Best Whc Podcasts (2025)

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Overcoming Impostor Syndrome to Founding a Highly Successful Rural Women’s Practice with Dr. Amanda Thompson, PT, WHC 53:53

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“My limiting belief told me I was limited in the outpatient world. But the truth is, I was already several steps ahead of most people, and that’s enough.” - Dr. Amanda Thompson Burnout is everywhere in healthcare right now. Productivity standards are climbing, providers are stretched to their limits, and rural areas in particular are left patching …

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The Bone Health Crisis No One Talks About with Sanjeev Javia | HFYH #137 55:03

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In this episode of Hot For Your Health with Dr. Vonda Wright is joined by longtime friend, master formulator, and wellness innovator Sanjeev "Jeevers" Javia to break down one of the most overlooked—but most life-saving—topics in women's health: bone health. Using real data and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Wright reveals why fractures are a p…

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91: Ashley Koff on GLP-1s and Weight in Perimenopause: When They Help, When They Harm, and the Red Flags You're Missing 53:53

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“What a GLP-1 agonist does is teach us about our weight health hormones.” - Ashley Koff GLP-1 medications are everywhere right now, and for many women in perimenopause, they feel like the only thing that can finally move the needle. But for practitioners, this landscape is far more nuanced. In midlife, women’s weight is tied to shifting sex hormone…

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90: When Nothing Works for Depression: How the Healing Depression Project Is Creating a New Path Forward with Silvia Covelli and Dr. Achina Stein 54:57

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Many people live with depression for years and never feel fully better, even after medications, therapy, lifestyle changes, or countless specialist visits. What we rarely talk about is why these approaches often fall short and what it actually takes to create real change. Today, I’m joined by Silvia Covelli, founder of the Healing Depression Projec…

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89: What Gets Missed for Chronic Illness Healing: How Simple, Unsexy Tools Create Sustainable Recovery with Robin Randisi & Cait Van Damm 38:20

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“Focus on the skill of listening to your specific body, your specific symptoms, and figuring out what your system is responding to.” - Cait Van Damm If you work with women navigating chronic illness, you’ve probably seen the “Doctor Roadshow” up close. These women have seen multiple practitioners without resolution and arrive at your practice exhau…

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88: The Metabolic Shift: Helping Women Clients with Weight Gain, Blood Sugar, and Cholesterol in Midlife 24:51

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“When your client says their body changed overnight, she’s not exaggerating.” - Dr. Jessica Drummond So many women arrive in perimenopause or menopause feeling blindsided by the changes in their bodies. They’re exercising, eating well, and they might even be using hormone replacement therapy (HRT), but no matter what they do, they’re noticing weigh…

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87: Helping Clients With Brain Fog, Anxiety, and Mood Changes in Perimenopause & Menopause 1:07:06

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“Perimenopause isn’t just about hot flashes and night sweats. It’s about the brain.” - Dr. Jessica Drummond Brain fog, anxiety, and mood swings are among the most common and frustrating symptoms for women in perimenopause and menopause. At the same time, they’re also the most misunderstood. For too many of us, these symptoms are brushed off as stre…

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Midlife High Performance: Health, Strength & Self-Worth with Lauren Ramsey | HFYH #136 1:00:45

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In this episode of Hot For Your Health, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Lauren Ramsey — former Microsoft leader, tech executive, CEO, athlete, wellness strategist, and now part of the VMD Global Media team — to talk about what it really takes to build a strong, healthy, high-capacity life in midlife and beyond. Lauren shares how she went from 16-ye…

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86: Confidence in Complexity: How Practitioners Can Master Perimenopause & Menopause Care 31:48

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“Most programs train you for the simple cases. Confidence in Complexity trains you for the real ones.” - Dr. Jessica Drummond When women reach midlife, they rarely show up with one neat, easy-to-solve issue. More often, they’re managing layers like autoimmunity, trauma, long COVID, endometriosis, migraines, chronic pain, all of which are now inters…

