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.

Today on Midlife Conversations, I've got a guest that just sort of challenged me. He said,

maybe I'm not Midlife, but he is. I got Dan Martel. Dan, thanks for being here today. Dan is the author of Byback Your Time. And if you have been following me on social media, you know I've been geeking out over his book. I was recommended it on Audible. I listened to it six times. I took tons of notes. And then I bought the book so I could highlight. And I told everyone in my life that they needed to go get this book stat. So I had more questions. So, Dan, thank you so much for being here today. Oh, it's an honor,

Natalie. I'm super excited. I am, I'm a fascinated by what you do. I think the health and the hormones

and the wellness side of your brand is just like so important, specifically as it pertains

to buying back our time because, yeah, like, health is the number one. If you don't have that, then you can have all the wealth in the world. You can't buy more time and we all want to be healthy. So this is going to be a fun conversation. So which brings me to why I thought this was such an important topic for this podcast, because you, I know your book was met mostly for business about buying back your time, but as I was

listening to it, I was sort of patting myself on the back like, gosh, I do some of this in business, but am I doing it in my personal life? And the reason I wanted to have you on is so many people, especially in midlife, they're like, okay, I get it. I need to take my health up a notch. I need to make this a priority. I need to make my being present in life a priority. I've got to take those

vacations. And they say I don't have time. I just don't have time for whatever reason. They don't have it. So I want to dive into that. Like first and foremost, what made you write this book? Like where did the concept even come from? Yeah. I mean, the reality of it is in my

life, I have a philosophy that I want to be the lighthouse, not the tugboat, meaning that when I

see things going on around me, my friends, family, community, where, you know, people are struggling

with the balance, with their habits, with whatever. I just keep looking

at myself. And I look in the mirror and I go, okay, that spoke to me for whatever reason,

that person, that situation. And I'm just going to work on me. And what happened was,

is I had all these incredible entrepreneurs and business people in my life that I cared a lot about. And I just

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