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Fascinating interview with leading neuroscientist, NYTimes best-selling author, and Founder of the Women’s Brain Initiative, Dr. Lisa Mosconi. She is the author of The Menopause Brain. This is a masterclass is understanding the hormonal changes that occur during menopause and how many of the symptoms we’ve attributed to coming from the body are actually originating in the brain. If you are premenopausal, in perimenopause or menopause, this interview is for you! You will learn so much about what is happening to you, how to navigate this time, and what to look forward to in menopause.

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Website: https://www.lisamosconi.com/

Buy the Book: The Menopause Brain

Book Website: themenopausebrain.com

IG: Dr Mosconi

Women’s Brain Initiative

WE DISCUSS

1. How her book is a love letter to women and those that came before us as well as for our daughters.
2. The historical context of women’s health as it relates to menopause and how women were essentially tortured and misunderstood and that we are still behind today on research and studies.
3. The connection between menopause and the brain.
4. The symptoms of menopause that originate in the brain, including hot flashes, brain fog, night sweats, of mentors and sponsors for career advancement.
5. Dr. Mosconi explains HRT and the known benefits as well as a new therapy she is helping to develop.
6. Lifestyle modifications we can make – she shares two top suggestions.
7. She shares her favorite smoothie recipe and the importance of antioxidants to protect the brain and health of the ovaries.
8. She explains the three Ps – puberty, pregnancy, and perimenopause and what these three stages have in common.
9. The fascinating communication system between the ovaries and the brain.
10. The importance of nutrition and hydration.
11. The strategies she’s putting into place now to prepare for perimenopause/menopause, and much more!

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Dr. Rani is one of two ophthalmologists in the country who is also certified in functional medicine. How does this change how she approaches eye health? Dr. Rani is able to diagnose up to 200 conditions from your eyes – things like MS and diabetes, but also Lupus, and Lyme Disease. We discuss glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, and more. This is a fascinating conversation. If you want to learn how to care for your eyes as you age and what supplements and foods to prioritize, this is the episode for you. For example, did you know you should get an eye exam every year after the age of 40? Learn more now! Visit https://thegoodlifecoach.com/298 for show notes and links mentioned.

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Dr. Rani Banik’s website: www.drranibanik.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.ranibanik/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8mIi8P9tXSRXXwEdNX6aRw

Book: Beyond Carrots: Best Foods For Eye Health A to Z

Dr. Rani’s Visionary Kitchen (Beyond Carrots)

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Dr. Rudrani (Rani) Banik is a board-certified neuro-ophthalmologist. She completed her MD at Brown University, residency at UC Irvine, and fellowship at Wilmer Eye Institute. Dr. Banik runs a private practice based in NYC and is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai.Dr. Banik is also certified in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She focuses on the root cause of eye diseases, and uses strategies based on nutrition, botanicals, lifestyle modification, and supplements.Dr. Banik is often featured as an expert in the media. She has been voted Castle Connolly Top Doctor and NY Magazine’s Best Doctor in Ophthalmology annually since 2017.Dr. Banik is the author of two best-selling books,“Beyond Carrots – Best Foods For Eye Health A to Z’ and “Dr. Rani’s Visionary Kitchen.”

Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi are the authors of CAREER FORWARD: Strategies from Women Who’ve Made. It is a groundbreaking, empowering guide for women that shows how to prioritize a career path, build professional value, and enjoy a full life both in and out of the workplace. And that’s what we are talking about today on the show. If you want to optimize your career, this is the episode for you!

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Website: https://www.careerforwardbook.com/

Book: Career Forward: Strategies from Women Who’ve Made It

WE DISCUSS

1. The importance of having a long term career view.
2. How to cultivate your career in a strategic way.
3. Why a long term view must include doing well at your current job.
4. The importance of creating professional equity.
5. Salary negotiation.
6. Where mentorship comes in and the role of sponsors for your career.
7. Ways to expand your professional brand and ways to expand your network.
8. The importance of figuring out what differentiates you, and much more!

