I've been rambling on for years on my blog, and now I thought I'd start rambling on via a podcast as well. I'm eclectic; very sweary; frequently livid; perpetually confused. Topics I'm likely to cover will include gin, parenting, gin, why Original Source mint and tea tree shower gel is a fucking liability, gin, general musings on life, and a bit more gin. I believe kindness is everything, and that we should all try generally to be a little bit less of a dick.
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Charlie reads memoirs and talks about what she learned, so she can write her own.
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A monthly podcast dedicated to all things Dark Shadows, as well as horror literature, movies and comic books.
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Welcome to the Hit Play Not Pause Podcast, a Feisty Menopause podcast for active, performance-minded menopausal women who aren’t willing to put their best years behind them. It’s time to reimagine what you can accomplish as an active woman in your 40’s, 50’s and beyond. We talk about how to optimize your physiology, maintain your fitness, and harness your power in, through, and past the menopause transition. Come join the movement. Join host Selene Yeager for a no B-S podcast for women ready ...
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Welcome to Southern Indian Health Council's official podcast! Every episode, we're joined by expert guests who break down the complexities of important topics to help listeners learn how to enrich their own wellness. Some episodes will feature special guests from our Native community who are excited to share their life experiences and inspire new generations with their words. If you'd like to be a guest and share your story, send us an email to podcast@sihc.org to be featured on the next epi ...
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Shattering the Stereotypes of "Disabilities" - feat. A Better Life Together
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Send us a Text Message. Clyde Williams joins the podcast to break down all the fantastic resources that are available for those with developmental and intellectual disabilities. His modo "how can we help?" is an understatement as his only goal and the only goal of A Better Life Together is to assist in any way they can. Find what transformations in…
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Find a Doctor Who Will Listen! with Erin Ferguson (Episode 186)
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Boy, oh boy, we women can really struggle to find good medical care–especially when we hit the menopause transition. And this week’s guest Erin Ferguson has experienced that firsthand. Erin went through multiple gynecological complications, surgeries, and hormonally-driven symptoms, including panic attacks, anxiety, weight gain, painful periods, se…
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Working Through Menopausal Grief with Kathryn Wilder, PhD (Episode 185)
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Nearly every one of us will go through some mourning with the changes that come with menopause. Even if we go on hormone therapy, which can help a ton, there is some loss that comes at this time. A loss of our reproductive selves. A loss of speed in our sport. A loss of our ability to quickly bounce back after hard workouts. A loss of some aspect o…
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Becoming a Better Lover - feat. Kathryn Krug
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Send us a Text Message. Our guest Kathryn Krug is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist who loves love and is ready to help you be the best partner you can be! Learn how to not only build a more fruitful relationship, but how you can maintain your personal values along the way. “If it's in the realm of convincing, it's likely a useless cause and it'…
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Return to Play Post Gynecological Surgery without Prolapse, Pain, or Peeing Yourself with Jocelyn Wallace, PT, DPT (episode 184)
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Gynecological surgeries are extremely common. More 600,000 women get a hysterectomy each year in the US alone, and more than one-third of women will have had one by age 60. And often a woman is told that she’s “good to go” after a few weeks, when in reality, when it comes to her sport, she’s anything but, and she can struggle for months–or longer–b…
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I submitted a personal essay to the New York Times weekly column, Modern Love. In this episode I talk about how I learned about the column, how I decided to submit an essay under my real name, and a little context for what the essay is about. References: 39 Submission Tips for Modern Love Estelle Erasmus interviews: Noah Michelson Joanna Rakoff Abi…
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Sports Supplements for Midlife & Menopausal Women with Kristen Arnold, MS, RDN, CSSD (Episode 183)
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Supplements get a bad rap. And to be fair, there is a lot of trash out there. But there are some treasures, too, especially for midlife and menopausal women who often can use some extra help building bone, recovering from injuries, and hitting it hard during training and events. This week we break down the best ergogenic aids for active women in an…
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Surviving a Deadly Explosion Using Dance - feat. Dancing Veterans San Diego
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Send us a Text Message. Today, we are speaking with a man who might love dance more than he loves his own mother! Dr. Robert Morgan is a veteran of the Jamaican military and of the U.S. Navy who's always loved dancing, however, after a near-death explosives accident, doctors told him he would never walk again. Dr. Morgan recovered and returned to d…
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What’s Inside Your Coronary Arteries? with Anita Vadria, MS, PA-C (Episode 182)
