Vital Balance With Jess

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE Busy moms know home-cooked meals are healthier than take-out — the problem isn't knowledge; it's the absence of a system. In this episode, Jess walks through exactly how to build a meal planning system that actually works for a real family with a real schedule.  In this episode, Jess addresses : Why the barrier to healthy family meals isn'...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE Agency is one of the most countercultural concepts right now. And, yet, it is the foundation of everything Jess believes about health (and life). In this episode, she makes the case for personal agency -- from the founding fathers to Viktor Frankl to Martin Seligman's learned helplessness research -- and then brings it directly into the context of h...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE Jess is back from South Africa — and this episode is the real-life follow-up to Episode 46's travel prep guide. She shares the trip highlights, then walks through exactly what she implemented before and during the trip, what worked, what surprised her, and what she let go of.  Plus the bigger takeaways about rest, presence, and what two weeks comple...

🔗 Book your free Hormone Clarity Call HERE  Knowing what to do and actually doing it consistently are two very different things.  In this episode, Jess gets into why habits are hard to build and easy to break — and what actually makes them stick. Using her own complicated relationship with exercise as the throughline, she covers the mindset shifts and practical strategies that have made the diffe...

🔗 Book your free Hormone Clarity Call HERE  Nobody talks about how exhausting it is to manage your own health. The information overload, the conflicting advice, the guilt when you fall short, the overwhelm when life changes and what was working suddenly doesn't anymore.  In this episode, Jess gets honest about where she is right now — navigating ACL recovery, metabolic shifts, a busy season,...

🔗 Book your free Hormone Clarity Call HERE This is part two of Jess's PMOS (formerly PCOS) series. Last week covered what the condition is, why the name change matters, and how conventional medicine has failed women with this diagnosis.  This week is the practical follow-up — organized around the primary goal of blood sugar regulation and insulin sensitivity (the metabolic component of the c...

🔗  Book your free Hormone Clarity Call HERE PCOS has a new name! It is now officially PMOS — and Jess is finally doing the episode she's been putting off. In this deeply personal conversation, she shares her own diagnosis story, breaks down what PMOS actually is and why the new name more accurately reflects the condition, and makes the case for why the word "metabolic" changes ever...

🔗 Book your free Hormone Clarity Call HERE Jess and her family are heading to South Africa at the end of May — and preparing for that trip has meant thinking through a lot more than just packing.  In this episode, she shares how to prepare your body and mind for long-haul international travel: what flying actually does to your physiology, how to support your immune system and gut, what supplement...

🔗 Book your free Hormone Clarity Call   HERE Inflammation gets talked about constantly in the health space, but rarely in a way that's actually useful. In this episode, Jess breaks down what chronic low-grade inflammation really is, why it's so central to hormonal and metabolic dysfunction in women, and which foods have the research behind them to help combat it.   In this episode, Jess...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE You could be eating salads every day, avoiding junk food, doing all the "right" things — and still be undernourishing your hormones.  In this episode, Jess explains why eating clean and eating for your hormones and metabolism are not the same thing — and what most women are missing. Drawing on over 12 years of personal research, and her own exp...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE When did being busy become something to brag about? And when did rest start feeling like something we have to earn? Eight weeks into ACL recovery, Jess is living proof that slowing down isn't the end of the world. In this episode, she discusses why our culture glorifies busyness at the expense of our health, what chronic busyness is actually doing t...

🔗 Book your free Hormone Clarity Call HERE You're exhausted. You're gaining weight. You've been to the doctor, had blood work done, and were told everything looks normal. So why do you still feel unwell? In this episode, Jess discusses one of the most common and frustrating experiences she hears from women — and explains why the conventional medical approach so often misses the rea...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE Do you ever put your phone down after scrolling and feel genuinely worse than before you picked it up? You're not imagining it — and it's not an accident. In this episode, Jess gets honest about what social media is actually doing to our brains and our mental health — from the dopamine loops designed to keep us addicted, to the outrage algorith...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE  Most of us know we need community. Far fewer of us have it — really have it.  In this episode, Jess gets personal about the power of community — from what it felt like to have friends show up for her during surgery recovery to past friendships that ended, and the quiet loneliness that can exist even when you're surrounded by people.  She digs into...

