
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Send us your questions & comments
In the first episode of her three-part August series, Joanne Willis opens up an honest, balanced conversation about GLP-1 medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and the new generics coming to market).
Joanne walks through a June 2026 Stanford study on "food noise" and highlights something the headlines mostly missed - how to make the most of that food freedom. She shares in simple, plain language, the four remarkable ways these medications work with the body but then goes on to explain why GLP-1s can't do all the work alone, and what is just as important for us to consider for true health and sustainable weight loss for many years to come.
Links & Resources:
1. Stanford Center for Digital Health "food noise" study (JAMA Network Open, June 2026):
Link: https://medicine.stanford.edu/news/stories/2026/06/GLP1-Experiences.html
2. Register for our live, virtual workshop, "Ozempic & GLP-1s - How to Get the Benefits Without the Side Effects" on August 19th at 7pm EST HERE.
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
In the final episode of July's deep dive into personalized nutrition, Joanne Willis wraps up the month by answering the questions she's been receiving most from listeners exploring the Metabolic Balance program.
Building on the science covered throughout the month — from how bloodwork translates directly into food choices, to why the gut can still cause problems even when everything else is falling into place — Joanne addresses sixteen of the most common questions women ask before starting the program.
She covers what actually goes into building a truly personalized plan beyond bloodwork alone, including health history, medications, and lifestyle; the two additional enhanced testing partnerships now available through her practice to support a deeper dive into your body to further personalize your plan and the practical, day-to-day realities of what to expect before, during and after the program including why meals are structured the way they are, and what to expect around exercise, coffee, alcohol, and hunger.
This episode closes out the program's foundational questions around results: how much weight loss is realistic, the other, often unexpected and exciting benefits beyond weight loss and how quickly women typically start to notice a shift.
If you have been looking for a program that makes scientific sense, actually works and is easy to maintain long-term without rebound symptoms, weight gain or a life of restriction, this episode will likely answer any lingering questions you might have.
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
In this episode of The Midlife Vitality Project, Joanne sits down with Lisa Brisindi and Beth Lambert, the founders of Ripple Affect Momentum Coaching, to explore a framework that is quietly changing the way women in midlife navigate life's most challenging seasons.
Lisa and Beth are social workers turned retreat and workshop facilitators who have built their business around one powerful belief: that healing happens one belief, one person and one ripple at a time.
After years of working with people through some of life's hardest moments, they channeled that experience into something practical and profoundly accessible — the RIPPLE Framework, a six-stage tool designed to help women work through any challenge, whether it is emotional, relational, physical, or professional.
In this conversation, Joanne walks through all six stages of the framework alongside Lisa and Beth and reveals how each stage maps directly onto the work she does with her own clients through The Metabolic Balance Program. The parallel is striking: two completely different modalities, guided by the same instinctive path toward lasting, sustainable change.
Beth also shares her personal experience as a current Metabolic Balance client and how she has applied the RIPPLE Framework to her own health journey — a candid and moving account that brings everything discussed in this episode to life.
This is an episode that goes beyond nutrition. It speaks to the whole woman — the one who is exhausted, overwhelmed, and quietly putting herself last — and reminds her that she is not broken. She simply needs the right tools, the right support, and permission to make herself a priority.
Whether you are struggling with your health, your relationships, your confidence or juggling the caregiver role with trying to be your best self while navigating the weight of everything midlife asks of you, this episode will leave you feeling seen, hopeful, and ready to take that first honest step inward.
Want to experience Lisa and Beth's work in person?
They have a beautiful workshop coming up this Saturday July 25th in Wheatley, Ontario. If you are local to the area, this is an event you definitely want to check out. Details below :)
Healing in Gold Workshop
Saturday, July 25, 2026 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Village Resource Centre, Wheatley, Ontario
$60 per person
This workshop is inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold. You will get to experience the RIPPLE Framework in action and leave with a power word, a power promise to yourself, and something truly beautiful you have made with your own hands.
To learn more and register, visit this link: Healing In Gold Workshop or if you prefer to pay cash on the day, email Beth &Lisa at [email protected] in advance so they can plan supplies for you :)
To learn more about Lisa & Beth's upcoming workshops and retreats:
Website: rippleaffectmomentumcoaching.org
Instagram: @rippleaffectmomemtum
Facebook: Ripple Affect Momentum Coaching
TikTok: rippleaffectmomentum
YouTube: RippleAffectMomentumCoaching
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
If you have been working with a personalized nutrition plan and are starting to really see improvements in your health and your weight loss, but something still isn't right in the gut department, this episode is for you!
