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THE PERIOD WHISPERER PODCAST - Perimenopause, Menopause, Cortisol, Weight Loss, Hormone Balancing, Insomnia, Hot Flashes, Night Sweats, Libido, Your Guide To Thriving In MidLife
In the 35-55 age box and starting to wonder if you will ever feel like you again? Weight gain, night wakings, brain fog, hot flashes, headaches, cravings, bloating, joint pain, mood swings, anxiety are all on the rise and no matter what you try, nothing moves the needle. Your host, Bria Gadd is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, Certified Holistic Health Coach, and Personal Trainer who specializes in female hormones. After helping thousands of women lose weight in their 20’s and 30’s, Bria recognized a difficult shift in women’s ability to get results in their body during their perimenopause years. Including her own frustrating 15lb weight gain amidst daily intense workouts and the demands of midlife. Tune in twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays to the top-ranked Period Whisperer Podcast for solo episodes and interviews with real life women and industry experts designed to help you understand the truth about perimenopause, take immediate action on the most important strategies for reducing inflammation and optimizing hormones, and get you in a body that releases weight easily. Whether you’re just starting to question if perimenopause is behind how you are feeling, are in the depths of hormonal chaos, or just want to learn how to feel your best through menopause and beyond, you’re in the right place. If you’re ready to decode the whispers of your body and heal your hormones so you can thrive again, listen to our fan favorite Episode 129: The 3 Nutrition Phases That Will Help You Release Belly Fat Every Time In Perimenopause
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Details about THE PERIOD WHISPERER PODCAST - Perimenopause, Menopause, Cortisol, Weight Loss, Hormone Balancing, Insomnia, Hot Flashes, Night Sweats, Libido, Your, a podcast by Bria Gadd - Integrative Nutrition Coach, Hormone Specialist, Personal Trainer, Perimenopause Coach,
Eps 465: Part 2 - Parental Burnout: Why Self-Care Won’t Fix the Mental Load with Michelle Scarlet
Monday, November 9, 2026 • Duration 26:12
Mom Guilt, Parenting Burnout & Boundaries: Stop Putting Yourself Last
Do you ever feel like caring for yourself means you are letting your kids down?
In this Midlife, Unfiltered conversation, Bria and Michele talk about the invisible labor, overscheduling, guilt, financial pressure, and emotional weight so many moms carry. From cooking separate meals and driving kids to endless activities to feeling guilty for exercising, resting, or leaving a teenager home for a few hours, this episode asks an important question:
Are we raising capable children, or are we slowly sacrificing our own health to make sure nobody else is uncomfortable?
This is not about caring less for your family. It is about recognizing that your needs, boundaries, sleep, movement, nourishment, and health matter too. And what your children see you model can become part of what they learn to expect from their own lives.
In This Episode
00:01 How much should moms do for their children?
01:13 When your own meals, movement, and rest get pushed aside
02:25 Loving your family without sacrificing your health
03:15 What are we teaching kids about boundaries and self-care?
04:12 The difference between health needs and “luxury” expectations
05:25 Why doing everything can become tied to worthiness
06:12 The mental load of being the default parent
06:51 The impossible “mom memo” many women received
10:30 Multiple meals, family preferences, and creating capable kids
12:25 How Michele protected her fitness time while parenting
14:17 Gentle parenting, disappointment, and family boundaries
15:57 Millennial parents trying to heal while raising children
17:09 Why your children are not your property
19:25 Starting new boundaries with older kids
23:06 Natural consequences and teaching life skills
24:30 The discomfort of disappointing your children
25:34 Our question for you
Take the Health Debt Quiz
If you have been putting yourself last for so long that you are not sure where to start, take Bria’s free Health Debt Quiz.
It will help you explore which area of your health may be asking for more support, so you can start having more informed conversations about your next steps.
