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Episode Summary: Abundance in the Startup Ecosystem with Naseem Sayani In this episode of The Founder's Sandbox, Brenda McCabe sits down with investor, ecosystem builder, and female founder advocate Naseem Sayani to explore how capital, community, and visibility can create a more abundant and equitable startup ecosystem. Naseem shares her journey from management consulting and digital innovation to venture investing, where she became increasingly aware of the disparities women founders face when raising capital. After leaving a successful consulting partnership, she dedicated her career to supporting female entrepreneurs, investing in overlooked founders, and helping reshape how venture capital recognizes opportunity. The conversation dives into practical fundraising advice for women founders, including why founders should "lead with the money, not the empathy," how gender bias shows up in investor questioning, and how pitch decks can be strategically designed to guide investor conversations. Naseem also discusses the research-backed differences between the questions male and female founders receive during fundraising and offers actionable strategies for reframing those interactions. Brenda and Naseem explore several of Naseem's current initiatives, including her podcast The Capital Flex, which amplifies real fundraising stories from women founders, and the newly launched SoCal Women's Health Collective, a community focused on advancing innovation and collaboration in women's health. The discussion also examines the future of healthcare investing, where Naseem advocates for shifting the conversation from "women's health" to precision health—a broader framework that highlights the enormous market opportunities in personalized care, diagnostics, and health solutions that have historically been overlooked. Naseem emphasizes the power of abundance over scarcity, encouraging women to share networks, knowledge, and opportunities rather than competing for limited seats at the table. She argues that true progress will come when more capital flows from traditional funding sources into diverse founder communities, creating better outcomes for investors, founders, and society alike. Captions: 00:09 All right, welcome back to the Founder's Sandbox. I'm Brenda McCabe, your host, now in this fourth season of the Founder's Sandbox. And my mission is quite simple. With the Founder's Sandbox, I have guests that are business owners, service providers, VCs, and corporate directors. 00:36 who like me want to use the power of the enterprise to make change for a better world. And with stories in the sandbox on resilience, scalability, and purpose-driven experiences of my guest, um we have an origin story and we get to really understand what's under the hood of the businesses that my guest, um our owners have. So I'm absolutely delighted to have Naseem Sayani as my guest this month. Welcome, Naseem. 01:06 Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah. So Naseem and I go back um many, many years. She touches, um checks many, many boxes. Our first encounter was while I was m leading a women's corporate, a women's investment fund. So we invested in women owned companies with a minimum 33 % equity holding of uh the woman uh founder or m C-suite. 01:34 member and Nassim at that time was within Emily Ventures. She's since moved on to other firms and we've we're she's my first port of call when there is a very talented woman founder, particularly in the life science or digital health area. So I was absolutely delighted when the same also launched her own podcast podcast. So we'll get into that in a minute. So let me just make a uh bit more proper. uh 02:04 Introduction to you, Naseem. You're an investor, ecosystem builder, and speaker, as you guys are going to see here. Currently, the operating umbrella for all of the different ventures um that Naseem is orchestrating is Game Changers, World Changers. I love the title of your umbrella. You lead, and I've seen it in real life, commitment to empowering female founders. um 02:34 Her network across the United States and elsewhere is uh has no paragon. She is amazing. She's largely focused in health tech and fintech. And there's something that you've been doing recently, which is really giving a voice to women founders and what's it like raising capital. So with that, we're going to jump into uh our podcast today, abundance in the startup ecosystem. how, why are you doing what you do today? 03:04 Tell us about your origin story. Oh goodness. Yeah. No, back in time, back in time. Back in time. You were a consultant. all. I was. Yeah, we all grew up somewhere. So I like, I like to say I'm a recovering consultant. So I spent many, many, many years in core management consulting. So really problem solving. 03:27 at various strategic levels with Fortune 100s. I was working across healthcare, financial services, consumer, little bits of energy and other things along the way. But it was really those three sectors that I spent most of my time in. And this is early, early 2000s. So digital was a thing, but it wasn't. And we had Facebook that was happening already, you know, early 2000s. But it was in 2007 that we got iPhones in our hands and something shifted. 03:56 Right? It dramatically changed what the words digital strategy might mean. And that's when I started doing very continuously, very core digital strategy work with all of those same clients. And to put this in context, they didn't know what those words meant. Those words didn't mean anything. Like, what is digital strategy? What does it mean to my business? How does it change how I organize? How does it change how I go to market? 04:26 personalization moving from a one to many advertising model to a one to one ad model. That was a, it was a whole new paradigm, right? Of how we might interact and talk to the market as a brand or as a business. And that was all of the work I was doing in mid 2000s. And so it was fascinating to be in the center of, of that much problem solving. Well, that's what it feels like now. 04:54 That's what it feels like now, but at the time we didn't know that we were on the front end of what was this massive transformation, right? We were just doing the work and having fun and a bunch of young people straight out of MBA programs, problem solving. But it was great because you learn so much so quickly when you do that kind of work. And then a couple of years into it, we realized that our clients couldn't really execute against the strategies that we had built because they don't have 05:21 product and tech and UX and UI and scrums don't mean anything. Like this language that we take for granted now was just getting established mid late 2000s. And so we launched a product studio inside of the consulting firm to help them build product and launch experiences. And we, I was living in New York at a time. We launched this product studio out of Los Angeles. And in that same window, I moved back to LA. So I ended up being the person who ran the studio. 05:51 for about two and a half, three years. And so I was doing core strategy work. I was running the product studio and for about three years, every single digital proposal for the firm went through my inbox. Oh my gosh. Globally. it was every single project, every single client, we were tacking on the studio effort onto the back of that proposal. And so I didn't sleep for three years. I worked harder than I've ever worked in those three years. 06:20 But it was tremendous because I got to see so many different things so quickly. And we built a really great studio team. We were doing really great work in that team. And then the firm that I was at got acquired. There was lots of transformation things that happened. And then that product studio went and got acquired by a different management consulting firm and grew up into a full venture incubator. So the products we were building 06:47 ultimately needed different governance, different KPIs, different growth models, different leadership than what the corporate owner was able to do. So now we were, it was a different business. was a spin out turned into a spin out. So the value proposition turned into, we're not just building products. We're actually helping you build the startup that would otherwise put you out of business. That became the thing that we were doing. So now, now we're building startups and we're doing it at scale and we're doing with our clients and we're doing it. Now it's early. 07:17 2010s, 2011, 2012, and we're building startups and in parallel, right? Things like Uber and other things are happening in parallel and we're watching all kinds of change happen in how we engage and what kind of tools we're using across the marketplaces and what's broadly from a digital perspective. And it was great. I got to learn a lot really, really quickly. But in these... 07:43 Rooms right and you can imagine because you've been in these rooms also uh There's not enough women. There's not enough diversity We're building great product, but we don't really cover all the use cases because we're missing women and because we're missing diversity and so I was in parallel trying to meet as much of the I was trying to more founders I wanted to just see what else was out there. So I gravitated towards a lot of the the events that had more women and I was also 08:12 I'd led the diversity efforts inside of the incubator. was always protecting the careers of the women behind me. I held the diversity flag. I was one of three female partners in the incubator of like 50, right? So we were already standing on top of a pretty, on top of pretty small The token women, right? Right, right, exactly. So I was meeting a lot of women outside the building and building great products, building incredible businesses, but like, 08:41 fighting to the nail to raise capital for the companies that they're building. Meanwhile, my day job has capital. We're pouring money into building startups, but I'm surrounded by men all day. So this contrast between my day job and the struggle of what was happening for the female founders outside of the building, this contrast became... just this cognitive dissonance was too much. 09:09 stick too much to handle, right? It just doesn't work. And so I ultimately decided that I had to shift all of my energy, all of my focus. I know how to do things. I know how to build businesses. I know how to think strategically. I know how to problem solve. I can look at a market and hopefully figure it out. So let me just redirect all the energy to actually helping the whole other half of the ecosystem raise some capital and move some money and build some businesses because the boys have all the help that they need, right? 09:39 But the women don't. You left a partner position. I did. Yeah. No, my husband is super excited about that. I left my partner job at the consultancy to go full venture and decide to move some capital. Absolutely. And I started investing. This was 2019-ish and started writing some angel checks, larger angel checks, got deeper in the ecosystem. It was in that window that I met the two women. 10:08 that I launched Emmeline Ventures with. We raised about six and a half, seven million seats, stage focus, healthcare, fintech, sustainability, wrote some fantastic checks. I got some great capital out the door. And then I jumped, as you mentioned, to go do a whole host of other things. Now much more embedded, almost an ecosystem level, so more horizontal than just the vertical of the fund. And it's been great. It's, it's... 10:35 serendipitous that I got involved in the ecosystem in a moment where the female founder ecosystem was growing up the way that it was the women's health ecosystem was growing up the way that it was. And so the notion that I'm a pioneer comes up a lot because people like you've been in this for a while. Like you, you were one of the few people who built this thing. uh 10:57 But it doesn't feel that way to me. But there's a few of us who have been here since the beginning, really crafting this. And so it's really kind of fun to have been in it since the beginning, it feels like. So one of the things that we did with you uh from Ty last year is you did a master class with a cohort of women-owned businesses on how to pitch. Oh, yeah. And granted, I don't want to steal your thunder. 11:27 You're tagline with this, but we go into a room with VC, Rangel Investors. It's largely male. So what are your two or three core messages from that training? I used to it a lot. I attribute it to Naseem Sayani, but it is when women hear this, they're like, oh, I've got to go back and redo my text. 11:54 Yes. Yeah. So there's a couple of things I tell that I coach, I should say, female founders on all the time. One is you need to lead with the money and not the empathy. What we have been conditioned to do as women, and it's not conditioned, it actually comes from a lot of where our core empathy and how women move in the world is. We lead with the emotion. It's how we engage, it's how we build relationships. 12:21 But when you are in a money driven ecosystem, such as venture, you cannot lead with empathy. You have to lead with money. You have to tell me and tell who you're talking to how much this thing is worth. And you have to tell them that quickly. What typically happens with a pitch deck from a female founder is that there are four or five pages on pain. 12:46 pain and stress and how hard it is and just all this stuff that is so, so hard and you don't get to the size of the market until page seven. And that's too far, right? Because by then the people are bored and they don't care. you have do it in a page. Fine. But it's not five pages. Pull the market up sooner. Talk about the size of the opportunity sooner. I don't want any personal stories at the front of that deck. 13:14 The place where I want you to put the personal story is in how you're going to win. Because if you understand the market so closely and this pain point so closely because it happened to you, that is why your hustle is so much stronger. That's why you're after it so much more that your founder market fit comes from that. So put it there. Don't put it into product market fit. That's the wrong place. Right. Founder market fit. 13:42 Put it into founder market fit because that's the reason you're going to win is because you care about it in a way that other people don't care about it. So it's in the wrong place in the story. So put the empathy in the appendix. Nobody cares. I love you, but nobody cares. Lead with the money. That's point number one. Point number two is that there is data. It is validated that women get different questions in pitch meetings than men do. Yes. Harvard research. 14:08 Harvard research proves it. Two out of every three questions that a male founder gets will be about growth and vision and opportunity and how big this market can be. Two out of three questions that a woman gets will be risk related. So, oh my gosh, that CAC number is so high. And oh my goodness, what if you can't find the customers? And oh my goodness, what if somebody else does this? It is prevention. Yeah, it is prevention minded questions. Men get promotion minded questions. And if you're not... 14:37 prepared for that. You will be on the defense of the entire time in that meeting. So you have to practice. You have to spend a weekend with your camuja or your glass of wine or whatever it is and write down all of the prevention questions you might get on your deck, whether it's a main page or a footnote or something on the bottom of page 10. Write down everything. Be horribly brutal. 15:03 and then let it sit for a day, come back and write down your answers. And your intention with the answers is not to answer the question, but to flip that question into a promotion-based response. Excellent. Shift the power dynamic back. As an example, you have a revenue page that has the chart, revenue goes up from zero, year one to year five, and then you've got three bullets, you've got three data points on the right-hand side. Everyone should have a page that looks like this. You've got CAC, you've got AOV, you might have LTV as well. 15:33 More than likely, as a female founder, they're going to ask you about CAC. They're say, oh my God, CAC is $28. That's so high. How are you going to manage that? A male founder is going to get a question on AOV. AOV is $1,200. That's incredible. Can it get to $1,500? That's the difference in the questions. If you get that CAC question, your natural response might be, yeah, it's $28. We're going to work on it. We're going to run some tests. We really think we can get it to $25. 16:03 That might be how we naturally respond. What you should say is, it's $28, but our AOV is $1,200. So we actually think it's performing pretty well. 16:16 Very, very convincing. And that's it. Yes. Yeah. You don't respond to the defensiveness. You redirect them to the data point that actually matters. And you take back the power in that conversation. And it may also be that you have to reformat your deck. Yes. Yes. Yes. 100%. Yeah. So that's the third. That's the third thing is that your deck is a strategic asset. 16:44 Okay. And you should be very thoughtful about what you put in the deck so that you are teeing up the questions that you want to answer. Okay. There's a thing is too much information and there's a thing is too little information. The line in the middle is that if you're putting data on that same page on the right hand side, yes, put AOV at the top, put LTV next, put CAC at the bottom. Don't put CAC at the top because everyone's going look on the top right. It's natural. 17:14 Eyelines go to the top right of a page. Don't put CAC at the top. Put AOV at the top. Is that the biggest number? Put that one at the top. Be very deliberate about where you put data on the page so that you can tee up the questions that you want to get. You can bait the document with the things that you want to answer and set up the conversation that you want to have at least halfway. Right. It takes practice though. It takes practice. It takes practice. Yes. 17:42 And where are you now dedicating a lot of your uh time? We are fellow podcasters. And I know it was some time in the making. So you launched, was it six months ago, the Capital Flex podcast? Yes. Yes. And this is where you hear real stories, right? So to share a bit with my little. Yeah, absolutely. So I launched. 18:08 I launched the Capital Flex in January. I've been working on it since mid last year. It's been living on a post-it on my desk for the last two years, maybe more. So I get a lot of inbound from founders on the crazy things that happen when they're fundraising. A weird conversation, uh a offhand comment, an unfortunate behavior. Just the things that we know happen to women when they're out fundraising. 18:37 So I do a lot of, call myself, I've become this like de facto therapist for the female founder side of the ecosystem. And so I've been making notes on just the crazy that happens. And what I started, what happens is that there's founder, founder in New York and founder in California who are dealing with the same problem, but they don't know each other. So I'm, I'm sharing information across these two women when they should just know each other. So I'll bridge the connect, but you can't, I can't scale that. 19:04 quickly, right? And so instead I said, what if we just talked about it out loud on a podcast and just shared the stories and made it real and not just stories for the sake of, you know, kind of the victim hood that might come with that. That's not the intent. That's not my stance in any case, but I want to share the story so that we know that they're real. And then I want to share the learnings from that experience so that when another founder listens to any one of these episodes, you go, Oh my God, 19:34 Yes, that happens to maybe that's happened to me too. So I'm not alone. It's not just me and it's not personal and three That's a great way to deal with it because that founder dealt with it that way. Maybe I can do that too So it's really the toolkit that comes out of each episode. That was that was the end game And so episode, uh, sorry season one has just wrapped about a week ago 12 20:00 Great conversations, 12 fantastic founders. Each story is just tremendous. You learn a lot. They're very candid. It's very raw. And it's great. it's on Spotify and everywhere you can find it. called the Capital Flex. Everyone should go listen. It's tremendous. And then season two is going to drop in just a few weeks. And we've got another slate of 12 great founders. And we're running. Yeah, that's great. um 20:26 the impulse to actually launch a podcast, and the scene, if I hear you correctly, is you really wanted to amplify and scale these lessons that and experiences that other women founders have lived in their own skin. Yes. And not so much. It's not in a private way, but you really what do you think you're going to get out of this in terms of effectuating change in how people write checks? 20:55 It's visibility on really what's different about the rooms that women walk into versus the rooms that men walk into. It's awareness and accountability on behavior. Because if we know what's happening and we see it happen, we can call it out. Because now there's proof, right? And we go, oh, it's not her being sensitive. These things are really happening. 21:23 And then three, there's a pattern recognition problem in the ecosystem. And there's been so much money has moved in certain ways. there's indicators of success that a lot of the money moves on. But a lot of that is based on a very historical founder profile. And that profile doesn't include women. And it doesn't include people of color. And those levers of success look different in women. And they look different. 21:53 in founders of color. And unless we are understanding the impact of not seeing that we're never going to move capital in bigger ways. And ultimately we're just missing huge opportunities. We are missing massive opportunities spaces because we, our pattern recognition is stopping us from writing checks into spaces that we don't know enough about. So if you were to pitch yourself, right? Or, um, 22:22 game changers, world changers in front of investors. What would be your top line? Do you want to effectuate change over x million of women founders? Are you going international? mean, do a pitch here if you want. I don't know if I'll do that, but I can. So what would be your key guys, right? And yeah, yes. Yeah. So it's how much capital do we shift from? 22:51 from kind of the core buckets, the capital goes to, to founders that they haven't written checks before. Okay. That's, and so that's a big one. Uh, and, and how that, and what's the profile of the check writer? Because we have, there's been a increase in women who run funds in the last 10 years. So there's a lot more diversity in who's running funds, which is great. There's also a lot more diversity in who's building companies. So there's a lot more women, a lot more people of color. 23:20 building companies, but the bulk of the money is still sitting in traditional hands going to traditional profiles of builders. I want both of those things to move. So if we have better awareness of who's building and how they're building and what they look like and how they move in rooms and how they might show up in rooms, then the people writing the profile of who writes the check should also shift, right? It's not just women who should be writing checks to women. Men should be writing checks to women as well. 23:50 So how do we cross the social and gender circles better? capturing that metric, like that's the KPI that I want, is how much capital is going from male-led funds into female-founded teams. That's the metric that I want to be able to track. Because right now what's happening is that all the women-led and diverse funds are who's funding the women-led and diverse founded companies. Say that again. 24:19 for my listeners, because this is important. Women-led and diverse-led funds are the bulk of the money that's funding women-led and diverse founded companies. 24:30 And that cannot persist because we need big capital to go into these companies because they are building fantastic game changing businesses and everybody should make money from what they're doing. And they're going to hit a series a, a series B, a series C, and they're going to need bigger checks. You heard it here on the founder sandbox. Let's, let's, let's change to sectors. largely health tech, fintech. 24:59 Where do you see um greater, where are you focusing your initiatives in terms of um getting more check writers, right? uh Into the ecosystem and where have there been the greatest deficiency in, you you talk about these big product or these sectors, right? That have not addressed women's needs. So, so the answer is the same for both of those. I'm, I'm calling. 25:27 This will come out. This is a semantic problem, but I'm causing I'm calling it precision health. This is a place where I'm spending where I'm spending all of my time where I want to be investing in where the biggest opportunity is is our ability to leverage precision health. This is insight driven health care, whether it's in care delivery, whether it's in diagnostics, whether it's in understanding cancer, whether it's in 25:56 delivering smarter insights based on the type of human we're talking to, that is where we're going to change the game in healthcare. And that's where I want more capital to go and where it should go. Now, we've historically called this women's health, right? You've flipped the term use. So we've called this women's health for a long time. We're still calling it women's health. The problem that we've now uncovered is 26:24 Women's health carries stigma. The language carries stigma. You hear women's health and still I'll have people that say, oh my gosh, no, yeah, we've one or two things. We've made our women's health investment this year. Check the box. We're good. Yeah. Or they'll say, oh, but it's, it's, it's just so niche. We're half of the population. Yeah. Half of the population is not niche. just, I can't even, I have to just look at them and say I'm half the population. 26:55 And then the third thing you'll hear is, there just haven't, we just haven't seen the exit. So we're just not sure that the value is there. And so on the third one, have my, I hope there's two responses. One is, you know, when Google and Facebook and Amazon came to market and we're raising capital, there were no exits for search and e-commerce and social. No, we didn't know what it was. These things were brand new. 27:22 The reason the money went there was because there were behaviors and there was demand and there was money that was moving towards these categories. That was the reason we invested was there was a behavior trend that was shifting. There was a market trend that was shifting. There was something we were after because there was going there was a value pool that we could get after. That's why the money moved. This is what's happening with women's health right now. There is demand. There's behavior. There's money moving there right now. Menopause is a 60 billion dollar category. 27:52 When it comes down to it, women will spend money on their health care and they'll do it out of pocket. They're doing it right now. Right. We have no interest in our grandma's health care. We're absolutely going to go get what we need to solve for the hot flashes and the brain fog and whatever it is. And that's we have the proof now. Now, in January of this year, 2026 at JPMorgan, there was a report that was launched. There's a fantastic team that spent the last year doing the work to reanalyze all of the health care exits for the last 20 years. 28:21 The report is called follow the exits. Okay. And what they did was reclassify all of the exits in healthcare for the last 20 years into three different buckets, assuming that they qualified. If those exits were aligned to conditions that exclusively differently or disproportionately affected women, they bucketed them that way to recast the exits against conditions that affected women. When they're not 28:50 They weren't talked about that way in the market already. But when they did that, they were able to quantify $100 billion of returns that have already made its way back to investors from exits related to companies that built and exited because they were in conditions that exclusively, differently, or disproportionately affected women. 29:13 So people have made money from women's health already. But we don't know how to talk about it. They weren't calling it women's health. They were calling it diagnostics in oncology. It didn't matter that it was breast cancer. It was diagnostics and oncology. So this is why the semantics problem has to get solved and addressed is that when we call it women's health, we're trying to prove a horizontal over and over again, or saying people to believe in this horizontal that has value. And it's not. 29:43 semantics aren't landing. What has been working is just the proof of value in cardiology or in cardiovascular or an autoimmune or in diagnostics where you go, there's money there. Let's go invest because there's money there. And that's the shift that we have to have. And this is why precision health is how I'm phrasing it now is that we need to get after precision health because if I can prove value in precision health because I can solve for cardiovascular disease. 30:11 for women differently than men and there's value in that and I can deliver better services, better care. I can access reimbursement codes. I can do all of these things differently because I understand what a heart attack looks like in a man versus the woman. And that means that they'll end up at their doctor's office and not in the ER, which is more expensive. That's a place we can invest. it's a semantic change, but that's why I'm now calling it precision. I hope it doesn't. 30:38 take another 20 years after the... I don't think it will. I think there's more and more of us talking about it now and actively talking about the semantics differently. And from this Follow the Exits report, what I'm working on, and this is through my role at Women's Health Access Matters with WAM, is that we're taking the data from that report and we're creating assets that founders can use in their pitch decks to actually showcase the exits that line up with the category that they're in. Amazing. 31:07 So here's the market. Here's three exits. I'm good. I have proof. Yeah. So I think we can get there faster. Excellent. So that's a great segue um to yet another initiative that um is near and dear to your heart, which is it's still in a seed stage. Talk to us about the SoCal Women's Collector. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This is brand new. Me and five other fantastic women here in Southern California. 31:37 decided that we wanted to better connect the ecosystem here in SoCal. So from LA to Orange County to San Diego, there are fragmented groups of wonderful humans, all building, researching, investing, et cetera, into women's health, whether they are at universities or at accelerators or independently investing or they're founders, et cetera. So we launched what's called the SoCal Women's Health Collective. 32:04 And we are actively focused on connecting community. So it's budding, it's growing. We're organizing and still setting full strategy. But at the very least, we are bringing people together at events. We're hosting virtual and live events, whether it's happy hours or panels. We're doing things virtually where we're doing coaching sessions with founders. And we're building a mailing list so that we can get this community connected and talking to each other and at least know who else 32:33 is in Southern California touching this category and building in this category. And it's been really incredible because we were just sitting around dinner one night going, my God, couldn't we do this? And now we have a mailing list that's more than 500 people long. And we meet people everywhere that want to be part of it, want to join, want to come to events. And it's really grown. And we're only within a year. It's really only 10 or 11 months old. 33:00 But it's really taken off. It's great. So we can do a lot with it. I love it. And are you at all working with, is it GLG or the Women's Collective? It's an advocacy group in Washington, DC. Yes, the policy group. Yes, the policy group. Yes. So there's a parallel group called Women's Held Advocates, which is the policy and lobbying organization that's focused in Washington. 33:29 that is entirely organized around uh supporting policy initiatives focused on women's health. So across breast cancer, menopause, we now have recently added bone health, fertility, et cetera. We have sub teams under the women's health advocates umbrella that are focused on policy initiatives to get budget lines or policy lines into different things in Congress to make sure there's a tension on women's health across, again, aligned by conditions. 33:58 so that we can get things done in Congress. So, Women's Health Collective and Women's Health Advocates, at least in SoCal, there's high overlap in the leadership across these two groups. So, we can do a lot of good things together because the women on the steering committee for Women's Health Advocates who are in LA are the same women who launched the SoCal Women's Health Collective. It's symbiotic uh and I've attended... 34:26 sessions with both groups and it's a very exciting moment. It's there's bipartisan bills going to Congress on just why are knee replacements for men being birthed at a higher rate than for women? We all have the same. So it's like really just providing the transparency. pulled that thread. It's a whole different podcast. I know. know. know. So anyway, so you heard it here. 34:55 What else? I could go on and on, Naseem, but we have a certain time here. And I just wanted to give you this moment to share with my listeners how to contact you, how to get involved in your multiple initiatives. These will be in the show notes. 35:16 Yeah, no, absolutely. So I love that the so find the podcast. It's on Spotify and Apple and all the places where you listen to your podcast. It's called the Capital Flex. So all the subscribers would be amazing. Come and listen. I love feedback. Tell me what you think. Season two will drop on May 6th and season one is tremendous. So start from the top. The second thing is I also host something called a Founders Coven, which is a monthly meetup for female founders. And it's a virtual session. It's an hour. 35:45 uh once a month and the entire intent is to infuse expertise, insight, education into the female founder half of the ecosystem. So we've had three sessions so far and I was doing these in a previous life and I've now rebooted it this year. We've talked about vibe coding. We've talked about healthcare reimbursement. uh Our next session is in two weeks. We have a exited founder coming to talk about how she built her business and then led to the exit. So 36:12 You can join the coven. It's on my LinkedIn. You can find the sign up sheet so you can join the coven and join us when you can each month. And then I also I do a lot. I'm very active on LinkedIn. I'm always writing and posting. I'm speaking at lots of events so you can find me out in the wild pretty easily also because I tend to be around a lot. So that's the easiest. as a pioneer, this is a question that just came to my mind. You were so in the early stages of social media, right? um 36:42 Would you dare to give an opinion on what is the best type of platform to get your voice out there as a, as a leader, a change leader like you, is it LinkedIn? Is it how it. I believe it's LinkedIn. I tell a lot of founders this, that if you want to build credibility and thought leadership in parallel to building your company, start to build a platform on LinkedIn. Got it. Build a point of view. 37:13 have a point of view on what the future looks like when your company wins and start to talk about it. And it doesn't have to be long. It's a couple of it's like blog posts type things and use headlines, right? Use what's going on in the news and in healthcare to express a point of view and to talk about what it means and what are the implications and what are the so what's of what's going on and how does that tie back to what you're building and why you're building it? Because when investors go out to research a company and to research the founder, 37:40 If they, will look at your data room with a look at financials, a look at what you're building. All of that has to be up to snuff. And then they're going to go research the founder. And if they go on LinkedIn and they see that you're writing and publishing and that you've built an audience and that you're somewhat prolific in terms of communicating a point of view, those things are important. They pay off, right? You go, well, she, she's talking about what she wants and she has a perspective that's valuable because it means that you're really committed to the thing that you're after. And 38:09 And women don't spend enough time building platforms. We don't spend enough time standing on soap boxes talking about the things we care about. And we should be doing it more. And all of your friends should like comment and share every single thing that you post. And so I also tell everyone once you share it, send it to all your friends and tell them they have to comment and post on it. We have to keep building the flywheel. A flywheel. You heard it here on the Founder's Sand. 38:38 All right, we're going to go to the sandbox. I like to close out asking my guests, um what is the meaning to you for the following three terms, which I am passionate about and how I work with my founder clients. What does scalability mean to you? Oh, scalability means an ability to grow and navigate the market. 39:03 in line with market trends and market behaviors. knowing, having a good perspective on what's going on, dynamics in the sector that you're in, and having built enough mobility in how you navigate your organization so that you can turn left, turn right, etc. in line with what's going on outside the business. That's scalability. Perfect. How about resilience? 39:32 Resilience. one is it's that. So one, it's a necessary skill. We'll start there. And two, it's an ability to take in what's going on in the market, not take it personally, reflect and keep going. uh Feedback can come from everywhere. A lot of it from places that maybe aren't relevant and not that useful. So knowing how to filter and listen and then really be able to be open minded and take the good feedback when you get it. 40:02 And I had one founder on my podcast say that she spent a lot of time on the floor while she was fundraising, like curled up in a ball because it was so hard. But she got up again every single time and she raised the capital and she built a business and she can use to do that. And that's resilience. Right. I'm after something big and it matters. So I'm going to get it done. Amazing. Amazing. And I heard you when we were talking about the subtitle for the episode. uh 40:32 Abundance. What's abundant? Why is abundance so important for you? Abundance is really important for me because we have been, we women have been conditioned so badly in scarcity where there's not enough. There's only one, only one of us can win. We can't all win. And so we don't share our networks easily. We don't share our relationship easily. We, we feel like we have to keep things really close because if I share it, then I lose it. 41:02 It's a mentality I hear em from founders and it's a bit generational as well. And I don't want us to do that. I have found more than once that the more I put into the ecosystem, the more I get back. Comes back to me in spades. so opening up our networks, sharing what we know, being open about the learnings, pulling everyone forward with us. All of that is going to... 41:29 it's going to benefit all ships rise. it's how our male counterparts have been doing it for years. The golf course is the golf course for a reason. Right. And so we don't have a golf course, but we do have our networks and we do have our relationships and women are very innate relationship builders. It is superpower territory and we should be using it. And that means abundance. That means not worrying about 41:57 being the only one because you know what? We're building our own tables and we're pulling up more chairs and that's how we're gonna get this done. I love it. have goosebumps just listening to this last part about bandits. Thank you, Naseem. Final question. What does purpose, purpose driven mean to you? No, purpose driven means that 42:21 your the things you are doing and the things that bring you joy are lined up. Amazing. Yeah. And you can make money from it. Yeah. Without the joy, right? Yeah. Make money better. Yeah. Final question to Jeff on here in the sandbox. This was great. Yes. Thank you. Amazing. I really enjoyed listening. Just I enjoy our friendship, our working together on 42:50 Common theme, which is getting more money into the female. This is 100%. Yep. So to my listeners, if you like this episode with the same, so Yanny sign up for the monthly release of the founder sandbox, you can find it on any major streaming platform. You've got to find founders, business owners, corporate directors and service providers that are building resilience, scalable and purpose driven companies with great corporate. 43:19 uh governance. So thank you for joining us today and see you next month. Thank you.

