Drinks With the Girls🍸☕ is the go-to midlife podcast for women over 40 navigating motherhood, grief, self-reinvention, launching kids, and rediscovering purpose. Hosts Karen Shatafian and Lisa Corricello-McDowell—two moms, small business owners, and longtime friends—share real talk, raw stories, and honest conversations about female friendship, being an empty nester, personal growth, and what it really means to start over in midlife.
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Drinks With the Girls🍸☕ is the go-to midlife podcast for women over 40 navigating motherhood, grief, self-reinvention, launching kids, and rediscovering purpose. Hosts Karen Shatafian and Lisa Corricello-McDowell—two moms, small business owners, and longtime friends—share real talk, raw stories, and honest conversations about female friendship, being an empty nester, personal growth, and what it really means to start over in midlife.
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 left to give), we’re unpacking what it really means to be the default project manager of life.
We talk about:
What is the mental load, really?
Why emotional labor peaks in your 40s, 50s, and beyond
The myth of “doing it all” and how it’s wearing us down
How to begin putting the damn bag down
This one’s raw, real, and full of laughter, sarcasm, and solidarity — with a splash of wine-in-a-can wisdom.
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🍸☕ What We Were Drinking:
Bloom Energy Drink in Cherry Lime
House Wine - Rainbow Rosé Bubbles
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Drinks with the Girls®
Drinks With the Girls🍸☕ is the go-to midlife podcast for women over 40 navigating motherhood, grief, self-reinvention, launching kids, and rediscovering purpose. Hosts Karen Shatafian and Lisa Corricello-McDowell—two moms, small business owners, and longtime friends—share real talk, raw stories, and honest conversations about female friendship, being an empty nester, personal growth, and what it really means to start over in midlife.
