Bridgit Danner was working as an acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon when her health started to deteriorate. She learned a lot, tried a lot of things, and even graduated from a functional health coaching program in an effort to heal herself and become a better practitioner. Although several things kind of helped, nothing helped completely, and she hit rock bottom in the winter of 2014. Soon after she discovered toxic mold in her 100-yr old home and began the long journey of home and body repair. B...
Apr 25, 2022•43 min•Ep. 250
Katie Bressack is an award-winning holistic health coach who specializes in women's hormonal health. With her support, the women she counsels prepare their bodies for pregnancy, postpartum, increase energy levels, get their periods back and on track, eat healthier and maintain a balanced mood. Katie joins me to talk about the fourth trimester, which is the period of time immediately following the birth of a child. We don’t often talk about the reality of postpartum and I think it’s important to ...
Apr 18, 2022•40 min•Ep. 249
Nina Boyce is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator who teaches women how to use to use the fertility awareness method (FAM) for 99.9% effective birth control and conception. Her coaching programs focus on helping clients transition off birth control, support their natural hormones, and optimize fertility. She takes a holistic approach, focusing on nutrition and mineral testing, cycle charting, and lifestyle modifications to help her clients achieve their desired fertility goals. Nina is also...
Apr 11, 2022•40 min•Ep. 248
Jenneh Rishe is a Registered Nurse who lives with endometriosis and several other chronic illnesses, and she is the founder of The Endometriosis Coalition and author of the upcoming book, Part of You, Not All of You . Jenneh’s focus in her work and in her book is on educating and encouraging people suffering from chronic illness, advocating for their needs, and teaching them how to live a full and fulfilled life that doesn’t center around their condition. In this episode, we talk about the doubl...
Apr 04, 2022•37 min•Ep. 247
Hormone testing can be completely overwhelming and confusing. Is it worth it to get your hormones tested? Which hormones do I test? When in your cycle should you test them? What do my test results even mean? I hear these questions all the time and today I’m breaking the hormone testing myths and sharing everything you need to know when it comes to getting your hormones tested. In this episode, we talk about why and when to get your hormones tested, the pros and cons of the different types of tes...
Mar 28, 2022•40 min•Ep. 246
Kara Fitzgerald, ND, IFMCP is a naturopathic doctor and a leading voice in the intersection of nutrition, epigenetics, and aging. She is the author of the new book Younger You: Reduce Your Bio Age and Live Longer, Better and she was the first-ever recipient of the 2018 Emerging Leadership Award from the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in recognition of her work on DNA methylation. Receiving her doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine, she is on the faculty at the Ins...
Mar 21, 2022•40 min•Ep. 245
Jill Chmielewski is a Registered Nurse, Certified Health Coach, Advocate for Aging Women, and Mom of Four who is on a mission to change the way we approach menopause and aging. Jill believes that education is the key to helping women understand their bodies, manage their health, and advocate for themselves as they age. She created The Peri to Menopause Roadmap and The Beginner's Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy to help women navigate the wild ride from perimenopause through menopause and bey...
Mar 14, 2022•42 min•Ep. 244
Kat Smith is a former secondary school teacher who retrained in nutrition and biomedicine to help herself after spending 15 years with endometriosis and enduring four surgeries. After working with hundreds of endo sufferers and seeing how many of them struggle with crippling overwhelm and extreme food fear, she developed the endoplan method that provides structure, strategy, and support. Kat's passion is empowering women with the mindset and nervous system work which has long been the missing pi...
Mar 07, 2022•40 min•Ep. 243
Terrible menstrual cycles have been perpetually normalized. From a young age, we’re told that it’s a fact of life that periods just suck. PMS, period pain, and all these other symptoms are part and parcel of being a menstruating person. This belief is compounded when we seek help for these issues and no sustainable solutions are offered. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Once you stop viewing your period problems as your body punishing you for no reason, you can put yourself in the driver's se...
Mar 01, 2022•18 min•Ep. 242
Milli Hill is a writer and freelance journalist with a passion for women’s rights in childbirth and throughout their reproductive lives. She is a tireless advocate for women’s choices, and for the notion that birth can be positive in any setting, from home to the operating theater. Milli is also the author of three books, The Positive Birth Book, Give Birth like a Feminist, and My Period (for preteens), which have all topped the Amazon charts. In this episode, we talk about how cultural messagin...
