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Resources you'll actually use.

Printable cheat sheets. Conversation scripts. Lab test checklists. Decision trees. The things you take to a doctor appointment, tape inside your bedroom door, or text to a friend who needs them.

HRT & cognition

For the conversation, the appointment, and the decade after.

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HRT Conversation Checklist

2 pages · printable · 412 KB

Twelve questions to bring to any HRT appointment. The script that signals you've done the reading. Print and take with you.

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The Year-One HRT Tracker

8 pages + Notion template

Monthly check-in template for your first year on HRT. Symptom tracking, dose adjustments to discuss, what to ask at the 3/6/12-month follow-ups.

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Lab Tests to Ask For

1 page · printable · 218 KB

Standard menopause workup labs: FSH, estradiol, TSH, comprehensive metabolic panel, lipid, sometimes testosterone. With definitions and reference ranges.

Body & metabolism

The boring fixes with the strongest evidence — turned into routines you can actually follow.

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The Protein Floor cheat sheet

1 page · printable · 198 KB

What 30g of protein looks like at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Photo grids, no calorie math. Stick on the fridge.

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The Cortisol-Belly 4-Lever Sheet

3 pages · printable

Protein floor + resistance training + sleep multiplier + alcohol cliff — with the weekly check-in template for tracking actual habit adherence.

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Resistance Training Starter

2 pages · printable · 312 KB

Ten exercises, no equipment, 20-minute sessions. Twice a week beats zero. The starter routine to build the habit before adding load.

Sleep & mind

For protecting the architecture that's the upstream multiplier on everything else.

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Sleep Architecture Protocol

1 page · printable · 184 KB

Cool room. No screens 30 min before bed. Alcohol cliff at 7pm. Magnesium glycinate at night. The boring fixes ranked by evidence, on a single page.

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Sleep Journal printable

1-month grid · printable

One-month sleep journal grid: bedtime, wake time, hours, quality 1-5, what affected it. Track 30 days, find your pattern.

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The 4-Minute Morning Reset

1 page · printable · 156 KB

Step outside, walk briskly, write one thing. The four-minute morning protocol with the strongest evidence behind it for cognitive clarity.

Money & the catch-up decade

For the conversations with your spouse, your advisor, and your future self.

PDF · 2 pages

401k Catch-Up Cheat Sheet

2 pages · printable · 248 KB

Contribution limits, the catch-up provisions, the Roth conversion year framework, and the questions to ask a fee-only planner.

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The Roth Conversion decision tree

4 pages · printable

Year-by-year Roth conversion decision tree. Income thresholds, time-horizon math, the specific year(s) that maximize lifetime tax benefit.

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Social Security Claim Age

1 page · printable · 198 KB

62 vs 67 vs 70 math. Break-even ages. The specific question to ask your advisor. The trade-off your spouse needs to weigh in on.

Conversation scripts

The hard conversations — to your partner, your doctor, your aging parents, your teenagers. Pre-written so you don't have to draft them at 11pm.

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To your partner

1 page · printable

Explaining what's actually changing during perimenopause — physically, cognitively, emotionally. The framing that gets through.

PDF · 2 pages

To your doctor

2 pages · printable

Twelve questions to bring to the HRT appointment, the script for the doctor who hasn't kept up with research, when to find a different one.

PDF · 1 page

To your kids

1 page · printable

Age-appropriate explanations for teens and adult children about what's happening with mom. Pre-written, you adjust the names.

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Coming this quarter

Resources currently in production — Inner Circle members get early access.

PDF · Coming Q3

Caregiver Decision Tree

Coming Q3 2026

For when an aging parent's care becomes part of your decade. Framework for the conversations and decisions.

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PDF · Coming Q3

The Second-Act Career Pivot guide

Coming Q3 2026

The 50-to-60 career-change playbook: financial runway math, skills audit, the conversations to have with HR before resigning.

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PDF · Coming Q4

The Estate Doc Inventory

Coming Q4 2026

The list of documents your future self (or your kids) will need. Wills, powers of attorney, advance directives, account inventories.

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