Biopharma leaders are being asked to move faster, do more and compete in an AI-transformed world. The old agency model, building moats around capability and renting it back to clients, is cracking under that pressure. In this podcast, Woven Health Collective argues that the best agency partners in 2026 help build client capability, not dependency. They make the case for where real agency value lives now: deep scientific acumen, strategic judgment, flawless execution and the stewardship that keeps client capability current. A direct conversation for brand, medical and commercial leaders rethinking what they buy, what they build and what they demand from their partners. Check us out at: mmm-online.com Follow us: YouTube: @MMM-onlineTikTok: @MMMnewsInstagram: @MMMnewsonlineTwitter/X: @MMMnewsLinkedIn: MM+M To read more of the most timely, balanced and original reporting in medical marketing, subscribe here.Music: “Deep Reflection” by DP and Triple Scoop Music. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, we explore the power of the 4+1 Program at NYU GPH, an accelerated pathway that allows students to earn both their undergraduate and master's degrees in just five years. We are joined by Nehanda Akili, an MS Biostatistics student, and Anthony Escamilla, an MPH Community Health Science and Practice student and pre-PA track junior, to discuss how this program provides a competitive edge for future healthcare leaders. Nehanda shares her journey from NYU Gallatin's individualized study—where she concentrated on the intersection of fascism and public health—to mastering data science and R coding. She discusses the importance of GPH's flexibility, which allowed her to balance 18-credit semesters while serving as President of the Black Women's Health Collective. Anthony, an EMT and psychology major, explains how the program allows him to bridge the gap between social theory and clinical practice. He highlights the financial benefits of the "plus one" year and how GPH's location in the NYC epicenter offers valuable opportunities for culturally competent public health intervention. From navigating the application process to utilizing the ecosystem of faculty support, Nehanda and Anthony offer a roadmap for students looking to maximize their time at NYU. This conversation highlights how the 4+1 Program turns academic ambition into real-world impact. To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit http://www.publichealth.nyu.edu.

