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Georgia Clark is a novelist, performer, and screenwriter. She's the author of the newly released Island Time, as well as It Had To Be You, The Bucket List, and others. She is also the host and founder of the popular storytelling night, Generation Women, which Ellie has performed in and which we wholeheartedly love and recommend.  At the time of this recording, Georgia's wife was very pregnant with the human who is now their daughter, and though Georgia has not yet had to contend with symptoms or behaviors related to her own hormonal changes, she had some amusing things to say about pregnancy hormones. Join us for a very special Pride Month Pod where we manage to discuss boners, boobs, and babies, AND introduce our new favorite literary  object: The Hazardous Footstool.

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Hilary Russo does everything. She is an award-winning television journalist, producer and multimedia host, a Certified Integrative Nutrition Holistic Health Coach &
Havening Techniques® Practitioner, a cast member of Daily Burn 365, professor of Mass Communications at St. John’s University, AND she has her own podcast: HIListically Speaking. As if that weren't enough to talk about, we discuss dating in a pandemic in your late 40's, nicknaming the amygdala "Amy", and learning to say no to others if it means saying yes to yourself.

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Hilary is offering CTD listeners a guided Self-Havening experience to help you keep your hormones and hot flashes in check. From brain fog to sleep issues. Mood changes to body aches. Use this anytime you need support to get clear and calm and... yes, cool things down! Havening can also be used for everyday upsets about everything from stress and anxiety to deep rooted traumas (when working with a practitioner like Hilary). Discover how to be kind to your mind during your perimenopausal journey and Self-Haven to self-soothe with Hilary.

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Can you use "Covid" and "abortion" in the same sentence?  We can and we did.  More on that in today's special bonus episode where we talk about Julia's abortion, Ellie's mother's pre-Roe abortion, and Ellie's grandmother's illegal abortion in 1960's London... a discussion that was inspired by the current climate as well as Alison Leiby's one-woman show, "Oh God, A Show About Abortion."  If you too are feeling white hot rage in reaction to the SCOTUS draft decision leak along with fear and trepidation as we face the approaching dystopian hell-scape, this episode is for you!

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The Afiya Center

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Since the launch of this podcast, we have been promising to interview a mental health specialist to talk about perimenopausal anxiety and depression, and just in time for Mental Health Awareness Month, we got the best one ever! Donna Klassen is not only a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience, she is the co-founder and CEO of Let's Talk Menopause, a nonprofit organization invested in changing the conversation around menopause so women get the information they need and the healthcare they deserve. Donna is candid, fast-talking, and FUN, so cozy up as we chat about radical acceptance, meds that help with hot flashes,  oophorectomies, and hippocampuses. Or is it hippocampi?

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What is the Link Between Menopause and Anxiety?
Pristiq and Effexor are antidepressants that can help with hot flashes
Dr. Rachel Rubin - Urogynecologist
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Nicky Smith (AKA Nicky Styles) is a fashion stylist and Emmy-nominated costume designer who has worked on TV shows such as The Americans, Ramy, and Pose. Cheri Paige Fogleman is a celebrity trainer and fitness instructor who teaches on the live, daily fitness show, Daily Burn 365. Both are in their 40's and Cheri is TTC (an acronym for "trying to conceive"), while Nicky is grappling with fibroids.  We're sure you will enjoy their range of perspectives, from using an insurance company fertility allowance for banking embryos to adopting an attitude of "wait and see and accept that all is as it should be". Tune in and learn about the de-stressing benefits of weed, what it means to channel "your inner Brad", and find out just how many acronyms we can squeeze into an episode.

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Functional nutritionist Kristin Johnson and functional health coach Maria Claps are the co-founders of Wise and Well, where they work with peri-menopausal and menopausal women in both one-on-one and group formats to create fundamental hormonal and whole health transformations. They joined our conversation "feeling salty", and we got to reap the benefits as they went off on how access to HRT is impaired by the Big Pharma-controlled government, how low Estradiol should NOT be taken lightly because it puts you at risk for cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's, and osteoporosis, AND how the "mommy wine" and Cheetos need to GO. Whether or not you agree with them on that last directive, it is empowering AF to listen to women who don't tiptoe around their strong opinions and who take action to help people in the process. There is also plenty of fun to be had as Ellie and Julia discuss whether packing for a vacation should include collagen supplements or a bikini, and how penises on TV can be hypnotic.

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Botox. Injectables. Fillers. Some of us get them and some of us don't, but most of us have opinions and MANY of us have misinformation. Join us for a fantastic chat with Jennifer DeMaio, a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) and Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist (CANS) who is the founder and CEO of FACE Aesthetic Artistry, a medical aesthetics and medical-grade skincare practice. Listen as she teaches Julia things she didn't know about when and when NOT to wash her face, debunks Ellie's theory that Botox might make her face explode like a can of SpaghettiOs, and throws out terms like "blepharospasm" and "festoons" in a way that makes us all tingly inside. Whether you plan to age as naturally and gracefully as possible, or whether you want all of the needles in all of the places, this episode is for you.

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Jennifer Weedon-Palazzo, creator of MomCave TV,  and Monique Cupid of Brown Skin Green Beauty are both brilliant content creators who are going through "some sort of pausal thing". Jennifer's mission to provide a community for moms who need a humorous outlet and Monique's drive to encourage women of color to be proactive in their health by using clean and nontoxic makeup and skincare are going strong, regardless of the fact that no doctor has offered them solutions for their night sweats and hormonal mood swings. Join us as we chat with them about the movie musicals that made us, the discovery that there are no grownups, and the most important topic of all: what does the word "panoply" mean and how should we pronounce it?

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German-born and UK-based Dr. Mandy Leonhardt may have a youthful face and a calm demeanor, but she is tired of putting up with bullsh*t. She inspires other women to take proper care of themselves via her integrative and holistic menopause clinic Hormone Equilibrium, hosting England's first Menopause Cafe, and by simply saying no to things she doesn't want to do. (Saying "no"...  what a revelation!) In our delightful chat with Mandy we discuss habit stacking, people-pleasing, and all different kinds of buckets.

We know what you're thinking. Buckets???

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Michelle and Joan MacDonald broke the internet after Michelle, a body builder and transformation coach, guided her then 70-year-old mother through a process that resulted in life-changing weight loss and the subsequent elimination of a slew of health problems. Joan's before and after photos can be found at Train with Joan, and you should take a peek before listening to understand the full impact of what these women achieved together. This is our first chat with a mother-daughter pairing, and we couldn't have found more mind-blowing specimens. Now excuse us while we go lift something...

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