The Saalt Show

Perimenopause and menopause can feel like a slow unraveling: erratic periods, joint pain, brain fog, anxiety, weight gain, and a year when you barely recognize yourself. Board-certified OB/GYN and menopause specialist Dr. Heather Bartos joins Cherie Hoeger to explain what is actually happening to your hormones in midlife, why The Menopause Society lists 33 possible symptoms, and why so many women...

Perimenopause can bring unexpected changes to your cycle, sleep, and energy, making it feel like you're constantly relearning your own body. In this episode, Cherie Hoeger sits down with Kristi Britto, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Sorce, a regenerative leadership community pioneering energetic literacy. Kristi shares how learning to read her body's signals transformed the way she leads, works...

On this episode of The Saalt Show, Co-founder and CEO Cherie Hoeger sits down with Nurse Practitioner Julie Franden to break down what your cycle is really telling you. They walk through the four phases of the menstrual cycle, why low progesterone often hides behind talk of "estrogen dominance," and how gut health shapes your hormones. The conversation also covers the conditions women hear about m...

StartFragment What does it take to manage your period on a Broadway stage, eight shows a week, wearing a stark white costume? In this episode of The Saalt Show, Cherie sits down with Morgan Marcell to find out.  Morgan pulls back the curtain on the intense planning behind every performance, the surprising way a menstrual cycle can physically alter your voice, and her years-long journey cyclin...

StartFragment For most of her life, Lily Palmer was told her irregular periods were nothing to worry about unless she wanted to get pregnant. So she stopped paying attention. It took 40 years, and a lot of unlearning, for her to start asking real questions about her own body. In this episode, Saalt Co-founder and CEO Cherie Hoeger sits down with Lily to talk about growing up afraid of her period,...

For years, Jessica Davis treated her period as a problem to manage. Boxes of tampons under the counter, a string to deal with on every run, and a suitcase packed with backups for every trip. Saalt changed that for her. In this episode of The Saalt Show, she sits down with Co-Founder and CEO Cherie Hoeger to talk about what shifted once she made the switch to a menstrual cup. Jessica is a marathon...

For years, women who traded tampons for menstrual cups and discs have said their periods got better. Less cramping, less bloating, fewer headaches. Saalt heard it thousands of times, so they funded an independent consumer study to find out if it held up. The answer surprised even them. In this episode of The Saalt Show, guest host Kim Rosas of Period Nirvana puts co-founders Cherie and Jon Hoeger...

Cherie Hoeger didn't set out to start a period care company. She was a writer and a mom of five daughters when a phone call to her aunt in Venezuela revealed that pads and tampons had been missing from store shelves for years. That call sent her searching for reusable period care options to send to her family, but she couldn't find quality products she trusted enough to share. So she decided to cr...

You’ve been guessing about your body long enough. Start understanding it. The Saalt Show is a women's health podcast covering periods, cycles, hormones, pelvic health, menstrual cups, discs, period underwear, and the real logistics of managing your body at every life stage—from first period to perimenopause. Episodes every week, no TMI filter. In some episodes, we hear your stories—the travel stor...