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Dr. Comen has dedicated her medical career to saving the lives of women. An award-winning, internationally sought-after clinician and physician-scientist, Dr. Comen works as a medical oncologist with a specialty in breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She earned her BA in the history of science from Harvard College and her MD from Harvard Medical School, then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and her fellowship in oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She’s the author of All In Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today which we discuss on the show today. Visit https://thegoodlifecoach.com/296 for show notes.

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

Website: https://www.drelizabethcomen.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drelizabethcomen/

Book: All In Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

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This is the Sex Education you never learned in school. Dr. Kelly Casperson is a urologic surgeon, author, sex educator, and top international podcaster whose mission is empowering women to live their best love lives. We discuss the various issues women and men come to see her for and why women need to realize they are not broken. Class is in session with our favorite urologist.

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Website: https://www.kellycaspersonmd.com/

HOW TO HAVE A GREAT SEX LIFE IN MIDLIFE – first interview with Dr. Kelly

Instagram: Dr. Kelly Casperon

Book: You Are Not Broken:Stop “Should-ing” All Over Your Sex Life

Dr. Kelly’s Podcast: You Are Not Broken

https://www.isswsh.org/

https://www.menopause.org/

MORE ABOUT DR KELLY CASPERSON

Dr. Kelly Casperson is a urologic surgeon, author, sex educator, and top international podcaster whose mission is empowering women to live their best love lives. Kelly identified the need for better resources and developed a sex education membership for women that covers topics like sexual health, intimacy, mind work, and the science of desire. She combines education, humor, and candor in her podcast, You Are Not Broken, where she dismantles the myths women have learned and normalizes healthy, enjoyable sex worth desiring.

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Jessica Baum is a Psychotherapist, Author, Relationship Coach, and Founder of the Relationship Institute of Palm Beach, providing couples therapy, family counseling, and addiction therapy in South Florida for over 10 years. She has helped thousands of clients with her unique approach to healing, the Self-full® Method. Through her sister company, Be Self-full®, Jessica offers transformational courses and online coaching services that support individuals and couples to form healthy, long-term relationships. She’s the author of Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love which we discuss in this interview.

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Websites: https://www.beselffull.com/ and https://www.relationshipspb.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beselffull

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicabaumlmhc/

Book: Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love

Books Jess references:

Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives

Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us by Stephen Porges, PhD

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This episode was sponsored by Design a Life You Love, A Woman’s Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life. My book includes 52 inspirations, one for every week of the year, each with practical tips to guide you to self-love and success on your own terms. It makes a great gift for yourself or a friend!

Dr. Linnea Passaler has dedicated 20+ years to serving patients, first to a small number of individuals as a successful surgeon and then to thousands of people worldwide as the CEO of a digital health startup. After overcoming her own struggles with a dysregulated nervous system, she created Heal Your Nervous System (HYNS) to empower others in their healing journey. Her combination of neuroscience and somatic work helps those struggling with overwhelm, trauma, burnout, and anxiety to heal their dysregulated nervous systems and thrive.

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WE DISCUSS:

1. An explanation of nervous system dysregulation.
2. The simple things you can do daily and on a consistent basis to help heal your nervous system.
3. How experiencing sensory overload can become heightened during menopause because of changes in your hormones.
4. Why Dr. Linnea wrote the book and who she is hoping to serve.
5. Her desire to educate others with the 5 step plan she developed, and much more.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Website: https://healyournervoussystem.com/author/linneapassaler/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healyournervoussystem

Book: Heal Your Nervous System: The 5–Stage Plan to Reverse Nervous System Dysregulation

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Anna Papalia is the author of Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing and a career influencer with over 1.5 million followers across social media platforms. In this conversation, we dive into the wisdom from her book. We cover what hiring managers get wrong as well as what a candidate can and should be doing, including how to negotiate salary, and much more Whether you are in the market for a job or in charge of hiring, this is a must listen! You will never look at interviewing the same way again. Anna has consulted with Fortune 100 companies, taught at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and coached over 10,000 clients to interview better. Her groundbreaking discovery of Interview Styles revolutionized the way we teach and understand interviewing. She is also a public speaker at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and DisruptHR.

