The Michele Broad Show

Conversation Takeaways Why more women are asking about testosterone therapy. What research actually says about testosterone for low libido, energy, mood, and brain fog. Why some women feel amazing on testosterone while others notice little improvement. What to consider before deciding whether testosterone is right for you. About This Episode Everybody seems to be talking about testosterone these d...

Conversation Takeaways Do you really need all those lab tests recommended online? Why is eating healthy in midlife so confusing? How do you know which menopause advice to trust? What does it mean to become more confident and informed about your health? Three Women. Three Questions. Let's Talk. Have you ever wondered whether you need all those labs your friend recommended, felt completely confused...

Conversation Takeaways Why your midlife health is about more than just hormones and HRT. What you should know about your heart, bones, muscles, metabolism, brain, sleep, and sexual health. Why more testing doesn't always mean better healthcare. How understanding your body helps you make more informed health decisions. We've spent so much time talking about perimenopause, menopause, and hormone the...

Conversation Takeaways HRT can help without fixing every symptom. Hormones are only one part of your biological story. What hasn't improved may be important information. The answer isn't always more hormones. Social media, podcasts, and conversations with friends can make HRT sound like the pot of gold at the end of the perimenopause rainbow. But what happens when HRT helps and you still don't fee...

Conversation Takeaways Being on HRT and still not feeling like yourself doesn't necessarily mean your hormone therapy isn't working. Look at what improved and what didn't. Your hormones don't live in a vacuum. Sleep, stress, thyroid function, metabolic health, nutrition, muscle and recovery can all influence how you feel. Sometimes HRT needs to be reassessed. Other times, persistent symptoms are t...

What You'll Take Away From This Conversation Why a "normal" hormone test doesn't necessarily rule out perimenopause. Why a lab result is a snapshot, while your body is the whole movie. Why symptoms, menstrual changes, health history and your life all matter. Why labs are still valuable for looking at other possible contributors. Why understanding the bigger picture can help you make better decisio...

Why does 3 AM seem to have a standing appointment with women in midlife? You fall asleep just fine, but somewhere around 3:00 your eyes open and suddenly your brain is ready to discuss tomorrow's schedule, your mother, the kids, the email you forgot to answer, and possibly something embarrassing you said in 2009. It's easy to assume this must be hormones. Or cortisol. Or blood sugar. And while any...

Hormone therapy has finally become part of the mainstream women's health conversation, and that is a good thing. After decades of women feeling dismissed or undertreated, more women are asking questions, advocating for themselves, and learning about treatment options during perimenopause and menopause. But another problem may be emerging. Women are increasingly arriving at healthcare appointments...

In this final episode of the Your Body Is Smarter Than You Think series, Michele Broad brings together the ideas explored throughout the first two conversations and introduces the philosophy that now guides all of her teaching. If your body is intelligent, and if your hormones don't live in a vacuum, then the next question becomes: What has your body been responding to all along? Drawing on nearly...

What if the symptoms you've been blaming on a single hormone are actually part of a much bigger biological conversation? In Part Two of The Body Is Smarter Than You Think, Michele Broad, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner with nearly three decades of clinical experience, explores one of the most important concepts in women's health: your hormones don't live in a vacuum. Rather than viewing estrogen...

Women today know more about perimenopause and menopause than ever before, yet many still don't understand the biology behind what their bodies are actually doing. In this first episode of The Body Is Smarter Than You Think series, Michele shares how her own experiences, nearly three decades of caring for women, and a growing curiosity transformed her philosophy of women's health. Together, you'll...

Hormone therapy has become one of the biggest conversations in women's health, but with so much conflicting information online, knowing where to start can feel overwhelming. In this episode, Michele Broad, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, takes a different approach. Rather than answering whether hormone therapy is right for you, she explores the questions every woman should ask before making tha...

