Stronger Bolder Wiser
Stronger Bolder Wiser is a podcast for women navigating midlife challenges like hormonal changes, health issues, stress, and identity shifts. It offers honest, science-backed conversations about becoming stronger, bolder, and wiser. The show addresses topics such as alcohol, sleep, and the quiet reinvention that happens behind the scenes. It aims to help women feel better and live more fulfilling lives.
Episodes
Can You Build Muscle After 40 Without Heavy Weights? | Ashley Selman
Lift heavy or lose the fight against aging is the default advice for midlife women, and it leaves too many of them injured or on the sidelines. There is another way to build muscle, and it takes 20 minutes and light dumbbells.In this episode I sit down with Ashley Selman, a strength coach of more than 30 years and the founder of Seli Strength, to talk about blood flow restriction training. Ashley
The First 30 Days Without Wine: What Nobody Warns You About
Taking 30 days off alcohol in midlife rarely feels the way social media promises. Boredom, flatness and broken sleep often come first, and none of it means you're doing it wrong.In this video I share the five most unexpected things women discover in their first 30 days without wine, from the 5 to 7pm boredom to the friend who suddenly goes quiet. I explain why your brain can feel flat once alc
Should I Stay or Should I Go? How to Know If Your Marriage Is Really Over with Betsy Pake
Nobody walks into a marriage planning to leave it, yet so many midlife women are quietly asking whether to stay or go. Your body often knows the answer first.In this episode I sit down with Betsy Pake, certified master coach and founder of The Navigate Method, to unpack the question so many midlife women are asking: should I stay or should I go? We talk about why women are choosing peace over part
6 Reasons Why Successful Women Are Quietly Quitting Alcohol After 40 | Sarah Rusbatch
Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwThe women quitting alcohol are not at rock bottom and they do not call themselves alcoholics. They are running businesses and rais
What Women Need to Know About Perimenopause, Hormones & Birth Control | Lara Briden
Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwPerimenopause is not a medical condition and you are not broken. Dr Lara Briden explains what is really happening to your hormones
Why Alcohol Hits Women Harder After 40 + 3 Ways to Drink Less
Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwIf you cannot bounce back from two glasses of wine the way you did in your twenties, you are not imagining it. There are three bio
Is Alcohol Keeping You Stuck? The Questions Every Woman Who Drinks Should Ask | Jen Hirst
Feeling like alcohol has quietly become your default way to unwind, reward yourself, or take the edge off?Join my October Reset Challenge, a supportive, guided reset to help you break the daily drinking habit, reconnect with yourself, and prove you can feel good without the glass of wine.Join the October Reset → https://bit.ly/4gJyKSYWhat does it really take to walk out of the "sober closet" and l
Am I Drinking Too Much? The 7 Signs of Grey Area Drinking Every Woman Over 40 Should Know | Grey Area Drinking Coach Sarah Rusbatch
Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwMost women who recognize themselves in this episode do not identify as alcoholics, and that is exactly why the term grey area drin
How to Protect Your Brain After 40: A Brain Scientist’s Guide for Women | Tommy Wood
Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwYour brain is knackered by 5pm because you've been stuck in middle gear all day, and that exhaustion is exactly why the wine s
Do You Have a Sweet Tooth or a Sugar Addiction? The 6 Signs with Dr. Jen Unwin
Feeling like alcohol has quietly become your default way to unwind, reward yourself, or take the edge off?Join my October Reset Challenge, a supportive, guided reset to help you break the daily drinking habit, reconnect with yourself, and prove you can feel good without the glass of wine.Join the October Reset → https://bit.ly/4gJyKSYIs sugar addiction real, and why do so many women swap alcohol f
7 Ways to Handle Stress Without Wine (When Everything Feels Like Too Much)
By 5pm the kids are screaming, you've had 77,000 tabs open in your brain all day, and a voice says you deserve a glass of wine. That voice isn't weakness, it's your brain reaching for the fastest exit it knows. I take you deep into what's actually happening in your body when stress hits, and why alcohol keeps showing up as the solution even when you know it isn't serving you. I walk you through ne
Want to Live Longer? A Female Longevity Expert Says Focus on These 3 Things | Zora Benhamou
Ageing isn't decline, it's the beginning of something incredible, and the choices you make today are quietly building the woman you'll be at 80.I sat down with gerontologist and biohacker Zora Benhamou, host of the Hack My Age podcast, who has interviewed more than 200 women across 50 countries about how they experience menopause. We got into why so many of us reach for alcohol in perimenopause wi
The Mum Wine Lie: Why Alcohol Never Made Motherhood Easier
You woke up on the bedroom floor swearing this was the last time, and by Friday you were hovering over that party invite knowing exactly how the night would end. This is the episode about the moment you finally step off the merry-go-round.I sit down with my dear friend Victoria Vanstone, host of the award-winning Sober Awkward podcast. Vic shares the raw truth of her journey from binge-drinking pa
Why Your Coping Strategies Stopped Working in Perimenopause - with Faye Lawrence
