My So-Called Midlife with Reshma Saujani
Feb 11, 2026 · 36 min · 23 segments
Reshma sits down with **Sara Reardon**, a pelvic floor physical therapist and one of the leading voices in women’s pelvic health. Known to many as The Vagina Whisperer, Sara helps women understand…
Sara ReardonGuest
Reshma SaujaniHost
[upbeat music] Dr. Reardon, so we always start with the same question, which is: What's your midlife mindset right now? Are you feeling excited, sad, thrilled? What is it?
I think with the state of the world, and our country in particular, you can feel all of those things at the same time.
in my ability to share those things on my platform confidently, and I also feel soft in this way.
It feels like things are really kind of hard and rigid and so definite in what people are believing and how they're saying them, and so I also feel like there's a softness that needs to come to just continue to help care for people and care for one another.
I, too, feel very, like, unapologetically strong and, like, clear: "This is right; this is wrong." You know what I mean?
And soft in the sense where I feel like I'm, like, either in tears or close to tears almost every single night, you know, at what I'm seeing.
And, like, I was with a friend last night for dinner who runs HR at a big company, and she's just like, "People are carrying so much collective trauma."
Even if they don't come into the office and talk about what's going on in Minnesota, y- they're, they're...
You can see it in their body and the way that they're holding themselves, that they're carrying so much fear, anger, frustration, sadness, and it's just, it's in our bodies right now, deeply.
[upbeat music] Dr. Reardon, so we always start with the same question, which is: What's your midlife mindset right now? Are you feeling excited, sad, thrilled? What is it?
I think with the state of the world, and our country in particular, you can feel all of those things at the same time.
in my ability to share those things on my platform confidently, and I also feel soft in this way.
It feels like things are really kind of hard and rigid and so definite in what people are believing and how they're saying them, and so I also feel like there's a softness that needs to come to just continue to help care for people and care for one another.
I, too, feel very, like, unapologetically strong and, like, clear: "This is right; this is wrong." You know what I mean?
And soft in the sense where I feel like I'm, like, either in tears or close to tears almost every single night, you know, at what I'm seeing.
And, like, I was with a friend last night for dinner who runs HR at a big company, and she's just like, "People are carrying so much collective trauma."
Even if they don't come into the office and talk about what's going on in Minnesota, y- they're, they're...
You can see it in their body and the way that they're holding themselves, that they're carrying so much fear, anger, frustration, sadness, and it's just, it's in our bodies right now, deeply.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.