Have you, or a woman close to you, ever experienced a great tragedy? How does grief impact the hormonal cycle and how do hormones affect grief? In this episode Lissie chats with flower grower and merchant, Hannah Robertson. A woman who has lived a life of incredible adventure, stepped with ease into bold situations of survivalism, embraced her body's capacity to bring 6 babies into this world, grows and sells the most glorious flowers and has endured the deepest grief that exists in the human experience.

This is an episode we've been waiting to bring you for many months. It's the undiscussed relationship between a woman's cycle and her experience in her grief, it's the heightening intensity of every ebb and flow, and being forced to wield the knowledge of hormones so as not to sink to utterly overwhelming depths. It's the power of a woman to also harness her body's intelligence to keep her feet - and in this case her hands - firmly planted in the earth.

Do you see your cycle as something that gets in the way of your progression as a woman in business? Have you ever thought how you can actually utilise the various different, powerful qualities of your cycle to enhance and grow your business? 

More than likely in your workplace at one time or another, you've dragged yourself into work and through your day, despite the weariness, pain or discomfort of your bleed, the feelings of fragility before your menstruation or the fogginess that can come with the natural depletion of hormones. But imagine if you could respect those different times and that was respected in your workplace. Imagine if the times in your cycle when your energy was high and your mental clarity through the roof, was called upon and honoured to the benefit of the business. Imagine no longer wasting energy trying to wrangle the different atmospheres of your cycle in misdirection and instead riding them in the direction of cohesive success.

At 37 years of age, with a two year old babe in arms, Leah Burgess was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since her teens, her hormonal relationship had been filled with pain and disharmony, then after finding a beautiful man, producing a beautiful baby and getting into a beautiful groove, she was asked by her body to begin the fight of her life.

With a wicked sense of humour and one-two-fuck-you-cancer attitude that fits right in at Living Hormoniously HQ, this brilliant woman shares deep insider experience of living within a hormonal system in turmoil and finding the potency and positivity within to steer back to equilibrium. Welcome to the rich, gleeful, terrifying, incredible tale of the spectacular Leah Burgess.

Carrying the DNA of Mungo Man and Woman - the oldest known human bones ever discovered - Kaz Ross has the 'knowing' of human connection and consciousness running through her blood. Currently living on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, Kaz Ross remembers a childhood filled with lessons of culture, river stories, the removal and displacement of children, of cultures converging and the unique experience of growing up in a children's home WITHOUT being a ward of the state.

It is an honour and privilege to sit in conversation with Kaz Ross, Mutti Mutti woman, a bridge between two worlds, the flow of many rivers.

You may never, no, you will not hear another conversation around these three deeply significant aspects of a woman's life, as extraordinary as this one. Zenith Virago is a remarkable human being. Skilled in death, joy, ejaculation, courage and so, so much more. Byron Bay's citizen of the year for 2020, Death Walker, creator of The Vagina Conversations, Dike, Mother, Grandmother, Elder. This conversation will not just change your attitude about menopause but about life.

What's your narrative?

Have you ever wondered exactly what's going on inside a woman's body - perhaps your own body - hormonally, once a baby is born? Expressions like post baby blues have been bantered about for decades but with little education around exactly why some women feel a little low a few days after such a wonderful event as birth.

Ovaries and their owners worldwide are no strangers to oppression. Different rules for different genitals have almost always negatively impacted more greatly the female of the species. In Ireland the misogyny was born through invasion by the British and when church then hopped into bed with state. Ireland became a nation littered with horrendous events - some as bizarre as banning tampons due to their 'sexual nature' to the horror of church and state-led infanticide. What was it like to grow up female under such a regime? How did it flow into the day to day and how did it affect the flow of The Flow? A woman's cycle and her relationship with it?

Working night shift fighting fires, coming home to swoop the kids off to school, heading off to work at the cafe her and her husband own and run. Welcome to the wild world of Emily Hayes - a smiling assassin of athleticism, motherhood and a killer wardrobe. How exactly does she do all of this and continue to wear one of the world's most glorious smiles on her face - and some of the best outfits in the Northern Rivers of NSW? Along with her epic firefighting gear, Em is also kitted out with an amazing perspective on life, womanhood and the spirituality of this strange human existence. What's been her journey in a female body, her relationship with her cycle and how does it all fit - and be respected - in a male constructed paradigm?

What do you know about perimenopause? What can you do to use it to your fullest advantage when it comes? What even IS perimenopause? In this episode, Lissie and Tahlia discuss the ins and outs of one of the most dynamic hormonal phases of a woman's life. Often fraught with big feelings about youth and aging, a buffet of shifts in the physical body, symptoms that vary dramatically from women to woman and a societal narrative that may be the most negative of them all, perimenopause is in fact imbibed with a power that when tapped into, can be the blossoming of a woman into her fiercest, fullest potential for the second half of her life. This is an episode not to be missed. Readiness is your greatest tool! 

On this episode we chat about what it's like to be a woman in the spotlight from puberty to menopause. As star of the 1981 box-office smash Puberty Blues, to co-writer of the global success story Strictly Ballroom, onto TV, Radio and so much more, all supported by a passion for surfing, Nell Schofield is a potent, intriguing woman, full of stories about her external life, as well as the personal experiences of her inner landscape as a tidal woman ebbing and flowing with the power of a female form.