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I’m excited to share my recent appearance on the Brave Bold Brilliant podcast with Jeannette Linfoot.
For years, I operated in “go mode”—running companies, raising a family, and pushing through exhaustion. But eventually, chronic stress caught up with me. I experienced significant weight gain, early perimenopause symptoms, emotional eating, and a series of health scares that forced me to stop and take a hard look at the way I was living.
What followed wasn’t another diet or quick fix. It was a complete shift in how I approached my health, my mindset, and my relationship with myself.
During this episode, Jeannette and I discuss:
• Why extreme dieting often backfires and can lead to long-term weight gain
• The powerful connection between muscle, metabolism, and healthy aging
• How proper nutrition can help reduce common perimenopause symptoms
• The role stress plays in weight gain, fatigue, and hormonal imbalance
• How emotional eating develops and what it takes to break the cycle
• My “internal board meeting” approach to recognizing self-sabotaging patterns before they take over
One of the most important lessons I share is that health cannot be built through punishment. Lasting transformation happens when we learn to work with our bodies instead of constantly fighting against them.
Thank you to Jeannette Linfoot for creating space for such an open and meaningful discussion.
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Host: Jeannette Linfoot from Brave Bold Brilliant Podcast
Terry Tateossian is a Menopause Lifestyle Medicine Coach, Certified Personal Trainer & Nutritionist and the Founder of THOR: The House of Rose, a wellness brand serving women over 40 through retreats, coaching, macro-nutrition and community. As 25-year founder and entrepreneur, Terry spent two and a half decades building and running successful start-up businesses, an experience that put her on the front line of founder burnout long before she could name it. After facing serious health challenges, early onset menopause, and emotional eating while running her agency and raising two children, Terry rebuilt her health in her 40s and lost more than 80 pounds through evidence-based nutrition, training, and mindset work. Today, she helps women get strong, improve confidence, support hormone health, and create a stronger second half of life. Terry has been featured in major media outlets and is available for podcasts, expert commentary, brand collaborations, and speaking engagements on midlife health, reinvention, emotional eating, menopause wellness, and strength training for longevity. Get her free macro calculator (her cookbook companion) to start your journey to back to health.
