My 40s started with a decision. Two months before my wedding, I called off the engagement myself and chose a different path, one built by me, for my own dreams. I’m 50 now, recording Season 7 of The Empowered Feminine as a 50 year old woman for the first time, and I have a lot to say about the decade that followed that decision. The ten years after held big risk, a move, a business I built from nothing, financial pressure, and friendships that carried me when I couldn’t carry myself. I challenged myself on every front. My health. My business. My community. I kept pushing for everything I actually wanted, not what I thought I was supposed to settle for. I stopped self-sacrificing. I stopped tolerating what I already knew wasn’t right for me. In this episode I get into what perimenopause has actually looked like for me, HRT, why I added testosterone, and what’s really happened to my energy and my body composition. Building and protecting muscle has mattered more in my 40s than almost ...