Magazine publishing legend and entrepreneur Lesley Jane Seymour (former EIC of More, Redbook, and Marie Claire) knows how to get sh*t done. We do a deep dive into tips, tools, and practices for powering productivity and staying focused—we talk physical planners, how to end digital distractions, and why the “Pomodoro Technique” might just change your life. We also get into the art of reinventing and hear the #1 takeaway Lesley has learned from interviewing 200+ people for her podcast Reinvent You...
Jan 09, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Do you remember rotary phones, the Go-Gos, Gunne Sax dresses, and job hunting with a Crane’s heavy-weight paper resume in hand? If so, you may be “tunics years old.” Humorist Wendi Aarons helps us work through our mixed bag of emotions on midlife, being “ma’am’d,” and our vintage vaginas—with a pitch-perfect look at the indignities, triumphs, and comedy of being a midlife woman in her latest book, “I’m Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder.” Because funny never...
Dec 19, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Expiration dates are for milk, not for people. But in a youth-obsessed and beauty-focused culture, women are bombarded with messages that their value and worth are fleeting. Psychologist Dr. Amanda Hanson, aka The Midlife Muse, invites us to deeply question negative cultural and internal messages and offers us tools to build self-love, spark optimism and embrace aging as a spiritual experience. We get into the divine feminine, the transformative power of incremental change, and why you can't buy...
Dec 12, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 116
If you woke up this morning, there is more for you to receive, give, and become. Welcome to the new age – and a conversation on reinvention with Nada Jones, founder of the midlife platform and podcast Liberty Road. After a career nurturing female founders and authoring an Amazon best-selling business book, Nada is building a platform that superpowers midlife women. We cover the long and winding road to midlife, how to realistically reinvent at any age, why great things never come from comfort zo...
Dec 05, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Angel Cornelius went from mixing body butters at home with a Kitchen Aid mixer to founder of beauty brand Maison 276, now a national beauty brand and TODAY Show and Oprah Magazine favorite. We get into how Angel went from hospital administrator to beauty founder at 57, the rise of the pro-age beauty movement, how to care for silver hair, why your dry winter skin might need a body butter, and the beauty of self-belief. Bonus—how an improbable call from Essence Magazine changed Angel’s life. SHOW ...
Nov 28, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Here’s an unwelcome midlife surprise: one in two women over 50 experience stress incontinence, aka urine leakage. That’s right – if you are afraid to drink water and then laugh, run, sneeze, work out, or, God forbid, sit in the middle row of an airplane, you are not alone. Please meet Aubrey Hubbell, co-founder of luxe, femme care brand Hazel, which is disrupting the billion-dollar urinary incontinence market. We may be decades into adulting, but we are decidedly not into—and not settling—for “a...
Nov 21, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Meet Mimi Ison, pro-age blogger, midlife movement evangelist, and creator of what’s about to be your favorite social media account Hey Middle Age. We get into being scared and doing it anyway, TikTok dance moves, at-home exercises to boost strength and mobility, and a simple 10-minute goal-setting hack to help you upgrade your midlife. Plus, recommendations on social media accounts to follow for wellness advice and killer dance moves. SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertainagepod.comFOLLOW A CERTAIN AG...
Nov 14, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Ever felt stuck? Think that it’s too late to try, do, or be something new? Meet Liz Hilliard, who launched a fitness empire at 50, and who fell in love with her closest girlfriend at 64 after being married to a man for 37 years. We dive into midlife epiphanies, marshaling the courage to upend a traditional life and how to write a chapter that looks wildly different from your early days. Bonus! Liz helps us amp up our fitness routines to build power and strength. SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertaina...
Nov 07, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Think osteoporosis and brittle bones are inevitable as we age? Think again. Dr. Andrea Singer, the Chief Medical Officer of the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation, walks us through some of the most common risk factors for osteoporosis and lifestyle choices and exercises that can keep our bones healthy for the long haul. Plus, when to get a bone density test, supplements to have on your radar, and the menopause bone health link. Bonus!—how to help your aging parents care for their bones.SHOW...
Oct 31, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 110
With 10 million books in print in over 25 languages, 18 New York Times bestsellers, and even one cookbook, author Jane Green could be resting on her laurels. Instead, at 54, she is launching a new creative venture and reinventing her career. Jane is the founder of the Emerald Audio Network, which brings female-led storytelling to digital audio with original content and narrative works by bestselling storytellers. We dive into imposter syndrome, getting unstuck, the power of being fearless, and t...
