The Simplicity Sessions

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

My guest for this episode is Maggie Berghoff. Maggie is the founder and CEO of Celproceo, a health agency rooted in functional medicine and trusted by celebrities, professional athletes, and CEOs.

Maggie's expertise in building multiple thriving businesses online has also led her to become a sought-after business mentor for those building an online business. She has been featured in hundreds of places including Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, Oxygen Magazine, Under Armour, USA Today, and local and national television programs.

Maggie and I discuss why she is focused on helping you to get healthier and how she helps you lower your inflammation in six different ways. This life-changing information can help you understand more about your health and overall well-being. Maggie provides easy-to-implement solutions to help you see results in the way you feel and look.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Maggie's passion for health
• Maggie's book-writing process
• Maggie's health problems
• Health Quiz
• 6 Types of inflammation and their solutions
• Building a community that can help you

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Connect with Maggie Berghoff -

Website: https://maggieberghoff.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggie_berghoff/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaggieKBerghoff

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -

• St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order (a bit more than "JENNPIKE10", as mentioned in the episode- we hope you don't mind an upgrade!).
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE20 at check out and save 20% off your first-time order. After your first order you can save 10% on your next orders with the code JENNPIKE10.
• GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order.
• Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order.
• Mid-Day Squares - Use JENN15 to save 15% off these delicious squares. They get you through the day like a protein and fiber bar but they taste like you decided to treat yourself today.

Quotes -

• "What I found in my practice and in my personal life is that there usually is more than one type of inflammation going on in the body."
• "...decreasing inflammation as a whole, I would say nutrition could be one of your most important things. I found that when we address an anti-inflammatory way of eating, it's the easiest thing to do because we will provide healthy swaps."
• "...start eating a varied and diverse diet and getting obsessed with nourishing your body."
• "...the next type that we'll move into is inflammation by sugar. So these are people who are addicted. Some people are truly addicted to sugar or cravings are out the wazoo and sugar is totally impacting them, causing them irritability to break out."
• "What is going on in the body related to your digestive system that may be causing this inflammation?"
• "I just recently started to implement topical probiotics because there's research that shows the skin microbiome is absolutely connected to this as well. Not just the gut microbiome. Kind of feeding from an internal standpoint and fixing the gut lining, like we've always done, but also topically, like using topical spray probiotics to help that as well."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

I recently had some great success and I found that I had trouble giving myself permission to celebrate. I thought through all the different ways I celebrate such as travelling, buying expensive things, or having a nice dinner. The world is not as open to travel these days and I am living more minimalistically, so buying nice things does not match my lifestyle.

I came to the conclusion that I can feel luxury in a different way to celebrate my successes. I feel luxurious when I can be alone, when I am up before anyone else, when I'm eating well and moving, when I can spend time with my family, and when I am rested.

The entire situation got me thinking about the time I went to a ceremony. It was the most powerful, quiet feeling that I have ever had. The quiet space spoke to me so much without any noise. I only went with one friend so I didn't know anyone else. I was able to feed off of the energy and wisdom of the other women at the ceremony and I was inspired to define in writing what feeling successful, abundant, luxurious, and wealthy means to me.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• I had a recent success, but I had trouble celebrating it
• I used to associate celebrating successes with fancy items and expensive vacations
• The quiet ceremony
• Absorbing energy and wisdom from the women around me
• How I now define my own successes

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

Quotes -

• " I really struggle with celebrating any level of success. I recognize this success. I acknowledge this as success, but I also tend to just dive right into the next thing."
• "...what is my block with this? Why am I having such a difficult time celebrating myself? I went through all these different ideas in my mind of what I believed the definition of celebration to be: a big party, a trip going away, you know, having drinks and dancing, buying something luxurious."
• "I'm working to really try to embrace is the embodiment of this beautifully audacious woman that I have been becoming. "
• "And so you just think of the decades of wisdom, of knowing, of living, of learning, of heartache, of growth, of beauty, of strength, of resiliency. It was really powerful and really beautiful. "
• "The luxury in all of it and celebrating the wealth and the success and the freedom of it all is to have time and space nourishment, hydration, nature, choice, and freedom."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

I am very happy to welcome Dr. Shawn Tassone to the podcast. Shawn Tassone MD, Ph.D., is known as America's Holistic Gynecologist. He is the first physician in the United States to be double board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and by the American Board of Integrative Medicine. He holds a medical degree in addition to a Ph.D. in mind-body medicine. He's a practicing OBGYN in Austin, TX, hormone specialist, author, speaker, highly rated patient advocate, and creator of the world's first integrative hormonal mapping system.

