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Feisty Menopause The active, performance-minded woman's guide to menopause.

30/07/2026

Sara Aranda was a young, accomplished trail runner when preventive surgery related to her BRCA1 mutation thrust her into menopause. She hoped she could pick back up where she left off…her newly menopausal, post surgery body had other ideas. 

This week we explore relief, grief, and the unexpected, challenging layers of young, surgical menopause. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

23/07/2026

You should do this. You should take this. You should not do that. This week’s guest, menopause coach and author of New Moves in Menopause, Dr. Maria Luque challenges the shoulds of menopause and offers directions for charting your own course through the transition, focusing not on what you should do, but on what you want to do.

Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

16/07/2026

PMOS, formerly known as polycystic o***y syndrome (PCOS), has long been treated as mainly a reproductive problem. The new name—polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome—signals that we need to look beyond irregular periods and fertility challenges to the insulin resistance, metabolic dysfunction, and rising cardiovascular disease risk that come with the condition, and often worsen as women move into menopause.

This week we break it all down with reproductive endocrinologist and menopause specialist Dr. Carla DiGirolamo. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

09/07/2026

Have you found it suddenly much harder to recover from your usual training? Getting injured more often? Perimenopause may be to blame, says this week’s guest Tara Findlay, RMT. This week she explains the underlying factors behind our slow recovery and injury woes–and importantly, what to do about them.

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

25/06/2026

Rage? Frustration? F‑bombs in your head? You’re not alone. Renowned midlife trainer Hailey Babcock has discovered that perimenopause can bring tears, irritability, rage, and a whole host of emotions that don’t feel like your usual self. This week, she shares how she’s navigating the turbulent waters of menopause—and why building a strong body matters most when life gets messy. 

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

18/06/2026

The first step in relieving pain is understanding it–including where it comes from, which, according to this week’s guest, pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness is in the brain, where it can also be treated. 

This week we dive into the complex biopsychosocial elements of pain–how pain is shaped by your brain, nervous system, emotions, memories, and environment–and importantly the recipe for relief. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

12/06/2026

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11/06/2026

Active women will sometimes brush off high lipid levels because they eat well, exercise, and are fit. Or they’ll get a clear coronary calcium scan and think they’re in the clear regardless of lipid levels. Being fit does not protect you from heart disease and a clear calcium scan doesn’t reflect your real risk, as this week’s Hit Play Not Pause guest preventive cardiology dietitian Michelle Routhenstein, MS, RD, CDN explains. We still need to manage lipids and inflammation and blood sugar to keep our hearts healthy longterm. And, if you want a more accurate scan, you can look into a Cleerly-enabled (CCTA) scan, which shows dangerous soft plaque, too.

We dig into all things menopause and heart health this week. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

04/06/2026

We all hear a lot of advice about what–and what not–to eat; what supplements to use; what therapies we need, etc and so on. In the end, we are the best judge of what works for us. So, if you try something and it doesn’t work for you, it’s not something you’ve done wrong. It just doesn’t work for you. And that’s okay! Nourishing yourself in this time of life means having agency and feeling empowered to make your own personal health choices, says this week’s Hit Play Not Pause guest Andrea Donsky, RHN, author of Nourishing Menopause: Powerful Nutrition and Lifestyle Strategies to Feel Your Best.

We cover all that and much more this week. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

28/05/2026

So many women have been taking care of others for so many years (or decades) that they’ve lost sight of themselves, of what’s important to them. The menopause transition is the perfect time to zero in and ask, “What do I want from this next chapter of life,” says this week’s Hit Play Not Pause guest, menopause and mindset coach Sara Larson. We explore what that conversation can look like, as well as navigating all the challenges this time of life can bring. 

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

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