Three Pillars of Skin Laxity and Volume

07:05 Microneedling, PRP, and Exosomes Explained

14:12 A Crash Course in Lasers and Their Targets

19:47 Why Energy Devices Can't Fix Sagging Skin

23:33 The Deep Plane Facelift Explained and Who Qualifies

29:50 Mini Facelifts, Fillers, Sculptra, and Fat Transfer Compared

39:49 Liquid Rhinoplasty, Tip Lifts, and Nose Filler Risks

51:23 Skincare Brands He Trusts and His Wellness Hacks

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REPLAY! Some episodes deserve a second run. Korean skincare keeps trending across feeds and store shelves, and this conversation remains the one listeners quote back to us. So we brought back a favorite. You get skincare product recommendations from someone whose routine started in elementary school. On this replay of Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman sits down with Elle Choi Son, a Korean American content creator with a background in professional makeup and social media marketing, for beauty tips rooted in decades of practice.

Elle walks through her full AM and PM beauty routines product by product. She names the toner she has repurchased for over five years, the PDRN serum she tested one week before recording, and the jar she describes as microneedling at home. She also explains which four skincare products form a complete starter routine, so beginners know exactly where to begin.

You also hear the story behind her start, which began when she competed in a Miss Korea pageant at age eighteen. Plus, Elle shares the K-beauty influencer habit she finds cringeworthy. Amy and Elle trade skincare tips on masks, sunscreens, and where to shop for authentic Korean skincare online.

Press play for skincare product recommendations worth screenshotting, plus beauty product recommendations for the days you have five minutes to look put together. 

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Welcome To Wellness Junkies With Elle Choi Son

01:18 Elle's Miss Korea Pageant Story And Path Into Beauty

04:13 Korean Skincare Vs Western Skincare Philosophy

09:57 Skincare Basics For Beginners

12:06 Elle's Full AM And PM Skincare Product Recommendations

17:13 Eye Cream And Night Cream Picks

18:16 Sunscreen And SPF Favorites

19:46 Where To Buy Authentic K-Beauty Products

20:33 Sheet Masks Vs Clay Masks

22:52 Ingredients To Watch For With Sensitive Skin

25:58 How To Choose Skincare Trends Worth Trying

28:21 Best Skincare Advice: Double Cleansing With Oil

30:27 Favorite French And Japanese Beauty Brands

32:09 Best Skincare Devices And Tools

34:12 Quick Five-Minute Beauty Routine

36:22 Most Repurchased Toner

37:50 Balancing Wellness Through Cooking And Daily Habits

38:40 Where To Follow Elle Choi Son

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REPLAY! Bariatric surgery is the most effective tool for lasting weight loss, and her experience performing thousands of procedures has given Dr. Betsy Dovec a clear understanding of what can help patients succeed.

In this episode of Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman sits down with Dr. Dovec, a top female bariatric surgeon and founder of BodyByBariatrics, to break down the decision between bariatric surgery vs GLP-1 medications from the perspective of someone who treats patients with both options every day. Dr. Dovec explains what gastric bypass surgery involves, why some patients go home the same day, and who may be an ideal candidate.

The conversation then turns to GLP-1 weight loss medications. Amy and Dr. Dovec compare Ozempic and Zepbound, the often-overlooked side effects, and explain why weight regain is common after patients stop taking these medications. Dr. Dovec also shares why some post-surgery patients respond well to GLP-1 medications and how the combination may help support their long-term results.

For women in midlife, this episode examines how GLP-1 medications may fit into treatment for weight gain during perimenopause and menopause. Dr. Dovec explains why the habits you once relied on may become less effective as your hormones shift. She also discusses the health risks associated with visceral fat and the potential role of GLP-1 treatment in reducing the internal fat linked to heart attacks, strokes, and fatty liver disease.

If you have tried every diet and still feel stuck, this conversation about bariatric surgery and GLP-1 medications offers a clearer framework for understanding your options.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Meet Bariatric Surgeon Dr. Betsy Dovec

01:28 What Gastric Bypass Surgery Actually Involves

04:55 Who Qualifies as a Bariatric Surgery Candidate

06:30 Bariatric Surgery vs GLP-1 for Long-Term Success

09:37 Why GLP-1 Medications Are a Hot Topic

10:57 Semaglutide and Tirzepatide Dosing Explained

13:34 Same Drug Different Label for Diabetes and Weight Loss

15:54 Oral GLP-1 Pills and What Comes Next

17:25 Brand-Name vs. Compounded GLP-1 Medications

21:13 GLP-1 Benefits During Perimenopause and Menopause

23:13 Breaking the Stigma Around GLP-1 Use

27:26 Visceral Fat Differences in Men and Women

30:55 Sugar, Fatty Liver, and Visceral Fat Risks

32:56 How Surgery and GLP-1 Both Reduce Visceral Fat

36:40 Inside the OR Surgery Time and Recovery

38:38 Dr. Dovec's Beauty and Self-Care Routine

48:07 Where to Find Dr. Betsy Dovec

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REPLAY! This episode deserves a second listen, so we are bringing back a conversation you do not want to miss.

