Mirror Talks – Details, episodes & analysis

Farideh writes songs from things most music ignores: diagnoses, symptoms, and sentences women repeat to each other when they’re trying to make sense of their bodies. In this conversation, she explains how her songs are built — from lists of conditions, overheard phrases, and moments when something finally clicks.

She talks about living with PCOS for years before it had a name, about motherhood as a shift into a fuller female experience, perimenopause as another stage of bodily change, and 12 Breakdowns of Christmas — her sketch series about mental load, burnout, and the emotional work behind the holidays.

This episode is about turning what women live through into music — and trusting the body when it keeps asking to be heard.

You’ll hear about:

• How Farideh’s songs are built from diagnoses and real conversations
• Early PCOS symptoms and medical dismissal
• Turning The Female Body into music
• You Are Such a Good Dad and invisible labor
• Comment sections as shared spaces for women’s stories
• Motherhood as an embodied shift
• Perimenopause and ongoing hormonal change
• 12 Breakdowns of Christmas and holiday mental load

Follow Farideh on Instagram.

This podcast is powered by Mira — a hormone health monitor that empowers women to track their hormones at home and make confident, informed decisions about their health and future.

Follow us on Instagram @mirafertility and visit miracare.com to learn more.

If this episode resonated with you, follow Mirror Talks wherever you listen to podcasts — and share it with someone who needs to hear Sylvia’s story. You can also join Mira’s community for more stories, resources, and guidance on your hormone health journey.

Hosted by Teo, a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.

Perimenopause often begins in the late 30s or early 40s — earlier than many think. In this episode, Dr. Carrie Jones explains what those early years actually look like: the 3 a.m. wake-ups, the sudden irritability, the phantom smells that send women checking the kitchen for burning wires, or maybe itchy ears from low estrogen — and all the symptoms we’ve been trained to call “stress”.

She also breaks down which hormone tests are useful in this phase, why daily pattern-tracking can show what a single blood draw can’t, and what the WHI study did — and didn’t — prove about the safety of HRT. Dr. Carrie talks through the tools she relies on most, from magnesium and herbal supports to boundary-setting and getting the nervous system out of permanent alert mode.

You'll hear about:

• The age range when perimenopause typically begins (late 30s–40s)
• Why progesterone drops first — and how that affects sleep and mood
• Phantom smells, itchy ears, and other hormone-driven symptoms most women misinterpret
• Which tests actually help map hormonal patterns
• What the WHI study really found about HRT and breast cancer
• The lifestyle changes Carrie sees move the needle most
• How to track hormones without entering a cycle-tracking obsession
• The difference between true stress and hormone-driven stress symptoms

Follow Dr. Carrie Jones on Instagram.

This podcast is powered by Mira — a hormone health monitor that empowers women to track their hormones at home and make confident, informed decisions about their health and future.

Follow us on Instagram @mirafertility and visit miracare.com to learn more.

If this episode resonated with you, follow Mirror Talks wherever you listen to podcasts — and share it with someone who needs to hear Sylvia’s story. You can also join Mira’s community for more stories, resources, and guidance on your hormone health journey.

Hosted by Teo, a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.

In this episode, Karina talks about what it takes to build women’s health products that actually work — and what surprised her most after supporting more than 70 founders. 

She explains why FemTech doesn’t only mean “female founders”, how early founders had to start every investor call by defining the word “FemTech,” and what she learned from cold-messaging hundreds of investors just to get the category taken seriously. 

Karina also shares what’s next: why the future of FemTech depends not only on great products, but on a real infrastructure — capital, partnerships, and a system that doesn’t crumble every time a founder burns out.

You’ll hear about: 

• The tampon in clinical trials for BV and yeast infection prevention
• The women-designed strap-on reshaping sexual wellness
• The sperm test reframing fertility conversations
• Why male investors and male consumers matter more than people admit
• The biggest misconceptions she sees around women’s health products
• Why building in FemTech is still harder than it should be — and what needs to change

Connect with Karina on Linkedin. Learn more about "Mother" podcast at Substack.

This podcast is powered by Mira — a hormone health monitor that empowers women to track their hormones at home and make confident, informed decisions about their health and future.

Follow us on Instagram @mirafertility and visit miracare.com to learn more.