Oct 24, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Meet Melina Hammer, bestselling cookbook author, and award-winning food photographer and chef. We cover giving yourself permission to reinvent, the tactile and collaborative pleasure of creating sumptuous meals, and cozy fall recipes for both a quiet night at home and for festive holiday entertaining. Melina shares ideas on hyperlocal food, foraging, and ingredients not to miss from her cookbook “A Year at Catbird Cottage: Recipes for a Nourished Life.” Get ready to drool!SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT...
Oct 17, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Menopause is waaay more than hot flashes. Do you know all the long-term health risks of menopause? Menopause advocate Donna Klassen of the nonprofit Let’s Talk Menopause shares what women need to know for the long haul – think osteoporosis, heart disease, depression, and Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM) which include vaginal, sexual, and urinary impacts. We cover what to ask your doctor, the intersection of menopause with mental health (hello hormonal rollercoaster), plus the upside to ...
Oct 10, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Want a midlife you love? Wishing you could order one up with Amazon Prime? Nice try! The midlife you want takes work, says midlife podcaster Sarah Milken of The Flexible Neurotic. But good news! The midlife remix is equal parts fun—funny strange, funny haha—and small, daily steps that add up to big change. Ready to put the work in? This show is for you!SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertainagepod.comFOLLOW A CERTAIN AGE: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn GET INBOX INSPO: Sign up for our newsletter AGE BOLDL...
Oct 03, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Have you ever asked yourself, “What’s next?” What’s next for me, my career, my health, my relationships, my empty nest, my next decade? My guest today has ideas for helping you get unstuck in midlife and offers a framework to answer the question, “What’s next?” Dana Hilmer is a certified coach, a women’s leadership executive, and the cofounder of Camp Reinvention, a program, and community for women 50+ looking to create a second act that they are wildly excited about. We tackle limiting beliefs,...
Sep 26, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Feeling midlife sluggish, out of whack, in need of a reboot? You may need a hydration tune-up, says Kristen Coffield of The Culinary Cure. Kristen walks us through why simply drinking a few glasses of water doesn’t cut it as we age and shares ideas for refueling your energy and your health with simple, doable kitchen lifestyle choices. Ready to turn the food on the end of your fork into fuel to power your days? Want the energy boost and glowy skin that optimal hydration delivers? This show is fo...
Sep 19, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Goodbye estrogen, hello dry midlife skin. Want dewy, hydrated, nourished, glowy skin? Of course, you do! Meet clean beauty leader Kari Gran the founder of an organic skincare line that offers maximum hydration in a minimal process. Women-owned and operated, hand poured in small batches in Seattle, the cult-favorite line is carried at clean beauty stockists across the U.S. such as Credo Beauty, ONDA, and big box retailers like Saks. We talk serums, cleansers, lip whips, sun care, and Kari’s no-BS...
Sep 12, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Raising – and being – an adult is a life’s work. Author, speaker, and activist Julie Lythcott-Haims explores what can get in the way of thriving as an adult and how helicopter parenting fails our children. A former Stanford Dean of Freshman and author of the perennial bestseller, “How to Raise an Adult,” Julie shares ideas from her latest book, “Your Turn: How to Be an Adult.” We cover ideas for tackling fear, the perils of over-parenting, and strategies to fuel resilience in ourselves and our c...
Sep 05, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Tired of women’s magazines that mostly feature teenagers? Meet journalist, author, and screenwriter Monica Corcoran Harel – the founder of Pretty Ripe, a multimedia platform for women with experience. Every week, Pretty Ripe covers beauty, fashion, feminism, health, and hormones through a lens that centers women of a certain age. We get into age myth-busting, the power of friendship, and the timeless lipstick every woman needs in their midlife beauty bag. Plus, why sex with the lights on is a mi...
Aug 29, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Break out the bubbly! A Certain Age turns two AND drops the 100th episode. Come celebrate with host Katie Fogarty and a special co-host who grabs the mic to cover all things A Certain Age, midlife myth-busting, reinvention, getting your Golden Girl on, and finding support, growth, and friendship as we age. Plus, what Katie has learned from talking to 99 amazing women aged 40 to 75. Bonus—ACA party favors, birthday swag, and more!SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertainagepod.comFOLLOW A CERTAIN AGE: Ins...
Aug 22, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Do you feel great about your body? When you look in the mirror, do you think—I’ve still got it? Or do you feel frumpy and lumpy and totally midlife-y? On today’s show, embodiment and menopause coach Gabriella Espinosa helps us beat the midlife body blahs and combat menopause symptoms like low libido, poor sleep, fatigue, and even brain fog. Gabriella’s work lies at the intersection of embodiment, neuroscience, Eastern traditional wisdom, and menopause health, and she walks us through ideas for t...
