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With me on the Medsplaining podcast today is entrepreneur Penny Light, founder of Grit & Grace Clothing, and Grit & Grace Adventures—a boutique travel group for women over 45.
Penny’s story hits home for so many because it begins in a place we all recognize: that unsettling health spiral where you catch your reflection and wonder, Where did I go?
In this episode, we explore that moment of feeling lost—and the powerful comeback that happens when you reclaim your health and your life. Penny embodies the strength and possibility this stage of life holds, proving it’s never too late to reinvent yourself and thrive.
✨Reinvent Yourself with Penny Light of Grit & Grace Adventures
01:35 Welcome, Penny Light, to Medsplaining!
02:37 Grit & Grace Clothing: because sometimes reinvention starts with a wardrobe.
05:52 Putting into words no longer feeling like myself...
08:27 Bioidenticals 101.
13:36 The hurdle everyone knows: finding a doctor who doesn't dismiss you.
16:02 Immediate symptom relief? Yes, it's a thing.
16:46 How proper MHT helped grow the business.
18:47 Grit & Grace Adventures: a boutique travel group for all.
22:48 The grandmother hypothesis.
30:07 Lifestyle changes: the real prescription no one wants to hear.
35:16 If Penny could tell every woman one thing about perimenopause, it would be this...
37:21 Penny's grandmother lived to 103. What's her secret to longevity?
Check out Penny on Instagram, and visit Grit & Grace Adventures or Grit & Grace Clothing.
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Dr. Jen
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