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What do women need to know about menopause care, menopause treatment, insurance coverage and their rights in the workplace?

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, attorney, women’s health advocate and author of When in Menopause, joins me to talk about the systems surrounding perimenopause and menopause that most of us never think about until we need them.

Jennifer has spent years fighting for women, from helping lead the movement to end the tampon tax to advocating for better menopause care, research, treatment access and workplace protections. In this conversation, we break down what is changing, where women are still falling through the cracks and what we can actually do about it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why menopause care and treatment still aren’t uniformly covered by health insurance

- Why vaginal estrogen isn’t currently covered by Medicare

- What states are doing to expand access to menopause treatment

- What rights women actually have when it comes to menopause in the workplace

- Why workplace accommodations without discrimination protections can be complicated

- What to consider before disclosing menopause symptoms at work

- How to better advocate for yourself in the doctor’s office

- How to navigate the explosion of menopause supplements, creams and products being marketed to women

- Why Jennifer believes better care, education, research and treatment access could make a bigger difference than workplace accommodations alone

- How women can get involved in menopause advocacy without becoming policy experts

This is one of those conversations that makes you realize how much of the menopause experience is shaped by systems most women have never been taught to think about. The more we understand how they work, the better equipped we are to ask for what we need.

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If you’ve been searching for how to strengthen your feet, improve your balance, walk better, help bunions, choose the right shoes, or stay mobile as you age, this episode is for you.

Your feet could be telling you more about your health than you realize.

Today, Tamsen sits down with foot and gait specialist Dr. Courtney Conley to break down the simple things you can start doing now to build stronger feet, improve the way you walk, and protect your mobility as you age.

You’ll learn:

- Why your walking speed can reveal important information about your health

- The simple test that can show you how strong your toes actually are

- What to do about bunions before considering surgery

- Why balance and foot strength become so important as you age

- Whether you actually need arch support or orthotics

- The truth about max-cushion sneakers, barefoot shoes and walking barefoot

- How to tell if your shoes are changing the shape of your feet

- The simple foot exercises Dr. Conley recommends for strength and mobility

- Why toe spacers can help and how to use them correctly

- What Dr. Conley rates orthotics, insoles, compression socks, bunion correctors, massage balls, slant boards and toe spacers

Your feet are carrying you through your entire life. This episode will show you how to start taking care of them now so they can keep carrying you for decades to come.

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Breast cancer is rising in younger women, but why? And what do plastics, alcohol, fragrance, deodorant, PFAS, pesticides, and other everyday exposures actually have to do with breast cancer risk?

In this episode of The Tamsen Show, Tamsen Fadal sits down with medical oncologist Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky to separate breast cancer facts from fear and misinformation.

They break down what the science actually says about everyday products and environmental exposures, plus the breast cancer risk factors women should be paying attention to.

You’ll learn:

- Why breast cancer rates are rising in women under 50

- What we know about plastics, PFAS and environmental exposures

- The connection between alcohol and breast cancer risk

- Why dense breasts can increase risk and make breast cancer harder to detect

- What women should know about mammograms, ultrasounds and breast cancer screening

- How family history and genetic testing affect your risk

- How to better understand your personal breast cancer risk

- The lifestyle changes that actually matter

If you’ve ever wondered what you can actually do to lower your breast cancer risk, what’s worth worrying about, and what the science says you can stop stressing about, this episode is for you.

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When you lose a word, forget why you walked into a room, or struggle to retain what you just read, it can be unsettling. It can also make you wonder whether your brain is beginning to change.

In this episode, Tamsen sits down with memory and learning expert Jim Kwik to explore what affects our ability to remember and why attention may be one of the most important parts of the equation. Jim, author of Limitless and the new book Limitless Daily: 366 Keys to Train Your Brain, Master Your Mind & Win Every Day, shares his journey from being labeled “the boy with the broken brain” to becoming one of the world’s best-known memory coaches—and offers practical ways to strengthen your focus, keep learning, and begin trusting your mind again.

They discuss:

- How attention determines what becomes a memory

- Why mental overload can make us feel more forgetful

- A 60-second grounding exercise to use when you feel scattered or anxious

- Simple techniques for remembering what you read

- How to keep challenging and training your brain as you age

- The small daily practices that build focus, memory, and self-trust

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Grief doesn’t only happen when someone dies. We can grieve a divorce, a changing body, an aging parent, a career, a relationship or even the person we used to be.

In this episode of The Tamsen Show, Tamsen Fadal sits down with grief therapist and expert Meghan Riordan Jarvis to unpack what grief actually does to the body, why the five stages of grief don’t tell the whole story, and how to process loss instead of simply pushing through it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why grief can show up after divorce, career changes, aging and other non-death losses

- How grief can affect sleep, brain fog, anxiety, mood and the body

- The truth about the five stages of grief

- How to recognize grief you may not realize you’re carrying

- Meghan’s six-part Grief Mentor Method for processing loss

- What to actually say and do when someone you love is grieving

- Why perimenopause, menopause and midlife can bring unexpected grief

- Practical ways to process grief instead of ignoring it

- How mindfulness, movement, nourishment, nature, rest and ritual can support the grieving process

Whether you’re grieving the death of someone you love, a divorce, an aging parent, a changing body or a version of your life that no longer exists, this conversation offers a different way to understand what you’re feeling and what to do with it.

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