The Girls Room After Dark

Bonnie Gross is the writer and executive producer of Lady Parts, an award-winning indie comedy based on her own true story of living with chronic vulvar pain and eventually moving home with her parents to undergo a vestibulectomy — surgery to remove excess nerve endings in the vulvar vestibule. The film has screened across the country and won multiple awards, but before any of that, Bonnie spent y...

Website: seraehealth.com ( Use code GIRLSROOM for 10% off your purchase) This is one of those episodes we're going to be thinking about for a long time. This week, Callie and Jamie are joined by Carly Roland — actress (Dark Winds, Law & Order: SVU, NBC, AMC, Netflix), writer, director, and founder of Serae, a women's wellness supplement company she built after more than a decade living with en...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Girls Room Project After Dark — and we're not easing you in. Candice Guardino is a comedian, actress, singer, and screenwriter best known for her one-woman theatrical comedy special Italian Bred, streaming on Amazon and Apple TV. She's been called the real-life Italian version of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,  Before she was making sold-out audiences laugh abo...

Endometriosis can sideline an elite athlete the same way it sidelines anyone else. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits down with Olympic sprinter Brittany Brown to talk diagnosis, fertility, excision surgery, and what it took to return to competition in under four months. Brittany breaks down what fertility testing actually looked like for her, how she weighed egg retrieva...

What if the clutter in your home is making your chronic illness worse? In this episode of Endo Warriors, professional organizer and healing advocate Alison Kero joins host Callie Greenberg to share her powerful journey with Lyme disease and the surprising role that decluttering, both physical and emotional, played in her recovery. Alison is the founder of From Clutter to Confidence, and her work s...

If you have endometriosis and are thinking about your fertility, this episode is essential listening. Host Callie Greenberg sits down with Julia Kelejian, who shares her decade-long struggle with debilitating period pain, misdiagnoses, and repeated ER visits before finally receiving an endometriosis diagnosis and life-saving excision surgery. The episode covers the emotional toll of dismissal, fea...

Menopause and hormone replacement therapy are two of the most misunderstood topics in women's health. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits down with Heather Danby, host of Sharing Out Loud, to talk about the hidden truths around menopause, HRT, and what so many doctors aren't telling their patients. Heather and Callie explore the gap between what current science says about...

Women's health is broken, and a 330,000-follower social media account is helping prove it. In this episode of Endo Warriors, hosts Callie Greenberg and Jamie Silva welcome René Jay, the influential creator behind @bornwithadarktan, to discuss his viral series exploring new topics in women's health and what he's learned along the way. René has built a massive following thanks to his natural curiosi...

DONATE TO ENDO EXCISION FOR ALL: endoexcisionforall.org Untreated endometriosis doesn't just hurt. It damages organs. In this episode of Endo Warriors, hosts Callie Greenberg and Jamie Silva talk with Carleigh Turner, a PhD student and endometriosis advocate, about her decades-long struggle with pelvic pain, repeated misdiagnoses, and the limits of common treatments. Carleigh shares what happens w...

What happens when Google knows more than your doctor? In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits down with Emma Taft, who endured years of misdiagnoses, dismissive providers, and invasive surgeries before getting an endometriosis diagnosis. The wild part? She was the one who found it first, by questioning the narrative her doctors kept giving her. Emma's story reveals how endomet...

You sent in the questions, and Callie and Jamie are answering them. In this Q&A episode of Endo Warriors, the hosts share candid experiences using low-dose GLP-1 medications for endometriosis, describing improvements in inflammation, brain fog, digestion, and energy. The episode covers dosing strategies, injection tips, differences between drugs, insurance and compounding options, interactions...

When endometriosis trauma is too big for standard talk therapy, what comes next? In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits with guest Arianna Jacono to discuss the emotional and medical realities of living with endometriosis, including diagnostic delays, medical gaslighting, and the limits of traditional therapy and medication management. Arianna and Callie explore the healing p...