The world of pharma marketing continues to evolve with multiple ongoing challenges: creating more results with less resources, navigating political and economic uncertainties, overcoming a less than favorable industry public perception and adapting to the ever-present impact of AI. What remains in place throughout all of these variables is the client and AOR relationship. In this podcast we discuss multiple ways in which this relationship can evolve to help foster stronger, truer strategic partnership resulting in greater wins and achievement for both sides. Check us out at: mmm-online.com Follow us: YouTube: @MMM-onlineTikTok: @MMMnewsInstagram: @MMMnewsonlineTwitter/X: @MMMnewsLinkedIn: MM+M To read more of the most timely, balanced and original reporting in medical marketing, subscribe here.Music: “Deep Reflection” by DP and Triple Scoop Music. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Interview with Antonia Tricarico. Antonia Tricarico is an incredible photographer who is working on releasing a new book Be My Rebel. "Be My Rebel is a photography book born from my belief that powerful images can shift perceptions, raise awareness, and spark empathy. This project captures the raw intensity and emotion of protest—from the quiet determination of a young climate activist to the unstoppable unity of a crowd marching for women's rights." Antonia Tricarico on Be My Rebel.  Link to kickstarter!  Be My Rebel Book Kickstarter  Antonia Tricarico was born in Potenza, in Italy's Basilicata region. At 16, she joined the Feminist Collective of Potenza. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Law School at La Sapienza University in Rome and became active in the Women's Health Collective in Trastevere. She worked with Paolo Bedini's AZ Music agency, where for nearly a decade she helped bring renowned musicians to Italy. In the 1990s, she was involved in Rome's Rights to Housing movement and supported squatting public buildings with and for immigrants, for their right to housing. In 1997, after moving to the United States, she began pursuing photography more seriously. In the past years, she has worked as an archivist for Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post photographer Lucian Perkins and collaborated with independent labels such as Tolotta Records, Dischord Records, Kill Rock Stars, and Youth Action Research. Her photographs are represented in both private and public collections, including the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution, the permanent exhibition and special collections archive of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC (Punk and Go-Go music archives), the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland,the DC History Center, and the Library of Congress. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is the author of three books: • Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essay from Washington, DC, and Beyond, 1997–2017 (Akashic Books, 2019) • The Inner Ear of Don Zientara: A Half Century of Recording in One of America's Most Innovative Studios, Through the Voices of Musicians (Akashic Books, 2023) - Oltre l'Influenza-Italian Novel-Sensibili alle Foglie Publisher-Rome,Italy 2023 Her work has appeared in Photo Review, Guitar World, Kerrang, All Music, Razorcake, Chicago Reader, The Oregonian, The Quietus, The Echo, Exclaim!, Fretboard Journal, Washington City Paper, and Washingtonian.   Antonia Tricarico website.

On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Phil Duncan from WeatherWatch about the outlook for November, the chances of a La Nina weather pattern emerging in NZ and what conditions will be like for tomorrow's Melbourne Cup... He talks with Mick Withers and Austin Gerhardy ahead of tomorrow's NZ Young Auctioneers Competition in Christchurch; Mick is the organiser of the event and Austin is joining the festivities after finishing runner-up in the Australian Young Auctioneers Competition at the Sydney Royal Easter Show... And he talks with Eljay Anderson from the Rural Health Collective about why she started the business, the fundamentals of fitness and nutrition and what services she offers clients. Tune in daily for the latest and greatest REX rural content on your favourite streaming platform, visit rexonline.co.nz and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for more.

Dom talks with Eljay Anderson from the Rural Health Collective about why she started the business, the fundamentals of fitness and nutrition and what services she offers clients. Tune in daily for the latest and greatest REX rural content on your favourite streaming platform, visit rexonline.co.nz and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for more.

Susan Willig is transforming the landscape of women's healthcare through strategic advocacy, network building, and empowering female leaders. Her work with the SoCal Women's Health Collective brings together founders, funders, academics, industry leaders, and advocates to address critical gaps in women's healthcare innovation and delivery.Through her firm TrueNorth, Susan helps organizations establish strong brand and marketing foundations that align with their core purpose. She emphasizes the importance of understanding one's "true north"—the guiding purpose that directs all decisions and resource allocation. Ready to support women's health innovation? Expand your awareness of women's health issues, advocate to your representatives, and build diverse networks that can drive meaningful change. Because as Susan reminds us, advancing women's health isn't just a women's issue—it's about creating a healthcare system that truly serves everyone.Welcome to the Agency for Change podcast.Connect with Susan and TrueNorth at: ·       TrueNorth Website – https://www.truenorthsw.com/·       Email Susan – susan@idtruenorth.com

Women's health in Canada is critically underfunded—only 7% of national health research dollars are dedicated to it, and just 2.5% when oncology is excluded. Amy Flood, Executive Director of Women's Health Collective Canada, joins the conversation to share how her organization is tackling this disparity through strategic partnerships, policy advocacy, and public education. From pushing for a national health care strategy for women to advance gender-based research standards, Amy highlights the urgent need for systemic change. She sheds light on the staggering $3 to $3.5 billion annual cost of unmanaged menopause symptoms, the power of making health inequities personal, and the role of evidence-based information in combating misinformation. With a growing global focus on women's health, Amy calls for collaboration across sectors to position Canada as a leader in women's health innovation.

It starts with a tight shoulder, a sore back, a wrist that aches after long hours at the keyboard. But in Singapore’s relentless work culture, we’re trained to push through — until small discomforts become something far more serious. The Breakfast Show invites Amelia Lee, CEO of The Health Collective, to talk about the silent health crisis affecting office workers and why prioritising well-being is no longer optional. Together, we unpack how healthcare can be more human, more proactive, and more accessible — even in a world that glorifies burnout.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I am excited to share a great conversation I had with Julie Hoster who is the acupuncturist at The Health Collective in Penn Yan. She brings her knowledge to help us understand acupuncture and chinese medicine while sharing her experiences and how it helps us live more healthy and fully. I enjoyed connecting the dots with how it runs parallel with other things in our healing journey. Take a listen and reach out to schedule a session if your local.https://healthandwellnessbymeredyth.janeapp.com/#/staff_member/11

Welcome to HALO Talks! In this episode, host Pete Moore sits down with Tom Morrissey, founder of Solo Health Collective and a seasoned veteran in the health insurance world, to unpack the complex—and often misunderstood—landscape of healthcare for self-employed professionals. With a career spanning decades at Cigna and deep experience serving everyone from major corporations to solo entrepreneurs, Tom shares how he's dedicated his life to helping small business owners and solopreneurs access quality, affordable health coverage. Despite his success in the large-account space, Tom noticed an unmet need: Small and mid-sized businesses were often overlooked by health insurers and weren't given access to innovative cost-saving or health improvement solutions that benefited the bigger corporations.  If you're a personal trainer, group ex instructor, wellness coach, massage therapist, or any professional running your own business, this conversation is a game changer. Tom explains the differences between HMO and PPO plans, why traditional ACA ("Affordable Care Act") options can fall short for the self-employed, and how his company's unique group plan model is designed to deliver robust coverage (including preventive care and nationwide access) with transparent pricing and minimal out-of-pocket surprises. Plus, hear about partnerships with organizations like the Freelancers Union, and learn how innovative features like HSAs can work for you—even covering perks like fitness classes. On the healthcare issues facing entrepreneurs, Morrissey states, "We saw the growth. It depends on who you listen to, but estimates are that there'll be 90M solo business, owners by 2028. I want to say there's about 60M now. The guys and gals that own these businesses . . . I think, especially when they're young and healthy, are the ones that get screwed the most in healthcare. You know? All they really have access to is ACA plans." Key themes discussed Challenges of health insurance for solopreneurs and self-employed. Differences between PPO and HMO health plans. Underwriting and rate-setting for solo business owners. Preventive care coverage and HSA/HSA usage changes. Brand trust versus new insurance providers like Solo Health Collective. Partnerships with organizations such as Freelancers Union. Long-term cost sustainability for healthier insurance collectives. A few key takeaways:  1. Solo Health Plans Are Filling a Major Gap: Morrissey explains how traditional health insurance often overlooks solopreneurs and small business owners, especially in the HALO space. His company, Healthy Business Group via Solo Health Collective, is designed specifically to provide comprehensive PPO health plans to solo business owners—offering an alternative with more flexibility and better coverage than typical limited-network ACA and HMO options. 2. Key Plan Advantages-PPO Access and Maximum Out-of-Pocket Clarity: Unlike many ACA or HMO plans that limit provider networks and access, Solo Health Collective offers nationwide PPO plans, granting members broader access to healthcare providers. They also have a straightforward approach: After the deductible is met, there's no coinsurance—meaning your deductible is the absolute maximum you'll pay out-of-pocket for covered expenses (with all preventative care covered in full and not applied to the deductible). 3. Plans Are Designed for Solo Business Owners With Medical Underwriting: To qualify, you must have an EIN (Employer Identification Number) and be a business owner without employees. Members go through a quick, five-question medical underwriting process, which allows the plan to provide tailored age, and location-based rates—often significantly less expensive than standard individual policies, especially for young, healthy professionals. 4. HSAs and Innovative Usage for Wellness Are Embraced: The plan supports health savings accounts (HSAs), and Tom shared how, thanks to evolving IRS guidelines and technology, people can now use HSA funds for things like fitness classes and certain wellness purchases, expanding the value of pre-tax health dollars and encouraging preventive care and healthy lifestyles. 5. Long-Term Value and Stability Solo Health Collective is built on a self-insured, level-funded model supported by robust reinsurance (Odyssey A+ rated.) This allows the collective to stabilize costs and potentially keep renewal increases lower than the industry average—especially as it pools healthier, proactive members like those in the wellness and fitness industries. The long-term goal is to create a sustainable, affordable health insurance solution specifically for entrepreneurs who have historically been underserved. Resources:  Thomas Morrissey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommorrisseyhbg  Solo Health Collective: https://hbgsolo.com   How It Works: https://hbgsolo.com/how-it-works  Freelancers Union: https://freelancersunion.org/insurance/health  Promotion Vault: http://www.promotionvault.com HigherDose: http://www.higherdose.com

As the biopharma industry's needs evolve, discover how moving beyond the traditional network agency model can lead to more effective, integrated solutions. The transformation from ClinicalMind to Woven Health Collective highlights the power of intentional collaboration and patient-centric approaches. This conversation is essential for health care professionals, strategists, and innovators looking to foster collaboration and drive meaningful change in the health care sector. Access the podcast on-demand to explore new ways to enhance your collaborative efforts and impact patient care. Check us out at: mmm-online.com Follow us: YouTube: @MMM-onlineTikTok: @MMMnewsInstagram: @MMMnewsonlineTwitter/X: @MMMnewsLinkedIn: MM+M To read more of the most timely, balanced and original reporting in medical marketing, subscribe here.

As people become more aware of the importance of staying healthy, and the rising costs of healthcare, there is a growing focus on preventive care and personalised medicine. How is private healthcare in Singapore adapting to technological advancements, changing consumer demands, and an aging population? What are the latest trends and challenges in the private healthcare and wellness industry? Aileen Seah, Amelia Lee, and Goh Xin Ying, co-founders of The Health Collective, which integrates chiropractic, osteopathy, and dental care to prioritise early intervention and holistic well-being share their insights. The three women leaders also touched on concerns that women tend to ignore their own health while balancing work and caregiving responsibilities, and the steps they can take for better health and well-being. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today Des talks to Zak Farmer, owner of ZF Health Collective and Zak explains how structured exercise, a balanced diet and quality sleep contribute to a healthy body and healthy mind.

Back in january Myself andDr. Meredyth McMichael took part in the monthly town hall talk where the practitioners from The Health Collective sit down together and chat about life, health and wellness. Here is our conversation about intentions for 2025. As we move through February and deeper into 2025 it felt like a great time to revisit these notions. These notions fit well into our life at any time!Follow and explore all the things:https://dot.cards/uniquebeautyandmeditation_

The Getting2U (G2U) crew get to chat with Dr. Kevin Hall, Dentist at The Health Collective, based in Hartford, CT. In this jaw-dropping episode, Dr. Kevin Hall delves into the critical intersection of HIV and oral health. The conversation explores the unique oral health challenges faced by individuals living with HIV and highlights the importance … Read More Read More

Join myself and the practitioners of The Health Collective as we introduce ourselves, our work and some information about health and wellness. If you want to be a part of the next town hall talk and share in the conversation sign up in the link below. https://unique-designer-754.ck.page/ac1f49a96d --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caryn-slack/support

In a world that often overlooks women's health needs, we must advocate for a future where women's health is prioritized and celebrated. Christoph Clodius is joined by Cally Wesson, BC Women's Health Foundation President & CEO and Women's Health Collective Canada Founding Member & Board Director. They discuss the initiative's evolution, from its inception to its current role in amplifying the visibility and funding of crucial research. Cally highlights national collaboration, upcoming opportunities and the role that the new Executive Director's will play in leveraging existing momentum. Tune in to learn about this exciting career opportunity.

As we transition from summer to fall, it's common to notice changes in our bodies—whether it's slight weight gain, the loss of that “summer glow,” or a different feeling in your skin. These shifts can stir up emotions, so today, we're having a BODY check! Joining me is Dr. Lisa Folden, a physical therapist and women's health expert, to share body image tips for navigating the rest of the year. Listen up! The Flourish Heights Podcast was made for women, by women. To be empowered in health starts with a true connection with your body. Join Valerie Agyeman, Women's Health Dietitian as she breaks through topics surrounding periods, women's nutrition, body awareness, and self-care.  About Dr. Lisa N. Folden  Dr. Lisa N. Folden is a North Carolina licensed physical therapist, NASM certified behavior change specialist and Anti-diet Health & Body Image Coach. She also owns Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness Consultants in Charlotte, NC. As a body positive womens health expert and health at every size (HAES®️) ambassador, Dr. Folden assists women seeking healthier lifestyles. Her weight-neutral approach encourages intuitive eating, body acceptance and breaking up with toxic diet culture. Dr. Lisa is a mom of three, published author and speaker who understands the complex needs of the modern busy woman and mom. Therefore, her goal is to see as many people as possible living their best lives without worrying about their weight! A regular contributor to articles on topics related to physical therapy, health, wellness, self-care, motherhood, body image and fat-friendly healthcare, Dr. Folden has had the distinct honor of being featured in Oprah Magazine, Shape Magazine, Livestrong, Bustle and several other publications. Additionally, she is a member of the National Association of Black Physical Therapists, the Association of Size Diversity & Health, The KNOW Women, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and serves as an expert panelist for H.E.R. Health Collective (2021-2022). Connect with Lisa: IG: @healthyphit / https://www.healthyphit.com/ Stay Connected: Is there a topic you'd like covered on the podcast? Submit it to hello@flourishheights.com Subscribe to our quarterly newsletters: Flourish Heights Newsletter Visit our website + nutrition blog: www.flourishheights.com Follow us on social media: Instagram: @flourishheights / Women's Health Hub: @flourishvulva Facebook: @flourishheights Twitter: @flourishheights Want to support this podcast? Leave a rating, write a review and share! Thank you!

