WTF Just Happened: Life is messy. Let's talk about it!

What happens when you suddenly become responsible for all the money — after divorce, the death of a spouse, or the discovery of a financial betrayal you never saw coming?

In this powerful and necessary episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Sada and Hilary sit down with Michelle Perry Higgins, Principal and Financial Advisor at California Financial Advisors and a Certified Financial Therapist, to unpack t...

What if makeup wasn’t about looking younger — but about feeling confident, polished, and like yourself at every stage of life?

In this episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Sada and Hilary sit down with Nicole Wagner, professional makeup artist, educator, beauty entrepreneur, and influencer with over 20 years in the beauty industry.

Together, they talk honestly (and hilariously) about makeup, aging, confi...

We were told midlife would be a crisis.
Turns out… it’s a glow-up.

In this episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Sada and Hilary dive into the funny, honest, wildly relatable truth about life in your 40s and 50s — and why this season might actually be the best one yet.

We talk about confidence, dating, friendships, bodies, hormones, boundaries, and the unexpected freedom that comes with caring less ab...

If we could live the exact same lives again — the love, the kids, the marriages, the friendships, the mistakes, the growth — we wouldn’t change a thing.

Except one thing.

Boundaries.

In this episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Sada and Hilary get real about the boundaries we wish we had earlier in life — and the ones we’re finally choosing now.

This is not a regret episode.
It’s a learning episode.

We...

Did anyone else blink… and somehow lose an entire year?

In this episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Sada and Hilary slow things way down to talk about something so many women are craving — but don’t know how to access anymore: intentional living.

Somewhere between work, grief, parenting, marriage, phones, calendars, and constant noise, time started moving at warp speed — and many of us forgot how to act...

In this episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, we dive into what we lovingly call La La Land — the emotional place you slip into when real life feels too heavy, grief is suffocating, or adulthood is simply too much.

If you’re a widow, a divorcée, a woman in midlife, a burned-out mom, or someone quietly holding it together while your heart is falling apart, this conversation is for you.

We talk honestly abo...

In this brutally honest — and genuinely funny — episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Sada and Hilary dive into one of the most requested midlife topics: our faces, aging, facelifts, fillers, and what the hell actually happens to our skin in our 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond.

We’re joined by Amy Melchior, MSN, APNP, FNP-BC, advanced injector, educator, and owner of Medical Rejuvenation just outside Port...

In this raw, deeply honest — and at times darkly funny — episode of WTF Just Happened? Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Hilary shares the true story of the day a cheerful call from “Susan at Wells Fargo” blew the lid off her marriage and set off a chain reaction that would change everything.

What started as a routine phone call uncovered massive hidden debt, financial infidelity, emotional stonewalling, and a life quietly unravel...

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of sudden loss, widowhood, trauma, and grief.

In this unforgettable episode of WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, Sada shares her full, unfiltered story of love, marriage, sudden loss, and the moment her life split into before and after.

This is not just a story about losing a husband.
It’s a story about growing up together, building a life side-by-side, navig...

Welcome to WTF Just Happened — Life Is Messy, Let’s Talk About It, the unfiltered podcast for women navigating midlife, grief, healing, reinvention, and the moment you look around and think, “What the f just happened to my life?” If that’s you — you’re in the right place.

In this premiere episode, Sada and Hilary introduce themselves, their stories, and the very real, very unglossed-over mess that inspired this podcast. From widowho...