The Michele Broad Show

Hormone therapy has become one of the biggest conversations in women's health, but with so much conflicting information online, knowing where to start can feel overwhelming. In this episode, Michele Broad, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, takes a different approach. Rather than answering whether hormone therapy is right for you, she explores the questions every woman should ask before making tha...

What if your hormones aren't the problem, but the messenger? In this episode, Michele Broad, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, explores one of the most overlooked conversations in women's health: the many hidden factors influencing your hormones long before symptoms appear. Instead of focusing on one hormone or the latest supplement, Michele explains why your body is constantly responding to the...

Why Your Mind Doesn't Feel Like It Used To Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you were there? Found yourself rereading the same email three times? Struggled to find words that used to come easily? If so, you're not alone. Brain fog has become one of the most common concerns women bring up during perimenopause and menopause, yet it's often misunderstood. Many women worry they're los...

For years, you've been rewarded for pushing through. Pushing through long workdays. Pushing through exhaustion. Pushing through stress. Pushing through everyone else's needs before your own. But what happens when the very habits that helped you build your career, care for your family, and achieve your goals start creating consequences for your health? In this episode, I'm exploring the hidden biol...

Most women have been taught to think about hormones as separate systems that can be fixed one at a time. In this episode, I'm talking about why that approach often leaves women feeling frustrated and stuck. She explains how hormones function as part of an interconnected network that is constantly responding to sleep, stress, metabolism, inflammation, nutrition, relationships, workload, and the ove...

What happens when the version of success you've spent years building no longer feels aligned with the life you want to live? In this powerful conversation, Michele sits down with entrepreneur and business mentor Ali Brown to discuss ambition, reinvention, wellness, hormones, spirituality, and the courage it takes to create a life you don't need to recover from. Together, they explore what many wom...

In this deeply personal and honest episode, I explore one of the least talked about realities of perimenopause: the emotional experience of becoming unfamiliar to yourself. This conversation goes beyond symptom lists and surface-level hormone talk to explore the hidden grief many high-achieving women quietly carry as their bodies, emotions, energy, resilience, and identity begin shifting in midlif...

Key Takeaways If life suddenly feels harder in your late 30s or 40s, you are not imagining it and you are not failing. Many high-achieving women have spent years functioning in chronic self-override without realizing the physiological cost. Hormonal shifts, nervous system overload, cortisol dysregulation, sleep disruption, insulin sensitivity changes, and chronic stress accumulation can all affect...

In this episode, we step into one of the most talked-about and often misunderstood conversations in women's health right now: GLP-1 medications and their role in perimenopause and menopause. You're hearing more women talk openly about using medications like Zepbound and Wegovy, not from a place of lack of effort, but from a deeper recognition that their body has changed. And for many, this is the...

If stress feels heavier lately, it may not be your life—it may be your physiology. In this episode, we break down how cortisol, hormones, and your nervous system shift in perimenopause, and why what used to feel manageable now feels different. What You'll Learn: Why stress feels different in midlife How cortisol, estrogen, and progesterone interact The real impact of financial, relational, and int...

Perimenopause is suddenly everywhere. You are hearing about it in conversations, seeing it across social media, and beginning to recognize pieces of your own experience in what other women are describing. But even with all of this information, many women still feel unsure, not because they are not paying attention, but because what they are hearing does not fully match what they are experiencing....

There is a version of stress that doesn't look like stress. It doesn't show up as overwhelm or breakdown. It shows up as you still functioning… still leading… still getting things done… while quietly feeling like something is off. In this episode, we're shifting the way we understand stress, especially as high-achieving women who are used to adapting, pushing through, and carrying more than we rea...

There's a moment many high-achieving women experience that's hard to explain. You're still showing up. Still performing. Still getting things done. But something feels… off. Your energy isn't as reliable. Your focus takes more effort. Decisions feel heavier than they used to. And because you're still functioning, it's easy to assume you just need to be more disciplined… more consistent… more on tr...

You're still showing up. Still performing. Still getting everything done.   So you assume… you're fine.   But what if the reason you haven't questioned how you feel is because you're still functioning?   In this episode, I'm talking about the version of exhaustion that doesn't look like burnout, but quietly changes how you think, lead, and show up every day.   Because for high-achieving women, bur...

Waking up in the middle of the night, especially around two or three in the morning, is something many women begin to experience in their forties. It can feel confusing, frustrating, and often completely unexplained. In this episode, we walk through what is actually happening in your body during these early morning wake-ups and why they are rarely random. Instead of viewing this as a sleep problem...

Something subtle begins to shift for many high-achieving women in their 40s. It is not dramatic. It is not obvious. And it is often dismissed or misunderstood. In this episode, we are talking about the quiet physiological changes that begin to impact energy, mental clarity, stress tolerance, and confidence during midlife. If you have ever felt like something in your body or brain is different but...

Many successful women begin noticing subtle shifts sometime in their forties. Decisions take longer, focus feels less steady, and moments of self-doubt appear where confidence once felt automatic. In this episode, I explore why these experiences are often misunderstood as confidence problems when they are actually signals from the body. Midlife brings changes to the biological systems that support...

There's a kind of burnout that doesn't look like collapse. You're still showing up. Still producing. Still leading. Still holding it all together. But your nervous system never truly powers down. In this episode, I'm  unpacking high-functioning burnout, the modern stress pattern that doesn't always register as stress but quietly impacts your hormones, sleep, cycle symptoms, cognitive clarity, and...

If your hormones have felt "off," PMS has gotten louder, or your energy feels unpredictable — this episode is for you. In today's conversation, Michele shares 5 everyday hormone disruptors that many high-achieving women don't recognize as disruptors at all… because they often look like "healthy," responsible, normal life. This is a gentle, grounded wake-up call, not about perfection, fear, or quic...

Why do healthy habits feel so hard to stick to even when you know exactly what to do? In this episode, women's health provider Michele Broad explains why environmental changes for long-lasting habit change are far more effective than relying on motivation or discipline alone. Instead of pushing harder, this conversation explores how your surroundings quietly shape your hormones, energy, stress lev...

If your wellness routine feels more like another obligation than actual support, you're not doing anything wrong, you're likely just overdue for an update. In this episode, we're talking about simple, realistic ways to make your wellness routine feel good again, without adding more rules, pressure, or perfection. This is about learning how to work with your body instead of forcing habits that no l...

Lately, it feels like everyone is talking about hormones, energy, metabolism, and feeling "off." In this solo episode, Michele unpacks why this conversation is everywhere right now and why it's not just another wellness trend. With humor, clarity, and real talk, she explains what's actually happening in women's bodies, why so many women blame themselves for biological shifts, and how learning to l...

What if your energy didn't depend on motivation, caffeine, or pushing harder, but on systems that quietly support you every day? In this episode, I'm reframing energy the same way high-performing businesses approach growth: through structure, sustainability, and smart inputs, not hustle. You'll learn why treating your body like a reactive machine keeps you drained, and how small, strategic shifts...

What if the most overlooked asset in your business, career, or leadership wasn't another strategy, system, or productivity tool, but your body? In this foundational episode, Michele sets the tone for 2026 and introduces the philosophy behind the BioAligned Woman(™). Drawing from decades as a women's health provider and hundreds of real conversations with high-achieving women, this episode reframes...

As we close out our final episode of the year, I want to pause and say this: your presence here matters more than you know. Every download, every message, every moment you chose to spend with this show tells me that women are ready for a new conversation around their health, their energy, and their leadership. This podcast isn't just content for me, it's a movement. And you're a part of it. As we...