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Life is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.52: “Enter The Year of the Horse: Stepping Into A NEW You with Vitality, Intention, and GratitudeSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESETFeel that quiet nudge that something needs to change? We dive into the restless energy so many of us are sensing and use the Year of the Horse as a vivid guide for momentum, freedom, and reinvention. Instead of waiting for confidence to magically appear, we walk through how small, visible choices—like a closet purge or a bold sweater—can become the catalyst for bigger identity shifts, from background character energy to six-figure CEO presence....
2026-02-2416 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.51: When Your Old Life No Longer Fits: Reinventing Yourself with Purpose in Midlife – with Charlene RidleySend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESETWhen the life you built no longer fits, the bravest move is to ask who you are now. We sit down with business architect and strategist Charlene Ridley to rethink midlife as a season for recalibration, not crisis, and to design a both and life that holds purpose, income, stability, and joy without sacrificing your peace.Charlene unpacks why so many high-capacity women feel stuck: not from lack of talent or drive, but because identity h...
2026-02-1740 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.49: Navigating Hormones, Hot Flashes, Menopause and Midlife Sex with Humor and a Side Of WTF with Angela BurkSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESETWhat if midlife isn’t a crisis to survive but a clarity you’re allowed to enjoy? We sit down with author Angela Burk to talk hot flashes in the boardroom, shedding approval as a currency, and writing a fearless manifesto that gives women permission to take up space, rest without apology, and design joy on purpose. Angela’s journey started with a red folder buried for two decades—notes on hormones, identity, marriage, work, and the quiet que...
2026-02-1149 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.48: How to Reduce Stress and Worry: Tools That Calm the Nervous System with Dr. Gary SprouseSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESETStress doesn’t show up randomly... it’s often the unintended side effect of our greatest strengths. We plan ahead, weigh risks, and care deeply—then get stuck in worry loops, catastrophizing, and overwhelm that feel impossible to escape. With retired primary care physician and author Dr. Gary Sprouse, we dig into why midlife amplifies this tension and how to flip fear into action using grounded, practical tools you can apply today.We start by redefin...
2026-02-061h 03Life is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.47: Intentional Indulgences For February- Curating A More Delicious MidlifeSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESETWhen life starts to feel like a loop, we don’t need a bigger alarm clock—we need smaller moments that change the rhythm of our days. I’m kicking off a new monthly ritual called Intentional Indulgences, a simple, soulful practice of choosing tiny joys on purpose so your nervous system learns that rest, beauty, and play are safe and essential. Think comfort drawers stocked with small delights, cozy sacred spaces that cue your body to exhale...
2026-02-0323 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.46: The Trap of Over-functioning- When Midlife Caregiving Takes It's TollSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET The strongest person in the room often hides the deepest fatigue. I share the story behind a year of caregiving—how a single fall set off a chain of decisions, how my overfunctioning became a shield against grief, and how a hard reset on boundaries brought my health, calm, and presence back online. This is a deeply personal, tender, and practical conversation for midlife women who carry it all and are ready to lay some of i...
2026-01-2431 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.45: When a Divorce Can Actually Add More Happiness and Vitality in Midlife with Meagan NorrisSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESETWhat if midlife isn’t a crisis but a green light to design a life you actually want? We sit down with divorce coach Meagan Norris to unpack the moment she chose to break a family pattern, how she walked through the void, and why ending a marriage can be a completion rather than a failure. This is a story of agency, nervous system care, and writing a better future with clarity and compassion.We st...
2026-01-0937 min
DiscoveryWhat is Quantum?Quantum theory – our best understanding of the world at the smallest level – is famously weird and notoriously confusing. It’s a theory that seems to say particles can be in two places at once, or somehow “know” if you’re looking at them. Or at least, that’s what you might have heard. But is that really what quantum theory tells us about reality?
To find out, presenter Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory: the remote, windswept island of Helgoland. Here, a century ago, a young scientist called Werner Heisenberg made a leap of understanding that laid the...
2026-01-0527 min
DiscoveryWhat is Quantum?Quantum theory – our best understanding of the world at the smallest level – is famously weird and notoriously confusing. It’s a theory that seems to say particles can be in two places at once, or somehow “know” if you’re looking at them. Or at least, that’s what you might have heard. But is that really what quantum theory tells us about reality?To find out, presenter Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory: the remote, windswept island of Helgoland. Here, a century ago, a young scientist called Werner Heisenberg made a leap of understanding...