In this brilliant episode, Karen shares with Jayda her experiences of going through the menopause and the differences in which Black people experience the menopause and unpacking the social racial issues behind this. They talk about the journey of aging, and your body changing, and how for Karen so much growth, positivity and beautiful change was born out of her life being turned upside down. Jayda asks Karen more around the stigma of aging, and why for Karen aging is a privilege and she has found more joy in her life the older she has become. At the same time Karen spoke about finding a balance of gratitude in life but also mourning change and loss, and what for her is the difference between healthy processing versus toxic positivity. Follow Karen ArthurFollow Jayda GFollow Here's Hoping PodcastMore on our guest Menopause Whilst Black Menopause Whilst Black Podcast The Joy Retreat Karen Arthur is the founder and host of the ground-breaking podcast Menopause Whilst Black, which champions Black British based menopausal stories now in its fifth season. Karen is a broadcaster, menopause diversity campaigner, and draws on her previous work as a fashion designer and model when founding ‘Wear Your Happy' which is conscious clothing for better mental wellbeing.Karen also created and hosted five star rated The Joy Retreat Barbados, the world's first retreat designed exclusively for Black women in any stage of menopause, and is the host of bi-weekly radio conversation show ‘Can We Talk' on Golddust Radio. Karen has been featured in Vogue, The Guardian, Times Radio and BBC London Radio as well as BBC Breakfast, Channel 4's ‘Sex, Myths and the Menopause' with Davina McCall and Sky Arts ‘Statues Re-Dressed'. Karen has advocated for diversity in menopause representing in Parliament twice and is now part of The Health Collective with RCOG committed to equity in women's health care as well as the world's first National Menopause Education and Support Programme with UCL. Her work on menopause is referenced in several books and cited in the British Medical Journal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In February of this year, Providence became the first city in America to approve opening a state-sanctioned overdose prevention center. Sometimes known as safe injection sites, these are facilities where people can bring illegal drugs and consume them under the supervision of trained volunteers and health professionals. It's one of the boldest experiments in the U.S. of an approach to addressing the drug overdose crisis known as “harm reduction,” which is focused less on forcing people to stop using drugs and instead on helping people use them more safely. It might sound counterintuitive that such an approach could help stem our country's drug overdose epidemic, which killed over 112,000 Americans in 2023. But as our two guests on this episode explain, overdose prevention centers — along with many other “harm reduction” interventions — work. Studies have shown that they not only help reduce drug-related deaths, they also help people recover from drug addiction more broadly. On this episode, Dan Richards talks with two public health leaders in Rhode Island about this new overdose prevention center — how it will work, why it matters, and what it says about the future of addressing America's drug overdose crisis. Guests on this episode:Colleen Daley Ndoye, executive director of Project Weber/RENEW, the organization that will be overseeing Rhode Island's overdose prevention centerBrandon Marshall, chair of epidemiology at Brown University. Learn more about Project Weber/RENEWLearn more about the People, Places, and Health Collective at Brown University's School of Public HealthLearn more about the Watson Institute's other podcastsTranscript coming soon to our website

We have a very special guest on our podcast today. Dr Nighat Arif joins us and talks about being a woman, a mum, a GP, a health advocate, and about becoming an author with her brilliant new book, The Knowledge, a go-to guide from menstruation to menopause and beyond. No subject is off limit in this wonderful and open chat, from female anatomy, equity and diversity to HRT, cold water swimming and Mrs Doubtfire. Dr Nighat Arif is a GP specialising in women's health and family planning with over 16 years' experience in the NHS and private practice. She is based in Buckinghamshire and is able to consult fluently with patients in Urdu and Punjabi. Dr Nighat works, to raise awareness on menopause and women's healthcare in Black and Asian women. She is the ambassador of many wonderful charities including Wellbeing of Women, where she has joined forces with grassroots organisations to form the Health Collective to ensure that care pathways meet the needs of marginalised communities. You will recognise Dr Nighat as the resident doctor on BBC Breakfast, ITV'S This Morning and BBC Look East.   In the Book Collective we continue reading Caitlin Moran's, What About Men? We talk through chapters 7 & 8, about the disturbing realities of pornography addiction, and the friendship difficulties faced by men.   You'll need to listen in for Jinty's discussion on architecture and why the antiquated 21 metre rule was to protect the Edwardian women's modesty. And Lou has disturbing news of TFL's failings for disabled passengers. In the Weekly Invitation to try something new did you manage to date yourself? It's another episode brimming with chat, your comments, and all the usual sweary shenanigans! So, settle in for this hour(ish) podcast full of meaningful chat.   Dr Nighat Arif: Book: The Knowledge: Your Guide to Female health – From Menstruation to The Menopause. August 2023 here https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dr-Nighat-Arif/The-Knowledge--Your-guide-to-female-health---from-menstru/26425481 W: www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk I: @drnighatarif L: Nighat Arif You can watch the full unedited interview on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFgmHLcdx28eco-XlkWYwUA If you've enjoyed our Podcast you may like to consider buying us a Ko-Fi at  https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast Here you can find updates, photos and some inclusive content we won't post anywhere else and your donation will help us ensure we continue to bring you great quality of content and sound. Our campaign for a Menopause Clinic in Devon is moving closer but we still need signatures on our petition: https://www.change.org/p/wheresmyclinic Or to send your testimonials please email us: menopauseclinicdc@gmail.com And finally, if you would like the templates to send to your MP or CCG please visit our website: https://menopauseclinicfordevon.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/message

How's that break from the podcast working out? C'mon it's been over 2 whole weeks! :) In any case, on discovering new evidence that High & Low Estrogen Exacerbate ADHD Symptoms I HAD TO share it! As ever, I'm NOT an expert, just a late diagnosed ADHDer..but I'll tell you who is:THE LEGENDARY Dr Nighat Arif! BBC Breakfast & ITV This Morning's Resident Dr returns to explore what Multiple Hormone Sensitivity Theory means, to give us all some invaluable advice,& to invite us to join her Women's Health Collective. SO GRATEFUL for her support of this podcast and all of her incredible work for Women's Health!If you've not heard Dr Nighat's original ADHDAF Interview LISTEN HERE. Giving credit where credit's due to ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast for sharing this information with me on social media so that those in need in our community can benefit. Please help get this crucial conversation out there and support marginalised communities by sharing this episode far and wide! By hitting those stars and writing a review/commenting you help this information reach more listeners in need. If you are a creator, credit those who inspire your own work so that their work is visible to and can help those in need in your own network.TOGETHER we can make change happen! TW:Mentions of FGM, PMDD, Relationship Struggles, Suicidal Ideation, Risky Behaviour, Depression, Cancer, If you are struggling, you are not alone. please REACH OUTIf you've found this podcast helpful & are able, please help me continue to help others by joining our Community for Peer Support OR leave  a tipMASSIVE THANKS TO ALL PATRONS!Gold Tier Patrons Shoutout: RachSlatts Leanne S Clare Wilson Michie Kim Pierpoint Amy Davies Ceci Mary Suzanne Tanser Katy Smtih Jacqueline McGeachie Jennifer Wilson Jo Rachel Stewart Christie Katie Enstone Ani Kemsley Lizee Oliver Michelle Bellyou  Olivia Dyer Gurjit Thandi Jody Tracy Wilkes Ruth Lester Kimi Wright Rachel Williams Sahra Lou Kirsty Jackie Allen Lou O'Connell Carly Taylor JenM Claire Protherough Reece English Louise MacDonald Claire Dowling Ally Rathbone Daina Stinnett Rosie Gee  Dr Explodo PhD Lindsay Knox Ally Mac Cat Marshall Siobhan Campbell Kara Romana Broughton Anna Byrom Nikkie Wilson Kirsty Witkowska Abbie Whitelaw Rhianne Caitlin Lewis Gillypompom Andie MacInnes Donnie Jackie Whittingham Vanessa Fisher Marianne Kelly Lyndsey Lowdon Claire Robinson Charlotte Lynskey Matilda Wanless Abi Wood Tabitha Buck Fanny Willy Paula Gleeson Kirsten Richardson Louise Kilgannon-Patel Kirsti B Gemma Beauchamp Jenni Bell Jaime Kerns Sarah Spurgeon Sara Jill Toni Morgan Ian Hepworth Louise Townend Amy Holliday Dawn Farmer HTMLQueen (Bonnie) Jill Saunders Milly Withers Meg Jennie King Elaine Koczubik Victoria Galbraith Abi Holland Elizabeth Wilson Vickie Hill Vicky Parker Clare Hunter Annabel Isabelle Paquette Fern Keeley BEE Kate Smith Carley Fischer Gemma Schneide & Rachael Morrice who helped make this episode possible; raising ADHD awareness and providing validation & information to those who desperately need it.Jingle originally by Dawn remixed by Sessionz Support the show

This week I'm interviewing my SAWRAH Brittany Taylor-Williams, the Founder & CEO of The Black Girl Health Collective & Black Girl Health Con. Listen as we chat about the importance of increasing access to care for underrepresented populations, the cultural humility in care systems, and the advocacy of allowing communities to remember that during that doctors visit there are two experts in the room... you being one of the experts.  Get your tickets to Black Girl Health Con HERE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-girl-health-con-2023-registration-690170066247?aff=oddtdtcreator Visit www.blackgirlhealthcollective.org to learn more and follow the collective on IG: blackgirlhealthcollective Do you love listening to the show? Show your support here by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/redefiningwellnesspod WORK WITH ME! Schedule your FREE wellness consultation here:https://calendly.com/uniquelyfittraining/freeconsultation Are you a SUPER, AWESOME person? Want to be on the show?  email me redefiningwellnesspod@gmail.com  Follow the pod on IG: redefiningwellnesspod  Follow Antonique on IG & Tik Tok: heyniquev     

The pressure is ENOUGH! We're exhausted. The frenzy for a 'Summer body,' the expectations following postpartum, and the unending demands of snap-back culture. Society, can we catch a breath? In today's discussion, I'm joined by Body Image Coach Dr. Lisa. We're delving into a range of topics – handling postpartum bodily changes, navigating difficult body image days, and fostering a more positive connection with our bodies. LISTEN UP! The Flourish Heights Podcast was made for women, by women. To be empowered in health starts with a true connection with your body. Join Valerie Agyeman, Women's Health Dietitian as she breaks through topics surrounding periods, women's nutrition, body awareness, and self-care.  About Dr. Lisa N. Folden  Dr. Lisa N. Folden is a North Carolina licensed physical therapist, NASM certified behavior change specialist and Anti-diet Health & Body Image Coach. She also owns Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness Consultants in Charlotte, NC. As a body positive womens health expert and health at every size (HAES®️) ambassador, Dr. Folden assists women seeking healthier lifestyles. Her weight-neutral approach encourages intuitive eating, body acceptance and breaking up with toxic diet culture. Dr. Lisa is a mom of three, published author and speaker who understands the complex needs of the modern busy woman and mom. Therefore, her goal is to see as many people as possible living their best lives without worrying about their weight! A regular contributor to articles on topics related to physical therapy, health, wellness, self-care, motherhood, body image and fat-friendly healthcare, Dr. Folden has had the distinct honor of being featured in Oprah Magazine, Shape Magazine, Livestrong, Bustle and several other publications. Additionally, she is a member of the National Association of Black Physical Therapists, the Association of Size Diversity & Health, The KNOW Women, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and serves as an expert panelist for H.E.R. Health Collective (2021-2022). Connect with Lisa: IG: @healthyphit Undiet App: https://undietonline.com/?rfsn=7097108.95e7f8 Coaching Program: https://tidy-hat-626.myflodesk.com/ Stay Connected: BOOK your 1:1 virtual Women's Nutrition Coaching session: www.flourishheights.com/nutrition-counseling Is there a topic you'd like covered on the podcast? Submit it to hello@flourishheights.com Say hello! Email us at hello@flourishheights.com Subscribe to our quarterly newsletters: Flourish Heights Newsletter Visit our website + nutrition blog: www.flourishheights.com Follow us on social media: Instagram: @flourishheights Facebook: @flourishheights Twitter: @flourishheights Want to support this podcast? Leave a rating, write a review and share! Thank you!

Episode 5 invites Tony Scialli MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive toxicologist, to talk about the overuse of gynecologic surgeries – namely hysterectomies and Cesarean sections. Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center rational prescribing project. For a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://georgetown.box.com/s/1bdbxvaezezlpu0qsm02q3101mmhsi3a To learn more about Dr. Tony Scialli, please visit his website: https://www.scialliconsulting.com/#about Additional Resources The Cultural Warping of Childbirth by Doris Haire. Link: https://www.abebooks.com/9789315600471/Cultural-Warping-Childbirth-Doris-Haire-9315600479/plp Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective. Link: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Our-Bodies-Ourselves/Boston-Womens-Health-Book-Collective/9781439190661 Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin. Link: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31385160493&ref_=ps_ggl_17730880232&cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade_10to20-_-product_id=COM9781570671043USED-_-keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1_SkBhDwARIsANbGpFs4ExX1P9YXQFUuTueJytlUy2VdelLMIBU7neywgGu14aYawh1w7hkaArxfEALw_wcB National Women's Health Network. Link: https://nwhn.org/ PharmedOut is supported primarily by individual donations. To donate, please visit: https://sites.google/com/georgetown.edu/pharmedout/donate

It is pride month, and we're spending intentional time this month – as we do every month – tracking movement for queer liberation and the legislative processes that try to muzzle the rights of our queer families. On today's show, our host Jesse Strauss visited the Berkeley Free Clinic to sit down with three volunteer members of the Gay Mens Health Collective – one of the many groups providing healthcare resources within the Clinic. The Gay Mens health collective was formed in the mid-70s to provide non-judgmental sexual health care to men in the context where the all-volunteer group providing those services were also men who had sex with men. This conversation is also personal. Our host, Jesse, spent time in the clinic as a kid while his dad volunteered in the clinic, and was a co-founder of the Gay Mens Health Collective almost 50 years ago. Our guests are GMHC volunteers Cam Breslin, Scott Carroll, and John Day. Check out the Berkeley Free Clinic website: https://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Visiting Berkeley's Gay Men's Health Collective w/ Cam Breslin, Scott Carroll, and John Day appeared first on KPFA.

Our guest Sara Bonderud is a Jacksonville mom and the founder of Nueva Vida Pelvic Therapy and Women's Health Collective. In this episode, Sara chats with us about what made her decide to launch her own business, and how her multidisciplinary approach to treating moms before, during, and after birth makes the entire process much smoother for everyone.

Die Themen im heutigen Versicherungsfunk Update sind: Axa Deutschland setzt Wachstumskurs fort Die Axa Deutschland hat im Geschäftsjahr 2022 den Umsatz um zwei Prozent auf 11,6 Milliarden Euro steigern können. Dieser Anstieg resultiert aus guten Ergebnissen der Sachversicherung (+4 Prozent) und der Krankenversicherung (+4 Prozent). Die Umsätze im Vorsorgegeschäft gingen gegenüber dem Vorjahr um vier Prozent zurück. Das operative Ergebnis kletterte um 12 Prozent auf 704 Millionen Euro. Versicherungskammer setzt auf adesso Zur Modernisierung der Angebots- und Bestandssysteme für die Private Krankenversicherung haben sich die Kranken- und Reiseversicherer im Konzern Versicherungskammer – Bayerische Beamtenkrankenkasse und Union Krankenversicherung – für die Software von adesso insurance solutions entschieden. Demnach solle künftig in|sure Health Policy inklusive der Module in|sure Health Collective für das Kollektivgeschäft und in|sure Health Proposal für das Angebotssystem genutzt werden. Munich Re ist auf Kurs Im Geschäftsjahr 2022 erzielte Munich Re einen Gewinn von 3,42 Milliarden Euro und hat damit das Gewinnziel von 3,3 Milliarden Euro übertroffen. Der Gewinn in Q4 2022 betrug 1,5 Milliarden Euro. Die gebuchten Bruttobeiträge stiegen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 12,7 Prozent auf 67,1 Milliarden Euro. Das Ergebnis je Aktie stieg 2022 um 17,6 Prozent auf 24,63 Euro. Folgt die Hauptversammlung dem Vorschlag von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat, eine Dividende von 11,60 Euro je Aktie für das Geschäftsjahr 2022 zu bezahlen, so entspricht dies einem Anstieg um 5,5 Prozent. R+V erweitert Schutz bei Naturgefahren Die R+V Versicherung hat den neuen Baustein „Naturgefahren Plus“ entwickelt, der deutlich über die klassische Naturgefahrenversicherung hinausgeht. Neben Überschwemmung, Erdrutsch oder Schneedruck sind damit auch Schäden durch Starkregen und Rückstau umfassend versichert. Wenn bei Starkregen das Wasser über Türen, Fenster oder Schächte ins Gebäude dringt, will der Versicherer den Schaden ersetzen – selbst wenn das Grundstück nicht überflutet war. Auch beim Rückstau gibt es Erweiterungen. Wenn das Wasser aus den Kanälen in die Gebäude zurückfließt, sollen Schäden erstattet werden. Zurückhaltung bei Forward-Darlehen Auf dem Immobilienmarkt geht es zurzeit verhalten zu. Wer zukünftig eine Anschlussfinanzierung braucht, wartet aktuell ab, bevor er sich die jetzigen Zinsen gegen einen Aufschlag sichert: Forward-Darlehen sind momentan verschwindend gering nachgefragt. Ihr Anteil am gesamten Baufinanzierungsvolumen sinkt zum Jahresanfang auf 3,12 Prozent. Leicht höher fällt der Anteil an KfW-Darlehen aus. Mit 4,91 Prozent sind allerdings auch diese im Vergleich zum Dezember (5,24 Prozent) etwas rückläufig. SDK erweitert Xempus-Angebot Mit der Süddeutsche Krankenversicherung a. G. (SDK) erweitert Xempus das bKV-Angebot auf der Xempus-Plattform. Ab sofort können Vermittler die Budgettarife der SDK über die digitale Beratungsstrecke Xempus advisor online beraten und abschließen. Eine Ausweitung auf die Bestandsverwaltung soll folgen.

