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Women's Wellness AuthorityEpisode 4: Is Mold the Missing Link? Symptoms, Myths & Healing with Dr. Diana StaffordCould mold be the root cause of your mysterious symptoms? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Diana Stafford, a board-certified MD and mold-literate functional medicine doctor, to explore how mold exposure silently disrupts your health. From fatigue, brain fog, and hormone imbalances to gut issues and chronic inflammation, we unpack why mold is often misdiagnosed or overlooked in conventional medicine.If you’ve ever felt dismissed by doctors or frustrated by unexplained health issues, this episode may finally help you connect the dots.You’ll learn:What mold really is and where it h...2025-06-1148 min
Who Are You Now?Ep. 9 From Confusion to Clarity: Understanding Your Hormone HealthIn this expert-led episode, Chrissie sits down with Dr. John Alevizos to unpack the often-misunderstood world of hormone health. Together, they explore how to approach your labs, the real difference between "normal" and "optimal" and why midlife symptoms are frequently dismissed. You'll Learn: What your hormone labs really reveal about your health The difference between estradiol, estrogen, and progestin Why free T3 matters more than TSH for thyroid function How progesterone supports mood, sleep, and hormone balance The role of testosterone in energy, libido, and pelvic health How vitamin D, cortisol, and inflammation influence midlife symptoms 2025-05-2758 min
1st Optimal PodcastPerimenopause Health Coach AnastasiaTired of feeling off and not knowing why? This episode is for YOU.Hormone shifts during perimenopause can feel like a rollercoaster — weight gain, brain fog, low energy, mood swings. But the good news? You’re not broken. And you’re not alone.🎙️ On this week’s episode of the 1st Optimal Podcast, we sat down with Anastasi Bennett, a Perimenopause Health Coach who’s changing the game for women 35+.We talk real strategies for:✅ Balancing your hormones naturally✅ Nutrition that supports energy and weight loss✅ Training smart through hormonal shifts✅ Why so m...2025-05-1940 min
Lizzie Ens Show087: Always Bloated? Hidden Causes No One Talks About (Hormones, Gut, Candida + Cortisol)"Why am I bloated even when I eat healthy?"If you've asked yourself this, you're not alone. In this episode, we break down the root causes of chronic bloating—far beyond just gluten and dairy. I pull back the curtain on one of the most common (and most misunderstood) wellness complaints: bloating. If you’ve been cutting out foods with no relief, feeling uncomfortable in your clothes, or waking up already inflamed, this is a must-listen.Here's what we dive into:The real connection between bloating and hormone imbalances (hello, cortisol and estrogen)Why cand...2025-05-0633 min
Sky Women's HealthEpisode 200: Supporting the emotional journey of menopause with Mandi Dixon, LPCIn this episode of the Sky Women’s Health Podcast, Dr. Carolyn Moyers is joined by Mandi Dixon, LPC — a licensed professional counselor with a passion for walking alongside women navigating the menopause transition. A member of the Menopause Society and a candidate for the MSCP (Menopause Society Certified Practitioner) certification this June, Mandi brings a unique blend of therapeutic insight and evidence-based care to a stage of life that’s too often misunderstood or minimized.Together, we explore:-The emotional and psychological changes women experience during perimenopause and menopa...2025-04-1328 min
Sky Women's HealthEpisode 194: Understanding the Musculoskeletal Syndrome of MenopauseAn often-overlooked aspect of menopause: the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause (MSM). Inspired by Dr. Vonda Wright's research and The Observer’s article "Feel it in Your Bones: Taking the Pain Out of Osteoporosis," this episode explores how menopause impacts bone density, muscle mass, and overall physical function.
Learn how declining estrogen levels lead to joint pain, muscle weakness, and osteoporosis—and what you can do about it. From strength training and nutrition to hormone therapy and lifestyle changes, Dr. Moyers provides actionable strategies to stay active, strong, and in control.
Don’t let MSM define your qual...2024-11-1816 min
Orgasmic BirthBalanced Body Approach For Birth And Pelvic Health with Rachael Van SchoickEp 121 Description: “If we mentally prepare ourselves for even the unknown and not think we know everything, that's the first step into just being okay with any direction that happens.” —Rachael Van Schoick Maintaining a balanced body and pelvic health is crucial for a positive pregnancy and birth experience. Proper alignment, mobility, and pelvic floor awareness can help facilitate an easier labor and postpartum recovery. Integrating holistic wellness practices throughout the childbearing year can empower women to embrace this transformative journey with confidence. This week, we are joined by Rachael Van Schoick...2024-11-1333 min
Women's Fitness PodcastDiastasis 101 with Antony LoAntony Lo is a physiotherapist, educator and podcast host from Australia who works at the junction of Musculoskeletal/Ortho, Sports, and Pelvic Health. He runs The Physio Detective Clinic, My PT Education, The Women’s Health Podcast, and The Diastasis Project. He helps the general public and health and fitness professionals who struggle to progress women to moderate-to-high intensity exercise by cutting through the BS and thinking outside the box so they confidently assist people to achieve their goals. He has been involved in antenatal and postnatal education and management for his whole career (since 1997). Through par...2024-07-2941 min
Your Pelvic HealthEp. 28 - Busting Myths About Diastasis Rectus AbdominusIn today's episode we are chatting with Antony Lo. Antony Lo is a physiotherapist, educator and podcast host from Australia who works at the junction of Musculoskeletal/Ortho, Sports, and Pelvic Health. He runs The Physio Detective Clinic, My PT Education, The Women’s Heal4th Podcast, and The Diastasis Project. He helps the general public and health and fitness professionals who struggle to progress their clients by cutting through the BS and thinking outside the box so they confidently assist people to achieve their goals. Antony has a wife and 3 children, living in the best city in the wo...2023-07-2552 min
My FertologyEP 71: How to Help IVF Success Naturally - Using TEAS (ft. Dr. Lee Hullendar Rubin)Trying to have a baby but feeling like you’re running out of time, have diminished ovarian reserve (DOR), PCOS, recurrent pregnancy loss, or poor sperm quality?