2026-01-0526 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.44: Letting Go Of Stuff As an Act Of Self Love and Emotional Intelligence with Tracy HothSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET The quiet after the holidays can feel stark—and also full of promise. We’re leaning into that fresh energy with certified life and organizing coach Tracy Hoth to explore how clearing clutter becomes a powerful act of self-respect, especially in midlife when roles and routines shift. Together we unpack why decisions feel heavy, how identity ties us to old stuff, and what it takes to design systems that actually stick.Tracy reframes “organize...
2026-01-0233 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.43: 5 Tools to Ring in The New Year with Momentum, Clarity and AuthenticitySend a textReady to design a year that actually feels like you? We celebrate our one-year milestone by swapping shame-fueled resolutions for a kinder, more effective blueprint: reflection, intention, small daily shifts, and boundaries that hold. Midlife isn’t a crisis to survive—it’s an invitation to remember who we are, curate what matters, and build rhythms that last.We start with a compassionate year-in-review and a reverse bucket list to honor wins you’ve forgotten to count. Then we map the eight pillars of a happy life—health, wealth, family, friends, purpose, mind, body...
2025-12-2633 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.42: A Midlife Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom with Steph WagnerSend a textWhat if your next chapter felt wider, calmer, and fully funded? Steph Wagner joins us to share how she rebuilt her life after a blindsiding divorce—transforming shame and avoidance into clarity, confidence, and a mission to help women own their financial future. As the National Director of Women and Wealth at Northern Trust and author of Fly: A Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom and Building a Life You Love, Steph blends disarming honesty with practical tools that make money feel learnable and liberating.We start by unpacking the link between emot...
2025-12-1950 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.40: Midlife Manifesto-Become the CEO of your Health For More Energy, Vitality and JoySend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET What if midlife health felt less like a grind and more like a grounded plan you can actually live with? Today we share a practical manifesto that trades perfection for momentum and equips you with tools you can use immediately. No detoxes, no guilt—just four priorities that stack wins day after day.We start by reframing the metric that matters most: energy. Instead of obsessing over age or the scale, we track when we feel...
2025-12-1607 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.41: Midlife Manifesto-Abundance as a Way of Life in Midlife and BeyondSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET What if wealth isn’t a number but a feeling you can build today? We take a clear-eyed look at midlife and name what actually makes life feel abundant: energy to enjoy the day, people who know your story, and a purpose that gets you out of bed with a smile. Instead of chasing more, we map a path to cherishing enough—and the steps are simpler than you think.First, we break the ol...
2025-12-1607 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.39: Offline On Purpose: Creating Healthy Boundaries with Social Media with Mari WuellnerSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET A riverside Airstream with zero cell service became the digital detox I didn’t know I needed. With no bars and no pressure to post, the urge to document every beautiful moment faded. What replaced it was deeper: a full-body exhale, a simple meal by the fire, the quiet joy of reconnecting with myself and listening to my inner knowings. That unexpected reset opened the door to a powerful conversation with coach and entrepreneur Mari...
2025-12-0948 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.38: 5 Ways to De-Stress December- Boundaries, Delegating and Simple Ways to LOVE the Holidays AgainSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET The lights are up, the calendar is full, and your nervous system is waving a tiny white flag. As we celebrate one year of Life is Delicious, we’re giving you something better than another obligation: a calmer, kinder December you can actually enjoy.If December has you feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or stuck in holiday roles you never signed up for, this episode is your permission slip to reclaim a calmer, simpler, more...
2025-12-0218 min
Bench To Bold with Alisa Hood and Marnie SchneiderEp 16 - Christy Martin: From Trauma to Triumph — Choosing Bold Every TimeSend us a textThis week on Bench to Bold, we sit down with legendary boxer Christy Martin — a woman whose story is bigger, harder, and braver than most of us can imagine.Christy survived a near-fatal domestic violence attack, years of emotional abuse, addiction, and the pressure of navigating her sexuality in a world that wasn’t ready to accept her. From her hospital bed, she made a deal with God: If she lived, she’d spend the rest of her life helping others.And she’s d...
2025-11-2724 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.37: Midlife Manifesto- Daily Rituals For Happiness, Joy and Hormonal BalanceSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET You don’t need a full life overhaul to feel aligned—you just need a few soul-level habits that actually stick. In this episode of Life Is Delicious, we’re building your midlife manifesto around SPIRIT—your inner spark, your intuition, your sense of meaning—and translating it into simple daily rituals that help you feel grounded, hopeful, present, and fully alive.Discover how a five-to-ten-minute stillness ri...
