Explore every episode of the podcast Skin like a Rhino with Elvie founder, Tania Boler
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Mom guilt, trauma and recovery: The truth about postpartum with Ashley James
In the latest episode of Skin Like a Rhino, Tania talks to Ashley James about the complex realities of motherhood, exploring the often-overlooked aspects of most women's postpartum journey.
Topics: - Mom guilt - Postpartum physical and mental health - Pelvic floor health - Healthcare support - Gender health gap - Shared parental responsibilities - Birth trauma - Societal expectations
The Paid Leave Crisis: Dawn Huckelbridge on fighting for reproductive freedom in the US.
In our latest episode, Tania sits down with Dawn Huckelbridge, the Founding Director of Paid Leave for All, to discuss why fighting for paid leave in the States is a political priority. An urgent one.
Think this is just about job security? Think again. Paid leave is vital for economic growth and reproductive freedom. It’s essential for gender and racial equity. It’s crucial for our physical health and emotional well-being—and not having it is costing lives.
Dawn unpacks how the wealthiest economy in the world is failing its people by not providing paid family leave, and how we can use our power to change this.
Topics covered:
The paid leave crisis in the States Why there's an urgent need for policy change The real cost of inaction How the caregiving burden disproportionately affects women Dawn’s personal experience of motherhood The realities of raising a family in the States A question of political control How you can use your power to affect change
Your brain on motherhood: Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence, on the mind-altering process of becoming a mom.
In the latest episode of Skin Like a Rhino, Tania talks to Lucy Jones about 'Matrescence' — her incredible book on the brain-altering process of becoming a mom.
Topics:
-What is matrescence?
-'Bounce back' Culture
-Caregiver Brain Development
-Nature vs. Nurture
-Existential Thinking
-Intensive Parenting
-Societal Expectations for Modern Parenting
-Generational Change in Parenting
-Modern Day Patriarchy
A Women's Health Crisis: "Period Pain Has Collectively Lost Us Over 150 Million Days" with Valentina Milanova, Founder & CEO of Daye.
In our latest episode, Tania sits down with Daye founder & CEO Valentina Milanova to delve into the details of all things female health - we're talkin' period pain, STIs, endometriosis and lots of VAGINA chat.
Women are being gaslit, daily, into thinking that the struggles we face with our health are "normal" - It's one of the greatest injustices of all time so, Tania and Valentina are here to raise awareness and make change.
Giving birth is a life-changing event and the most significant transition that women go through since adolescence.
Hear more about how you can best advocate for yourself throughout the journey of pregnancy, birth and postpartum with Siobhan Miller, Founder of The Positive Birth Company - sharing all of the positive vibes (of course, it’s in the company name.) and offering simple, yet genius insights into the power of a positive birth experience.
Siobhan's knowledge extends beyond birth preparation as she dives into postpartum mental health, highlighting the importance of knowledge and awareness during your birthing experience and how to navigate the transition in this stage of your life.
This episode is packed with wisdom - so, tune in for a virtual breathwork exercise and to learn more about the roles of your hormones during birth. Don't miss this conversation that proves that knowledge really is power.
Topics:
Founding the Positive Birth Company
Hypnobirthing explained
Pregnancy and postpartum mental health
A positive birth experience
Feeling postnatal failure
Knowledge is power
Virtual breathwork exercise
Hormones during birth
Your birthing environment
Work-life-parent balance
Jessica Ennis-Hill: "You know you'll perform better at certain times of the month": Harnessing hormonal health for peak performance with the Olympic champion
Listen as Jessica Ennis-Hill and Elvie Founder Tania Boler chat about understanding our bodies, our cycles, and our unique hormonal ebbs and flows to get the most from every day. Plus, we hear about how much has changed in women's sport over the past few decades— and where it's going next.
Topics:
Understanding your hormones
Role models in women's sport
Exercise at all ages
Postpartum exercise
Pelvic floor training
Progress over perfection
Sharing the Motherload: Liz Tenety talks tactics for a postpartum revolution
We’re living in a world where a world where dogs have better *legally protected* postpartum rights than US moms. Appalled? Good. So are we. 😵💫🚨
Listen as Liz Tenety , Co-founder of Motherly and our very own Tania Boler take us through the surprises and shames revealed in The Motherload, the Elvie x Motherly report on postpartum life in the US.
We’ll hear from over 1,000 US moms about the things to celebrate (top-notch partners 🤝) and the things that need some serious work (zero, yes, *zero* paid maternity leave 🚫).