🔗 Book your free Hormone Clarity Call HERE Here's something the fitness industry almost never tells you: you will FEEL the results of exercise long before you SEE them . Most people quit too soon — not realizing their brain chemistry, hormones, and metabolism are already shifting from the inside. In this episode, Jess makes the full case for exercise — covering both the mental benefits she e...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE  Most of us know exercise is good for us. But do we really understand what our brain loses when we stop moving? Three weeks into ACL recovery — dealing with miserable sleep, gut disruption, and the absence of sweat — Jess is living the science in real time. In this episode, she breaks down exactly what exercise does for the brain and why losing it create...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE  Life doesn't always go as planned. And sometimes it doesn't just inconvenience you — it stops you completely. Two weeks out from ACL reconstruction surgery, still battling a chest cough, unable to drive, and missing opportunities she was genuinely excited about, Jess gets honest about what it really feels like when life forces you into a seaso...

🔗 Book your FREE Hormone Clarity Call HERE   What if the pursuit of happiness is exactly what's making you unhappy? Recording less than a week out from ACL reconstruction surgery and battling what might be the flu, Jess is using a very personal hard season as the jumping-off point for one of the most universal questions there is.  In this episode, she introduces the concept of eudaimonia — a...

🔗 B ook your FREE Hormone Clarity Call Here Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt like the person staring back at you doesn't match reality? Or carried a quiet, persistent discomfort about your body that you've never quite been able to name? You might be experiencing body dysphoria—and you're far from alone. In this episode, Jess opens up about her own 25-year struggle with b...

📞 Book Your FREE HORMONE CLARITY CALL Ready to get personalized support with your hormones and health? Book a free call with Jess to discuss what you're experiencing, what you've tried, and get clarity on your next steps. BOOK YOUR FREE CALL HERE  About This Episode: Health extremism is everywhere—on social media, in podcasts, from influencers with millions of followers promoting rigid...

📞 BOOK YOUR FREE HORMONE CLARITY CALL  Ready to get personalized support with your hormones and health? Book a free call with Jess to discuss what you're experiencing, what you've tried, and get clarity on your next steps. BOOK YOUR FREE CALL HERE  About This Episode: This is the most personal episode Jess has recorded. In it, she shares her own experience of two miscarriages within eig...

📞 BOOK YOUR FREE HORMONE CLARITY CALL Ready to get personalized support with your hormones and health? Book a free call with Jess to discuss what you're experiencing, what you've tried, and get clarity on your next steps. BOOK YOUR FREE CALL HERE  About This Episode: Does staying up too late throw off your next day? Does a glass of wine wreck your sleep? Are foods that never bothered yo...

📞 Book Your Free Hormone Clarity Call Ready to get personalized support with your hormones and health? Book a free call with Jess to discuss what you're experiencing, what you've tried, and get clarity on your next steps. About This Episode: Progesterone is often referred to as the calming hormone — and for good reason. It supports sleep, balances estrogen, and plays a major role in how...

📞 Book Your Free Hormone Clarity Call Ready to get personalized support with your hormones and health? Book a free call with Jess to discuss what you're experiencing, what you've tried, and get clarity on your next steps. BOOK YOUR FREE CALL HERE  About This Episode: Morning routines have been all the buzz for a couple years now — wake up at 5 AM, do a 90-minute routine, be more product...

📞 Book Your Free Hormone Clarity Call Ready to get personalized support with your hormones and health? Book a free call with Jess to discuss what you're experiencing, what you've tried, and get clarity on your next steps. BOOK YOUR FREE CALL HERE  About This Episode In this special episode, Jess sits down with two fellow High Country coaches for an honest conversation about health, care...