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Why Women Carry Everything (And How to Finally Put It Down) with Eve Rodsky
Episode 130
Thursday, November 5, 2026 β’ Duration 01:00:21
Women are often taught to treat everyone elseβs time as protected and their own as endlessly available. Over time, that can affect their careers, relationships, confidence, and sense of identity.
New York Times bestselling author Eve Rodsky joins Tamsen to explain Fair Play, a system that makes invisible work visible and gives one person complete ownership of each responsibility, from noticing that it needs to happen through planning and execution. Eve shares the βblueberries breakdownβ that led her to create it, why βJust tell me what to doβ still leaves women managing the work, and how boundaries, systems, and communication can change the way a family runs.
If you are the person who remembers every appointment, manages an aging parentβs care, or follows up when no one else does, this episode offers a practical way to stop carrying everyone elseβs responsibilities in your head and start treating your own time as equally valuable.
They get into:
- How Fair Play applies beyond marriage and motherhood
- How to tell whether the problem requires a boundary, a system, or a conversation
- When guilt is really a response to someone elseβs discomfort
- Why fairness does not always mean a 50-50 split
- What it takes to build an identity beyond being needed
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Not Sure You Want a Divorce? How to Prepare Before You Decide, with Jenny Hutt
Episode 129
Monday, November 2, 2026 β’ Duration 37:26
Should I stay or should I go? If youβre asking yourself βShould I get a divorce?β, I sat down with divorce attorney Jenny Hutt, who is separated from her husband, to talk about why gray divorce has doubled since 1990, why midlife divorce so often hits when the kids leave and an empty nest marriage goes quiet, and what to know before facing divorce after 50. If youβve looked across the table at the person youβve built a life with and realized you have nothing to say, youβre not alone.
In this episode, Tamsen sits down with divorce attorney Jenny Hutt, a New York family law attorney and certified divorce mediator, Of Counsel at Wisselman Harounian Family Law, and host of the Just Jenny podcast, to talk about why so many marriages end in midlife and how to make an honest decision about your own.
Jenny, who is separated from her husband, explains why so many couples wait until the kids are out of the house, how losing a parent can bring up the question βHow much time do I have left?β, and why the βguns blazingβ divorce you see on TV is not how it really works. Tamsen opens up about her own divorce 15 years ago, the shame she felt, and the $100,000 in marital debt she had to dig out of.
In this episode, youβll learn:
- Why so many marriages end after the kids leave home, and what the empty nest can reveal
- How losing a parent and facing your own mortality can change the way you see your marriage
- What gray divorce is, and why divorce after 50 has doubled since 1990
- Why itβs okay not to know yet: βIf you wanna reconcile tomorrow, go reconcile. There is no judgment.β
- The four things every divorce comes down to: assets, support, parenting and custody
- Why a good settlement is one where βnobodyβs happy, but everybody can live with itβ
- How a consultation with a divorce attorney can help you understand your rights before you decide anything
- Why the identity shift, from taking off your rings to hearing βJust one?β, can be as hard as the financial hit
Jenny practices family law in New York, and divorce laws vary from state to state, so talk with an attorney where you live about your own situation.
If youβve ever wondered whether your marriage can be saved or whether itβs time to go, this episode will help you think it through honestly, without shame and without judgment.
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- Hope Edelman on The Tamsen Show
- You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
- Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
- Family law attorney Laura Wasser
- Allβs Fair on Hulu
- Wisselman Harounian Family Law
- The Gray Divorce Revolution (Brown & Lin, The Journals of Gerontology, 2012)
- The Graying of Divorce: A Half Century of Change (Brown & Lin, 2022)
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Told You're Too Much, Too Different or Too Late? How to Stop Shrinking to Fit, with Misty Copeland
Episode 128
Thursday, October 29, 2026 β’ Duration 01:08:05
Ever been told you're too much, too different, or too late? Misty Copeland heard it all and became a legend anyway. In this episode, she shares how to stop shrinking to fit, how to speak up for yourself even when the room isn't built for you, and what she's learned about perimenopause and a body that changes every day.