What if your hormones aren't the problem, but the messenger? In this episode, Michele Broad, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, explores one of the most overlooked conversations in women's health: the many hidden factors influencing your hormones long before symptoms appear. Instead of focusing on one hormone or the latest supplement, Michele explains why your body is constantly responding to the...

Why Your Mind Doesn't Feel Like It Used To Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? Found yourself rereading the same email three times? Struggled to find words that used to come easily? If so, you're not alone. Brain fog has become one of the most common concerns women bring up during perimenopause and menopause, yet it's often misunderstood. Many women worry they're los...

For years, you've been rewarded for pushing through. Pushing through long workdays. Pushing through exhaustion. Pushing through stress. Pushing through everyone else's needs before your own. But what happens when the very habits that helped you build your career, care for your family, and achieve your goals start creating consequences for your health? In this episode, I'm exploring the hidden biol...

Most women have been taught to think about hormones as separate systems that can be fixed one at a time. In this episode, I'm talking about why that approach often leaves women feeling frustrated and stuck. She explains how hormones function as part of an interconnected network that is constantly responding to sleep, stress, metabolism, inflammation, nutrition, relationships, workload, and the ove...

What happens when the version of success you've spent years building no longer feels aligned with the life you want to live? In this powerful conversation, Michele sits down with entrepreneur and business mentor Ali Brown to discuss ambition, reinvention, wellness, hormones, spirituality, and the courage it takes to create a life you don't need to recover from. Together, they explore what many wom...

In this deeply personal and honest episode, I explore one of the least talked about realities of perimenopause: the emotional experience of becoming unfamiliar to yourself. This conversation goes beyond symptom lists and surface-level hormone talk to explore the hidden grief many high-achieving women quietly carry as their bodies, emotions, energy, resilience, and identity begin shifting in midlif...

Key Takeaways If life suddenly feels harder in your late 30s or 40s, you are not imagining it and you are not failing. Many high-achieving women have spent years functioning in chronic self-override without realizing the physiological cost. Hormonal shifts, nervous system overload, cortisol dysregulation, sleep disruption, insulin sensitivity changes, and chronic stress accumulation can all affect...

In this episode, we step into one of the most talked-about and often misunderstood conversations in women's health right now: GLP-1 medications and their role in perimenopause and menopause. You're hearing more women talk openly about using medications like Zepbound and Wegovy, not from a place of lack of effort, but from a deeper recognition that their body has changed. And for many, this is the...

If stress feels heavier lately, it may not be your life—it may be your physiology. In this episode, we break down how cortisol, hormones, and your nervous system shift in perimenopause, and why what used to feel manageable now feels different. What You'll Learn: Why stress feels different in midlife How cortisol, estrogen, and progesterone interact The real impact of financial, relational, and int...

Perimenopause is suddenly everywhere. You are hearing about it in conversations, seeing it across social media, and beginning to recognize pieces of your own experience in what other women are describing. But even with all of this information, many women still feel unsure, not because they are not paying attention, but because what they are hearing does not fully match what they are experiencing....

There is a version of stress that doesn't look like stress. It doesn't show up as overwhelm or breakdown. It shows up as you still functioning… still leading… still getting things done… while quietly feeling like something is off. In this episode, we're shifting the way we understand stress, especially as high-achieving women who are used to adapting, pushing through, and carrying more than we rea...

There's a moment many high-achieving women experience that's hard to explain. You're still showing up. Still performing. Still getting things done. But something feels… off. Your energy isn't as reliable. Your focus takes more effort. Decisions feel heavier than they used to. And because you're still functioning, it's easy to assume you just need to be more disciplined… more consistent… more on tr...

You're still showing up. Still performing. Still getting everything done.   So you assume… you're fine.   But what if the reason you haven't questioned how you feel is because you're still functioning?   In this episode, I'm talking about the version of exhaustion that doesn't look like burnout, but quietly changes how you think, lead, and show up every day.   Because for high-achieving women, bur...