In his 20+ years of practice, Shawn has seen over 40,000 women and he is determined to remove the myths surrounding women's health. As an integrative health practitioner, he believes that you should have an active role in your care. His work includes studies and publications on hormonal imbalances, spirituality in medical care, whole foods to heal the human body, and integrative medicine.

Dr. Tassone is featured in many publications including The New York Times, NBCNews Online, Stanford MedX, and his book (The Hormone Balance Bible, published by HarperCollins), is now available in stores and online!

I speak to Shawn about the reasons he has followed a career path in women's health care. We also discuss how women often treat pain and discomfort based on society's rules for women.

Shawn discusses the signs and symptoms of hormone imbalances and how women can find solutions for such imbalances.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Why Shawn chose his field
• Shawn's inspiration
• Shawn's interests beyond the medical field
• How the strength of women and their mindset can hurt them
• Functional health tests are not available in our healthcare system until you search for them
• The SHINES protocol
• Solutions to reset your hormones
• Top 3 signs of hormone imbalances
• Hormone treatment
• Signs of too much testosterone
• Estrogen levels
• Find the connector in your health care

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Connect with Dr. Shawn Tassone -

Website: https://tassonemd.com/

Hormone Mapping Quiz - http://www.tassonemd.com/quiz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shawntassonemd/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tassonedoc

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -

• Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 at eatonhemp.com/jennpike to save 20% off your order.
• Use organic hemp hearts in smoothies, parfaits, or oats to get great protein, healthy omega-3s, anti-oxidants, and loads of vitamins and minerals.
• St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order.
• GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE20 to get 20% off your first order and use JENNPIKE10 to save 10% off every order after that.
• Mid-Day Squares - Use JENN15 to save 15% off these delicious squares. They get you through the day like a protein and fiber bar but they taste like you decided to treat yourself today.

Quotes -

• "...what's called the nocebo effect versus placebo where the negativity of what you say can actually change a diagnosis versus the positivity, and just having that open up my brain…"
• "I'm a robotic surgeon, too. I use the robot for surgery, but then if a woman's having heavy periods, sometimes I'll just recommend yarrow flower instead of birth control pills."
• "they're telling me I can't have hormones and I'm just supposed to be miserable for the last five years of my life."
• "fatigue, if you're taking a nap at four or five in the afternoon that's probably not normal."
• "Testosterone does stimulate hair follicles so it will help with hair growth, but too much can overstimulate it and that is when you get hair on your stomach or your chin"
• "The reason I think we see a lot of thyroid issues is because the more estrogen that's in the body, the less active your thyroid is going to be. And we have that for one, huge reason: diet. Fat cells make estrogen. So the fatter you are the more fat cells you have, the more your estrogen goes up and your thyroid function goes down."
• " don't put all the pressure also on that practitioner to know everything for you."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

The ladies in my practice often use the terms 'stress' and 'burnout' interchangeably without knowing that there is a difference between the two terms. Stress is when you take on so much work and responsibility that you cannot complete everything. Burnout is when you have given up on tasks and feel disengaged from your daily activities.

Once you realize where you are within the spectrum of stress and burnout, you can focus more on the solutions that will help you get back on track. I discuss the solutions to create a life of simplicity and ease.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Stress and burnout used interchangeably
• What stress looks like
• What burnout looks like
• Solutions to help during trying times

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Quotes -

• " In a stressed state, you might find that you're over engaged in life."
• "You don't care about it. You completely disengage another thing in terms of your emotions."
• "There is a list for every list, for every list for everything. And that is a state of stress versus burnout in which you have never-ending tasks. You have piles of uncompleted things all around you, and it just keeps mounting and mounting."
• "Eat nourishing foods; get the rest, hydrate your body; and balance your blood sugar. Spend time in nature and get yourself to bed at a good time. Spend time with good quality people. Create space for yourself. Give yourself grace and compassion to feel your way through the life that you are currently living so that you can understand more about some of the things you need to do to create that level of simplicity and ease in the life that you are moving towards."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Amanda is an HTMA expert and a hair trace mineral analysis expert. She puts her passion into teaching people about whole food sources, possible toxicity or overload, and the body's inability to utilize certain minerals.

Amanda discusses how copper and iron can affect the body and how the bioavailability of these minerals can affect your mood and your health. For example, a lack of copper in the body can lead to anxiety, depression, mood swings, and skin issues.

We also talk about how testing is important to detect the amount of minerals in the body but the interpretation is even more important. You need experts to provide the proper interpretation for your best health care.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• What we are missing in our health care
• Copper's bioavailability
• The importance of mitochondria in the cells
• Lack of copper can lead to low energy and postpartum anxiety and depression
• Sources for copper and why everyone is unique
• Sources for Vitamin C
• The role of iron and the confusion around it
• The addition of iron
• HTMA testing
• Testing depends on good interpretation of the results
• How mineral availability is affected by your mental state

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Connect with Amanda Leigh -

Website: https://sozomethod.thinkific.com/pages/landing-page.com%5C

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sozomethod/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sozomethod

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Woman mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -

• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order.
• INCREDIBLE BUNDLE - when you spend $65 or more you get free express shipping and you can use code JENNPIKEMIST to get a facial mister FREE!
• St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order.
• Digestive bitters make bloating or any gas go away almost instantly.
• GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. If you use the code 75FREESHIP when you spend $75 or more on any of their products, you get free shipping. Use JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your order.
• Their solid shampoo and conditioner bars are incredible products that have a great impact on your body and the environment. Avoiding products that are in plastic bottles will avoid the oil production, greenhouse gas emissions, and plastic pollution of our environment.
• Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and hemp company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE20 to save 20% off all your orders on their site.
• Use organic hemp hearts in smoothies, parfaits, or oats to get great protein, healthy omega-3s, anti-oxidants, and loads of vitamins and minerals.
• Mid-Day Squares - Use JENN15 to save 15% off these delicious squares. They get you through the day like a protein and fiber bar but they taste like you decided to treat yourself today.

Quotes -

• "It's really more about copper not being bioavailable in the body and when not being able to be used properly, like anything, it starts to become a problem."
• "At the gut level, copper is our natural God-given anti-parasite, antivirus, antifungal. You'll sometimes see people using copper… to defend against viruses."
• "I really do think some of the things we're taking right now actually are depleting our copper and it's causing. Actually, there is more chaos in our body."
• "When you look at cereal boxes or any sort of flour the iron is added in and most of the forms of iron are carcinogenic."
• "Iron is estrogenic and the body. It does help how fast we can store estrogen in the tissues. And then vice versa. The more estrogen you have the more iron you're going to store."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today, I am speaking to you while hiking through new trails that I discovered in Kelowna. Walking has been my way of self care over the past 18 months. It allows me to fulfill my movement goals and it allows me to think (and speak) to myself. Lately, my thoughts have been about "what I want" and more specifically "what I don't want."

I find that after anything I do that is successful, such as launching a program, coaching programs, or anything else in that area of my life, I end up searching for what I should do next instead of celebrating the success I just had. These days, I think of why I am always searching for the next big thing.

I speak every day to women in my practice that are feeling the same way. They think that they have searched out the next big thing but never end up being satisfied when they achieve a specific goal.

I am here to tell you that you don't always have to search for more. I am here to show you how to find out what you want and don't want.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• It's easy to fall into the trap of the next big thing
• Making decisions during your cycle
• Observations during the pandemic
• Always feeling the need to strive for more
• The realization that I don't need more
• My three vehicles that allow me to speak
• Create room for yourself in your life
• The exercise that will help you decide what you want and don't want

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Quotes -

• " ...you are running the business and that can be a slippery slope because it's very easy to get caught up in what other people are doing, what other people are saying are a must have, and then putting yourself into that position of filling up your calendar or weighing down your schedule…"
• "So if I want to show up to the event. If I want to speak at something. If I want to host the party. If I want to do the conference, then I am only going to be able to do that during this week and a half to two week period of time when I know I'm going to be at my best."
• "...then there's the other side there are the women that for so long stayed quiet. They worried so much about what everyone said and now they're like these quiet little cubs that have turned into these roaring lionesses that have so much power and they are standing in their power."
• "Why is it always the question of what's next now? What are you doing? What's happened? And I was starting to feel myself become suffocated by this; by other colleagues; by business mentors, by my coach, even by family."
• "I am done with the feeling, the desire, and this pulse in my body that I have to. I do not have to create anymore. I do not have to become any more successful than I am."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

I am switching things up on the podcast today; I will be interviewed by my longtime friend Laura Foster, who came up with this idea. She felt that you get to hear from me through my regular episodes, interviews, and simplicity bites, but there is a difference between being me sharing carefully planned content and me answering a question in the moment.

Laura gets to see this side of me all of the time because of our working relationship and our close friendship. She wants you to see what she sees, through her interviewing me.

Laura dives into my thoughts before and after the pandemic; my family's decision-making process for picking up and moving out west to Kelowna, BC; and my vision on how women leaders can make the world a better place.

This episode reveals my thoughts on my values and how I am living in this world.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Where my heart is at this point of the pandemic
• Setting boundaries in life
• Moving to Kelowna
• My family being self-sufficient
• How I stay rooted in who I am
• Women leadership in today's world
• Speaking up for your values

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with my team and me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Woman mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -

• GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. If you use the code 75FREESHIP when you spend $75 or more on any of their products, you get free shipping. Use code JENNPIKE10 for 10% off your orders.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order.
• St Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at checkout to save 15% off your order.
• NEW SALE: "Be Prepared Sale" to help your family get your immune system prepared for back to school. Enter the code BEPREPARED20 to save 20% off their immune support, cold, and flu products. The sale ends on September 26th.
• Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all your orders on their site.

Quotes -

• "I realized about two weeks in that I needed to cancel our cable. I couldn't have the news on in our home anymore. I was starting to feel it change how I was showing up and functioning as a person. And I knew right out of the gate, this is not in alignment with who I am."
• "We were starting to cultivate things in our own home, building a bigger garden, doing different things so that we could be the resource for what we needed to have for our food and for our health, and our safety."
• "I wasn't looking for permission from anyone else. The family unit was important. My husband and my children are important because this was impacting the four of us, but I wasn't talking to other people looking for their permission or their opinions."
• "In 18 months, I have learned that what you needed last week may not be what you need this week and it is this willingness to unlearn an unbecome so that we can become and learn the things that we need to go forward."
• "I see more women and more mothers than ever that are standing up and are saying: 'Not happening. Not to me, not to my family, not to the world my children are going to grow up in"
• "Freedom and opportunity to choose whatever that means for you, whatever that means for you."

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today's episode is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode. There were some questions from the audience that were asked not long ago so I decided to take some of the questions and answer them in this episode.

You can see the questions below in the next section and of course, hear my answers by listening to the episode.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Is Phase Four the first day of bleed through the last day of bleed?
• What are the best stretches for menstrual cramps?
• How does The Hormone Project work for those of us who live in the United States?
• Are you moving into a tiny house and where will it be?
• Do you have advice for a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN) wanting to start their own business?
• How did you get started as an RHN?
• Is it hard for you to travel because of your bookings?
• If the body holds onto weight, despite many paths and programs, where do you look next?
• What is the best way to figure out why I am not ovulating?
• Have you ever heard of PMDD? My best friend has been diagnosed with this and is being told that she needs a full hysterectomy and that there is nothing that will stop her symptoms.
• I am struggling in my luteal phase. I'm seeing a pattern of being very hard on myself, not having the best outlook on life, and perhaps fixating on things in my life that are not perfect. Is there a supplement you could recommend to help me through this time?

