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!

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

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

If this episode resonated, a quick rating or share helps another woman find her way here. Takes 20 seconds; means more than you'd think!

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© 2026 The Reclaim Concierge™. All rights reserved.

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.

You did everything right; the career, the family, even the moving when you had to. So why does midlife feel so quietly lonely?

In this episode, Deb sits down with Nechumah Getz, a senior operations executive who spent 30 years scaling organizations before she hit a stretch of isolation she couldn't fix from a boardroom: a remote move to the middle of a desert, an empty nest, and no structure left to make real friends. So she built one. Nechumah founded Better Outside Together to bring women in midlife back into community; on the trail, in real life, on purpose.

This is an honest conversation about the friendships that quietly disappear in midlife, why it isn't your fault, and how to find your people again. Along the way: the real cost of betting on yourself, why she left a 30-year corporate career, and the money truth most founders won't say out loud.

Find Nechumah + Better Outside Together: 🌲 Website: https://www.betteroutsidetogether.com 📸 Instagram: @betteroutsidetogether —

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: https://stan.store/thereclaimconcierge

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: https://stan.store/thereclaimconcierge

If this episode resonated, a quick rating or share helps another woman find her way here. Takes 20 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.

"Being rich is a state of mind. It's not about having money. It's up here."

That's Adrienne LoJacono, 77 years old, born in Sicily, self-taught stock trader, real estate broker, and one of the most quietly impressive women to sit down with Deb on Between the Laugh Lines. She didn't grow up with money. Her parents were a tailor and a seamstress who came to America with three kids and a language barrier. What she grew up with was the decision that she was going to go out and get what she was missing, and she never stopped.

In this episode, Adrienne breaks down what it actually takes to learn the stock market from scratch, why she still watches it every single morning, what she wishes her own children understood about building wealth, and the one thing she'd tell any woman who thinks she missed her window. Her answer is so simple it almost made Deb angry. You'll know exactly why when you hear it.

The Rapid Reclaim Round closes this one out : including a Ride or Die beauty answer that involves zero products and a Sunday rule.

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 you. Hosted by Deb: CPA, founder of The Reclaim Concierge™, and someone who's lived every word of this!

Not sure where to start? Take the free Reclaim Score™ quiz :10 honest questions, about 7 minutes, zero judgment. Find out where the gap really is: https://stan.store/thereclaimconcierge

Already know you're ready for a plan? The Money Clarity System™ is the system a CPA actually uses, built for real life: https://stan.store/thereclaimconcierge

If this episode resonated, 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.

Have a question or interested to be a guest: email info@thereclaimconcierge.com

Women's networking, female entrepreneurship, and what it costs to be the woman everyone leans on. Jenn Fasano, founder of Babes in Business Long Island, joins Deb for an honest conversation about getting fired, building a women's networking community from scratch, and running three businesses without pretending it's effortless.

Jenn was working sixty-hour weeks in corporate, commuting into the city, when she got fired. Her mentor's response became the turning point: you were hanging off that cliff with both feet, and he just pushed you. What she built next launched in November 2019, four months before the world shut down.

In this episode:

• Why the traditional 7 a.m. networking breakfast made her think this is not for me; and what she built instead
• How she kept Babes alive through COVID by going live every single day, kids screaming in the background
• The money lessons no one teaches you: separate LLCs, separate accounts, and hiring a bookkeeper before you think you need one
• Why she only works one-on-one, and what she asks every client before anything else
• The surprisingly short list of people she actually leans on; and why family isn't on it
• Plus my Rapid Reclaim Round: her best unglamorous business investment, the word her daughters use to describe her working, and the one beauty product she won't leave home without

If you're building something of your own and you're tired of hearing that it looked easy for everyone else, this one's for you.

Find Jenn: jennfasano.com

On Instagram: @babesinbusinesslongisland, @jenn_fasano

Find Deb: https://stan.store/thedishwithdeb : if you are ready to gain clarity & confidence with your financial life-Grab the Money Clarity System™

On Instagram: @thedishwithdeb

Between the Laugh Lines is the show where more meaningful conversations happen solo or with guests to dig deeper into how women can get honest about beauty, money, and who they are right now. Real beauty that works on your actual face, money talk with zero shame, and figuring out who you are now; not who you used to be. Hosted by Deb, a CPA who carried real debt and rebuilt.

Follow the show so you don't miss what's next. Go on, reclaim you.

You caught yourself in a bad mirror and thought, who is that? and quietly decided you were falling apart. Here's the truth: you're not. What changes in your skin, your face, and your confidence in midlife isn't failure. It's biology; and once you understand it, the fear loses its grip.

This week Deb sits down with Dr. Natalya Borakowski, a naturopathic doctor who went from a classical piano career to founding a skincare practice in Arizona women drive across the city to see. She explains why your products stopped working, what's actually happening in your brain when you don't recognize your reflection, and the four simple things that matter more than anything in a jar: no shame, no fear-selling, no anti-aging nonsense.

Honest talk about beauty, confidence, and coming home to yourself.

✨ Ready to get honest about your beauty, your money, and who you're becoming? DM the word RECLAIM on Instagram @thedishwithdeb for The Reclaim Score™ FREE

Connect with Deb: Instagram: @thedishwithdeb Shop + free resources: stan.store/thedishwithdeb Email: info@thedishwithdeb.com

This week's guest: Dr. Natalya Borakowski: Instagram: @natalyaborakowski + @unveilyou.life Platform: https://unveilyou.life/

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Between the Laugh Lines: The Place to Reclaim your beauty, money, and who you are.

If you have ever known exactly what you should do with your money, and avoided it anyway, this episode is for you.

Financial anxiety does not care how educated you are. It does not care that you have a degree, a title, or are a mom-preneur. It lives in us all capable, smart women precisely because we know enough to feel ashamed of being stuck.

I bring my CPA training and my own personal debt story to one of the most avoided conversations in the midlife space. Because the women who need this most, are the ones least likely to admit they need it.

In this episode you'll hear:

• What financial anxiety actually is and why mindset work alone won't fix it
• The real reason high-achieving women stay stuck with money longer than anyone else
• Three reframes that build financial confidence without requiring a complete life overhaul

You already know what you should do. This episode is about why you're not doing it and what actually helps move the needle.

Between the Laugh Lines is the podcast for women who are done feeling invisible and ready for honest conversations about what's on their bathroom counter, what's in their bank account and who they're becoming. Hosted by Deb; a CPA who carried personal debt, a beauty obsessive who does the research and testing, and a sandwich generation survivor building something real, all while raising her sons, managing the retired husband and working full time. No hustle culture. No toxic positivity. Just truth, delivered warm and with a laugh sometimes!

Grab The free Reclaim Blueprint™ and other resources: https://stan.store/thedishwithdeb

Connect with me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thedishwithdeb

Email me your questions: info@thedishwithdeb.com