Science, Sanity, and a Digital Dream Team
Why do women 50plus need health coaching? Good question! Let’s face it: navigating menopause and the years beyond isn’t exactly a walk in the park. It can feel like your body suddenly stopped reading the manual. Weight gain, brain fog, energy dips, sleepless nights – these changes can be overwhelming, especially when combined with outdated advice and cookie-cutter diet plans.
That’s where I come in.
I specialize in guiding women over 50 through menopause and beyond. My focus is on lasting health, mastering weight without deprivation, and keeping your brain sharp – all without falling into the traps of fads or fear-based wellness advice.
I believe midlife is the perfect time to take back control of your health and your future – not by doing more, but by doing things smarter. This is, where all my courses and my content come in:
And yes, that includes getting a little help from my favorite digital co-pilot: AI.
My No-Nonsense Approach to 50plus Health Coaching
Over the years, I’ve seen too many women fall for health, wellness, and nutrition trends that overpromise and underdeliver. So, I’ve made it my mission to offer something better – something that works for women like us.
On a side note: With over 25 years in Corporate Controlling in the IT industry, I’ve perfected my BS radar and embraced my unapologetic love for all things tech.
Here’s what I build into all of my online courses and programs:
- 🔬 Scientific depth without the jargon – I break down complex topics and I explain, why studies might discover something – but it is not relevant for YOU
- 📱 Digital learning formats – designed for real-life change, not “shelf help” that collects dust.
- 🥦 Nutrition myth-busting – based on evidence, not internet hype For more on “Busting Myths, Boosting Health”, get my free E-Book. And don’t reach out to influencers, when you have questions about nutrition.
- 💪 Midlife strategies – that support weight management, emotional well-being, and healthy aging – without turning your life upside down and without following FAD diets, that might hurt you.
Everything I teach is grounded in cutting-edge science. Or, in plain English: I always validate studies, actually read them, and keep an eye on what’s going on in science.
But what truly sets my approach apart? A lifetime of hard-earned, sometimes painful, experience. As a recovered anorexic, I’ve been through the wringer – years of tiring treatments, hospital stays, and an endless parade of therapists who were absolutely lovely people but seemed to know more about Freud than food. Nutrition? Emotional eating? Starving? Let’s just say their expertise often left me feeling hungrier for answers than actual meals.
How I Use AI in My Work – and Why It Matters
AI isn’t just some buzzword I sprinkle in to sound up-to-date. And because everybody is using it. My first encounter with AI was in 1987 (yes, I am that old) and the program’s name was ELIZA.[1]Eliza was one of the first AI programs and impressed many people who talked to her. So, by the time I “met” her, “she” was already of age.
I use AI daily as a creative partner, research assistant, and productivity booster. It helps me deliver better results to you – and frees me up to focus on what I do best: researching, teaching, guiding, and helping women thrive.
Here I will tell you a bit more about some of the apps I use regularly:
🧠 1. Research & Content Curation
Elicit, SciSpace
Staying on top of the latest research, especially in the field of nutrition, is essential – but also incredibly time-consuming. In addition, research on women 50plus is scarce – many groundbreaking discoveries do not include this group, let alone focus on issues of menopause.
AI tools like Elicit, SciSpace, Perplexity, Research Rabbit, Semantic Scholar, and Consensus (just some apps I tried) help me sift through mountains of academic material. There are many studies that I might miss, when searching manually. All of these tools can quickly highlight what’s relevant, making it easier to decide, what I need to read in detail.
NotebookLM
A complete life-changer for me has been NotebookLM, Google’s Gemini-based AI. This tool allows me to quickly summarize essential highlights from URLs, videos, audios, and uploaded PDFs. It is better than I am at extracting key points from large amounts of my content, enabling me to create Q&A sections, timelines, and detailed mind maps. For me, NotebookLM is not just a tool for organizing knowledge – it helps me generate fresh ideas for lessons and content, in a new and creative way.
Figure 1: NotebookLM Mind Map
Napkin
For visualizing my findings or output generated by NotebookLM or other tools, I often use Napkin, another tool to organize and connect ideas visually. Napkin is perfect for brainstorming sessions or when I need to uncover unexpected links between concepts, where I would have used pen and paper before.
Figure 2: Napkin Overview “My Business Micro-Niche”
Gamma
Finally, the synergy between these tools comes full circle with Gamma. Using the structured outputs from NotebookLM, and visuals from Napkin, I can easily create stunning presentation slides with Gamma. Now I have to confess: although GAMMA creates great slides, visually appealing, I grew up with PowerPoint. Therefore, I often download my slides to PowerPoint format and add my final touches, animations and more.
Together, NotebookLM, Napkin, and Gamma create a powerful system that allow me to discover new ways of presenting information, but also to discover synergies between various areas of expertise, where you wouldn’t expect to see overlaps.
📝 2. Writing & Editing Support
Whether I’m drafting a new course module, refining a blog post, or creating educational emails, ChatGPT is my go-to assistant. It helps me brainstorm, check tone, simplify complex explanations, and even make sure I haven’t missed a typo. To make it easier and to avoid having to repeat information, I am using projects in ChatGPT and custom GPTs.
