# A Conversation with Tanja Brown, Psychologist and Author of a Book Helping to Normalize Age-Gap Dating

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Podcast: [Becoming Your Best Version](https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450)
Published: 2026-03-06T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria-leonard-olsen/episodes/A-Conversation-with-Tanja-Brown--Psychologist-and-Author-of-a-Book-Helping-to-Normalize-Age-Gap-Dating-e3ejajp
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Duration seconds: 1829

## Resource

Tanja Brown, behavior analyst and psychologist, released a groundbreaking memoir revealing the impact of her age-gap relationship with a man 26 years her junior, while raising an autistic child. Unapologetically honest and intimate, this book is not about defending choices, but provides a powerful example for women navigating midlife, caregiving, love and identity. Tanja is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and Licensed School Psychologist. She is the mother of two, one of which is a daughter with autism spectrum disorder. She immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 20 from Soest Germany and is an entrepreneur and writer living in Colorado. She blends clinical insight with real-world experience and a women navigating midlife on her own terms. Flipping The Script: A Decade of Borrowed Time is her first major work of non-fiction. The book is a raw, funny and deeply intimate memoir about love, desire, motherhood and the courage to choose aliveness in the middle of real life. Set against autism motherhood, midlife reinvention and a decade-long relationship with a man 26 years younger, it explores what happens when a woman stops living by the rules she was given and starts listening to herself instead. Learn more and follow Tanja: https://tanjabrown.org/ https://www.instagram.com/tanjabrownauthor/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584367389168

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