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Drinks with the Girls®

Karen Shatafian and Lisa Corricello-McDowell

Drinks With the Girls® 🍸☕ | Real Talk for Women Over 40Welcome to Drinks With the Girls® , the ultimate podcast for women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s ready to live life unapologetically. 🎙️ Hosted by empowerment coach Karen Shatafian and literacy consultant/special needs mama Lisa Corricello-McDowell, we’re two longtime friends sharing real conversations about everything that matters to women in midlife.From navigating loss and grief, surviving empty nest syndrome, and redefining relationships to

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57:44

Confidence, Hormones, and Identity: The Midlife Shift...

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2026/04/06

Something feels off… and you can’t quite explain it.You’re forgetting things you never used to forget. Questioning yourself in rooms you used to own. Wondering, quietly, “What is happening to me?” This conversation goes straight into that moment—the one where confidence starts slipping, identity feels shaky, and you barely recognize yourself anymore. And here’s the truth that hits hard: it’s not just in your head. With functional integrative health practitioner Dyna Vink as our guide, we unpack

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58:25

Our Favorite Binges: Comfort Shows Feel-Good TV, &...

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2026/03/30

The world feels heavy… and sometimes you just need something that makes you laugh, escape, or feel like yourself again. This week, Karen and Lisa are sharing the binge-worthy shows, movies, books, and music they turn to when life feels overwhelming—from laugh-until-you-snort favorites like Ted Lasso and Derry Girls to darker, can’t-look-away British mysteries and true crime escapes. But this isn’t just about zoning out. It’s about finding what actually helps—whether that’s comfort, release, or a

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50:31

Book Review: 20th Anniversary of “Eat, Pray, Love”...

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2026/03/23

Twenty years later, Eat, Pray, Love still hits a nerve—and this conversation goes way beyond pasta and passports. Karen and Lisa unpack why so many women saw themselves in one woman’s breaking point… and what it really means to admit, “This life isn’t working anymore.”From impulsively driving away just to breathe for a few hours to memories of mothers who quietly chose themselves, this episode is filled with those oh wow, I’ve been there moments that don’t always get said out loud. With honesty,

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54:08

No Expiration Date: What the Winter Olympics Taught...

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2026/03/16

The Winter Olympics gave us more than medals this year—it gave us a powerful reminder that women don’t come with an expiration date.From the fearless comeback of Lindsey Vonn to Olympic moms racing, skating, and competing at the highest level while raising young kids, this conversation dives into the real stories behind women who refuse to age out, shrink back, or follow the timeline society hands them. Karen and Lisa unpack the double standards women athletes still face—from criticism over age and

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73:38

Life After the Leap: Midlife Women Who Move Abroad,...

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2026/03/09

Moving abroad in midlife sounds romantic… until the real transformation begins. In Part 2 of our conversation with women who left the U.S. to build lives in places like Italy, Belize, and the Caribbean, the fantasy gives way to something deeper: identity shifts, unexpected loneliness, freedom, and the courage to start again. Our guests share the honest, unfiltered side of creating a life overseas in midlife — from finding community in a new culture, to navigating solitude, sobriety, reinvention, and

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60:01

Taylor Swift & the Patriarchy: Here's Why It Matters...

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2026/03/02

The patriarchy isn’t just politics or headlines — it’s the air midlife women have been breathing for decades. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Karen and Lisa pull back the curtain on the quiet, insidious ways the patriarchy shapes women’s lives — from being told to be “likable” and low-maintenance, to carrying the emotional load at home, to shrinking our ambition so everyone else stays comfortable. Using Taylor Swift’s fight to own her masters, the public scrutiny of her success, and the

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46:18

Reclaiming Who You Are in Midlife On the Dance...

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2026/02/23

You still love to dance — you just don’t want to stay out until 2AM.Somewhere between raising kids, caregiving, running businesses, and rebuilding ourselves, joy started coming with a curfew. But what if midlife fun didn’t have to mean exhaustion the next day? This conversation dives into the magic of the Early Bird’s Club — a women-centered dance movement created for those of us with real responsibilities and early mornings. But this isn’t just about dancing. It’s about reclaiming the version of

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53:55

Loving Yourself in Midlife: The Valentine’s...

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2026/02/16

You look in the mirror and think, When did I disappear?Somewhere between raising kids, managing relationships, building careers, and being the “low maintenance” one, you stopped centering yourself. You became productive. Reliable. Easy. And now? You’re not so sure who you are anymore. This Valentine’s week, Karen and Lisa get real about what self-love actually means for women in midlife — and it’s not bubble baths and spa days. It’s boundaries. It’s keeping the damn piece of cake. It’s

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58:21

How Midlife Women Are Surviving America Right Now

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2026/02/09

America feels louder, harsher, and more unsteady than ever — and midlife women are carrying the weight of it all. The fear. The anger. The exhaustion. The constant question of how much more can we hold?Karen and Lisa pull up their chairs for a raw, honest conversation about what it actually feels like to live through this moment in the U.S. as women in our 40s, 50s, and 60s. No debating. No talking points. Just real talk about political overwhelm, doomscrolling, nervous systems on edge, and the

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57:55

The Rules We Are Ditching in Midlife

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2026/02/08

Speaking your truth after 40 often feels like breaking rules you were praised for following your entire life. In this episode of Drinks With the Girls, Karen and Lisa unpack the unspoken expectations midlife women are finally questioning — from people-pleasing and emotional labor to staying comfortable instead of honest.This conversation explores midlife reinvention, gaslighting ourselves into staying unhappy, motherhood, caregiving, divorce, and the exhaustion that comes from carrying invisible

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75:23

Smart Financial Moves for Women Over 40 – With Karen...