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Menopause and age raise our cardiovascular disease risk. Athletes and highly active people also tend to have a higher prevalence of coronary artery calcium and atherosclerotic plaque (though it tends to be the benign kind). But what does that all mean? How can we know what’s really going on in those coronary arteries of ours? To find out, host Sele…
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Midlife Potential, Performance, and Promise with Rebecca Rusch, Kristi Mohn, and Selene Yeager (Episode 181)
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This week we bring you a special live show from UNBOUND Gravel in Emporia, KS, where we sat down with two legends in the sport of gravel cycling, UNBOUND Gravel co-founder Kristi Mohn and seven time world champion Rebecca Rusch to have an open, honest conversation about midlife and menopause, how we view things today, and what we want for the futur…
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Here’s what I learned from three sobriety memoirs: The Night of the Gun by David Carr: Interview the people from your past. It doesn’t have to be formal or recorded. It could be as simple as a text message to see what they remember about the event. This can accomplish three things: It’s a way to add more details into your story. It allows the perso…
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Nutritional Supplements for Active Menopausal Women with Katie Linville, MS, RDN (Episode 180)
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As active menopausal women, we get outright bombarded with ads for nutritional supplements. But what do we really need? This week, we take it down to brass tacks and hit the basics with registered dietitian nutritionist Katie Linville. We break it down on what we should know about calcium, vitamin D, magnesium, iron, and the other vitamins and mine…
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Jumping into an Adventurous Midlife with Shawn Brokemond (Episode 179)
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We talk a lot about the importance of lifting heavy for our muscle, bone, brain, and heart health. But that’s just the beginning! Being stronger makes us feel more capable and opens the door to all kinds of new adventures that we might not otherwise try because we have more confidence in what our bodies can do. Nobody knows that better than this we…
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From Battlefields to Pottery Wheels - feat. Steve Dilley, MFA
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Send us a Text Message. The Veterans Art Project (VETART) is a community-based arts organization that is transforming the lives of hundreds of veterans all across California. Offering free art classes is just the beginning because the connections made inside the VETART studio have been truly life-changing. “When they moved on, they would become doc…
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Don't Let the Old Woman In with Sal Edwards (Episode 178)
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Sally “Sal” Edwards, now 76, is a pioneer in women’s sports. She qualified for the first women's marathon Olympic Trials in 1983 and is one of the original founders of USA Triathlon. She also brought heart rate and zone training to the mainstream. For 22 years, Sal served as the national spokeswoman for the Danskin Women's Triathlon Series voluntee…
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Race Weight, Body Image & Performance with Marni Sumbal, MS, RD, CSSD (Episode 177)
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Be smaller. Be lighter. For our entire lives those messages have been drilled into us from every angle, including very often from those in our sports. We hear we need to be at “race weight.” We’re shown “idealized” images of what female athletes “should” look like. It’s all incredibly damaging, especially as we hit menopause and midlife and our bod…
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Are You Being Compliant? - feat. Lyndon Peters
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Send us a Text Message. Lyndon Peters is our Quality Compliance Director who knows a thing or two about compliance in the world of healthcare. With many years of experience, Lyndon breaks down the differences between "quality" and "compliance" while explaining how compliance can save lives. “Getting people to understand that they ARE compliance is …
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Postural Restoration & Pelvic Floor Therapy During Menopause with Hayley Kava PT, MPT, PRC (Episode 176)
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If there’s anything we’ve learned, it’s pelvic floor health is a whole lot more than doing Kegel exercises. In fact, sometimes Kegels are the last thing you need. This week we look at pelvic floor health through the lens of Postural Restoration with pelvic floor physical therapist and Postural Restoration Certified (PRC) practitioner Hayley Kava, w…
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Episode 45: Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
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Heres’s what I learned from Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp AND The Elements Of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth. Anaphora is when you start each phrase, sentence, or paragraph with the same word or words. But be careful: readers always remember the opening words but often forget the rest. So when using anaphora, be intentional about what you wan…
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Opportunities of a Life Time with Sarah Max (Episode 175)
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At 49, this week’s guest Sarah Max is the oldest rider in the Life Time Grand Prix, the biggest, hardest gravel and mountain bike race series on the planet. That was something Sarah didn’t always want to talk about. She didn’t want to be defined by her age and didn’t always love the attention it attracted. But she’s realized that while her age isn’…
