Today we’d like to introduce you to Paula Carper.
Hi Paula , we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I grew up in the heart of Cajun country, where food, faith, and family were everything. During my teens, I began noticing how sugar and processed foods negatively impacted my dance and athletic performance. That early awareness sparked something big when my Aunt Violet, who was my dance instructor, helped me and my twin sister make small changes that made a huge difference…AND just like that, my passion for nutrition was born.
Shortly after, I was indoctrinated into diet culture when low-fat diets and cardio was all the rage. I worked my way through college as a fitness trainer. After attending graduate school at Texas Women’s University in the Houston Medical Center, I started a career as a hospital nutritionist. An educator at heart, I learned that hospitals were not the best place for me to make an impact.
After some stressful years in my career, I found myself feeling just like many of my clients do now. I felt fatigued, frustrated, and dismissed as I faced my own hormonal chaos. I couldn’t find the help I needed inside the medical system, so I returned to my roots in nutrition, movement, and what I now know as functional medicine. That shift changed everything.
I left the hospital to start my own private practice to lead others to the same kind of solutions that helped me when everything else failed.
Today, I help high-performing women over 40 navigate perimenopause with clarity and confidence, using personalized strategies that actually work for their unique bodies and busy lives. As a Women’s Health Strategist, I offer women the coaching and strategies I wish I’d has when I was experiencing my own health challenges.
My message to women is that midlife isn’t the beginning of the end. It’s a time to reflect on personalized strategies that work, ditch the “eat less, exercise more” myth and align with your natural bio-rhythms to embrace a powerful new season. Women deserve to feel vibrant, energized, and in control for during this time of life.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
There is no such thing as a straight line in the journey of life. Everything has it’s ups and downs. Health and business are no different. One of the biggest blessing of this fact is that it encourages curiosity and drives ingenuity.
Health is not a one-and-done experience. It’s an ongoing dynamic journey. Your body is always interacting with the external environment. This means that some months, even years have brought health challenges that I’ve had to face with new resources. In my personal pursuit of optimal health, I discovered genetic testing which helped me to personalize my diet and lifestyle to my own unique genetics. The success I saw with this inspired me to become a nutrigenomic expert, being personally mentored by one of the leading nutrigenomic experts in the world. I now have the honor of training healthcare practitioners to help their patients create personalized health strategies.
Running my own private practice has been no different. I’d never been trained in how to run a business. This lead me to seek out mentors and coaching along the way. Some of my early attempts at helping clients were marked by success, others by failure. Trial and error is a great teacher and I’m always learning!
My mantra of “Test don’t guess” hold true in business and in my practice. Gathering insights is essential to moving forward with clarity. This is the path to success for everyone I’ve ever met.
I also learned early on is that I can’t help everyone. This helped me to narrow my practice to work with high-performing women 40+ who are struggling with perimenopause symptoms like fatigue, mood swings, brain fog, and belly fat.
I enjoy helping women discover new ways of reaching their health goals so they can continue to make an impact in the world for years to come.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Refined Midlife?
What should you know?
At Refined Midlife, I help high-achieving women over 40 navigate the chaos of perimenopause with clarity and confidence. If you’re tired of being dismissed, overwhelmed by conflicting advice, and exhausted from trying things that don’t work, you’re in the right place. I see you. I’ve been there…And I’m here to help you thrive, not just survive, in midlife.
What do you do, what do you specialize in/what are you known for?
I specialize helping women create personalized programs to overcome fatigue, mood swings, brain fog and belly fat so they can show up as their best self in perimenopause and beyond. My signature program, The Midlife GPS Method™ is a personalized roadmap designed to restore energy, sharpen mental clarity, and stabilize mood, all while aligning with your values, and busy lifestyle. I’m known for making science-backed solutions practical, sustainable, and supportive (without shame, confusion, or crash diets).
What sets you apart from others?
My combined clinical expertise with a deep, personal understanding of the midlife experience. Unlike one-size-fits-all approaches or dismissive medical advice, Refined Midlife offers precision-based, personalized care rooted in functional nutrition, lifestyle strategy, and real-life support. I don’t just hand you a cookie-cutter plan—I walk with you as a trusted guide, helping you cut through the noise and reclaim your health with confidence and clarity.
What are you most proud of brand wise?
I’m most proud that Refined Midlife is more than a health coaching brand, it’s a movement that gives high-performing women over 40 permission to rewrite the midlife narrative. Being able to help restore dignity and agency to women in a stage of life where they often are dismissed or unseen, is a privilege I don’t take lightly.
What do you want our readers to know about your brand, offerings, services, etc?
At Refined Midlife, we’re redefining what it means for women over 40 to thrive—not just survive—through the changes of perimenopause and beyond.
Midlife often blindsides even the most high-achieving women with fatigue, brain fog, weight changes, mood swings, and a frustrating lack of real answers. That’s where I come in.
I help women uncover the real reasons behind their symptoms and create personalized nutrition, lifestyle, and movement strategies that fit their busy lives, without restrictive diets, exhausting workouts, or endless guessing games.
My signature program, The Midlife GPS Method™, is a step-by-step system that empowers women to:
Reclaim all-day energy
Restore mental clarity
Balance mood and metabolism
Feel vibrant, strong, and confident again
Unlike many traditional programs, Refined Midlife offers precision, not cookie-cutter solutions, by combining functional nutrition, genetics insights, and real-world strategies that work for this particular stage of life.
This brand is built on freedom, family, faith, and functional wellness.
I believe midlife isn’t a downhill slide. It’s an opportunity to live more fully, with intention, vitality, and joy.
At Refined Midlife, we don’t just manage symptoms, we help women step into their most powerful, energized, and authentic selves.
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
The most important lesson I’ve learned in this journey is to commit to the process and embrace failures as an opportunity to learn. This is something I encourage my clients to do all the time.
Commitment is the glue that keeps things going even when failures happen, and failures will happen. So many things can go wrong, but the only guarantee that things will go right after failure is to learn from it, get up, and try again. My faith in God has always been an important element of this journey and keeps me going when adversities arise.
Pricing:
- Free Midlife Clarity Call
Contact Info:
- Website: https://paulacarper.com
- Instagram: @paula_carper
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulaCarperrd
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-carper/
- Other: For Free Strategy Call: https://p.bttr.to/3b5SFh2
Image Credits
hannamarie photography for all images wearing pink
dixieray photography for other images
