If you're a millennial women who is approaching midlife, you've probably asked yourself "is it perimenopause or am I just tired?" too many times to count.

It's a perfect storm: You're being bombarded with perimenopause content. Your friends are suddenly talking about their symptoms candidly. You're feeling something shift in your own body...but you're too busy taking care of kids, aging parents, and so many other things to really pay attention to what you're feeling.

Enter: women's health advocate Dr. Jessica Shepherd, board-certified OB/GYN, author, menopause expert, and Chief Medical Officer of Hers here to help millennial and midlife women make sense of perimenopause and menopause.

Dr. Shepherd doesn't just do this by demystifying the physical realities of these life stages; she also sheds light on how the lived experience many women are having in midlife affects how they experience perimenopause and menopause.

For more of Jessica's insights, find her book here.

This episode covers:

• The fuzziness of perimenopause and why so many women have no idea if they're in this phase
• The load so many women are carrying in midlife and how that affects their health
• The importance of taking some time for yourself, even if it's just 15 minutes a day
• How perimenopause typically shows up

Topics covered: Perimenopause, menopause, longevity, aging, hormones, women's health, lifestyle, puberty, caregiving, parenting, motherhood

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We went to our 20-year high school reunion and it got us thinking...did our teenage selves ever imagine adulthood would look or feel like this?

Spoiler alert: No. They didn't.

On this episode, we (two millennial women, both happily married moms of two with successful careers, aging parents, and even more stress than we had while taking the SAT) unpack all the myths millennial women were fed about adulthood.

From the idea that love is enough to sustain a marriage to the notion that your career should always be the thing you're passionate about, and so much more, we talk about all the biggest surprises we've found along the way.

In this episode, we unpack all the lies we were believed about:

• Motherhood
• Marriage
• Money
• Career
• Aging
• Friendship in adulthood

Topics mentioned: Millennial adulthood, culture, nostalgia, adult friendships, postpartum, motherhood, marriage, money, career, women's work.

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There are so many narratives about the intersection of motherhood and work. One tells us that "working moms" and "stay-at-home moms" are fundamentally different types of women, and that's there's no fluidity or common ground between the two.

Another tells us that if you must pause your career, its best to do this when your kids are babies (and that the right time to return is when your youngest child starts kindergarten),

Neha Ruch, founder and author of The Power Pause is here to challenge all those outdated narratives. This conversation couldn't have come at a better time: So many millennial women are reevaluating their priorities, their time, and their career trajectories.

Sometimes, we're reevaluating to spend more time with our kids; other times, we're doing it to focus on care for aging parents. Often, it's for both of these reasons (and so many more).

In this episode we discuss:

• Why there's no "right" or "wrong" time to take a career pause
• Why so many millennial women are doing this in the middle stages of parenthood
• How millennial women are making the work of motherhood and daughterhood more visible through record-keeping
• The constant minimization of women's work
• The challenges of choosing your priorities

Topics covered:

Career, working motherhood, stay-at-home motherhood, flexible work, freelance work, ambition, unpaid labor

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