Chronically Female

Skims dropped underwear with a fake bush on it. The internet lost its mind. And honestly, we couldn’t stop thinking about it, because underneath the hot take is something real: women are constantly told what to do with their bodies, then sold something to undo it, then sold something to undo that. It’s a good on-ramp for where this episode goes, which is deep into sexual health: the version that’s...

You can’t mindfulness your way out of a system that wasn’t built for you and no amount of wellness hacks will fix a CPT code that’s actively working against you. In this week’s special episode ahead of a congressional briefing for Endometriosis and Adenomysosis at Capitol Hill, and in honor of Endo Action month, we sat down with Nicole, founder of Endo Excision for All — a nonprofit with one missi...

The Olympics may be over but we aren’t done talking about women in sports. We sit down with Dr. Emily Sauck, practicing gynecologist, former competitive athlete, and one of the rare humans working at the intersection of hormones, performance, and female physiology. She came to deliver. We're talking about everything the fitness world has been sleeping on when it comes to training women, like not i...

To freeze or not to freeze? Your eggs that is… We're unpacking the difference between "medical" and "social" egg freezing (and the misogyny that goes with it). The reality that IVF coverage in Germany requires you to be in a straight marriage and under 39 - but men can be 49. The medical tourism industry is booming because so many countries just... don't allow certain options. And the twisted iron...

Nobody told us about the surgical options. Nobody told us about the nerve pain. Nobody told us what to ask our surgeons before going under the knife. So we're spilling the tea and sharing everything we wish we knew. We're breaking down the surgical options for endo: laparoscopy vs. laparotomy, excision vs. ablation, and why the gold standard is rarely what you're offered first. The air they pump i...

This episode is our origin story. The doctors who said "it's all in your head." The one who prescribed burnt toast and black coffee. The gynecologist who said "just get pregnant and it'll go away." The AI app that diagnosed her in 2 minutes after 20 years of doctors missing it. The 4am WhatsApp texts about shooting pain in very weird and specific places. And the realization that we kept grinding,...

Ready to cut through the bullshit and get real about women's health, careers, relationships, and what it means to navigate life as a woman? Chronically Female is the podcast where two long-distance girlfriends—Kait and Shireen—spill what we've been keeping hidden in the group chat for far too long. If you've ever felt gaslit by a doctor, hit the glass ceiling at work, been dismissed because of you...