Sitting down with Tamsen Fadal on The Tamsen Show, Misty looks back on a career built on proving people wrong. She didn't take her first ballet class until 13, was told she was "too athletic," and still became the first Black woman promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre. She tells Tamsen how she rehearsed hard conversations before walking into the director's office, danced Firebird at the Met on six stress fractures, and gave her farewell performance with ABT in October 2025. After a full hip replacement in December 2025, she was performing at the Oscars three months later. And when Tamsen asks about perimenopause, Misty admits she was skeptical "until it hit me."
In this episode, you'll learn:
- How to stop shrinking yourself to fit someone else's idea of "right"
- How to speak up when the room isn't built for you, and how to prepare for those hard conversations first
- Why a late start doesn't have to hold you back
- How to find a safe place, and the mentors, who help you grow
- What perimenopause can really feel like, and why not all symptoms look the same
- How to be patient with a body that changes every day
- How to take on something new after a setback, one step at a time: "Let's see what happens"
- How to use your seat at the table to open doors for the women coming after you
If you've ever been made to feel like you don't fit, this conversation will remind you that you get to decide what's next.
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Trust Your Gut: How to Spot Manipulation Early with Bethany Joy Lenz
Episode 127
Monday, October 26, 2026 β’ Duration 45:16
Bethany Joy Lenz, star of One Tree Hill and author of the new novel The Betrayal of Cora Wexford, spent years on TV every week while secretly living inside a cult.
She opens up about why becoming a mother gave her the reason to leave, why the leaving was survival and the real healing came after, and how being on set kept her grounded through it all.
Tamsen and Joy talk about why so many capable women end up doubting themselves, why psychological abuse behind closed doors is so rarely taken seriously, and how her new novel, set in 1888, mirrors so much of her real life.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- How a good thing can slowly turn into control
- Her rule now: "If you feel like something's weird, it's weird"
- The 1 question that reveals how someone really treats you, and the response to watch for
- How to trust your gut again after years of second-guessing yourself
- What her late ADHD diagnosis taught her about how hyperactivity shows up in women
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Feeling Stuck? The Proven Method to Break Free with Psychologist Angela Duckworth
Episode 126
Thursday, October 22, 2026 β’ Duration 34:16
Most of us have been taught that when something is not working, the answer is more discipline, more willpower, and more effort. Angela Duckworth, the University of Pennsylvania psychologist and bestselling author of Grit, built her career studying that idea. Her new book, Situated, asks us to look at everything surrounding that effort.
In this conversation, she explains how the people, places, objects, and cultures around us shape our motivation, behavior, and even who we become.
Angela shares the terrifying moment she nearly lost her mother during a snorkeling tripβand why it taught her to stop fighting the current and ask for help. She also opens up about a difficult period in her marriage that showed her how easily we can mistake the effects of someoneβs circumstances for flaws in their character.
Tamsen and Angela discuss why we attach moral value to doing things the hard way, how the people closest to us change what feels possible, and where to begin when we cannot simply leave the job, home, or situation shaping us.
In this episode, youβll learn:
- Why trying harder can keep us trapped in a losing situation
- The four parts of your environment to examine when you feel stuck
- How objects within three feet of you influence your behavior
- Why different people bring out different versions of who you are
- What you can change when your biggest circumstances are outside your control
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The Workout Plan for Your Brain with Neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola
Episode 125
Monday, October 19, 2026 β’ Duration 01:09:52
Is walking enough? Is Pilates enough? How heavy should you actually be lifting? If youβve ever wondered which exercise really protects your brain as you age, especially through perimenopause and menopause, this conversation gives you the exact weekly plan.
In this episode, Tamsen sits down with clinical neurophysiologist and Alzheimerβs researcher Louisa Nicola, founder of Neuro Athletics and host of The Neuro Experience podcast, to talk about why she calls exercise medicine for the brain. Louisa explains that, outside of medication, exercise is the most powerful intervention we have to lower our risk of Alzheimerβs disease and dementia, a disease that affects far more women than men.
