Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, and I help women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond redefine, rebrand, and laugh

with aging. Welcome to midlife conversations. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated

information that is relevant in this point of our lives now and break it down simply with actionable

steps you can implement

to level up your life. I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living

their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover topics about our shifting hormones,

weight struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more.

If you are new here, I encourage you go back and listen from episode one when this podcast was

previously called Listen Up for the full transformative experience.

So today on Midlife Conversations, I'm talking to one of my besties here, Tracy, and she is

the hydration queen, aka a hydration expert. I don't even know hydration expertise was a thing.

I got to be honest with you, Tracy, when I met her. We were introduced from a mutual friend,

Barton Scott, a while ago. Shout out Barton. Shout out to Barton. I met him in Hawaii, and he had told me when I met him, I don't even know if I told you this, said, you have to meet my friend Tracy. You guys remind me of each other. You live in San Diego. You have to meet. You're going to connect. So he set us up basically on a blind date. We instantly hit it off. Although, as much as we have in common, we have some things that are definitely not in common. Like I love to make fun of Tracy when we were driving and she had covered herself up from head to toe as if we were in the middle of the pandemic, which we're not. But it had nothing to do with the pandemic. Face covered, masks, the whole thing.

I'm like, what is happening?

It's the middle of the day.

We're in a car by ourselves.

And she said, I'm protecting my skin.

And I said, okay, we're not the same.

You take things up a whole other notch.

But what I love about Tracy is she is so smart and so right on when it comes to biohacking.

We're going to talk a lot about that today. What biohacking is, why we need to understand what that is, and how important hydration is, and I don't mean just drinking a glass of water. I want to get into that. So first of all, Tracy, let's take this back a little bit. How did you even get interested in hydration? Where did this come from? I mean, nobody wants

to age, right? I always saw people aging and I'm like, that looks rough. So that's how you got

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