Food Freedom and Fertility Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Paulette Kamenecka. Paulette is an economist, a writer and a podcaster interested in women's health. She's written about the science of  autoimmunity , what we currently know about different aspects of the immune system, and the immune system in pregnancy. Her podcast, What you Didn't Expec...

Welcome to a new segment under Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Kaile Garcia on working with Caitlin to conceive her daughter. Kaile is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. After suspecting PCOS she took Caitlin's course which helped her better understand her body, fertility and her hormones. In this episode, Ka...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Ashton Koehlmoos. Ashton is a long time listener of the podcast and has her own unique fertility journey. She is a fitness educator supporting all women in the ttc, pregnancy and postpartum stages.  She now educates and help you find the inner strength your body posses through your breath &...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Hannah Bowers. Hannah was first diagnosed with PCOS after she was newly married and looking at starting to plan for a family with her husband.  What began as a personal journey to motherhood became a deep passion for sharing reliable resources for every stage of the journey. Now, she is ded...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Caitlin Dillon. This is an update episode! We had Caitlin Dillon on during season two to talk about her fertility journey. She took our advice and it led her to getting further tests done along with working with a great medical team. Now, Dillon is more than halfway through her pregnancy an...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Allison Tartari. Allison found her way to midwifery care through the pregnancy and birth of her fourth child. She knew she wanted to help support women during pregnancy, and avoid the unnecessary interventions she encountered with her other children. She became passionate about educating fa...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Gary Levy is a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist Dr. Levy is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of FertilityCloud, America's first and only comprehensive, fertility, telemedicine platform. Through FertilityCloud all evaluation and treatment for f...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Ryan Woodbury, the co-founder of Needed the Prenatal Vitamin Company, who dedicates her work to helping women get the vitamins they need for preconception, pregnancy and postpartum.  Caitlin, Sophia and Ryan speak about the importance of taking a quality prenatal vitamin, ways prenatal vita...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Jordi, a Pediatric Naturopathic Medical Doctor based in San Diego, CA with a passion for growing healthy humans from before birth through childhood. Dr. Jordi serves patients throughout California and specialize in Pediatrics at Nourish Medical Center . Throughout her medical career, sh...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Dr. Leah Gordon, who works in educating, supporting, and bringing healing to women along their womanhood journeys as they prepare for and move toward motherhood. Leah and her husband always knew they wanted to expand their family and become parents. Into their trying to conceive journey the...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson and Sophia Pavia speak with Sarah Jeltema, an intrepid traveler and spirits educator with a passion for writing and project management who loves teaching others and improving efficiency.  Sarah founded WhiskyNomad LLC and uses social media to educate and expose enthusiasts to alcohol from around the world. She is also...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin Johnson speaks with Jennifer Hintzshe, founder and CEO of Pherdal, the only sterile, FDA-cleared at home insemination kit.  Jennifer speaks about her infertility journey and being diagnosed with unexplained infertility. This diagnosis lit a fire within her to try and understand why she was struggling to get pregnant which hel...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia chat with Dr. Naomi Whittaker, a board-certified restorative reproductive medicine physician and surgeon specializing in fertility and has received the Focused Practice Designation in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Naomi speaks about her experience with se...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia chat with Larry Wurn the CEO of Clear Passage. Wurn with his wife Belinda, co-developed the Wurn Technique ®  and Clear Passage Approach ® , a non-surgical treatment for pain, female infertility, bowel obstruction, and sexual dysfunction. This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you are interest...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia speak with Maureen Lilly, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who helps families learn the foundational skills to preparing healthy meals from home without the stress and burnout.  This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you are confused about what foods to eat for fertility and how to declutte...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia speak with Kaely McDevitt, a Registered Dietitian with ten years of experience helping clients reclaim their energy, optimize fertility and overcome hormone symptoms through personalized nutrition, on functional medicine testing. This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you are confused about fu...

Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia bring on RD Lily Nichols, a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition, to talk about the difference between folate and folic acid.  This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you are wanting to unders...

Welcome to the season 3 season opener of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia start season 3 talking about getting back to the basics and emphasizing on women diagnosed with PCOS. This episode is one you will definitely want to listen to if you are wanting to start from scratch and learn about things you can be doing now to help your fertility and get one step closer to getting th...

Welcome to the season 2 finale of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Caitlin and Sophia embark on an exploration of PCOS labs. They delve into the crucial aspects of what to test for, how to inquire about these tests, and most importantly, how to interpret the results. This episode is a treasure trove of knowledge, designed to empower you to advocate for yourself and ensure that you're armed with...

Join us in this episode of Food, Freedom and Fertility as we delve into the world of reproductive health and the crucial role of progesterone in pregnancy. Our special guest, Dr. Gary, a renowned reproductive endocrinologist from Fertility Cloud, sheds light on the importance of adequate progesterone levels during pregnancy. In addition to exploring the significance of progesterone, we also take a...

In this episode of Food, Freedom and Fertility, we discuss God's Design for Sex and how to hold the goodness sex brings marriages during the hard season. We delve into the topics of sex and intimacy, challenges when trying to conceive and exploring a deeper understanding of connection within relationships. We have Francie Winslow, host of Heaven in Your Home Podcast that talks about sex, marriage...

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses a birth story and if this is something you would like to skip over please feel free to do so. Last week on Food, Freedom and Fertility Sophia shared what her TTC journey looked like and this week Sophia we delve into the story of baby Jenny's birth. We hear about the ups and downs of her pregnancy, the preparations she made, and the moments that led up to th...

Today's on Food Freedom and Fertility Sophia shares her trying to conceive journey. Sophia has helped so many families conceive in her career she and Caitlin thought it would be fun to turn the tables and share one of their stories.  Tune in to learn how Sophia and Caitlin met along with details about Sophia and her TTC journey even as far back as her early pre-pubescent years. Most listeners will...

On this week's episode of Food Freedom and Fertility we are going to discuss Interstitial Cystitis and Fertility with Callie Krajcir, RDN, Nutrition Coach. Callie has lived with IC since she was very young.  Elementary through college her symptoms would cause her pain and put her on a rollercoaster of emotions as she continued to see a variety of doctors who did not know what was wrong with her. D...

Welcome to Food, Freedom and Fertility. Today we have Diana Rodgers. She is a dietitian and the author of Sacred Cow. She is an expert on the intersection of nutrition and sustainable agriculture. One thing in her book that she discusses is that there are there are three separate buckets: nutrition, environment, and ethics. They are separate butintricately intertwined. Those buckets are: 1.     Nu...