Get the latest information on EMF radiation from the Omnia Radiation Balancer team. More details at: https://www.omniaradiationbalancer.com/blogs/news/emf-radiation-gut-health

From early women's liberation's goal in the “Declaration of Sentiments” of rethinking the role of the body to the western philosophy of the mind/body split, the body has been theorized, politicized, and policed. Despite this history of oppression, the body has also been a site of resistance and power. Our hosts discuss various myths, like that of the vaginal orgasm, about the body and landmark texts that have shaped our thinking about embodiment. While the title and inspiration for this episode is taken from the 1970 book Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Boston Women's Health Collective, this episode expands the conversation about embodiment to touch upon trauma studies and trans experience.For full notes, visit: http://www.sarahisomcenter.org/swerve-south/our-bodies-ourselves

Eve Drew is an amazing woman with a story of grit, determination and life-changing decisions. I was fortunate to meet Eve in Uluru this year, and I really wanted to have her on the podcast to share her journey from a practice owner, through some really tough times, to creating a support process for women health professionals. Eve is a podiatrist based in Regional Victoria, starting her first business at age 23. She has spent the last 20 years starting, growing and selling businesses, and now works to help other women launch and scale their health businesses. She has experienced overwhelm and burnout in her career, making her a great woman to chat to about working mum life. She defines success as freedom. Freedom to live life on our terms and create a life that we love. You can find out more about Eve at www.herhealthcollective.com.au or follow her on insta @herhealth_collective.

Letters sent to the BCGEU to end the job action Ian Tostenson, President and CEO of the BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association provides an update on the BCGEU job action President Joe Biden cancels $10,000 in student loan debt for most borrowers Reggie Cecchini, Washington correspondent for Global News provides an update on the United states cancelling $10,000 student loan debt. The University of Fraser Valley hosting a screening of Rails, Jails, and Trolleys, a documentary on the Indian farmers' protest Henna Mann, director of Rails, Jails, and Trolleys discusses the inspiration behind a new documentary surrounding the Indian farmers' protest and the No Farmers No Food movement. Scotland is the first country in the world to make period products available for free in bathrooms. What will it take to have this happen in Vancouver? France-Emmanuelle Joly, Executive Director of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective discusses the need to make menstrual products free in public washrooms China warns Canada parliamentarians over planned Taiwan visit Jeremy Nuttal, Toronto Star journalist covering China and politics discusses the Chinese government's warnings over Canada's planned Taiwan visit How safe do you feel taking the Skytrain or public transit in Vancouver? How safe do you feel taking the SkyTrain? Perhaps you take it every single day, or maybe you only need the SkyTrain once a month to get somewhere. The SkyTrain, like any other public transit system, should be a safe experience for everyone.  In light of recent events, our show contributor Jawn Jang hit the streets today to ask commuters how they felt about SkyTrain safety.

France-Emmanuelle Joly, Executive Director of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective discusses the need to make menstrual products free in public washrooms

Listener Warning: This episode discusses topics like sexual assault and abusive relationships as well as suicide and depression.Unplanned Parenthood: Letters to an Army of Millions is an installation about the history of birth control in America that addresses Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's racism. It is a mixed media installation centered on the stories of these people who longed for reproductive justice—and reminding us of the urgency of retaining our control over our destinies. This week, episode 37 of Poised & Powerful Podcast is sharing about unplanned parenthood! Do you find yourself needing extra time to recover from your weekend or time to prepare your mind and body for the week ahead? Join me for a restorative practice where we'll release tension in our necks, backs, and shoulders. Clear your mind so you'll feel reset and re-energized for yourself and your family. Drop into the online Sunday Scaries Support group class: https://poisedpowerfulparenthood.com/take-a-breakMichelle Hartney is an incredible artist who specializes in multiple mediums to create and advocate for women's rights, maternal healthcare issues, and discrimination in art institutions through installations, community and guerilla performances, and online works. She founded the Women's Health Collective, an organization dedicated to utilizing creative approaches to raise awareness of women's health issues through collaborative projects. In this episode of Poised & Powerful Podcast, artist Michelle Hartney, museum manager Juli Lowe and I discuss the following:The story behind Motherhood in Bondage and how that's being used to create the Unplanned Parenthood mixed media project.Why it's important to have conversations about heroizing Margaret Sanger when her legacy included things like eugenics and white supremacy.How the stories of these people can be felt through the words and the importance of letting their voices be heard.With everything going on in the country right now, these conversations are more important than ever.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  And don't forget to follow, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Poised & Powerful and Sarah at https://poisedpowerfulparenthood.com/interviews CONNECT WITH MICHELLE HARTNEY:InstagramUnplanned ParenthoodCONNECT WITH SARAH MAYHAN:FacebookInstagramWork with Sarah! LINKS MENTIONED:21C Museum HotelMotherhood in Bondage [Article by History Matters]UNPLANNED PARENTHOOD: Inside the Art Installation Using Historical Testimony to Call for a Feminist Future Ep 16 with Michelle HartneyClick Below for the Episode Transcript here

Christine Forner (B.A., B.S.W., M.S.W., Registered Social Worker) Began her career early starting as a volunteer at the age of 16 at a crisis line for Teens. She has worked at The Calgary Sexual Assault Centre, Wheatland Crisis Shelter for survivors of domestic violence and in 1998 Christine started her clinical experience at The Calgary Women's Health Collective.Since 2011, Christine has worked in her own private practice which specializes in complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She has over twenty years experience working with individuals with Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Traumatic Dissociation, Developmental Trauma and Dissociative Disorders, with specialized training in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Psychotherapeutic Meditation techniques, Neurofeedback and Havening.Christine is the current clinical supervisor at Waypoints Sexual Assault Centre in Fort McMurry, Alberta and teaches locally and at an international level on the issue of dissociation, complex trauma, and the intersection of dissociation and mindfulness.Christine was the treasurer of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2011-2012) and was the President of the ISSTD in 2019.As well as being a board member she is also a member of the Conference Committee and for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Christine has spent the last 15 years working on methods of meditation that are affective for persons who have Complex Posttraumatic Disorder and Dissociative Disorders. She is the author of Dissociation, Mindfulness and Creative Meditations: Trauma informed practices to facilitate growth (Routledge, 2017).In This EpisodeChristine's WebsiteDissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative MeditationsContact Dr. LeslieThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Guest: Meg Elison Ask Your Auntie: Tri tip, chili recipes Episode: Meg Elison, author of The Road to Nowhere series and recent Nebula winner for "The Pill", joins Auntie Vice to talk all things fat chicks. - Growing up queer and fat. - Writing futurism and sci-fi with queer and trans characters - Best Lesbian Erotica v. 6 - Needing more sex in adult novels - Dating as a bisexual and... an amazing list of suggested reading!!!   If you are looking to subscribe to this month's advertiser, Newsly.ca, use the discount code FC0T for a free month of premium services!   Books Mentioned in This Episode Sabrina Springs. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Boston Women's Health Collective and Judy Norsigan. Our Bodies, Ourselves Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat Siri Walker, Dietland Julie Murphy , Dumplin' Julie Murphy, If the Shoe Fits Kate Staymen-London, The One to Watch Peter Benchly, Jaws Sinclair Sexsmith, ed., Best Lesbian Erotica, volume 6 Meg Elison, The Unnamed Midwife Meg Elison, The Book of Etta Meg Elison, Book of Flora Meg Elison, “The Pill” in Big Girl Collette, The Collective Stories of Collette Pat Califia, Macho Sluts Melinda Lao, Last Night at the Telegraph Club Gretchen Felker-Martin Manhunter

Episode 26! Sula explains her work as a health psychologist, the benefits of mindfulness, and research to back it up too! For more expert health information like this like, share, and subscribe!DISCLAIMER: Any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk. This Podcast should not be considered professional advicePodcast link - https://lnkd.in/gKWWGQVeSula's links:-Website: https://www.healthpsychologist.co.uk/-The Biopsychosocial Women's Health Collective: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FM9wg_MWFky4PHJAcWVDVp6SAwVXLx1JrHjVRCLn6bdUQUs2MlU3QUdVNkhXVExUOTQ1V0FaTTM0VS4u-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_health_psychologist_/Timestamps: -0.59 Sula'swork and what a health psychologist does for their clients? -2:54 How can anxious people get more comfortable with exercise in public settings? -5:08 Is social evaluation the root of people's worry in public exercise settings? -7:41 What steps can people take to begin exercising if they are anxious? -10:35 Should people looking to increase their activity think of why they're struggling? -12:18 How important is mindfulness for changing our activity behaviors? -14:16 What is self-compassion? What changes can we notice through mindfulness?-18:27 Is self-compassion lacking in society? -20:07 Strategies to avoid self-criticism?-23:06 How important is acceptance as a life skill? -25:42 How can people collect data about their mental health journey? -28:32 Sula's personal experience with mental health?-33:34 How is important is social support?-38:50 Are there any side effects to the values of individualism and business for mental health? -40:43 What role does awareness of our values have in managing and changing our health? -42:57 What is nociception and is there a link between pain and mindfulness?-49:05 What are some of the common effective and ineffective thinking habits? -53:13 What are some tips to more effectively make health changes? -56:05 What research is there on mindfulness? What research did Sula do on Mindfulness? -60:23 What is CBT (Cognitive behavioral therapy) and how can it be useful to reduce stress?-64:43 How true is “Feelings follow action?” -66:36 What is Sula's opinion on social media? How does Sula intentionally use social media? -For podcast questions, feedback and inquiries email me at: progressionhealthcoaching@gmail.com-For 1-1 personal training in San Francisco or online health coaching email me at:progressionhealthcoaching@gmail.com

Today in the Confessional, host Sandy Lowres chats with Natalie Moore and Lisa Saunders. Natalie and Lisa help women achieve holistic health and wellbeing for work and life through their company Own Your Health Collective. They are also the hosts of the Peri Menopause Power Podcast.They have been those same ambitious women who have spent days juggling the many roles and expectations all while oblivious to the power within them.Both are fully accredited coaches who have come together with complimentary passions around health and well-being by using their own individual expertise to help women discover whole health. Both have a keen interest in supporting women through the peri-menopause and menopause journey.Natalie has specialist understanding and skills in mindset coaching and using yoga and mindfulness as life changing tools to support whole health. Lisa focuses on making change manageable by teaching practical and achievable strategies around nutrition for optimal health and wellbeing. Together, they have opened the Own Your Health Wellness Centre, and support women face to face, as well as virtually all over Australia, offering yoga, mindfullness sessions and cooking classes.They have launched half day retreats to support busy women with self care. Your can follow Nat and Lisa at Own Your Health Collective here:https://ownyourhealthco.com.au/https://www.instagram.com/ownyourhealthcohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/own-your-health-collective/?originalSubdomain=auPeri Menopause Power Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/peri-menopause-power/id1588187655-The Good Girl Confessional is an independent podcast proudly brought to you by Wb40 - Women Beyond Forty.-Join the Revolution here:https://wb40.comhttps://www.facebook.com/womenbeyondfortyhttps://www.instragram.com/womenbeyondfortyhttps://www.instagram.com/thegoodgirlconfessional

India's suicide crisis is often discussed in bursts of news coverage, often within boxes of celebrity suicide, student suicide or farmer suicides. The crisis though, especially in India, sits outside these boxes and is very much a consequence of systemic socio-economic-political failure, and not one that can be viewed only from the lens of mental illness. A new book Life Interrupted - Understanding India's Suicide Crisis is questioning the media narrative and serves as an excellent resource for those who wish to understand what's driving India's suicide crisis. In this special episode The Quint's Health Editor Vaishali Sood is in conversation with the authors of this book — Amrita Tripathi, a former journalist, author, and founder of The Health Collective - a site dedicated to increasing mental health awareness in India; Dr Soumitra Pathare, Director of Centre for Mental health Law and Policy at the Indian Law Society, Pune; and Dr Abhijit Nadkarni, a psychiatrist, and an associate professor of Global Mental Health at the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Tune in!

Joining me today on the pod today is with the fabulous, Dr. Lisa Folden. . She is a licensed physical therapist, mom-focused health coach, and the owner of Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness Consultants in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Lisa shares with us how she got started in Physical Therapy, why she chose a weight-neutral approach to health, common misconceptions regarding fitness and body size, and some of the lessons she has learned along the way. We also talk about practical and easy steps you can take if you are seeking a healthier lifestyle. As a body-positive women's health expert and health at every size (HAES) ambassador, Dr. Folden assists women seeking a healthier lifestyle by guiding their wellness choices through organization, planning strategies, and holistic goal setting. Dr. Folden is a mom of three, published author, and speaker who understands the complex needs of the modern busy woman. Therefore, she considers helping busy moms find their ‘healthy' one of her top priorities. Dr. Lisa is a regular contributor to articles on topics related to physical therapy, health, wellness, self-care, motherhood, body positivity, and pregnancy and has had the distinct honor of being featured in Oprah Magazine, Shape Magazine, Livestrong, Bustle, and several other publications. Additionally, she is a member of the National Association of Black Physical Therapists, the Association of Size Diversity & Health, The Know Women, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and serves as an expert panelist for H.E.R. Health Collective (2021-2022) Listen in to learn more: Does weight determine someone's physical health and why are there such mainstream misconceptions around this? Dr. Lisa offers ideas on how to do health-promoting activities when physical activity is uncomfortable or even painful in a larger body. How can someone regain that trust with their own body to move in ways that feel good rather than rely on external pressures or standards? Plus much more, including the MOST IMPORTANT tip for maintaining “physical fitness” throughout our life Resources Connect with Dr. Lisa Website: https://www.healthyphit.com/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/HealthyPhit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthyphit/ APPLY FOR GROUP COACHING: ACADEMY SPRING 2022 COHORT: https://makainutrition.com/behindthebingeacademy/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/binge.nutritionist/

