The Midlife

The Midlife

Hosts Kimberly Samson and Tracy Feldstein bring you a no-holds-barred view of life from the middle. No topic is off limits. Bored by the sudden saturation of midlife “transformations” (yes, this intense questioning sometime in your 40’s and 50’s seems to be a universal experience) Tracy and Kimberly don’t think the answer is sanitized instagram feeds and talking endlessly about gray hair, menopause, ageism, and “go get ‘em, Honey, you’re not too old”. Kimberly and Tracy bring you something deeper. Still inspirational, for sure. But also raw and honest and funny. Part instructional/part entertainment, Tracy and Kimberly are wives, mothers, entrepreneurs and friends talking about everything you're thinking about and wondering if anyone else is too. What they've got figured out, they clue you in, what they're still struggling with, they openly share and work through. If they can smooth the journey for you too, they've done the job they set out to do.

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March 26, 2024 67 mins

Kimby guested on Randi Rubenstein's 'Mastermind Parenting Podcast" where Randi was generous enough to help Kimby plug her new book "F*CK THIS: Practical Advice To Get You Through Your Midlife Crisis". Randi and Kimby have been friends since college so this conversation was fun and dishy.

Randi is a parenting expert who helps parents become leaders of their pack. Her specialty is helping parents gu...

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A classically-trained physician, Bill Rawls, MD, departs from the medical norm to shine a light on the unrecognized potential of herbs to energize your health through cellular healing and regeneration. Dr. Rawls ventured into herbology to cure his own symptoms of Lyme Disease and unlocked a world of healthy aging.

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January 10, 2024 23 mins

We took a break. We're back. We want to share with you everything we've been working on and what the future holds for us. More importantly, we want to encourage you to branch out and follow your heart and passions. Here's how.

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October 24, 2023 24 mins

They find something suspicious on your mammogram. They tell you to wait and follow up to recheck it. Today we talk about strategies to manage the panic as told from the first person experience that Kimby just went through. Hope it helps...

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Gift-giving can be a delightful yet daunting dance for both the giver and receiver. Whether it’s the silent pressure to mirror the worth of our relationships through presents or decoding the unwritten expectations tied with each ribbon, this act of love often twirls us into a spiral of overthinking and second-guessing. Join Kimby as she candidly shares her headspace, swirling with the conundrums of picking the perfect token for our...

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October 4, 2023 23 mins

Are we still into it, or are we over it? Is it time for a holiday decorating makeover, or should we embrace the minimalist vibe? We're exploring where we stand in midlife when it comes to decking the halls and sprinkling the glitter.

But it's not just about tinsel and ornaments; it's about how decorating makes us feel during the holiday season. Do we want to create a winter wonderland or keep it low-key and stress-fre...

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September 27, 2023 41 mins

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This week we have special guests, Dana Hilmer and Wendy Perrotti the Co-Creators of Camp Reinvention. We talk with Dana and Wendy about partnering in business and in life, what it has taken them to decide to become partners, and their advice on having a successful one. We reflect on how Kimby and Tracy decided to take the leap and decide we could believe something new about partneri...

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September 20, 2023 23 mins

Hey there, magnificent MLFers! It's your favorite midlife maestros, Kimby and Tracy, back at it again with another fiery episode, aptly titled, "Don't Be Lame". This week, we've got a serious bone to pick with the snooze-fest lists circulating around that supposedly represent the grand adventures of midlife. Spoiler alert: they don't, and we're here to shake things up!

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Kicking off season 6 of The Midlife Podcast with a good ol' chat just in time for the 'back to school' buzz that's in the air. You know that palpable energy of fresh beginnings and vibrant possibilities? Yeah, we're soaking in it, and we can't wait to share this zest with you, our MLFers.

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We rarely have guests on the podcast and certainly not boys, but when Winona Medical Director Dr. Michael Green asked if he could join us, we jumped at the chance. Winona is telehealth medicine for women looking to live their healthiest life with the aid of bioidentical hormones.

Kimby and Tracy ask all the questions you're thinking about and help dispel the myths and shame surrounding actively managing your menopause symptoms,...

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July 17, 2023 31 mins

Bullying yourself.

Today on The Midlife we are discussing the embedded beliefs within us that are harsh and rigid. Have we been hearing them and thinking them for so long that we believe they are true? Have we hard wired these beliefs so that we can not imagine we are allowed to think something else about ourselves?

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July 10, 2023 32 mins

Do you have to accept someone's apology? And is there a difference between asking for forgiveness and making an apology?

Today we discuss some juicy personal relationship dynamics and whether we have to behave in a certain way to get or give credit.

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July 3, 2023 20 mins

Sometimes the creativity dries up. Or at least it hits a lull. What do we do to ourselves how do we react or act when it comes and when it doesn't? Do we judge ourselves when creativity isn't flowing? Do we feel anxious and fill the time with keeping "busy"? Or allow the quiet time to be just what we need right now before the next burst of inspiration appears?

We know feeling like an empty canvas can be scary.

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June 26, 2023 20 mins

Do you rehearse and anticipate conversations with difficult people? You're not alone. Kimby is seeing someone later and based on past experience, she knows this person is going to say something infuriating. But Kimby also recognizes what a waste of time and energy the "pre-conversation" is. Listen along to save yourself from this non-productive habit.

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June 19, 2023 34 mins

Kimby has a hypotheses that when we may find ourselves in The Midlife feeling unsatisfied with parts of our lives and therefore we act out with anger, and not necessarily at the proper source.  We are at the point of our lives that no matter how we got here, we are in The Midlife and we are awakening and looking at and questioning all of the choices we have made, where we are in our lives, and where we hoped or wish to be. If we ju...

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June 12, 2023 30 mins

In the podcasts before we've been talking about feelings and staying in your body. Tracy is experiencing a feelings hangover, allowing herself to sit in the aftermath of having a deep emotional talk with her husband. Remembering as you embody your feelings there is an important acknowledge that even when you have talked through a challenging topic your body also needs to recover.

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June 5, 2023 22 mins

Join us in this weeks chat  when discuss the ever popular question... "How did you sleep last night?". Midlife is fraught with sleep disturbances and it seems that we are more affected by our sleep (or non) now more than ever.

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Just because its messy doesn't mean you are a mess. We are HUMAN and in that way all alike. Perfectly un-perfect. Un-perfectly perfect. Growing and learning. Learning and growing. 

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May 22, 2023 27 mins

When we are hard on ourselves we inhibit our ability to communicate. If we are the ones who are being hard on ourselves than when someone even looks at us the "wrong" way or we get an email that makes us feel silly or that we did understand what we are doing, we REACT. We have knee jerk responses and defensively go on the attack. (and guess what we generally get back?.... more of the same kind of energy, more icky respons...

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May 19, 2023 6 mins

NEW The Midlife Community https://mlfers.com

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