Midlife Breakdown? It’s a Breakthrough w/ Dr. Mindy Pelz
Over 50 & Flourishing with Dominique Sachse
Dear Media
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Mindy Pelz, bestselling author of Age Like a Girl, thought leader, and one of the most trusted voices in women’s health, for a powerful conversation about what really happens to us in midlife. Dr. Mindy isn’t just talking about menopause as a hormonal shift, but as a profound transformation of the brain, body, and identity. From burnout and people-pleasing to leadership and self-trust, this conversation reframes midlife not as a breakdown, but as a breakthrough. This episode is about reclaiming the girl within you, her curiosity, her wisdom, her strength, and learning how to age like a girl with intention, science, and self-compassion.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why menopause is a neurological rewiring, not just a drop in estrogen
- How the loss of estrogen impacts mood, motivation, memory, and identity
- The “people-pleasing” brain and why women stop caring so much after 50
- Why midlife burnout is often a signal of transformation, not failure
- The science behind fasting, ketones, and brain health in postmenopausal women
- How exercise needs to change in menopause, and why more isn’t always better
- The role of muscle, creatine, collagen, and movement in aging well
- Why women are biologically wired for leadership in the second half of life
- The butterfly metaphor for midlife transformation and becoming who you truly are
- How to advocate for yourself with doctors and build a healthcare team that listens
- Why involving partners in the menopause conversation matters more than we think
For more on Dr. Mindy Pelz, follow her on:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.mindypelz
- Website: https://www.drmindypelz.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/drmindypelz
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drmindypelz
- Buy her newest book Age Like a Girl: https://a.co/d/hDptHZz
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to today's over 50 and flourishing. |
| 0:17.4 | Y'all, I am so excited to get to today's guest. It is Dr. Mindy Peltz. Yeah, you know her. She is an author, a powerhouse author. She has written, Eat Like a Girl, Fast Like a Girl. Now her new book, Age Like a Girl, is out. It is going to have you rethinking how you are going to see menopause and your |
| 0:39.8 | role in it. She is empowering. She is full of energy and wisdom. Dr. Mindy Peltz, welcome to |
| 0:47.2 | over 50 and flourishing. |
| 1:00.0 | Dr. Mindy, it is amazing to have you with us on over 50 and flourishing. |
| 1:05.1 | And you know what I love about you, girl, you are all about flourishing in midlife. And it's what you write to. |
| 1:06.9 | It's what you want women to latch onto. |
| 1:10.4 | And I love also your choice of how you are writing your |
| 1:14.7 | books it's like your new one age like a girl or eat like a girl or fast like a girl you know |
| 1:20.9 | you're telling us not to lose the girl inside of us amazing you got it you got it You got it. Yeah. I really appreciate that. You know, |
| 1:30.5 | there's so much that I have brought forward from fasting to eating and now aging. And really at |
| 1:36.6 | its core, it is about who were we when we started this life journey? What were some of those |
| 1:42.7 | qualities that as we bumped along the |
| 1:45.7 | ups and downs of life, we may have forgotten? And when it comes to believing in our bodies and |
| 1:51.3 | taking our health power back, I think we've really lost our way. So I love that you're seeing |
| 1:57.8 | the through line of what I'm trying to do. Yeah. It's very much a part of what I |
| 2:02.6 | try to do too is show women, please don't let go of her. She's important and she lives inside you |
| 2:09.4 | and she needs to be expressed in a multitude of ways. I can already tell that I can talk to you for |
| 2:16.7 | hours. So I'm hoping that this is the beginning of a fruitful podcast relationship between you and |
| 2:21.8 | me. |
| 2:21.8 | Oh, I love it, Dominique. |
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