Topics:
Postpartum healthcare
Mental health in postpartum women
Paid parental leave
Changing postpartum politics in the US
How partners can help
Sharing the motherload with technology
“The rules of the workplace were written by men, for men. It’s time to rewrite the rules.” with Shelley Zalis, CEO and Founder of The Female Quotient
In our latest episode, Tania sits down with The Female Quotient founder and CEO Shelley Zalis to delve in to how to rewrite the rules of the workplace and change the game. 🦏 🎧
How the patriarchy affects our sex lives, with 'Make Love Not Porn' founder Cindy Gallop
It's time porn came off its pedestal, don't you think? Join us with sexpert and founder of Make Love Not Porn, Cindy Gallop, where we take a peek behind closed doors (and rapidly closed laptop lids 🤭💻) to understand just how revolutionary a 'real sex' video-sharing platform can be (and has been!) for society.
Topics:
Porn vs real-world sex Repressive attitudes to sex The orgasm gap Content and advertising censorship Sex education for youngsters Turning ageism on its head Male gaze in female-targeted advertising
What we don't know about our hormones (but we should!) with Dr Helen O'Neill
In our latest episode, Tania sits down with Hertility founder and CEO Dr Helen O’Neill to delve into the details of fertility, hormones and genetics and why we should give a sh*t. 🦏 🎧
Trigger warning: Fertility, miscarriage
Topics: Genetics and women’s health Impact of lifestyle factors vs. previous generations Importance of knowing your hormonal ‘norms’ The danger of being prescribed hormonal contraceptives as a catch-all cure Environmental impacts on hormones How hormones affect more than our fertility Culturally typical for women to dismiss symptoms Lack of investment into female health Which hormones to test for if hoping to conceive Gender-biased language in medical textbooks Fertility pressure on women Rise in male fertility issues ‘Forever chemical’ effect on our health Egg freezing How hormones and cycle affect day-to-day wellbeing The benefits of having more data in the field
Eve Rodsky: “We don’t f**king want helpers, we want partners”. How to make household responsibility equal with NY Times bestselling author.
Eve Rodsky is New York Times Best-Selling Author of Fair Play - a gamified conversation boosting system which is designed to rebalance workload in the household and reimagine relationships.
Eve and Tania dive deep into the issues around societal expectations of modern-day parenting.
Topics:
Unpaid labour in the household
The gender pay gap
Female Empowerment
The importance of co-parenting
Physical and mental health awareness for Moms
Relationship and parental boundaries
The shift in conversation postpartum
Embracing your new identity
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest’s own and do not represent the views, thoughts and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler.
The maternal health crisis in the US: Changing the Black birthing landscape with MamaGlow founder and doula, Latham Thomas.
Latham Thomas, founder of Mama Glow, a New York-based brand focused on doula services, maternity, and lifestyle. Latham herself, also has a background as a trained Doula herself and is a highly influential campaigner for addressing health inequalities for black women in the US.
Latham and Tania discuss how community driven leadership can transform the birthing landscape to create safer and more empowering birthing journeys.
Topics:
Inherent racial discrimination in the medical system
Poor prenatal care for Black moms
Non-consensual experimentation on Black women’s bodies
Racial pain bias in medicine
Lack of Black maternal healthcare professionals
Dehumanising treatment of Black women’s bodies
The role of Doulas
Setting up Mama Glow
Pregnancy discrimination and motherhood penalty
Impact of the system on Black babies’ health
Decline in Black breastfeeding rates
Black wetnurses
The revolution of Elvie Pump
The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler
How to find your motherhood village: The importance and power of female communities with Peanut founder Michelle Kennedy
Michelle Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Peanut, one of the fastest-growing social networking apps for women navigating fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause.
In this episode, Michelle and Tania discuss community, what it means to women and what's so unique about female-first platforms, like Peanut.
Topics include:
community
motherhood
female founder
mompreneur
feminist activism
reproductive justice
women's rights
maternal healthcare
policy change
reproductive rights
postpartum sex
women's networking
female friendship
empathy
shared experiences
connection
menopause
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler.
Get connected to your cycle: How technology will change the future of contraception with Natural Cycles’s Dr Elina Berglund
On this episode of Skin Like a Rhino, Tania grills Natural Cycles CEO and co-founder (and ex-CERN physicist, no less!) Dr Elina Berglund about her decade-long journey with the world's first and only birth control app. Let's see if we can learn a thing or two from two women who helped shape the FemTech sector we know today. 🎧
Topics:
female founder
pregnancy planning
reproductive health
advocacy
feminist activism
sexual health
funding
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler.
Helen Ledwick: “My insides were falling out." Let’s talk prolapse, politics and the pelvic floor.
Helen Ledwick is an award-nominated podcast founder and author of the groundbreaking book ‘Why Mums Don’t Jump’, a book which tackles the pervasive issue of the pelvic floor taboo.
