We asked a plastic surgeon the questions we are all thinking and never say out loud. He told us the one procedure he would never do to his own wife, sister, or daughter — even though plenty of doctors are doing it. We get into which cosmetic surgery is genuinely doing more harm than good, and what social media has convinced us is a flaw that nobody in real life was ever looking at. Then the practical part. His favorite plastic surgery procedures for the most youthfulness, his go-to nonsurgical

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,

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 , anxiety, three AM wake-ups, mood swings, and that overwhelmed sudden ADHD feeling so many midlife women describe. We play why the hell is this hap

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

What if the exact moment you were born held clues to parts of yourself you have spent a lifetime trying to understand? Not predictions. Not horoscopes. Patterns. I sat down with astrologer Amy Chinn to talk aboutwhat astrology actually is and what a birth chart reading can tell you about personality, relationships, strengths and how you handle change. We get into why your sun sign is such a small piece of the story and what a full astrologyreading reveals that horoscopes never do. At midlife,

Why do I still feel like a fraud at fifty, even though I should be more confident than ever? Mark Talaga from The Center for Identity explains perfectionism and impostor syndrome in midlife and how to let go of needing to have it all figured out. In this Before Boca conversation we break down how to tell if you are a perfectionist, where perfectionism and impostor syndrome come from, why they show up so loudly in midlife when we are starting new careers and hobbies, whythe quest to be perfect f