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2026/01/26

Why does money feel so complicated, especially in midlife? Because it is. And yet, as Karen Van Voorhis gently reminds us in this episode, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible—or that we’re behind.If you’ve ever stared at your pay stub, shrugged at your 401k, or avoided eye contact with your Fidelity login like it’s an ex at the grocery store… this episode is your financial permission slip to get curious, not critical. Karen Van Voorhis, our favorite no-nonsense, ultra-compassionate financial planner,

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66:22

Book Review: Chelsea Handler's "I"ll Have What She's...

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2026/01/19

When Jane Fonda tells you to get your shit together—you listen. That’s exactly how Chelsea Handler’s latest book kicks off, and trust us, it only gets juicier from there. This week, Karen and Lisa crack open I'll Have What She's Having and find way more than celebrity gossip or comedy—they find a woman doing the deep, uncomfortable, glorious work of coming home to herself.From therapy breakthroughs to choosing solitude over settling, Chelsea’s story is a love letter to living life on your own damn

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70:03

What Every Woman Over 40 Needs to Know About...

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2026/01/12

If you’ve ever been told your labs are “normal” but you still feel exhausted, anxious, inflamed, or just off, this episode is for you. We sit down with Dr. Tracy McCarthy, a functional medicine psychiatrist who helps women understand what’s really going on beneath the surface in midlife. From hormone shifts and thyroid dysfunction to gut health and the long-term effects of stress and trauma, Dr. McCarthy explains how the body and brain are deeply connected—and why so many women feel dismissed by

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56:48

Forced Reinvention in Midlife: When Life Doesn't Ask...

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2026/01/05

What if the life you built… suddenly wasn’t yours anymore?A job gone. A marriage ended. A role you gave everything to—vanished. In this raw and unfiltered episode, Karen and Lisa unpack what happens when midlife reinvention isn’t a choice—it’s a reckoning. This isn’t the “vision board” version of starting over. This is the kind where your world gets pulled out from under you, and you're left staring at the pieces, wondering who you are without the title, the partner, the plan. Through real-life

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55:58

New Year, No Bullshit: Midlife Wellness On Our Terms

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2025/12/29

🌿 What if the “New Year, New You” mindset is actually making you feel worse — not better?If you're over 40 and exhausted by toxic wellness trends, diet pressure, and the constant demand to “fix” yourself every January… this episode is your reset. We’re tossing out the guilt, the grind, and the goals that don’t serve us — and replacing them with something radical: self-trust. Lisa and Karen dive into what real wellness looks like in midlife, from body image and movement to motivation that actually

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66:18

Neurodivergent Eating: Healing Your Relationship with...

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2025/12/22

What if your struggles with food, focus, and fatigue weren’t failures—but signs that your brain has been asking for a different kind of care all along?In this eye-opening episode, Karen and Lisa sit down with nutrition and wellness coach Caroline Hinchliff to unpack the messy, misunderstood relationship between neurodivergency and nourishment—especially for women in midlife. If you've ever stood in front of the fridge completely overwhelmed, skipped meals out of guilt or chaos, or asked yourself

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62:20

The Truth About the Mental Load for Midlife Women

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2025/12/15

If you’ve ever walked into a room and immediately scanned the emotional temperature, remembered five birthdays, scheduled a dentist appointment, and wondered why no one else noticed the moldy milk in the fridge… this episode is for you.This week on Drinks With the Girls, Karen and Lisa dive headfirst into the exhausting, invisible work known as the mental load — and why it hits midlife women especially hard. From managing everyone’s emotions to spinning all the plates (even when we have no forks

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59:40

Welcome to the We Do Not Care Club

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2025/12/08

This week on Drinks With the Girls, Karen and Lisa dive into the viral “We Do Not Care” movement — and let’s just say, it’s giving hot flashes and zero apologies. From twisted bras and visible nipples to ditching people-pleasing and zucchini muffins, they unpack what it really means when midlife women start saying nope, not today. Inspired by Melani Sanders' wildly relatable videos, the conversation gets real about boundaries, identity, and the freedom that comes when estrogen drops and your

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71:51

Daughter Lessons: Rewriting the Mother–Daughter Story

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2025/12/01

This one’s for every woman who’s ever wondered if she was a good enough daughter—or a good enough mom.Karen and Lisa sit down with attorney, writer, and self-proclaimed Queen Bee, Bernadette Catalana, for a conversation that’s tender, honest, and full of midlife wisdom. Inspired by her book Daughter Lessons: Wise and Witty Reflections on Leading, Learning From, and Loving Our Daughters, Bernadette opens up about raising two girls, navigating the emotional complexity of mother-daughter

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76:18

Leaving It All Behind: Midlife Women Who Move Abroad

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2025/11/24

What if midlife wasn’t the beginning of the end, but the start of your boldest chapter yet—somewhere far, far from home? In this raw and vibrant episode of Drinks With the Girls, Karen and Lisa talk with three midlife women who traded burnout, people-pleasing, and autopilot living for new lives abroad. We're talking Belize, Italy, and a beach in the Caribbean. Real places. Real stories. Real women who said, “What if I just… left?” These aren’t polished highlight reels. You’ll hear about the hot

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