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Master Your Cycle, Master Your Life with Period and Fertility expert, Berrion Berry · All In with Allie

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  All right, welcome to All In with Ali today. I am so excited
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  because I have somebody on here that I've been following for years and I've always
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  admired because I always I admire people who hone in on one thing and like
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  go super super deep and stay there right. It's not like they're you know,
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  they're an expert for a little bit on something and they bounce to something
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  else. You are this person, and I love following you because you are
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  the period infertility expert and you are just like your content everything you put out
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  is so on point and I am just pumped to have you here because we
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  have so many questions around cycle sinking and our hormones and all the things.
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  So welcome to the podcast. Barry Berry. Thanks. I am like trying
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  to be chill right now, but it is such an honor to be here
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  and I can't wait for our conversation to pour into the community. And this
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  is this is literally like on my list of podcasts to be on. So
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  I'm I'm say okay, good because you were on my list too, like,
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  and we talked about this before we started recording. She was like,
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  I've been following you for years. I was like, I've been following you
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  for years, what are you talking about? So I'm just I really appreciate
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  you doing this because this is obviously everybody who I mean, I assume late
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  nine point nine to nine percent of people who listen to this are women.
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  A lot of them are moms, and and most of them are business owners
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  or aspiring business owners, or maybe they do a little bit of both.
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  And our hormones and our periods are a very large part of the conversation.
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  So this is something that affects us all in one way, shape or form.
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  And this is something that I cannot talk about because I don't know what
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  the hell I'm talking about. So this is where I go find the expert.
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  And here she is, by the way, her name is Barry Barry,
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  Barryon, Barry, but Barry Berry, and I just think that's the
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  coolest thing. So I feel like I finally grew into my government name.
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  I tell people like I finally grew into the barry On because I'm I'll be
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  thirty next year, but I still just prefer the Barry because I just feel
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  like it's just kind of cute and fun too. It's so cute, it's
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  so fun Berryon's hot too, though, yeah, but it's like grown,
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  you know, and like sometimes I don't want that like grown lady energy.
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  Sometimes I want like the fun, like flirty energy, not the That's how
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  I feel too about Alison. Yeah. So I whenever I was picking up
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  my brand name, I was like, Alie Reeves, you know that sounds
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  good together, It's you know, Alison Reeves is just more of a helpful
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  plus Alison. Like when I hear Alison, I immediately hear my parents because
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  they both called me Alison, and you know, and then like Chris never
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  calls me Alison. So I had to change my name on Instagram to Alison
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  so I thought I could get verified. And now like when some people message
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  me, they're like, hey Alison, I'm like, oh God, don't
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  call me that. It's so yeah, it's way too grown. And I'm
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  thirty five years old, Like I'm I'm or about the grown, but like
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  it's too much. You're fully in like that womanhood and I'm still like I
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  feel like thirty is that benchmarker of like I am a woman now and so
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  I'm slowly approaching it and I feel like that has just changed so much about
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  how I do what I do and why I do what I do now,
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  So I get it. So how do you do or how how did you
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  get into take us? Take us on the journey of how you came to
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  be the expert on periods and fertility and all of the things that you now
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  help women with. Yeah, I really wish I could say this is what
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  the life path was for me. I really wish I could be that guy.
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  I just came down and was like buried periods. At an early age,
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  I had always wanted to be a pediatrician. And then when I was
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  ten years old, my dad passed away from cancer and he was misdiagnosed.
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  They told him he had a pinched nerve. For literally my entire life,
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  it was a tumor. So in that moment, you know, my dad
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  got a diagnosis in March and passed away in June, so it was very
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  quick. But in that moment, I remember being like, I cannot trust
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  the medical system. Something is off. So I was like, I'm going
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  to be a lawyer. I'm going to be everybody's pain in the butt.
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  And then I was like, there's got to be another to change laws around
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  medicine, specifically because I had a really great relationship with my dad growing up,
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  and it just rocked me to my core that the people who were supposed
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  to help him and heal him didn't know what they were talking about. But
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  at a young age, you don't understand all of the red tape and the
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  nuances. So as I'm getting ready to go to college, I need to
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  declare a major. So I picked political science. Figure out do a concentration
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  in international studies and women's women's rights. Fine, no big deal, Like
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  I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I needed to do
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  something because my mom was like, you're not going to be undecided, It's
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  okay, fun whatever. I get to college and I'm like, oh,
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  I should go into politics. I should be a diplomat. That way I
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  can work in women's health and women's rights and really make an impact. Long
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  story short, got my dees. Ended up going into corporate America the first
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  time around, working for Volkswagen Group of America in litigation of all things.
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  And it's because I speak German too. But about six months in, nah,
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  I knew I wasn't going to stay in corporate And one of the things
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  people kept saying to me while I worked corporate was how are you in such
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  good shape? Why do you eat the way that you do? How are
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  you so healthy? I'm twenty three at the time, What do you mean?
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  How am myself? I'm twenty three? Like what do you expect?
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  Like? Okay? But I started looking around and noticing like I was in
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  the best shape. But I was also a collegiate athlete. I was also
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  really interested in holistic health and wellness. So it all kind of just came
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  together indirectly right out of college. And I guess somewhere along the way,
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  I came across YouTubers and I was like, if these girls can make money
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  online, I can do it too, and I can talk about health something
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  that matters, Like I can really make this impact. And I quit my
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  corporate job after a year, worst thing to do, best decision I ever
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  made, because it was just me. I didn't have any other responsibilities.
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  It was just like me taking care of me. After a year of struggling
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  with online coaching and blogging, I got very humbled and went back to Corporate
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  America just for COVID to happen and to find out that I was non essential
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  now the second time I was in corporate. I was really there with a
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  plan to leave, and I had understood the online coaching space more. I
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  knew I wanted to stay in the health space. I knew I want to
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  online coach. But you know how they always say, like you need to
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  have like a why or a problem you solve or something. I mean,
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  you are the coach, right, so you know, Like, and I'm
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  like, what's nice story? Like I've always been in a good state of
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  health, Like I don't have this like crazy like weight loss, transformation or
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  anything like that to share. And then I was interviewing someone for my podcast
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  and she was like, periods aren't supposed to be painful? What, ma'am?
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  Hold on, what do you mean? I had never heard that,
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  and by that time I had had a period for like twelve years. I
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  did not believe her. And from that moment forward, I have done everything
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  under the sun to learn about menstrual cycles, to get more educated in terms
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  of certifications, from being an integrative health practitioner to being a fertility awareness educator
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  to you know, personal training and nutrition, and it all just kind of
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  came together without me necessarily knowing, but following those breadcrumbs and here we are
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  several years later, almost completely full circle, focused on women's health and women's
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  rights, but concentrated on periods, PMS and really fertility altogether. So that's
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  beautiful. Thank you for sharing that with us. And so when there was
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  that moment where the person on your podcast is like, periods aren't supposed to
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  be payple? Were yours painful? And you were like, wait a second,
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  okay, cool, I had the most Like if your period was your
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  lover, what would it say about your relationship? That's one of my favorite
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  questions to ask people, because we have relationships with everything in our life,
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  and my relationship was my period. It was so toxic. I was like
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  mea, why are you here? And it's so crazy because I hated my
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  period so much. I hated the pain in the inconvenience of having to like
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  change a pad or a tampon. And when I was growing up, like
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  we were also very irregular, Like my relationship with my period was so complicated
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  because I mean I would have a period, it would be there consistently for
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  like four months, and then it would disappear because my cortisol levels were so
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  high. I was an elite athlete in high school, and then I went
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  on to be a collegiate athlete and I got on birth control. So then
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  I started feeling out of control of my body. So it's like one thing
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  after another. But I didn't know any of this. If I knew then
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  what I know now, there's no way I would have ever got on birth
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  control. There's no way my period would have been painful. There's no way
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  I would have actually worked out and trained the way that I did. Now
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  when I'm like looking back at like my old accomplishments, when I'm having like
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  a bad day, I can literally look at a race and be like I
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  was opulating. I can tell by the way that my skin looks. I
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  can by the running form like I know to the tea. But you know,
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  my mom, she had painful periods. My grandma had painful periods.
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  Every day, my grandma calls me. She's like, I just saw your
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  little instagram live and you did such a great job. Grandma. Why do
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  you have an Instagram like you are eighty years old? She's so cool.
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  I like that my brother's fiance did it, and it's like a whole thing,
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  and I'm just like, because now she knows every single thing and wants
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  every photo. But yeah, I had the worst relationship, and now it
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  brings me the most joy. Like my parients supposed to start probably a day
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  or two, and I'm just chilling like, yeah, this feels good to
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  slow down. Oh wow, Okay, so much to unpack there. And
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  I'm so sorry to hear about what happened to your dad and what you said
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  brought up some thoughts that I that go through my mind, not just about
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  periods and women's health, but just health in general and people. I mean,
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  it's mostly the people that do you know, create our products like birth
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  control tampons. You know, like there are some things that they put in
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  our products that make zero sense, and it's like who can you trust?
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  Right, Like why do we have fragrances in tampons and pads? Please?
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  Why? Why? There are things like when they put food coloring in infant
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  tail and all infants for infants, Why are we doing that? They're infants.
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  We know that that food coloring is not good for our kids. There
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  are things like that that drive me insane and I get conspiratorial really quick too.
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  Yeah, that's why I was like, yes, I will be on
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  the podcast. We are on the same wavelengths with yeah, so many things.
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  I mean, I'm sorry, but yeah, it's things, and I
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  get it. Like the people that make the products there, you know,
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  their job is to be profitable and I get that. But anyway, I'm
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  just thankful that you followed this journey and you trust it because I feel like
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  the way that you kind of flowed into your business is very similar to how
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  I flowed into mind. I never knew that this is something that I was
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  going to be doing. It was just really following those breadcrumbs, and now
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  in Hindze, I'm like, oh gosh, I was always meant to do
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  this. This is you know, like of course I would end up here.