If you've spent your whole life feeling like you're failing at things everyone else finds easy, your ADHD may only be surfacing now because perimenopause has pulled back the curtain on it. This episode shows you why, and exactly what you can do about it.Faye Lawrence, a counsellor, psychologist and ADHD coach who also specialises in grey area drinking, unpacks why so many women are only di
What's Really Keeping You Stuck? (And How to Create a Life You Truly Love) | Craig Harper
Change doesn't happen because you finally feel ready. It happens because you decide, then follow through, whether you feel ready or not.I'm sitting down with behavior change expert and exercise physiologist Craig Harper, host of The You Project podcast, for a conversation I've wanted to have with him for a long time. We dig into why we keep repeating the habits we know aren't serving us, from grey
6 Things Happy Women do Differently | How to Create your Happiest Life after 40
Women today have more freedom, choice, and opportunity than any generation before them, yet happiness has been declining since the 1970s.I'm sharing six principles that have genuinely changed how I experience my own life, and I believe they can change yours too. I unpack why women's happiness has been declining since the 1970s despite having more freedom and opportunity than ever.This epis
Discovering Who You REALLY Are Without Booze with Sober Dave
Sober Dave quit drinking after 40 years and discovered that stopping was the easy part - the real work was figuring out who he was without it. In this conversation with Sarah, he and Sarah unpack the identity void that follows sobriety, why moderation almost never works, how to grieve the "relationship" you had with alcohol, and what to say to a partner who won't admit their drinking
The Menopause Weight Gain Nobody Explains, and the Hormone Truth Behind All of It with Karen Martell
Your body isn't failing you. It's running out of the hormones it needs, and no doctor told you that was coming.I sit down with Karen Martel, certified hormone specialist and transformational nutrition coach, to pull back the curtain on what perimenopause and menopause are actually doing to women's bodies and minds. Karen shares her own journey through hormonal collapse in her early 30s
The Best Sex of Your Life Could Still Be Ahead of You. Here's Why with Sex Therapist Jacqueline Hellyer
What if the "lost libido" you've been blaming on age, hormones or your relationship was never actually about desire at all? In this episode I sit down with renowned sex and relationship therapist Jacqueline Hellyer to talk about one of the most common things I hear from women in my community: "I just don't want sex anymore." Jacqueline breaks down the myth of spontaneou
Why Are You Waking Up at 3AM? The Real Reasons Women Can't Sleep Through the Night with Annika Carroll
If you're waking up at 3am every single night feeling wired, anxious and exhausted, this episode is about to change the way you think about sleep forever. In this episode I'm joined by Annika Carroll, women's sleep and health coach and CEO of Sleep Like a Boss, to unpack one of the most under-discussed topics in women's health: sleep. We dive into why so many of us start struggling
"Am I Drinking Too Much?" If You've Ever Asked Yourself That, You Already Know the Answer
Have you ever quietly asked yourself, "Am I drinking too much?" If that question has ever crossed your mind, even for a second, this episode is for you.In this solo episode, I'm walking you through the 11 diagnostic criteria clinicians use to identify mild, moderate and severe alcohol use disorder, and I promise this isn't about slapping a label on yourself.What We Cover:- The 11
Is Your Marriage Over or Does It Just Need Work? with Relationship Coach Lisa Miller
Staying isn't always fine. And leaving isn't always the answer. But staying stuck in the middle? That's what this episode is here to help with.Lisa Miller is a relationship and divorce coach, and in this episode we talk about what the silent divorce actually looks like, how alcohol can mask just how unhappy you really are, and what it finally takes to get honest with yourself about wha
What Happens to Your Life When You Change Your Drinking | Andy Ramage
You already know something needs to change. This conversation might be the nudge that finally makes you do something about it.
I sat down with Andy Ramage, co-founder of One Year No Beer and someone I genuinely consider the godfather of the alcohol-free world, for one of the most honest and wide-ranging conversations I've had on this podcast. Andy went from burnt-out city broker to thriving alcoho
Nobody Taught Us This: The 3 Boundary Types Every Woman Needs to Start Thriving
Are you exhausted, resentful, and running on empty…but still saying "I'm fine"?
In this episode I talk about something most of us were never taught: how to set boundaries. Not the cold, wall-building kind. But boundaries that actually protect your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing and creates more time, more energy, and more joy in your life.
I break down the three types of boundaries, th
Your Vagina After 40: What's Normal, What's Not, and What to Do with Dr. Sara Reardon
Leakage when you laugh… Dryness that makes sex uncomfortable. Your vagina is telling you something…
Nobody explained to us what happens to our bodies when estrogen drops. Nobody taught us what normal actually looks like and we have accepted it. But here’s the good news. Most of it is treatable.
This week I chat with Dr Sara Rearden, board certified pelvic floor floor therapist and known to many as
Is your Brain Fog Menopause or Early Dementia? Dr Helena Popovic explains how to tell the difference.
Every three seconds, someone in the world receives a dementia diagnosis. And two thirds of them are women.
