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You've heard of Thor. But how about Thor-A?!

Pam and Thora Rorke are Twitter friends, and when Pam stumbled across her profile, she HAD to make them friends in real life as well. 

Thora is a 41-year-old wife, homeschooling mom & athlete. She has been in the fitness industry for 11 years with experience in bodybuilding, powerlifting, & CrossFit. Thora is also a Pranic healer & spiritual coach/mentor. 

In this episode, Thora & Dr. Pam dig into all things strength & fitness: not being afraid to bulk up as women, Natalie Portman's arms in the new Thor, finding your own fitness, and a mutual love of kettlebells.

Kiran Roest is the co-founder of Vital Signs Solutions. Following a first-class BA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Imperial College London, Kiran has added 15+ years of experience at world-leading Life Science and Medtech organizations, across clinical and scientific research, business development, and consulting.

As a female entrepreneur in a male-dominated industry, she joins Dr. Pam to talk about the struggles women face in setting up their own business, what we can do to overcome those challenges, being a working mom (to 3!) in the start-up space, and creating at-home testing products to track women's health trends. 

Kiran's company is focused on preventing lifestyle diseases. Their first product allows people to track their lipid levels in order to manage their risk of cardiovascular disease, aiming to empower people to make positive lifestyle changes by providing them with the data to measure progress. Women under the age of 50 are actually twice as likely as men to die from a heart attack so cardiovascular disease is very much a women’s health problem.

Do you really think, honestly, that you are hitting it with your nutrition? Like when people say strive for 5, that you're totally nailing it?

Even the healthiest of us like to think we are, but most likely, you aren't actually getting all the nutrition you need. And that's when supplements come in to help. No one is perfect! 

And who better to discuss this topic with than Chef Abbie, for her monthly installment of Healthy Nutrition Nudges. Chef Abbie has been a Registered Dietitian for more than a decade, and a chef for twice as long as that.

 

That's right, Chef Abbie & Dr. Pam are back together to talk about the culture around eating healthy & organic, how busy lives are ruining our eating patterns, and what you can do when your diet isn't giving you enough nutrients. 


Tune in on the first Thursday of each month for tips from Chef Abbie, right here on HER. 

The way our society looks at women who are 40+ years old is all kinds of messed up. But there is so much value and adventure still left to live in this half of our lives! Well, today we're talking all about harnessing the energy of your later years.

Marc Middleton is the Founder and CEO of Growing Bolder. One of the leading voices in the active lifestyle movement, Marc is the co-host of the Growing Bolder TV and Radio Shows, executive producer of Surviving & Thriving, editor of Growing Bolder Magazine, author of Growing Bolder: Defy the Cult of Youth, Live with Passion and Purpose and Rock Stars of Aging, director, videographer and writer of the feature-length documentary film, Conquering Kilimanjaro, and a featured blogger on the Huffington Post.

A multiple Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, Marc became one of the industry’s first bloggers—filing daily online reports from the Sydney Olympics. He was one of the first to recognize the power and influence of the rapidly growing 50+ audience and the coming cultural shift that would change everything we thought about the possibilities of life after 50.

Women experiencing menopause make up one-fourth of the workforce. And yet, less than one percent of businesses have any support or policies for these women. 

Women over the age of 50 are one of the fastest-growing demographics in the workplace. Understanding their unique challenges will help construct a supportive workplace and create many positive effects for businesses' most valuable asset?its employees.

Today we are lucky to be joined by Dr. Mache Seibel, who helps menopausal women who feel like a hot mess get in control of their lives, work, and relationships. He is a 20+ year member of the Harvard Medical School faculty, the Editor of The Hot Years™ magazine, and the recipient of multiple awards for speaking, writing, media coverage, research, and music. 

He talks today about his work in this field, his latest book "Working Through Menopause" which highlights menopause as a workplace issue?not just a woman's issue?that impacts employees, businesses, and the bottom line.

Have you noticed the roads are a bit tenser lately? It seems like everyone on the road is zooming around and yelling at each other.

HER Podcast favorite Elizabeth Bernstein is back on the show to talk about one of her recent pieces, "Are We All Road Ragers Now? Why Driving Is Making Us Angry."

She chats with Dr. Pam about her own incidents running into road ragers, the neuroscience behind the rage, what happens when everyone is on edge, and how to make the roads a safer, nicer place for everyone.

Elizabeth writes the “Bonds: On Relationships” column for the Wall Street Journal, which explores social psychology and the manifold aspects of human interactions. In her column, she focuses on how we can best relate—to others and to ourselves.

The gut is everywhere. It's all the rage right now. Everywhere you turn someone is telling you how to balance your gut and what probiotics to take.

Well today, we are getting to the bottom of what's really necessary to help out your microbiome. And for that, Chef Abbie is back for her monthly installment of Healthy Nutrition Nudges. She has been a Registered Dietitian for more than a decade, and a chef for twice as long as that.

 

Chef Abbie & Dr. Pam talk about feeding those little microbe critters in your belly in this episode and give you some nutrition tips to keep them happy and healthy. 


Tune in on the first Thursday of each month for tips from Chef Abbie, right here on HER. 

Considered a thought leader in nutrition, Heidi Skolnik has influenced millions through her media work, writing, and thriving consulting business.

Heidi has been part of The Women’s Sports Medicine Center at HSS for over 20 years. Her company, Nutrition Conditioning, oversees the Performance Nutrition program at The Juilliard School and the School of American Ballet and she has consulted with numerous Broadway shows. 

As a realist, Heidi believes M&Ms can fit into a healthy diet along with red peppers, red meat, broccoli, and fresh fruit, and that healthy eating and exercise should change and evolve as we do, to meet our personal needs and goals.  She leads individuals, sports teams, and corporations in strategic approaches to making smarter food choices, by incorporating behavioral aspects of change and increasing awareness of the best possible food and nourishment.

In this episode she talks about her long and successful career, co-authoring The Whole Body Reset, protein timing, and her pivot to working on menopause science.

Work WITH your physiology, NOT against it! Stacy Sims says her vision is a world of healthy women who understand their bodies, know how to work with their unique physiology, know their periods are ergogenic aids, and create positivity around being a woman in sport. 

Stacy Sims is a forward-thinking international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionize exercise nutrition and performance for women.

She has directed research programs at Stanford, AUT University, and the University of Waikato, focusing on female athlete health and performance and pushing the dogma to improve research on all women., and currently resides at the beach in Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand.

Today she shares the need for more research on female physiology, menopause and body composition, and the gender stigmas we see in strength training.