Your body carries a hidden chemical load, and most of the sources sit in your kitchen, your bathroom, and your grocery cart.

On Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman talks with Jenna Hua, PhD, CEO and founder of Million Marker, about endocrine-disrupting chemicals and how these hidden toxins can interfere with hormones, fertility, and long-term health. Jenna started Million Marker in 2019. The company offers a mail-in urine test for hormone disruptors, informed by her fertility struggles and her research as an environmental health scientist.

Jenna explains why BPA-free products can fall short, since manufacturers may swap one molecule for another and leave the label unchanged. She breaks down how phthalates in cosmetics can hide under the single word “fragrance” and shares the moment she found phthalates in her own vitamins and packaging tape.

The conversation connects fertility, toxins, and long-term health with clear science, showing why these exposures can build slowly over time. Jenna closes with simple ways to detox your home, from stainless steel cookware to glass food storage to a reverse osmosis water filter. This replay hands you a real plan reducing endocrine-disrupting chemicals at home.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Wellness Junkies Welcomes Jenna Hua Of Million Marker

02:02 What Million Marker Tests For In Your Body

06:30 How Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Affect Your Hormones

10:07 Why BPA-Free Labels Do Not Guarantee Safety

14:06 Why Manufacturers Still Use BPA And Phthalates

18:22 The Truth About Fragrance Free And Unscented Labels

20:43 How To Spot Petroleum-Based Ingredients On Labels

21:47 Inside The Million Marker Testing Process

26:39 What Your Results Mean Against The National Average

32:36 Why Exposure Timing Matters For Kids And Pregnancy

35:24 Simple Steps To Detox Your Home

41:36 Jenna's Go-To Wellness Hack And Beauty Routine

Jenna Hua:

Follow Million Marker on Instagram

Visit the Million Marker website

About Jenna Hua:

Jenna Hua, RD, MPH, PhD. Chief Executive Officer and Founder. A registered dietitian and environmental health scientist by training, Jenna's past research has focused on how our surrounding environment impacts our behaviors and health. An ardent believer in disease prevention, she wants to provide personalized preventive strategies for everyone to lead a healthier life. 

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REPLAY! This one is worth coming back to.

Shana Draugelis built The Mom Edit into a platform that reaches over three million visitors a year because she started from the same place most moms do. On Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman sits down with Shana for a conversation that makes getting dressed, taking care of your skin, and showing up for yourself feel a lot more doable.

Shana has spent over a decade paying attention to what women actually need when they open their closets, and her mom style tips reflect that. Her take on mom fashion cuts through the noise, her closet cleanout tips take the dread out of a task most people put off for years, and her read on what is worth buying and wearing right now is the kind of advice that saves you time and money.

The beauty conversation follows the same logic. Her beauty routines, skincare tips, and beauty hacks are built for a full schedule, and her relatable beauty tips come from someone who has done the testing so you do not have to. She also shares the wellness routines that keep her grounded as a founder and a mom, and one of them is so simple it might surprise you.

Shana approaches mom style tips the way she approaches everything at The Mom Edit. Figure it out together. No perfection required.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Mom Style Tips with Shana Draugelis of The Mom Edit

00:20 How The Mom Edit Grew from a Playground Blog to 3 Million Readers

06:17 Closet Cleanout Tips That Actually Make It Feel Doable

09:04 How to Clean Out Your Closet by Category Without the Overwhelm

11:04 Mom Fashion for Winter: Baggy Jeans, Oversized Sweaters, and the Right Shoes

13:47 Why Your Coat Length Makes or Breaks a Baggy Jean Outfit

15:20 Why Blazers Are Not the Answer and What to Wear Instead

17:33 The Oversized Bomber as the Blazer Alternative Worth Trying

18:47 The Two Products Every Woman Over 40 Should Know About

19:18 goPure Tighten & Lift Neck Cream for Crepiness

20:23 The Patterned Silk Top Worth Adding to Your Wardrobe

23:16 The Protein Shake Habit That Keeps Busy Moms From Making Bad Food Decisions

25:39 Five-Minute Beauty Routine: Skincare Tips, Hair, and Makeup Products Shana Swears By

29:24 Daily Wellness Routines That Help Shana Stay Grounded as a Busy Mom

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REPLAY! We are bringing this one back because getting older does not have to mean giving up on how you look and feel, and this conversation is proof.

Juliana Spaven is a 50-plus model, content creator, and the founder of Silver Highlights 1971, a platform built around helping women age well without surgery, Botox, or toxic products. On Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman and Juliana dig into the real conversation most women are having privately but rarely hear out loud, and why your 50s might be the most powerful decade yet.

Juliana shares the wellness tips and beauty routines that changed everything for her, from ditching Botox after a decade to building a skincare practice rooted in clean ingredients and consistency. She breaks down her approach to face yoga and how targeted facial exercises helped lift and define her features without a single procedure. She also walks through her skincare product recommendations, including the brands she trusts and the at-home tools that have made the biggest difference in her skin.

Aging naturally is a full-body practice, and Juliana breaks down how nutrition, movement, and mindset all show up on your face and in your energy. She also shares the beauty hacks she swears by and why looking good starts long before you ever open a skincare product.