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Menopause Care Revolution: The Alloy Health Story | HFYH #135 42:16

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Anne Fulenwider and Monica Molenaar of Alloy Health, co-founders and co-CEOs of Alloy Health, to explore how their personal menopause journeys led them to build a women's health company that bridges the gap between medical care and accessible, ongoing support. Anne shares how having her ovaries remov…

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85: Why Perimenopause & Menopause Care Is the Future of Women’s Health 25:17

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“Women’s health is never textbook. Complexity is the rule, not the exception.” - Dr. Jessica Drummond Right now, most health professionals are still being trained to treat simple, textbook cases of perimenopause and menopause, leaving millions of women without the comprehensive, evidence-based care they deserve. At the same time, there’s a growing …

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Plastics, Hormones & the Future of Child Health with Dr. Manasa Mantravadi | HFYH #134 33:58

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright reconnects with Dr. Manasa Mantravadi—a board-certified pediatrician, Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist, and founder of Ahimsa, the stainless steel dinnerware line engineered to reduce children's exposure to plastic and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Dr. Mantravadi unpacks her medical journey and how she tran…

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84: How to Heal Your Perimenopause Brain with Dr. Mariza Snyder 36:59

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How to Rewire Your Brain at Any Age with Jules Vazquez | HFYH #133 49:27

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Jules Vazquez—former Pitt and pro soccer player turned health-informatics expert and founder of Brain Body by Jules. Jules builds clinical algorithms for a health-tech company to speed access to care, and translates cutting-edge neuroscience into simple, actionable tools for brain and body health—a m…

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83: How Practitioners Become Experts in Perimenopause and Menopause Care 1:11:08

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“Most programs teach you the textbook cases. We teach you the real ones.” – Dr. Jessica Drummond There’s no such thing as a routine menopause client. Every woman brings her own history, from autoimmune disease to migraines, chronic pain, medical gaslighting, and more. That makes midlife care complex. And yet most training programs only cover basic …

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Can We Trust AI With Justice & Healthcare? | HFYH #132 42:00

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Gabrielle McKenzie, founder of the Fair Code Initiative and Columbia Law–mentored researcher on algorithmic accountability, and Isabella Wright, a rising scholar focused on constitutional protections in the age of AI. Together, they spotlight how proprietary, black-box tools are increasingly shaping …

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82: How to Transform Your Women's Health Practice to Have The Flexibility You Desire and Get Great Sleep with Chantal Traub 33:23

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“By addressing my nervous system, which also helped me heal my long COVID, I really healed my sleep.” - Chantal Traub Sleep isn’t a luxury. It’s the foundation of brain health, nervous system regulation, and the resilience we need to thrive in midlife. So many practitioners arrive in perimenopause already burned out and sleep-deprived from years of…

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Rewriting Midlife: Hormones, Menopause & Sexual Health with Dr. Kelly Casperson | HFYH #131 43:11

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Dr. Kelly Casperson, a urologist, speaker, and bestselling author of You Are Not Broken, to explore the future of women's midlife health. Dr. Casperson - known for breaking taboos around sexual wellness and menopause - discusses her new book focused on hormones, mindset, and whole-body well-being. To…

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81: New Approach to Musculoskeletal Pain in Menopause with Dr. Jessica Drummond 37:47

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“These women aren’t just dealing with an injury. They’re living in a low-estrogen environment that changes everything about healing.” Musculoskeletal pain in midlife is often misdiagnosed. A woman presents with widespread joint pain, poor sleep, and fatigue, and she’s given a stack of prescriptions that never get to the root cause. But in perimenop…

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The Hard Reality of Bone Health with Dr. Vonda Wright | HFYH #130 32:57

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright steps out from behind the interview chair to deliver a powerful and practical masterclass on bone health. As an orthopedic sports surgeon, Dr. Wright has seen firsthand the devastating effects of fractures—often caused by osteoporosis—and why bone health should be a priority at every stage of life. She reveals how …

