Menopause is about a lot more than hot flashes — and that's exactly the problem. So many women reach perimenopause and menopause without realizing that changes in sleep, mood, memory, energy, weight, sex drive, joints and even confidence may all be connected.

In this episode of The Reset: What TF Is Next?, Prestina, Shannon and Danielle talk candidly about their own experiences with menopause and the symptoms nobody really prepared them for.

We discuss the physical and emotional changes we've experienced, the role hormones play, why women often aren't prepared for this stage of life, and some of the natural, lifestyle and medical approaches women may explore with their healthcare providers.

Most importantly, we're having the conversation we wish more women had been encouraged to have years ago.

In this episode:

• Unexpected menopause and perimenopause symptoms
• Brain fog, sleep, mood and energy changes
• Changes in weight and metabolism
• Estrogen and progesterone changes
• Why menopause is still misunderstood
• Lifestyle and natural approaches
• Menopausal hormone therapy and other treatment conversations
• What we wish we'd known sooner

Disclaimer: This conversation reflects personal experiences and general educational information. It is not intended as medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding your individual symptoms or treatment options.

What happens when you’re grieving something other people don’t even recognize as grief?

In Episode 3 of The Reset, Prestina, Shannon, and Danielle talk about grieving the life they thought they would still have after 50.

And this time, nobody has to die for grief to be real.

Shannon is navigating the end of a 21-year career with one company—and the identity, routine, relationships and future that came with it.

Prestina looks back from a different stage of grieving the loss of her corporate career and what she can recognize now that she couldn’t recognize while she was in the middle of it.

Danielle shares what it means to grieve changes in mobility, independence and the freedom of being able to move through life the way she once did.

In this conversation, we get into:

• Career loss and professional identity
• Losing mobility and independence
• The grief other people can’t see
• Anger, sadness, denial and acceptance
• Why grief doesn’t happen in a straight line
• Trying to recreate the life you had before
• Missing an old version of yourself
• Learning to live differently
• Who you become when you can’t go back

We don’t have this figured out—and that’s the point.

We’re three women in three different places, talking about what it actually feels like when a part of the life you expected is gone.

Now we want to hear from you:

What are you grieving that the people around you may not recognize as grief?

Tell us in the comments.

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For years, work wasn’t just what we did. It became part of who we were.

The titles. The routines. The authority. The paycheck. Being needed. Being the one who had it together.

Then the job changes, layoffs, and career transitions happened—and suddenly we had to confront a much harder question:

Who are you when work stops defining you?

In Episode 2 of The Reset, Prestina, Danielle, and Shannon get into the complicated relationship between career and identity. We talk about what corporate life gave us, what it took from us, what we actually miss, and what parts of our old ambition and identity we’re willing to carry into whatever comes next.

This isn’t a career-advice episode. We’re not giving résumé tips or pretending we have the next chapter figured out.

We’re talking about the part people don’t say out loud:

when you’ve spent years building a professional identity, losing or changing the role can feel like losing part of yourself.

So what do you keep?
What do you release?
And who are you when nobody is impressed by the title anymore?

Three women. One reset. What TF is next?

If this conversation sounds familiar, tell us in the comments:

How much of your identity became tied to what you did for work?

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