439 Midlife with Mindy & Meg: our reactions to midlife in the news

Sorta Awesome

Cloud10

Education, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We started having candid, in-depth, personal, and consistent conversations about midlife (and perimenopause) (and menopause) in March 2022. Suddenly, it seems like there are headlines about this season of life everywhere we turn! Well, Meg and Mindy read recent articles so you don’t have to. They share their honest reactions to some major headlines about women in midlife that you might have missed! Don’t forget you can find all of our episodes about all things midlife on Spotify We’ve done your spring gifting season shopping FOR YOU! Check out the idea lists for Mother’s Day and Graduation 2023 in our Sorta Awesome Amazon store! Did you know Sorta Awesome is on YOUTUBE? You can watch full-length episodes on the Sorta Awesome YT channel! THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: *iHerb: Get 22% off iHerb with promo code AWESOME at iherb.com/?rcode=AWESOME! *Headspace: Go to headspace.com/AWESOME30 for one month free of their entire mindfulness library SHOW NOTES: Our Midlife Discussion begins at 23:00 in! Meg’s AotW: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross Mindy’s AotW: Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One Article: 25 years of research shows insidious effect of racism on Black women’s menopausal transition, health Article: Oprah’s menopause symptom scare The Vaginal Laser Controversy Good news - our brains adapt and bounce back after menopause! MORE EPISODES FROM SORTA AWESOME: Ep. 427: Let’s Talk About Midlife: The struggle is real in the clothes closet Ep. 419: Let’s Talk About Midlife: Support for Grief & Losing a Parent Ep. 380: Let’s Talk About Midlife: Brain Fog and Cycle Chaos Ep. 395: Let’s Talk About Midlife: Parenting Our Parents and Life in the Middle Ep. 401: Let’s Talk About Midlife: The Ups and Downs of Sex! You can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram! Find Mindy on Instagram! Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter! This post may contain affiliate links, which means we receive a tiny commission from the seller at no additional cost to you, if you purchase from them. We only share products and services we have used, tested, and love ourselves! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Lizzie Mathis, the host of the Cool Mom Code podcast, where motherhood is your
0:05.1	key card to the coolest spot in town.
0:07.1	I'm excited to give you behind the scenes real talk combo between some of the most influential
0:12.3	and tastemaker moms I know.
0:14.6	Subscribe and stay tuned for new episodes weekly on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever
0:19.8	you listen so you don't ever miss a beat.
0:22.4	See you there.
0:23.4	Hi friends, it's Meg.
0:26.0	It's almost May and that means that we are at the start of the mid-year gifting season.
0:32.4	Mother's Day is coming up and then it's going to be full on graduation season.
0:36.8	Now of course that's on my mind because our oldest child is graduating in May and we have
0:41.4	so many graduation presents to purchase and you know we already have conversations happening
0:47.2	in our awesome community about Mother's Day.
0:50.1	What to get your mom, your mother-in-law, what to ask for for yourself this year.
0:55.4	And May is chaotic enough as it is.
0:58.5	We have done all the shopping for you and created two brand new idealists in our sort of awesome
1:04.9	store on Amazon.
1:06.8	All of the gifts have been picked by the sort of awesome team and we included suggestions
1:10.8	from our community.
1:12.7	So basically it's all awesome approved.
1:15.0	I will drop a link in the show notes and you can shop our entire Amazon store anytime
1:19.9	by going to Amazon.com slash shop slash sort of awesome and remember when you shop our
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