Check out the findings of these studies using Transcutaneous Electro-acupoint Stimulation (TEAS) used to boost fertility:
In IVF when TEAS was used, there were:
- 42% more clinical pregnancies
- 9% more quality embryos
- 45% fewer chemical pregnancies
- 42% more live births
In cases of PCOS:
TEAS reduced androgens (male hormones), improved sensitivity to insulin and...2023-03-1535 min
The Diana ShowEp-239 Here’s Why Journaling Is The Most Badass Habit For You This Year!Journaling is one of those things that I have always said I was going to do and never really put the effort in. This year I started a journaling practice that was rigid and took a lot of effort, the payoff was huge! I learned more this year than I ever have about myself in my entire life and I think that you can benefit just like I did. Listen to this episode and find out how you can easily make journaling a daily habit that can transform your life in 2023! #newpodcastalert #2023goalspodcast #womenspodcast #womenshealthpodcast #weightlosspodcast2022-11-0917 min
The Diana ShowEp-236 We Are Stronger Than We Think! Cultivating Inner Mental StrengthPhysical strength is not so different than mental strength. Neither attribute are something that most people are just naturally born with. We have to find a way to cultivate physical AND mental strength within ourselves to get through whatever life throws at us. In this episode I talk about the hard work it takes to build up that mental toughness and be able to handle anything that is served up to us in life. #womenencouragingwomen #youarestrongpodcast #womenshealthpodcast #yougotthisgirl #strongmom2022-10-3116 min
Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastSeason 3 Episode 2 The Best Podcast on Ayurvedic MedicineListen: Into Health Coach Debra Smith Torrence and her Co-host Health Coach Sharon Niemi as they provide more understanding into the world of Ayurvedic Medicine. Ayurveda Medicine. Is a lifestyle of being intentional mindfulness lifestyle system which originated in India and is today practiced worldwide. My Co-Host Sharon Niemi who is an expert in Ayurvedic Medicine has been a Practitioner and Health Coach for over 15 years. Her private practice, Your Way Wellness,specializes in permanent solutions to weight, aging,and other women's health concerns by fixing the roo...2022-01-3154 min
Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastSeason 3- Episode 1 Happy New Year!! Let's Start With Love, The Best Podcast On The Fundamentals Of LoveListen In: Love is one of the most powerful emotions a human being will ever experience. Love nurtured and reciprocated mutually leaves room for love to be reinvented in the most positive ways continually reinventing itself between two people over and over again creating growth, wisdom and a positive cycle of life emotionally. We also must look at love when it is not reciprocated or shared in a positive way may lead to control and manipulation and from there also you will experience growth and hurt. The most important thing you can do for yours...2022-01-031h 30
The Pelvic Floor Project34. How much do I need to engage my core? with Antony LoIn this episode, I sit down with physiotherapist, Antony Lo to discuss:Common myths about the core:“ I have a weak core”“You need to actively engage your core all the time”“Suck in your tummy”“Maintain a neutral spine”“Doming/coning = danger”“Your TA isn’t firing”“You need to master exercises on your back before progressing”How we as health care and fitness professionals should continue to question our knowledge base and adapt the messaging we are providing our clients to stay currentDifference between what we think we know and what is trueAntony Lo is a physiotherapist from Aust...2021-12-131h 26
Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastSeason 2 Episode 14 Winter Proof Your Body IT'S Going To Be ColdListen In: Our episode today is about bone, muscle and joint health. Informative session on How to support your mobility interns of winter and a continual life style change. Use it before you use it,We all know with the winter and colder weather coming it’s time to bundle up and take care of your body. Many times, people take for granted how cold it may be out and how It has a direct effect on your bones, muscles and joints. Many say oh I am just running out for a fe...2021-11-091h 01Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastSeason 2 Episode 13 The Other Side of FearListen In: Health and Wellness Podcast Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastCertified Life and Health Coach Debra Smith Torrence your host of the Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness Podcast is here for another episode centered around health coaching Taking a chance on you, confronting your fear of not succeeding, and taking a chance on you. You are the needle mover; you are the sure bet of who you are. You are the winner of your life, take control of it. You are the ultimate decision-maker of your life. Tell yourself I am the deal, and I am going in...2021-09-2759 minAuspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastSeason 2 Episode 12 Those Things Called Hormones, You Can’t live withoutListen In: Certified Life and Health Coach Debra Smith Torrence your host of the Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness Podcast is here for another episode