2025-11-2609 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.36: COFFEE WITH BURTON-“The Power of the Left Turn: How Small Yeses Can Lead to Big Opportunities ”Send a textWhat if the best parts of your life came from the moments you almost ignored? We explore the power of saying yes to odd chances, trusting your gut, and treating detours like design. With my dad, Burton, back for Coffee with Burton, we trace how tiny openings turned into decades of meaningful work and why midlife might be the perfect time to reinvent.Burton’s journey moves from retail and insurance to commercial sign writing after he watches a painter letter a restaurant door. One $40 sign sold on a cold call replaced a...
2025-11-2245 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.35: Reverse Engineering the New Year-Habits For Better Health and a Body You LoveSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET Start the new year by choosing how you want to feel in your body—and let that feeling become your north star. We explore a kinder, smarter path for midlife wellness that trades punishment and extremes for body loyalty, identity-based choices, and small daily habits that actually stick. Instead of chasing a 25-year-old ideal, we partner with the body we have today and build energy, strength, and ease from the inside out.We walk...
2025-11-1908 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.34: The Midlife Pivot- Using Emotional Intelligence to Find Your Flow with AnnMarie MckenzieSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET Feeling stretched between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming? In this powerful midlife reinvention conversation, I sit down with business strategist and numerology expert AnnMarie Mckenzie to explore how to navigate change with confidence, clarity, and heart-led intention.We break down what it really takes to move through a midlife pivot without losing yourself—using emotional intelligence, intuition, and a simple “heart compass” framework to make aligned decisions, set healthy...
2025-11-1550 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.33: Midlife Manifesto- Using Affirmations and Meditation to Change Your Midlife MindSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET Ready to stop drifting through midlife and start steering with intention? We’re kicking off an eight-part mini-series designed to reverse engineer the new year, and we’re starting with the foundation that holds everything else: your mindset. I share why a personal manifesto is more than pretty words—it’s a compass and a love letter to your future self—and how a handful of identity statements can reshape the way you move through change, set...
2025-11-1010 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.32: Thriving In Midlife After Loss and Grief with Deanette WellsSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESETWhat if midlife isn’t a crisis but a launch window? We sit down with adventure athlete and author Deanette Wells to unpack how a mother of three climbed the seven summits, raced across jungles and deserts, and turned profound loss into a compass for a life lived on purpose. Deanette’s new book, Another Step Up the Mountain, becomes our framework for building resilience: focus on the step in front of you, breathe when fear spikes, and...
2025-11-0720 min
BBC Inside ScienceHave scientists created a bionic eye?The 'bionic eye' may make you think of Star Trek’s Geordi La Forge. Now, scientists have restored the ability to read in a group of blind patients with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). And they’ve done it by implanting a computer chip in the back of their eyes. Professor Francesca Cordeiro, Chair of Ophthalmology at Imperial College London explains how bionic technology might provide future solutions for more people with sight loss.Researchers at the University of Sheffield have come up with a way of extracting hormones from human remains dating as far back as t...
2025-11-0428 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.31: Reverse Engineering The New Year for More Happiness Long TermSend a textReady for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET New Year’s pressure doesn’t have to run the show. We’re flipping the script with a refreshing, research-backed approach to change that starts now—not on January 1—and centers on identity, clarity, and gentle momentum. Instead of chasing rigid resolutions, we map the person we want to become by December 31 and build small, supportive systems that make that identity feel natural and doable.I share the vision behind my Midlife Manifesto and kick off...
2025-11-0414 minBBC Inside ScienceAre embryos made from skin cells the future of fertility treatment?Scientists in the US have, for the first time, made early-stage human embryos by manipulating DNA taken from people's skin cells and then fertilising them with sperm. It’s hoped the technique could overcome infertility due to old age or disease. Marnie Chesterton is joined by Dr Geraldine Jowett from the University of Cambridge and Emily Jackson from the London School of Economics to discuss the science behind the research, and the ethical and legal issues it could raise. We also look back at the life of the pioneering primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, who di...
2025-10-3028 minLife is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.30: Delicious Dating-Inspiration For Finding True Love in Midlife with Heidi FriedmanSend a textWhat if your path to real love started with an honest confession: I don’t know what love really feels like? That’s where attorney and author Heidi B. Freeman began, turning a divorce into a decade-long experiment in connection—104 dates, interviews with couples across ages and backgrounds, and a journal that captured both the loneliness and the breakthroughs that followed. We walk through her most hard-won lessons, the ones that turned frustration into clarity and eventually into a marriage that fits.We unpack the difference between standards and rules, and why droppi...
2025-10-1734 min