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Female fitness expert, Hailey Happens Fitness and beauty practitioner, Laura, team up to bring women over 40 the most informative and entertaining look at health, fitness, beauty and wellness.


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  • Midlife Mind vs. Brain: Dr. Caroline Leaf on Toxic Thoughts, Neuroplasticity & Healing After 40

    Midlife Mind vs. Brain: Dr. Caroline Leaf on Toxic Thoughts, Neuroplasticity & Healing After 40
    Oct 8 2026
    Why does midlife suddenly bring on insecurity, self-sabotage, and a loss of self-confidence you never struggled with before? In this episode of The Body Pod, Hailey and Laura sit down with cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf, bestselling author of 19 books on the mind-brain connection, to unpack exactly what happens in the midlife brain. Dr. Leaf explains why women in midlife shift from processing life in broad concepts to sudden, sharp detail, why this cognitive shift can surface a "midlife crisis," and how decades of unmanaged toxic thoughts quietly shape self-sabotage, anxiety, and stress well into your 40s, 50s, and beyond. If you've ever wondered why midlife hits differently for women's mental health and confidence, this conversation breaks down the neuroscience behind it.

    This episode dives deep into Dr. Leaf's signature framework on the mind vs. brain distinction, the difference between conscious and subconscious thought, and her practical, science-backed method for identifying, deconstructing, and reconstructing toxic thought patterns before they dominate your midlife years. Midlife women will learn why unresolved thoughts from every stage of life — childhood through adulthood — build into "tree-like" neural networks in the brain and body, why simply trying to ignore or suppress them doesn't work, and how neuroplasticity makes it possible to actually rewire long-held mental patterns at any age. Dr. Leaf also explains the difference between healthy and unhealthy thought structures and why midlife is uniquely positioned as a turning point for self-awareness and growth.

    Whether you're navigating perimenopause, an empty nest, a career pivot, or simply that unshakeable feeling that midlife is asking you to look at your life differently, this episode offers real, actionable neuroscience for reclaiming your mental health, confidence, and mindset in midlife. Tune in to The Body Pod for this powerful conversation on midlife mental wellness, thought management, and the brain science every midlife woman needs to hear. Because understanding your mind is the first step to changing your life.

    Learn more about Dr. Leaf at www.drleaf.com

    Be First in Line for Shred Happens: Our popular 6-week challenge for shredding fat and building muscle starts October 18. You get a personalized calorie/macro budget, live Q&A calls with experts, workouts for both gym and home, prize giveaways and an incredible community of women doing it along with you. Save Your Spot →

    Hailey Happens Fitness Membership is my full training system in your back pocket. Join with a Yearly Plan to design a training year that fits your midlife goals and body.
    Start training with a 10-day free trial →
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    58 min
  • The Missing Link in Midlife Fitness: Pelvic Floor Health with the Buff Muff's Kim Vopni

    The Missing Link in Midlife Fitness: Pelvic Floor Health with the Buff Muff's Kim Vopni
    Oct 1 2026
    If you've ever leaked during a workout, felt pressure "down there," or been told to just do your Kegels, this episode is for you. We sit down with Kim Vopni, known as The Vagina Coach, a certified personal trainer and pelvic floor expert with over 20 years of experience helping women understand and optimize their pelvic health. Pelvic floor dysfunction affects millions of women and most don't even know they have it! This conversation covers everything you didn't know you needed to hear.

    Kim breaks down the symptoms women silently live with for years, the difference between stress urinary incontinence and urgency incontinence, how pelvic organ prolapse is staged, what a pessary is and how it works, and whether women with prolapse can (and should) be lifting heavy weights. She also unpacks the eye-opening connection between lower back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction, why 50% of women who've given birth have some degree of prolapse without knowing it, and why vaginal estrogen is something every woman in perimenopause and beyond should be talking to her doctor about.

    Kim explains why Kegels alone aren't enough, how breath and whole-body movement are key to true pelvic floor function, and why pelvic health is a lifelong practice not just a postpartum fix. She also shares how her BuffMuff app and 28-day challenge are giving women the tools to rebuild their foundation from the inside out, and why her membership community is helping women realize they are not alone in this.

    Whether you're in your thirties and want to get ahead of it, deep in perimenopause, or post-menopausal and ready to stop accepting symptoms as normal, this is the women's health conversation your OBGYN should have been having with you all along.

    Be First in Line for Shred Happens: Our popular 6-week challenge for shredding fat and building muscle starts October 18. You get a personalized calorie/macro budget, live Q&A calls with experts, workouts for both gym and home, prize giveaways and an incredible community of women doing it along with you. Save Your Spot →

    Hailey Happens Fitness Membership is my full training system in your back pocket. Join with a Yearly Plan to design a training year that fits your midlife goals and body.
    Start training with a 10-day free trial →
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    1 ora e 3 min
  • Your Body Has a Maintenance Manual: Midlife Mobility, Strength & Injury Prevention with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett

    Your Body Has a Maintenance Manual: Midlife Mobility, Strength & Injury Prevention with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett
    Sep 24 2026
    What if your body came with a maintenance manual and you've just been ignoring it? In this episode of The Body Pod, hosts Hailey and Laura sit down with Dr. Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett, the legendary movement and mobility experts behind Built to Move and The Ready State, for a conversation that will completely change how you think about your body in midlife. From hip extension to voodoo flossing, the Starretts break down why most women are unknowingly setting themselves up for injury, chronic pain, and lost function and exactly what to do about it.

    The conversation dives deep into the most overlooked mobility issue affecting midlife women (hint: it's not your ankles), why sitting on the floor for 30 minutes a day might be the sneakiest and most effective mobility practice available, and how to audit your current strength and conditioning program to know if it's actually building the bone density and muscle mass you need. Kelly and Juliet also tackle the perfectionist mindset trap that causes so many women to push through pain and overtrain, the truth about "core work" and why you might want to ditch it, and why a quality strength and conditioning practice is a must.

    Whether you're brand new to lifting or years into your fitness journey, this episode is your guide to training smarter, moving better, and staying injury-free for decades to come. Learn the key markers of a quality strength program, why hip extension is the single most common mobility deficit in women, how to use voodoo flossing to manage soreness and recover faster, and more. If you're a woman in midlife who wants to sprint on the beach, hike the Grand Canyon, and keep doing the things you love, this episode is essential listening.



    Be First in Line for Shred Happens: Our popular 6-week challenge for shredding fat and building muscle starts October 18. You get a personalized calorie/macro budget, live Q&A calls with experts, workouts for both gym and home, prize giveaways and an incredible community of women doing it along with you. Save Your Spot →

    Hailey Happens Fitness Membership is my full training system in your back pocket. Join with a Yearly Plan to design a training year that fits your midlife goals and body.
    Start training with a 10-day free trial →
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    1 ora e 2 min
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