Episodes
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Starting Over, Finding Yourself & Learning You Don't Need Permission | With Anissa Renae Kunda
What happens when the life you've spent decades building starts to change, and suddenly you're left wondering who you are outside of all the roles you've played? This week on Women Like Us: Lately, Val and Monika sit down with Anissa Renae Kunda, an entrepreneur, author, and business mentor who's...
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Episode 13 Bloodwork 101 — What Your Labs Are Actually Telling You
Bloodwork 101: What Your Labs Are Actually Telling You Ever gotten your bloodwork results back, stared at all those numbers and abbreviations, and thought... what the heck am I looking at? This week on Women Like Us: Lately, Val and Monika are breaking down the basics of bloodwork, from where to...
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Episode 12 Gift Registries, Birthday Parties & The Etiquette Nobody Agrees On
Are birthday gift registries actually helpful, or are we making gift-giving way more complicated than it needs to be? This week on Women Like Us: Lately, Val and Monika are discovering just how differently two people can approach birthdays, gifts, and celebrations. Monika comes from a world where...
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Episode 11 Botox, Gray Hair & How We Really Feel About Aging
Botox, Gray Hair & How We Really Feel About Aging We all say we want to age gracefully, but what does that actually mean? Because it's entirely possible to love getting older and still struggle with some of the physical changes that come with it. This week, Val and Monika are talking Botox, gray...
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Copy of Episode 10: Hormone Replacement Therapy: What Women Should Know About HRT
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has come a long way, but depending on who you ask, it's either life-changing or something to be afraid of. So what's the deal? In this episode, we're continuing our conversation about perimenopause and taking a closer look at HRT, the benefits, the…
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Episode 9: Everyone's Talking About Cortisol. Here's What We Actually Think.
Cortisol face, cortisol belly, cortisol cocktails… apparently everything we're doing these days is messing with our stress hormones. As if we needed one more thing to stress about. 😂 In this episode, we're talking about the cortisol craze and whether all this wellness advice is actually helping...
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Episode 8: Love, Marriage & Divorce | What Relationships Teach Us About Ourselves
Is love something we feel, or something we do? And how much of ourselves are we willing to change just to feel loved? In this episode, we're talking about relationships and how our understanding of love changes as we get older. Monika shares the story of meeting her husband at 15, how their...
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Episode 7: Adult Friendships: Making Friends, Drifting Apart & Finding Your People
Making friends as an adult might actually be easier than we thought. Finding time to see them? That's another story. 😂 In this episode, we're talking about adult friendships and how much they change as we get older. From making new friends and finding the confidence to put ourselves out there…
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Episode 6: Perimenopause | The Changes Nobody Warned Us About
Chin hairs, mood swings, disrupted sleep, and suddenly feeling like your body has a mind of its own. Why didn't anyone warn us about this part of getting older? In this episode, we're talking about perimenopause, what it actually is, when it can start, and all the changes that can happen before...
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Episode 5: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate? Let's Talk Birthdays
Are you the type to celebrate your entire birthday month, or would you rather pretend your birthday doesn't exist? Apparently, we have VERY different opinions on this one. 😂 In this episode, we're talking birthdays, getting older, and all the expectations that come with celebrating another year....
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Episode 4: Motherhood in Different Seasons: From Toddler Tantrums to Teenage Transitions
Two moms, two very different stages of motherhood, and somehow, a lot of the same experiences. In this episode, we're talking about motherhood lately. From Val's moment of panic over a frozen location tracker and a dead phone to Monika navigating a toddler meltdown over shower time, we start with...
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Episode 3: What We Wish We Knew 10 Years Ago | Monika & Val
What We Wish We Knew 10 Years Ago | Monika & Val Loving the Age You're In We've spent this mini series asking other women one question: What's something you know now about being a woman that you wish you knew 10 years ago? Now it's our turn! Monika reflects on how much she's loved her 30s…
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Episode 2: Women Like Us, Lately | Launch Celebration
We Launched the Podcast: Behind the Scenes, What We Learned, and a Wellness Trend Report Card In this episode of Women Like Us Lately, Monica and Val celebrate officially launching their podcast and reflect on the intense, tedious work it took—learning microphones, editing, websites, scheduling...
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 8 Nicolette Leigh Yates
Today, we're talking with Nicolette Yates, an Asheville-based mixed media artist, designer, and mom who has been making and exhibiting art for more than two decades. Her work has been shown in galleries and exhibitions across the country and internationally, while receiving multiple grants and...
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 7 Coco Michelle
Today we're hearing from Coco Michelle, who is a dear friend of mine. She is a Miami-based photographer, content creator, and creative entrepreneur with a heart for family, faith, and storytelling. As a wife and family of two, she shares an authentic glimpse into motherhood, travel, wellness, and...
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 6 Jena Hare
Today we're talking with Jenna Hare, entrepreneur, business strategist, coach, and co-founder of NC Budo. Her career has taken her from working with children with autism to building and selling a successful senior care business to helping other entrepreneurs build businesses that support the…
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 5 Simona Deetou
Today we're hearing from Simona Deetou. She is a Slovak creative living in Paris, raising three children while building a life around photography, writing, and storytelling.
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 4 Lucy Baber
Lucy as a talented photographer, a fiercely loving mother, a minority advocate, and someone with incredibly creative spirit. She's a full time Licensed Therapist and her work is LGBTQ+, body, and sex positive, and she's also the photographer behind the book 101 Places in Philadelphia That You…
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 3 Jennifer Rodriguez
Today we're hearing from Jennifer Rodriguez. Hello, Jennifer. Hello. She's a project manager at the University of Miami, a pickleball lover, and a mom to a nine-year-old daughter. She and her husband have been together for 31 years. That's awesome. Yes. And she brings the perspective of a woman...
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 2 Kendall Hitch
Today we're hearing from Kendall Hitch. She's the founder of Heal with Kendall, a somatic practitioner and nervous system mentor with an extensive background in somatics, functional training, nutrition, and neuropathy. She brings years of education and certifications to her work, all while living...
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Mini Series: What I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago | Ep 1 Shannon Salge
Today we're hearing from Shannon Salge. She is a functional nutritionist, metabolism and hormone expert, bioresonance practitioner, and the founder of the Wellness Paradigm virtual bioresonance and na- nutrition practice, all while raising two beautiful children. She has gone through two...
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This is Women Like Us, Lately: Monika + Valerie
Welcome to Women Like Us Lately: Fitness Identity, Hidden Struggles, and Why We Started Valerie (“Val”), a divorced mom of two teenage boys in North Carolina, and Monica, a Miami-based wife and mom to toddler Mila and a former pageant competitor/bodybuilder, launch their podcast Women Like Us...
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Women Like Us: Lately is a podcast about what it actually feels like to be a woman figuring out this season of life.
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Valerie Rice
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