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The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance

Dating, Divorce, and Finding Love in Midlife (Real Talk Between Friends) - 1284

The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance

Chalene Johnson

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever thought, what are women actually saying about dating right now, especially in midlife… yeah, this is that conversation. It's a real, unfiltered talk between Chalene Johnson and her friend Aprille Franks, and nothing is off-limits. No scripts, no pretending, just an honest girlfriend conversation about dating apps, divorce, red flags, and why finding a partner later in life feels like a completely different game.

This episode goes straight into the messy middle nobody warns you about. The awkwardness of putting yourself back out there, the frustration with modern dating, and the very real reasons long-term relationships sometimes fall apart after years or even decades. It's honest, a little spicy, and the kind of conversation that makes you feel seen.

There are definitely moments that might make you rethink what you've been told about love, self-worth, and what you should actually be looking for. And if dating lately has felt confusing, exhausting, or just not worth it… this is going to hit a nerve in the best way.

 

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0:00.0

Hey, before we get too far, I know I've talked a lot about the supplements that I take in powder

0:05.7

form. There's a lot of them. And there's, of course, the things I take in capsule form.

0:10.8

But I also take a few things in gummy form. And one of the things that I started taking about a year

0:17.5

ago, actually, when we were in Europe last year, is saffron. And I started taking it

0:22.2

because I heard about quite a few studies that demonstrated that saffron made significant

0:30.9

improvements in people's, their ability to reduce their anxiety, to feel more relaxed, to have mental clarity. And of course, that's going

0:41.1

to improve your sleep, right? Because that's one of the main reasons why so many of us

0:46.0

struggle to sleep and now you lay down and your brain just doesn't stop spinning. So anyways,

0:51.5

I looked into it. You know me. I love to see a good study and there's been a ton of

0:55.4

them. In fact, April through July 2025, this is brand new, a randomized, double-blind,

1:04.2

placebo-controlled study looking at the impact of taking saffron daily for just three months. And the results I can tell

1:14.1

you were pretty astonishing. A market decrease in depression, anxiety, and stress.

1:20.9

72.3% of the participants in the saffron group achieved significant improvements on their mental state. So talking about

1:30.6

having less anxiety. And of course, that I think is one of the reasons why it contributes to

1:35.4

fewer sleep disturbances for those especially who are taking the saffron. So listen,

1:40.9

I'm definitely not telling you to go off your SSRIs. And if you're on an antidepressant,

1:44.7

that's awesome. But if you're one of those people who you've been thinking like, I don't know, I don't know what it is, I just, I don't feel as happy as I usually am, or I just feel kind of me. You know what I'm talking about. You can't put your finger on it, but you're like, I'm just not as happy. or maybe I'm dealing with more anxiety or things are bugging me more than they usually do.

2:03.6

You've heard me talk about Organify for years. And Organify

2:07.4

came out with a saffron gummy. It's actually very, very tasty. So I am going to encourage you,

2:15.3

if you're already a customer of Organify, next time you go to

2:19.8

place an order, go to Organify.com forward slash Shaline. Use Code Shaline. That always gets you 20%

2:26.2

off. I take their immunity daily. I take pure daily. I take their collagen daily.

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