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80: Navigating Perimenopause and Complex Chronic Illness with Dr. Jessica Drummond [Interviewed by Marnie Glavin] 51:26

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“Perimenopause can amplify and unmask complex chronic illnesses that were hiding in the background.” – Dr. Jessica Drummond When we skip the chronic illness conversation with our midlife clients and patients and go straight to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), we miss helping women feel fully well and stay well into their later years. While HRT ca…

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The Future of Bone & Muscle Health: Innovation, Prevention & Longevity with Gary Rhodes | HFYH #129 30:42

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Gary Rhodes, Founder of Screen My Bones and a global leader in musculoskeletal health innovation. With a mission to make bone and muscle wellness more proactive and accessible, Gary has dedicated his career to integrating cutting-edge technologies like Echolight REMS, Powerplate, and Biodensity into …

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79: The Importance of Developing Your Coaching Skills in Functional Nutrition and Perimenopause with Carley Nadine 35:00

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“Being a holistic practitioner is about focusing on the individual, not protocols.” – Carly Nadine So many of our clients come to us carrying complex histories, whether it’s years of period pain, medical gaslighting, trauma, chronic infections, or a sense of not being heard. By the time they reach midlife, we have to adopt a different approach. Tru…

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What Men Need to Know About Menopause with Peter Taglianetti | HFYH #128 48:09

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In this special episode of Hot for Your Health, Dr. Vonda Wright is joined by her husband, Peter Taglianetti—two-time Stanley Cup Champion, broadcaster, and businessman—for a candid conversation on midlife, menopause, and marriage. Together, they share their personal journey of navigating Vonda's transition from postpartum directly into perimenopau…

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78: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome to Founding a Highly Successful Rural Women's Practice with Dr. Amanda Thompson, PT, WHC 53:53

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“My limiting belief told me I was limited in the outpatient world. But the truth is, I was already several steps ahead of most people, and that’s enough.” - Dr. Amanda Thompson Burnout is everywhere in healthcare right now. Productivity standards are climbing, providers are stretched to their limits, and rural areas in particular are left patching …

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77: How Integrative Women's Health Education Can Help Your Physical Therapy Patients Enjoy Life More with Dr. Megan Wells 27:01

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“I can’t just treat a knee or a shoulder; if I really want to make progress with people and they're not sleeping well or they're not eating well, I'm not getting anywhere with them.” – Megan Wells True healing requires a full-body, holistic approach. Especially in this continuing COVID world, many of our clients come to us struggling with condition…

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Stem Cells and the Future of Healing with Dr. Joy Kong | HFYH # 127 37:10

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright welcomes Dr. Joy Kong, a UCLA-trained, triple board-certified anti-aging and regenerative medicine physician, educator, and CEO of Chara Biologics. A leader in the field of stem cell science, Dr. Kong blends her roots in traditional Chinese preventative care with advanced regenerative therapies. She's also the foun…

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76: Why We Need More Perimenopause Professionals in Mental Health with Julie Cardoza, MS, LMFT and IWHI Graduate 40:08

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“Mental health and physical health can’t be separated.” – Julie Cardoza For many women, the first signs of perimenopause aren’t hot flashes or irregular cycles; they’re mental health changes like anxiety, burnout, irritability, and brain fog. In the conventional medical system, these symptoms are often treated in isolation, without anyone connectin…

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Take Back Your Health: Hormones & Longevity with Dr. Catherine Johnson | HFYH # 126 45:30

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Dr. Catherine Johnson, a dual board-certified Emergency and Obesity Medicine physician and the visionary Founder of Precision Medical Care. With over 25 years of clinical experience and advanced training in precision and functional medicine, Dr. Johnson now leads a concierge practice focused on longe…

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75: What's Missing From The Conversation on Longevity with Andrea Nakayama 1:00:14

