Hello Reader,

If my last email, the one about how so much of what we've been told was built for him and sold to us, landed somewhere true for you, this letter is the rest of the story.

I want to tell you what I went looking for, and what I found. Buckle up. There's a closet involved.

When I turned 50, I was in the best shape of my life. Strong. Confident. Dating for the first time in thirty-one years after my divorce. I had killer arms! My head was in a good place. I felt — finally — like I was meeting myself.

And then perimenopause, and after that, menopause showed up. Uninvited. Like a relative who comments on your face the moment she walks in.

It started quietly. A hot flash. Sleep that wasn't quite right. Then, about three years in, the weight came on. Slowly at first, then less slowly. Everything that had worked for me my entire adult life — the eating, the workouts, the sheer dogged discipline — just… stopped working. The harder I pushed, the less it returned. I'd done "eat less, move more" so many times I should have earned a punch card.

And here's the part I haven't said out loud until now: the fizz I built my whole brand around — the energy, the spark, the sense of being fully alive in my own life — quietly went flat in my own body. I started hating it. Me. The Find Your Fizz woman. The one who built a whole business on women coming back to themselves. Standing in her own closet feeling like a stranger.

I knew something was off — not with me, with the rulebook. So I went looking for someone asking the right questions about women's bodies, women's hormones, and the way our biology actually moves through midlife.

That's how Dr. Mindy Pelz showed up in my feed. (Algorithm, for once: well done.)

If you don't know her work — Dr. Pelz is a two-time New York Times bestselling author, the voice behind Fast Like a Girl, Eat Like a Girl, and Age Like a Girl. She's a clinician who has spent years asking how women can work with our biology, not against it. And what's smart about her approach is that it isn't a fasting plan. It's a lifestyle — how we nourish, how we rest, how we move, how we detox, and yes, when and how we fast. Fasting is one of the tools. The bigger idea is a way of living that respects the body you're actually in, in the season you're actually in.

Here's the line of hers that broke me open: "If you allow it, this life transition can become one of the most empowering experiences you will ever go through as a woman."

That's not a diet pitch. That's a permission slip.

I took that permission slip and began to love my body.

And now, because I want to help other women, I've been studying her work for months and am working toward becoming a certified Fast Like a Girl Coach. (Yes, I will tell you when I'm officially in. No, I am not going to start showing up in your inbox with dramatic before-and-after photos. I have standards.)

And here's what I want you to hear clearly: this isn't a departure from Find Your Fizz. It is Find Your Fizz.

Find Your Fizz has always been about women coming back to themselves through transitions — the career one, the relationship one, the identity one, the who-am-I-becoming-now one. This just adds the next layer: the body one. Because the spark you're looking for in your work, your relationships, or your second chapter doesn't live somewhere separate from your physiology. It lives in the same body. And when that body has the energy, hormones, brain clarity, and purpose to support you — the fizz comes back.

That's what I want to help women do. Not chase a smaller version of themselves. Come back to a more fully alive one.

And here's where I need your help.

I'm shaping how this fits into Find Your Fizz, and I want it to actually meet you where you are. So if any part of this letter hits close to home, hit reply and tell me.

Specifically — would you want it 1:1, or in a small group of women going through it together, or a combination of both? As a standalone offering, or woven into the broader Find Your Fizz coaching? Would a free intro session or workshop help you decide? Or just: Yes, tell me when it's ready.

I read every reply, and I'll use what you tell me to build something that actually fits.

This isn't the email I usually write. It's the one I've been working up to for months. Thanks for being on the other end of it.

Bubbles Up!
Andrea

P.S. If you've ever stood in your closet and silently asked it, what is happening?? — you're not crazy, you're not broken, and you're not behind. The instructions were written for the wrong body. That part is fixable. And the fizz? She's still in there.

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