The 28ish Podcast - Your cycle is more than your period

Join us as Mia Dins, a soul-led entrepreneur, intuitive medium, and former elite boxer, shares her powerful journey through body, spirit, and cyclic awareness. Discover practical insights on how understanding your cycle can transform your health, athletic performance, and spiritual connection. In this episode: Mia’s diverse life journey across Germany, New Zealand, Bali, and Vietnam, and how trave...

Unlock the secret to understanding your body on a deeper level with Emma Goff, a fertility awareness educator and cyclical doula. In this episode, Emma reveals how mastering your menstrual cycle can empower you, help you navigate life's transitions, and decode your body's unique signals, from menarche to menopause and beyond. If you've ever wondered why you're more tired or moody a...

In this episode, Carrie sits down with D’Layne Benson to unpack what’s really happening beneath chronic overwhelm, burnout, and the constant feeling of “doing too much but never enough.” Drawing from her experience as a nurse and her work supporting women through nervous system regulation, D’Layne explains how over-functioning, people-pleasing, and perfectionism are not personality flaws, but phys...

In this episode, Carrie talks with Tanja Degitz, a chronic pain and burnout mentor for women entrepreneurs. Tanja shares how leaving a stable career, building an online business, and living as a digital nomad led her to confront burnout, chronic pain, and people-pleasing patterns she couldn’t outwork. Together, they explore how menstrual cycle awareness, mindfulness, and redefining consistency can...

We're back and we've got a new song!

In this episode, we continue our journey with The Menarche Zine , a heartfelt collection of stories about women’s first periods. This time, we travel to Kenya to uncover a powerful tale that highlights the shared yet deeply personal experience of menarche and its cultural significance. Join us as we explore how storytelling transforms this universal milestone into a celebration of connection, iden...

In this episode, we explore The Menarche Zine , a heartfelt collection of stories about women’s first periods. Join us as we dive into a unique tale from Newfoundland, shedding light on the shared, yet deeply personal, experience of menarche and its cultural significance. Discover how storytelling can turn a universal milestone into a celebration of connection and empowerment.

Dive into the world of menstrual cycle awareness, cultural exploration, and creative expression with our latest episode featuring Maja Juzwiak. As a nomadic photographer turned advocate for menstrual health, Maja brings a fresh perspective to the conversation. Join us as we learn all about Maja's journey from a life of travel to founding the association "Unboxing Cycles" in Zürich, S...

For the last episode of 2023, we sat down with Dr. Laura DeCesaris to discuss the process of optimizing one's cycle. Dr. Laura DeCesaris is a functional medicine-trained health strategist and consultant for high-achieving women. Her background in health and nutrition, chiropractic medicine, and functional medicine informs her private practice, Heartroot Health as she combines this with her pas...

Carolina M. Sueldo, M.D. is board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology (ObGyn), as well as Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI).  Her educational background spans across two continents as she attended Universidad del Salvador in Argentina and completed her OBGYN residency at UCSF Fresno.  While completing her Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility fellowship at the Univers...

Martha Lewis is a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner (FDN/P) from Jackson Hole, WY. Martha works closely with patients in her community as well as across the nation on understanding the causes of insomnia and how to manage it properly. In her time as a FDN/P, she has discovered that imbalances in gut health, hormones, and minerals can contribute to poor sleeping habits. With her backgrou...

Colleen Hallett is a Wombyn's Coach, an Epona Wisdom facilitator, a Temple Priestess, a Cosmic Earth Oracle, and a Shakti Yogini. Colleen uses her herd of horses to guide women and girls back to their divine feminine energy and embrace their feminine power. Colleen shares her journey to healing and self-discovery as a partnership with her purpose as an Epona Wisdom facilitator. She describes h...

Laura Patricia Martin is an IBS, anxiety, and trauma specialist. She focuses on reconnecting people to mindfulness, gut regulation, and nervous system regulation. Laura describes her expansive community and network as a reconnective form of education for her patients. Laura teaches her patients S.H.E. which stands for Self-knowledge, Healing, and Embodiment. Laura and Carrie also explore the conne...