centered around health coachingThis is a powerful episode about how your body uses neurotransmitter throughout your body with the use of hormones. If your body is producing too little or too much of a hormone, it can make you very ill and set you up for a number of serious health problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, anxiety, depression, PTSD and auto immune diseases. the...2021-07-2751 minAuspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastWhat is Self and Why is Self (Humility, Ego or What?? Rising up)Certified Life and Health Coach Debra Smith Torrence your host of the Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness Podcast is here for another episode in personal and professional improvement.Listen In: Todays Podcast is Centered around Jealousy, Envy and Humility. Addressing the sheer root of jealousy and why jealousy and envy are destructive behaviors and most of all how to rise above it when you are the target and realizing you are projecting this emotion onto others.Jealousy is a root which can certainly destroy the peaceful and beauty of your personal landscape in your lif...2021-07-1954 min
The Women’s Health Podcast054 - Kieran Richardson - What Is The Future Of Physical Therapy and Evidence-Based Practice?Today we have the pleasure of speaking to Kieran Richardson.
Kieran is a Specialist Physiotherapist and the Director of Global Specialist Physiotherapy, a consultancy company providing Professional Development, Formal Mentoring and Non-surgical opinions for patients.
Kieran and his team of academics, expert clinicians and researchers consult to multiple clinics and health care professionals in Perth, Western Australia, and well as nationally and internationally via online platforms such as Zoom.
He also has various online courses for both clinicians and patients, specifically covering non-surgical management of ACL tears.
He also has successfully ove...2021-07-011h 06Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastPut It On Me!! The Spirit and Soul Detox Part 5 of the 5 Part SeriesListen In: Becoming in Tune with your spirit and soul. Today’s Podcast is the last of our 5-part series. Detoxification Mind, Body, Spirit and Soul. This is my favorite of all 5 The remedy to detox your spirit and soul. How do we do that? Like everything else mental and spiritual nourishment With the synergy of soul and spirit you will become much more confident and stronger each day. Listen in and learn the technique for achieving synergy spiritually with one's spirit and soul. You will master the task of be...2021-06-081h 06Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastSeason 2 Episode 9 Detoxing The Body Part 4 of 5 The Endocannabinoid SystemListen In; You all know efficacy is very important to me so I went to the source. Listen to this article By Leafly written December 13,2016. This is an interview with DR. Lumir Hanus Who Discovered the First Endocannabinoid2017 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most important discoveries in cannabinoid science. On March 24, 1992, Lumír Hanuš, a Czech analytical chemist working in Israel with American pharmacologist William Devane, isolated the first known endocannabinoid in the human brain. They named it anandamide, after the Sanskrit word for joy or bliss.Both researchers were working—and Mr. Han...2021-06-011h 16Auspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastSeason 2 Episode 8 Detoxing The Body Part 3 of 5 The systems of the Body With NutritionListen In: I would personally like to thank all my listeners, friends, family, business contacts and everyone for supporting me with the passing of my twin sister Leticia to covid-19. I felt like my world had stopped. I have been away for about a little over a month.It has been hard for me to deal but I had to come back to myself, my business and my friends, my family, my business vendors, at my lowest point I could hear my sister saying get up you got this girl, come on let us do what we do...2021-05-111h 11
Bits of MeEp. 33: Helen Ledwick on pelvic organ prolapseThis episode of Bits of Me feels quite special, because Helen Ledwick is a mum of two who decided to start a podcast about women's health after learning that she had pelvic organ prolapse – which, if you know anything about the origins of Bits of Me, you'll know is exactly what I did!Anyway – Helen is just lovely, and in this episode she generously shares her experience of noticing a bulge, panicking a little, and going on the journey of figuring out how to deal with and live with prolapse. We talk about self-image and identity, pelvic floo...2021-04-2229 minAuspicious Wellness Optimal Wellness PodcastGet Out of the Box Part 2 Detox Your Body (5 Part Series This Week It is The Circulatory and Respiratory System Detox)Listen In: This Week We Highlight the Lymphatic System (Immune System), The Circulatory System and The Respiratory System. (This is Part Two)This is a 5 Part Series Part one Detoxing you Mind (This Week) Part Two Detoxing your Body (The Following Podcast) Nervous System. Circulatory and Lymphatic System Part Three, Detoxing Your Body ( Respiratory System, Digestive System)Part Four, Detoxing Your Body (Skeletal System and Endocannabinoid System)Part Five Detoxing you soul and Spirit (The Following Podcast) It is important to understand how the system...2021-03-241h 01