Something To Tell You

What's your menstrual footprint? Tara and Gina talk with Zeal Desai about periods, measuring our menstrual footprint with the Green Period Calculator and sex on your period. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

Dr. Jessica Zucker talks with us about loss, and the universal shame and self blame that often comes along with it. We also hear about her new book, I HAD A MISCARRIAGE: A Memoir, a Movement Available everywhere books are sold. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

This week we sat down with Marjorie Tong from JUUNO, a revolutionary pregnancy apparel brand, currently in development, that offers stylish and supportive EMF-shielding performance wear for all phases of pregnancy. If you like being a super cool early adopter, you can enter your email address at www.juunowear.com and be the first to hear about JUUNO's official launch happening later this year. You can also follow them on Instagram @juunowear and wait patiently for the many awesome posts to come. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

Tara and Gina crush on Sabia and JB, the leaders showing up for Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings. These four share how they all got to know one another through their commitment to doula care and reproductive health and talk about what makes the cocktail of friendship and work stay savory. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

Miranda Bennett is a pioneer in ethical and sustainable fashion. We chat all about what it means to run a mission driven fashion company, her creative process, whats it like running a company during a pandemic and why it's important to her to keep all stages and phases of a persons life in mind during her process. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

M. Carmen Lane spills on the nausea of “self-care”, crankiness as fuel for creation, coping with change within change within change, and the need for all of us humans to truly consider what it means to be living together. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

Jenny Drew is merging fashion, sustainability and philanthropy with her new company All the Babies, which she started with...HER MOM!!! We talk the complexities of the mother/daughter relationship, how Impact should be the key driver of success and what it's like to own a business that actually prospered during COVID. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

Dr. Stephanie Mitchell has raised over $100,000 to create the first free-standing birth center in Alabama. The state ranks third from the bottom for the worst outcomes in the entire U.S. She holds multiple higher degrees and licenses, but the state is still forcing her to go back to school. WTF?! Her story is a microcosm of all that is wrong with our systems. She is a role model of all that is right in overcoming and changing shit up. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

Tara and Gina chat with Sara Reardon, the pelvic floor physical therapist also known as The Vagina Whisperer, to get words of wisdom purred into as many vaginas as possible. Learn how social media built her private practice, the connection between menstrual cups and incontinence and what we all can do to prevent pelvic floor issues prior to pregnancy and beyond. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message

Welcome to Born into This! Periods. Puberty. Pregnancy. Birth. Born Into This is on a mission to revolutionize our relationship to reproductive health and justice. From challenging the patriarchy to navigating night sweats, understanding our reproductive health connects us to our bodies. It influences how we see the world, how we see ourselves—and even how others see us. Simply put, this podcast is a view into our lives as moms, social entrepreneurs, and best friends who hold nothing back. We talk about all the things our world has tried to keep silent by starting with the question: What were you born into? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornintothis/message