Mid-Life Mayhem; A guide to functioning in your 40's & beyond
This podcast features us having candid conversations about how to navigate all things mid life, including:
- Relationships
- Mental Health - anxiety, stress, depression, grief, fears, trauma (including generational trauma), estrangement, aging, parental aging and more
- Nervous system care & daily practices
- Sex
- Perimenopause & Cycle syncing
Podcasting since 2020 • 29 episodes
Mid-Life Mayhem; A guide to functioning in your 40's & beyond
Latest Episodes
Food Was My Armor: Trauma, Shame & the Weight Story No One Tells
What if your “weight problem” was never actually about weight?In today’s 1:1 episode, Derek gets radically honest about the connection between diet culture, shame, trauma, and survival coping—and how food became both co...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:14:50
From Dad Bod To Dialed In: Hormones, Habits, And Real Accountability
The rules change in midlife—and pretending they didn’t is what keeps so many men stuck. We go straight at the hard truths: why the old workouts stall, how undereating can keep you overweight, and what it takes to move from “normal range” labs t...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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59:22
From Panic To Purpose: Rewiring A Life And Career Through Nervous System Care
A suitcase collision in Orlando, a hawk eating a dove on the wing of a plane in New York, and a body that finally refused to push through—this is the moment a career story turns into a nervous system story. We pick up after 2015’s “Owen’s legis...
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1:02:51
From Detroit Roots to Private School: My Real Money Story
*This is an unedited episode I recorded with my Dad <3*A mentor/colleague's offhand comment—“you must have a trust fund”—opens a raw, revealing conversation about money myths, private school optics, and what wealth actually feels like...
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1:23:38
Choose Yourself: The Entrepreneur’s Quiet Rebellion
What if the most important career decision you ever make is refusing to play by rules that don’t help people? I share the unvarnished path from a shaky start in college to a high-achieving grad career, then straight into the harsh reality of pu...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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45:36