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  And it seems like, I mean, for how passionate you are about
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  what you do, and how amazing of a job you do it, and
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  how often you show up and the level of content that you make your living
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  your passion as well, or at least part of it. So I appreciate
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  you doing that. So where should we begin? Because we have so many
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  places to go, you know, from cycle sinking to to optimizing our energy
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  to talking about painful period supplements. Where do you want to start? I
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  want to start where I know, everybody needs help, okay, which is
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  understanding the phases of the menstrual cycle. And the reason I want to start
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  here is because it's really not that deep everybody. I feel like at this
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  point, so many women have read the book In the Flow, and that's
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  a good book, but it almost overcomplicates living in sync with your cycle.
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  And you know, cycle sinking is a very specific framework that you can follow,
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  but if you are an entrepreneur, a mom, a, whatever it
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  is you do in life, I almost feel like the way that I teach
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  it is a little bit easier to digest. So I want to start there
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  so that people can have peace. And then you know, we can talk
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  about your energy. We can talk about how the brain changes throughout the cycle,
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  because a lot of y'all think y'all are hormone and it's like, yeah,
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  that's how you're supposed to be. And also, here's how we're going
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  to move through these things. Is that okay? Please, that's perfect,
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  and yeah, dumb it down, spell it out, because I'm going to
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  be real with you. I had to look up the four phases of our
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  cycles, and I've read books on this, like, so, yeah,
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  just break it all down. For us. Yeah, so I always say
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  look at the menstrual cycle as if it is a blueprint. The first phase
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  is menstruation. This is when you're on your period. I don't need to
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  tell you this, you know that. But also this is when your energy
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  levels are the lowest. Essentially, estrogen is at its lowest, so your
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  energy levels are at their lowest. And as we talk about this, just
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  remember, as estrogen rises, your energy rises. As estrogen plummets, your
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  energy plummets. Think of it like that. The second phase of your cycle
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  is called the follicular phase. So this is post period but preovulation, and
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  this is when your hormone levels are beginning to rise in energy levels are beginning
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  to rise. The third phase, the most important phase, the only phase
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  that truly matters, ovulation. Okay, you ovulate for sixteen to thirty two
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  hours max. And if you're like girl, what is ovulation? I need
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  that really ask you a few questions. But this is where babies come from.
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  This is our fertile phase. This is when our energy levels are essentially
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  at their highest because of a surge in certain hormones. And like I said,
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  it happens for sixteen to thirty two hours max, so it's a short
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  window and then right after ovulation we get into the luteal phase. Just think
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  of this as pre pms and pms. You don't really need to know everything
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  else except for energy levels do dip because estrogen dips. I also think it's
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  really important to know that as your estrogen levels drop off, research chairs that
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  your mood will shift because estrogen is a key player in creating serotonin, dopamine,
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  and endorphins. So when your estrogen drops off that mood, if your
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  hormone levels are imbalance that mood, she might act up a little bit.
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  It's like it's really my puppy chewing on his bone. His breathing is like
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  bro like chill out right. That's when we don't want to talk to people,
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  and believe it or not, your brain says, don't talk to people.
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  There's a primal shift in your brain. So we go from being very
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  alocentric most of our cycle to during our luteal phase to being egocentric and thinking
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  about me, myself and I And it's literally a hormonal like you've ovulated,
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  you might have a baby inside of you. Don't focus on anything besides you.
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  That's what our brain is doing okay. I was going to ask why
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  that's so. So in the in the chance that we could be pregnant,
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  that's our time to just yeah. And I think the easiest way I like
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  to explain it as two for me, two for you. So there are
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  two weeks in two phases that are for the external world in everybody else.
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  That's your follicular phase and your ovulatory phase. There are two weeks and basically
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  two phases where you're just focusing on me, myself and I. That's your
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  luteal phase, like the late luteal phase. So like let's say three to
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  four days before your period starts in your entire menstrual phase. And the reason
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  I say go by the weeks is because when you're first learning this, it's
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  just easier to wrap your head around week by week I'm changing, as opposed
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  to every five days, every three days, like that's too much, too
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  soon. So if we're at a fifth grade level with our understanding of our
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  cycle, which I remember being at, I remember being at, and I
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  actually prefer to teach that way because it makes it digestible, there's going to
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  be two weeks where I'm very on top of it externally, okay, and
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  two weeks where I'm like, please talk cough like respectfully, don't talk to
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  me, and internally like what do I need? And when you look at
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  it like that, you can then plan how to eat, how to move,
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  how to work, and how to rest way more efficiently. That's helpful.
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  I love that you said too, to think of it weekly versus how
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  many days each cycle can be, because that's just far, far too complicated.
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  So we're just looking at four weeks to go together, to go together,
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  and I love the two for me, two for you, because that's
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  a really easy way to remember it. Okay, So talk to me next
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  about food then let's go there. Okay. Yeah, So I will say
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  this, the way that you eat when you are pmssing should be the way
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  that you are eating when you are on your period. And the reason I'm
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  saying that is because basically, in the first phase of your cycle, in
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  the fourth phase of your cycle, your body is going to need ample amounts
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  of micro nutrients and minerals. And just to make sure we cover our basis
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  friends, protein, healthy, fat, fiber at all meals. Okay,
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  Like, let's I'm not going to beat around the bush I listened to all
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  In with the Alley. I know y'all know the importance of eating right.
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  So also, I really liked your episode about your health routine in the spring.
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  It's the reason I bought the SymbioticA stuff. That's oh great. I'm
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  so glad. I love SymbioticA. I'm still using it, so I'm glad
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  you like it. I like it. I like it. I was like,
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  I'm not sure it's good. It's great, but so protein, healthy,
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  fat, fiber every single phase of your cycle without fail. But when
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  you are pmssing, when you are on your period, it's so important to
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  make sure you're getting enough iron, zinc, calcium, selenium, vitamin D,
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  vitamin C, like all of those things. And you know, I
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  know everybody has different dietary needs, but I think it's just so important that
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  you think of it. As my body is releasing, I need to replenish
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  as it's releasing. I need to be restoring because leading up to your release,
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  your body is literally shedding your uterine lining, so it's using a lot
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  of energy and now all of a sudden, your magnesium stores are a lot
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  lower, your iron stores are going to be lower. So if you can
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  just say okay, dark leafy greens, red food because red is associated with
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  my period, red cabbage, those darker colored foods are going to be really
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  helpful once you're off your period. In your follicular phase and ovulatory phase,
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  there's two things I always tell people. Turn up the complex carbohydrates. Your
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  resting metabolic rate actually increases during ovulation. You are naturally hungrier because your body's
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  like, ooh, I gotta make a baby. Okay, let's stand.
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  So you want more food. So if you're like girl, why can't I
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  stop eating, it's because you're about to start ovulating or you are operating.
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  Your body needs more energy. Now I could get into the nuances of eat
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  this, don't eat that, but I find that that's really restrictive for people
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  because you might be plant based, you might be a carnivor herbivore. I
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  think making sure you're getting those protein, healthy fat fibers, most important micronutrients
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  and minerals. And then, like I said, that follicular phase, that
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  ovulatory phase turned up that complex carbohydrate intake. So think you're like grains,
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  even your sour dough bread. I know everybody's having like a sourdough moment,
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  I'm not, but I just take. I like the way it tastes,
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  but you won't catch me making it. Oh no, oh, I've got
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  a bakery right down the road, like I can publics for Yeah, like
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  I'm all said, I'm that. But with that being said, I also
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  think it's really important that you listen to your body. So do you ever
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  get a craving when you're close to your period? I would say for me,
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  it's sweets, right, So a sweet sweets might mean hey, she
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  needs more carbs, she needs more food, she might need more protein.
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  Let's get really, what is your favorite thing to reach for as your periods
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  getting closer. It's either something like like a literal candy bar, like if
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  I'm at the store, that that will be the time that I will actually
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  grab a candy bar, which I rarely do, and or like at home,
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  something super salty like crackers or something or ooh, ooh, you know
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  what I've been on lately. And actually I just went through this space in
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  my cycle and my thing is these salty crackers cheddar cheese fig spread because it's
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  sweet, So I'm getting like the sweet and the salty and a slice of
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  Granny Smith apple. Oh my god, so good. That sounds delicious.
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  And guess what it also just told me what she needs more sodium. If
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  you're not doing an adrenal cocktail, right, you might need more sodium.
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  You might be needing more potassium. Okay, you might be needing more vitamin
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  A. Is there a mineral because I know a lot of people are making
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  like another thing that's super hot right now, are these mineral cocktails? Is
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  there a brand that you recommend? Because I get confused, like can we
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  just put salt in our water? Like what's the vibe? So everyone has
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  a different vibe. My vibe is I'm just living my life. Yeah,
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  because it is overwhelming. So in terms of salt, I'm a big fan
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  of the Celtic Sea Salt, which I'm sure you've probably seen all of our
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  social media. But if you can't get your hands on that, a pink
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  hamalay in salt is just as good. When it comes to salt, I'm
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  trying to think. There is a drinkable multi vitamin that I take from a
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  brand called Morea Wellness, and the product is called a PMS elixir. I
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  don't deal with PMS. I honestly, just drink it because some days I
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  don't feel like taking a capsule, so I will just drink it. It
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  tastes like lemonade, and it has such an incredible micro nutrient and vitamin profile
• 25:30
  that that's what I will reach for. That or coconut water. Okay.
