Joyfully Managing Midlife Changes with Claire & James Davis

Today we’re joined by Claire and James Davis, the husband-and-wife team behind 38 Degrees North, a multi-award-winning coaching and fitness company. They also created The Midlife Mentors, which is their podcast and coaching company. Claire and James are passionate about helping midlife individuals achieve the body and lifestyle they deserve. They leverage their backgrounds in psychology, coaching, and NLP to positively influence the lives of their clients. They’ll discuss the importance of exercise, nutrition, and stress management to support a high quality of life in midlife and beyond. On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast: How and why Claire and James came together in business. How hormonal changes influence your physical and mental health in midlife. What inspired Claire to take an interest in fitness and nutrition. Why they find it fulfilling to work with midlife clients. How a midlife crisis is an identity crisis. How to make midlife health changes a more positive transition. Midlife changes in men and signs of male menopause. The couple’s six pillars of midlife wellbeing. The importance of practicing high intensity interval training later in life. Why changing your belief system is foundational to greater health in midlife. Why everyone needs healthy strategies for stress management. How breathwork supports the central nervous system. Why quality of life is more important than plain longevity. How reducing sugar influences menopausal women. What having sugar in your cupboard indicates. The way Claire and James’ program is designed. How getting out of your comfort zone supports positive change. Connect with Claire and James Website: https://themidlifementors.com/ Facebook: TheMidlifeMentors Instagram: midlifementors Quick Links: Join the Live. Love. Engage. Community Intuitive Business Coaching The Live. Love. Engage. 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And I am delighted to have not one but two guests on the podcast today, we, I would love to welcome Claire and James Davis coming to us all the way from Spain. well, we are glad to have you, and let me just tell our audience and, and those of you who are watching this on YouTube as well, who these lovely, this lovely couple is and why I have them on the show today. So, Claire and James Davis are the husband and wife team behind the multi-award winning coaching and fitness company called 38 degrees north. They are also podcasters as well. They've got a successful midlife health podcast called the midlife mentors and their passion is helping folks in mid-life achieve not only the body, but the lifestyle they deserve and they, they've got a eight week program that they offer folks and they use a science-based approach, leveraging their backgrounds in psychology, coaching and NLP to empower individuals with the tools and knowledge they need to make positive changes in their lives. And they've been on, featured in lots of publications and, and, regularly run workshops and all sorts of things. So, if you haven't heard of them by now, you're, you're hearing about them now. So I'm glad of that. And I, I know we're going to talk about specifically today about actually, how to deal with menopause for women and andropause for men. But I thought we'd get started actually with talking a little bit about how the two of you, wound up actually in business together and, and have been doing this coaching and fitness stuff. So how did that all start? Wow. How long have you gone through, let me tell you the short version. So, we both worked in a corporate careers in London doing, doing things. I'd, I'd start as a, as a lifestyle journalist and they get more involved in the content strategy side of businesses. Well, it's a big media organizations. Claire started her career in PR fashion. PR nothing is safe to say she didn't enjoy that. Did not Enjoy that. We didn't know each other at that time. But in 2011, I left my career in London to move to a little island in the Mediterranean called Ibiza with the concept of running fitness holidays, Ibiza is famously known for its clubbing and its hedonistic lifestyle, which I experienced when I was younger, but it's also a very beautiful island and health and fitness has always been a part of my life. So I wanted to basically bring people there and give them a great experience, educate and give them the tools to help transform and change their lives. While I was there, I was married, that marriage broke up., I met Claire over there independently of marriage breakup. I should hasten to add. Yes. We always need to add that. And then, the curious thing was we found out that both of our marriages broke up, pretty much the same time. So Claire was back in England and I was in Ibiza. Then we had about a year of to-ing and fro-ing didn't we? I wasn’t very helpful. tell everyone that. Because he didn't, he does still like to play, play the guilt card. Of course. Uh, and then we got together and having the back. I mean, she's my, she's my inspiration. She's really helped take us to the next level. And how we got to what we do now – the midlife was basically, you know, the background of doing the fitness holidays. Obviously we're lucky to work with thousands of clients over that time. So you get to see similar kind of themes repeating to clear like certain age or. Oh, so I'm 49 right now. How old am I James. 41 Good. That you erred on the side of younger. Nice. He does this every single time. I think being 49. Now it says clearly you’ve got some brain fog there. James, you want to talk about the mailman. And, we also love what we do. We started investigating more and more, you know, what's happening in mid life. Now what the hormonal changes. Cause also because we've been very conscious of like the physical changes going on here, both men and women, we were aware of these things happening. But what's driving that. And the answer is a lot of it's driven by our hormones and that has a knock on effect that has mental and emotional effects as well as physical. And of course, when you put all those together, as they can be a whole lot of psychological effects as well. And we kind of got friends who are like, oh, we know, I think this age, this is just it. Now it's inevitable decline. And I've just got to put up with like no energy and expanding waistline. I know, so we just dove into it even even harder, tested out loads of the science and research on ourselves, started podcasting about it. That was the first dip into the midlife mentors really was the podcast. So that was at the beginning of 2019. And that was really exciting cause that's just James and I passionate putting stuff out there with no agenda. Going out there and having a bit of banter, but we will hear when already off, but obviously giving people a real holistic approach to midlife health and happiness. So touching on all that you know, my, my backgrounds, I was never into fitness. Really at all. I had a really bad relationship with my body, really bad relationship with food growing up. And then I went through a divorce and the reason I got into doing this after my career in PR. It was because all I was put on antidepressants, and I'm not guessing they save lives. They're really, really crucial to helping people get through some really challenging times. But what I've I've I felt like I didn't want to be on them for the rest of my life. I was very aware I didn't want to be on them for the rest of my life. And you know, my weight ballooned, I actually felt very disconnected from my spiritual self. So I decided to find other ways that might help me reduce my aging come off. So I ended up getting into the nutrition, getting into the fitness, understanding the science. And once I was hurt, I was like, I've got to qualify in this and help other people really feel powerful in themselves and regain control when everything else is, is going out of control. And he's crazy around you. One of the often the only thing that you can control is your health, whether it's, you know, in all areas, your fitness. Your nutrition, your spiritual health or mental health and gaining control back over that does start to help heal those, those things that are going on in your life. So I wasn't into it. I then got into it and just after I met James and then moved over to Ibiza very quickly to join him. And yeah, that's how I moved over to ibiza. Before I left, I made a big bold move to, to live my life over in Ibiza. And you know, it wasn't without its challenges, but, you know, like James says we haven't looked back and, we're just really excited to do what we do because our values are so aligned with what we want to share with the world. So. Awesome. What, what do you like best about actually in particular working with, you know, this age group, you know, the people in midlife. I think, yeah,...