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WE DISCUSS:

1. The four interview styles.
2. How over 90% of interviewers have never been trained on interviewing.
3. The 5 different types of interview questions.
4. The discriminatory barriers that exist.
5. Common mistakes candidates make that they can change today.
6. Anna’s best advice for salary negotiation, and more!

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Website: https://theinterviewology.com

Book: Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing

Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers

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We are going deep by exploring the power of inquiry to reconnect us to one another, to love, intimacy and our humanity. What if asking better questions could actually feel more connected to those you love, would you want to learn how? Topaz Adizes is the author of “12 Questions for Love, a Guide to Intimate Conversations and Deeper Relationships” and he’s sharing tips to strengthen bonds, improve our listening skills, to create better questions, and ultimately reconnect us to one another and our humanity. Topaz is an Emmy award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect. His works have been selected to Cannes, Sundance, IDFA, and SXSW; featured in New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times; and have garnered an Emmy for new approaches to documentary and Two World Press photo awards for immersive storytelling and interactive documentary. Share this interview with a friend! And tag me and my guest on Instagram.

WE DISCUSS:

1. The power of inquiry to ignite human connection.
2. How our childhood wounds sometimes lead to our life’s work. For Topaz his quest for understanding intimacy lead him to create The Skin Deep, and conduct 1200 interviews around the world to unlock deeper connections in relationships (parent and child, friends, lovers, couples, etc).
3. Why we need to stop focusing on needing the answer and the instead focus on creating better questions.
4. The importance of deep listening and creating a space to have meaningful conversation.
5. How looking in someone’s eyes or breathing together while holding hands creates the space to hear one another.
6. How our ability to really hear one another and go deeper in our relationships is the foundation to reconnecting us to one another and ultimately our humanity and much more.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

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Website: https://shop.theskindeep.com/

Book: 12 Questions for Love: A Guide to Intimate Conversations and Deeper Relationships

Sidra & Ben's {THE AND} Relationship Project
{THE AND} Topaz & Justin
If I Left this Earth Tomorrow | {THE AND} Kelly & Virgie

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Whether in our personal lives or at work, we are interacting with others. Yet, with different personality types, there can be a lack of understanding, connection, and/or communication. How can you navigate these challenges using personality type? Joining us is Rob Toomey, the co-founder of TypeCoach. He and his team at TypeCoach work with people in the world’s leading organizations to improve team performance, deepen leadership capabilities, and help salespeople close more deals. However, among the most powerful outcomes from their work is the impact on personal relationships outside of work. Today, he and I will get into the applications of personality type differences in the context of romantic relationships as well as in teams at work. It may seem like a stretch but by understanding where you and others are similar and different on just a few key elements of personality can make a huge impact on the quality and ease of your relationships.

WE DISCUSS:

1. You’ll learn the 4 type categories for context.
2. What happens in the different dynamics of personality preferences and where conflict can arise.
3. What’s the biggest thing to keep in mind when living or working with an Introvert or Extrovert
4. How core values are associated with the temperaments and what is important to those with the temperaments (per their personality type)
5. The importance of understanding your core values and why sometimes your buttons can get pushed.
6. How understanding type preferences can benefit your romantic relationships and your teams at work, and much more.

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Website: http://www.typecoach.com

Email: Rob@type-coach.com for more information about working with his company.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Rob lives at the intersection of his two passions – personality type and entrepreneurship. For the last 19 years he has been President of TypeCoach, the first company to make personality type practical and easy to use in communicating with others. He is also the Managing Director of The Idea Factory which is a venture studio focused on getting early stage projects off the ground.

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