You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,

and other experts to help

you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Happy New Year, Feisties!

I hope everyone had a safe and regenerative holiday season and is ready to take on the new

year. And, well, recognizing that just a flip of the calendar doesn't mean that we're not

still mired in some of the morass of last year, I thought we could all use a bit of a pep

talk as we move into 2021. And I could think of nobody better to deliver that pep talk than my friend Casey Duke,

who I met more than 10 years ago when I was helping her write her book, The Show at Love, Workout.

Named one of New York City's best trainers countless times, Casey has been a personal trainer to a long list of celebrities,

including Gwen Stefani, Kate Beckinsale, Juliana Moore, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, and Lenny Kravitz,

just to name a few. She is a force of nature. She is also one of the most positive women when it comes to outlooks on womanhood

and aging and aging as a woman of anyone I've ever met. And, you know, that was really hard

earned. As a high profile celebrity trainer in New York City, it was hard for Casey to talk about

age for a long time. But she wasn't willing

to let menopause and age stop her from living loud and proud in putting herself out there,

Casey Duke-style. And now, at 65 years of age, she is owning all of it. She has recently launched

her own health and fitness subscription

service called Age Define Physique because in her words we shouldn't deny our age

it's a privilege to live a long life but we can definitely defy what people think

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