• 25:37
  So a lot of people don't know this, but I think one of the
• 25:41
  issues we have, especially in the hormonal health space, is over hydration,
• 25:45
  which is actually possible. So Everyone's got their Stanley's, and I'm a stand
• 25:49
  for my Stanley, okay, But over hydration is when your urine actually looks
• 25:56
  like water. It's completely like you can see through it. Proper hydration means
• 26:02
  you need to have urine that looks more like lemonade. So I want you
• 26:04
  to think about like minute made limonade. That's what our urine should actually look
• 26:08
  like. And that's how we know we have the proper mineral balance in our
• 26:12
  body. And I know I've said a lot about minerals, but it's because
• 26:18
  minerals really help us create, release, or store our hormones. And so
• 26:25
  often when we're talking about our cycles and our periods, we only hear people
• 26:27
  talk about like how to get rid of estrogen dominance or be mindful of you
• 26:33
  know, the toxins, the endocrine disruptors. But it's so much deeper than
• 26:37
  that. I just care about making sure your body is actually in the state
• 26:41
  that it needs to be in internally, so your hormones can balance. Because
• 26:45
  you can take all the supplements under the sun, and if you are overhydrated
• 26:51
  or if your cells are not able to uptake the nutrients, those supplements are
• 26:55
  doing nothing for you. Wow. Okay, you just kind of blew my
• 26:59
  mind a little bit with the overhydration because I get excited when I have clear
• 27:04
  pa. I'm like, yeah, you go, girl, you're drink because
• 27:07
  my thing used to be I didn't drink enough water. So now I'm just
• 27:12
  chugging water all the time. And you know, water has a great pr
• 27:15
  campaign manager right now, so it's all about it. But okay, so
• 27:19
  you're saying that we need to be more educated with our water intake, adding
• 27:25
  more minerals. Otherwise these supplements that we're all spending a fortune on aren't doing
• 27:30
  us any good. Yeah. I mean, you know, I think a
• 27:33
  lot of times when you're overhydrated, you can actually pee out the nutrients basically
• 27:38
  because your body's not able to uptake the nutrients. Because when you think about
• 27:42
  it, I'm ingesting a supplement in hopes that it's going to let's just say
• 27:48
  a pre and probiotic. Right, We've got our daily symbiotic, and it's
• 27:52
  supposed to help my gut. Well, first it can make it to your
• 27:55
  gut. Second, is it wrapped in a so that it makes it to
• 28:00
  the gut and then can actually get to the cell. A lot of people
• 28:07
  don't know this, and I'm not one of those people who's going to sit
• 28:11
  here and give you the whole biology class. Ladies. I know it feels
• 28:14
  that way, but I want you to think back to biology and how we're
• 28:18
  built. Everything starts with your cells. So if your cells aren't healthy and
• 28:23
  getting what they need, how is the rest of your body getting what it
• 28:27
  needs? Very true? So what is your And I realized when it comes
• 28:33
  to supplements this is it's so personal and it's so dependent on what somebody's deficiencies
• 28:41
  are and what their diets like. But just curious, what is your typical
• 28:45
  roundup of supplements that you will not go up without? And you know what
• 28:51
  brands? So like you mentioned a probiotic and a symbiotic. Is there a
• 28:55
  brand that you recommend where they capsulate them properly so they actually live through,
• 29:00
  but give us all of the juice. So I'm going to give you berries
• 29:03
  besties as we love we love those. But I think one of the most
• 29:07
  important things to say is my supplement routine will change based off of this season,
• 29:12
  the phase of my cycle that I'm in, and also like whether or
• 29:17
  not I'm testing something out for a brand. But what I'm going to share
• 29:19
  is like kind of what I go to without failm So, first and foremost,
• 29:26
  I love, love, love, love to start my morning with coconut
• 29:30
  water. That's the first thing. The brand I go to is C two
• 29:33
  or Vita Cocoa, one of those two brands. I don't think I'd drink
• 29:38
  anybody else's coconut water. Okay, after that, I would reach for the
• 29:44
  daily I'm actually I have them on my desk because that's the only way I
• 29:48
  know I'm going to grab it the daily from some main health and this is
• 29:52
  a metabolic health support vitamin. What I like about it is that it's actually
• 29:56
  clinically studying supplements are I'm truly an unregulated industry, and I prefer to have
• 30:03
  supplements that do what they say they are going to do, so I stick
• 30:07
  with this brand for literally everything across the board, from my pre and probiotic
• 30:12
  to my daily like multi vitamin that's for metabolic health and specifically because it does
• 30:19
  support insulin, thyroid, and of course my gut as well as my pancreas
• 30:25
  and liver. And then I also when it's the day before my period,
• 30:30
  the first day of my period, and the second day of my period,
• 30:33
  I take their PMS in period support. I can't tell you the last time
• 30:37
  I had a painful period, mostly because I do preventative stuff, but I
• 30:42
  also make sure I won't have one because I take theirs. Now, their
• 30:47
  PMS in period support vitamin is very similar to like think like a Pamprin or
• 30:51
  a midyl. I personally just don't like Pamperrin and mityl. I found that
• 30:57
  I took way too many of them when I did have a painful period,
• 31:00
  and now that I have a healthier option, I reach for that. Another
• 31:04
  thing I love to do is drink tea. I'm a coffee girl, Okay,
• 31:08
  I love a go latte, yeah, but caffeine constricts your blood vessels.
• 31:15
  So when you're on your period or getting close to your period, that's
• 31:18
  what we don't want to do. So I might have a cup of coffee
• 31:21
  and then from the rest of the day I'm drinking something like sweet bay leaf
• 31:26
  tea or red raspberry leaf tea. And okay, so you don't want to
• 31:30
  drink the coffee because it constricts your blood vessels, and that will make it
• 31:34
  more painful. I can make it more painful. It can also make it
• 31:38
  last longer. And like, here's the thing with coffee, to each their
• 31:41
  own, Like I'm not going to sit here and tell you don't have any
• 31:45
  caffeine, don't have any coffee. Like I've done that extremity of like no
• 31:49
  glute, no dairy, no sugar, and that does work, but it's
• 31:53
  just not sustainable. And like I'm at a stage in life where I'm all
• 31:56
  about simplicity, efficiency and stainability. So if it's not doing that, I
• 32:01
  am not doing it straight up. So with caffeine, you know, I
• 32:07
  say a cup or two and kill it after that, and that's just because
• 32:12
  it really is not helping you actually menstright. See I had never heard that
• 32:16
  before. And I can imagine anybody who's listening that has a painful period.
• 32:22
  I mean, I'm thinking of a girlfriend of mine who submitted one of the
• 32:27
  questions and she was just diagnosed with PMDD and she's she's got like her fancy
• 32:34
  coffee maker and like, so I'm wondering if she even knows. I've never
• 32:38
  heard of that before. So that right there, in and of itself is
• 32:43
  an amazing tip. So I appreciate you sharing that, And I think it's
• 32:47
  so great that you have the experience of going from one spectrum to another.
• 32:53
  You've experienced very painful periods and now you have it under control. So I
• 33:00
  understand. And I if the answer is it's just the compound effect of all
• 33:06
  the things that you're doing, that's that's a great answer. But do you
• 33:09
  think, like, could you sum up? Okay? I know I was
• 33:14
  able to decrease the pain of my periods mainly from doing these things like killing
• 33:20
  exactly what I did, oh tell us, Because the first time I had
• 33:22
  a pain free period, I was like, hold up, let's try it
• 33:27
  again. Let's try this again. I didn't believe it. So what I
• 33:30
  did was I drank red raspberry leaf tea eight to twelve bounces every single day,
• 33:35
  and I drink it hot because that's my human design. Digestion is like
• 33:38
  hot. I like, oh, I didn't even know that at the time,
• 33:42
  but I do. See. Okay, Okay, So if your human
• 33:45
  design is cold, which you can get your read your chart and it will
• 33:47
  tell you on there like your best way to take in food and liquid.
• 33:53
  Okay, yeah, so it could be cold, but that just it's dependent
• 33:59
  on you. Okay, got it. So I did that and then I
• 34:01
  ate and sync with my cycle. Now the way that I ate and sync
• 34:05
  with my cycle. I actually had started reading the book Woman Code several years
• 34:08
  ago, and I looked at this and I was like, this is great,
• 34:13
  but I promise I'm not getting up making a beat juice smoothie. I'm
• 34:15
  not the one. I'm not doing it. So what's delicious though? Barry
• 34:22
  like Wall, That's why I teach things so differently than everyone else, because
• 34:27
  I'm just like be real, like, yeah, heading into the office,
• 34:30
  this is what I'm not about to do. So what I started doing was
• 34:35
  looking at what nutrients my body was needing and craving throughout different phases. And
• 34:40
  what I learned about myself is that during the first half of my cycle,
• 34:45
  so before I opulate, my body was really craving a lot of warm food
• 34:52
  and a lot of like fish out of nowhere. So I was like,
• 34:55
  what the heck is in salmon, like specifically smoked sam and what is it?
• 35:00
  Copper and selenium? So my body was telling me I needed more of
• 35:05
  those, and of course the healthy fat great. In the second half of
• 35:10
  my cycle, my body was like, I just want carbs. What's my
• 35:15
  body telling me? You need more calories? So that's how I ate.
• 35:19
  Now. I have an entire like meal plan and everything with like all of
• 35:22
  the recipes and stuff that I went through, and it is really extensive.
• 35:29
  But it's also one of those things that is so specific to like me and
• 35:32
  my cravings that it almost would it be applicable to other people. But I
• 35:37
  will say Red Raspberry Leaf Tea, she's one hundred percent that girl. She's
• 35:43
  one hundred percent that girl for me, and that's easy. It's I mean,
• 35:46
  I think I'm the reason it's sold out half of the time, because
• 35:50
  I've been talking about Red Raspberry Leaf Tea since twenty nineteen and then all of
• 35:54
  a sudden it's trending on TikTok for like a year and a half, two
• 35:58
  years, and I'm like, here's I don't need to read one of those
• 36:00
  articles where I recommended, yes you did, I know you did, like
• 36:04
  you know, but like to be serious, that was what I did.
• 36:07
  I did that, and I just ate and sank with my cycle and I
• 36:12
  started looking at food and cravings. Like with my cravings, I was kind
• 36:16
  of like, what am I needing? So I love a good candy bar,
• 36:21
  like I'm a butterfinger lover through and through, but I know my body
• 36:25
  doesn't need the butter finger. It's probably needing vitamin D, calcium, and
• 36:31
  of course my healthy fact nine times out of ten, those are the things
• 36:37
  that my body's needing and what my body is looking for. So if you
• 36:40
  can just start asking yourself, Okay, I want, I want my pumpkin
• 36:45
  spice lante, What does my body actually want? Like, do I like
• 36:51
  what's in what's in pumpkin? What is your body it really doesn't need or
• 36:55
  it's not craving pumpkin specs? I'm sorry, but like I have PSL On
• 37:00
  Friday of last week or maybe it was Sunday, and I was like,
• 37:05
  what what is this? It was like so watered down to me. I
• 37:08
  was just like I'm just drinking. Sure, yeah, girls, you got
• 37:13
  you gotta tell me what the hype is because like I'm questioning it right now.
