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REGINA YOUNG Mid-life Podcast Host
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id-life Podcast Host Regina Young
creat ed Teat ime Midlife Edit ion Podcast for women in midlife t hat want communit y, friendship and t o not do midlife alone. She offers expert advice, self-awareness, and ideas for fun challenges while bridging the gap in who you can be during the most transformative time in your life. She strives to bring you some of the best flavors of conversations one teacup at a time. We had the opportunity to interview Regina after she reached out to invite our founder onto her podcast. We're thrilled to announce that her Season 4 Kick off starts with Tangled Silver Magazine's Founder, Robin Salls sharing about our #iamsilverbeauty movement and the importance of defining beauty on our own terms. The episode drops on Sunday, March 5th at 3pm EST. We hope you'll head over, listen and subscribe to support this fabulous silver sister on a mission to help women embrace midlife. When asked what was the motivation for starting this podcast her answer is delightful and one we feel many can relate too. She was trying to figure out her menopause journey and started where most of us are told too. Look to your Mother's journey to get an idea. Unfortunately Regina's Mother had passed, so she reached out to several aunts, who couldn't help as they'd bot had a hysterectomy, so they couldn't answer her questions. Feeling a bit frustration she happen to strike up a
conversation with co-worker she connected with and this connection turned into teatime chats about menopause together. She realized other women probably we experiencing the same thing and while she was fortunate to meed someone in the workplace that likely isn't an easy thing for most women. While the workplace is paying attention to the needs of maternity and paternity leave,along with mental health issues, the topic of menopause still seems to be taboo. Women are worried about how things like brain fog and sometimes needing to miss work due to menopause will effect their positions, so they tend to suffer through. She thought, "why should women not have a place to go for answers" and Teatime Midlife Edition was created. Why the name Teatime Midlife Edition? She loves what seems to be an added benefit of tea. Not just the health benefits, but the actual sense of allowing yourself to slow down over a cup of tea. Teatime rituals are worldwide and they're known to encourage you to slow down and take a minute to breathe. Something that becomes extremely important during midlife in general when many women suddenly feel like they no longer know themselves or have control over whats happening. And, because menopause/midlife wasn't a topic taught in schools like menstruation and sex education it leaves many of us unaware of what "it" really looks like. It's a new season and we need to start talking about it and taking it from being taboo or conversations that EMBRACE 2023
