I Choose … Tools to 'Age Like a Girl' with Dr. Mindy Pelz
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Kick-off the new year with simple tools for memory, energy, sleep and strength. Jennie reconnects with Dr. Mindy Pelz to reframe menopause as a powerful upgrade, not a decline. They explore how the brain rewires for leadership, independence and clarity and how to take advantage of your body's new strengths.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome back to I Choose Me, everyone. |
| 0:15.3 | Dr. Mindy Pels has written aging like a girl reminding us that menopause isn't the end of anything. It's the beginning |
| 0:22.5 | of everything. Let's jump back in to our conversation. I want to just ask you a few bonus questions |
| 0:28.8 | if that's okay with you. Okay, so quickly remind us why your book is called aging like a girl. |
| 0:35.7 | Well, because the core principle is you're going to go back as you |
| 0:39.8 | and grab those parts of you, those childlike parts of you that lit you up, that society told you |
| 0:45.8 | that were not okay, you're going to grab those parts back and integrate them into your |
| 0:51.0 | badass post-metapausal self. |
| 0:55.9 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:56.5 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:57.1 | I would love to be able to build a toolbox of knowledge and resources for those going |
| 1:02.3 | through or beginning to go through menopause. |
| 1:04.7 | So I'm just going to fire them away at you. |
| 1:07.5 | What is menopause preparing us for? |
| 1:10.4 | Leadership and independent thinking and standing up for ourselves. |
| 1:14.9 | Love that. |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, I love that so much. |
| 1:18.6 | What is happening to my brain? |
| 1:21.1 | It's remodeling itself. |
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