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In this episode, Physical Therapist and Owner of Healthy Phit Therapy & Wellness Consultants, Dr. Lisa Folden, talks about diet culture. Today, Lisa talks about the pervasive nature of diet culture, how to reconcile diet culture with physical therapy recommendations, and how to support patients who are on their weight loss journey. What is diet culture? Hear about weight biases and phobias and how to deal with them, the Health At Every Size movement, and get Lisa's advice to her younger self, all on today's episode of The Healthy, Wealthy & Smart Podcast.   Key Takeaway “Diet culture is this pervasive thought process that we're born into, that fosters the belief that we're never enough – we're never thin enough, we're never healthy enough, we never got it right.” “Diet culture is the constant reminder that something's wrong - you need to fix it all the time.” “Even if weight is causing some of the issue, the reality is, the research shows that weight loss doesn't really work for most people. 95% of people who lose weight gain it all, plus more, back.” “Weight loss is a by-product that some people will experience, and other people will not.” “We think in our society that no one should be fat, and if they are fat, it's because of poor health choices.” How to challenge the weight bias: Unlearn the idea that people in larger bodies are inherently unhealthy. It's not going to help you make them feel better, and it's not true for many people. Think about accessibility. Considerations are made for people with various degrees of mobility, so ensuring that there's appropriate furniture is a consideration for those with larger bodies. Reassure patients. Especially when dealing with patients who have dealt with the weight stigma, it's important to reassure patients that size variation isn't a problem. “I assume that their condition is caused by something other than their weight, and I treat them based on that.” “We're supposed to be different sizes, and we don't have to lose weight to be healthy. You can be healthy at any size.” “Stop telling your patients to lose weight, offer people in larger bodies the same treatment options you offer people in smaller bodies, and don't shy away from manually and physically examining them because of their body weight.” “It's going to be okay.”   More about Lisa Folden Dr. Lisa N. Folden is a licensed physical therapist, mom-focused lifestyle coach, and the owner of Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness Consultants in Charlotte, NC. As a body positive women's health expert and health at every size (HAES) ambassador, Dr. Folden assists women seeking a healthier lifestyle by guiding their wellness choices through organization, planning strategies, and holistic goal setting. Dr. Folden is a mom of three, published author, and speaker who understands the complex needs of the modern busy woman. Therefore, she considers helping busy moms find their ‘healthy' as one of her of top priorities. Dr. Lisa is a regular contributor to articles on topics related to physical therapy, health, wellness, self-care, motherhood, body positivity, and pregnancy, and has had the distinct honor of being featured in Oprah Magazine, Shape Magazine, Livestrong, Bustle, and several other local & national publications. Additionally, she is a member of the National Association of Black Physical Therapists, the Association of Size Diversity & Health, The Know Women, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and serves as an expert panelist for H.E.R. Health Collective (2021).   Suggested Keywords Diet Culture, Weight Loss, Body Positivity, Acceptance, Stigma, Body Size, Fitness, PT, Physiotherapy, Symptoms, Healthy, Wealthy, Smart   Resources: Health At Every Size Community   To learn more, follow Lisa at: Website:          https://www.healthyphit.com Facebook:       Healthy Phit Twitter:            @HealthyPhitPT Instagram:       @healthyphit Pinterest:         @HealthyPhit YouTube:        HealthyPhit PT   Subscribe to Healthy, Wealthy & Smart: Website:                      https://podcast.healthywealthysmart.com Apple Podcasts:          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthy-wealthy-smart/id532717264 Spotify:                        https://open.spotify.com/show/6ELmKwE4mSZXBB8TiQvp73 SoundCloud:               https://soundcloud.com/healthywealthysmart Stitcher:                       https://www.stitcher.com/show/healthy-wealthy-smart iHeart Radio:               https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-healthy-wealthy-smart-27628927   Read the full Transcript Here:  00:02 Hey, Lisa, welcome to the podcast. I'm happy to have you on today.   00:07 Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here.   00:11 Yeah. And today we're going to be talking about diet culture, in health care, and specifically in physical therapy, which is not something that I've ever spoken about on this podcast. And so I'm really happy to have you on to talk about this. And I remember speaking with Dr. Lisa van who's, and we were talking about biases in health care. And she said, one of the more accepted biases in health care is against overweight people. Yes. And so I'm happy to have you on and dive into that a little bit deeper. And so let's, let's talk about first diet, diet culture, you know, its impact on our not just our physical health, but also our mental health as well. So why don't we first start with what do you feel diet culture is? Let's define that.   01:13 Sure. So it's nuanced, of course, but essentially, diet culture is it's this pervasive thought process that we're kind of born into, that fosters the belief that we're never like enough, we're never thin enough, we're never healthy enough, you know, we've never gotten it right. And so it feeds into, you know, this multibillion dollar industry that says, you know, buy this tea, by this waist trainer, by this weight loss program by this because you always need to be getting smaller, shrinking yourself, doing something to change yourself, because, you know, you couldn't be healthy, you know, there's no way you're healthy, especially if you happen to be someone who was born into or developed into a larger body, there's no way you're healthy. So diet culture is sort of the constant reminder to you that something's wrong. You need to fix it all the time. And it's a deep part of our healthcare system. It's a deep part of, you know, like Hollywood and television, things we watch every day. So it's it seeps in without anybody really knowing that it's happening. And it's so common and so accepted, that we just look at it as you know, health, like a lot of things that are really diet culture, a lot of us would just look at as Oh, that's health, that's fitness. And it's and it's not, because it's actually corruptive. And it, it breaks us down. And it's not good for our mental health or for our physical health. It results in a lot of weight cycling and bingeing and restrictive in disordered eating. And so, you know, it's really bad. I mean, that I don't call a whole lot of things good or bad, but diet culture is one that I kind of just categorize is bad and unnecessary,   02:53 really. And so looking at that through the lens of a physical therapist, how do you reconcile that culture with what we do as physical therapists, because so often, if someone is, let's say, an example, someone is coming to us with osteoarthritis hips, knees, one of the recommendations is weight, weight loss of whatever that weight loss is, I don't think the recommendation is to be a size zero or two. But that recommendation is weight loss. So how do you? How do you kind of blend these two this diet culture, which knows very bad, but yet, in certain populations, it can be helpful to take off some weight to unload those joints. So how do you reconcile with that as a PT?   03:40 Yeah, that's a great question. And it's obviously something I've had to kind of deal with head on as a physical therapist still treating in the clinic. You know, like I said, in the standard outpatient practice. So here's the thing, there's physics, right? physics exists, when there's more pressure, you know, from gravity and weight, you can feel more pain. Like that's, that's a fact. But there's also, you know, this idea that we all have different sort of thresholds for our pain. And, you know, you know, like, I know, you can look at someone's, you know, x rays to people, and they can have identical things happening there, you know, at the structural level, and have completely opposite symptoms, one with severe symptoms and one with none. So, when I address the issues of pain that could be could be contributed to from weight, I just, I approach my patients from the lens that even if weight is causing some of the issue, the reality is the research shows that what weight loss doesn't really work for most people. 95% of people who lose weight, gained it all plus more back within one to two to three years, and they don't really have research beyond the five year point because nobody typically makes retains it. So the reality is, even if if you know if that is the suggestion, that's kind of what we've been taught as physical therapists, I know that it doesn't work. So I'm not helping my patients by saying, hey, you really should lose some weight. So I approach it from the lens of I'm going to treat them as if this osteoarthritis, this this issue, whatever they're dealing with, has nothing to do with their weight, and everything to do with all of the other possibilities in my toolbox as a physical therapist. So are we dealing with, you know, restricted, you know, soft tissue, tight muscles, you know, imbalances, muscle imbalances, are we dealing with, you know, just lack of flexibility and other things, can I do some manual therapy that can help, like, what other things can I do, because even if weight is a contributing factor, me telling them to lose weight is in the long run, not going to help them because for like I said, most people aren't going to maintain that weight loss any way, or if they ever achieve it in the first place. And it can be so daunting, when people in larger bodies go to health care professionals, and no matter what is going on with them, if they are in a larger body. The suggestion is weight loss literally across the board, not just you know, in our profession with, you know, things regarding the joints and osteoarthritis, you know, other things like that. It's literally everything, I'm having stomach pain, lose weight, I'm, you know, they literally here for everything. And so I just don't want to be a part of that. And I don't think I don't think that it helps our clients to get better in the long run.   06:28 Yeah, and it, might it add one more thing to this person's plate, so to speak to maybe, then they will say, Well, I'm not even gonna go back to this PT. Yeah, is there a way to meet people where they're at, and through exercise and other modalities, if they were to lose some weight great, not make that the singular focus?   06:54 Absolutely. And that and that's just what it is. Because, you know, adopting new health behaviors is good for everybody, whether you lose weight or not. And you know, just just just increasing the synovial fluid in the joint from, you know, more activity can be great, you know, so weight loss really is a byproduct that some people will experience and other people will not. And, and coming to terms with that has been a journey for me as a professional, and then in my own personal life and my own, you know, struggles from the past with weight loss and diet culture, but it's really freeing, and it helps people eat, I can just this year alone, I've had at least four clients, all of them were women, but they all had the same story, like severe trauma, from interacting with other healthcare professionals, like figuring out something's going on with them, and then being told, like, Oh, yeah, you just got to get that weight off, you just got to keep that weight up, and just kind of hearing it over and over again. And so coming to me was like a, sort of a breath of fresh air for them. It's like, you're the first person, it's like, not telling me I need to lose weight. And it's like cash. Like, I couldn't imagine that being the discussion. Every time I go to the doctor, every time something's bothering me, you know, as if to say, thin people, and people in larger bodies don't experience some of the exact same diagnoses and issues, you know, if weight were the problem, then that would be the situation then people and, and fat people would not have the same diagnosis. And we know that's not true. So yeah, you're right, it adds a whole nother layer of trauma that they have to deal with.   08:28 Yeah. And, and sticking with that theme, let's go into some of the the biases. So the weight bias, fat phobia and healthcare, we could talk about PT in general, like I said, and speaking with Dr. van Who's she sort of said, Hey, listen, this is apparently one of the accepted biases that you can have, you know, so let's talk more about that. Go ahead. I'll give the mic over to you and just kind of what's the situation on the ground here?   08:58 Yeah. And, and she's, she's right with that. It's like, it's like the legal bias. It's like it's okay. And, and even people, what's disheartening to me is interacting with people in larger bodies, they often will just accept it, because it is the norm. And they begin to believe that inherently something is wrong with them. They haven't figured out the magic formula, they're not doing something right. And so there's something wrong with their body. And they're almost Okay, in a sense being discriminated against or dealing with the biases because it's just so much a part of what we do. So it you know, it shows up in everything, like literally from the time you're born. You know, I had a great discussion on my Instagram with some people we were talking about, I did a summer body challenge. So I had everyone like, put on a sports bra and black bottoms and just show it and be proud of your body and we said it was the Being confident and proud of my body this summer and always, you know, not feeling like I gotta lose weight, two summers coming, you know, warmer weather doesn't mean I have to get to the gym and lose some weight or cut back on my calories. And a recurring theme in those conversations was just this idea that like, it starts at home, like my mom, you know, said, Oh, you're putting on a little weight, or you're getting a little chubby, or it's, it's this pass down fat phobia, it's like, do whatever you do, don't get fat. And it's like, oh, my gosh, we, we think we literally think in our society that no one should be fat. And if they are fat, it is because of poor health choices. So we create this hierarchy, where I'm better than you, I must make better health choices in you, because I am thinner, and you are fatter. And it just couldn't be farther from the truth. Because, you know, we, a lot of us like to believe we have a whole lot of control over the size, shape and weight of our bodies. But so much of that is genetic, you know, so much of that has a genetic component, we only have so much control. And even within the window of our control, without going into disordered eating patterns, it's still a very small, you know, amount of change that you can expect to see. So, you know, we hear it from our parents, we hear it at home, we see it on television, you know, when you get on a plane, and the seats are barely big enough for an average adult, you know what I mean? Like, barely, like we're squeezed in there. So imagine that humiliation, you know, as someone in a larger body having to either buy two seats or figure out how to squeeze into that seat. You see it in doctors offices, there's small seats and doctor's offices, even though we treat a huge variation of people in their body sizes, the lobby looks like everybody should be the same, you know. And so those are, you know, things that I want to see changed and considerations I want to see being made, especially in healthcare, because, you know, we we have the privilege of working with people, you know, from largely diverse communities, especially as it relates to their size. So, at the very least, that should be a comfortable experience, you know, you're going to your doctor should be a comfortable experience, you're going to your physical therapist, it should be a comfortable experience. So yeah, there's more I could say, but   12:36 I have a question for you that. So as a physical therapist, so let's say you're talking to you're talking to a group of pts about this, what advice do you have, that they can put into action to challenge these biases, and to make their spaces more inclusive?   12:55 Yes, that's a great question. So the first thing is to start within, and just avoid all of those assumptions that we like to make. So just you know, unlearning, that's where it starts like unlearning this idea that people in larger bodies are inherently unhealthy, or have inherently made bad decisions. Because one, it's not going to help you get them better, or make them feel better. And to it's not true for a lot of people. So getting rid of those, those preconceived notions about what someone in a larger body, you know, has going on, or what kind of health status they have. Also, if you're in a setting, where you have the privilege of sort of, you know, making decisions about the clinic setup, you know, thinking about the furniture, thinking about, you know, having things that are accessible, we think about this, and we're talking about people, you know, with varying levels of ability, if they're in a wheelchair or on crutches, you know, we think about making sure the doorways are wide and this and that, and height, adjustable seating and things of that nature, we should do the same thing for people in larger bodies, people come in different shapes and sizes, and we should do as much as we can within our power, you know, to accommodate them. The other thing is, especially when we're dealing with people who have dealt with the weight, stigma and all that trauma, we need to reassure them, we need to let them know like my patients are literally floored when I tell them like there's nothing wrong with you. You know what I mean? Like we have to abandon this thin ideal, like everybody is not gonna be thin, no matter how hard we work, no matter how hard they work, no matter how many calories we cut, everyone in the world will never be thin, nor do we need to be. It's okay to have variations in size. I truly believe in the concept of Health at Every Size, which is an excellent book by Dr. Linda bacon. But you know those things so I'm learning, reassuring your clients, you know, avoiding the assumptions. You know, there are people in large bodies that can do just as much as you can do or more, you know, but then when you do encounter someone in a larger body that is having trouble because of You know, their mobility issues or their body size, you need to be quick with the modifications, you know, we're good at that, like that. That's what pts do. So you know, give them the opportunity to try it full out. And if they can't, or you see them struggling, jump right in with a modification and you reassure them and you let them know there's nothing wrong with this, like exercise movement is for every body. And if you can't do it this way, well, guess what? I got another way you can do it, oh, that didn't work, I got another way you can do it. Or let's try this one. instead. It's, it's okay. And people need that reassurance. Because in the healthcare setting, especially if they've had that trauma, they're so nervous and so uncomfortable. And again, they feel like there's something wrong, you know, with them. And so, you know, we learn this in PT school, we treat the whole person, you know, we don't see a person and this is a knee, no, we're treating the entire person and all of that all of their preconceived notions, all of their trauma, all of their hardships that comes with them into the clinic. And so we have to figure out a way to work with them, ease their you know, their minds and give them the tools that they need to get better. And so I typically, I take weight out of the equation, I just, I assume that their condition is being caused by something other than their weight, and I treat them based on that   16:14 period. Now, here's the question, how about if you have a patient or client coming to you, who they want to lose weight, or they're in the middle of this weight loss journey, and they're committed to it, because they want to feel better? for themselves? Not for anything else. But you know, we're coming off of a really difficult year where a lot of people might have gained weight over COVID. And so how do you or how would you suggest PT support the patients that are coming to you, they're saying, Hey, listen, I, I'm on this journey, this is what I'm doing. I'm moving, I'm exercising, I'm eating better? How can you give them a little extra support? With out perhaps leading them into an extreme version of that?   17:04 Yeah, what I find in those cases, your role is more of a, I don't want to say a silent partner, but you're there for the supporting piece of it. But the goal is to not. Okay, I'll say it this way, I respect body autonomy. So essentially, I know the research, I don't think that, you know, chasing weight loss is a great idea, really, for anyone, despite COVID I know, people are like I gave the quarantine 15. I'm like, Listen, you're alive. That is such a blessing with the year we've had, you know, the year plus we've had at this point, so but I respect body autonomy. So if you believe like, this is not a weight I'm comfortable with I'm not, I don't feel good, I don't think I look good, I want to do something different, then by all means, go about, you know, the process that you feel comfortable doing, I am going to be here to support you by way of giving you evidence based solutions. So if you tell me, Hey, I'm doing this, you know, 30 day detox, I'm only going to be drinking lemon water. And shakes, I'm going to tell you, I don't think that's a great idea. And here's why. But ultimately, you are an adult. So you get to make all of these choices for yourself. Before I became you know, haze or Health at Every Size aligned and anti diet, I did, I did all kinds of things. And I would not have taken kindly to someone telling me, oh, you're wrong, you need to stop it. So people need to have the freedom to do what they want. And I just as a therapist, I just want to be there. And in my role as a health coach, I want to be there to support them, but provide them with the evidence that's out there. And then, you know, as they go through their process, I'm happy to fine tune, I love to give people workouts, you know, that's, that's what we do is PT. So yeah, I can give you some workouts. If you talk to me about like, I feel really weak in my glutes, I want to be able to do this or I want to be able to benchpress or daily, oh, I've got you, I can give you a great program, you can work on it, you know, we can follow up with me. But whenever you're talking about extreme dieting, and crazy restrictions and weighing yourself incessantly and you know, tracking your movement on your Fitbit all day, I'm gonna kind of bow out and give you the, you know, the freedom to do what you choose. But just let you know that I don't think that's going to really support your goals   19:26 overall. Yeah, and, you know, it's the same as as if we would talk about a return to sport after an injury. So we can help guide the patient through their rehab process. And when we get to that decision making point, it's a shared decision making point where it's you, the client, maybe it's a spouse, a child, a partner, the doctor, whomever might also be within that decision making framework, and exactly what you just said, You're giving the best evidence based information. You can to that patient, and then that patient can make an informed decision on what they can do next, or what feels good, what is the best decision for them? So I just want the PTS out there listening to understand that this is not unlike any other shared decision making that we would do. And it's not a you do what I tell you to do. Because we're biased against people who are fat. Yeah. Because you're overweight, you clearly can't make a good decision. Right? which is not the case. And it's maybe they need information to make a better informed decision, just like someone coming in after an ankle sprain or an injury or low back pain.   20:43 Yeah. And you know, and that that's a great point that you bring up because you're right, it comes up with injuries, people will Google it. And listen, I love Google, no disrespect to Google, I google things all the time. Know when somebody is coming in, and they're dealing with some type of injury or medical condition. And they're going solely based off Google. It's like, Yes, we have a responsibility as a trained professional to say, Hey, here's what I think you should really know. But ultimately, you're right, they they're going to have to make the call. You can't you know, get someone better in physical therapy, just you know, when they come to you, it has to be their follow through at home and their decision making. So that you're absolutely right. That's a great analogy, for sure.   21:27 Yeah. And now, you said this a couple times. But I just want you to talk a little bit more about the Health at Every Size movement. You mentioned it a few times tell the listeners exactly what that is, and what its significance is to diet culture.   21:43 So the health and every size movement is it was sort of tagged by Dr. Linda bacon. I don't really know the lifespan, how long it's been around, I don't think it's been before, like the 90s. But it's essentially a movement that believes in body respect, and body positivity or best body neutrality, and respecting and understanding that we're supposed to be different sizes. And we don't have to lose weight to be healthy, you can literally be healthy at any size. So it's it's really the antithesis to diet culture. It's everything that diet culture is not it's not a movement that is rooted in, you know, being sedentary and eating McDonald's every day. But it is a movement that's rooted in people making their own individual health choices, and and creating health habits that improve their health without any focus on weight loss. So the Health at Every Size movement sort of omits the idea of like, let me check my way, let me weigh in this week. Let me let me measure this week, let me see where I am. It's it kind of throws all of that out of the window. And so the book is actually Health at Every Size by Dr. Linda bacon, that was sort of my introduction to it. And it's been life changing for me again, personally and professionally. So I recommend it to essentially everyone.   23:03 Nice. And because I think oftentimes when people look at someone who's overweight, they think, oh, they must have heart disease. They must be a diabetic, they must have this, but you can have normal labs and be overweight. Yeah, yeah. So and I think that is one of the biggest biases not just in healthcare, but in society in general.   23:27 It is it is. And that is the premise behind Health at Every Size is recognizing that you can't look at someone's physical body and know what their health status is. And we're just so used to making those assumptions and it's so counterproductive to true health and it's so damaging, you know, to people, you know, I personally know people and my own personal story. I'm only 411 I know we've never met in person, but I'm very short.   23:55 A short and you come across way taller.   24:02 It's the hair.   24:04 The hair gives you an added oranges.   24:07 I am short. I've always been short. But genetically, my family my mom's side of the family, they're more like apples shape. So they carry weight in the stomach. They're usually just you know, they got big solid legs. My dad's family was a little bit more Hourglass OR pear shaped so very lower, larger lower bodies. And so literally my entire life here and I have never, ever, ever ever not been overweight. Ever according to BMI which is a whole nother topic but I believe it's trash. So I have always my entire life they considered in an overweight category. I have never had high blood pressure, high cholesterol. AB issues doing any physical activity I used to run once upon a time I ran 25 K's I've never had an actual health issue, but I have always been considered over weight, and that stigma because that you know, value was created by a mathematician, you know, that really even said that it wasn't supposed to be used to like actually measure health into BMI, the BMI. But because of that, being sort of what our healthcare system is run on in our insurance markets, kind of, you know, utilize for everything. I have never, for my whole life, I felt like something was wrong. It's like, I'm not running enough, I must be eating too much. Let me stop having carbs. Let me switch to this diet. Let me and that is it. You know, it's not just my story. That's a lot of people's stories, especially here in this country. And it's like, if we could just stop for one minute, and ignore the weight and ignore the BMI, and just focus on health activities, health behaviors that make you feel good. If it's walking for you, if it's running, if it's skating, if it's dancing, if it's height, whatever it is, for you know, joyful movement, that's kind of you know, that's a part of the Health at Every Size, mantra, it's like joyful movement. Eating when you're full stop eating when you're hungry, stopping when you're full, trying different foods and just living a life and, and managing the other aspects of your health, like your mental health, your emotional health, your spiritual health, if we could just focus on that, instead of the scale, or the measuring tape, BMI, we will be so much healthier. So so so much healthier. So yeah, I, like I said, I could talk about BMI forever, but I just I really, I love what health and every size stands for because it, it's really about valuing body diversity, that's what it is. Because the bottom line is, we're not all going to be the same size, we're not all going to be thin, we're all going to have different dimensions, and our bodies will change over the course of our lives, age, stress, hormonal things, pregnancy, you know, all kinds of stuff. And so we have to get more comfortable with that fact. And not try to create this, you know, there's the whole snap back movement with pregnancy, like, have a baby lose the weight. It's like, wait a minute, let's just be you know, let's adjust to motherhood and whatnot. Um, so yeah,   27:08 yeah, it's it. I can't even get into the BMI. Because I cringe when I when people start talking about their BMI is and what it should be. I mean, for my height for BMI. I am right now, like a tick away from being overweight. And I would if you saw me, you wouldn't think oh, she's overweight. But according to the BMI, I'm like, a tick away. And for me to be in that sweet spot. I would look emaciated. Yeah, exactly. You know, so, like, 100 pounds. Let's like, stop with the BMI stuff. You know, and, and I just had all my labs and I could not be healthier. Absolutely. So there you go. But yeah, I'm with you on the BMI. We could talk. We can go on about that for a while, but we won't. So let's talk about, you know, we talked a little bit about what, what can physical therapists do to look at their own bias and fat phobia in health care? Is there any Do you have any other tips for health care providers out there, when it comes to their bias and phobias?   28:30 Yeah, I would say, you know, in addition to what we talked about earlier, and then on learning practice, you know, we have to just stop telling people to lose weight, it's counterproductive, it's not effective. And again, most people aren't able to even do that consistently and maintain it. And then we have to offer the same treatment options we would offer offer someone who was thin, like it, you know, we just have to treat them with some, you know, equality or you know, equitably, and giving them the same options. And then I know in physical therapy, this has come up before and that's one of the sort of issues that the fat acceptance community has expressed in dealing with with healthcare professionals, is they are less likely to be examined to be physically examined, because of their body fat. And I get that, you know, when you go to physical therapy school, and we learn all these manual techniques, oh, it's much harder to try to palpate things, you know, when there's more adipose tissue, of course, but that doesn't mean you don't do it. You know, so my advice is to do it, it might be uncomfortable, it might be awkward, it might be challenging, but guess what, you grow as a professional and then you at the very least give that patient the the decency and the respect of trying what you know best to do, you know, in that you know, situation. So, um, you know, just being being supportive and not being demeaning that playing into the weight biases. And first really acknowledging that you have them that that's that's the first part because a lot of people don't think that they have until they're put in a situation where they have to face them head on. So recognize them. And then stop telling your patients to lose weight offer people in larger bodies, the same treatment options. You offer people in smaller bodies, and then don't shy away from manually and physically examining them because of their body weight.   30:19 Yeah, great advice. And hopefully people listening to this podcast will take that advice to heart. Now, where can people find you on social media websites? All the good stuff? If they want to reach out to you they want to work with you. Where can they find you?   30:37 Yes, well, my favorite social media is Instagram. I'm pretty much on everything. But if you really want to reach me, you can find me on Instagram and I'm at healthy fit. And that's h EA l th y pH it. I'm also again on YouTube and everything else. But I live there. I'm on the peanut app, which is kind of new. If you're a mom, and you want to have talks about body positivity and changes to your body through motherhood. I'm on that app. You can find me there Dr. Lisa folden. And then my website is www dot healthy fit that calm.   31:10 Awesome. What is this the peanut app? Yeah, this   31:15 is really cool. It's like club friends, but it's for moms. And so they have tons of discussions on there. But um, I was requested by the I think the creators to serve as like a professional and do talks on things in the health realm. So yeah, so I go on there every, every other Friday, and I host talks on things related to body positivity, Fitness, Health, Exercise, things like that.   31:38 Fabulous. Congratulations. It's awesome. Thank you. Now last question. It's out when I asked everyone is knowing where you are now in your life and in your career? What advice would you give to your younger self? Maybe like fresh out of PT school?   31:53 Oh, yes. Oh, fresh out of PT school that changes things, let's see, or high school or undergrad or whatever you want somewhere in there. I think you know what I think the best advice I would give to myself is it's going to be okay. That's really it. Because I was one of those like type A planners, like let me figure everything out. And I just remember being stressed all the time, like wanting my life to work out a certain way. And so it would have been nice. If you know, my older self this Lisa could reach back to that Lisa and just pat her on the back and say it's gonna be okay, honey, you're going to be fine. You can calm down. I just Yeah, that would that probably would have helped me relax a bit more during that process, you know, going through PT school and like, I felt, I just felt this heavy, you know, weight on my shoulders to like, get through and pull through and be great. And so if I could say anything to myself, it would be to just you know, relax. It's going to be okay. Enjoy the ride. You know, for sure.   32:51 Yeah. It's a very common piece of advice from a lot of people on this podcast. Obviously not hard to believe. Right. Right. Right. Lisa, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. It was a great discussion. And, you know, my hope is that people will take away from this all of the great tips to really examine your biases, and just start treating everybody like the people they are. Absolutely. Thank   33:18 you so much for having me.   33:20 Anytime. Anytime. You want to come back. You are welcome. And everyone. Thanks so much for listening. Have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.