Eps 465: Part 1 - Is Botox Worth It? Two Health Practitioners on Beauty, Aging & Toxic Load With Michelle Scarlet
Monday, November 9, 2026 • Duration 26:58
Is Botox Worth It? Two Health Practitioners on Beauty, Aging & Toxic Load
Is Botox worth it when you care deeply about your health, but also want to feel good when you look in the mirror?
In this candid Midlife, Unfiltered conversation, Bria Gadd, The Period Whisperer, and Michele Scarlet talk honestly about Botox, fillers, breast implants, cosmetic procedures, body image, aging, social-media pressure, and the complicated shame women can feel around wanting to look younger.
Michele shares her experience of stopping Botox after a personal reaction, while Bria explores the internal push and pull so many women feel: Can you be health-conscious and still be curious about cosmetic treatments? Is it body autonomy, social pressure, or both? And how do you make a decision without fear, judgment, or pretending you have to be perfect?
This is not a conversation about telling women what to do with their faces or bodies. It is about asking more thoughtful questions: What are my goals? What are the potential benefits, risks, and alternatives? Is this choice aligned with my health history, values, and the support I have around me?
In This Episode
00:00 Why seeing yourself age in photos can bring up complicated feelings
01:04 Michele’s experience with Botox and a personal reaction
03:32 “Your body, your choice” and the integrity question
04:39 Botox, GLP-1s, beauty choices, and shame
06:34 Why we worry about what other people will think
09:56 Social media, beauty ideals, and judging cosmetic choices
13:07 Botox, fillers, skincare, and the pressure of accessibility
13:50 If money were no object, what would you choose?
17:35 Privacy versus secrecy around cosmetic procedures
20:18 The cosmetic procedures we would consider
Eps 464: 18 Doctors, 2 ER Visits, and No Answers: Why Women Are Dismissed in Perimenopause with Stephanie Shaw
Thursday, November 5, 2026 • Duration 46:55
Have you ever known something was wrong in your body, only to be told your tests were normal or sent to another specialist without anyone looking at the whole picture?
In this episode, I sit down with Stephanie Shaw, host of the Hello Hot Flash podcast, to talk about her two-year search for answers through midlife health changes. After two ER visits, 18 doctors, multiple medical centers, and more than $20,000 spent trying to understand symptoms that kept changing, Stephanie learned firsthand how exhausting fragmented care can be.
Her story is not about distrusting every doctor or diagnosing yourself from social media. Specialists are essential. But when symptoms affect sleep, energy, mood, digestion, pain, recovery, and daily life, women deserve care that considers the full context and knows when another question or referral is needed.
Stephanie shares what it felt like to be passed from body part to body part, why no one initially asked whether hormones could be part of the picture, and how collaboration between practitioners helped her feel seen. We also discuss symptom tracking, preparing for appointments, asking for your records and lab results, advocating for yourself without needing a medical degree, and supporting physical and emotional health in midlife.
If you are navigating perimenopause symptoms, menopause symptoms, hot flashes, anxiety, fatigue, sleep disruption, changing digestion, or the feeling that you are no longer yourself, this episode will help you enter your next health conversation with more clarity.
In This Episode
00:00 Stephanie Shaw’s midlife health journey
01:40 Early perimenopause symptoms and the whispers women overlook
03:16 Heavy, frequent periods and hysterectomy
07:07 18 doctors and the problem with body-part-by-body-part care
09:33 What changed when practitioners communicated
12:45 Two ER visits and a two-year search for answers
18:24 Why women need providers who look for patterns
Eps 463: Why You’re Not Into It Anymore: Low Libido, Marriage & Midlife |Michele Scarlet
Monday, November 2, 2026 • Duration 20:45
Why You’re Not Into It Anymore: Low Libido, Marriage & Midlife
Do you still love your partner, but feel like sex is the last thing on your mind?
In episode three of Midlife, Unfiltered, Bria and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner Michele Scarlet unpack low libido in midlife, why desire can change, and the many reasons sex can start to feel like a chore instead of a source of connection.