The final voice? Always mine. Occasionally, I’ll even scrap entire texts and rewrite them from scratch – because if the flow of thought doesn’t match my vision, it’s not making the cut. But AI helps me get there faster.
🎥 3. AI-Generated Voiceovers
I use Revoicer, an AI voice tool, to narrate videos for my courses. It saves me hours of recording, editing, and worrying about sounding tired or stumbling over words. This ensures you receive clean, clear lessons while I stay focused on creating better content. Most of the time, I use a female voice with a lovely British accent, which brings back memories of one of my former colleagues, Pam. For shorter texts, I’ve also cloned my voice, and to me, it sounds quite natural – even with my German accent.”
👩🏫 4. Creating My Own Avatar
In my Longevity Course, I created an AI avatar version of myself. Yes, it’s a bit like cloning myself – but in a good way. It allows me to quickly record short clips throughout my course while focusing on content, instead of worrying about lighting, whether my hair or makeup is perfect, or discovering during editing that I have dog slobber on my shoulder. I used BIGVU to create my avatar and to create videos, though Heygen is also a great option. What surprised me is that my avatar has a British accent, which sounds quite posh to me – don’t ask me why.
🎨 5. Visuals That Educate and Inspire
I use Artistly and a handful of other creative tools to design visuals that don’t just look good – they teach. Whether it’s an infographic on hormone balance or a visual walkthrough of metabolism over 50, these AI-enhanced graphics help you see the science and understand the context. Creating visuals is a topic on its own and I must admit, this is the creative part of my work that I love dearly. I will keep that for a later more extensive blog post.
Why I Love AI – And Why I Don’t Rely on It Blindly
I’ll be the first to say it: I love my AI tools. They’re like a team of supercharged assistants, not always the smartest, but who never sleep and never ask for coffee breaks. And sometimes makes me feel really guilty….
But I also know they have their limits.
✅ The Benefits of AI in My Work
- Personalization at scale: I can tailor materials to meet the diverse needs of my clients far more quickly and accurately. This leaves me more time to spend on those topics, that are special to my micro-niche.
- Better learning experiences: My content becomes more engaging, visual, and easier to absorb. Especially when it comes to images, I have tools at hand, that make it so much easier to visualise complex information and make it much easier to understand. Just think 5 years back…
- Timesaving: There are days when I have my work outlined, but stare at a blank screen. The classic writers’ blog, when you just desperately wait for ideas to hit you. AI does this first step – and I can spend my time doing deep work and creating value.
- Consistent quality: AI helps me maintain high standards in everything I create. It reliably catches typos, spelling errors, and other mistakes – unless I unintentionally introduce them again during edits.
- Creative inspiration: Tools like NotebookLM help me explore new angles, uncover blind spots, and fuel innovation. Especially in my area of work, where I work at an intersection of various topics, it makes it possible to brainstorm completely new ideas.
But here’s the kicker: AI only works when you know how to use it wisely.
The Cons You Should Know About
I use AI extensively – but never ever blindly. It’s a tool, not a replacement for critical thinking or lived experience. And I would never rely on AI entirely. Or automate tasks completely, without cross-checking most steps. This might be possible in the future, but it is still some way to go.
Here are the downsides I’ve encountered:
- Garbage in, garbage out – If I provide a vague or overly simple prompt, the output will be equally weak. When I upload nonsense or poorly designed studies for analysis, quality output simply isn’t possible.
- It’s not creative – AI can’t replicate my voice, humor, or the stories that truly connect with women 50+ on a personal level. While there are methods to train ChatGPT to match my writing tone, I’m not happy with the results. I have to admit, I often expect AI to generate texts that reflect my voice but with a fresh twist and with new ideas – it just doesn’t happen.
- No lived experience – AI doesn’t understand what a hot flash feels like or how it affects your sleep and mood – and it might come up with some funny ideas. For example, in the NotebookLM podcast (which is great and offers very helpful feedback), there’s a moment where the male speaker (I call him Tom) discusses annoying menopause symptoms. Hilarious!
- It can be tone-deaf – Without my edits, AI can occasionally sound robotic, overly generic, or simply incorrect. I wouldn’t talk that way, so I don’t want to use this language in my posts.
That’s why everything that leaves my digital desk is reviewed, rewritten, and re-infused with my personality, experience, and no-BS approach.
Final Thoughts: Using AI to Serve You Better
For me, AI is not about cutting corners. It’s about cutting through the clutter – so I can bring you the clearest, smartest, most effective health support possible.
It allows me to create more value, in less time, and with a spark of extra creativity. But the real magic? That happens when I combine these tools with my own story, my lived experiences, and a shared belief that women over 50 can crush anything they set their minds to.
Better advice. Better science. Better support.
And maybe even a better avatar version of me, popping up in your inbox and chatting with your avatar.
[1] Eliza mimics a Rogerian psychotherapist. She passed a restricted Turing test for machine intelligence. Eliza [Weizenbaum, 1966] was one of the first AI programs and impressed many people who talked to her. The name is derived from the cockney speaking Eliza of G.B. Shaws “Pygmalion”, who learned to talk increasingly well.