In Episode 51 of The Midlife Vitality Project, Joanne Willis takes the conversation deeper than last week's bloodwork foundation, into the layer that standard blood markers alone cannot always see.
Because for some women, the gut has its own story. Its own history. Its own specific imbalances that need their own targeted investigation - and understanding that is the difference between managing gut symptoms forever and actually resolving them.
Through two real anonymous client stories — a woman whose gut still reacts to legumes and cruciferous vegetables despite significant progress on the program, and a woman whose two decades of sleep medication left her gut lining compromised in ways that still show up as skin reactions, hives, and joint stiffness after certain foods — Joanne unpacks the most common deeper gut issues affecting women in midlife and explains in plain language exactly what is happening, which foods make it worse, and why some of the healthiest foods on the planet might be working against you specifically.
In this episode you will learn:
This is the episode for the woman who has been doing everything right and whose gut is still the missing piece. The answer is not more restriction. It is more precision.
Learn more about GutID here: gutid.com
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
Discover The Magic of a Personalized Nutrition Plan and Why certain "Healthy" Foods Might Not Be on Yours at all!
Last week in Episode 49 you heard my client, Helen, ask the question that stopped everything: "Is this the magic? Have I been eating wrong this whole time?"
This week Joanne answers it. Fully. Specifically. In a way that will change how you think about food, about your health, and about what your body has been trying to tell you all along.
Because here is what most women in midlife have never been told. The blood work your doctor runs and tells you is normal? That is not the same as your body thriving.
Normal means you are not an outlier. It does not mean your metabolism is functioning the way it should, your energy should not be better than it is, or that your symptoms are not pointing to something specific and very much addressable.
There is a gap between normal and optimal. And that gap is exactly where the answers live.
In this episode Joanne pulls back the curtain on exactly how the Metabolic Balance program translates 36 specific blood markers into a personalized nutrition plan that includes very specific foods (and excludes many others too even though mainstream media wants you to believe they are "healthy" for everyone!
In this episode you will learn:
This is the episode that finally explains why healthy for everyone is not the same as what is right for you right now - And why once you understand your own blood work picture, every single food on your personalized plan — and every food missing from it — starts to make complete and total sense.
This is the magic Helen was asking about. And now you get to understand exactly how it works.
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
When Helen opened her personalized Metabolic Balance food list for the first time, she had one reaction: shock - but in a very pleasant way.
Everything she had been eating — every single thing — wasn't on it.
And in that moment, she asked the question that changed everything: "Is this the magic? Have I been eating wrong this whole time?"
In this episode, Joanne sits down with her client, Helen, for a real, unscripted conversation about where she started, where she is now and the eye-opening lessons she has learned along the way that have now put her back in control of her body, her health and her life.
Helen shares her story of IBS that once controlled her life, eczema so severe a dermatologist told her there was nothing more he could do, two clothing sizes gained without explanation, evening cravings she couldn't understand and over two decades of relying on sleep medication just to get a few broken hours of rest a night.
Eight weeks into her personalized Metabolic Balance program, Helen's story is one of genuine, hard-won transformation — not just on the scale, but in every part of her life.
She talks candidly about the moment her bloating disappeared within days, the strange and wonderful experience of dreaming again for the first time in years, the detective work that helped her pinpoint a single small potato as the cause of a recurring skin reaction and the quiet, powerful moment her husband told her she was glowing.
This is a conversation about what becomes possible when a plan is built entirely around your own unique body — and about learning, for the first time, how to truly listen to it.
In this episode you'll hear:
If you have ever felt like your body was working against you, like you have tried everything and nothing sticks, or like there must be a missing piece nobody has helped you find — Helen's story will feel like it was made for you.
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
The Estrogen Dominance solution that makes all the difference and the new tools to help you thrive!
You know her. The woman who barely notices perimenopause.
She did not gain weight. She did not lose her mind to brain fog or anxiety. She just kept glowing, kept going and will emerge (or perhaps she already has) on the other side looking and feeling better than ever.
If you have a friend or family member in your life like this, I am willing to bet you have quietly wondered, why her and not me? What does she have that I don't?
You might think it all comes down to genetics, but you would be wrong. Genetics of course do play a role but it isn't the major player in the game.
So what does make the difference?
Well this episode answers that question, and the answer might surprise you.