• 37:15
  But your body is looking for maybe cinnamon. So cinnamon is one of
• 37:21
  those things that can actually decrease inflammation in the body. So maybe what you
• 37:25
  need to do is start looking for more of those anti inflammatory foods. And
• 37:30
  I know everybody wants like a checklist of what to eat and how to eat.
• 37:34
  I will make sure that I send you a link to a grocery list
• 37:37
  on Instagram. Some girls know what to eat, right, and we'll link
• 37:40
  it in the show notes. Yeah, that way it'll be easier for them
• 37:45
  because I mean, like I said, like what I eat in the way
• 37:47
  I eat, It's gonna be different for everybody, right. But what I'm
• 37:53
  hearing you say too is to tune into your body, pay a time,
• 38:00
  ask those questions. And you said it this like your body isn't really craving
• 38:05
  a butterfinger. It's craving like what are the ingredients there? You know besides
• 38:10
  the you know what I'm saying. But yeah, it's being more in tune
• 38:15
  and paying attention to how you feel. And that's like when I read books
• 38:21
  like In the Flow. There was another one I read too, and the
• 38:27
  title isn't coming to me, but they all promote being like tapping into your
• 38:36
  own intuition, like you know what you need, you know what, like
• 38:40
  what it is that your body needs. Just you've got to learn how to
• 38:44
  pay attention to the signs and the cravings and how you're feeling. So besides
• 38:51
  just cravings you're talking about. Okay, so leading up to our period,
• 38:57
  we need more zinc, we need more iron because we're about to shed it
• 39:00
  all out. And then after that it's more carbs because we have more energy.
• 39:05
  Right, So that's probably like the simplest way to say it. And
• 39:09
  then past our cravings, is there any other telltale sign that you need something
• 39:15
  specific in your diet, I'm going to have to say your symptoms. So
• 39:24
  a lot of people experience different PMS symptoms. And in case you've never heard
• 39:30
  this, ladies, your period is a monthly report card about your overall state
• 39:34
  of health. WHOA, Yeah, So one thing that I hear a lot
• 39:39
  is I'm just going to go through the most common symptoms. I hear,
• 39:43
  and I'll tell you what I'm like, Okay, this person probably needs this.
• 39:45
  So if you're a heavy heavy bleeder or a major cramper, what your
• 39:52
  body is actually needing is more anti inflammatory foods out the gate and probably more
• 39:58
  Magnesiumni is a co enzyme in over three hundred factors in the body. We
• 40:05
  all need more magnesium out the gate across the board, just period. Anyway,
• 40:08
  Yeah, like we just do. If you deal with a lot of
• 40:12
  bloating, there's a chance that your body is actually needing more potassium, not
• 40:16
  necessarily more sodium, because sodium causes you to hold weight. So that's something
• 40:22
  you would want to look at. Migraines. Migraines and headaches are something that
• 40:29
  I've personally never had to navigate. Like I'm so blessed I never had to
• 40:32
  do. But what that tells me is you need more minerals all around.
• 40:37
  You're just not getting enough of them. This also applies to my ladies with
• 40:42
  PMDD. There has been a correlation between that drop and your estrogen. Often
• 40:49
  a drop in your energy, an increase in these emotional things that you may
• 40:53
  be experiencing, and not enough minerals and micronutrients in your diet. Are way
• 41:00
  too many micronutrients and minerals for me to name off, but I would highly
• 41:05
  highly recommend if you can get a mineral analysis, get one and figure out
• 41:08
  where you are deficient. I doesn't even know you could do that. Yeah,
• 41:13
  they tout your hair follicles nice and can your regular doctor do that or
• 41:17
  do you recommend going to function functional doctor? I would recommend a functional doctor
• 41:22
  because your regular doctor is going to play the insurance game and then try to
• 41:27
  refer you out. And like, I'm not going to beat around the bush.
• 41:30
  Go see somebody that is integrative or functional. Don't waste your time like
• 41:35
  it's not worth it. I mean maybe if you have a really great endocrinologists
• 41:37
  on hand, they'll help you, But like I don't know how many people
• 41:40
  just have them on like speed out, you know, let's see cramping,
• 41:45
  bloating, mood swings, fatigue. I think everybody knows fatigue is associated with
• 41:51
  higher cortisol levels and being in that overs overdrive mode. So again one stress
• 41:58
  less, live more, thank you, and number two magnesium is going to
• 42:02
  be super helpful. Let me think, I don't think cravings are actually like
• 42:09
  a symptom. I think it's just people being hungry and not knowing, Like
• 42:13
  cravings are their own language. So I'm really trying to think mood swings,
• 42:16
  migraines, headaches, that's its own bucket, heavy, bleeding, cramping,
• 42:21
  bloating, What am I missing? There's so many symptoms, Like there so
• 42:24
  many symptoms, So mood swings. What bucket is that I've put mood swings
• 42:30
  with migraines. But also so the thing about mood is because mood is so
• 42:36
  closely associated with your estrogen, you just really need to understand that, yes,
• 42:42
  you could have an estrogen dominance, but you could also have a progesterone
• 42:45
  deficiency. So often we hear people say, like estrogen dominance, you need
• 42:51
  to lower your estrogen. Eat a rock here at salad, Screw that salad,
• 42:54
  and like really pay attention to what's going on, because you can be
• 43:00
  the estrogen dominant just because you don't have enough progesterone, which is a really
• 43:05
  important hormone for resting and digesting. I always say it's your like relaxation one,
• 43:12
  and it's gonna help you be more cuttly, inapproachable. Not enough of
• 43:15
  us are like cutdly inapproachable when we're in our luvieal phase. And if you
• 43:21
  notice that about yourself, that's probably a really key sign they need to increase
• 43:24
  your progesterone levels. Do a quick Google search of progesterone promoting foods because I
• 43:30
  know somebody's gonna want to know. Literally click the first link. That's what
• 43:35
  I did. That's super helpful. Can I ask you a question about magnesium?
• 43:42
  Yeah, so I know that you can take it through I'm sure a
• 43:46
  few different ways internally, but then also topically, So what do you recommend
• 43:52
  there? So I love a magnesium bath, So I get the ancient mineral's
• 43:58
  bath flakes or like salts and they're like these, they're really flaky. I
• 44:02
  put them in my bath and I get my magnesium that way. And then
• 44:06
  I also like to drink it. So I have magnesi ome from moon juice
• 44:12
  and I like it. Not super obsessed with it, but it does help
• 44:15
  me get good sleep. And I do think it's important that you don't just
• 44:21
  take like random magnesium supplements and think that it's going to help you with your
• 44:25
  cramping. For instance, Like there's different types of magnesium, and so if
• 44:30
  you deal with a lot of cramping and you're taking it as a supplement.
• 44:35
  Magnesium by glystinate is the one that they suggest isolated. But if I'm not
• 44:40
  mistaken, the supplement I have has magnesium althyronate, which is a whole different
• 44:45
  thing, and I also have the SymbioticA magnesium. So it's just kind of
• 44:52
  dealer's choice. Okay, cool, So do your research there. But it
• 44:57
  sounds like there's lots of different options, so many options, so many options,
• 45:01
  and this is where it gets so confusing. I mean, just being
• 45:06
  fully honest, this is where I kind of go off the tracks because trying
• 45:12
  to keep up with life in general. And then okay, am I getting
• 45:16
  the appropriate minerals for this phase? Am I eating correctly for this phase?
• 45:22
  Am I? You know? So I love the idea of simplifying it based
• 45:28
  on the weeks. Like to me, I can handle that, I can
• 45:30
  compartmentalize that. That's very easy for me. And let's go back to cycle
• 45:37
  sinking for our businesses because I know that we got a lot of questions about
• 45:40
  that. I imagine this has been a huge game changer for you. This
• 45:47
  is what I do, this is this is your thing. Yeah, so
• 45:51
  like talk to me about like how far do you go into this for yourself
• 45:58
  when it comes to like the type of activities, like do you have it
• 46:01
  to where you do just admin type stuff during those two internal weeks and then
• 46:07
  whatever, like just give it to us all into the thick of it.
• 46:12
  But before I do that, yeah, let me I just because I feel
• 46:15
  like maybe people are like I don't understand the nutrients the food. Let me
• 46:19
  just give you, guys the monthly run down. Okay, out the gate.
• 46:22
  Make sure you know what protein you like. Don't listen to anybody else,
• 46:25
  do you when it comes to protein. Same thing with healthy fat and
• 46:29
  fiber. When you're on your period, red food, dark food that's going
• 46:34
  to really really support you when you are post period. Think light, bright
• 46:38
  airy foods. Okay, think your tropical fruits and vegetables. Think in those
• 46:43
  color tones. Okay, So I literally want you to think about being in
• 46:46
  Cabo. That's the color palette we're going for with our food. Feel I
• 46:52
  feel like it's just easier to think in color sometimes. Sure. Yeah,
• 46:55
  And then when you're ovulating, I want you to think meta Terranian vibes.
• 47:00
  We have a nice Italian summer, Okay, nice little like right, Like
• 47:06
  I want to I say brew shadow, but I'm pretty sure that's not the
• 47:08
  way you're supposed to say it, But let I say it. I've heard
• 47:12
  it like a different way on the show, honestly, Like is that I
• 47:15
  don't know, but think Mediterranean vibes because that's a lot of calorically dense things
• 47:22
  but also a really great diet. And then as you are in that luteal
• 47:27
  face, the closer and closer you get to your period, think red dark
• 47:30
  colored foods again. Boom, Okay, Okay that I feel like if you
• 47:36
  can get that, you're good to go. Now let's talk about this workflow
• 47:39
  because I literally my program is literally called workflow because I love to teach people
• 47:45
  this. So when it comes to working and sync with your cycle, I
• 47:49
  do get really into the weeds with it. And that's because that's my job.
• 47:53
  It is my job to teach you to work smarter, not harder.
• 47:57
  So like I'm one of those people, I practice what I preach. But
• 48:00
  for the average person, this is what I'm going to say. When you're
• 48:04
  on your period, ideation related things are going to be the best for you.
