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perimeno-PAUSED
by Rebecca Fowler
PerimenoPAUSED is a platform to talk honestly about midlife, perimenopause, and the strange liberation that comes with it. When wisdom collides with authenticity, aching joints, and zero remaining tolerance for bullshit, these are the antics that ensue.
Episodes
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Pure Imagination
Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather kick off this episode exploring the power of imagination and the mental blocks that keep us stuck. From tracing a winding journey of self-discovery to reading the astrological timing behind personal growth, the conversation moves through embracing life's natural...
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Chop Wood, Carry Water, Have a Nap
What do you call the nap you take before you go out? Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather start with the disco nap and end up somewhere much deeper. Jessica’s sister is a professional sloth. Rebecca has never once scheduled a nap. Along the way: why sleeping in public feels so exposed, who gets to…
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Why Did I Dream I Murdered My CFO?
This week Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather dig into the strange, sometimes spooky world of their dreams: REM cycles, why some dreams stick and others vanish by breakfast, and the time one of us dreamed she had to murder her own CFO husband (relax, it wasn't personal). We detour through a dog's...
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Putting Ourselves Out There
Rebecca, Heather, and Jessica reunite to catch up on everything: air conditioning bills, the good old days, and why nobody should have to fight their doctor to be taken seriously about their hormone levels. This episode gets honest about testosterone therapy, anxiety medication, and what it...
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Celebrating Dolly & Tim
Reaching midlife unfortunately means losing icons. Rebecca and Jessica pause the usual chaos this week to celebrate two icons who lived unapologetically as themselves: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. Between celebrity trivia, full moon energy, and one seriously inconvenient hormone appointment, they...
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Just to Get It Over With
This week, Rebecca, Heather, and Jessica tackle the universal struggle of procrastination balanced with the relief of finally getting something uncomfortable over with, and then wanting to savor the moments that make it all worth it. The conversation wanders, as per usual, through high school...
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Momentum
Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather wrestle with self-doubt while building work from scratch, talk about why savings (or the lack of them) hits different in your 40s, and make the guilt-free case for taking a break. They open up about a friend's grandmother nearing the end of her life, lean on…
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On Our Own Terms
Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather play a round of bucket list confessions. What they'd love to do without judgment (smoking freely, living like a European), and what no amount of money could get them to try again (skydiving, shark diving, Mount Everest, a face tattoo). The conversation opens up into...
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Knowing Your Worth & Following Your Bliss
What is your time, energy, happiness, and peace actually worth? In this episode, the hosts talk about valuing themselves across work, money, relationships, recovery, and major life transitions. From setting firm boundaries with clients and building businesses to leaving corporate life, choosing...
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Content Warning: Addiction
In this candid episode, the hosts talk openly about addiction from multiple perspectives: as family members, partners, and people with lived experience of recovery. They explore boundaries, enabling, honesty, emotional labor, and what it means to support someone without losing yourself in the...
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All the Tisms
This one is Heather's episode, and she comes with a topic. Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather get into neurodiversity, what it actually means to live with ADHD, autism, or any combination of the above, and why so many women in midlife are only just now getting the vocabulary to describe what their…
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Closer to Fine
Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather are back, freshly returned from their respective summer adventures and in the mood to get into it. This one covers the quiet shift that happens somewhere after 45, when the scarcity mindset starts to lose its grip, hustle gives way to something that actually looks…
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Is It In the Cards?
Episode 20: Is It in the Cards? What starts with a random knock at Rebecca’s door from a young man warning that a fire is starting in her yard somehow turns into a conversation about tarot, intuition, divine nudges, and whether the universe is constantly trying to get our attention (spoiler: we...
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Catching Up and Getting Woo
Episode 19: Catching Up and Getting Woo We’re back together and doing what we do best: catching up on life, big feelings, and mildly unhinged spiritual tangents. Rebecca is fresh off a deeply meaningful retreat in Australia, Heather has closed another chapter in corporate life, and Jessica is in...
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Close Encounter: The Narcissist in the Wild
In this special extended episode, we sit down with narcissist-proof coach Dorothy Livio Vaughan for an honest, tender, sometimes uncomfortable conversation about what narcissism actually looks like up close, and why it can be so hard to see clearly while you're still inside it. Dorothy walks us...
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Where Nobody Could Find Us
This one started as a bad day. Mars entered Aries, a business partner was being a lot, and somebody was eating Easter candy at a genuinely alarming rate. So Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather did what you do when you need to recover: they got together and talked about everything. Which TV characters...
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Frenemy Mine
Friendship changes as we do, and this episode gets into all of it. Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather talk about the friendships that deepen, the ones that drift, and what connection, loyalty, and mutual effort look like in midlife. It’s warm, thoughtful, and for anyone who has ever treasured a...