Feb 21, 2022•39 min•Ep. 241
Dr. Nicole Huffman is a naturopathic medical doctor and she loves helping people with their hormones, autoimmune diseases, thyroid conditions, and fertility. She believes the body has the ability to heal itself given the correct personalized treatment plan and after restoring the basic determinants of health. Dr. Nicole has had multiple personal experiences with mold toxicity and in this episode, we dive deep into everything from where mold comes from, why it’s in so many homes, how you can test...
Feb 14, 2022•41 min•Ep. 240
Tamara Wilder is the founder of IUD Awareness and an admin of the IUD Side Effects Support Group on Facebook. After her body reacted very poorly to getting a Paragard copper IUD inserted in 2014, Tamara went in search of answers after her doctor repeatedly assured her that all of her strange and worsening symptoms could not be related to the IUD. Upon removal of the IUD, some of her symptoms went away almost immediately and within 2 days most of the rest were improving dramatically! In this epis...
Feb 07, 2022•37 min•Ep. 239
Dr. Leigha Saunders is a naturopathic doctor obsessed with all things sleep. She is the creator of The Sleep Fix, the program that helps women uncover the real (often hormonal) reasons they're not sleeping so they can fix it! Dr. Leigha maintains a private practice with a special interest in helping busy women gain energy, balance their moods, regulate hormones and sleep deep. Dr. Leigha is on a mission to help women chase their dreams, not exhaustion. In this episode, we talk about why sleep is...
Jan 31, 2022•37 min•Ep. 238
Stacy T. Sims, Ph.D., is an applied researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur in human performance, specifically sex differences in training, nutrition, and environmental conditions. During Stacy’s tenure at Stanford, she had the opportunity to translate earlier research into consumer products and a science-based layperson's book, ROAR, written to explain sex differences in training and nutrition across the lifespan. In this episode, we talk about how women’s bodies respond differently than men’s ...
Jan 24, 2022•41 min•Ep. 237
Today’s episode covers a topic that is hardly ever talked about in the mainstream: miscarriage and abortion and how they affect a person’s physical health and hormones as well as their emotional health. I’m joined by Samantha Zipporah, a fertility, sex, and cycle educator, author, and activist with over 20 years of experience. Samantha is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive and sexual health through collective healing, liberation, and education. A former birth doula, she...
Jan 17, 2022•45 min•Ep. 236
Kira Sutherland is an Australian Naturopath and Sports Nutritionist with more than 25 years in clinical practice. She divides her time between clients, lecturing at the undergraduate level, and mentoring practitioners of complementary medicine in the application of holistic sports nutrition. Known for her vibrant, straightforward teaching style, Kira’s focus is to empower and educate at a level where information becomes intrinsic knowledge. In this episode, we talk about the lack of research inc...
Jan 10, 2022•41 min•Ep. 235
Chella Quint is a Brooklyn-born, UK-based designer, writer, and performer. She coined the phrase ‘period positive’ in 2006 and founded #periodpositive to use humor and joy to challenge menstrual taboos, and find long-term solutions to period poverty. Chella is a leading expert on menstruation education and the author of Own Your Period for young people and Be Period Positive for adults. She created the Period Positive Pledge as a framework for developing menstruation-inclusive policy and outreac...
Jan 03, 2022•39 min•Ep. 234
It’s fair to say that the subject of poop, and especially girls and women and pooping, is a little taboo. I don’t know about you, but this topic was extremely embarrassing for me to talk about for a very long time. As a teenager living in gut health hell, I was too embarrassed to use the bathroom at school and instead tried to suffer through it until I got home. No way would I risk someone being in the stall next to me hearing what was happening! On top of the social issues, keeping poops as a d...
Dec 27, 2021•16 min
Female bodies are cyclical by nature, producing varying quantities of hormones at different points in our monthly menstrual cycle. These hormone fluctuations create four distinct phases of your cycle. Learning about and embracing your internal cyclical nature is one of the most powerful and effective ways to maximize your true potential in all areas of life. Our periods don’t have to hold us back, even when we assume they will. It’s your unique cycle and you will need to learn to observe it, und...
Dec 20, 2021•27 min
Carly, Alaina, and Julie Beyar are the Founders of Balanced Beyars Health and the Power of Periodization program. They are three sisters who went from being overactive collegiate soccer players to self-proclaimed "Hormone Hype Girls" and women's health educators. They are on a mission to get you hyped about predictable periods and living in alignment with the four phases of your cycle. Their ultimate goal is to make it fun for menstruators to cultivate a hormone-happy lifestyle that allows them ...
