✨ Welcome to the Season Finale of the Say MoreSummer Series!

This summer, I wanted to talk to women who weren’t just evolving—but rebirthing. Quietly, ferociously, beautifully. Behind the scenes and in real time.

In this season finale, I sit down with my dear friend Anastasia Ganias-Gellin, the founder and CEO of Fancy Peasant. If you’ve seen the sexy olive oil videos or tasted her wildly medicinal elixirs, you already know. But what you might not know is how this business was born out of deep grief—and how it became a vehicle for midlife power, motherhood integration, and unapologetic reinvention.

This conversation is a love letter to every woman rewriting her story. It’s sharp, soulful, hilarious, and—like Anastasia herself—impossible to look away from.

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👑 About Anastasia Ganias-Gellin

Anastasia Ganias-Gellin is the founder and CEO of Fancy Peasant, the Greek pantry brand that’s redefining sensual food, cultural legacy, and feminine power. An accomplished actress, mother of three, and Scorpio rising, Anastasia built Fancy Peasant from her kitchen and her grief, scaling it into a cult-favorite lifestyle brand featured in Town & Country, Real Simple, New York Family, and more.

She lives between spreadsheets and stovetops, pitches and poetry, motherhood and mogulhood—and she’s just getting started.

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🎙️ Connect with Anastasia

Shop Fancy Peasant:fancypeasant.com

Follow on IG:@fancy_peasant

Read more press + features:Fancy Peasant Press Highlights

Join Club Fancy: Monthly elixirs & pantry essentials, delivered to your door — Subscribe here

💫 Connect with Brooke

Follow on IG: @brookielyons

Subscribe to We Need to Talk About… with Brooke Lyons

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🔑 Key Themes

* Why calming your nervous system is a leadership skill

* Identity whiplash after having babies

* Building Fancy Peasant from scratch (and grief)

* Visibility wounds and choosing to be seen

* Midlife as the ultimate glow-up

* Raising capital as a woman in CPG

* Letting go of the martyr archetype in motherhood

* Why your kids don’t need your sacrifice—they need your example

* Friendship, freedom, and what it takes to actually scale

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🧭 Chapters

00:00 — Embracing Problem Solving

03:28 — Calming the Nervous System

05:59 — Empowerment in Midlife

08:51 — The Journey of Fancy Peasant

12:07 — Scaling a Business

15:10 — Navigating Capital & Gender Dynamics

18:00 — Trusting Your Gut

21:08 — The Importance of Female Friendships

39:02 — Choosing Yourself: The Impact on Parenting

42:26 — Breaking the Cycle of Self-Sacrifice

46:33 — Reclaiming Identity After Motherhood

50:30 — Setting Boundaries & Embracing Change

54:09 — Goals and Aspirations: Personal and Professional Growth

1:02:55 — Closing Reflections

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🧰 Resources

* We mentioned Anastasia’s Girls Rule Playlist

* Check out the Fancy Peasant Pantry

* Anastasia also has a Fancy Peasant Amazon Shop

* We referenced that in Human Design, Anastasia is a Manifestor & Brooke is a Manifesting Generator. This informs our decision-making. Read more here.

* We talked about our dear friend Courtney Henggeler, who’s a superstar in her own right. Subscribe to her Substack, Notes from the Guest Cottage.

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🎙 Hosted by Brooke Lyons

Actress, writer, mother, mystic, and voice behindSay More—a podcast that explores identity, reinvention, and what happens when you stop performing and start telling the truth.

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