Sarah Explains It All

It was an honour to have Natalie Rechberg on the podcast! I was literally fan girling :) She is the creator of the Daysy and the Teena Basal Body Temperature Apps and my first experience in FemTech. Grab a cup of tea and have a listen of this fascinating conversation we had talking all about FemTech and what she sees for the future!

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Certified Period+Life Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives. I am passionate about FemTech, women's health, and all things gender equality.

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Joining me on today's episode is Ronny, the mastermind behind a brand new FemTech company called 'Happy'. He and I chat about his product, a vaginal microbiome product, and what is it really like being a man in a female world. Super interesting! Grab a cuppa and have a listen :)

ABOUT RONNY

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Certified Period+Life Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives. I am passionate about FemTech, women's health, and all things gender equality.

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Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! This is a juicy conversation! And who knew FemTech could be juicy?! When you are talking to Joy from Flutter, it certainly is! Grab a cuppa (or maybe even a glass of wine?!) and have a listen to this great conversation Joy and I have talking all about FemTech and women's pleasure.

ABOUT JOY

⁠Joy Mpofu⁠ is CEO and Co-founder of Flutter. Flutter is on a mission to improve sex for women. They are providing personalised insights into women's sex lives allowing women to maximize their pleasure.

Flutter Beta is launching next month! If you want to gain insights to maximise your sexual experience sign up ⁠HERE⁠.

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Certified Period+Life Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives. I am passionate about FemTech, women's health, and all things gender equality.

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Join me as I talk to Harrie of Evelyn Health, a first-generation PMS and PMDD care. We had a fascinating conversation about how Evelyn Health got started and their goals for the future! Be sure to grab a cup of tea and let me know what you think.

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Certified Period+Life Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives. I am passionate about FemTech, women's health, and all things gender equality.

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Join me as I chat with Margarita Koleva on the creation of her company, Momsanity. She is passionate about talking about as well as helping to raise awareness on all things postpartum!

Margarita, originally from Bulgaria has just finished her Masters in Addiction studies in London. Her background is in psychology and she started getting into the startup world 2 years ago. She is the co-founder and product owner of Momsanity - a company with a mission to aim and support new moms through motherhood. She is passionate about mental health and the female digital health world!

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Certified Period+Life Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives. I am passionate about FemTech, women's health, and all things gender equality.

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Join me as I speak to Katharin Navarro, Founder of Magical Audios, as we talk about her product, her journey to getting here, and her predictions for the future of FemTech!

ABOUT Katharin

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Certified Period+Life Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives. I am passionate about FemTech, women's health, and all things gender equality.

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I thought I'd share a little bit about what FemTech is and why I wanted to do this fun little series on fabulous FemTech Founders!

If you'd prefer to read the transcript, you can find it here. (to come!)

Articles/Companies I referenced

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare/our-insights/the-dawn-of-the-femtech-revolution

https://femtechinsider.com/what-is-femtech/

ABOUT SARAH

I am a Certified Period+Life Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives. I am passionate about FemTech, women's health, and all things gender equality.

Join Katie and I as we talk about her journey in creating Knowell. 

Topics we cover:

-Her fertility journey 

-Her rare IVF side effect 

-How she healed her body holistically

-What is normal in a period and what isn't

-Hormonal imbalance

-Why sharing our journey is so important

-What is in Knowell

-Where the name came from 

-Her period story

Fave takeaways:

-'They considered putting me in a medically induced coma.'

-'I just don't see how this is going to serve me.'

-'I felt so at odds with my body.'

-'1 in 10 women, worldwide, have PCOS. PCOS is the number 1 hormone syndrome in the world.'

-'Some women's cramps can be more painful than a fatal heart attack.'

-'We have included herbs that have been around thousands of years'.

-'Most women who come off the pill find they have more gaps in their hormones and nutrition.'

-''We switched to Knowell, I think your hormones are the most profound reflection of the mind body connection.'