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“When we are so restricted and tied to all the things we have to do, we're not actually supporting longevity.” - Andrea Nakayama Health practitioners and clients are often looking for the same thing: the “right” tools and protocols for women in perimenopause and beyond. Social media tells women they should be taking hormones, eating lots of protein…

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The Future of Longevity: AI, Sexual Health & Midlife Wellness with Dr. Amy Killen | HFYH # 125 41:35

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright is joined by longevity expert and regenerative medicine pioneer, Dr. Amy B. Killen. A former ER physician turned health tech entrepreneur, Dr. Killen is the founder and CEO of the Human Optimization Project (HOP) and co-founder/Chief Medical Officer of Humanaut Health, a cutting-edge longevity clinic franchise. She…

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74: Rich Relationships: How to Create a Million-Dollar Network Authentically with Selena Soo 48:29

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“One rich relationship is more valuable than a hundred casual connections.” - Selena Soo As health and wellness professionals, our work is built on connection. Whether it's with our clients, referral partners, or fellow practitioners, relationships are at the core of everything we do. Unfortunately, when it comes to growing our businesses, it’s eas…

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73: Innovations in Osteoporosis Care with CEO of Osteoboost, Laura Yecies 38:04

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*This episode is sponsored by Osteoboost* “The most important thing for fractures is to prevent them.” - Laura Yecies Osteoporotic fractures are one of the biggest threats to women’s quality of life as we age, and as practitioners, we’re in the perfect position to help our clients take action before it’s too late. Where cardiovascular disease is th…

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72: Herbalism for Fertility for Women and Men with Liane Moccia 33:18

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“It’s important to take a holistic approach to a person’s fertility.” – Liane Moccia Our clients’ fertility journeys are about much more than getting pregnant. They’re navigating stress, nervous system imbalances, environmental toxins, and often a healthcare system that doesn’t consider these factors. On top of that, many times the focus is solely …

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71: How to Support Your Clients with Depression and Anxiety with Dr. Christina Bjorndal 52:00

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[TRIGGER WARNING: Sensitive topics, including suicide] “Our thoughts drive our nervous system, and when you’re in a sympathetic state, it’s very difficult to achieve true healing.” - Dr. Christina Bjorndal Diet and lifestyle are crucial elements of our overall health and well-being, but we have to consider that they’re part of a larger puzzle. Whil…

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70: Hello Hot Flash! with Stephanie Shaw 43:13

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For many women, perimenopause comes with confusing symptoms that can’t seem to be explained and changes to your body that can feel like you’re losing control. Right now, only 4-6% of women in the US are receiving adequate medical menopause care, leaving the vast majority unsupported and confused about what’s happening with their bodies. This is whe…

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69: Your Health Coach Will See You Now! with Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum, Ph.D. 40:10

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“A health coach is somebody who truly hears you and can help you navigate through this increasingly complex medical system.” - Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum Health coaches can’t replace medical doctors. When it comes to acute care, you need a doctor, not a coach. But what happens when you get discharged? For many patients, a health crisis comes with the ne…

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68: What Market Trends In Women's Health Do You Need To Know? with Rachel Braun Scherl 50:19

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“People make choices and they pay for what they value.” - Rachel Braun Scherl As practitioners, it often feels like we’re being pulled in many different directions. You're seeing clients, managing operations, creating content, and still wondering how to reach more people and make your practice sustainable without burning out. At the same time, the …

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The Hidden Realm: Exploring Fairy Types You've Never Heard Of 17:39

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Send us a text The mysterious realm of fairies extends far beyond the popular winged beings of children's tales. Each culture across the world has developed its own unique fairy lore, with creatures ranging from helpful nature spirits to dangerous tricksters lurking in the shadows. Continuing our exploration from the previous episode, we journey de…

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67: What are Bioidentical Hormones? with Kate Wells 41:18

