349. Finding Yourself with Mindy Pelz

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this enlightening conversation, Dr. Mindy Pelz and Dr. Kelly Casperson explore the transformative journey of menopause, emphasizing the importance of mindset, self-advocacy, and cultural conditioning. They discuss how women can awaken to their true selves during this pivotal life stage, the significance of understanding one's identity through tools like the Enneagram, and the necessity of engaging men in the conversation about women's health. The discussion highlights the generational shifts in attitudes towards menopause and the empowerment of women to reclaim their voices and advocate for their health and well-being. Mindy Pelz IG Mindy Pelz Book To my fellow clinicians: listen to the You Are Not Broken podcast on ⁠⁠Pinnacle's network to earn FREE CME credit⁠⁠ Listen to my Tedx Talk: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Why we need adult sex ed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Take my Adult Sex Ed Master Class:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠My Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interested in my sexual health and hormone clinic? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Waitlist is open⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thanks to our sponsor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Midi Women's Health⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Designed by midlife experts, delivered by experienced clinicians, covered by insurance.Midi is the first virtual care clinic made exclusively for women 40+. Evidence-based treatments. Personalized midlife care.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.joinmidi.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not Broken Podcast.
0:06.6	I'm your host, Dr. Kelly Casperson, a board-certified jurologist, thought leader, and conversation starter on midlife living, hormones, and sexuality.
0:16.6	Enjoy the show.
0:18.2	Everybody, welcome back to the You're Not Broken podcast.
0:20.5	I've got my new friend,
0:21.4	Dr. Mindy Peltz, on today because she has got a book that is going to go big coming out called
0:26.1	Age Like a Girl, How Menopause Rewires Your Brain for Mental Clarity, Increased Confidence, and Renewed
0:32.2	Energy. Welcome to the podcast. Oh, thank you. I'm so excited to be here and to have this
0:36.7	conversation with you. I think we really to be here and to have this conversation with you.
0:38.1	I think we really need to talk about mindset in midlife because I've been describing it as a reckoning
0:44.0	because I want to respect the people that when the hormones go down, your body is cracked
0:49.9	in half and it is awful and lives end over it.
0:53.6	And I want to respect that. Like, because I never
0:55.7	want to be like, it's this moment of opportunity. And meanwhile, like, it's really bad shit for a lot of
1:01.9	people. But it's like, it truly is. So I call it a reckoning that in midlife, like, you start,
1:08.4	and I think a lot of it is you start realizing there's not a infinite amount
1:13.3	of years left, and that's part of it. What do you describe it as far as like women cracking open
1:18.7	and sometimes launching to version 2.0, which is way better than 1.0. Oh my God, so much better.
1:26.2	You know, it's interesting. One of the pieces of
1:28.7	experts' opinion that I brought in the book that really hit me in the gut was Carol Gilligan's work.
1:35.6	And Carol Gilligan was a feminist psychologist back in the 1980s. And she looked at teenagers,
1:43.6	which was you and I in the 80s, and saw how the influence of a culture
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