If you're raising a child who will menstruate someday or is currently menstruating, this one's for you! It can be scary when they start asking you questions about their bodies that you yourself didn't get many answers to when you were there age. That's why Megan created Body Talk Basics, an amazing community of women on Instagram @bodytalkbasics where she talks a lot about our bodies and how to support girls as they grow up, as well as her online course for moms and daughters to take together that is all about puberty and body development. 

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Connect with Megan:

Get the course: https://www.bodytalkbasics.com/

Join the community: @bodytalkbasics

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Ashley Edith is on a mission to normalize womb wisdom and yoni steaming. Her path in this lifestyle started because she suffered painful and debilitating periods that left her fainting, nauseous and calling in sick frequently. Her path to healing eventually led her to a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, who opened up her eyes to natural, holistic healing. She now helps other women heal through yoni steaming and offline and online gatherings.

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Connect with Ashley:

Instagram: @steamaqueen

Guides and women's circles: https://linktr.ee/steamaqueen

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A missing period is not normal. It is an indication of an underlying issue, and a condition that affects your long term health. And despite what your doctor may have told you, the root cause is definitely NOT fixed by taking birth control! Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, which is when your period goes missing for several months, IS something that can be treated with diet and lifestyle changes (even if you're a professional athlete!)

Lindsey Lusson is Registered Dietitian who specializes in disordered eating and infertility. You might know her as food.freedom.fertility on IG, where she educates about Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (HA) or period loss related to over exercise and under eating. She has helped over 100 women recover natural cycles, get pregnant, and heal their relationship with food and exercise along the way.

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Connect with Lindsey:

www.foodfreedomandfertility.com

Instagram: @food.freedom.fertility

Food Freedom Fertility Podcast: HA Recovery and Beyond

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Oftentimes the pushback I hear about the Fertility Awareness Method is that it's unrealistic because you have to remain abstinent during the days you are fertile if you want to avoid pregnancy. But that doesn't have to mean NO sex or orgasms! There are plenty of fun, safe, orgasmic activities you can do by yourself or with your partner during your fertile window to avoid pregnancy and still experience lots of pleasure.

To talk about what these are, I brought on Cat Lygate, Sex & Pleasure Educator, Female Empowerment Coach, and Founder of UnGIRL. UnGIRL is an amazing platform on Instagram (over 59K!) that educates everyone about sex and pleasure in an inclusive, empowering way. There's also a blog, workshops, and courses on her website.

We discuss:

Connect with Cat:

Instagram

Website

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The average woman is exposed to 168 unique chemicals a day, from every day products like cosmetics, perfume, personal care products, cleaning products, what's in our food and water, and more. Several of these chemicals are known carcinogens, and many of them have never actually been tested for safety in humans. And we wonder why so many women AND men struggle with infertility and hormone imbalance issues, and other chronic diseases? These chemicals we're exposed to daily have a major impact.

But our bodies are resilient and there ARE things we can do to reduce our toxic load. That's why I brought on Nika Lawrie, a Multi-Certified Functional and Integrative Nutrition Practitioner, a Consumer Health and Sustainability Consultant specializing in Environmental Toxins, and CEO of Moringa Health + Wellness, LLC a 360° fully immersive brand designed to help support, educate, and counsel women preparing for pregnancy, pregnant, and post-pregnancy mothers to feel great while raising healthy and environmentally conscious children from day one.

We discuss:

Resources Mentioned:

Yuka- Food and Cosmetic Scanner

Think Dirty app

Environmental Working Group Healthy Living App

Toxin free condoms

Connect with Nika:

www.nikalawrie.com

Clean products shop

Conscious Living Podcast

Instagram

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What does inability to lose weight, struggling to get pregnant, PMS/period pain, and lack of motivation around exercise all have in common?

You're not working out in a way that supports your physiology as a woman!

The way we've been brought up to lose weight, gain weight, maintain weight, and work out all supports the MALE body and has been applied to us as "small men."

But we're not small men. Our hormones and metabolism changes throughout the phases of our menstrual cycle, and if you're not adapting your movement to support each phase, it leads to the problems mentioned above.