• 48:09
  Okay, So just spend time thinking about like brainstorming don't take any action
• 48:14
  yet. Just ide eight as much as possible. Okay, when you're in
• 48:17
  your follicular phase, this is when we're getting into kind of a creation mode.
• 48:22
  This is when we're like, okay, let me streamline the details of
• 48:27
  how this launch is going to be, how this program is going to look,
• 48:30
  the transformation that that's when you get in that mode. When you're ovulating,
• 48:35
  you're going to be doing execution like secure your bag, show up every
• 48:39
  single day, I don't care. Do it. It's going to make life
• 48:44
  super easy. And then when you're in that luteal phase, especially the late
• 48:49
  luteal PMS phase, what you're going to do is evaluation. And the reason
• 48:53
  I say that at a high level is because it's basically what your brain is
• 48:58
  doing. When you're on your period. There's twenty five percent more connectivity between
• 49:02
  the right and left hemispheres of your brain. This is your perfect time to
• 49:07
  create in it. Eight. Okay, when you get off your period,
• 49:12
  your brain is kind of still in that interesting phase, but your brain is
• 49:15
  also kind of like, all right, I gotta get ready to communicate.
• 49:20
  Your hippocampus and your amigdalist start to grow. So these are your points of
• 49:23
  connection and like ooh, creation invitation, like okay, and it pretty much
• 49:30
  stays like that. Right after ovulation. Is that switch, your prefrontal cortex
• 49:37
  begins to shrink a bit in its activity. Your brain goes from being very
• 49:40
  alocentric, so think all to egocentric me myself, and I got it.
• 49:47
  So that's how we work now. I know you can't be in creation mode
• 49:52
  every single day or not be in execution mode. And I get that,
• 49:57
  So start looking at your days in that format. So I wake up in
• 50:01
  the morning, the first three hour of my day's ideation, the second three
• 50:07
  hours of my day after my snack break, of course, this is going
• 50:12
  to be my creation. The third chunk that three hours that's going to be
• 50:16
  execution, the last part of my day reflection, evaluation. That way,
• 50:22
  I'm working with my body as opposed to against it, and that's my daily
• 50:30
  I think that that is like the most efficient way I have ever worked.
• 50:34
  It's what I teach my clients, whether you are literally in corporate America or
• 50:38
  you're an entrepreneur, it works now. Also, you have your giving and
• 50:45
  receiving phases of your cycle, so kind of play with it a little bit
• 50:52
  you're probably thinking when should I give? When should I receive? So when
• 50:57
  you're on your period, you're in receiving mode okay, follicular ovulatory phase,
• 51:06
  giving mode, giving okay, because your energy levels are higher, so you
• 51:09
  can serve right, and your brain is also saying communicate, connect, do
• 51:15
  it. So you're going to do that that luteal phase, especially that late
• 51:17
  luteal phase. Please receive. Don't talk to anybody if you don't have to,
• 51:22
  Like, if you just can't turn it on, don't Now. I'm
• 51:25
  a well oiled machine. My periods supposed to start in two days. I
• 51:30
  can turn it on right now, and I can turn up because I'm like,
• 51:32
  this is the main thing on my to do list today. Outside of
• 51:37
  that, I'm just doing admin work. But you're not going to book eight
• 51:40
  of these back to back. No, there's no way. You couldn't pay
• 51:45
  me to do that. Really on like on a regular day. That's too
• 51:50
  much giving in this phase of my cycle. And you know, I started
• 51:55
  viewing the cycle in the giving and receiving energy when I decided to change the
• 52:00
  way that I was living. I just wanted to improve my life, so
• 52:04
  in order to do so, I changed the way that I was looking at
• 52:07
  my cycle. I find this to be very helpful. And I love that
• 52:13
  you said the like taking it day by day, two by like ideation,
• 52:19
  creation or you know whatever. Okay, ideation. What was the second one?
• 52:23
  Mediation? Creation, execution and evaluation and evaluation? Okay, it was
• 52:28
  execution. I couldn't remember. I love that because to me, the idea
• 52:34
  of taking for me like two weeks, not let's say selling or launching,
• 52:43
  feels like I'm just taking off work that to me does not work. So
• 52:47
  you're saying like this can be made for you. It's more so you to
• 52:52
  be self aware enough to know, Okay, during these two weeks, you're
• 52:55
  not gonna you're simply just not gonna want to be putting yourself out there so
• 53:00
  damn much. You can get your stories, you can do a podcast,
• 53:04
  but you're not gonna want to be doing it all day. And it's just
• 53:07
  if you want to practice the art of receiving a little bit more, those
• 53:10
  would be prime times to do it. So the way that I'm thinking about
• 53:15
  this too, is like, what about being more automated during those weeks?
• 53:20
  Right, like putting out on your stories graphics instead of your face sending out
• 53:25
  the emails, having the post scheduled and ready to go. That way,
• 53:30
  you're not having to be the one to deliver the message and be seen and
• 53:35
  put out that much energy. Does that make sense? Yeah? So I
• 53:38
  think it all comes down to what works best for somebody. So what works
• 53:45
  really well for me is showing up on stories every day when I'm not arguing
• 53:49
  with Instagram currently having a moment where I hate Instagram. Okay, so I
• 53:52
  just have not been posting on Instagram because we're about to be on our period
• 53:57
  or something else. No, I just literally am like what am I doing
• 54:00
  here? Like really just taking time to evaluate my relationships? Essential career crisis.
• 54:06
  Yeah. Well, I mean I've been on TikTok and I'm like,
• 54:09
  okay, I'm really nurturing a community over there. So the process of building
• 54:14
  on TikTok versus Instagram, seeing what's working not working, and like the people
• 54:17
  rocking with me on Instagram, I know they're going to be there because most
• 54:22
  of them are on my email list, so like it's just like one of
• 54:24
  those things. But what I've learned for me is I love to constantly create,
• 54:30
  no matter what phase of my cycle I'm in What I don't love is
• 54:35
  the analytics and like analysis side of business. What I don't love is the
• 54:40
  masculine structure that I need and the logistics that is very difficult for me.
• 54:45
  So I actually maximize my cycle and the logistics of things based off of that.
• 54:53
  I do not like to look at numbers. I like to get my
• 54:55
  PayPal notifications. You got pay great, ask me to give you a P
• 55:00
  and L and like what, Yeah, isn't that what I pay you to
• 55:05
  do? Like, I just don't like that totally. Yeah. So with
• 55:08
  that being said, I think you have to find your rhythm and your flow
• 55:12
  with it, but like, don't force it either. I've seen people try
• 55:15
  to completely overhaul their calendar and then just be miserable. Yeah. Yeah,
• 55:21
  because if you're used to going and doing it a certain way your whole life,
• 55:24
  and then you go from like two weeks on two weeks off type vibe
• 55:29
  or what a lot? You know, that big extreme that's going to ease
• 55:31
  into it is what we're trying to say. Yeah, I tell people to
• 55:36
  pace themselves. It's actually a method it teach. And I'm gonna say what
• 55:38
  I said in terms of ideation creation, all that in a different way.
• 55:44
  Plan act, create, execute, plan act, create, evaluate. You
• 55:51
  get to decide how that's gonna look for you. But I do launch in
• 55:55
  sync with my cycle when I have something major, and you that's very different
• 56:01
  aside from that, because I live so aligned with my cycle. I do
• 56:06
  this in my sleep. But if I only launched once a quarter, I
• 56:10
  promise you I would be launching in sync with my cycle every single time.
• 56:15
  And that's because it's a lot of energy management now. With my life looking
• 56:22
  so different now than it did several years ago, with us having kids fifty
• 56:28
  percent of the time, I have to be more astute and like really think
• 56:32
  about how I'm going to do things. They literally made like I started dating
• 56:37
  my boyfriend about a year and a half ago and he's got two little ones,
• 56:40
  and they turned my world upside down. And they were like, you
• 56:44
  are not taking a nap on your period. I need help. Someone needs
• 56:49
  to change my diaper. And I'm like, oh, hold up, you
• 56:53
  do that yourself? What but mind you, Like, this is all new
• 56:59
  for me, so I had to learn really quick how to get into it.
• 57:02
  And what I learned is once you can kind of understand the two weeks
• 57:07
  of high energy two weeks of low energy, you can then effectively work.
• 57:13
  That's why I say, like a lot of people over complicate it. But
• 57:16
  if you come back to the two for me, two for you, that
• 57:21
  can teach you how to work that. Yes I can teach you how to
• 57:23
  be a better teacher. Yes I can teach you how to be a better
• 57:27
  coach. But really, if you can just master two for me, two
• 57:30
  for you, especially when you have kids like y'all that have kids one hundred
• 57:36
  percent of the time. I love y'all. Right for me, I'm let
• 57:42
  me tell you something. They're like four for me, none for you.
• 57:47
  It's but that was such a shock for me, and that's what caused me
• 57:52
  to look at cycle sinking and be like, that doesn't work for me.
• 57:55
  I have to sink with my site and I have to simply sink. Like
• 57:59
  I love cycle sinking, don't get me wrong, but I had to create
• 58:01
  something that worked for me and my life. And so that's now what I
• 58:06
  teach people, like two in two you're good, keep it simple. Life
• 58:13
  is complicated enough. Yeah, let's not over complicate this. No, that's
• 58:16
  so refreshing to me, because yeah, I would agree with you. I
• 58:20
  think in the flow. That book is fantastic, but I did walk away
• 58:24
  like whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, this was so much information.
• 58:27
  What do I do? So you just made this so much easier and more
• 58:31
  digestible. So I appreciate that. Let's shift gears from the cycle sinking.
• 58:37
  I have some questions. Well, we have audience questions, but then but
• 58:43
  me first, I want to ask my questions. Yeah, so is there
• 58:46
  an app? I assume you use an app to track your period. I'm
• 58:51
  sure you've tested them all. What is your favorite app to track your cycle?
