This week I am joined by the incredible Gary Vee…a visionary who often speaks about hustle, but today, sits with us to talk about heart.

The conversation began before the microphones turned on. With my own children gathered around him, asking questions and soaking up his words. He took the time to talk with them and share his wisdom. It spoke volumes about who he was, how he relates to people of all ages, and the valuable words he has to offer.

Once we started recording, he continued the conversation with the same authenticity. We stripped away the layers of "shoulds" and expectations that society places on us. We explored what it really looks like to stop apologizing for who you are and start celebrating it. Gary shares his unique perspective on why the fear of judgment is what's standing between you and the life you crave, and how self-awareness is the ultimate form of self-love.

Inside this episode, we discuss:

• Why success doesn't shape character…it exposes it

• How fear gets passed down quietly through generations

• Why so many adults are still waiting for approval long past childhood

• How entitlement replaces gratitude and erodes resilience without us noticing

• Why failure is formative, not damaging

• What happens when self-awareness replaces performance

• The moment adulthood actually begins

If you have been feeling the call to reinvent yourself, to pivot, or simply to show up more boldly in your own skin, this episode is for you. Remember, it is never too late to become the woman you were always meant to be.

If you want to continue this work of remembering who you are beneath the noise, my book Muse is available now. A guide for women reclaiming identity, authority, and their inner voice.

Connect with Dr. Amanda on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse/

Connect with Gary Vee:
https://www.instagram.com/garyvee/

Order your copy of Muse
https://amandahanson.com/book/

By the time a woman reaches midlife, she has usually learned the rules: stay pleasant, stay young-looking, stay non-threatening. Don't take up too much space. Don't show the edges. And definitely don't age out loud.

The cost of that agreement, however, is the slow erasure of her voice, her authority, and her truth.

In this episode, I sit down with actress Constance Zimmer to talk about aging in Hollywood, the fear and grief that can come when opportunities narrow after 50, and the sovereignty that emerges when women refuse to go quiet. Constance shares the story behind her iconic Entourage audition, how her most "unlikable" characters became the most relatable, and why she's now building spaces for women to tell midlife stories across stage, screen, and community.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• The myth that actors "choose" roles - and what it's really like when opportunity chooses you

• How Constance landed Entourage by walking in with nothing to prove and everything to own

• What shifts for women after 50 in Hollywood - and why the silence can feel terrifying

• Why midlife often becomes a creative ignition point tied to purpose and legacy

• The vision behind The Midlife Monologues and creating platforms where women's stories are centered

• The cultural cost of erasing women's aging faces - and the message it sends to our daughters

• How women heal through truth-telling, witnessing, and community - without fixing or performing

This episode is for the woman who can feel the old programming creep in -
the voice that says, "Stay likable. Stay small. Stay young."

If this conversation moves something in you, share it with a sister who needs the reminder.
Because that's what sisters do.

Connect with Dr. Amanda on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse/

Connect with Constance Zimmer:
https://www.instagram.com/constancezimmer/

So many women tell the same quiet story:

"I'm fine. I'm grateful. I'm doing it all."
And yet…
There's a glass of wine waiting every evening just to soften the edges enough to keep going.

In this week's episode of Things Your Mother Never Told You, I sit down with Colleen Freeland, the woman redefining what sobriety means for high-achieving, overwhelmed women. Her work is not about labels or lifelong abstinence. It's about emotional sobriety - the art of living without the chaos, pressure, and self-abandonment that make us reach outside ourselves for relief.

Colleen brings a radically compassionate perspective:
Most women don't have drinking problems.
They have disconnection problems.

Inside this conversation, we explore:

• Why Type A, hyper-capable women often use alcohol as a bridge to survive the life they've built.

• How emotional numbing becomes a default for women who never learned to feel their own needs.

• Why shame-based sobriety models can backfire - and what actually creates lasting change.

• The truth about "mommy wine culture" and the billion-dollar industry marketing alcohol as self-care.

• How creating small, honest moments of pleasure and regulation can begin to untangle long-held patterns.

• What happens when a woman finally tells the truth: I'm not okay, and I can't keep living this way.

• The real reason midlife becomes a turning point, and why so many women "wake up" during these years.

This episode is an invitation to pause.
To listen inward. To meet the woman you've been overriding for far too long.

If something in this conversation lands in your body - share it with someone who needs to hear it.

Your revolution begins within.

Connect with Dr. Amanda on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse/

Connect with Colleen Freeland:
https://www.instagram.com/thehangoverwhisperer/
https://emotionalsobrietycoaching.com/