Natalie and Lisa from Own your health collective join me to discuss what it means to be a wholistic woman and the five steps to get you there.

Health Care is one of the most important systems that we touch on a daily basis and the disparities we manage through have been here since we have.  As a matter of fact, we've been the subject of cruel and unusual punishment in the name of health advancement and then treated like second-class citizens during our times of need.  If we desire to change the system that we operate in then step one is to understand that system. In today's episode Duane Reynolds, CEO of Just Health Collective, spends time breaking down what's really going on inside the healthcare industry, how it impacts you, and his work to improve it. This should be a mandatory listen family! After the episode make sure you go and engage Just Health Collective on their website! Since this episode is about making sure our health is a priority I also need to remind you to make your internet security a priority as well. Go take advantage of our sponsor deal for 83% off of Surfshark Internet VPN services please visit https://surfshark.deals/Whileblack Don't forget to get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: whileblackpodcast@gmail.com   Recorded @ drsatl.com Theme song Produced by Wahid Gomes and licensed through Verde Music Group      

Amy: Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy! I'm Amy McPhie Allebest. Our book today was published in 1970, and it's called Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women. And before we even talk about the content I want to pause and think about the weight of that title. For listeners who have been with us since the beginning, you'll remember Gerda Lerner's The Creation of Patriarchy, and how ancient laws designated women's bodies as belonging to men. For thousands of years, women were legally bought and sold by men. Men had the right to kill a woman for breaking certain laws or to kill her baby if they decided to; men had the legal right to rape and to beat their wives until very, very recently, even in this country. Then think of the medical paternalism in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and how women were still not believed when they talked about their own physical or mental health. Then remember “The Case for Birth Control” in the 20's and 30's, and how the Comstock Laws forbade people from mentioning women's reproductive systems, and birth control was completely illegal, so women had no idea how to control their own pregnancies or births. When we consider this historical timeline, it feels like a powerful act for women to proclaim OUR BODIES, OURSELVES: A BOOK BY AND FOR WOMEN. It's an act of claiming ownership and sovereignty. I should also alert listeners that we do talk about sexuality in this episode, so if you've recommended this podcast to kids, you should give this one a listen before deciding what age it's appropriate for. And now I want to introduce my reading partner today, Jessica Harder. Hi, Jessica! Jessica:  (Response) Amy: Jessica is my husband Erik's cousin (younger and cooler than we are) :) , and she's the niece of the amazing Franceskay Allebes, who did our episode on John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women a few months ago. So to start off, Jessica, can you tell us a little about yourself? Jessica:  • born in 1984/ Grew up in southern California. Conservative religious upbringing with a strong patriarchal culture Dutch background influence in upbringing I didn't realize some of my upbringing was Dutch culture until I later lived there.  Dutch culture is closer to an egalitarian society than in the US.    Mixed messages: Many strong women in my family/ women take a back seat to men at church I was also trained to want children and a husband. But could have cared less for this.  Parents artist: art was an influence at home Started designing and sewing at the age of 4      At 5 years old I saw a career woman wearing a suit pick up another kid at school. I was mesmerized. At that moment I knew I had to be a career woman.  I figured out I could combine the designing and career together and At 16 started designing for a designer.   17 was on the Nordstrom's fashion Board  At 18 I went to school for design, which was a no brainer.  At the same time I started doing yoga and meditation    Started working for a local designer all through school.  When I graduated I took off and moved to the Netherlands.    The first week there I met my husband. I taught myself to speak Dutch. While I lived there I worked in tourism, for a bike company, and in the fashion industry.    Work sent me back to school to study the Dutch language and I started doing translation work for them.  After 6 years I ended my time in the Netherlands working for my favorite designer    My husband and I moved to USA. We lived with and took care of my Dutch grandfather for 4 years. I went through a career switch due to: toxic environment, not wanting to promote consumerism, wanting to work less than 70 hours a week.  So after 13 years of doing yoga I completed a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training Program and became a yoga teacher.  In my teaching carrier I taught at a senior center, rock

After building a career in hospital management and healthcare consulting, Duane Reynolds gravitated towards the health equity space after leading several inclusion-focused initiatives.

After building a career in hospital management and healthcare consulting, Duane Reynolds gravitated towards the health equity space after leading several inclusion-focused initiatives.

After building a career in hospital management and healthcare consulting, Duane Reynolds gravitated towards the health equity space after leading several inclusion-focused initiatives.

Mary Holiman (President) and Ciara Freeman (Vice President) are two MPH students who serve as leaders of the Black Women’s Health Collective (BWHC). The mission of BWHC is to support and encourage the leadership of Black women in public health while highlighting the health experiences of black women and girls globally. The club is able to do this with programming throughout the year by connecting Black women students and professionals in Public Health, sharing opportunities, and fostering a meaningful space of community and solidarity on NYU’s Campus. In this episode, Ciara and Mary give me insight into the club’s purpose and mission, as well as some events the organization has been holding this academic year such as their recent “Succeeding while Black” event and how the club has opened doors for them- Mary shares a defining internship experience she had. You can keep up with the organization on Instagram (@nyu_bwhc) and by subscribing to their newsletter (nyu.bwhc@gmail.com). Mary (@queenmvh) and Ciara (@ciarafreeman_) have also made themselves available as a resource or point of contact on Instagram. To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

Happy Wednesday lovelies! What better way to kick off Adenomyosis Awareness Month than with the incredibly strong Jess Woolley, founder of @jesshasadeno and adenomyosis advocate. Jess started her instagram account in 2018 after finally being diagnosed with adenomyosis, after years of wondering what was wrong with her body. She has cultivated a following for speaking openly about her experiences with not only adenomyosis, but also mental health. Jess wants the lack of awareness for adeno to end, and for more people to be speaking openly about the condition.In this chat we talk on:What it feels like to finally receive that diagnosis after years of being told nothing's wrong for yearsProcessing anger around having adeno, as well as her tips for working through thisWhy Jess started @jesshasadeno and the community she has cultivated as a resultJess' experience with mental health, starting medication and ending medication stigmaStudying when you have a chronic illness and her top tips for doing soHow Jess manages guilt around her adenomyosisWhat adeno has given herPlus so much moreIf you loved our chat with Jess, and want more from her you can find her on Instagram @jesshasadeno. If you want to keep updated with what we're up to you can follow us on Instagram at @letstalkperiodau. If you do enjoy listening and want to be notified when our new eps drop, you can subscribe or follow the show! We would also love it if you shared this episode with a friend or family member, or even show us how you're listening! Tag us on instagram stories or in your grid, it really does help us out and helps us grow our community!Your host for this episode is Isabella Gosling (@i_gosling)

This was a fabulous and fun conversation with two very real mommas that set out to help other mommas thrive. Let's welcome them and please check out HER Health Collective to see what its all about. Follow them on Instagram as well --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/couragecollective/message

Episode Notes This week we have the pleasure of speaking with the founders of Her Health Collective, Crissy Fishbane and Cindi Michaelson. HER Circle is a supportive, welcoming community for moms. Her Health Collective focuses on Improving the lives of moms with a dynamic social community supported by women’s health experts. In this episode, Cindi and Crissy speak on mom guilt, overwhelm, and the feeling of judgment that often appears in the "mom arena." They are both incredibly passionate about women embracing the idea of being perfectly imperfect. This includes shedding the idea of an ideal body, being a perfect mom, or having it all together and embracing and loving who she is right now.   GUEST INFO  https://herhealthcollective.com/ Facebook @HERHealthCollective Instagram @HER_HealthCollective Twitter @HER_HealthCo   SHOW SPONSORS Thred Up - Online Thrift Store : Get $20 off your first purchase or if you’re ready to sell, get free expedited processing on your first kit. Live Free Collective : If you’re craving more freedom and peace in the midst of diet culture, our Live Free Collective is made for you. We created a monthly membership just for listeners of our podcast. You get a monthly coaching call with Tonya and Tracy, a supportive community of women who just like you are on their own their LIVE FREE Journey. Plus bonus downloads like mantra cards, phone wallpapers and backgrounds, and a monthly meditation. And it’s all available on your phone for just $20 a month.  Subscribe to our Newsletter Follow Us: Instagram and share your "Wait, what?" moments with us. Have an idea for an upcoming episode? Let us know on our Facebook page. Individual Coaching Joint Package: Work With Us

What up y'all and welcome back to The Degenerate Take with Dez and Max. In today's episode "Human Health, Collective Consciousness, And Terra Forming Mars," our guest Dil Chopra and Max discuss the amazing aspects of humanity and where its going. Dil Chopra is a modern day philosopher with unique perspective on the human existence. Throughout this episode, we discuss music, human health, and the reach of humanity to other planets. Leave a comment down below for what you want to hear next!