• 58:55
  It's called fomometer s emom ete are Here's why I like that. Okay,
• 59:02
  thermometer, so think thermometer, but femometer. That's how I love this
• 59:09
  app for so many different reasons, but the main reason being you can learn
• 59:15
  more about what's happening with your body. So if you've been listening to me
• 59:19
  talk and been like girl too much, too much, and I get that,
• 59:23
  like I am team too much, I'm over the top, I get
• 59:25
  it. You can go to this app. In the free version, they
• 59:30
  give you a pretty decent amount of information, But in the paid version,
• 59:34
  which I think is like thirty five forty bucks, you can learn everything in
• 59:38
  like two minute increments, bite sized pieces and see what else is going on
• 59:43
  and how to support your body. It's just a great app. I've usede
• 59:47
  it for three going on four years now. Never once has it messed me
• 59:52
  up. Love, It's been overly accurate. Okay, okay, So thermometer,
• 59:57
  I will look it up and I will put in the show notes as
• 1:00:00
  well. What about are friends listening that deal with irregular periods? Is this
• 1:00:08
  something that it just is what it is? Can we fix it? I
• 1:00:15
  mean both? Okay, okay, I don't want to lie. So with
• 1:00:19
  irregular cycles, yes, it is what it is, but it's also like
• 1:00:22
  fixable. Now, when it comes to the irregularity, there's different types of
• 1:00:28
  irregularity that people experience. So maybe you are somebody who trains a lot,
• 1:00:32
  like you're super active, that can often cause the body to become irregular,
• 1:00:37
  cause your cycle to be irregular. So i'd encourage you to break your work
• 1:00:42
  ups up so on your period. Lower intensity active recovery, follicular ovulatory phase,
• 1:00:50
  strength, power resistance based training is going to be really really helpful.
• 1:00:53
  And then when you're in that luteal phase, lower intensity active recovery again,
• 1:00:58
  we're back to the two weeks of two weeks of low constantly mirroring. That
• 1:01:02
  is going to support you. So if your cycle is irregular because you're overtraining
• 1:01:07
  and undernourishing, that is what you do and also eat more food. Now,
• 1:01:13
  if your cycle is irregular because you have PCOS, that's a whole different
• 1:01:16
  can of worms. And the best thing I can tell you with your PCOS
• 1:01:22
  is to kind of identify which type of PCOS. There are four different types,
• 1:01:25
  so you have to identify which kind that you have and then from there
• 1:01:30
  figure out the best course of action. Not if you have insulin resistant based
• 1:01:36
  pcos, you don't necessarily need to do what somebody who has a dreanal PCOS
• 1:01:40
  does. So do a little bit of research there. I know that might
• 1:01:45
  not have been helpful, but it's the truth anyhow, Okay, somebody's going
• 1:01:46
  to tell it. It's perfect. And then for my postpartum ladies, listen,
• 1:01:53
  y'all got to stay on my gms because y'all are real grown and I'm
• 1:01:58
  listen, do you have it. I don't have my own kids yet,
• 1:02:01
  right Like these are my boyfriend's kids that we have. I don't have my
• 1:02:06
  own kids, so I haven't experienced that yet, and I can only help
• 1:02:10
  you so much in the sense of, like you know, when someone knows
• 1:02:14
  how to stay in their lane, I know how to stay in my lane,
• 1:02:17
  and say, postpartum is something that I have not navigated, and the
• 1:02:22
  research says is not always helpful because research research is weird these days. People
• 1:02:29
  have different sciences. But what I will say is wait until you have your
• 1:02:35
  first period postpartum. That is the best thing you can do. And the
• 1:02:39
  reason that's the best thing you can do is because then you can confirm that
• 1:02:43
  you've ovulated. Until you stop breastfeeding. If you're not breastfeeding, if you're
• 1:02:47
  formula feeding, just wait and let your body Readjust your body is using different
• 1:02:53
  types of estrogen. It's also using prolactin if you are breastfeeding and suppresses your
• 1:03:00
  estrogen. So just give yourself grace and let your body do what it needs
• 1:03:06
  to do. Okay, listen, you just popped out a whole human.
• 1:03:08
  Just chill like, say that way, yeah, that's normal for a minute.
• 1:03:14
  Yeah yeah. And I think also one of the things that's super helpful
• 1:03:17
  is tracking your biomarkers, cervical mucus, cervix placement and basil body temperature.
• 1:03:23
  That way you can kind of have an idea. Usually just prior to ovulation,
• 1:03:29
  your basil body temperature will drop and then it once you've ovulated, it
• 1:03:31
  will spike a little bit and you'll be able to see that when you're doing
• 1:03:37
  your cervical mucus, you're looking for something that looks like a raw egg white.
• 1:03:42
  That's how you can confirm you've ovulated. But that one's a little bit
• 1:03:45
  more dicey when it's postpartum time. It just is just you know, and
• 1:03:51
  then checking your cervix placement. If you've never felt your cervix, when you
• 1:03:55
  ovulate, it'll usually feel like your cubid spell and when you're not ovulating,
• 1:04:00
  it'll feel like the tip of your nose. That's a crash course, but
• 1:04:02
  that's all stuff that can help you. And actually I was stalking you before
• 1:04:06
  this, and you have a diagram on your Instagram not too far down right
• 1:04:13
  or it's like you're you can see how far back it is. I was
• 1:04:16
  like, oh, who knew? We call that the knuckle test. So
• 1:04:20
  when I teach fertility awareness, what I like to teach people is you're going
• 1:04:26
  to check your cervix placement because it is a way to get feedback about where
• 1:04:30
  you're at in your cycle. The closer you are to ovulating, the further
• 1:04:34
  in your finger will actually go. The further away you are from ovulating,
• 1:04:40
  the lower your finger will be because your servix is lower. So when you're
• 1:04:45
  close to ovulating, your servix is higher, it's soft, high, open,
• 1:04:48
  and wet. We call it a show. And then when you're further
• 1:04:54
  away from ovulating, it's going to be low and pretty pretty hard. Okay,
• 1:05:00
  helpful, very very helpful. Okay, So you guys go check out
• 1:05:02
  that diagram. Because I had no idea. I was like, what is
• 1:05:04
  going on there? Okay? Cool? Next question that I have for you,
• 1:05:10
  stance on birth control trash? Okay, next question why? I mean,
• 1:05:15
  I already knew that, but I would love to hear an experts opinion.
• 1:05:19
  So my thing with birth control is, and I say this with love,
• 1:05:24
  I'm here to inform you not to offend you. Okay. So if
• 1:05:27
  I do trigger you, dig into why you're so triggering, Okay, But
• 1:05:30
  also like here's where I'm coming from. There are one point four million women
• 1:05:34
  in America alone who are on hormonal birth control for reasons other than controlling birth.
• 1:05:41
  What are we doing? Yeah, yes, it is a solution.
• 1:05:45
  It's not the only solution. It is a band aid. And that's why
• 1:05:49
  I say it's trash. Not only that, but the World Health Organization has
• 1:05:55
  classified the combination pill a known carcinogen. Why are we prescribing things that are
• 1:06:01
  literally carcinogens to people and then being like, I don't know. Like another
• 1:06:10
  reason I call it trash is because it can disrupt other medications and a lot
• 1:06:15
  of people don't know that, right, So we're going to you know,
• 1:06:19
  our doctors, and nothing against doctors. I really do respect them, the
• 1:06:24
  ones that are helping, but also like the rest of y'all who are just
• 1:06:28
  getting checks. We can have some words and I stand up ten tones down
• 1:06:32
  on that one, but you have to be your best advocate. And hormonal
• 1:06:39
  birth control is also stopping your body from doing what it needs to do and
• 1:06:45
  preventing the communication between your brain and your ovaries. So a lot of people
• 1:06:50
  don't know your cycle starts in your brain. There's like an actual chemical reaction
• 1:06:58
  that happens. Are really of g and our ah is what triggers our body
• 1:07:01
  to start meonstuating, and so many people don't know that, and I just
• 1:07:06
  think it's so bizarre that you know, we are trying to help people and
• 1:07:14
  at the same time we don't know the side effects. In the side effects,
• 1:07:19
  it's an uncontrolled science experiment. And like I have lived through that.
• 1:07:24
  I think we all have in so many different ways. But like with birth
• 1:07:30
  control, like it's a personal thing, and as a woman, I just
• 1:07:34
  can't right be like this is the best thing for you, right, and
• 1:07:40
  we don't want to be stopping our period, like our period's a good thing.
• 1:07:44
  And I that's why I wanted to bring you on here to help us
• 1:07:47
  to optimize our energy and to be friendly. And I love your metaphor of
• 1:07:53
  like your relationship with your period. If it's toxic right now, how can
• 1:07:57
  we clean it up? Because we're not trying to get rid of it.
• 1:08:00
  This is what keeps our body on track and it's and I don't know,
• 1:08:04
  just normal, like this is this is how we were made. So so
• 1:08:10
  what's what's the the thing that stops your period for like six five or six
• 1:08:15
  years? The iud so, but that's like the crazy part. Okay,
• 1:08:19
  So how does one say this? Just say it birth control is could never
• 1:08:28
  okay, So what we're sold is the fact that birth control can help us
• 1:08:31
  in so many ways. And like I said, like you said, what's
• 1:08:33
  your opinion, trash, like that is my opinion. There's nothing else to
• 1:08:36
  say, really, but my qualms with it comes down to, like iud's
• 1:08:43
  on the shot and the ring in the implant, progestin based birth control.
• 1:08:50
  But doctors will say it's progesterone based birth control. No it is not.
• 1:08:56
  It is progestine, not progesterone, So progester I want you to think of
• 1:09:01
  your favorite female music artists, okay, okay, and then I want you
• 1:09:08
  to think about the imitator, like the shean version. So it's the she
• 1:09:15
  in version. Literally literally that's what progestin is, you know, she in
• 1:09:21
  progestin like it's it's synthetic. It's toxic. And I think why it's just
• 1:09:29
  such a bad idea is because it is so toxic. And then people are
• 1:09:32
  on it for an extended amount of times. Then they're gaining this weight,
• 1:09:35
  Then they're feeling out of control of their bodies. Then they're deciding like,
• 1:09:40
  oh I don't like the person I'm with anymore because you're You're literally attracted to
• 1:09:44
  different people. Like there's a book called this is Your Brain on birth control.
• 1:09:47
  You're attracted to different pheromones. That's insane. And people are like,
• 1:09:55
  why don't I like this person? Know that I'm not on birth control anymore.