Lisa Higgins is a teacher of cycle awareness and womb wisdom. She is also the founder of the Red Rebel Collective. After receiving her training at the Red School in 2020, Higgins as owner of the RRC to provide 1 on 1 classes and group sessions on menstrual cycle awareness and knowledge. Lisa and Carrie discuss Lisa’s journey with PMDD or premenstrual dysmorphic disorder, menstrual cycle awareness,...

“Community is huge. Having a community, having someone that not only can supports you but someone who will be like ‘hey you’re doing too much’ or ‘hey, do you need some help with something’ but also for us superwomen that like to wear the cape and carry the cross not only for ourselves but for our children, our partners, girlfriends, boyfriends, whoever–to also know that it’s okay to be like ‘I ne...

“It’s not okay that we don’t talk about our periods and it’s not okay that everybody normalizes how much pain there is in these transitions and in this ovulation and we suffer from such a tumultuous hormonal history throughout the month which does not have to be the case.” Dr. Beck Hoehn aka The Baby Builder is a L.A. based fertility doctor who practices acupuncture, herbal medicine, and precision...

Shanique Allen is a Nourishment Strategy & Mindset Coach on a mission to help women liberate themselves from the obsessive pursuits and mindset of diet culture so they can reclaim nourishment, health, and joy in every aspect of their lives. “Don’t ignore your engine light…Your body and you are not the same all month long.”  -Shanique Allen This week, Shanique Allen joins Carrie on the 28i...

“There is so much power and to your point, permission and beauty in knowing it [menstrual cycle]. Everything makes sense. You stop feeling like you’re crazy and start realizing that you’re part of nature…it’s common sense.” -Martine Resnick This episode introduces Martine Resnick, one of the co-founders of the Lola, and her journey from corporate paper pusher to community advocate for the working...

In this episode we explore sex on your menstrual cycle, what menstrual cycle awareness has in common with tantric connection and presence, and the very important role your hormonal cycle plays in your sex life.  Ava is a Multi-Orgasmic Mentor, Authentic Tantra Practitioner, and Transformational Therapy Practitioner, guiding you towards sexual liberation and healing through pleasure. She is pa...

Christine McInnis is an Advanced Reproductive Reflexologist and Holistic Healer-  She unblocks held emotions in the womb space by providing energetic sessions which create space for more creativity and flow  She has decades of experience in the fertility awareness and holistic reproductive health support. How does reflexology interact with our hormones? Are our migraines linked to hormon...

Dr. Iris Crawford, AKA The hormone boss is a  naturopathic physician and national women's health and hormone expert. She is the founder and CEO of Naturkur Wellness and creator of The Empowered Women's Health Project. Dr. Iris believes that if half of all leaders were women, the world would be a compassionate, sustainable, and peaceful place. But that can't happen until women are no longer be...

As a multifaceted woman of the world, Venezuelan born Yanira Puy has lived, studied and worked in the United States and Colombia. Following a career in marketing Yanira decided to follow her calling and help women heal themselves from the inside out to become healthier and happier. She is a certified wellness coach and founder of  YP Health & Wellness as well as the cofounded of BET: Bien...

Dr. Elizabeth Davidson is a holistic doctor, author, bloodwork specialist, clairvoyant, plant medicine expert, entrepreneur, forager, skier, and single mom. She believes that everyone’s health is a puzzle and she combines science and intuition to help people put that puzzle together to solve their chronic illness, feel their best, and live their best lives. “It’s easier to stay well than get well”...

Cheli Corisco is a linguist, latin dance enthusiast, and massage therapist whose life changed when she discovered menstrual cycle awareness. She is trying to make that discovery accessible to younger generations in a friendly way, at the secondary school where she teaches.  In this interview Cheli tells us about how she created and ran the club in the school she teaches at in London and Carri...

In this new short format Carrie talks about her day 25, inner autumn, PMS, having boundaries, and knowing when to say no.