A former senior producer and on-air voice at BBC Radio 5 Live for more than ten years, Helen manoeuvred her career to launch her podcast ‘Why Mums Don’t Jump’ after suffering with pelvic floor prolapse after the birth of her second son. Helen is a passionate pelvic health advocate, determined to tackle the pelvic floor taboo— the pervasive shame surrounding these intimate issues that 1 in 3 women will face in their lifetime. Helen speaks with Tania about her journey, from suffering the shame and stigma of living with pelvic floor prolapse, through to creating her podcast and penning her groundbreaking book of the same name. Listen now to Tania and Helen talk about their shared experience with launching successful businesses that prioritise women’s health and wellbeing.
Topics include:
Pregnancy and childbirth Shame and stigma of pelvic floor health The current healthcare system Following your passion Making a change in society Building a community Lack of education on birth and breastfeeding Giving women choice Breaking women's health taboos The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler
From dating to cannabis, how to disrupt industries as a female entrepreneur, with Alexandra Chong
Alexandra Chong is a Jamaican entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Jacana, a global cannabis company and also founded Lulu, a private networking solution for women.
There’s not many women that lept from professional sport to law to online dating and finally CBD products. The New York Times said she started a ‘take back the internet movement for young women’ and that hunger to change the world has fuelled many more business decisions. I’m excited to have my friend/mentor, Alexandra Chong with us on the show today.
Topics include:
Early childhood life ambition
Professional Tennis career
Entrepreneurship
Creating Lulu
Female founders
Silicon Valley
Setting up Jacana
Health benefits of plant medicine
Stigma of cannabis
Meditation and mindfulness
Work-life balance for Moms
What's next for Alexandra Chong
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler
Why I invented the world 'femtech' and what I think will happen next, with Clue founder Ida Tin
Ida Tin is a Danish entrepreneur and author co-founding Clue app. A period to pregnancy menstrual tracking app with 11m active users.
Starting her early career working with her father at a motorcycle tour company, Ida then channelled her own frustrations around women's health into Clue. Setting up a new business and navigating the challenges of being a female founder whilst raising her own children Ida talks of how culture and personal growth is fundamental in growing a successful business.
Topics include:
Childhood and early career
Entrepreneurship
Early frustration with menstrual cycle tracking
Setting up Clue
Breaking women's health taboos
Women in business
Series funding
Data
Work-life balance for Moms
Boundary setting
Leadership and building the right culture
Care
Coining FemTech
What's next for Ida Tin
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler
Trinny Woodall: “I never want to be employed again”. How to overcome odds, take risks & fight that fear.
Trinny Woodall is a UK TV personality, journalist and entrepreneur whose global business Trinny London is changing the way women talk about the beauty industry.
Trinny is seen as a bold, confident and outspoken entrepreneur but this is not how she sees herself. Through practicing mindfulness and meditation, the self-deemed ‘loud introvert’ discusses how she forged the confidence to succeed as a female founder.
Opening up on feeling like an outsider in childhood and within the fashion industry, Trinny talks to Tania about the personal experiences that led her to develop skin like a rhino. How those moments, good and bad, gave her the resilience to take the risks in business that led to her global empire, Trinny London.
Topics:
Risk-taking
Being a loud introvert
Gender bias
Entrepreneurship mindset
Early context
A passion to create
Fashion
Journalism
Resilience
Being an outsider
Being a female founder
Feel the fear and do it anyway
Advice for women in business
Mindfulness and meditation
Inclusivity at Trinny London
Beauty industry and aging
Imposter Syndrome
Mentoring
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler
“I couldn’t study motor mechanics because I was a girl”. How to succeed in a world made for men from Elvie’s CPO, Sarah Liddell
Sarah Liddell is Chief Product Officer at Elvie, creating innovative products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life.
Sarah (studied fine art initially) then started her career as a furniture and props maker. When Sarah became a mother, she felt frustrated with the way products didn’t meet her needs as both a mum and a woman. Once her children started school, she attended university and began her degree in product design and engineering (working nights to support her family) where her chosen Major project was on re-designing the pushchair. Sarah’s first design and engineering roles was at Dyson. When she first joined, she was the 4th women to join out of a team of 240 engineers. Later in Sarah’s career, she joined design agency Native Design, where she worked on connected devices
Opening up on her career journey Sarah reflects on the gender tech gap and the challenges still faced by women in engineering.
Topics:
Early context
Career advancement
Maternal guilt
Work-life balance for Moms
Boundary setting
Gender tech gap
Women in engineering
Gender bias and gender gap in STEM
User experience
Advice for women in tech
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler