Wellness Big Sis: The Pod

This week we're pulling up a chair for an expert dinner party with Dr. Aumatma Simmons, a double board certified Naturopathic Doctor and Endocrinologist who has spent close to twenty years in fertility medicine. We get into the real data behind the "fertility drops off a cliff at 35" narrative, what her Restorative Fertility approach actually means, the stress and toxin connections to fertility, and Dr. Aumatma shares one of the tools she gives her own patients to help access their parasympathetic nervous system! This conversation was so healing for me, and I’m so excited to share it with you!

Dr. Aumatma Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holisticfertilitydoctor

Dr. Aumatma Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HolisticFertilityExpert

Dr. Aumatma Clinic: https://holisticfertilityinstitute.com/

Free Fertility Resource: madrefertility.com

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Dr. Karen Cogan has spent 35 years helping athletes perform when it matters most. She has worked with the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and traveled with Team USA to eight Games. Her work rests on one idea: the mind gets trained just like the body, with consistent practice, a plan, and a plan for when the plan falls apart.

On this episode of Five Seats, Dr. Kelsy Vick sits down with Dr. Karen to talk about the biggest misconception about mental training, how mindfulness and mental imagery actually work, and why the field has moved away from just “thinking positive.” Dr. Karen walks through her what if workshops, which prepare athletes for everything from a forgotten credential to a delay right before their turn. She also explains how she’s using virtual reality and AI to help athletes prepare for venues they’ve never seen, and what a home Games at LA 2028 could mean for the athletes heading there. Along the way, they look at how these same tools apply to a big presentation, a job interview, or any day that doesn’t go to plan.

Then Dr. Karen answers the Five Seats close differently than any guest so far: she fills her table with five generations of women from her own family.

Five Seats is a dinner party style interview series from By Maven Media, where ambitious women share how they earned their seat in the room and who they’d want at their own table. New episodes every Tuesday.

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Creatine has gone from gym bro staple to every woman's group chat, but most of the research behind it was done in men. In this episode I'm giving you a research update on creatine for women in their 20s and 30s, building on my January episode with Sam Moore and her work with Dr. Abbie Smith Ryan's lab at UNC.

We chat about why women might respond differently to creatine, what happens to water weight when you load during your luteal phase, the early research on sleep and mood, and what's still unknown. You'll walk away with a simple, science backed way to decide whether creatine fits your routine.

Previous Creatine Episodes:

Dr. Sam Moore: https://wellness-big-sis-the-pod.captivate.fm/episode/goalchella-the-science-behind-training-like-a-girl-with-dr-sam-moore-how-to-be-adaptable-resilient-attuned-to-our-female-physiology

"Creatine for women": https://wellness-big-sis-the-pod.captivate.fm/episode/114-creatine-for-women-creatine-gummies-the-real-science-vs-the-pink-tax

Dr. Stacey Ellery: https://wellness-big-sis-the-pod.captivate.fm/episode/mamapalooza-creatine-for-women-mama-and-baby-from-conception-to-postpartum-with-dr-stacey-ellery-phd

Dr. Katie Hirsch: https://wellness-big-sis-the-pod.captivate.fm/episode/49-female-specific-fueling-training-performance-with-dr-katie-hirsch-fasting-creatine-the-menstrual-cycle-more

• Creatine supplementation in women's health, a lifespan perspective (2021): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7998865/
• Creatine loading and exercise recovery across the menstrual cycle (2023): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10459976/
• Fluid distribution across menstrual phases with creatine (2023): link to be added
• Creatine in women's health, bridging the gap (2025): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12086928/
• Creatine and sleep in naturally menstruating women (2024): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11357324/
• Creatine and escitalopram in women with depression (2012): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22864465/
• Creatine safety in females, systematic review (2020): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7353222/

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Women are about twice as likely as men to live with chronic pain conditions like IBS, endometriosis, migraines and fibromyalgia. On October 1, the journal Science dedicated a special issue to women's health, including a review on why women experience pain differently, and in this episode I'm breaking it down for you.

We chat about how estrogen and your gut bacteria team up to turn up gut pain, the immune cells in women that make their own painkiller, why pain can take longer to resolve in women, and what the research says about migraines, fibromyalgia and knee arthritis. I'm also giving you an honest look at what's proven in people versus what's still mostly mouse research, plus three things you can actually do with this information.

The science of pain: https://wellness-big-sis-the-pod.captivate.fm/episode/copy-of-pod-83-pain/

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Flag football makes its Olympic debut at LA 2028, and Deliah Autry-Jones is working toward that stage as a member of Team USA Women's Flag Football. On this episode of Five Seats, Dr. Kelsy Vick sits down with Deliah to talk about how she got her seat at the table, the mental resilience it takes to compete at the elite level, and where women's flag football goes from here. Through CAMP13, she's also investing in the next generation of athletes.

We close, as always, with the five people Deliah would seat at her own dinner party: Simone Biles, for putting her mental health first and standing by that choice; Paige Bueckers, for playing with joy and still delivering in the big moments; Serena Williams, for choosing family on her own terms; Alex Morgan, for carrying women's soccer with grace; and her middle school self, who had no idea she'd grow into an athlete with an education and a voice.