Season 2 ends with great accomplishments and personal growth. Thank you for showing this podcast love from the beginning & being apart of something special. as 2021 begins our journey on this podcast comes to an end with bigger and better things coming from these two individuals. listen to this episode as we went live and talked about all the things we have going on and all of the goals we have in 2021 & beyond. We Raised (as of January 7th) $135 dollars to donate to the Black Emotional &mental Health Collective, You Have until january 28th to send any dontaions in. Lets get this to $200 for the fight of mental health in the black & brown communities. Cashapp: $blmxathlete --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kingtif/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kingtif/support

This week Ramon and Vlad go straight to the boulevard with, Elise McRoberts, CMO of Doc Green’s Health Collective, to give us a glimpse of what marketing looks like in a legal cannabis state. She also gives us a peak behind the curtain of what it’s like to be a High Times Cannabis Cup judge and how that experience lead to her appearance on the show “Bong Appetit.” She also talks about some of the benefits of micro-dosing cannabis and psychedelic drugs and how the peripheral effects have been used to help with overall well-being .

Blu Dream Health Collective launches episode 1, an introduction. This platform will be a collective of like-minded guests, sharing their expertise and individual stories that involve invisible illness, self-care, body positivity, mental health, stigmas, and medical equality. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A genuine conversation about Newcastle Health Collective’s story so far. Lucy speaks openly about some of the tougher times in business and what has kept her in business and loving it. The post Newcastle Health Collective’s Story! appeared first on .

Hello lovely listeners and we hope you're ready for our latest ep of Let's Talk, Period with the lovely Milina Opsenica.This week Isabella sat down with Milina Opsenica. Milina is the founder of Beyond The Cusp, workshops that work to empower Mums and their daughters to be comfortable with their first period, understand their menstrual cycle, and welcome them into becoming a young woman. She is on a mission to teach girls to understand and trust their bodies, to not be ashamed of their periods, and to be comfortable with the changes they are going through. Milina is happily married, with two daughters and a son, and periods are now a very normal topic of conversation in her home. We talk on what led Milina to start Beyond the Cusp, and what changes she's made within her own family to bring greater awareness towards periods and the menstrual cycle. She shares her own experiences around the education she received growing up, and how you can navigate the way as mum and talk with your children and family about their bodies, periods and puberty, plus so many other things!If you enjoyed our chat with Milina and want to keep up to date with her, you can follow her on Instagram right her @beyondthecusp or you can head to their website here. If you want to keep up with what we're up to and indulge in some quality memes, mixed with important period content you can follow us on Instagram at @letstalkperiodau.Your host is sabella Gosling (i_gosling).

This week we've partnered with Jamieson Vitamins as part of their Women's Health Collective series to bring you "5 Ways To Stay Focused And Healthy". From now until July 31st, every time the Jamieson campaign #HereForHerHealth hashtag is posted, 50 cents will be donated to the Canadian Women's Foundation: https://canadianwomen.org/ Use the discount code “Stilettos” at check out to receive 20% off at www.jamiesonvitamins.com Keep an eye on the @awalkinmystilettos Instagram, where 3 of you will have a chance to win supplements from the Jamieson Women's Health collection! 3 winners will receive 7 products from their Women's Health line plus a customized tote bag  Multivitamin Women  Women's Probiotic Complex  Advanced Hair, Skin, Nails Gorgeous Hair  Collagen Anti Wrinkle Liquid Iron + B12 Chewables Menopause Relief   Stay connected with us online: Facebook- http://bit.ly/2CkjhqV Instagram- http://bit.ly/2OszRfs Twitter- http://bit.ly/2RU9tcz Youtube- http://bit.ly/MakiniSmithYoutube LinkedIn- http://bit.ly/2IZZZIm Website- http://bit.ly/2PvRRSu Books- http://bit.ly/MakiniSmith Subscribe to our newsletter if you love the value and free stuff! http://bit.ly/2AVKNJM Send questions and guest suggestions to info@awalkinmystilettos.com  

Prompted by suffering her 6th concussion, and living with chronic pain for 14 months, Dasha has become a serious biohacker. And it's no surprise either, as her background in management consulting and then studying neuroscience in her master's program shows this lady's ability to understand the hierarchy and complexities of a problem (in this case recovery from traumatic brain injuries) and break it down into tangible, functional goals. The powerful part of Dasha's story is in her capacity and willingness to change, and in her commitment to find joy in her new lifestyle approach. She is a leader and motivator behind the Women’s Health Collective @whealth.co, a global forum connecting communities of women with solid, evidence-based research. This woman is surely living into her highest wellpower!

This episode features Duane Reynolds, Founder and CEO of Just Health Collective. Here, he discusses the importance of health equity in relation to race, the pervasiveness of racism in our culture, and more.

This episode features Duane Reynolds, Founder and CEO of Just Health Collective. Here he does a deep dive into health equity and diversity, the importance of diversity, the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable communities, and more.

On episode 24 of The Fear of Science we talk about the difficult subject of abortion with Joyce Arthur the Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, France-Emmanuelle Joly from the Vancouver Women's Health Collective and comedian Emma Cooper. We find out where the fear of abortion comes from and how religion plays into it plus much more. 

Sandip talks to Amrita Tripathi, the founder-editor of the Health Collective, about her latest book that tries to open up conversations about depression and tell us that we are not alone in dealing with it.

Mailin Colman joins me today to share how hypnotherapists need hypnotic resilience to continue having a healthy career. She reveals the multiple sides of resilience and shares why compassionate detachment is essential. Mailin describes what to expect at the AHA World Conference and highlights the networking opportunities that will be available. She also shares how hypnotherapy has developed as a profession throughout Australia.   Mailin is the president of the Australian Hypnotherapists Association and a clinical hypnotherapist and counselor at The Health Collective in Alice Springs. Mailin has been practicing hypnotherapy since 2002 and has specialized training in hypnosis pain management. Mailin’s passion is to help people find freedom from negative emotional issues, fears, and stress. Her qualifications include an advanced diploma in hypnosis and a diploma in professional counseling.     “You have to have compassionate detachment. Yes, you care, but you have to walk out of the office without laying awake all night thinking about their problems.” - Mailin Colman       How Mailin blends counseling techniques with hypnotherapy. Working with other health professionals. Bringing Australian hypnotherapy into the mainstream. What to expect at the AHA World Conference. The multiple sides of resilience. Why it is vital to develop compassionate detachment. Working with distractions that occur during client sessions. The networking opportunities at the AHA World Conference.     Connect with Mailin Colman:   Australian Hypnotherapists Association The Health Collective Mailin Colman on LinkedIn     Join me on September 13-15 at the Australian Hypnotherapists Association World Conference in Brisbane, Australia! Don’t miss my closing keynote: “Unstoppable Confidence: Resilience for the Hypnotic Professional.” For more details, visit:   Australian Hypnotherapists Association World Conference   And stay tuned after the conference for a special, 1-day post-convention training on Monday, September 16: “Hypnotic Results That Stick.” Learn the principles of hypnotic phenomenon and how they apply to growing your hypnotic business. For more information and to claim your tickets, visit:   Hypnotic Results That Stick     Get an all-access pass to Jason’s digital library to help you grow your hypnosis business: HypnoticBusinessSystems.com   Get instant access to Jason Linett’s entire hypnotherapeutic training library: HypnoticWorkers.com   If you enjoyed today’s episode, please send us your valuable feedback! WorkSmartHypnosis.com/itunes https://www.facebook.com/worksmarthypnosis/

Amrita Tripathi heads the news partnerships for Twitter India and is a known mental health activist. She is the founding editor of The Health Collective and has authored two books, The Sibius Knot and Broken News. Anindita and Amrita delve into their teenage and discuss their struggles with self-harm, failing to find vocabulary for the conditions bothering them and how the SOS calls a few years back were not paid attention to. Both are glad that mental health is no more a closet talk but there are huge grounds to cover.

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women's Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women's liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joyce Antler is the Samuel J. Lane Professor Emerita of American Jewish history and culture at Brandeis University. Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York University Press, 2018) provides richly detailed biographies of known and unknown Jewish women from Shulamith Firestone to Aviva Cantor, who were the backbone of the movement. Their backgrounds hidden from historical view, and unrecognized, are brought to light. Many Jewish radical women emerged from the New Left and went on to create local women-centered groups such as the Gang of Four, Boston Women’s Health Collective, and Bread and Roses. How they navigated their experiences of being both Jewish and feminists provides insight into Jewish life and the relationship between religion, ethnic identity and feminism. In their diversity, from holding on to a traditional faith making room for feminism, to those who pulled away to lead secular lives, they encountered anti-Semitism, stereotypes, and connections across differences. The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Renee Orr talks us through the content in the cases for the Wāhine Take Action exhibition which focus on the themes 'Support your Community' and 'Start a Feminist Press'. Much of the content for these cases was drawn from archival collections housed at Auckland Libraries. References for start a feminist press: Broadsheet. 1976-1990. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Circle. Issue 16, March 1975. Christchurch: S.H.E. From: Auckland Lesbian Archive. Records. NZMS 1184. Lesbian sexuality. Reprinted from Auckland Circle, September 1974. From: Auckland Lesbian Archive. Records. NZMS 1184. L.I.P. Issue 25, January 1992. From: Auckland Lesbian Archive. Records. NZMS 1184. Lesbian lip. May-June 1982. From: Auckland Lesbian Archive. Records. NZMS 1184. Donna Awatere. Māori sovereignty. Auckland: Broadsheet, 1984. Spiral: women’s art magazine no. 3. Christchurch: Spiral Collective, 1976. New Zealand Herstory. Auckland: New Women's Press, 1984. Sue Lytollis. Self defence for women. Auckland: New Women's Press, 1983. Mellow Yellow no. 8. Auckland: Mellow Yellow, 2016. References for support your community: Polynesian social and dance. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Auckland Women’s Health Collective. 1980s. Ephemera Collection. Women help - we’re broke! 1980s. From: Auckland Women’s Centre. Records. NZMS 999. A party in the back yard at 63 Ponsonby Road. 1980s. From: Auckland Women’s Centre. Records. NZMS 999. Rina Rata and the Māori Women’s Support Group visit Stella and new baby. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Pamphlets, 1980s-2018. From: Ephemera Collection, and Auckland Women’s Centre. Records. NZMS 999. North Shore Women’s Refuge. 1980s. From: Council for the Single Mother and her Child. Records. NZMS 1183. Joss Shawyer and Robert Ludbrook. Everything a single parent needs to know. Auckland: Council for the Single Mother and her Child, 1981. Pamela Were. The CSMC delegation to Parliament at height of government harassment of solo mothers, photographed in Hamilton. 1977. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Feminist festival. 1976. Ephemera Collection. Women! Join the Womanline library. 1980s. From: Auckland Women’s Centre. Records. NZMS 999.

You can follow Aga's Herbologie adventures on their Instagram and Facebook. If you want to check out Herbologie for yourself, check out the Health Collective this week (November 24th) as Herbologie and the Nomadic Wife are hosting a workshop to bring to you an evening of blending ingredients, learning about botanicals and slow-living, all while getting some hands-on experience making delicious superfood bites.

One of the true friends of "The Vibe and Vegas Show" is Nikki Clarke. What can you say about about Nikki? Read on ... She holds a Diploma in Social Sciences from John Abbott College. At McGill University, Nikki earned a degree in Film and Communications where she received formal media training for print, television, radio. Nikki also earned an Honours Diploma from Sheridan College in Early Childhood Education. Gifted with acquiring languages, Nikki is fluent in English, French , and Spanish. Nikki has been an instructor at Sheridan College, in the Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Community Development and the School of Business since 1999. ; In 2006, Nikki started Bead 4 Health , a company for which she designs and handcrafts organic jewelry for men and women and distributes them online at http://www.bead4healthboutique.com/ ,stores , and various community festivals. Self-taught, Nikki began her creating designs for fun. Her pieces quickly got the attention of friends and coworkers who began placing custom orders for her work. Nikki experiments with wood, semi-precious stones, magnets, and freshwater pearls. Nikki was introduced to magnetic therapy after purchasing a magnetic necklace for a neck injury she sustained in an accident. Nikki's designs have been featured in Planet Africa, Rogers Television, the Ethnic Umbrella ,Bless, Shimmer Teen Fashion Magazine, Kurves Modelling and Talent 2009 Calendar and the 2010, Mr. International Caribbean Calendar.Nikki's pieces can be purchased at Big it Up, http://bigitup.com/home.php and Bead 4 Health Boutique at http://www.bead4healthboutique.com/ In 2007, Nikki joined the team of the Ethnic Umbrella, Canada's most diverse community newspaper, as a columnist and public relations manager. Nikki is also a freelance writer for Planet Africa Magazine , Elite Events Magazine, and City Parent . In August 2008, Nikki was the recipient of the African Canadian Women's Achievement Award for her work in the community and excellence in teaching. In 2008, Nikki founded

We continue with the series, Managing in The Midst of The Current Outbreak, with Christine Forner (B.A., B.S.W., M.S.W., Registered Social Worker).Christine, who specializes in the intersection of mindfulness and trauma dissociation, shares her insights on managing within the context of the current pandemic. She began her career early starting as a volunteer at the age of 16 at a crisis line for Teens. She has worked at The Calgary Sexual Assault Centre, Wheatland Crisis Shelter for survivors of domestic violence and in 1998 Christine started her clinical experience at The Calgary Women’s Health Collective. A huge thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:CPTSD FoundationCPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Do you struggle to help numb, disconnected clients who can’t feel emotion or explore inner experience? Learn a comprehensive approach to conceptualize your clients’ concerns. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy uniquely includes the body in therapy as both a source of information and target for intervention…because words are not enough. Go beyond theories and gain practical ways to open a new dimension for effective therapy. Visit Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute online at sensorimotor.org todaySince 2011, Christine has worked in her own private practice which specializes in complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She has over twenty years experience working with individuals with Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Traumatic Dissociation, Developmental Trauma and Dissociative Disorders, with specialized training in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Psychotherapeutic Meditation techniques, Neurofeedback and Havening. Christine is the current clinical supervisor at Waypoints Sexual Assault Centre in Fort McMurry, Alberta and teaches locally and at an international level on the issue of dissociation, complex trauma, and the intersection of dissociation and mindfulness. Christine was the treasurer of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2011-2012) and was the President of the ISSTD in 2019. As well as being a board member she is also a member of the Conference Committee and for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Christine has spent the last 15 years working on methods of meditation that are affective for persons who have Complex Posttraumatic Disorder and Dissociative Disorders. She is the author of Dissociation, Mindfulness and Creative Meditations: Trauma informed practices to facilitate growth (Routledge, 2017).In This EpisodeChristine's WebsiteDissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations, Christine C. FornerSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.