I'm Heather Thompson and I'm the host of your new favorite show in my heart.

This podcast is about sparking the curiosity we all have inside us.

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It's May 6th 2022 and oh boy am I thrilled about this conversation.

What a treat to get to welcome back to sort of awesome our new regular Mindy Brows to the show.

Hi Mindy. Hi Meg. So excited to be here. I love these conversations with you.

I do too and we are not the only ones. I shared this with you recently Mindy that our first episode

in our new midlife with Mindy and Meg series is so far the most downloaded episode of 2022.

Oh my gosh. So amazing and such an honor. It really is and I think it really speaks to the fact

that women really are so eager to have this conversation regardless of where you may be

in the whole spectrum of midlife and what all of that means and what it means for your health

and your wellness and your your mental life and mental health and your family logistics like

all of us. There's so many so many different dynamics happening and I think people are just

so ready to have these conversations. I think so too and and it's it was really affirming for you

and I and to be like we needed to hear this. We had this talk even if it was just you and me.

I was encouraged but to know that our sisters out there they need to talk about this. They need

to hear it and in my notes even we'll get to later in the show about why that is so important

and why it's not historically been allowed and us having this platform and people being able

to join us in this conversation is like a breath of fresh air for all of us. So it's it's great.

I absolutely agree. Mindy gave you a little preview of what we're going to kind of be talking about

today later in the show. We are going to talk about sort of the history of how culture has

approached the various aspects of women and Perry Minipaz Minipaz and all of these midlife

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