Grown-Ass Woman's Guide

There's a version of motherhood nobody prepares you for: the one where your kid becomes an adult and the rules you spent twenty years mastering stop working overnight.

Pam Tronson didn't sign up for this. She built her whole coaching career believing she had no real wound to work from, until an email from her own adult daughter proved her wrong. What followed was a full rebuild, of the relationship, and of herself.

In this conversati...

Ever notice how quick we are to call ourselves lazy or scattered, and how rarely we claim that we're badass and grown-ass?

The words after "I am" are some of the most powerful in the universe, and this week's guest built her whole career around them.

Mindi Huebner is a subconscious rewiring and identity expansion expert for high-achieving women (yes, I make her break down exactly what that means). We get into why mindset work without...

Today we're talking about something most of us actively avoid thinking about, until we absolutely cannot avoid it anymore.

Maria Fraietta was 50, a high school teacher, a single mom, and a real estate agent. That is already so much to juggle. But when her father passed, she also became the person responsible for untangling an entire life, with no roadmap and no one to call. So she did what many grown-ass women do in a moment of chao...

By the time you're in your early 50s, the odds of a new cancer diagnosis are 1 in 35. One in four people in their 50s and early 60s will have a physical or medical condition that limits their ability to work. And most of them have no idea how exposed they actually are.

In part two of our insurance series, Wallis Wilkinson Tsai, founder of AboveBoard Financial, is back to talk about disability insurance — what it actually does,...

Do you think your elderly parent could be talked into a financial scam?

I asked this recently in the Grown Ass community. 43% said they already worry about it. For 28%, it's already happened in their family. And the stories that came in were from people who described themselves as sharp, aware, and not the type—and it happened anyway.

Because that is exactly who these scammers target. Not only the people who are vulnerable, but...

If you've ever dreaded Mother's Day, felt blindsided by grief, or wondered why missing your mother never quite goes away, this conversation is for you.

Whether you lost your mother years ago or just recently, your relationship was loving or messy (or somewhere in between), this time of year has a way of bringing everything back up.

Join Jackie MacDougall and Hope Edelman—NYT #1 bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The...

You've got the list. You know what needs to get done. And somehow another week goes by.

This isn't a laziness problem. According to licensed therapist Melody Murray, it's a nervous system problem—and there's a very specific reason so many women feel stuck, scattered, and perpetually behind right now.

Melody Murray is an LMFT, child mental health specialist, former reality TV producer, and author of Mourning the Living. She's be...

It's a tale as old as time. Four male investment managers try to tell a woman that a product she's interested in doesn't exist. How does she know they're wrong? She literally traded them when she worked at Goldman Sachs. That's just one moment that inspired Wallis Tsai to start her own company, AboveBoard Financial, built on the idea that you deserve straight answers about your insurance.

We get into red flags to watch for when choo...

"Health is the unbecoming. So much of the work around health is unbecoming the beliefs that were never yours." — Courtney Townley

What if getting healthy wasn't about doing more but about finally putting some things down?

In this episode, Courtney Townley, health and self-leadership coach, author of The Consistency Code, and host of the Grace & Grit podcast, drops some midlife truth bombs we absolutely need to hear. We cut ...

73% of women polled said they were either winging it or had no idea how their home worked.

Have you ever stood in a flooding garage, phone in hand, searching Facebook for a plumber on a holiday weekend? Or packed up your home during a fire evacuation and realized you had no idea what mattered or where anything was?

That was me. Twice.

In this episode, I’m sharing the two moments that cracked me wide open — and why I believ...

What if the scariest change you could make turned out to be the most freeing?

After nearly 30 years of dyeing her hair, Katie Emery made the decision at 50 to go gray cold turkey, and discovered it was about so much more than hair color. In this episode, the creator of Katie Goes Platinum shares her raw and honest journey, from the depression that sparked her decision to the surprising joy she found on the other side.

We talk:

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What if I told you that brands are actively looking to pay Gen X and Boomer women to create content—and you don't need a single follower to get started?

Yeah, I know. It sounds too good to be true. But it's not.

In this episode, you'll meet Megan Collier, who's been teaching women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond how to create user-generated content (UGC) and get paid for it.

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Is it ADHD or anxiety? If you've ever asked yourself this question, you're not alone. In this final episode of our 3-part ADHD series, host Jackie MacDougall sits down with ADHD coach Kristen Carder to unpack what ADHD actually looks like when it overlaps with anxiety, shame, over...

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In part two of our three-part ADHD series, Jackie is joined again by ADHD coach and I Have ADHD podcast host Kristen Carder to talk about something a lot of grown-ass women are quietly wondering about: treatment.

In the first episode, we unpacked how ADHD actually shows up in women—and...

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If you can solve a crisis before lunch but forget where you put your keys, this episode is for you. ADHD coach and host of I Have ADHD, Kristen Carder, joins Jackie to explore how ADHD really shows up in grown-ass women. From distractibility and i...

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Home may be where the heart is, but it’s also where things break, leak, and short-circuit when you least expect it.

Beth Kindig from the TikTok/Instagram duo Boomer Beth & Gen X, is a retired, tool-wielding, label-maker-loving badass who knows her home inside and out and wants us all to know ours, too.

And because I never want you learning this stuff in the middle of a crisis (ask...

Open enrollment doesn’t exactly make anyone’s top 10 list of exciting life events — but the choices you make during this short window can save (or cost) you thousands. In this episode, benefits expert Amy Evans helps us simplify the chaos. We unpack the hidden perks and smarter strategies that can make your benefits work for you.

You’ll learn how to:

• Spot hidden benefits like free therapy, legal services, ...

Vaccines can be a hot topic, but once we hit our 40s, there are a few that can make a real difference in protecting our long-term health. You’ve heard about flu shots and COVID boosters, but what about shingles, pneumonia, or even HPV after 40?

In this episode of The Grown-Ass Woman’s Guide, host Jackie MacDougall talks with Dr. Kudzai Dombo, a board-certified OB/GYN and menopause expert, and physician at Alloy Women's H...