Aug 15, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Struggling with midlife weight gain? Time for some myth-busting—your metabolism does not slow down in midlife. But your ability to create fat-burning muscle does decrease, which can cause the pounds to pile on. On today’s show, renowned nutritionist and exercise physiologist Heidi Skolnik offers ideas on how diet and protein timing can help manage, even reverse, midlife weight gain. Plus, how muscle building impacts overall wellness, including bone and brain health. Heidi walks us through the la...
Aug 08, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Meet Susan Heinrich, a former news reporter turned stay-at-home mom, who found herself nearing 50 and feeling utterly disconnected from her life. Susan launched Midlife Globetrotter to reacquaint herself with wanderlust and reignite her sense of self. She joins me today to talk about fabulous destinations, how to give solo travel a try, and why travel is a chance for women in midlife to rendezvous with parts of themselves that get lost in the daily shuffle of caring for others. Plus, last gasp s...
Aug 01, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Meet Sally Mueller, the CEO, and co-founder of Womaness, a product line of menopause solutions carried nationwide at Target and the first menopause brand to hit the shelves at Ulta Beauty. Sally shares how she created the products she needed for her own menopause symptoms, and why retailers are finally putting meno products on shelves. We dive into how to be meno-positive and why it may have taken until 2022, but menopause has finally met its match. SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertainagepod.comFOLL...
Jul 25, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Have you ever subsumed yourself so completely in something external—motherhood, career, a relationship that you lost your sense of self? Meet Tabitha Carvan, author of "This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something—Anything—Like Your Life Depends On It." Tabitha was a mother of young children when she fell hard, from afar for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Slowly she realized that her preoccupation with the actor was not about Cumberbatch; it was about feeling passi...
Jul 18, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Do you remember Jazzercise, the Jane Fonda Workout, the ThighMaster? How about a time when the sports bra didn’t exist? Journalist Danielle Friedman, author of “Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World,” shares a fascinating look at the evolution of the women’s exercise movement from “scandalous” into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut and cultural force. We get into diet culture, the birth of commodified wellness, forgotten fitness trailblazers, and exercise fads b...
Jul 11, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Hormonal? Meet Julie Kucinski, a cofounder of Wile Women, which offers 100% plant-based supplements and tinctures to support women over 40 with emotional, menopausal, and hormonal wellness. We get into plant power, managing midlife mental health, and why sublimating anger can wreak havoc on well-being, both mental and physical. Bonus, we explore the idea of reframing hormones as a superpower and why women are finally aging (and menopausing) out loud.SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertainagepod.comFOLL...
Jul 04, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Rethink menopause with Omisade Burney-Scott, the creator of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and nonbinary people navigating menopause. We explore aging, intimacy, body change, pleasure, love, spirituality, and the liminality of menopause. We get into the ongoing fight for bodily autonomy, the importance of listening beyond our echo chambers, how to ground ourselves during the swirl of change,...
Jun 27, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Think about your closet for a minute. When you open it, does it spark joy? Or does it cause panic and overwhelm because it’s disorganized and overstuffed (yet you have nothing to wear?). Stylist Dacy Gillespie of The Mindful Closet has ideas for cultivating a closet that makes you happy and is more practical, sustainable, and ethical. We dive into how to be a mindful consumer in a world of excess, building a capsule wardrobe, and dressing for changing midlife bodies. Bonus! We cover how to donat...
Jun 20, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Sandwiched! Today’s show dives into how to care for aging parents while balancing the needs of career, family, and life. Caregiving Expert Liz O’Donnell, author of “Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living” and founder of Working Daughter, a community for women navigating eldercare, joins me to share real-world practical caregiving tools. We get into the nitty-gritty—how to have hard conversations with your parents, navigating sibling dynamics, what to kno...
Jun 13, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Meet Annabel Monaghan author of “Nora Goes Off Script” – a witty romance for romantics that The Washington Post is calling a “stand-out” for summer. Annabel shares the inspiration behind her Hallmark meets Hollywood tale and a behind-the-scenes of novel-writing. We dive into why it took hitting 50 for Annabel to foray into adult fiction (she is a YA author), midlife joy, and fangirl over Sexiest Man Alive Paul Rudd. Paul, call us!SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertainagepod.comFOLLOW A CERTAIN AGE: In...
Jun 06, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 89