ABOUT KATIE

Katie Fitzgerald lives in Dallas TX with her devoted husband and rainbow twin boys.  Katie earned her Masters in Clinical Nutrition from New York University and used her personal struggles and professional expertise to develop Knowell.

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Change Mentor/Women's Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives.

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Join me as I dive into Shannon's journey with epilepsy and her menstrual cycle, her thoughts around her period growing up, and how that has changed. AND so much more!

Topics we cover:

-How hidden epilepsy can be and the duality of society's term 'normal'

-How epilepsy shaped her life

-Her journey to sharing her true self 

-The curiosity that women have, especially during the pandemic

-Women's evolution from 'I don't know' to 'I know'

-Tips on how to evolve to 'I know'

-Her thoughts on Taboo subjects

-Trauma and our body

-Difference between the types of trauma we can have

-Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) & Saboteur 

-Her period positive story

Fave takeaways:

-'25% more difficult for women to identify what they need than men.'

-'Being able to take the language and verbalise it...for women, it is quite challenging to come up with the 'I know' statement.'

-'The best thing for us is for the ability to be heard and seen.'

-'Having someone you can talk to, that you feel safe with them, just being able to say that you are trying and it is hard, is invaluable.'

-The things that are taboo, when we speak about them, are actually the things that bring us together.'

-'Everyone has trauma, it is just a word to describe what you have gone through.'

-'In Chinese medicine, the womb is the second heart.'

-'Trauma is felt, stored, and held in our bodies.'

-We have the ability to name our ANTs and this brings them externally.'

Jacki Carr

The Body Keeps the Score

ABOUT SHANNON

Shannon Santangelo is a lover of black tea, honesty, and the Colorado mountains she calls home with her husband and two rescue pups Lucky and Roy. As a women’s group facilitator, Certified Lumia Coach Accredited by the ICF, and Certified Trauma-Informed Leader, Shannon creates spaces among the aspens and pines for women to seek their own unique voice so they can be together over alone.

WHERE TO FIND HER:

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Change Mentor/Women's Coach guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives.

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Join Marcelle Rose and I while we chat all about binge eating, bulimia, yo-yo dieting, etc to really help women heal their relationship with their bodies. This is a highly emotive topic for so many women so grab a coffee, a journal, and have a listen. 

Topics we cover:

-Binge eating

-What brought her to work in this area

-Disordered vrs normal eating

-What orthorexic is

-Ways to start working on your eating habits

-Ways to start working on your eating thought patterns

-How social media plays a part 

-Her period positive story

Fave takeaways:

-'A normal eater just eats, doesn't think about eating, and eats without guilt. They don't compensate.'

-'Moving into disordered eating territory, it really becomes something that takes over.'

-'Fear around food that isn't completely healthy-clean eating.'

-'The first stage is just noticing and the easiest way is to download on the paper-write down the thoughts.'

-'The way we teach nutrition is important-it is about balance.'

-It is empowering that they know in the future, they have their strategies and tools, they are empowered with knowing.'

-'The best thing a parent can do is model behaviour.'

-'I thought, because not having periods after my hysterectomy, I thought I would be disconnected but I've learned all the other signs of my body having a cycle. It is fascinating!'

ABOUT MARCELLE

Marcelle specialises in helping women beat binge eating, bulimia, emotional eating and yo-yo dieting so they can make peace with their body and heal their relationship with food. For many women this is a transformational experience, so they are able to reclaim their life.

She is a registered nutritionist and health coach with specialist training in eating disorders.

Marcelle works with her clients both in a 1:1 capacity in addition to running her 21-day Un-diet your Mind course (designed to unlock your diet mindset, unlearn your old food patterns and make new confident choices.) Marcelle also loves supporting women with their food and body challenges within her free Facebook community, The food Freedom Collective.

COACHING WAITLIST-21 day Un-diet your Mind course designed to unlock your diet mindset, unlearn your old food patterns and make new confident choices

WHERE TO FIND HER:

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ABOUT SARAH

I am a Change Mentor guiding women to create massive change by syncing their energy + cycles. I use radical accountability and mindset magic to enhance their lives.

Website

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