Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife. Today I wanted to talk to you about sticking up for yourself. But before we get there, I think we have to talk about our  preprogramming. A couple of weekends ago, my husband and I were in our bathroom together getting ready for the day after a leisurely breakfast of eggs, fruit, toast, coffee, juice and copious amounts of crispy bacon. As we were chatting, I ripped a tremendous burp. Like fraternity house worthy. He turned to me and asked me if I’d ever thought about doing a podcast on being “ladylike”. I laughed, but also it really made me think ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife. Today I wanted to talk to you about your aging parents. If you’re not dealing with these issues yet, don’t tune out. It is inevitable that you too will face these challenges. It seems that just as we get our own rugrats out the door and on some stable footing, the responsibilities of aging parents sneak in the back window. Assuming you married and/or had kids, as we approach midlife, we have already spent more than half our lives caring for the wellbeing of other humans. And we are exhausted. I wonder what the hourly commitment actually adds up to of t ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to the Midlife. Sorry for the vague episode title today but I had to be kind of cagey today to get you to stop by and listen because I was afraid if I laid it all out there, your initial response would have been “fuck that!”. And I get it. Life right now doesn’t always feel like a bowl of cherries. So the suggestion that I’m about to make may initially really rub you the wrong way. For your sake and the sake of future, wildly happy, thoroughly fulfilled you, listen with an open mind, but more importantly with an open heart. Here's the what if. What if you loved uncond ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife. Today is a reinvented episode and my guest is Malibu realtor Stacey Harper.  You can’t really hear that without thinking Malibu Barbie, can you? But I assure you there is nothing fake or plastic about this down to earth chick. But I didn’t ask her on the show today to discuss her real estate business.  Stacey and I have known each other since the ninth grade and I asked her to come on the show because to me, she epitomizes a state of mind that I am constantly advising my clients to adopt; you are allowed to change your mind and the decision y ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife.Today’s theme is pretty short and sweet but I think it’s a valuable topic that could have exponential benefits for you. I wanted to talk to you about how you set the mood for your life everyday. There’s a Chris Stapleton song called “What are you listening to?” If you know it, know that it’s playing on a loop in my head as I planned this episode and I feel longing and sadness and loss. When I’m done with you today, I’m going to have to go throw on some Lizzo and sweat away the dread. Music is so powerful. And I love it. I have often wondered how many so ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife. Today I wanted to talk to you about beauty and vanity and aging. But mostly I want to talk to you about that poor woman in the mirror that you pick on. For just a moment, I want you to consider your friends that you’ve known the longest and tell me, do they look any different to you? They don’t, right? Now I’m not saying go grab a picture from college and one from a 50th birthday party and hold them next to each other. I’m just saying, consider what they look like to you when you see them. Even if it’s been awhile. The same. And in some cases, better ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife. Today I want to talk to you about your expectations. And more specifically how the people around you are not meeting them. If you’ve been listening to me for a while, can you guess who’s fault I’m going to say this is? But let’s not start with the blame game. In fact, let’s not even start at the beginning. Let’s skip straight to the end. The result of your unmet expectations. It’s anger and rage, isn’t it? I get it. You feel like you work your ass off for the people around you. Your partner, your children, your coworkers. And your effort feels unretur ..read more

LINKS IN EPISODE: Buy Stacy’s book, Grief As A Second Language Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife. Today is a reinvented segment on the Midlife Podcast and my guest is author Stacy Parker. I asked Stacy to come on the podcast not only because I know you’ll find her story moving, but because she is an expert in grief. Her first book, Grief As A Second Language, is the bible you hope you’ll never need. But I thought her perspective would be worthwhile as so many of us are in a period of grieving. Flat out some have lost loved ones and friends to COVID along with the usual tragedies of ill ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to The Midlife. I’ve been thinking a lot about curveballs the last couple of weeks. And not just because I’m a baseball fan, which I am. In fact, I was the only girl on my little league team. Baseball is a skill that has served me well in life even though I quit organized teams when my mother convinced me that a boy would never ask me to go play baseball but he would ask me to go play tennis. She was only half right, by the way. For some motivation unbeknownst to me at this moment, I brought my glove to college and a boy named Jeff asked me to go play catch one night ..read more

Hello and welcome to The Midlife. Recently I’ve been watching a lot of The Great British Bake Off on Netflix before bed. It’s not that I love to bake, which I don’t really although I do like to eat baked goods. It’s just a very calming and whimsical hour that I can rely on to usually relax me and send me off to sleep literally with sweet thoughts.  If you haven’t watched it let me give you a quick synopsis because I’m really invested in this metaphor. Amateur home bakers compete in three challenges per episode, the Signature Bake, the Technical Bake and the Showstopper Bake.  The Sig ..read more