Tamsen opens up about the short-term memory loss and brain fog that scared her during perimenopause, and Louisa breaks down what happens inside your brain when you walk, sprint and lift, from BDNF and lactate to the myokines your muscles release. Then she builds out a workout plan for your brain: two days a week of heavy compound lifting at around 80% of your one-rep max, one Norwegian 4x4 interval session, zone 2 cardio and 10,000 steps a day.
In this episode, youβll learn:
- Why exercise is the best non-drug intervention for lowering Alzheimerβs risk
- How heavy to lift for brain health, and why compound moves like squats and deadlifts matter most
- Why Pilates is a great add-on, but not enough on its own
- The surprising link between leg strength and brain aging: βthe larger the legs, the larger the brainβ
- What zone 2 training (about 65% of your max heart rate) does for the hippocampus and memory
- How to raise your VO2 max with the Norwegian 4x4, how to estimate it with the 12-minute Cooper test, and why she wouldnβt rely on your wearable
- What she says about creatine for the brain, omega-3s, and the p-tau217 blood test and APOE4 gene test you can ask your doctor about
If youβve ever wondered whether your workouts are doing anything for your brain, this episode will help you build a plan that protects your memory now and decades from now.
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- Walking and hippocampus study (Erickson et al., PNAS, 2011)
- Leg power and cognitive aging in older female twins (Steves et al., Gerontology, 2016)
- The Norwegian 4x4 interval study (Helgerud et al., Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2007)
- The 12-minute Cooper test (Cooper, JAMA, 1968)
- Creatine monohydrate pilot study in Alzheimerβs (Smith et al., 2025)
- Creatine and sleep deprivation study (Gordji-Nejad et al., Scientific Reports, 2024)
- FDA clears the first blood test used in diagnosing Alzheimerβs (p-tau217)
- APOE4 and Alzheimerβs genetics (Alzheimerβs Association)
- The 14 modifiable dementia risk factors (2024 Lancet Commission)
- Sleep regularity and mortality study (Windred et al., Sleep, 2024)
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The Complete Menopause Episode: 8 Experts on Belly Fat, Brain Fog, Sleep and Hormones
Episode 124
Thursday, October 15, 2026 β’ Duration 49:28
Menopause and perimenopause can leave you with questions about belly fat, brain fog, sleep problems and whether hormone therapy could help. Your jeans fit differently. Youβre losing your train of thought. Youβre exhausted, but you canβt sleep. Where do you start when so much feels unfamiliar?
For World Menopause Month, Tamsen brings eight leading doctors and researchers together in one episode to help you understand whatβs changing and what deserves attention. These are the conversations she wishes sheβd heard before she was struggling to read the teleprompter at work, leaving herself notes and wondering why she didnβt feel like herself.
Youβll hear from Dr. Sharon Malone, Dr. Lisa Mosconi, Dr. Shelby Harris, Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen, Dr. Vonda Wright, Dr. Kelly Casperson, Dr. Avrum Bluming and Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz. Eight experts, different perspectives and answers you can come back toβall in one place.
Inside the episode:
- Why you can still have periods and be in perimenopauseβand why a single hormone blood test may be misleading
- Whether menopause brain fog can improve, and why womenβs experiences vary
- Why more time in bed may not mean better sleep, and how cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) works
- The difference between visible belly fat and visceral fat around your organs
- Why bone health needs attention earlier than you might think
- How menopause can affect sexual anatomy, arousal and orgasm
- What to understand about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer risk
- How to evaluate menopause supplements and βhormone balanceβ claims before spending your money
You donβt have to remember everything or make eight changes tomorrow. Start with the moment that makes you think, βWait, thatβs happening to me.β Write down your question and bring it to your next appointment.
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Why You Keep Choosing Emotionally Unavailable People with Sabrina Zohar
Episode 123
Monday, October 12, 2026 β’ Duration 49:35
Why do we keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners? And why is it so hard to break unhealthy relationship patterns, even when we know better? In this episode of The Tamsen Show, dating and relationship expert Sabrina Zohar joins Tamsen Fadal to explain anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, relationship anxiety, and how childhood experiences shape the way we love, date, and connect with others.