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“Many women don't have the information they need to understand what's going on with their hormones.” - Kate Wells While the conversation around menopause and hormone therapy has progressed significantly in recent years, many women remain unaware of their options and lack access to practitioners who can guide them through these transitions. When you…

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The Fae Among Us: Uncovering Myths and Realities of Fairy Folk 18:37

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Send us a text The veil between our world and the realm of fairies may be thinner than you think. Dive into the enchanting yet complex world of the fae as we explore creatures that have captivated human imagination for centuries but might be more than just fantasy. What exactly are fairies? Some believe they're nature spirits watching over earth, a…

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Hormones, Cancer Risk, and the Truth About Menopause with Dr. Corinne Menn | HFYH # 124 42:17

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Dr. Corinne Menn, a board-certified OBGYN, Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, and 23-year breast cancer survivor who brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to the menopause conversation. A BRCA carrier and surgical menopause patient, Dr. Menn is a fierce advocate for women navigat…

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66: Functional Medicine | Precision Health | Culinary Nutrition with Shefaly Ravula, PA-C 29:04

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“Until we address our entire environment and culture, I think we're going to keep seeing complex chronic illnesses on the rise.” - Shefaly Ravula Overall health begins in the gut, and many of our clients dealing with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain also struggle with gut health challenges that can significantly impact their quality of life. O…

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The Truth About Ozempic and GLP-1s with Dr. Alexandra Sowa | HFYH # 123 46:03

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with Dr. Alexandra Sowa, a dual board-certified physician in internal and obesity medicine, founder of SoWell, and author of The Ozempic Revolution. With over a decade of clinical experience and features in The New York Times, CNN, and Women's Health, Dr. Sowa is a leading voice in metabolic health and th…

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65: Unraveling CIRS: Mold, Inflammation, and the Path to Recovery with Jenny Johnson 51:24

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“About 24% of the population has susceptible genetics for chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS).” - Jenny Johnson Health and illness are not binary. A healthy person can become sick in no time, and vice versa. Ultimately, health is a continuum on which, no matter how you’re feeling, there are small steps you can take to improve. The foundat…

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Astrology: The Twelfth and Final House of the Birth Chart 14:51

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Send us a text Venture beyond the veil as we explore the mysterious 12th house—the final frontier of your astrological birth chart. This captivating episode unravels the ethereal realm where your subconscious mind, spiritual connections, and deepest mysteries reside. The 12th house governs endings, afterlife, and the spaces between worlds. It's whe…

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Authenticity Over Perfection with Dr. Tiffany Moon | HFYH #122 40:13

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with the multifaceted Dr. Tiffany Moon, a board-certified anesthesiologist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, twin mom, and author of the upcoming book Joy Prescriptions: How I Learned to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Connection (May 2025). As the founder of Aromasthesia Candles, Three Moons Wine, and …

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64: Lean Genes: How Understanding Genetics is Key to Metabolic Health and Healthy Weight with Dr. Phyllis Pobee 32:44

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“Weight loss resistance is never isolated. You never just have weight loss resistance and everything else is great.” - Dr. Phyllis Pobee For those of us dealing with the combination of hormonal changes postpartum or in perimenopause periods alongside chronic illnesses such as endometriosis or MCAS, our bodies, and especially our mitochondrial healt…

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Astrology: The Eleventh House of the Birth Chart 11:41

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Send us a text Ever wondered why some people thrive in group settings while others struggle to find their place in society? The answer might lie in your 11th house placement—the astrological zone governing technology, community connections, and your vision for the future. The 11th house stands as a fascinating intersection of technology and human c…

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Menstrual Equity and Menopause Truths with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf | HFYH #121 49:47

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In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright sits down with writer, activist, and feminist Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, a leading voice in the fight for menstrual equity. Dubbed the "architect of the U.S. policy campaign to squash the tampon tax," Jennifer is the author of Periods Gone Public and serves as VP at the Brennan Center for Justice. Her groundbreaking work…