So I brought on Laura Torbett, the Creator of the Lunae Collective, a roadmap of phasic workouts for menstruators. Laura is a movement enthusiast whose mission supports women from menarche to menopause with cycle-friendly movement practices. 

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Connect with Laura:

Explore the Lunae roadmap of workouts by signing up for a free trial of the monthly membership, and as a listener of the Wombology podcast, your first month is on us! Enter offer code WOMBOLOGY at checkout to get an additional 30 days on top of your 14-day free trial. Choose from a variety of movement modalities including yoga, resistance training, barre, pilates, HIIT, and cardio with beginner and low impact options available to meet you wherever you are on the journey to your health and fitness goals.

Website

Instagram

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When it comes to preventing pregnancy and releasing undesired pregnancies, we have more options than we've been led to believe. Options that have been erased by the patriarchy but that our matriarchal ancestors knew well. In this conversation, we offer these other options of how you can have agency over your own body regardless of what the government decides, or what your doctor tells you is the only way. We're talking about radical body literacy, and employing herbal allies to aid in the prevention and release of pregnancy.

Qiddist Ashe is a medicine woman and female health educator who holds space for transformation as we cultivate the inner and outer resources we need to live fully in our power. She is the founder and creatrix of The Womb Room, an online community for female health & spiritual sovereignty. Informed by her maternal lineage of Ethiopian midwives and her own work in authentic midwifery, functional health, herbalism, somatics, and spiritual sovereignty, Qiddist merges the science and the spirit of female health, orienting to all the ways we can reclaim agency and responsibility for our bodies and our lives.

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Cycle Syncing is the practice of tailoring your nutrition, fitness, lifestyle to the four phases of your menstrual cycle. Why would you do that? It helps reduce symptoms of PMS and period pain, improves your overall quality of life, improves your productivity and energy, and helps strengthen your communication and intimacy with those around you..just to name a few benefits!

I brought on Nicole Bendayan, Cycle Syncing Nutritionist and Menstrual Health Educator to break down cycle syncing for us.

We cover:

Connect with Nicole:

Instagram

TikTok

The Sync Society Academy

Sync'd Supplements

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I know, we usually talk about periods, hormones and wombs around here, so you might be wondering..investing?! What's going on Dana. 

Only 2% of all venture capital funding for start ups in 2021 went to female-founded start-ups...even less so in the women's health (femtech) and sextech space. That means less products and services made by women and minorities, for women and minorities are being brought to market.

Many women have the money to invest, but lack the knowledge or confidence to do so. So our solution here is to provide more women and minorities with education and resources to learn more about investing so they can use their dollars to create huge impact and change.

I'm joined by Carli Sapir, Founding Partner of Amboy Street Ventures, a fund that invests in Women's Health Technology and Sexual Health Technology start ups. She is also the Founder of the Female Founded Club (FFC), a global platform that introduces VC investors to high-quality female founded startups. 

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Resources:

Carli's blog: Amboy Street Ventures Blog

AngelList: You must be an accredited angel investor

Sophia Women: A financial education platform for women to learn about money and investing

You can also check out KickStarter and see if there are any businesses or projects you want to support there

Free Courses & Podcast about finances & wealth: The Clever Girls Know

Connect with Carli:

LinkedIn

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With the Supreme Court decision on whether or not to overturn Roe v. Wade looming, and more and more women becoming aware of the serious negative consequences for birth control on health and fertility, many are left wondering, but how can I avoid pregnancy?!

Enter- The Fertility Awareness Method. This is a completely hormone-free method of birth control that has no side effects AND helps you to actually LEARN about your body. It is backed by scientific research studies demonstrating it is 99.4% effective at preventing unwanted pregnancy with typical use- that's more than the Pill, which is 93%! 

So if you're thinking about transitioning off your medical birth control method, or desiring to become more in tune with your body, tune in as Womb Cycle Guide and Fertility Awareness Method Educator Lindsay Sara breaks down all things FAM with us.

PLEASE NOTE: This conversation does not substitute for working 1-1 with a certified Fertility Awareness Educator. Please do not attempt to use this as a birth control method without proper training. 

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