In this final episode of the June series, Joanne Willis, Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Metabolic Balance® Coach, reveals the single factor that most determines whether a woman thrives through perimenopause or struggles every step of the way and why estrogen dominance, and specifically your body's ability to metabolize and clear estrogen effectively, sits at the very centre of it all.
This is the episode that brings everything together and it comes with two genuinely exciting announcements about new game-changing tools that are now available to take the personalization of your health to a level that simply was not possible before.
In this episode you will learn:
You do not have to be the woman who struggles through perimenopause and post-menopause. You can be the woman who thrives. It all starts with understanding exactly what your body needs and giving it precisely that.
Article referenced in this episode: "8 Trends Redefining Women's Health in 2026" — Coral.ca: https://coral.ca/learn/2026-womens-health-trends/
Learn about GutID: Strain-Level Microbiome Analysis | Titan-1 Science | GutID
Learn about Medcan Here.
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
If your gut has not felt like your own since your hormones started shifting, this episode is the one you have been waiting for.
Joanne Willis, Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Metabolic Balance® Coach, unpacks one of the most important and most overlooked connections in women's midlife health — the two-way relationship between your gut and your estrogen - because your bloating, your food sensitivities, your chronic inflammation, and your autoimmune issues are not just digestive problems. They are hormone metabolism problems. And until you address both sides of that equation together, the relief you are looking for will keep being temporary.
In this episode you'll learn:
Plus — Joanne announces an exciting new addition to her practice: GutID microbiome testing, now available to Metabolic Balance clients for unprecedented precision in understanding what is actually happening inside your unique gut.
Referenced Article: "Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Estrogen Physiology" — Nutrients journal, March 2026: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/7/1052
Learn more about GutID testing here: GutID — The First True Microbiome Test
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
If you've been walking into rooms and forgetting why you're there, losing your train of thought mid-sentence, feeling overwhelmed by decisions that used to feel simple, or riding an emotional rollercoaster you don't recognize as yourself, this episode is going to change everything about how you see what's happening to you.
Joanne Willis, Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Metabolic Balance® Coach, unpacks the estrogen-brain connection in a way that is finally clear, honest and deeply validating - because your brain fog, your anxiety, your mood swings, and your emotional over-sensitivity are not weakness. They are not just stress, and they are absolutely not early dementia. They are neurological symptoms driven by specific, identifiable, addressable hormonal and metabolic changes happening right now.
In this episode you'll learn:
This is the episode that finally explains why you don't feel like yourself and gives you a clear, hopeful path back.
Anchor Article: "Perimenopause Brain Fog: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options" — Dr. Jolene Brighten https://drbrighten.com/brain-fog-in-perimenopause/
Supporting Reference: "The Estrogen-Brain Connection" — Dr. Mary Claire Haver https://drmaryclairehaver.substack.com/p/the-estrogen-brain-connection
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
Send us your questions & comments
If you've ever been told your symptoms are just a result of estrogen and progesterone declining, this episode will change how you see everything.
In this episode I unpack one of the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed hormone imbalances in midlife women: estrogen dominance.
I will be clearing up the confusion that stops so many women from recognizing it. Because yes, you can absolutely be estrogen dominant even as your estrogen is declining!
In this episode you'll learn:
This is the episode that explains why a hormone test alone will never give you the full picture — and why a personalized, metabolic approach is the missing piece.
Anchor Article: "Estrogen Dominance in Peri- and Menopause" — HormonesBalance.com https://hormonesbalance.com/articles/estrogen-dominance-in-peri-and-menopause/
Ready to get clarity on what's going on inside your body?
Book your Complimentary Root Cause Assessment with Joanne Here. We'll look at your unique situation, identify where your key metabolic imbalances might be and create a roadmap for reclaiming your energy and health — naturally and sustainably. No obligation. Just real answers.
Want to learn more about The Metabolic Balance Program - the program I use in my practice to get my client real results that last?
Discover what everyone is talking about! The world's leading personalized nutrition and hormone-balancing system with the highest global success rate for sustainable weight loss and health transformation without pills, shakes or expensive proprietary foods.
One nutrition plan based on YOUR bloodwork. No deprivation. No one-size-fits-all diet. Just real food matched to your own biochemistry for real, lasting results.
Watch the information video here.
From the publisher's feed
If you’re a woman over 40 who is tired of feeling tired, foggy, or stuck in a body that doesn’t feel like yours anymore and are looking for a natural approach that will work for YOU to help you…