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EP 229: Psychological flexibility, burnout and sitting the f*ck down

Release Date: 11/10/2025

EP 237: Histamine Intolerance, MCAS, Long COVID & Hormone Symptoms: What Women Are Missing

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Megan Crozier is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP) and Restorative Wellness Practitioner specializing in women’s hormones, digestion, and metabolism. She helps health-conscious women who feel like they’re “doing everything right” uncover the real why behind symptoms like bloating, low energy, PMS, mood issues, and stubborn weight changes—so they can stop relying on trendy diets and finally get real answers. Her work combines functional lab testing with an individualized, root-cause nutrition approach that supports the whole body and prioritizes sustainable,...

EP 236: Ozempic, Diet Culture & Strength Training: What Fitness Is Getting Very Wrong

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Meet Caitlin Birnie! She was born and raised in Massachusetts, where she currently lives with her husband and 2 daughters (5 & 3) . She's a former athlete and marathon runner who fell in love with strength training. Now she's just trying to find the easiest way to balance training, running, nutrition and life. Caitlin has been in the fitness industry as a personal trainer & nutrition coach for 10+ years. And in 2020 her own business Footloose Fitness was born. Caitlin coaches women to build simple sustainable habits that improve their relationship with food & exercise through...

EP 235: Why you’re anemic, cold plunging for women and gym bro grifters

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MS RDN CDCES is a Certified Diabetes Educator and Dietitian focused on improving women’s health through simple and sustainable inventions using blood sugar balance and food as medicine. Whitney has been voted best Dallas Dietitian since 2019 and has helped thousands of busy individuals find joyful health through her virtual practice, Whitness Nutrition. She has been featured on ABC, Business Insider, NBC, Real Simple & D Magazine In this episode, we chat about: Why are so many women anemic? What are co-factors and why you need to know about them We normalize all types of pathology in...

EP 234: The problems with GLP1’s, where to start for exercise and perimenopause

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Briana Sidwell is a women’s health and strength coach who helps women 30+ build real strength, confidence, and trust in their bodies — particularly as they navigate perimenopause, menopause, and the often-overlooked in-between years. Before entering the fitness industry, Briana spent years in corporate America, where she saw firsthand how chronic stress, long hours, and “pushing through” quietly erode health. She didn’t grow up athletic and didn’t begin structured strength training until her late 20s — a perspective that deeply informs her coaching and allows her to meet...

EP 233: Pogs, dungeons + dragons + big light hell

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Jess Wallace - adventure host, travel lover, online business manager, teacher turned entrepreneur and promoter of living a big, authentic + full life is back on the pod! She specializes in helping female entrepreneurs thrive in their businesses. Jess and Danielle host all women adventure trips to create a space for women to connect, see the world together, make lifelong friends, and unlock core memories. We love getting women outside, connecting, adventuring, betting on themselves, taking up space, doing it scared, building confidence, living big + chasing magic. In this...

EP 232: Longevity, Healthspan + the importance of critical thinking

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Emily is a mission-driven registered dietitian who specializes in individualized longevity strategy. She combines expert guidance with consistent accountability to help clients transform healthy choices into sustainable habits - all while having fun along the way. Her holistic approach addresses nutrition, sleep, stress, lifestyle, exercise, hormone balance, and gut health. Emily infuses empowerment, empathy, and a commitment to enhanced quality of life into everything she does, both with clients and throughout her community. In this episode we talked about: Unrealistic expectations in...

EP 231: The XX body, find out what vagina butt is + some MFP rage

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EP 230: Vitamin D, Fat Bear Week + the cure for your headaches

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Dr. Gominak grew up and attended college in California, moved to Houston for medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, where she received an MD degree in 1983. Her Neurology residency was done at the Harvard affiliated, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She practiced Neurology in the San Francisco Bay area from 1991-2004 then moved with her husband to Tyler, Texas. Starting in 2004 she began to dedicate more of her practice to the treatment of sleep and sleep disorders. In 2012 and 2016 she published two pivotal articles about the global struggle with worsening sleep, the...

EP 229: Psychological flexibility, burnout and sitting the f*ck down

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Dr. Samantha Turetsky is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience. She specializes in treating eating disorders, perfectionism, and overcontrol. She loves helping high achievers who have it all together on paper but feel unfulfilled and disconnected move from rigidity to flexibility, get out of "grind" culture, and find more joy and play in their lives. She's also passionate about helping women challenge societal norms and expectations to find out what they really want, not what they think they should want. Sami left group practice to start her own private...

EP 228: Vivid dreams, palate expanders and palmetto bugs

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Sami left group practice to start her own private practice in 2024 and has recently relocated from Florida to Seattle. Her greatest asset as a therapist is that she is authentically herself in sessions, with therapeutic doses of sass, sarcasm, humor, cursing, and all. She's part of PSYPACT and can practice virtually in 43 states and is currently accepting new clients. In her spare time, you can find her in nature, supporting the local art and theatre scene, with her partner, or with her rescue dog Lala.

In this episode we chat about:

Delete my fitness pal MY GOD
Is how much you think about food healthy?
“Clean eating” is a dirty phrase
How do you determine your worth
Permission to not keep striving
Burnout in women and society
Pregnancy and postpartum culture
Oh following words not my actions
Psychological flexibility
Pp/pregnancy culture exercise

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