Five Seats is a dinner party style interview series from By Maven Media, where ambitious women share how they earned their seat in the room and who they'd want at their own table. New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Deliah:

Camp 13: https://www.camp13.org/

Delilah’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenameisdeliah/

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Porter Geer kept seeing "angel investor" in the LinkedIn bios of people she admired, so she decided to learn what it meant. Almost three years later, she and her two cofounders run Girl Math Capital, a community bringing more women into alternative investing, from angel investing to real estate. On this episode of Five Seats, Dr. Kelsy Vick sits down with Porter to talk about investing beyond the stock market.

Porter explains what alternative investing actually is, and the foundations to have in place before you start: no high interest debt, an emergency fund, and retirement and public market investments already working for you. She walks through what it means to be an accredited investor and the options for people who aren't there yet. She also shares her approach to angel investing, which starts with small checks and a target of around 30 investments. Then there's the diligence framework she uses to decide whether a company deserves her money: team, market, product, financials, and traction. You'll also hear why just because you love a product doesn't mean it's a good business, and why she thinks the secret to investing is that it's far more fun than anyone lets on.

Girl Math Capital started as a group chat with a goal: each friend would put $3,000 to work in one year. Now it's welcoming its fourth cohort. Porter closes by filling the five seats at her own dinner party, with a table that includes Dolly Parton, Sara Blakely, and Alexis Ohanian.

Five Seats is a dinner party style interview series from By Maven Media, where ambitious women share how they earned their seat in the room and who they'd want at their own table. New episodes every Tuesday.

This episode is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice.

Connect with Porter and Girl Math Capital:

Girl Math Capital: https://girlmath.capital/

Girl Math Capital Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlmathcapital/

Girl Math Capital Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@girlmathcapital

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Rebecca Metters doesn't vibe code. She calls what she does directed intelligence: using AI to build real products while understanding every line it changes. It's how she built Gythr, an all in one platform for event organizers, without a technical background. On this episode of Five Seats, Dr. Kelsy Vick sits down with Rebecca, founder of Gythr, COO of Black is Tech, and part of the team at Gauntlet AI, to talk about using AI to build human connection.

Rebecca shares why she built Gythr so she could finally experience the rooms she was creating, and how she turned conference data into a Spotify Wrapped for attendees. She also walks through the AI helpers that keep her honest in her personal life, like a workout tracker that won't show her morning reports until she logs a workout, and a bot named Martha who tells her to stop spending money. You'll also learn her step by step method for building an AI voice profile, so your drafts actually sound like you and not like a corporate email.

We also get into why she refuses to believe anything is ever "enough," why curiosity matters more than knowledge, and why you can't shape where AI goes from the sidelines. Then Rebecca fills the five seats at her own dinner party, from the family who taught her to always stay and help clean up to the female founders who showed her how to show up as herself.

Five Seats is a dinner party style interview series from By Maven Media, where ambitious women share how they earned their seat in the room and who they'd want at their own table. New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Rebecca:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccametters/

Gythr: https://www.gythr.com/

Resources:

Grok Bot: https://x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot

WhisprFlow: https://wisprflow.ai/

Granola: https://www.granola.ai/

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The craziest things we've done in the name of wellness. Dr. Kelsy Vick is taking it back to girl talk, inspired by Liz Plosser's Best Case Scenario article In the Name of Wellness.

KV shares her biggest wellness regrets, from restrictive dieting and under-fueling in college to buying every supplement she heard about on podcasts without any blood work. Plus TSA powder horror stories, her carry on shoe hack for walking heavy vacations, the apple cider vinegar shot era, two years without dessert (dark chocolate excluded), mouth taping, skipping food on travel days to help with travel constipation, and why driving gloves might be the next cool girl accessory for hand skin care.

Wellness trends come and go and the research keeps evolving, so this one is about laughing at ourselves and learning along the way. Send KV the craziest thing you've done in the name of wellness!

Liz Plosser, In the Name of Wellness: https://lizplosser.substack.com/p/in-the-name-of-wellness

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Where female agency shapes culture. In this bonus mini episode, Dr. Kelsy Vick introduces Five Seats, the new interview series she's been building behind the scenes during the Trimester Zero Podcast Festival.

Each episode of Five Seats features one woman who made space in a room that wasn't always built for her. KV asks how she got her seat at the table, whether it was given, earned, or built, which rules she follows and which she refuses to, and, to close, the five people she'd seat at her own table. Wellness is still her home base, but this series is where she gets to be the one learning, right alongside you.

Season one topics include using AI to build human connection, investing beyond the stock market, mental resilience when the stakes are highest, training for LA 2028, and using breath in stressful moments.

Wellness Big Sis still drops every Monday. Five Seats has its own feed, releases every Tuesday, and premieres Tuesday, October 6 with three episodes.

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Almost every preconception conversation leaves out half the equation. In this episode, part of our Trimester Zero festival, Dr. Kelsy Vick sits down in person with Camryn Novak, co founder of the men's fertility and performance brand TIES, to finally talk about male fertility. They cover the top reasons men contribute to infertility, why the male factor stays so invisible even though men are involved in about half of infertility cases, and what actually supports sperm health, from lifestyle to the nutrients men tend to be missing. Camryn also breaks down what it really takes to build a supplement company you can trust. This is the side of the fertility story you and your partner deserve to hear.

TIES website: https://www.allourties.com/

TIES Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allourties/

TIES Instagram post mentioned in episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbHPtjBiUA6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

TIES TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allourties

TIES on X: https://x.com/tiesnutrition

TIES LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allourties

Camryn Novak on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camryn-novak

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