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Creative Midlife, Honest Menopause, New Beginnings - Lisa Parda

Lisa Parda · January 1, 2026

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Creative Midlife, Honest Menopause, New Beginnings - Lisa Parda

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January 1, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

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Key topicsWhy the spaces we live and eat in shape how we feel and connectLisa’s career in real estate taught her that the spaces we live in shape how we feel, connect, and even eat. A cluttered kitchen can make cooking feel impossible; a welcoming dining space can turn a simple meal into a moment of community. Now, through both property and food, Lisa explores how environments support wellbeing. She shares how small changes - whether it’s fixing up a building to serve a neighborhood or setting a table that invites people to linger - can transform daily life. It’s not just about recipes or real estate, but about designing spaces that make people feel nourished and cared for. Turning Food Into Self-Care You Can FeelFor Lisa, food is not just fuel - it’s one of the simplest ways to reclaim agency over your wellbeing. She breaks down the emotional ballast food can carry: celebration, comfort, and sometimes shame. Instead of rules or perfectionism, she focuses on repeatable practices like sourcing food you trust, cooking in a way that feels manageable, and learning to enjoy what you create for yourself. With stories from her own journey - from early health scares to later healing through food - she shows how cooking can move from a source of stress to a tool for resilience and joy. Why Midlife Isn’t a Crisis but a Chance to Redraw the MapToo often, midlife gets framed as decline or burnout, but Lisa shows it can be the most creative season of all. At 53, she chose not to abandon the career she’d built in real estate but to shrink it down so she could expand elsewhere-into a radio show built on connection, a cookbook rooted in real-life meals, and speaking opportunities that energize her. She shares how to pivot without torching the past: honor what still serves you, release what drains you, and make room for what feels alive. Her story is proof that midlife isn’t an ending point but a doorway to reinvention. View all topics →

About Lisa Parda

Candid Conversations on Food, Wellness, and Finding Joy in the Messy Middle of Life

20+ years Real estate sales, management & renovationAward-winning New Hampshire real estate expert128 recipes Published in My Love Language is Food2-hour weekly show Lisa and Robyn on the Mic

For more than twenty years, Lisa Parda has helped people buy, sell, and reimagine properties in New Hampshire. As the Owner of RealtyScape Brokerage, LLC, she doesn’t just work in residential real estate — she’s also an income-producing, value-add agent with experience fixing up and revitalizing commercial and multifamily properties. That passion for creating spaces that serve people and communities threads through all her work.

Today, she’s just as likely to be found behind a microphone as she is at a closing table. As co-host of Lisa and Robyn on the Mic, a live weekly radio show, Lisa has spent the past two years hosting two-hour conversations that meander the way real life does. Listeners tune in for honesty, laughter, and the kind of exchanges that feel like pulling up a chair at the kitchen table.

Food has become her latest way of exploring connection. Her forthcoming cookbook, My Love Language Is Food (Fall 2025), isn’t about flawless recipes — it’s about survival, joy, and the small rituals that keep people going. Lisa draws from her own seasons of struggle: long work hours, the ups and downs of body image, and the lessons of using food both as comfort and as medicine.

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Midlife doesn’t arrive quietly — it arrives with questions, friction, and the invitation to do things differently. In this candid conversation withLisa Parda, we explore the messy magic of reinvention: hormone chaos that scrambles your words, burnout that creeps in when you’re “good at everything,” and the unexpected joy of building a second act that actually fits.

Lisa shares the moment a routine workday opened the door to radio, why she chose to keep the parts of real estate that lit her up and release the rest, and how a health scare became the catalyst to quit alcohol — leading to steadier energy, better sleep, and a clearer head.

Together, we dismantle the loud narratives about midlife and replace them with practical truth. Brain fog isn’t the end of you — it’s a temporary rewiring that sharpens your focus on what truly matters. Beauty pressure softens. People-pleasing loosens its grip. The real work becomes identity by subtraction: asking who am I without this? and letting old labels fall away. From there, creativity can emerge — saying yes before fear sets in, tolerating the beginner phase, and building rhythms that support making, not just doing.

Food is where philosophy meets the plate. After autoimmune symptoms and AFib, Lisa reframed cooking from a chore into a daily act of self-care. We talk food as medicine, why ultra-processed “convenience” steals more than it gives, and how gratitude can change the body’s chemistry around a meal. Her cookbook weaves accessible recipes with love letters to breakfast-for-dinner, gut-friendly party food, and desserts that are worth it because they’re made with intention.

If you’re craving a grounded, hopeful take on midlife — one that honours your body, edits your workload, and feeds your creativity — this conversation will land. Listen, share it with a friend who needs it, and if it resonates, follow, leave a review, and reflect on the one thing you’re ready to set down this year.

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