Low libido is not automatically a hormone problem. And it does not automatically mean your marriage is over.
For many women, desire is influenced by a whole picture: perimenopause, postpartum changes, sleep, stress, mental load, pain or dryness, body image, emotional safety, relationship dynamics, medication, and whether you feel connected to your own body.
Bria and Michele talk honestly about the difference between being desired and feeling desire yourself. They explore why women can become disconnected from sex during busy seasons of motherhood and caregiving, how to create room for intimacy without turning it into another obligation, and why pain during sex is never something you should simply push through.
They also discuss when it may be time to look more closely at hormones, vaginal health, low estrogen, low testosterone, stress, or the relationship itself.
This is not a conversation about forcing yourself to want sex. It is about getting curious, removing shame, and understanding what your body may be asking for.
In This Episode
00:00 “Am I dead inside?” Understanding low libido
00:45 Is low desire always hormonal?
03:45 Emotional safety, physical safety, and desire
05:02 Mental load, motherhood, and sex becoming another task
06:56 Partnership, resentment, and carrying everything alone
08:58 Feeling disconnected from your body after pregnancy and breastfeeding
Eps 463: What Is the Manosphere? Why Women Need to Pay Attention |Michele Scarlet
Monday, November 2, 2026 • Duration 21:00
Have you ever felt uncomfortable in a conversation, workplace, relationship, or online space, then talked yourself out of saying anything because you did not want to make things awkward?
In episode two of Midlife, Unfiltered, Bria sits down with Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner Michele Scarlet to talk about the manosphere, misogyny on social media, emotional safety, boundaries, and the ways women have been conditioned to stay quiet so everyone else can stay comfortable.
If you have ever replayed a moment and thought, “That was not okay,” this conversation is for you.
The manosphere is not only an internet trend. Its messages can shape how young men see women, how young women navigate dating, and how all of us absorb the idea that women should be agreeable, accommodating, and responsible for managing other people’s behavior.
Bria and Michele share personal stories about workplace comments, relationships, the pressure to laugh things off, and the quiet self-abandonment that can happen when we minimize our own alarm bells.
They also tie this back to midlife health. Because this season is not only about hormones, sleep, labs, nutrition, and physical symptoms. It can also be a time to notice where you have been carrying stress, suppressing your voice, abandoning your boundaries, or making yourself smaller to keep the peace.
This episode is an invitation to trust your discomfort, speak up when something is not right, and model something different for the next generation.
In This Episode
00:01 What is manosphere culture?
01:20 Why women are not responsible for preventing men’s behavior
02:26 Social media, online influence, and harmful messaging
03:43 Why misogyny is not a new problem
06:07 Emotional safety and feeling judged in relationships
09:51 Workplace experiences women never forget
Eps 463: GLP-1s: Are We Ignoring the Psychological Impact | Michele Scarlet
Monday, November 2, 2026 • Duration 20:56
Are GLP-1 medications a cheat code for weight loss, or are we overlooking the emotional impact they can have on women in midlife?
In the first episode of Midlife, Unfiltered, Bria sits down with Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner Michele Scarlet for an honest conversation about GLP-1s, weight loss, body image, food noise, shame, privacy, and the pressure women feel to get smaller.
If you are considering a GLP-1, already taking one, or wondering why this conversation feels so emotionally loaded, this episode is for you.
GLP-1 medications are changing the weight-loss industry quickly. For some women, they may offer support with blood sugar, appetite, or the mental load of constantly thinking about food. For others, the conversation brings up secrecy, fear of judgment, past dieting patterns, body-image pressure, or concern about using a powerful tool without enough support.
Bria and Michele make space for the nuance. They discuss why GLP-1s are not inherently “cheating,” why the goal cannot simply be to get smaller at any cost, how to think about side effects and body signals, and why your relationship with food, your health history, and your emotional wellbeing belong in the conversation too.