• 1:10:00
  There's been a correlation between the increase and birth control and the increase in
• 1:10:04
  divorce. I'm not saying it's true, but I mean I can connect some
• 1:10:15
  dots and then what about hormone free birth control? That's what I do.
• 1:10:19
  So like, I do something called the symptothermal method. This is where I'm
• 1:10:24
  tracking my basal body temperature, my cervical mucus, and my service placement.
• 1:10:28
  Now not to be confused with the copper eye u D, because the copper
• 1:10:31
  IUD is hormone free. It's technically non hormonal, but it's also taking metal,
• 1:10:39
  toxic cavy metal arguably and inserting it into your body. And then you're
• 1:10:43
  like wondering why your body is triven because it's something in there that shouldn't be
• 1:10:47
  in If it's the body will literally be like, if it is foreign,
• 1:10:51
  get it out of me. Yeah, okay, helpful. I figured that
• 1:10:57
  was probably your stance, but just wanted to talk about that role quick.
• 1:11:00
  And then my last question for you, and this is a little bit of
• 1:11:01
  a fear based question, but and then we'll get to audience questions. But
• 1:11:06
  for sure, I'm witnessing people in my world going through menopause and navigating menopause
• 1:11:15
  and it has got me so freaked out. And I don't even know if
• 1:11:19
  I should be freaked out, but I'm just wondering, like, is there
• 1:11:23
  a way to pro or postpone menopause? Do we even want to do that?
• 1:11:29
  Like? Is there a way to not have to go through it at
• 1:11:32
  all? Yeah? So remember when I told you I like to stay in
• 1:11:35
  my lane. Menopause is not of those things. And here's why, because
• 1:11:40
  you have not gone through menopause. Like, whenever I comment on it,
• 1:11:45
  people want to like chokeslit me and I'm like, well, a little aggressive,
• 1:11:47
  is there? Menopausal? So here's what is one hundred percent true about
• 1:11:54
  menopause. No matter what anybody says, nobody wants to hear this, but
• 1:11:57
  it's the truth. Anyhow, pause is a single event. It happens one
• 1:12:02
  day, one time. The symptoms leading up to it, now that's a
• 1:12:09
  different story, But technically speaking, it is a one time only event now
• 1:12:15
  the hot flashes, because that's what I hear about the most all of that.
• 1:12:19
  One of the most natural homeopathic things you can do is get your hands
• 1:12:25
  on some wild yam cream and start applying it to like the topically to the
• 1:12:31
  inside of your arm. It can be really helpful and you would do about
• 1:12:34
  like a knuckles worth, maybe two knuckles, and start applying it. This
• 1:12:42
  can help that transition into menopause supposedly. Now listen, I'm twenty nine.
• 1:12:50
  You have some wild yam yam cream. Yeah, wild yam cream. Okay,
• 1:12:56
  so if somebody said you have a video of it. Because there's this
• 1:13:00
  woman named Barbara O'Neill. She is like everything I aspire to be one day,
• 1:13:05
  except like I got a little bit more swag than her. But I
• 1:13:10
  love how she is as like an educator, like she's just so phenomenal she
• 1:13:15
  talks about it. I will try to pull the video or she talks about
• 1:13:17
  that in relation to menopause, because I think people would just like really appreciate
• 1:13:24
  that. But menopause is a difference in estrogen. So we're going from using
• 1:13:30
  E two to using E one, which is there's like estone estronall and then
• 1:13:35
  you're two in different estrogens for pregnancy, which I know nothing, nothing about,
• 1:13:41
  and everyone says, like, all estrogen's the same. No it's not,
• 1:13:44
  No it's not. So that's what I'm saying, Like, I'll stay
• 1:13:45
  in my lane. But Anna's wild yam cream or just wild gam cream is
• 1:13:50
  what's usually recommend that. Okay, so we'll look into that too. Cool
• 1:13:55
  just the thought, Okay. Questions from audience, there's a few. These
• 1:14:00
  are really good. So in some of these we might have Let's see this
• 1:14:04
  one was, how can we set a good practice in business in the week
• 1:14:08
  before our period when hormones and emotions are running wild? So that would be
• 1:14:14
  then to like just slow it down a bit, slow it down, but
• 1:14:16
  also remember like business is not just about like. So when people tell me
• 1:14:23
  they're emotional, I'm like, oh, with business, I say, oh,
• 1:14:27
  in general I like emotions, but with business, I'm like, feelings
• 1:14:31
  are not facts. Okay, we need to reel it in and remain like
• 1:14:35
  calm, cool and professional. I think also communicating to your team, if
• 1:14:42
  you have a team where you're at in your cycle. That's something When I
• 1:14:45
  had a lot of people that I was working with, I knew when everybody
• 1:14:48
  who's periods were happening, so I knew how to help lead. Now it's
• 1:14:54
  a little bit different because it's like me and one other person, so it's
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  just kind of like, this is what we're doing. Okay, great,
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  and like it's very simple when you're working with multiple people, especially a lot
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  of women, knowing where everybody is in their cycle. That way you can
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  kind of offload and delegate. Do it, delete it, or delegate it.
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  That's my approach to the things that I think it's super helpful. Okay,
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  love that, do it, delete it, delegate it, communicate.
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  Can stress make you completely skip a period? Yes? So fun fact,
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  I was under a lot of stress at the end of last year, and
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  my period has been regular for god knows how long, probably the last eight
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  years or so, since I haven't really been training at a high level.
• 1:15:45
  I didn't have a period for forty five days, and I was like,
• 1:15:48
  how's the period, Princess not having her period? I was so stressed out,
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  like just trying to figure out life and business and like all of these
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  things. Thankfully I knew what to do to get my cycle back, but
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  like I knew how stressed I was so yes, stress can completely change your
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  cycle. I also think it's important to note that what's happening with your period
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  today is a result of what was going on in life three months ago.
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  Oh, because it takes the egg about one hundred days to develop, ninety
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  to one hundred days to develop. That is heftful. Okay, because you
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  might be like, what the hell, I'm not stressed anymore, But if
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  you were a couple of months ago, then that's okay, very cool.
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  Yeah, so there you go. There, I say answer on that one.
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  Okay, helpful. Next question, So this is our PMDD question.
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  I was just diagnosed a PMDD. Need advice on how to get through that
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  bad week? Okay, So I actually just did a TikTok video and I'm
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  actually going to pull up the note section on my phone really quickly because I
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  did an entire like notes like holistic tips for PMDD. Oh okay, I
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  will make sure you can share that. This is really right off my phone,
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  and I want to be accurate. So adequate protein intake and that's because
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  there is an amino acid called tryptofin that can help increase your serotonin production.
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  And that's super important healthy fat because it helps our brain more food salmon,
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  nuts, seeds, poultry, eggs, and soy. There's a tea that
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  I really like called Cassia alata that can help, and that's mostly helping the
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  gut, but it can also help the brain as well, and it's known
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  for like kind of calming down your anxiety and things. And then your minerals,
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  your B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin D, magnesium, and zinc.
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  Okay, And with PMDD, I'm very very particular how I talk about
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  it because everyone experiences it so differently. But the information I kind of just
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  shared is literally the most cohesive and concrete information I could find that actually had
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  research backing it. PMDD is still fairly new to Western medicine, and you
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  know, the first treatment that they give is either hormone or birth control or
• 1:18:14
  is it zolof is that I don't There's something for like managing depression and like
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  whatever there are treating people with for that they give to people with PMDD,
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  and that may not always work for people. So yeah, Okay, is
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  PMDD curable reversible? I'm not sure. It's one of those things where you
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  know, how they talk about you have to like live with a condition.
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  That is how PMDD is now. I am from the camp of like,
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  if you can master your mind, you can master your life. But I
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  almost don't want to apply that to PMDD because I don't want to like dismiss
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  what somebody's dealing with. Yeah, yeah, like you know, I don't
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  want to be like dismissive about it. But I think you can overcome anything.
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  I agree, But I think too, you have to know what to
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  do, and like, you have to know how to do the right things,
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  because if you're eating improperly, or you're not getting the right supplements or
• 1:19:15
  the right minerals or all the things that we talked about, and your body
• 1:19:17
  is so out of whack and you're in that much pain that you're not going
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  to be able to get in the right mindset that this thing is reversible.
• 1:19:25
  So I love that you gave those tips because if you're able to apply those
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  things and you see any ounce of support or improvement of your condition, then
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  we can start working on the mind. Yeah, and the drinkable multi vitamin
• 1:19:41
  I recommended the PMS elixir. The founder of that company she actually has PMDD,
• 1:19:45
  so when she was formulating that, she's very adamant about making sure it
• 1:19:51
  helped people who had PMDD. There's also a girl on Instagram. I believe
• 1:19:56
  her handles the PMD nutritionists. She's also really really great resource. And what's
• 1:20:01
  the brand of the drinkable multi vitamin Maria Wellness Maria Wellness. Okay, I
• 1:20:10
  think it's literally you can google pms elixer and it might be like one of
• 1:20:13
  the first ones. It's really cute. It's like yellow and pink the branding.
• 1:20:16
  So there you go. Okay, next question, if I'm on birth
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  control, do you do I still go through the same energy cycles as somebody
• 1:20:26
  not on birth control. No, it stops the communication between your brain and
• 1:20:30
  your ovarase, right, so you're not actually menstruating in any way. You're
• 1:20:35
  not ovulating. But I think it is so important that you still build the
• 1:20:42
  right habits to support your body even on birth control. So if you're having
• 1:20:46
  a withdrawal bleed, which is usually the period associated with birth control, treat
• 1:20:50
  that like your menstrual phase and support your body by eating those red foods,
• 1:20:56
  making sure you're getting that protein, healthy fat, and fiber. Also,
• 1:20:59
  if you are on birth control, please make sure you are taking it pre
• 1:21:02
  and probiotic and make sure you're either taking a really great multivitamin or even a
• 1:21:09
  prenatal. I know you're like, girl, I'm trying to control births,
• 1:21:13
  so it's like, but hormonal birth control is known for depleting the body of
• 1:21:17
  seven essential nutrients, and a really great multivitamin or a prenatal has the nutrients
• 1:21:24
  you need and then some. Which is why the prenatal is recommended, is
• 1:21:28
  because it's like you want double the nutrients knowing that your body's not getting what
• 1:21:30
  it needs. Okay, perfect, next question, curious about using herbal medicine?
