It's Not You, It's Your Hormones

So many of my clients are expats or frequent travelers and every single one of them has said some version of this to me: "I'm in the most beautiful place I've ever lived and I feel absolutely terrible."

I get it. I've lived it.

Seven and a half years abroad. A deportation. A visa rejection. A breakup that cost me my right to stay in a country I'd built my entire life in. And a body that, despite all my protocols, completely fell apart under the weight of it.

This episode is the one I wish someone had handed me when I first touched down in Melbourne with two suitcases and absolutely no idea what I was doing to my hormones.

If you're an expat, a frequent traveler, or you're doing everything "right" but your body just isn't cooperating, this one's going to hit.

What we cover:

Why expat life is one of the most hormonally expensive lifestyles you can live and why generic wellness advice isn't built for you

What chronically elevated cortisol actually does downstream to your sex hormones, your metabolism, your sleep, and your weight

The difference between being resilient and being resourced (and why that distinction is costing you)

The social isolation piece that nobody talks about and exactly how it keeps your nervous system in low-grade survival mode for years

The four non-negotiables for keeping your hormones stable when your life is constantly in flux

The real reason you're gaining weight around your middle despite working out

Book a call in the show notes if you're ready to stop guessing and start getting results.

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

Everyone is in my DMs right now asking about peptides. And honestly, I get it. I've been injecting myself weekly for six months. I flew from Australia to Bali looking like I was smuggling heroin. White powders, vials, massive needles. Customs waved me through. We move.

But after working with 300+ women who spent hundreds on peptides and felt nothing? The issue is never the peptide. It's what's underneath it.

In this episode: 

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

After helping hundreds of women hit their weight loss and hormone healing goals in record time, I have some thoughts on when to use ChatGPT (and when not) to for your health, hormone or weight loss goals. 

It works better for certain things than it does for others. 

Press play for the full juice.

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

I moved to Australia with one suitcase, zero friends, and a nervous system that was completely incinerated.

I just didn't know it yet. And my body was paying the price in ways I didn't even recognize yet. The bloating, the crashes, the weight that wouldn't move, the anxiety I didn't call anxiety. None of it was normal.

Australia changed everything. Not because I stopped being ambitious, but because I landed in a culture that genuinely does not reward burnout. And it broke my brain in the best possible way.

In this episode I'm sharing the full unfiltered story, including the 5 things Australians do differently that quietly healed my hormones, my gut, my sleep and my body. And why I believe the same shift is available to you without ever leaving your home.

This one is personal. Press play.

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

Every week someone asks me:

“Chelsea… should I try carnivore for weight loss?”

“Is carnivore good for hormones?”

“Will eating only steak fix my gut?”

And honestly… I get why people are curious.

People are reporting huge weight loss, better digestion, clearer skin, and improved energy.

So in this episode, I’m giving you a balanced, honest breakdown of the carnivore diet rooted in holistic health and functional medicine.

Not fear-mongering.

Not influencer hype.

Just the real science and what I actually see with clients.

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

She was operating at 60%… and thought she was fine.

In this episode, Chelsea sits down with Jess Serato — Wall Street dropout, energy strategist, mom of two, former Division I athlete — who realized her body wasn’t broken.

It was under-supported.

After years of high performance, chronic stress, interrupted sleep, and unexplained weight gain, Jess discovered elevated cortisol, low progesterone, and mineral imbalances were holding her back.

Within three months, she:

• Lost 20 pounds of inflammation and hormonal weight

• Restored deep, uninterrupted sleep

• Reduced baseline stress and anxiety

• Eliminated bloating and puffiness

• Increased energy, libido, and business capacity

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why high-achieving women operate at 60% and normalize it

• The connection between cortisol, appetite suppression, and weight gain

• Why “clean eating” doesn’t work without order of operations

• How progesterone impacts mood, sleep, and stress resilience

• Why sustainable hormone healing eliminates hypervigilance

If you are a driven woman feeling puffy, exhausted, and frustrated despite doing all the “right” things — this episode will change how you view your body.

Book a session with Jessica here 

Find Jessica on Instagram here

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

Life transitions are f*cking hard on your body. Not just emotionally, but hormonally, physically, and metabolically hard.

In this episode, I'm getting vulnerable about my own story of dramatic, unexpected life changes.

Let's discuss how change affects your health and hormones.

If you're in the middle of a big life change and your body feels like it's betraying you, this is for you. You're not broken. You're just in transition.

Also heading to Bali soon for one-on-one client work. 2 VIP day spots left 👉https://chelseamcleod.my.canva.site/balivip

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

This episode is inspired by Valentine’s Day… and all the sex you’re NOT having.

Let me explain why you don’t want to go to poundtown with your husband — and what to do about it.

If you love your partner but feel zero desire, dread bedtime, or would genuinely rather reorganize your pantry than be touched… this isn’t a character flaw.
 

It’s cortisol.

In this episode, I break down what’s actually happening inside your body when you’re a busy, high-achieving woman living in survival mode and why your libido shuts down.

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

Most women are being told migraines are genetic, random, or something they’ll just have to manage forever.

That belief keeps them stuck.

In this episode, I explain why migraines are not random, not a medication deficiency, and not a life sentence — especially for high-functioning, high-responsibility women who are “doing everything right” and still breaking down.

I recorded this episode because I see a pattern over and over again:

Women come to me for weight loss.

They lose the weight quickly.

And then they’re shocked when their migraines disappear too.

That’s not a coincidence.

Migraines are a neurological inflammatory response to a system that’s overloaded — hormonally, metabolically, emotionally, and neurologically. They’re a signal that the body is unimpressed with how it’s being run.

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

In this episode, I break down the mindset of an athlete and why it’s the missing link for women who don’t want to live in the 99% of people with sub-optimal health, chronic inflammation, stubborn weight, burnout, and inconsistency. Lately, I’ve been noticing something that honestly drives me crazy.
 

People are softer than ever.

They don’t keep their word.

They flake. Ghost. Quit when things get uncomfortable.

And then they wonder why their body, their health, and their life never really change.

This episode was born out of that frustration.

Because the women I work with who get exceptional results — the ones who lose weight quickly, balance their hormones, reclaim their energy, and actually maintain it — don’t have more information.

They have a different mindset.
 

Lear what makes these women successful

✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here.

☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.

✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it.

📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.