Dec 13, 2021•39 min•Ep. 233
Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake’s award-winning, critically acclaimed documentary The Business of Being Born debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007. With over 5 million views, an online community of over 100,000, and more than 10 million press imprints, it is often hailed as the “must-see” film among mothers-to-be. Looking at the complex relationship of hormonal contraception to women’s health and liberation, their latest documentary, The Business of Birth Control , features the stories of act...
Dec 08, 2021•41 min•Ep. 232
We are in a very unique moment in history where we are between two paradigms and the answer lies in you. - Nadia Munla Nadia Munla is an Embodiment & Intimacy Coach who helps visionaries reach embodied expression in their love and leadership. She is the creator of Embody by Nadia™, an embodiment method that has helped thousands of women reconnect to their pleasure, power, and play. Nadia’s core belief is that embracing our full range is the way we access our deepest potential and create spac...
Nov 29, 2021•44 min•Ep. 231
Dr. Jordan Robertson is a Naturopathic Doctor, author and podcaster who is taking women's health research and making it more accessible for the everyday woman. Her mission is to create confident women's health consumers and help women learn to take care of themselves and their families with the best research in integrative and conventional medicine. In this episode, we talk about common misconceptions about acne, why you should view acne as a chronic condition, how hormone fluctuations in your c...
Nov 22, 2021•45 min•Ep. 230
Tara Ghosh is an Arvigo® Therapist and wellness expert passionate about empowering people with periods to feel strong whatever season of their life they are in. Tara works with people 1:1 all over the world, as well as running Period Positive workshops for tweens and a 5-week course Embrace Your Cyclical Power for those in their 30s and 40s. In this episode, Tara and I talk about what to expect with periods in the tween and teen years, what’s normal and red flags to look out for, overlooked cont...
Nov 15, 2021•39 min•Ep. 229
“You are the CEO of your health.” - Danielle Kepics Danielle Kepics is a family practice physician assistant and previously trained master's level mental health therapist. Danielle has a strong passion for integrating the health of mind, body, and soul into her medical practice. Over the years through both personal and professional experiences, she has noticed major gaps in how the conventional healthcare system addresses menstrual health and women's health at large. She is passionate about inte...
Nov 08, 2021•41 min•Ep. 228
You have to become a trailblazer for your body and your life. This week we're going back to basics and looking at how we can take control of our lives with a deeper understanding of our cycles and how hormone fluctuations impact how we should move and nourish our bodies. I'm joined by Jenn Pike, a Functional Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, and the bestselling author of The Simplicity Project as well as her two cookbooks, The Simplicity Kitchen and The Simplicity Body. Jenn is dedicate...
Nov 01, 2021•42 min•Ep. 227
Around 1 in 8 women in the US will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the US and while we shouldn't be only talking about breast cancer one month out of the year, Dr. Carol Lourie joins me on today's episode to share strategies for prevention and integrative healthcare options for those who have been diagnosed. Dr. Carol Lourie is a dedicated practitioner with over three decades of clinical experience as a Naturopath, Acupuncturist, and Homeopath...
Oct 25, 2021•44 min•Ep. 226
Dr. Natalie Underberg is a Functional Medicine Practitioner and the founder of The PCOS Doc. With a doctorate of Chiropractic and advanced training through the Institute of Functional Medicine, Natalie is a leader in the women’s health space. She has helped hundreds of women reverse the symptoms of their PCOS and get pregnant naturally through her group program, The PCOS Collective, and her 1 on 1 tailored holistic approach. Dr. Jake Roland is a Chiropractor and Doctor of Natural Medicine who pr...
Oct 18, 2021•40 min•Ep. 225
Dr. Stephanie is a doctor of chiropractic with a special interest in metabolism, body composition, functional neurology, and female physiology. Stephanie is the author of The Betty Body and her life’s passion and mission is blending modern science with ancient wisdom to empower women’s health and healing. In this episode, we talk about why how Stephanie’s fitness magazine cover is a big deal as a woman in her 40s, the crazy impact lack of sleep has on your body, what metabolic flexibility is all...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 224
Talking to kids about periods can feel like navigating a minefield. But whether you choose to bring it up or avoid it altogether, your kids are going to learn about them. In this episode, Nikki Tajiri joins me to talk about communicating with kids about periods and how you can create a period-positive environment for your children. Nikki Tajiri is the author of She Dreams When She Bleeds: Poems About Periods and What is a Period? which centers on talking to children about periods and how to crea...
Oct 06, 2021•32 min•Ep. 223