• 1:21:39
  That was the question. Yes, yeah, I love it, do
• 1:21:43
  it? Okay, And we've kind of already talked about the settlements, so
• 1:21:46
  okay, yeah, we can be fun. How to manage hormones when breastfeeding
• 1:21:50
  and finally getting your period back. I know this is out of your lane,
• 1:21:56
  so like I did kind of mention a little bit, but really focusing
• 1:22:01
  on the breastfeeding part and not necessarily the period part, I think is going
• 1:22:05
  to be the most important. And that's coming from someone who respects moms and
• 1:22:11
  can't wait to be a mother one day. I just think it's so important
• 1:22:14
  that you're focusing on nourishing that child. So taking things like milk thistle is
• 1:22:18
  going to be really supportive and that helps increase your the prolactint in your lactation
• 1:22:26
  abilities, but also making sure that you're taking care of your physical body and
• 1:22:32
  health and allowing your body permission to just recover the way, like don't do
• 1:22:39
  too much extra intravention, Like it's if your child is under two years old,
• 1:22:47
  let your body do what it needs to do, Okay, Yeah,
• 1:22:50
  because that's something that I dealt with too with in this past time. Like
• 1:22:56
  I feel like once I'm still nursing, but I got my period back of
• 1:23:00
  months ago and my hormones were whacked. I mean I was a freaking basket
• 1:23:06
  case for a little bit there. And yeah, the question that I had
• 1:23:12
  was like, what do you Is there anything that we can do or it's
• 1:23:15
  just like ride the wave. Your body's doing what it's supposed to do,
• 1:23:18
  so you can ride the wave. And like, I'm definitely like ride that
• 1:23:23
  wave, but also it could be worth supporting your liver a little bit more.
• 1:23:30
  Now I'm not one hundred percent, I don't look off. I haven't
• 1:23:33
  been pregnant yet, so I refuse to do extra research about pregnant classling like,
• 1:23:41
  I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. However, what I
• 1:23:45
  could imagine doing that would be helpful would be supporting your liver because now we're
• 1:23:50
  getting rid of some of those hormones that were in your body and we have
• 1:23:56
  to get it out of the body so it can kind of rebalance and recalibrate.
• 1:24:00
  So anything you can do to really support your liver is going to be
• 1:24:04
  help Okay, perfect, And then last question, she said my period after
• 1:24:11
  having kids. There's no other way to say, this is violent. What
• 1:24:15
  would be your opinion on best non hormonal way to deal lifestyle changes? So
• 1:24:23
  I want to share with you all my three philosophies for like living life and
• 1:24:27
  really hormonal health, stress less and live more. I know you don't want
• 1:24:31
  to hear it. And I know with kids it's like ro mind you.
• 1:24:35
  We have them fifty percent of the time, so I know life with kids
• 1:24:39
  is not stress is like its synonymous. I get it, but hear me
• 1:24:45
  out for a second. You get to set the tone and control the energy.
• 1:24:48
  And the reason we're trying to stress less and live more is to downregulate
• 1:24:51
  your nervous system to get your adrenals in check and so your cortisol isn't constantly
• 1:24:57
  pumping out. Is it really that deep or no? Okay? Like that's
• 1:25:01
  one of the things I like to challenge people to think about second add rather
• 1:25:06
  than subtract. So often we're focusing on taking things away when it comes to
• 1:25:12
  our lifestyle, and I'm actually all about adding the right things in. So
• 1:25:16
  you know, whether you like to have a good espresso martini, you know
• 1:25:19
  they'll tell you don't drink alcohol on your period. I know why they say
• 1:25:24
  that, because looks what that one espresso martini. So I'm going to enjoy
• 1:25:27
  that, miss ma'am. And I'm also going to support my body with activated
• 1:25:30
  charcoal and coconut water so that one the coconut water can balance the electrolytes out,
• 1:25:36
  the activated charcoal can actually help remove the toxins. And I'm golden right,
• 1:25:41
  So figure out how you can add rather than take away in life,
• 1:25:45
  especially when it comes to your hormones. And then I like to approach things
• 1:25:49
  from like a clean Eden perspective. It's a little bit of a play on
• 1:25:54
  words Garden of Eden, but also like clean eating right if it wasn't in
• 1:25:59
  the garden of een. I may not touch it like the lab grown meats
• 1:26:04
  that the kids came out with. What y'all doing? What is that?
• 1:26:10
  I'm not no, ma, listen. It doesn't taste it either. Like
• 1:26:14
  I just I have a lot of questions. But I think that that can
• 1:26:17
  help, especially when your period is violent, because often, especially after kids,
• 1:26:25
  there's so many variables with the hormones that just kind of simplifying and being
• 1:26:31
  like, Okay, I'm not going to even stress out right now. Okay,
• 1:26:34
  you're having a melt pound, you need an app? Okay, what
• 1:26:39
  do I eat? Like? It's almost like having to compartmentalize. It's going
• 1:26:45
  to support you. It's going to downregulate your nervous system. It's going to
• 1:26:48
  help get your cortisol in check, your estrogen in check, and then hopefully
• 1:26:51
  you'll be like golden again. Back to the liver. Supporting your liver is
• 1:26:59
  one of the most important things to do when it comes to your menstrual cycle.
• 1:27:02
  Across the board, I will say when we started cleaning up our diets,
• 1:27:10
  which I'll say probably like mid twenties is a little bit later, probably
• 1:27:15
  when I got with Chris because he like cares, and now I do but
• 1:27:19
  at the time, you know your twenties and you're just I was out there
• 1:27:21
  surviving, so I'm eating like all of the trash and just trying to save
• 1:27:26
  money. But when I cleaned up my diet and we use so many more
• 1:27:30
  mostly whole foods and now organic, and I realize, like everybody's on a
• 1:27:35
  different you know, you can, you got to do the best that you
• 1:27:39
  can. But when I did that. You can set a clock to my
• 1:27:43
  periods and I mean they were like pretty normal before, and they weren't like
• 1:27:47
  I've been. I've been pretty lucky to have manageable, non painful periods,
• 1:27:53
  but I would say they've gotten even more, like way more predictable, way
• 1:27:59
  more manageable, not so crazy, so I do of course, I'm not
• 1:28:04
  gonna say I think there's something that. Of course there's something to your diet
• 1:28:08
  and your body in general, including your cycle. So I love that advice.
• 1:28:14
  Thank you. I mean, my periods were violent, missing period heavy
• 1:28:18
  bleeding, bleeding so heavy that I used to bleed through my panties and through
• 1:28:23
  my genes. Okay, like heavy bleeding. Now my period is four days
• 1:28:28
  long. I have absolutely no pain and like it doesn't stop me from living
• 1:28:34
  my life. I have a period and a life. So the reason I
• 1:28:39
  come back to nutrition so often is because that is where you can see some
• 1:28:43
  of the biggest changes the fastest, without the cost of everything else. So
• 1:28:49
  even if you can't afford certain supplements right now it's just not in the budget,
• 1:28:55
  that's fine. Start with your food. Food first, supplements second,
• 1:29:00
  is what I always say, because like, literally the way the world was
• 1:29:04
  design God designed like the fruit and vegetable for our food, and like leaves
• 1:29:11
  and herbs for our healing. And I stand by that and through and it's
• 1:29:15
  like biblical, and like I didn't even know it for the longest time,
• 1:29:18
  and then I came across the scripture and I was like, uh huh,
• 1:29:23
  we over complicated, Like it can be so simple, and I realized,
• 1:29:26
  like some people just have way different circumstances and it is a lot more complicated.
• 1:29:31
  And if you have PMDD or endometriosis and those that's different. But but
• 1:29:38
  yeah, I think for a lot of us who you just have more painful
• 1:29:42
  periods or heavier or whatever, like check the diet. There's something there for
• 1:29:46
  sure. Yeah, this has been very enlightening, very helpful. Where can
• 1:29:55
  the people find you. Oh gosh, you're all over its place. You
• 1:30:00
  can find me where the people are. So I am pretty much literally everywhere.
• 1:30:05
  You can find me on Instagram or TikTok, at barryon Elberry. You
• 1:30:09
  can find me online at well ww dot barryon Elberry dot com or maybe by
• 1:30:15
  the time this is live, Barry Boost, which is like a whole thing
• 1:30:18
  will be live. It's b E R R I boost as in like boost
• 1:30:25
  your health dot com. Like I don't know. That domain will probably wrap
• 1:30:30
  you to my website, but that's where you can find me. I mean,
• 1:30:33
  it depends on the mood that I'm in. I'm in an interesting season
• 1:30:36
  of life. But you can find me on TikTok for sure. Okay,
• 1:30:40
  at least once it go to TikTok first, is what we're hearing. Okay,
• 1:30:45
  perfect, Yeah, Well, thank you so much for taking the time
• 1:30:48
  and sharing all of this with us. I know, I mean, we
• 1:30:51
  I have so many things that we'll be linking and I'll point everybody in your
• 1:30:56
  direction. And you do offer support like coaching. If somebody has a specific
• 1:31:03
  issue or something and they want to get it in check via for their period
• 1:31:09
  or fertility, you can support them to more like one on one. Just
• 1:31:14
  go to my website, okay, and everything you need is going to be
• 1:31:16
  over there because I take four clients a month. I literally have changed my
• 1:31:24
  entire work life based off of my cycle four clients a month. But if
• 1:31:27
  you're like I don't really want to work one on one. I like to
• 1:31:29
  learn on my own of courses, I have ebooks. Like, everything you
• 1:31:31
  need is on the website. And your content, I mean, there's just
• 1:31:35
  so much here there. You do so much content. You do such an
• 1:31:40
  amazing job, and it's so good too. It's like a page that you
• 1:31:43
  can just scroll and you actually are enjoying learning. So go check out the
• 1:31:46
  TikTok and the instagram Berry. You're a queen. Thank you for being with
• 1:31:50
  us today and we'll have to have you back sometime. My pledge, thank
• 1:31:55
  you for having me