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Quotes -

• "The first phase is your follicular phase , which starts after your period ends. The second phase is your ovulatory phase, where you are actually ovulating. The third phase is your luteal phase, which is the longest of the four phases and happens between our ovulation and when your period actually starts. And then phase four is your actual bleeding. When you have your period."
• "The reason that we get the low back. Discomfort is because the uterus is actually contracting to be able to slough off and release the endometrium, which is the lining of the uterus."
• "...we work with women globally inside of the hormone project, all over the world."
• "...really focus in and dial in on what you are passionate about and stay committed to the process…"
• "we have to understand why and how the body ovulates. So it starts in the brain, not in the oval. So if there's stress that's going on, if they're are sleep issues going on, if there's inflammation, that's going on autoimmune issues that are going on. If the body is stuck in a perpetual state of fight or flight and does not feel safe, your body has the ability in the brain and the connection within that pituitary gland to actually eliminate ovulation from happening

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Julie Davey is a nurse practitioner with 20 years of experience. She shifted her career and dedicated herself to helping hundreds of people transform their lives by healing their bodies with natural medicine and developing personalized health habits.

We had a great conversation on gut health in this episode. We discussed the tests that will help you better understand your gut health; identified symptoms that can reveal what gut health issues you may be having; and outlined steps you can take to ensure your gut is healthy.

We also talked about the types of food that could cause underlying chronic inflammation, which can prevent people from losing weight. It can be surprising to learn the foods that can cause inflammation. Eliminating inflammatory foods from your diet can have great results on your gut health.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Julie's professional background
• How Julie dealt with GI issues
• Discovering the GI map
• Why Julie uses the GI map
• Symptoms of poor gut health
• What your SigA tells you about your gut health
• Breaking down fat adequately
• How your gut influences your mood
• Tests can dig deeper into identifying the right problems
• How chronic low grade underlying inflammation can prevent weight loss
• What is leaky gut
• People with an autoimmune disorder should have their gut tested
• Top four items to eliminate from your regular diet
• Are you really gluten-free?
• Lifestyle changes that can help your gut health

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, sharing this podcast with a friend, or tagging me on social media when you visit The Simplicity Sessions Community on Facebook or @jennpike on Instagram, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Connect with Julie Davey -

Website: https://www.juliedavey.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliedaveynp/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliedaveynp

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Woman mentorship? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

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Quotes -

• "Patients say 'Isn't it good to have these high levels of good bacteria in your gut?' and I responded, no, it's all about balance."
• "The gut is the gateway to help"
• "70% of our immune system lives in our gut"
• "The gut microbiome really plays a key role in regulation of estrogen levels; therefore it can influence the risk of developing estrogen related diseases like endometriosis, polycystic, ovarian, breast cancer, and even prostate cancer for men."
• "...it was a bit overwhelming to see everything that was wrong, but at the same time it was such a relief."
• "...studies actually show that dysbiosis in the gut plays a key role in weight gain. Even low grade inflammation can cause obesity."
• "People with an autoimmune disorder should have their gut tested"

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

This is a special episode today because it is my birthday. I have a unique birth story as I was adopted at birth; I was raised by my wonderful adoptive parents and met my birth parents when my daughter was 10 months old. I wanted to tell you this story because it made me into the woman, mother, and wife that I am today.

My birth parents had me when they were 15 (mother) and 16 (father) years old. My mother didn't even know she was pregnant until she was 5 months along because she was having irregular periods due to her young age.

My adoptive parents already had a daughter but decided to adopt another child after tragically losing my older brother Christopher at 19 months old after recovering from surgery to repair five holes in his heart. Soon after I was born and my adoptive parents took me into their care, they found out they were pregnant with my younger brother, Matthew (younger by 8 months).

Life as a child within my adoptive parents' family was wonderful. I always felt loved and supported by my parents who told me I was adopted at a young age. I took pride in my adoptive status. I gave an award-winning speech in grade three on my adoptive story.

My parents gave me the forms to find my birth parents at the age of 17. I was excited; however, I didn't fill out the forms right away because I had the opportunity to finish high school early to move to Japan and work as a model. I went away to school when I got back from Japan.

It wasn't until I was married and pregnant with my first child, Emerson, that I decided I wanted to find out more about my birth parents to find out the family health history. After filling out a series of forms and a lot of patience, I finally got the chance to meet and speak to my birth mother.

I discovered that my birth parents stayed together, got married, and had three more children: Matt, Spencer, and Emma. A fourth child, my parents' second pregnancy, was lost (another boy), which was similar to my adoptive parents' experience.

