Welcome back everybody to Older and Wilder with Joy and Claire.

Hi Claire.

Wow, you didn't do a song that time.

I know.

You know what?

I'm going to try not to make that a habit because they will just start to get worse and worse and worse. So we're just going to, we're just going to leave that in the past. Hi, we're here. We have a guest. We have Jess Beacom. We are batch recording before Claire goes on her Nicaragua trip, surfing trip, which is so exciting. So we decided to have a guest on because sometimes when we batch

record, we're like, okay, we've talked to each other two days in a row and it needs someone else

to come in. So thank you so much, Jess, for being here. It's so fun because you were here,

was it, uh, was it girls gone one days or was it? I think it was this is Joy and Claire.

Okay. When my cookbook launched in

2021 okay that makes sense so we have had you on before and we can link that in our show

us as well but welcome back we're going to talk all things dietitian we're going to talk

things health wellness with perimenopause your advice on that loaded question. So why don't

you start by just kind of giving everyone a brief bio about you? Oh, yeah. Well, I'm so glad I could

be your distraction this week. First of all, let's see, I am a dietician, I'm a registered

dietitian, and I have been one for over 20 years. So I have seen so many fads come and

go and I think the one thing that sticks is just the basics, fruits, vegetables, fiber, protein. So we'll

talk more about that. But I am also the co-founder of the real food dietitians. So that started as a

wee, bitty food blog with my business partner, Stacey, and I,

in 2014. So we're going on year 10. Actually, it's 2015, I think. And we have a team of three

dietitians. We have two amazing full-time support people, a bunch of contractors, and we write

recipes. So we kind of

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