perimeno-PAUSED

Rebecca Fowler
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PerimenoPAUSED is a platform to talk honestly about midlife, perimenopause, and the strange liberation that comes with it. When wisdom collides with authenticity, aching joints, and zero remaining tolerance for b******t, these are the antics that ensue.

  1. 5d ago

    Pure Imagination

    Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather kick off this episode exploring the power of imagination and the mental blocks that keep us stuck. From tracing a winding journey of self-discovery to reading the astrological timing behind personal growth, the conversation moves through embracing life's natural seasons, celebrating small wins, and finding gratitude even in chaos. They close things out with reflections on manifestation and what it really means to live intentionally. About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

  2. 5d ago

    Chop Wood, Carry Water, Have a Nap

    What do you call the nap you take before you go out? Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather start with the disco nap and end up somewhere much deeper. Jessica’s sister is a professional sloth. Rebecca has never once scheduled a nap. Along the way: why sleeping in public feels so exposed, who gets to decide you’re capable, and what it costs to grow up fast. And because this is a perimenopause podcast, a reminder that you are not imagining the 3 a.m. ceiling stare: research on midlife women suggests about one in three perimenopausal women deal with chronic insomnia. For anyone so good at doing that she forgot how to rest. Chronic insomnia afflicts one in three perimenopausal women (SWAN data presented at the North American Menopause Society, 2015) https://mdedge.com/content/chronic-insomnia-afflicts-one-three-perimenopausal-women About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

  3. Sep 27

    Why Did I Dream I Murdered My CFO?

    This week Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather dig into the strange, sometimes spooky world of their dreams: REM cycles, why some dreams stick and others vanish by breakfast, and the time one of us dreamed she had to murder her own CFO husband (relax, it wasn't personal). We detour through a dog's allergic reaction scare, GLP-1s and Big Pharma's incentives, and a little existential wobble about AI coming for our jobs, because that's just how our brains multitask in midlife. But underneath the laughs is something softer, a story about a psychic medium, a late father, and the feeling that the people we've lost might still be checking in on us, awake or asleep. If you've ever woken up confused, a little haunted, and weirdly comforted all at once, this one's for you. About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

  4. Sep 11

    Putting Ourselves Out There

    Rebecca, Heather, and Jessica reunite to catch up on everything: air conditioning bills, the good old days, and why nobody should have to fight their doctor to be taken seriously about their hormone levels. This episode gets honest about testosterone therapy, anxiety medication, and what it actually takes to feel like yourself again in your forties and fifties. Expect laughter, a little bit of TMI, and the kind of conversation that feels like catching up with your own best friends. About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

  5. Sep 6

    Celebrating Dolly & Tim

    Reaching midlife unfortunately means losing icons. Rebecca and Jessica pause the usual chaos this week to celebrate two icons who lived unapologetically as themselves: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. Between celebrity trivia, full moon energy, and one seriously inconvenient hormone appointment, they dig into what it actually means to have the audacity to become more yourself as you age. Grab your wigs and rhinestones and lean in. About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

  6. Aug 24

    Just to Get It Over With

    This week, Rebecca, Heather, and Jessica tackle the universal struggle of procrastination balanced with the relief of finally getting something uncomfortable over with, and then wanting to savor the moments that make it all worth it. The conversation wanders, as per usual, through high school reunion stories, a debate on what actually makes a good rom-com kiss, and dreaming into launching a home bakery empire and only fans channel. Add in a perimenopause-brain moment or two, and the trio's usual mix of honesty and chaos, and you've got another episode of Perimenopause that's equal parts funny and real. About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

  7. Aug 1

    Momentum

    Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather wrestle with self-doubt while building work from scratch, talk about why savings (or the lack of them) hits different in your 40s, and make the guilt-free case for taking a break. They open up about a friend's grandmother nearing the end of her life, lean on meditation to sit with hard feelings instead of running from them, and check in on each other when someone's gone quiet. Plus, a tangent on worldschooling their kids on the road, and how a TV show's affair storyline sparked an honest conversation about what it takes to keep a marriage together. Funny, candid, and a little bit tender, episode 26 is about outrunning doubt and choosing momentum anyway. About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

  8. Jul 16

    On Our Own Terms

    Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather play a round of bucket list confessions. What they'd love to do without judgment (smoking freely, living like a European), and what no amount of money could get them to try again (skydiving, shark diving, Mount Everest, a face tattoo). The conversation opens up into aging and family life, a friend's IVF pregnancy at 52, the chaos of traveling with kids through a heat wave, and a nostalgic detour through a parent's decades old house full of photo albums and VHS tapes they're finally digitizing before disaster takes it. California fire season, Nashville humidity, and very different relationships with summer round things out, before they close with actual bucket list dreams like meeting an octopus, going on safari, and having tea with an elephant. About the hosts: Rebecca has spent most of her life organizing, leading, fixing, building, and occasionally overthinking things for others. After decades in corporate and communal leadership, she now works as a coach and guide, helping people navigate life's transitions without losing themselves in the process. She is a partner, a mom, a sister, an auntie, a daughter, a healer, a spiritual teacher and guide, a friend, and a recent dog-mom. Based in California, Rebecca is learning (in real time) how to choose living in alignment with love, truth, and wisdom over the noise of raging hormones and the crumbling patriarchy. Jessica is a California native who now happily calls Tennessee home — yes, willingly, and yes, she loves it. For the last several years, she has been every kind of mom, including cheer mom, scout mom, room mom, snack coordinator, and calendar manager, to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old, while also being a wife, daughter, sister, running a business, and leading in the corporate world. Jessica brings heart, sarcasm, and the kind of practical wisdom that comes from juggling a lot and still showing up. She approaches midlife the way she approaches everything: full-on, and with enough humor and prescription hormones to survive it.  Heather has questions. A California girl now rooted in Washington State, she has fully embraced being a dog guardian, fresh air, muddy boots, and starting over. She is an amazing friend, a great big sister, a devoted dog human to her rescue dog, Chance, a community gardener, a bee lover, and a general enthusiast of things that grow. Heather brings curiosity, honesty, and a quiet adventurous streak to the mic. She sees midlife not as something to manage but as something to explore, preferably outdoors, ideally with really good snacks, and always with an open heart.

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PerimenoPAUSED is a platform to talk honestly about midlife, perimenopause, and the strange liberation that comes with it. When wisdom collides with authenticity, aching joints, and zero remaining tolerance for b******t, these are the antics that ensue.

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  • Creator
    Rebecca Fowler
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Rebecca Fowler
  • Show Website
    perimeno-PAUSED