I was very nervous when I first met my birth parents, but I was fortunate that my adoptive parents prepared a number of pictures when I was a baby to show my birth parents. I discovered that my birth siblings did not know about me. My birth parents never told them about me because my birth was a secret due to the nature of the times and how people would react to a young teenage pregnancy.

It took me a long time to figure out how I felt about gaining an entire family that I did not know well. I would spend a lot of time with my birth parents and my birth siblings, but it was difficult to accept that my daughter would call them grandparents. Over time, I was able to get over the emotionally draining times and grew a bond with my birth family.

I am forever grateful that I have this big extended family from which my husband, kids, and I interact with on a regular basis. Meeting my birth family and being raised by my adoptive family with such love and support throughout my life has shaped me into the person I am today, and for that I am eternally grateful.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Life changes and update
• The Beginning of Jenn's birth story
• The reason why Jenn's parents decided to give her up for adoption
• How Jenn's older brother Chris led to her adoption
• Jenn's birth
• Jenn as a baby being held by nurses because neither mom was present at the moment
• The arrival of her younger brother, Matthew
• The search for Jenn's birth parents
• Marriage to Jenn's Chris and her first child
• The adoption disclosure bill
• Discovering the government found her birth parents
• Jenn's first conversation with her birth mom
• Jenn's first meeting with her birth parents
• Discovering how her birth parents mourned the loss of their daughter
• Adjusting to the new family
• The unknowing connections between Jenn and her birth family over her lifetime
• Grateful for a big beautiful extended family
• Pay attention to the signs

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Online work with Jenn -

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject. You can get $250 off until September 8th.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from some of our amazing partners -

• Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including the plant medicines that they create to promote women's health by targeting digestion, allergies, immune support, heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out to save 15% off your order.
  • I have been under stress lately with my life changes, so I have been using ashwagandha to decrease stress. It helps me stay aware and increase my body's resiliency and it acts as an anti-inflammatory. Ashwangandha comes in a tincture form. Other benefits include increased strength, endurance, and sex drive.
• Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered, and they are third-party tested. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all your orders on their site.
  • I take their CBD oil to help my body relax by supporting my nervous system.
• GoodJuju makes all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you and good for the planet. If you use the code 75FREESHIP when you spend $75 or more on any of their products, you get free shipping.
  • Their scalp care products are great to use during tough workouts in the late summer heat.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, and does not test on animals; this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that.
  • I use soothe oil on my skin, which has calendula, vitamin E, sage, and galbanum, which have anti-inflammatory properties. I put the oil along my hairline.

Quotes -

• "...until she was sitting in class one day and actually noticed that she had lactated through her shirt through her bra and her shirt."
• "He was born with five holes in his heart and he lived until he was 18 months old with that heart, then underwent heart surgery. He survived the surgery, but then didn't make it through the recovery. And so my mom and dad lost him at 19 months old. And my sister lost him."
• "I have a baby coming in September and I have a baby coming in October. Would you like one of these babies? This is the conversation that happened back in 1979.
• "I, in fact, was the final private adoption done in Ontario before CAS came in and took over."
• "...here's what I want you to know throughout this whole journey of me sharing this. There has never been a moment in my life where I have not felt loved from inception."
• "I am so grateful to my mom and dad for being the home that my soul and my spirit needed in order to become the young girl, the mother, and the woman that I am today, because they're responsible"
• "...now I think I'm ready to fill out the forms because I want to know more about my health history. I want to know more about things that I need to understand in my own body and if I'm susceptible to anything. Now that we're starting to have children, I want to know it for them."
• "...she says, hi, can I speak with Jennifer? And I said, yep and start crying. She says 'hi, my name is Leslie. I am your birth mom'"
• "But at the same time, it was so emotionally draining and exhausting. Now we are at these points in our life where we have a really great relationship."
• "I believe that I have had such a healthy relationship with my whole adoption story and with all of these new things happening and meeting my whole birth family, because my mom and dad were honest with me from day one."
• "And that we may not arrive here in the family that we are going to be raised by, but we can most definitely end up in a family that we are meant to be loved and raised by. And that is my story"

Additional Information About Jenn -

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.