Weekly Woman

Kimberly didn't know that she was headed to the Bachelor Mansion for Zach Shallcross' season until 2 weeks before filming. When she received the phone call she realized she needed to shop till she dropped to be able to fit the unknown wardrobe she would need for the shoot. Her best friends flew out to LA to help her find her looks and she pulled up to the Bachelor Mansion with a rap memori...

Emma Wilson didn't know about fitness till after the birth of her daughter, overweight at the time, she realized she wanted to be a mom who could keep up with her growing daughter. She started Buggy Mums (similar to the fitness sensation in the US, Stroller Moms) in her hometown of Cheshire and the rest is history. As she's aged, she's come to terms with how bodies need to change their...

This week on the podcast we’re talking all about endometriosis - what it is, how to go about finding out if you have endo, and we’re talking to Larissa Kutny, an osteopath who has endometriosis herself. Endometriosis is a painful disorder where tissue similar to the tissue that is normally found in your uterus grows on the outside of your uterus. In the same way that the tissue in your uterus will...

Angharad Davies is a Nutritionist who started Bloom Nutritional Therapy to look at each individual and see how they can feel their best with the foods they eat. Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutrition science in the promotion of health, peak performance, and individual care, something Angharad is familiar with. Angharad comes from Wales, growing up on a farm she learned about how food...

From her MBA to her JD, Taylor realized that she wanted to create a boutique law firm where she could help female entrepreneurs protect themselves with legal advice. She created a firm that is accessible, approachable, and empowering to help other female business owners to succeed in their chosen professions. Living in Austin, Texas, this fabulous lawyer has worked with all kinds of clients from w...

Asia Hilario is an island girl who was born in the Northern Marianas Islands, and since moved to Silicon Valley & Los Angeles. She’s a self love coach that also works as a philanthropist, motivational speaker, and blogger focusing on helping women find their best selves. She was awarded the 2019 Woman of the Year Award by Women on the Rise & transformed her own life - getting away from tox...

Gayneté Jones, the founder of Best, Periodt., had a horrible period, a super heavy flow that rendered conventional pads, tampons, and menstrual cups ineffective. And she realized that there was space in the market to create a great new menstrual cup. She aimed to create a menstrual cup that could handle both light and heavy flow, eliminate the inconvenience of cloth bags, offer a comfortable fit,...

Today we’re chatting with Dr. Megan Garlapow, about her life working in genetics, getting her PhD, and finding Crossfit. Dr. Garlapow received her PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University and went on to get her postdoc at Arizona State University studying how environmental factors can affect body weight. After her time in academia, she went on to learn about different careers for a sci...

Nadia Munla joins us on the podcast to chat all about finding your own power in your body. In her work she's created Embody, a workshop and dance based class to get you stop managing your body and start loving it so you feel powerful in the board room and the bedroom. We hear all about Nadia's work and how she's built her company.

In 2018 Rebecca received a phone call that changed her life forever; a friend informing her he'd seen a personal sex tape of her online. The tape had been leaked to one of the biggest porn sites in the world and, at that moment, it had over a million views and was downloaded globally. Rebecca had become an unintentional porn star. Rebecca joins us this week to talk about taking back her life,...

Ever wonder what you should be doing fitness wise when you're on your period and those cramps strike?  Leslie chats with us about her life moving from the finance world into fitness and creating a new profession in NYC.  Leslie Sorenson joins us to talk all about being a personal trainer.  To learn more about Leslie and about our other women on our podcast, Weekly Woman, check out J...

Makaela Stallworth started The Dot Project, an organization Providing access to menstrual care through education and self-love advocacy one period at a time in Baltimore!  She helps tackle period poverty in her community and pushes for access for all menstruators.  You even hear about her period library.

I’m With Periods was started by founder Dr. Taq Kaur Ahandal in November 2017 when she took a life-changing trip to her homelands of India and got a clear new mission to spread the worldwide love of periods. In 2020 she published a guidebook called Self-Care Down There and has an interesting take on self love with your period.

You’re in for  a treat this week, I’m chatting with Meelie Pemberton, cofounder of Wing Woman Lebanon, an organization founded to empower women by creating sustainable futures and Increasing access to reusable period pads, diapers & education about periods.

Erin Cary is a Holistic Financial Planner with North Star Resource Group.  We talk to Erin about moving from engineering over to finance, the emotional decisions behind spending money, and being a female in a primarily male centered work sector.  Join us for learning more about finances with this new year. With a dynamic mix of education and sophisticated strategy, Erin provides a financ...

Shea Kushnir joins us to talk about working for Jubilance for PMS and going viral as an American Girl Doll thought leader.  She talks about Feminism, growing up with Queen Elizabeth's favorite Main Street, and Womanhood.  To hear more stories, go to www.juilance.com/blog

Developing the Sonia Series, a physical training and coaching platform for anyone, all over the world, Sonia Hare has grown so much in the past couple of years as she realized she needed to move her business online during the pandemic.  Growing up in the ballet world, she started to move to early, at her parents fitness gyms and also in the ballet studio.  She continued to dance througho...

Period Dramas and Periods.  That's what Heather Milsted set out to develop with her newest play. Heather is a London based actor, theatre-maker, writer, poet and facilitator. She started creating work at university, where she realized that the gaps surrounding women’s history and the lack of female playwrights, needed addressing. Heather is a clumsy and queer history nerd who creates taboo-bu...

Laura Murphy is the Director of Education and Awareness at IAPMD (the International Association for Premenstrual Disorders.  Suffering from PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) herself she came to the organization first as a moderator online and then joined the team becoming an integral part of the organization telling her story and creating educational campaigns.  Laura joins us to ch...

Today on the podcast we have Leslie Hope Holthoff, author of a new autobiography about her life as a teen mom and growing up. The good news is, in America, teen pregnancy has steadily declined since the early nineties. The bad news is there are still girls raising children, and fifty percent of them won’t graduate from high school. Leslie was a scared little girl, overwhelmed by shame and self-hat...

Ames Sheldon is an author who just came out with her new novel after working on it for forty years, Lemons in the Garden of Love.  The story is about her great aunt who helped to found the Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts and how she pushed the boundaries in women's rights.   Sheldon comes from a background of Women's and Gender Studies as the lead author and associate editor of the g...

Chemist and Public Health Expert Samantha Radford wants to change the way we learn about information.  As an expert in toxicology, she focused years of research into learning about how chemical exposures affect both unborn babies and children, as well as how toxicants and medications are passed through breastmilk. She started her blog Evidence Based Mommy to educate other mothers on this toxi...

Isabella Rittinger, founded Bleed the North, a youth led nonprofit organization committed to ending period poverty and stigma by providing menstrual products to people in need across Ontario and greater Canada. To learn more about Isabella, visit our website Jubilance.com/blog

Red Drop is the first feminine hygiene brand designed specifically to empower school age tweens. Research shows and parents know that during puberty, they need more than just a pad. RedDrop provides the products your tweens need and the support their parents can use, to grow strong women. Co-Founder Dana Roberts joins us on the podcast to discuss starting Red Drop while working in education and th...

Annaliese Puccini fought for Arie's heart on The Bachelor and then returned twice to Mexico in Bachelor in Paradise.  And now she sits down with us to discuss The Bachelor, hanging out at Bachelor Mansion and the emotions that run wild there, publishing her new book she wrote over COVID, and life during these strange times.  To learn more about Annaliese and Jubilance, check out www. Jub...