Tamsen opens up about her own history of chasing unavailable men, including her real-life Mr. Big, and how finding a secure relationship later in life changed her understanding of love.
Sabrina, author of Why Am I Like This?, breaks down the four attachment styles, why anxious and avoidant partners get caught in painful relationship cycles, and why some of us keep choosing people who canβt give us what we need. More importantly, she explains how to recognize these patterns and start changing them.
Youβll learn:
- The four attachment styles and how they affect your relationships
- Why anxious and avoidant partners get caught in a painful push-and-pull cycle
- Why you keep attracting emotionally unavailable people
- How childhood experiences can influence your adult relationships
- The question to ask yourself when rejection or abandonment triggers you
- How to build a more secure attachment style
- What to know before dating again after divorce or heartbreak
- Why choosing to stay single can sometimes be rooted in fear
Whether youβre single, dating, married, or starting over, this conversation will help you understand the patterns you bring into relationships and how to stop repeating the ones that hurt you.
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Why Women Are Taught to Doubt What They Know with Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora
Episode 122
Thursday, October 8, 2026 β’ Duration 01:00:26
Women learn early which parts of themselves make other people comfortable. After enough years, that performance can begin to feel like our identity, and the intuition underneath it goes quiet.
Dr. Ellen Vora spent much of her life inside that worldview. A Yale- and Columbia-trained psychiatrist, she built her life around science and skepticism. Then, during an acupuncture treatment, Ellen received a message she couldnβt explain away, and it opened a question her training couldnβt answer: When someone dies, does the relationship actually end? That experience forced her to reconsider what she believed about grief, intuition, and the limits of what we can prove.
Today, Ellen shares the full story behind her new book, Season of the Witch: A Psychiatristβs Case for Magic, and why women are taught to give up essential parts of themselves in order to be taken seriously. She argues that weβve been missing something, and the way back starts in the body.
In this episode, youβll learn:
- How being agreeable and low-maintenance can become a form of self-abandonment
- Why women have been taught to distrust their intuition
- How to distinguish intuition from anxiety, and the ways the body signals yes and no
- Why menopause can represent a rebirth rather than a disappearance
- What grief can teach us about continuing relationships with the people we have lost
- Why the βwitchβ archetype has always been connected to women who are no longer easily controlled
- Simple ways to become more receptive to meaning, guidance, and magic in everyday life
This is a conversation about returning to the parts of ourselves we learned to suppress, and letting life become a little more mysterious and alive.
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Is Your Menopause Care Covered? What Insurance Companies Donβt Tell You
Episode 121
Monday, October 5, 2026 β’ Duration 40:13
What do women need to know about menopause care, menopause treatment, insurance coverage and their rights in the workplace?
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, attorney, womenβs health advocate and author of When in Menopause, joins me to talk about the systems surrounding perimenopause and menopause that most of us never think about until we need them.
Jennifer has spent years fighting for women, from helping lead the movement to end the tampon tax to advocating for better menopause care, research, treatment access and workplace protections. In this conversation, we break down what is changing, where women are still falling through the cracks and what we can actually do about it.
In this episode, youβll learn:
- Why menopause care and treatment still arenβt uniformly covered by health insurance
- Why vaginal estrogen isnβt currently covered by Medicare
- What states are doing to expand access to menopause treatment
- What rights women actually have when it comes to menopause in the workplace
- Why workplace accommodations without discrimination protections can be complicated
- What to consider before disclosing menopause symptoms at work
- How to better advocate for yourself in the doctorβs office
- How to navigate the explosion of menopause supplements, creams and products being marketed to women
- Why Jennifer believes better care, education, research and treatment access could make a bigger difference than workplace accommodations alone
- How women can get involved in menopause advocacy without becoming policy experts
This is one of those conversations that makes you realize how much of the menopause experience is shaped by systems most women have never been taught to think about. The more we understand how they work, the better equipped we are to ask for what we need.
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