INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: Nature + Pop Culture News with Jessica Murnane

This week, I'm talking to Candace Burch. She's a hormone-health educator and founder of Your Hormone Health.

In this episode, Candace and I discuss what hormones are, how to know if your hormones are out of whack, synthetic vs. bioidentical hormones, weight gain, perimenopause, birth control, Hashitmoto's, and how stress and lifestyle choices can impact our hormones.

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This week, I'm talking to Lisa Bryan. Lisa is a recipe developer and the founder of Downshiftology (a digital community of 11M).

In this episode, Lisa and I discuss how she started her career over at 40, adding more humanity to your brand, building trust with your audience, and learning to downshift your life.

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This week, we brought back Elizabeth Stanley, PhD. Elizabeth is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University and the author of Widen The Window: Training Your Brain and Body To Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma. She's the creator of Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)® – and her research has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, NPR, and in Time magazine, among others. An award-winning author and U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. She's also a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based trauma therapy.

In this episode, Elizabeth and I discuss how we can begin to mend fractured relationships due to political choices (or move on from them), the survival brain vs. thinking brain, how the stress of the past year may have triggered or resurfaced past trauma, feeling powerless, and reminding ourselves that we will not have to live this way forever.

Elizabeth Stanley's Website Dr. Stanley's Course On Stress + Trauma* Widen The Window: Training Your Brain and Body To Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma

*Email Kjestinew(at)soundstrue.com for free access for public school teachers, health-care workers, first responders, military personnel (active, reservist, and veterans, and diplomats and intelligence agents.

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This week, I'm talking to Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD. Margaret is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist. She's the founder and executive director of the Climate Mobilization Project and author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency.

In this episode, Margaret and I discuss why you don't have to be a scientist to have a position on climate change, why we need climate transformation not reform, how to talk to kids about climate change, how to process the anxiety/overwhelm of the climate crisis, and the single greatest thing you can do to help right now.

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Guest + Show Links! The Climate Mobilization's Website + Instagram Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth Sunrise Movement Banana Ice Cream Recipe

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This week, I'm talking to Lara Parker. Lara is a writer, editor, deputy director at BuzzFeed.com, and the author of Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics.

In this episode, Lara and I discuss living with multiple chronic conditions, finding pain-management tools, learning to advocate for yourself, decision fatigue, and finding glimpses of hope and acceptance (even in the darkest days).

SHOW NOTES:Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter Know Your Endo Instagram Dr. Stanley's Course On Stress + Trauma Widen The Window One Part Plant Cookbook

Guest + Show Links! Lara's Instagram Vagina Problems Victoria Williams / Endo At Work Sex Without Pain Heal Pelvic Pain A Headache In The Pelvis Toca CBD Sex Oils

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This week, I’m talking to Dr. Jaclyn Tolentino. Jaclyn is a Board-Certified Family Physician, an integrative and functional medicine practitioner, and a breast cancer survivor. She has received extensive training through the Institute for Functional Medicine, and additional training in integrative oncology. She is a frequent contributor to publications including Vogue, Well+Good, CNET, and Bustle, and practices a comprehensive, patient-centered approach to whole-body wellness as Senior Doctor on the Virtual Team at Parsley Health. 

In this episode, Dr. Jaclyn and I discuss how surviving breast cancer changed how she thinks about health, weight gain and weight loss during the pandemic, stress and hormones, why our bodies are responding in ways they never have before, striving to be healthy vs. fat phobia, and why testing is important to better understanding our bodies.

SHOW NOTES:Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram One Part Plant Cookbook  Bellicon Mini Trampoline  Guest Links! Jaclyn’s Website + Instagram Parsley Health  Cream Of Mushroom Soup 

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This week, I'm talking to Angela Tucker. Angela is a speaker, educator, film producer, and of the host of The Adoptee Next Door podcast. Her work's mission is to amplify and center adoptee stories and bring honest narratives about race, class, and identity.

In this episode, Angela and I discuss what transracial adoption means, why Angela has felt like a "grand experiment" in nature vs. nurture, family preservation, racism in the adoption system, the debate of consent when it comes to sharing adoption stories online.

SHOW NOTES:Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter Know Your Endo Instagram Angela's Website + Instagram Closure The Adoptee Next Door Podcast Spinach Potato Tacos

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This week, I'm talking to Aishwarya Iyer. She's the founder + CEO of Brightland, a modern pantry-essentials company.

In this episode, Aishwarya and I discuss the unpaid labor of female founders/influencers, performative social media, staying true to your brand values, growing organically vs. paid social, and building a food brand from the ground up (packaging, design, food safety, etc).

SHOW NOTES:Sibo Made Simple Brightland's Website + Instagram Aishwarya's Instagram UC David Olive Center Citrus + Fennel Salad Recipe

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This week, I'm talking to Robyn Conley Downs. Robyn is a speaker, educator, podcaster, and the author of The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness By Creating Small Shifts That Create Big Change.

In this episode, Robyn and I discuss why our brains recognize threats before recognizing good, making small mindset shifts for big change, why personality and psychology are not interchangeable, and how gratitude can interrupt anxiety.

SHOW NOTES:Robyn's Website + Instagram The Feel Good Effect book Feel Good Effect Podcast Self-Care: A Novel The Joy Of Movement Self-Compassion: The Proven Power Of Being Kind To YourselfTuscan Pumpkin Soup Grilled Hummus, Apple, and Caramelized Onion Sandwiches

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It's the season premiere! This week, I'm talking to Meera Lee Patel. Meera is a writer, speaker, author (find her books in the show notes), and a self-taught artist.

In this episode, Meera and I discuss why we can't always fear the unknown, how she approaches anxiety, the unpaid labor of free content, promoting your work with transparency, and how she's pivoted her business during the last six months.

SHOW NOTES:Meera's Website + Instagram Create Your Own Calm Made Out Of Stars My Friend Fear Start Where You Are Self-Compassion: The Proven Power Of Being Kind To YourselfPav Bhaji Recipe via Food and Wine Pav Bhaji Masala (Meera's favorite store-bought) Pav Bhaji Masala Recipe

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