Mirror Talks

Our new guest is Alisa Vitti, a functional nutritionist, hormone expert, best-selling author, and the founder of FLO Living, one of the first companies in the world to focus entirely on women's hormonal health.  In her early 20s, doctors told Alisa that her PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) was incurable and that she might never have children naturally. Refusing to accept this, Alisa took her healt...

In this episode, Monica shares what surgical menopause really feels like — and what no one prepared her for. She talks openly about losing estrogen overnight, trying every form of hormone therapy available, and why so much fear around estrogen is based on outdated information. We discuss the lasting impact of the Women’s Health Initiative study, the black box warning that shaped a generation of do...

Farideh writes songs from things most music ignores: diagnoses, symptoms, and sentences women repeat to each other when they’re trying to make sense of their bodies. In this conversation, she explains how her songs are built — from lists of conditions, overheard phrases, and moments when something finally clicks. She talks about living with PCOS for years before it had a name, about motherhood as...

Perimenopause often begins in the late 30s or early 40s — earlier than many think. In this episode, Dr. Carrie Jones explains what those early years actually look like: the 3 a.m. wake-ups, the sudden irritability, the phantom smells that send women checking the kitchen for burning wires, or maybe itchy ears from low estrogen — and all the symptoms we’ve been trained to call “stress”. She also bre...

In this episode, Karina talks about what it takes to build women’s health products that actually work — and what surprised her most after supporting more than 70 founders.  She explains why FemTech doesn’t only mean “female founders”, how early founders had to start every investor call by defining the word “FemTech,” and what she learned from cold-messaging hundreds of investors just to get the ca...

“For so long, we’ve been told that women’s bodies are too complicated to study. The truth is, no one ever tried hard enough. I want to change that.” When Priyanka Jain’s health started to decline, every doctor visit ended with the same vague advice — drink more water, sleep more, stress less. No one could explain what was really happening. Her search for answers uncovered a shocking truth: women w...

“Young women need to see role models. They need to believe it’s possible. I want to show them — you don’t have to wait for someone to save you. You can make it happen.” When Sylvia Kang left China at 18 to study engineering in the U.S., she had already spent her childhood training to be a concert pianist. Everyone around her told her to stay in her “safe” path — music was elegant, acceptable, femi...

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