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I'll Just Do It Myself
In this episode, we talk about the work nobody sees but that somehow always gets done. Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather unpack the mental load, emotional load, and constant behind-the-scenes labor so many women carry at home, at work, and in relationships. It’s honest, validating, and for anyone who...
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Creature Comforts & Necessities
At what point does something stop being a luxury and start becoming a necessity? In this episode, Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather talk about all the things they do to hold themselves together in midlife: workouts, supplements, hormones, skincare, beauty treatments, better bedding, nervous system...
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Dear 22-Year-Old Me
What would you say to the young woman you used to be if she would actually listen? In this episode, Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather look back at their younger selves with honesty, tenderness, and the kind of wisdom that only comes from living a little more life. They talk about what they wish they...
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Chicken Soup for the Perimeno-PAUSED Soul
Peace sounds simple until you try to keep it. In this episode, we talk about what it really means to find and protect our peace in midlife when life is full, loud, and constantly asking something of us. From family dynamics and relationships to work stress, overthinking, and expectations, we…
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Springing Forward
Spring is here, the astrology is astrology-ing, and we are talking about renewal, fresh starts, and what wants to bloom in this season of life. In this episode, Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather explore the energy of spring, the pull to begin again, and the difference between reinventing yourself and...
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Crying at Work & Other Appropriate Places
In this episode, we talk about crying at work, almost crying at work, crying in the bathroom at work, and the very blurry line between being professional and being an actual human being. Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather unpack the moments that push us over the edge in midlife: overwhelm, criticism,...
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Hey Siri, Where's My Phone?
Have you ever walked into a room with purpose and then immediately forgotten why? Same. In this episode, Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather talk about brain fog, missing words, lost phones, misplaced glasses, and the very specific midlife experience of feeling like your brain has 47 tabs open at all...
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Catastrophizing & Other Fun Pastimes
Why do our brains jump straight to the worst possible outcome… even when nothing bad has actually happened? In this episode of PerimenoPAUSED, Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather dive into the fine art of catastrophizing: that familiar midlife mental spiral where a neutral situation somehow turns into…
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May I Please Speak to the Manager?
Something happens in midlife where your tolerance for nonsense drops dramatically, especially when it comes to bad customer service. In this episode of PerimenoPAUSED, we talk about the small moments that can instantly ruin your day: endless hold music, being transferred five times, chatbots...
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What Is This Body Part?
Why does my body feel like it’s completing a security update without my permission? In “What Is This Body Part?” we get into the very real, very absurd physical changes of midlife, including new pains, new textures, new “wait, has that always been there?” discoveries, and the constant mental math...
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Why Am I So Upset?
Perimenopause is ready to throw hands 😅 In this episode, we unpack the random rage, tears, and emotional whiplash that shows up out of nowhere—and what to do when you can’t tell if you’re “fine” or five seconds from a meltdown. In “Why Am I So Upset?” we talk about the emotional side of midlife...
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Imposternators
Imposter syndrome: that voice that shows up right when you’re stretching into something new. In this episode, Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather share our own stories of reinvention: leaving jobs, moving states, launching new work, stepping into leadership, and saying yes before we feel completely...
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Gung Hay Fat Choy
For Lunar New Year, we wanted an episode that feels like a reset without the pressure to “new year, new you” our way into burnout. In this conversation, Rebecca, Jessica, and Heather talk about fresh starts and beginning again in midlife by releasing what no longer fits, and choosing our next...
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Happy Galentine's
Valentine’s Day: hallmark holiday, sacred ritual, or just another thing to add to the calendar you’re already managing for everyone else? In this episode, Rebecca and Jessica unpack the many “-tines” of midlife love: Valentine’s, Galentine’s, and the everyday kind that looks like staying…
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The PerimenoPAUSE
What happens when life hits pause, and you realize it might actually be an invitation? In our very first episode of PerimenoPAUSED, Rebecca and Jessica introduce the show and the midlife shifts that brought us here. As staunch Gen Xers, we reflect on MacGyvering our way through a phase that feels...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
PerimenoPAUSED is a platform to talk honestly about midlife, perimenopause, and the strange liberation that comes with it. When wisdom collides with authenticity, aching joints, and zero remaining tolerance for bullshit, these are the antics that ensue.
HOSTED BY
Rebecca Fowler
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PerimenoPAUSED is a platform to talk honestly about midlife, perimenopause, and the strange liberation that comes with it. When wisdom collides with authenticity, aching joints, and zero remaining tolerance for bullshit, these are the antics that ensue.
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