In Australia, dementia is now the number one cause of death. And most women have no idea how much power they have to change that.
This week I'm sitting down with Dr. Helena Popovic, medical doctor, bestselling author and one of the world's leading experts on brain health. This conversation
Why your Gut Health Matters more than Ever After 40 with Stephanie Grosvenor
You know that exhausted, bloated or anxious feeling that just won’t shift? It might not be stress, it might not be your hormones… It might actually be your gut… and it could be trying to tell you something important.
This week I sat down with Functional Nutritionist & Health Coach Stephanie Grosvenor from Unlimited You Coaching, who spent years sick without the answers before finally listenin
How the Food Industry Tricks Us Into Eating More with Matty Lansdown
Matty Lansdown started out in cancer research, where he found that 90 - 95% of cancers are related to diet and lifestyle and decided to switch paths to become a nutritionist.
Now he’s working with hundreds of women on their emotional and binge eating journey to heal their relationship with food.
We’re sitting down today to really unpack the cycle of emotional eating, emotional binge eating, why
It’s not your fault! 5 Ways to break free of the self-sabotage cycle
If you've ever found yourself doing the exact thing you promised yourself you wouldn't, and then spent the next day beating yourself up about it… I want to help you break that cycle.
Because here’s what I want you to know before we even start: You’re not weak. You are not broken and it’s not your fault. Our brains are biologically programmed to keep us safe and we fall back into old patterns becau
What If It’s Not Hormones? Iron Deficiency Could Be the Missing Piece with Dr Libby Weaver
55% of women have some degree of iron deficiency.
And it turns out… a lot of the symptoms you might be experiencing are connected.
So today I’m sitting down with Dr Libby Weaver to unpack what midlife women actually need to understand about iron… and why it might be the missing piece you haven’t looked at yet.
Dr Libby is a nutritional biochemist, author of 13 bestselling books, and someone who ha
Neuroscientist: “We are in the Great Dumbing Down of Humanity.” What every Woman (and parent) needs to hear with TJ Power
The first time I interviewed TJ, I felt like I had learned more about myself in 45 minutes than I had in seven years of therapy.
And I don’t say that lightly.
Because what TJ does so well is take something that feels complicated, like your brain, your habits, your lack of motivation, and make it make sense. In a way that instantly clicks.
In this conversation, we’re talking about dopamine, but not
Why changing the state of your nervous system can change your life (and how to do it)
What if the reason you feel overwhelmed, reactive or completely drained isn’t about willpower at all?
Today’s guest has taught me how to recognise what’s happening in my body and stop trying to think my way through everything… and the results have been incredible.
I’ve become more patient, more playful, less in my head and more present with my loved ones. And because of that - my relationships hav
I just turned 50 … These are the 10 Lessons I wish I Learnt Earlier
So many women get to their 40s and 50s and realise they only know themselves in relation to other people.
What the kids need. What the partner prefers. What the job demands. What the family expects.
But they haven’t stopped to ask themselves what they want in a very long time.
Who are you, outside of what you give to others?
As I approach turning 50, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’ve learne
The Habit That Protects Your Independence for DECADES with Hailey Babcock
Women who fall after the age of 60 have around a 30% chance of never walking independently again.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Most of us don’t think about that when we’re in our 40s or 50s. But there is a gradual loss that can begin long before we notice it. . And by the time it shows up, it’s much harder to reverse.
This episode is about protecting your independence.
It’s about feeling capable
Why We Gain Belly Fat as We Age & What We Can Actually Do About It with Angela Foster
If you’ve ever looked down at your belly in your 40s and thought… “Where did that come from?” this one’s for you.
I first discovered Angela Foster through The High Performance Health podcast which I binged. I was left thinking, “where has this woman been all my life?”
Because she was asking the exact questions so many of us are quietly thinking - especially when our bodies start to change in midl
Why Stress Feels Harder the Older You Get (Your Brain Explained) with Dr Paul Taylor
Life has never been easier.
We can order food in seconds. Scroll endlessly. Avoid discomfort at every turn.
And yet… so many women feel exhausted, flat, overwhelmed and more stressed than ever.
Why?
Today I’m sitting down with Dr Paul Taylor, neuroscientist, exercise physiologist, and author of Death by Comfort and The Hardiness Effect, to talk about exactly that.
We’re talking about dopamine, c
The Wakeup Call That Changed My Entire Life
One morning in my 40s, I woke up to my 5 year old asking me “Mum…what happened to your face?”
The night before, I’d been at a friend's 40th birthday and something had happened that went to change the course of my life completely.
What ensued after that was years of trying and failing, trying and failing…but ultimately it led me to where I am now: happier, healthier, stronger, bolder and wiser.
Becoming Stronger, Bolder, Wiser
No one really prepares you for this stage of life.
One day you wake up and realise…
You’re exhausted.
Your body feels different.
Your sleep is off.
Your tolerance for things you used to accept has disappeared.
And you start quietly asking yourself:
“Surely life is meant to feel better than this?”
If you’ve ever had that thought… this podcast is for you.
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