About Before Boca: A Podcast For Women Navigating Midlife Reinvention
Before Boca is a podcast for women navigating midlife, reinvention, and life after raising kids. Michelle and Lisa talk honestly about empty nesting, friendships after 50, marriage, menopause, wellness, identity shifts, career pivots, and rediscovering who you are after being everyone else’s everything.
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You're Not Lazy. Here's Why Smart, Capable Women Really Procrastinate.
Are we really just lazy? Or is something else keepingus stuck?
Dr Jen Altman returns to Before Boca to unpackprocrastination in midlife — why so many of us can get everything done for our families no problem but freeze when it comes to taking care of ourselves, how perfectionism and procrastination go together, and why that and why do I procrastinate shame spiral makes it harder to start.
We get into dragging our feet and not getting thingsdone, bedtime procrastination and waking up irritable, whether having more free time once kids are grown actually helps, and how to tell if you are genuinely procrastinating or just done being over-optimized. Then real talk on how to stop procrastinating without another to-do list — better systems, self-compassion, and small starts that rebuild trust.
For women over 50 and women over 50 navigating reinvention, boundaries, and starting over. New episodes of Before Boca drop on Wednesday mornings for women rediscovering who they are after being everyone else's everything.
The information shared on Before Boca is for general informational and entertainment purposes only. Thehosts are not medical, legal, or financial professionals, and nothing discussed on this podcast should be considered professional advice. Any actions taken based on the content of this podcast are done at the listener’s own discretion.Always consult a qualified professional regarding your individual circumstances.
14 Oct 2026
What The Hell Is Happening To My Midlife Brain? A Neuroscientist Explains
What if the brain fog, the irritability, the anxiety,the forgetting why you walked into a room is not you falling apart? What if it is your brain changing in midlife?
Translational neuroscientist Cameron Allen, founder ofNeuro Progeny with sixteen years in functional neuroimaging, joins us toexplain the biological reasons behind menopause brain fog (https://app.vidiq.com/research/search?term=menopause+brain+fog), anxiety, three AM wake-ups, mood swings, and that overwhelmed sudden ADHD feeling so many midlife women (https://app.vidiq.com/research/search?term=midlife+women)describe. We play why the hell is this happening to me for brain fog and forgetfulness, higher anxiety, sleep issues, irritability and rage, and feeling overstimulated by noise and crowds.
Then we get practical on how to tap into your nervoussystem to feel more like yourself again, from behavioral tools like journaling to medical interventions Cameron uses in his work.
New episodes of Before Boca drop on Wednesday morningsfor women rediscovering who they are after being everyone else's everything.
The information shared on Before Boca is for general informational and entertainment purposes only. Thehosts are not medical, legal, or financial professionals, and nothing discussed on this podcast should be considered professional advice. Any actions taken based on the content of this podcast are done at the listener’s own discretion.Always consult a qualified professional regarding your individual circumstances.
7 Oct 2026
SideBar: What's On Our Midlife Minds October Edition
This week it is just us — an honest catch up about friendship over fifty, what we are into and over right now, and the questions midlife women only ask behind closed doors.
We start with real life updates to the VMAs Madonna moment, and the news everyone is talking about, like the Cornell 7. Then we open up the lightning round you love — mean nicknames from our families, hall passes, what we would never give up, midlife habits we will not buy into, and the year we would relive if we could.
If you are a woman over fifty navigating friendship, reinvention, and starting over, this is for you. New episodes of Before Boca drop on Wednesday mornings for women rediscovering who they are after being everyone else's everything.
The information shared on Before Boca is for general informational and entertainment purposes only. The hosts are not medical, legal, or financial professionals, and nothing discussed on this podcast should be considered professional advice. Any actions taken based on the content of this podcast are done at the listener’s own discretion. Always consult a qualified professional regarding your individualcircumstances.
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