If this episode resonated with you, follow Mirror Talks wherever you listen to podcasts — and share it with someone who needs to hear Sylvia’s story. You can also join Mira’s community for more stories, resources, and guidance on your hormone health journey.

Hosted by Teo, a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.

“For so long, we’ve been told that women’s bodies are too complicated to study. The truth is, no one ever tried hard enough. I want to change that.”

When Priyanka Jain’s health started to decline, every doctor visit ended with the same vague advice — drink more water, sleep more, stress less. No one could explain what was really happening.

Her search for answers uncovered a shocking truth: women weren’t even included in U.S. clinical research until 1993, and they’re still diagnosed an average of four years later than men.

Determined to change that, Priyanka co-founded Evvy, a company using data from the vaginal microbiome to give women real insight into their own bodies. In this episode, she shares how frustration turned into innovation — from building schools with the UN at fifteen to building one of the most groundbreaking health-tech startups for women today.

You’ll hear about:

• Facing years of “invisible” symptoms and unanswered questions
• Discovering the massive data gap in women’s health
• Leaving a stable tech career to found Evvy in the middle of a pandemic
• Building a company that gives women back ownership of their health data
• What “precision medicine” really means — and why it’s long overdue for women
• Priyanka’s advice for anyone standing at the edge of a leap: you don’t need permission to start, but you do need conviction.

Connect with Priyanka on Linkedin. Learn more at Evvy.com

This podcast is powered by Mira — a hormone health monitor that empowers women to track their hormones at home and make confident, informed decisions about their health and future.

Follow us on Instagram @mirafertility and visit miracare.com to learn more.

If this episode resonated with you, follow Mirror Talks wherever you listen to podcasts — and share it with someone who needs to hear Sylvia’s story. You can also join Mira’s community for more stories, resources, and guidance on your hormone health journey.

Hosted by Teo, a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.

“Young women need to see role models. They need to believe it’s possible. I want to show them — you don’t have to wait for someone to save you. You can make it happen.”

When Sylvia Kang left China at 18 to study engineering in the U.S., she had already spent her childhood training to be a concert pianist. Everyone around her told her to stay in her “safe” path — music was elegant, acceptable, feminine. Science, they said, wasn’t for women.

Years later, Sylvia proved them wrong by founding Mira, the world’s first at-home hormone health monitor that helps women truly understand their bodies. In this conversation, she shares how she went from self-teaching physics textbooks to building one of the biggest hormone data banks in the world — and what it means to trust yourself when no one else does.

You’ll hear about:

• Growing up in a culture where girls were told science wasn’t for them
• Leaving behind a career as a pianist to study biomedical engineering
• Facing loneliness and doubt as a young immigrant founder
• Explaining basic female anatomy to male investors — and still getting funded
• Building a company that gives women real, personalized data about their health
• The advice Sylvia gives to any woman with a dream: “Don’t ask for permission.”

Connect with Sylvia on Linkedin 

This podcast is powered by Mira — a hormone health monitor that empowers women to track their hormones at home and make confident, informed decisions about their health and future.

Follow us on Instagram @mirafertility and visit miracare.com to learn more.

If this episode resonated with you, follow Mirror Talks wherever you listen to podcasts — and share it with someone who needs to hear Sylvia’s story. You can also join Mira’s community for more stories, resources, and guidance on your hormone health journey.

Hosted by Teo, a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.

This podcast is powered by Mira — a hormone health monitor that empowers women to track their hormones at home and make confident, informed decisions about their health and future.

Follow us on Instagram @mirafertility and visit miracare.com to learn more.

If this episode resonated with you, follow Mirror Talks wherever you listen to podcasts — and share it with someone who needs to hear Sylvia’s story. You can also join Mira’s community for more stories, resources, and guidance on your hormone health journey.

Hosted by Teo — a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.

This podcast is powered by Mira — a hormone health monitor that empowers women to track their hormones at home and make confident, informed decisions about their health and future.

Follow us on Instagram @mirafertility and visit miracare.com to learn more.

If this episode resonated with you, follow Mirror Talks wherever you listen to podcasts — and share it with someone who needs to hear Sylvia’s story. You can also join Mira’s community for more stories, resources, and guidance on your hormone health journey.

Hosted by Teo, a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.