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Send us a Text Message. The future is bright with this group of young, inspired leaders. 18-year-old Joanay Benton and 13-year-old Malayiah Jones are the chairwomen of their schools' Native UNITY programs and have big plans for the future. Lynne Ray Smith and Denari Rangel also join us to show the true power of UNITY. “Being assertive and being bos…
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The Many Facets of Menopausal Brain Health with Dr. Sarah McKay (Episode 174)
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Women’s brains are finally getting the research attention they deserve! While we sort out the role hormones play in our current and future cognitive health, it’s important to remember that estrogen is just one player in a lifelong host of factors impacting your brain, including education, intellectual engagement, diet and nutrition, exercise and fi…
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Do you want to write under a pseudonym or not? I have been writing as Charlie Bleecker for over four years. If you want to give it a real go, commit to it for a year. Do my friends read my writing? No. Does my family read my writing? No. That is the whole point. If you care at all about growing your audience in a time span of less than 10 years, do…
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Younger is Not Better with Caroline Paul (Episode 173)
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Cultural messages glorify youth as the best time of our lives. But that’s not what this week’s guest, Caroline Paul found while researching her wonderful book Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age. Instead, she found active, adventurous women praising their postmenopausal lives and the …
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Overcoming Addiction on the Big Screen - feat. Bobby Wallace
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Send us a Text Message. See what movie magic is all about! The creators of our documentary "Everlasting Steps: The Path to Healing" share what it took to bring this cinematic movement to life. Three stories of overcoming addiction collide to prove there is everlasting hope for a brighter future. “People can mess up, but people can also change, and …
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30 Years of Extreme Endurance with Pam Reed (Episode 172)
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Women’s ultrarunning is on fire right now with powerhouses like recent Barkley Marathons finisher Jasmin Paris, 40, and Lululemon FURTHER 6-day record smasher Camille Herron, 42, showing the world what midlife women can do. This week, we sat down with ultrarunning legend Pam Reed, who broke ground for women in the sport decades ago, winning races l…
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Episode 43: Life On Delay by John Hendrickson
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Here’s what I learned from Life On Delay by John Hendrickson: On Structure: When you open with a big event, where something big is about to happen, it creates suspense. The opening is a pivotal moment. There was life before this moment, and then there’s life after. Around ¾ of the way through the book he comes back to this moment and finishes the s…
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Menopause Metabolism Myths & More with Val Schonberg, RDN, CSSD (Episode 171)
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Your metabolism is broken. You need to stop eating carbs. All weight gain is bad! If you’re a woman in menopause, you’ve been on the receiving end of a steady stream of overwhelmingly negative messages about your midlife body. Many of them are simply not true. That’s why we wanted to have a more nuanced conversation about the body composition chang…
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Managing Arthritis in Active Peri & Menopausal Women with Ashley Austin, MD (Episode 170)
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Wear and tear on our active joints is inevitable, and the menopause transition can make them more vulnerable. But there are some simple, and often overlooked, ways to support our joint health that include proper nutrition, recovery, strength and mobility practices, footwear and more, which can help us stay active and pain free through and beyond me…
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Episode 42: How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart by David Foster Wallace
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Here’s what I learned from How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart by David Foster Wallace: Rather than tell us how bad the memoir was, he lists eight (eight!) examples—all quotes from the book. Later, he explicitly tells us how bad TV interviews of top athletes are, then gives two very long and detailed back-to-back examples to make his point. The best me…
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Put the O Back in Mojo with Lauren Streicher, MD (Episode 169)
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Women’s sexuality, especially older women’s, is often overlooked or dismissed by the medical system. When men get procedures that may impact their erections, they’re informed. When women get treatments that may affect their ability to have an orgasm? Crickets. Too few women’s doctors talk about women’s sexual satisfaction, including how well their …
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Seeing Healthcare with a Brand New Vision - feat. CEO, Laura Caswell
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Send us a Text Message. I gathered the leaders of SIHC to join the podcast for a deep dive into our new and improved vision statement. Laura Caswell (CEO), Laura Quaha Parkhurst (COO), and Mary Johnson (Executive Secretary) share their thoughts on how the new vision will affect the clinic, how you can get the most out of your healthcare, and how SI…
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