Hi, I want to welcome you to Midlife Conversations. I'm Natalie Jill, your host, and I help

midlife women redefine and rebrand aging. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated

information and conversations around aging that are relevant to us now and breaking it all down

simply with actionable steps that you can implement to level up your life because your best years are yet to come.

I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living in their best midlife years.

On this show, I cover topics about our health, hormones, navigating weight, blood sugars, our mood, focus changes, even our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more.

Welcome back to Midlife Conversations. Today I'm doing something a little different following my

conversation with Brooks because many of you messaged me that you liked that banter.

So I thought, you know what? Let me bring on one of my friends in midlife. This is my friend, Lori

Ebeneati, that I'm going to introduce you to in a minute. Now, she's the newer friend. I only

met Lori when I moved to Arizona about eight months ago. I'm going to tell you how we met.

The reason I wanted to have her on is me sharing about HRT recently and how I always share about fat loss and how we age.

I bring on experts all the time I've had some of the best doctors, some of the best

authors, some of the best experts, but I want to bring this down to just real girl talk.

These are conversations that me and my friends have real time.

And I thought, instead of just doing this privacy on our own, let me open the conversation up to you. I think we might be able to actually break things down and explain them a lot simpler than some of the interviews I've done. Now, this doesn't mean don't go back and listen to the interviews. I want you to listen to the interviews we've done on hormones and HRT and menopause, all those things. But I want to also bring you into a real-time conversation in case you haven't had access to

these types of conversations. So thank you so much for being here today, Lori.

Oh, I'm so happy to be here. This is so fun. So I want to back up. And Lori listens to my

podcast. So she's familiar with what you all are listening to. And she loves to chime and she'll always send me a message and go, oh, but I'm glad you covered this or what about that? So she's been real good, real time. First and foremost, Lori, your birthday is coming up. It's like this week, I think, right? It's next weekend. A week from today, I can't believe it, 57. 57. Okay. How does that? How can it be? How can it be? I know. That's what I always, I always think like I forget that I'm not. I mean, I look in the mirror and I realize I'm not 20, but sometimes I forget, like, our minds still go to that. And then I'll say something at my daughter will go, mom, don't say that again. That's like you sound old. People say 1980s, I think like that was 20 years ago, right? Right. I know. Isn't that crazy? It's like so long ago now. I know. But 57, I do. I mean, to that point, I feel like that same person inside of me and And I'm not trying to look 20, but for 57, I am trying to keep it together. And it gets harder a little bit every year. But as you know, there are things we could do to feel better and to be better. Yeah. Absolutely. And you're doing a good job at it. You're doing an absolute good job in it. So first, I want to share how we met. So I just moved to Arizona. And this is important because some of you are of like struggle to have new connections and friends in midlife. And I and I think Lori is like me. We are definitely extroverted. We definitely are fueled up by having other friends. Like I'm a social person. I need to be in community. I have to have friends. And I don't mean extroverted. Like I like to be wild at parties all time. But I definitely need my girl time. I need connection. I need friends. And when I moved to Arizona, that was one of the things I was actually really worried about because I had such a great network of girlfriends in San Diego.

And I thought, this is going to be really weird.

Like, I'm not used to not having friends around to go do things with.

So when I moved to Arizona, one of the girls that was following me on social, Gina, she sent

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