Is the movement towards clean beauty products a gimmick? 

How do you start cleaning out your cabinet of personal care products? 

Why does what we put on our bodies impact our fertility? 

Bridget chats with Elizabeth Marcolini, Entrepreneur, NYT Best Selling Author, and Executive Director with Beautycounter, to talk about her personal journey to swapping out her products for cleaner alternatives and what motivated her to make the change. They share their own mishaps and struggles with switching to clean, apps they recommend for cleaning out your products, and practical tips for making changes that are budget-friendly. Elizabeth shares some of the reasons why she works with Beautycounter and what research ultimately made her decide to work with Beautycounter to make a difference in women's health care and personal care product journeys. 

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Elizabeth Marcolini is an Entrepreneur, NYT Best Selling Author, and Executive Director with Beautycounter. Elizabeth holds a Masters in Theological Studies from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dallas. She was also a John Jay Fellow, an Alliance Defending Freedom Areté (A-RAY-te) Fellow, and has spent many weeks in Africa doing educational mission work, with a specific focus on faith formation. Her greatest joy is being a wife to her husband, Matt!

Is it possible to sync your cycle to your workouts? 

Can you maximize your workouts while honoring your body? 

Do you hate your period and think it gets in the way of your workouts? 

Bridget sits down with Mairead Suthoff, Certified Athletic Trainer & Certified FEMM Instructor, to talk about the specifics of cycle syncing, if it's real, how it works, and how women can use this information to have better workouts and overall health. Mairead offers coaching sessions and trainings to help women understand their cycles and maximize their workouts through her business, Lumina Health Services. Her work is incredible and so needed in this space! If you're wanting to avoid "pushing through" a workout and actually enjoy your daily exercise/movement activities, this is the episode for you! 

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Mairead Suthoff is a certified athletic trainer and a certified FEMM instructor. She thrives in inspiring women to chart their cycles. Her business, Lumina Health Services, teaches women how to chart for health, body literacy, cycle syncing, and family planning. Her background in sports medicine makes her particularly passionate about helping active women achieve cycle health and sync their workouts to the phases of their cycle. 

What does authentic, holistic women's health care look like? 

How can we embrace our bodies as women - including our reproductive system? 

Can we change conversations around birth control and feminism? 

In this episode, Bridget sits down with Alex DeRose to talk about her experiences as a NaProTechnology-trained nurse practitioner and how her views of women's health were deeply impacted by the women she served in her nursing career. They talk about her research in her Master's program, the need for increased knowledge for women about their reproductive health, and being honest about the side effects and impact of hormonal birth control on women's overall health. This episode packs a punch and isn't meant to carry all the answers, rather it's a conversation to get you thinking, researching, and learning how you can be empowered by your health and recognize the power of knowing yourself - your body - to make waves in women's health care.

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Alex DeRose is a Family Nurse Practitioner & Fertility Care Practitioner turned stay-at-home homeschooling mom to four sons. She's passionate about empowering women with knowledge for fertility awareness, joyful encouragement and the dignity of motherhood. You can find her work on her blog, Joy Mama Blog (https://www.joymamablog.com/) and on Instagram @alexandriaderose.  

Bridget sits down with Kelly Breaux, co-founder of Red Bird Ministries, to talk honestly about the struggles of pregnancy and child loss, resources needed, how the Catholic Church can better support women and couples, and what to say to a friend who's experienced loss. This interview is so beautiful and Kelly shares her own story of loss and how it impacted the ministry she and her husband founded to help women and couples navigate loss with tangible resources. They really focus on integrative, whole person support, so that individuals don't feel isolated or alone in the journey of healing. 

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Ryan and Kelly Breaux gave birth to a set of twins in 2005, a son Talon and a daughter Emma Grace. Talon died after 15 days with Emma Grace joining her brother in Heaven three years later.  

