Your bloodwork came back normal. You're still exhausted, foggy, and gaining weight anyway. That's not a contradiction, and it's not in your head.

Dr. Sarah Khan, PhD, MBA is an integrative and functional nutritionist in New York City. She was diagnosed with Hashimoto's at 14 and spent years being told she was fine before she went looking for answers herself. She now works with women whose labs say one thing and whose bodies say another.

In this conversation: what a standard panel leaves out, how to ask for more without being brushed off, what happens when the answer is still no, and why the puffiness, the thinning hair, and the weight that won't move trace back to the same few systems.

Also covered: a question to ask at the lab desk that can lower your bill, how to get bloodwork run without fighting for a referral, why eating less backfires in perimenopause, and the common prescriptions that quietly drain specific nutrients out of you.

As promised on the episode, the five markers Sarah asks for:

1. Fasting insulin (blood sugar)
2. hs-CRP (inflammation)
3. ALT and AST (liver)
4. Thyroid antibodies, TPO and TG (Hashimoto's)
5. ANA (autoimmune activity)

Connect with Dr. Sarah: Website: https://www.sarahfunctionalnutritionist.com/ Free root cause quiz: https://www.sarahfunctionalnutritionist.com/root-cause-assessment See her live at the Williamsburg Wellness Fair, Oct 1, Brooklyn

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Between the Laugh Lines is the podcast for women who are done feeling invisible; here you will find honest conversations about money clarity, midlife beauty, and the confidence to reclaim who you are now. Hosted by Deb: CPA, founder of The Reclaim Concierge™, and someone who's lived every word of this.

Start with your FREE Reclaim Score™: 10 honest questions, 7 minutes, zero judgment. Find out where the gap really is!

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Here's an uncomfortable little game: guess what you spend on subscriptions every month. Write down your number. Because when women actually add it up, the real figure tends to land at nearly double the guess and there's almost always one charge they'd completely forgotten about.

This week, Deb, CPA, and a recovering "I'll deal with it later" spender, walks you through a subscription audit you can do right alongside the episode. Not the obvious stuff. The charges that hide: the annual renewal your brain files as free, the free trial that quietly became a paying membership, the thing your kid signed up for that's still billing after the class ended. (There's even a David Bach storage-unit moment that made Deb look sideways at her own parents.)

She also cracks open two places most people never think to look for savings, and with a couple of real examples that might make you a little mad you didn't know sooner.

Then she hands you the tool to do it all yourself: a free Subscription Audit Calculator that does the math, shows you your real number, and comes loaded with the full discount lists she only teases on the show. DM AUDIT on Instagram @thedishwithdeb to grab it.

This isn't about canceling everything and living like a monk. It's about the difference between money that leaks out and money you actually chose to spend.

Between the Laugh Lines is the podcast for women who are done feeling invisible; honest conversations about money clarity, midlife confidence, self-trust, and reclaiming what comes next, hosted by Deb: CPA, founder of The Reclaim Concierge™, and someone who's lived every word of this.

Not sure where you're starting? Get your free Reclaim Score™; 10 honest questions, about 7 minutes, zero judgment; and find out where the gap really is.

Already know you're ready for a plan? The Money Clarity System™ is the budget system a CPA actually uses, built for real life, not a spreadsheet fantasy.

Both available at https://stan.store/thereclaimconcierge

If this episode helped, a quick rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps another woman find her way here. Takes 30 seconds, means more than you'd think.

Follow @thedishwithdeb on Instagram for more of the conversation between episodes.

© 2026 The Reclaim Concierge™. All rights reserved.

How to calculate your net worth in about twenty minutes, on the back of an envelope, with no spreadsheet and no finance degree. If you have never actually run this number, this is the episode that walks you through it simply and stays with you while you do it.

Most women can recite their mortgage balance to the dollar and have still never added up the whole picture. That is not a missing math skill. It is a conversation nobody ever bothered to have with you, and it is costing you more confidence than it is costing you money.

In this episode:

• The two-list method for calculating net worth: what counts as an asset, what counts as a liability
• Three myths that stop women from ever running the number, including the one about your salary that will not die
• Where the median net worth actually lands in your 40s and 50s and why that benchmark tells you far less about your life than it pretends to
• What a negative number does and does not mean, and how many households are quietly in the same spot
• Four ways to move your number this month, built for women with about zero spare hours

Made for women who are caring for aging parents, rebuilding after a divorce, or coming back from a career pause; the exact seasons every net worth benchmark quietly pretends do not exist. Your number is allowed to reflect the life you have actually been living.

Bring a pen. Twenty minutes. You will finish this episode knowing a number about your own life that you did not know when you started.

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Between the Laugh Lines is the podcast for women who are done feeling invisible; honest conversations about money clarity, midlife beauty confidence, and reclaiming what comes next, hosted by Deb: CPA, founder of The Reclaim Concierge™, and someone who’s lived every word of this.

Already know you’re ready for a plan? The Money Clarity System™ is the system a CPA actually uses, built for real life, not a spreadsheet fantasy.

Available here: https://stan.store/thereclaimconcierge

If this episode helped, a quick rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps another woman find her way here. Takes 30 seconds, means more than you’d think!

© 2026 The Reclaim Concierge™. All rights reserved.