If you have ever wondered whether it is too late to age well and make a real change, this episode will change your mind.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Meet Juliana Spaven of Silver Highlights 1971

01:39 How a Personal Reset Led Her to Age Well

06:37 Movement, Nutrition, and the Lifestyle Shift Women Need

10:03 Why Clean Beauty Starts With Reading the Label

12:24 Quitting Botox After a Decade and What She Did Instead

13:36 How Frownies Work and Why She Swears by Them

17:06 Face Yoga Before and After Results

20:05 Inside the Six-Module Facial Exercise Program

25:20 Hair Loss, Hormones, and Scalp Health for Women Over 40

31:29 Clean Skincare Brands and Best Beauty Products

32:41 Supplements Worth Taking and At-Home Derma Rolling

37:24 How She Eats for Energy and Longevity

42:08 Five-Minute Beauty Routine and Clean Mascara Pick

44:52 Daily Meditation and How She Stays Grounded

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REPLAY! Dr. Dan Ginader said something in this episode that stopped us in our tracks, and we think you need to hear it again. Most of the pain you're dealing with every day is not something you just have to live with.

On Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman sits down with Dr. Dan Ginader, doctor of physical therapy and the internet's favorite PT with over 1.5 million followers. His approach to physical therapy and wellness tips is refreshingly simple and built for real people with real lives.

The truth is, most chronic pain, including neck tension, tight hips, the back that never quite feels right, comes down to how little we move throughout the day. Dr. Dan makes that easy to understand and even easier to act on. This is relatable wellness that doesn't ask you to overhaul your life. It just asks you to start somewhere.

Whether you've been brushing off restless leg syndrome, pushing through arthritis, or ignoring an injury that won't quit, Dr. Dan gives you a smarter take on pain management and what your body needs. Good pain management is less about finding the perfect exercise and more about showing up consistently. That's a wellness hack worth hearing twice.

This is exactly the kind of conversation that makes Wellness Junkies one of the best wellness podcasts for women who are done with complicated answers.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Meet Dr. Dan Ginader, the Internet's Favorite Physical Therapist

01:44 From TikTok to Broadway: How Dr. Dan Built His Career

08:02 The Most Common Pain Complaints Dr. Dan Sees in the Clinic

09:44 The Daily Movement Wellness Tips That Support Long-Term Health

12:57 At-Home Exercises for Back Pain Relief

15:51 What Is Restless Leg Syndrome and How to Manage It

18:57 Therapy Bands, Foam Rollers, and Self-Massage Techniques

20:43 Why Chronic Neck Pain Is Rarely Just a Neck Problem

25:56 Tight Hamstrings and Growing Pains Explained

29:15 How to Build a Simple Daily Stretching Routine

31:15 What Arthritis Actually Means and How to Stay Active With It

35:32 Working With Broadway Performers and Dancers

38:13 How to Loosen Tight Hips

39:24 Sports Injuries by Sport and Why Early Specialization Backfires

44:18 Dr. Dan's Favorite Wellness Hack and How He Stays Grounded

Connect with Dr. Dan Ginader:

Follow Dr. Dan on TikTok @dr.dan_dpt

Follow Dr. Dan on Instagram @dr.dan_dpt

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REPLAY! This conversation is too important to hear only once, and Jackie Goldschneider is exactly the reason why. Eating disorder recovery is not about food, and she wants you to understand why.

On this episode of Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman sits down with Jackie Goldschneider, author, activist, and Real Housewives of New Jersey former cast member, to talk about something rarely discussed with this level of honesty. Jackie lived with anorexia for nearly two decades before finding her way to health in her mid-forties, and her story is a reminder that eating disorder recovery can happen at any stage of life.

Her memoir, The Weight of Beautiful, was born from the experience she wished she'd had when she was searching for answers. She opens up about what it felt like to live inside an illness that nobody around her truly understood, why eating disorders in women so often go unrecognized, and what she wants families to know about eating disorder mental health. Telling someone to just eat does not work, and this conversation explains why.

Jackie also reflects on the relationship between mental health and body image, the role compulsive movement played in her disorder, and the moment she finally decided to ask for help. For anyone who has struggled personally or watched someone they love struggle, eating disorder awareness starts with honest conversations like this one.

She shares what life looks like now, from friendships and writing, to therapy and learning that good enough is sometimes exactly enough.

Episode Breakdown:

00:00 Jackie Goldschneider on Eating Disorder Recovery and Advocacy

01:28 Weekly Highs With Amy and Jackie

03:29 How Anorexia Took Hold and What No One Talked About

06:02 What People Get Wrong About Eating Disorder Mental Health

08:32 The Rock Bottom Moment That Changed Everything

13:00 Going Public on Real Housewives and the Fallout

18:00 Writing The Weight of Beautiful and Why It Had to Exist

25:00 Eating Disorders in Women and the Silence Around Them

32:00 What Recovery Actually Looks Like Day to Day

38:00 Beauty Favorites and Product Picks

44:00 Quick Beauty Routine

46:00 How Jackie Stays Grounded and What Keeps Her Going

Connect with Jackie Goldschneider:

Follow Jackie on Instagram 

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