Their lives were propelled onto a personal journey of both discovery and recovery after battling a decade of darkness in their marriage. By the grace of God, their marriage was saved. Through the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, the Breaux’s found healing and restoration.  

Through personally experiencing the loss of a child and through their own  suffering, the thirst of bringing those who suffer back to the light and to the Lord grew.  Therefore, they looked to Mother Teresa  (patroness of Red Bird Ministries) for passion and inspiration to serve  those who are suffering, specifically through the loss of a child.

In the gift of restoration, they felt called to help others navigate the pain and unexpected challenges that come from the loss of a child, and through their first divine vocation of parenthood, Red Bird Ministries was born.

Red Bird Ministries was named by Altheia as the top 10 ministries to know in 2020! 

Did you ever think you could align your cycle with your work schedule? 

Have you ever wondered if you could maximize your productivity with your cycle instead of fighting it? 

This episode is for you! Really, for every woman! 

Bridget sits down with Megan Faller, Cycle & Productivity Strategist, helps women align their cycles with their schedules to maximize their daily routines to help grow businesses, goals, roles with ease. You can work with Megan 1:1 to align your cycle with your schedule or you can take group setting courses, too! 

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Megan Faller is a Menstrual Cycle & Productivity Strategist and Founder of The Aligned Cycle. As a Certified FertilityCare Practitioner she spent years helping women understand their bodies and chart their cycles so they could make important decisions about planning their families and scheduling medical procedures. Then she stumbled into using the power of her cycles and hormonal waves to schedule her work.  Now she helps other women put their cycles to work for them, so they can make an impact and grow businesses with flow and ease.

What does it mean to have "holy sex" and what does that actually look like? 

How can you create a thriving, healthy sex life with your spouse? 

Does the Catholic Church hate sex and only celebrate babies? 

In this episode, Bridget chats with Emily Frase all about sex, tackling the theological, historical, and, most importantly, the practical. Emily and Bridget delve into an honest conversation about what it means to have holy sex with your spouse, answering commonly asked questions and identifying the need throughout their conversation that honest, reverent conversations about sex are so important to create cultural change and impact on a micro and macro level. 

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You can follow Emily over on her personal Instagram account at @totalwhine_ and her business account, @fabmbase.

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Emily Frase is a south Louisiana native living in northern Virginia with her husband and two cherubs. After receiving her bachelor's degree in architecture, she went on to work in the nonprofit world in D.C. for five years. To her delight, her background in creative problem solving and working with politicians prepared her perfectly for her current full-time job managing toddler tantrums. She founded the Total W(h)ine Blog (https://totalwhine.com/) in 2018, where she shares her passion for living all aspects of the Catholic Faith in a joyful and honest way, especially marriage, motherhood, NFP, and fertility awareness. She is the co-founder and president of the nonprofit organization FAbM Base (https://totalwhine.com/2020/11/12/fabm-base-fundraiser/), a new fertility awareness database coming soon.

What is the feminine genius? 

How does fertility awareness tie into the feminine genius? 

Why should women lean into their feminine genius? 

In this episode, Bridget chats with Emily Harpole about the feminine genius and how it relates to fertility awareness. Bridget & Emily delve into living lives of wholeness and integration to better understand who we are as women in order to help us embrace our bodies and cycles. 

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You can follow Emily over on her Instagram account, @emily.marie.glorify. 

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Emily Harpole is from Denver, Colorado and is a 2019 graduate of Benedictine College where she studied Theology, Evangelization/Catechesis and Political Science. 

She spent her first year post-grad as a missionary with The Culture Project where she spoke to middle and high school students about the dignity of human life and the richness that comes from living a life of sexual integrity. She loves ministry, especially in the realm of Theology of the Body and fostering healthy relationships, with a special place in her heart for encouraging young women. 

Emily uses her Instagram account @emily.marie.glorify to reach out to other young people and currently works as the scheduling coordinator for Sarah Swafford and Emotional Virtue Ministries.