If standard endometriosis treatments worked, we wouldn't need this episode. In this conversation of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg interviews co-host Jamie Silva about her long, painful journey with endometriosis and adenomyosis, from early misdiagnoses and traumatic treatments to finding real relief through excision surgery and better care. Jamie shares candid stories about heavy bleeding,...

GLP-1 medications are everywhere, but does the science support using them for endometriosis? In this episode of Endo Warriors, hosts Callie Greenberg and Jamie sit down with endometriosis advocate Savannah Regensburger to walk through her decade-long health journey from concussion recovery to an eventual endometriosis diagnosis, and the toolbox of lifestyle and medical strategies she's built along...

Endometriosis, lupus, and racial bias in healthcare collide inside one family in this episode. Host Callie Greenberg sits down with Tamika Smith and her mother Rita Smith to share their journey navigating chronic illness across two generations and the medical system that kept dismissing both of them. Tamika and Rita's diagnoses arrived very differently, but they share the same exhausting feeling o...

Choosing a hysterectomy at eighteen takes a kind of self-knowledge most people never have to find. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits with Courtney Gately, who made the brave decision to pursue a hysterectomy at the age of eighteen despite pushback from doctors who deemed her too young for such a significant decision. Courtney shares what led her to that choice, what it t...

Some endometriosis stories take a memoir to fully tell. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg interviews Yvonne Richardson-Hay, an endometriosis warrior, advocate, and author, about growing up in rural Queensland with environmental chemical exposure, her decades-long struggle with severe endometriosis, multiple surgeries, motherhood against the odds, and the emotional aftermath t...

When doctors dismiss Black women's pain, the consequences are devastating. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits down with Fawn Walker-Montgomery, author of the memoir Healing in the Fight, to trace decades of living with endometriosis, the medical dismissal that nearly cost her life, and the surgery that finally changed her path. Fawn shares how racial bias inside healthcar...

Sometimes pushing through stops working. This episode of Endo Warriors is for anyone who has been told their symptoms are "normal" while knowing something isn't right. Host Callie Greenberg sits down with Dala McDevitt, CEO of DLDNation Team, to talk about burnout, delayed diagnosis, and the long road to answers around endometriosis. From working in healthcare to navigating IVF and eventually rece...

When endometriosis takes years from your life, connection stops being optional and starts becoming a lifeline. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits down with endometriosis advocate Pam Bove to explore the long-term impact of having pain repeatedly dismissed and what it takes to rebuild a sense of purpose after years of being unheard. Pam shares what living with endometriosi...

Excision surgery is the gold standard for treating endometriosis, but for thousands of women, insurance won't cover it. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits with Nicole Notar, founder of the nonprofit Endo Excision For All, to break down why insurance barriers, outdated coding, and persistent misconceptions turn a medically necessary procedure into something patients have t...

The reason so many women are dismissed when they report severe period pain has less to do with their bodies and more to do with how medicine was built. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg digs into that reality with OB-GYN and former NIH-funded researcher Dr. Margo Harrison about menstrual pain, endometriosis, and why symptoms that disrupt daily life are still treated as normal...

Note: This episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss and child loss. Please take care of yourself as you listen. Endometriosis does not always show up as pelvic pain. For many women, it shows up as miscarriage, infertility, and IVF cycles that nobody can fully explain. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits down with Rachael Cohen to talk about her years of undiagnosed en...

When endometriosis pain is normalized and women are dismissed, cannabis often enters the conversation as both a medical option and a source of tension. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg speaks with international speaker, healthcare strategist, and bestselling author Melanie Wentzel about the science of cannabis for chronic pain, the stigma women still face when they ask about...

Living with an invisible chronic illness often means trusting yourself before the system catches up. In this episode of Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg reconnects with longtime friend Lauren Buchsbaum for an honest conversation about life with ulcerative colitis, gut health, and what it really takes to advocate for your own body. Lauren shares the early signs she pushed past, the misdiagnoses...