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A Certain Age is an age-positive podcast that helps you live your best, evolving midlife. We know the only constant is change. Kids grow. Jobs come and go. What it takes to be fit, healthy, happy, and fulfilled looks waaaay different than it did in our thirties and forties. Amp up your midlife with expert tips, tools, and resources to help with the hard stuff and light you up about what’s next. Pop in your AirPods and spend time with women just like you who are knocking it out of the midlife park and who share real-life blueprints for navigating speedbumps and setbacks. Because who hasn’t hit a midlife pothole (or two)? Ready to reboot your midlife and join the #AgeOutLoud movement? Follow us at @acertainagepod and find show notes, transcripts, and more midlife resources at www.acertainagepod.com.

A Certain Age Katie Fogarty

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 175 Ratings

A Certain Age is an age-positive podcast that helps you live your best, evolving midlife. We know the only constant is change. Kids grow. Jobs come and go. What it takes to be fit, healthy, happy, and fulfilled looks waaaay different than it did in our thirties and forties. Amp up your midlife with expert tips, tools, and resources to help with the hard stuff and light you up about what’s next. Pop in your AirPods and spend time with women just like you who are knocking it out of the midlife park and who share real-life blueprints for navigating speedbumps and setbacks. Because who hasn’t hit a midlife pothole (or two)? Ready to reboot your midlife and join the #AgeOutLoud movement? Follow us at @acertainagepod and find show notes, transcripts, and more midlife resources at www.acertainagepod.com.

    You Aren’t Crazy. Menopause Causes Aches, Joint Pain, and Impacts Your Musculoskeletal Health with Dr. Vonda Wright

    You Aren’t Crazy. Menopause Causes Aches, Joint Pain, and Impacts Your Musculoskeletal Health with Dr. Vonda Wright

    Nope, you aren’t imagining it! Menopause causes musculoskeletal symptoms in a whopping 80% of people. When estrogen walks out the door, many women suffer from joint pain, pins and needles, muscle pain, and biggies like osteoporosis and arthralgia, which is total body and joint pain. On this week’s show, top sports doc, orthopedic surgeon, and women’s health expert Dr. Vonda Wright breaks down the science on protecting bone health—think fracture protection and more—and shares ideas for building lean muscle mass at any age. We talk HRT, weight training, smart diet, and lifestyle choices, plus your biological versus chronological age. Bonus! Vonda shares a sneak peek at her newest book and gives us the BTS on how she trained for her first Spartan Woman’s race.

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    • 42 min
    Declutter Your Home + Headspace with Home Organizing Pro Shira Gill

    Declutter Your Home + Headspace with Home Organizing Pro Shira Gill

    What if we can live a bigger, better life with less stuff? On this week’s show, home organizing pro Shira Gill shares tools, hacks, and strategies to clear the clutter from your home life and mind. Shira is the author of the NYT-bestseller “Minimalista,” her latest book “Organized Living,” offers inspiration and insider tips from the homes of 25 organizing experts from across the globe. We dive into the link between clutter and mental health, budget-friendly organizing tools, plus what’s worth a splurge. Bonus! Shira offers a reset on how to think about minimalism—stop thinking about it in terms of scarcity. Time to view minimalism as the practice of intentionally choosing belongings (or activities) that add value and meaning to your life. Yes, please!

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    • 36 min
    Joyful Aging and How to Make Midlife a “Radiant Rebellion” with Author Karen Walrond

    Joyful Aging and How to Make Midlife a “Radiant Rebellion” with Author Karen Walrond

    What if aging could be joyful? What if we viewed more candles on the cake as something to aspire to and embrace? Author Karen Walrond approached a milestone year with excitement, not fear, and thought, what if we could forge a radiant rebellion against the idea of aging as a season of decline? What came next was a book and a call-to-arms for a radical reframe of how we view aging. On this show, Karen dives into the lessons from her latest book, “Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell,” and invites us to rebel against ageism alongside her. Aging is living!

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    • 35 min
    Upgrade Your Spice Rack to Live Longer + Boost Vitality with Dr. Melina Jampolis (Plus, the 411 on Collagen)

    Upgrade Your Spice Rack to Live Longer + Boost Vitality with Dr. Melina Jampolis (Plus, the 411 on Collagen)

    Beauties—You may be sleeping on one of the easiest (and most delicious ways) to upgrade your midlife health. Time to get serious about your spice and herb intake—and add years to your life, improve your overall wellness, and fight age accelerators and disease. On this week’s show, Dr. Melina Jampolis, a board-certified physician nutrition specialist and the author of “Spice Up, Live Long,” downloads on food as medicine and the power of plants and phytonutrients to fuel health and improve the gut microbiome. We cover Blue Zone spices, fresh vs. dried herbs, and easy ideas for *sprinkling* spices into your everyday eats. Plus, we dive into collagen powders and supplements. Because we know you’re wondering if they truly are a skincare superhero!

     

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    • 41 min
    All Things Midlife Fun, Fabulous, and Weird AF as A Certain Age Celebrates a Third Birthday

    All Things Midlife Fun, Fabulous, and Weird AF as A Certain Age Celebrates a Third Birthday

    A Certain Age celebrates a third birthday!  A special co-host joins host Katie Fogarty to dish on all things midlife and aging—the fun, the fabulous, the weird AF—and what’s next for A Certain Age. We cover how the midlife and menopause landscape is shifting in pop culture, lessons from the show, and why midlife agency starts with information. Plus, a fresh take on the ACA speed round and Katie confesses what g**awful habit she’s picked back up and is trying to kick.

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    • 45 min
    Super Bloom Author Megan Tady on the Eight-Year Journey to Overnight Success

    Super Bloom Author Megan Tady on the Eight-Year Journey to Overnight Success

    Debut novelist Megan Tady schools us on love, loss, hard conversations, and the wild, wonderful phenomena of Super Blooms – wildflowers with seeds that lie dormant for years only to blossom unexpectedly when conditions are exactly right. We dive into her rom-com novel, “Super Bloom,” and cover late blooming, the highs and lows of female friendship, the long and winding road to “overnight” success, plus midlife resiliency. You know, all the good stuff!

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    • 37 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
175 Ratings

175 Ratings

Dianedc2016 ,

Love this podcast!

I look forward to Monday morning’s to listen to Kate and her podcast. Informative, fast-paced, entertaining, fun… Kate keeps the pace going with great questions and topics. Thank you for not just focusing on the pre-menopausal women…. There are many of us post - menopausal that need good information!

jerseybabydanielle ,

Interesting & informative

I’ve listened to a few of your podcasts and I am hooked! The one on Fascia was fascinating and I am much more mindful of moving more, breathing and hanging from whatever I can find throughout the day. I also plan to order your cousins invention omshe? That is brilliant and beautiful.
I look forward to listening and learning more from your topics.

Mazyboy ,

Insightful, Intelligent and Inspiring!!!

I LOVE this podcast! I just turned 60 and my nest has recently emptied. I’ve been looking for different ways to approach (and embrace - hopefully one day soon…) this new stage in my life. This entertaining podcast really speaks to me and helps me feel hopeful. Katie asks intelligent and insightful questions of her guests. Each episode offers interesting topics and new ways to approach this new stage in my life with hope and inspiration!

I have followed Dr. Mary Claire Haver since the pandemic and was so happy to hear her spread her wisdom for longer than a TikTok clip. I just bought Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay and LOVE this idea that we can find/create these “micro joys” even when we are simultaneously experiencing sadness and grief. I’ve listened to others and I’m looking forward to more.

Well done, Katie!!!

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