In This Episode
00:00 Midlife transitions, motherhood, and changing seasons
02:39 Is GLP-1 the cheat code to weight loss?
03:20 Why women want weight loss to feel easier
05:23 Celebrity culture, judgment, and GLP-1 misuse
06:49 GLP-1s as a tool, not a moral failure
10:54 Why this conversation carries so much shame
12:03 Feeling shame around GLP-1 use
12:51 Privacy versus hiding your health choices
14:31 Blood sugar, insulin resistance, and testing
16:45 When GLP-1s may not be the right fit
Eps 462: How to Naturally Support GLP-1 After 40: Protein, Fiber & Gut Health with Simone Lovell
Thursday, October 29, 2026 • Duration 46:17
Why are you hungry again an hour after eating, craving sugar by midafternoon, or finding weight loss harder in perimenopause?
In this episode, Bria sits down with Simone Lovell, a mama, author, food coach, and mentor with more than 25 years of experience helping women change their relationship with food and health.
They unpack the growing conversation around GLP-1, appetite regulation, blood sugar, gut health, food noise, protein, fiber, and why midlife women deserve more than another restrictive plan.
Your body naturally produces GLP-1, a hormone involved in appetite, fullness, and blood-sugar regulation. Simone shares her perspective on using food and daily habits to support those systems, including protein-forward breakfasts, fiber, meal timing, sleep, strength training, stress regulation, and the role gut health may play.
This is not an anti-medication episode. GLP-1 medications can be appropriate tools for some people under qualified medical care. It is also not a promise that one food, a glucose monitor, or a “perfect” routine can solve every symptom. The goal is to help you understand why hunger, cravings, energy, and weight may feel different in midlife, then give you practical, non-punishing places to begin.
If you are tired of dieting, obsessing over food, skipping meals, or believing that more discipline is the answer, this conversation offers a more compassionate framework for supporting your body.
IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Why hunger, cravings, and stubborn weight feel different in midlife
00:48 What GLP-1 is and the conversation around naturally supporting it
01:01 Meet Simone Lovell and her work with women
08:28 The gut, GLP-1, and appetite regulation
09:31 Hunger, cravings, energy crashes, and blood-sugar patterns
11:00 Sleep, stress, and the hunger hormones
17:35 Why Bria prioritizes protein at breakfast
Eps 461: Perimenopause Is Bullsh*t: Body Image, HRT & Chin Whiskers with Jen Laughlin
Episode 461
Monday, October 26, 2026 • Duration 52:19
Perimenopause and menopause can be exhausting, absurd, emotional, and deeply unglamorous. If you are tired of pretending you are handling every symptom perfectly, this episode is for you.
You are not the only woman wondering what happened to her body, why she suddenly has chin whiskers, itchy ears, body-image spirals, sleep changes, or a much lower tolerance for everyone’s nonsense.
This is your reminder that you do not have to navigate midlife alone, silently, or perfectly.
In this episode, I sit down with my friend and midlife creator Jen Laughlin for a candid, funny, and refreshingly real conversation about perimenopause, menopause, aging, body image, hormones, HRT, and all the strange symptoms nobody prepared us for.
We talk about the things women are often embarrassed to say out loud: feeling disconnected from your body, obsessing over weight changes, struggling with the version of yourself in the mirror, drinking the beer, trying the Botox, getting back into running, and attempting to make choices that support your health without turning your life into one giant wellness project.
Jen shares what it was like when her symptoms hit hard, why finding a menopause-informed clinician mattered, and why women deserve to keep asking questions when they do not feel like themselves.
This conversation will not give you a perfect perimenopause routine. It will give you something more important: perspective, laughter, and the feeling of sitting down with a friend who gets it.
If you are experiencing new or postmenopausal bleeding, please speak with a qualified clinician promptly.
IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Why this is the perimenopause rant session we all need
03:11 Jen’s symptoms, HRT journey, and finding better support
07:55 Bodies, beer, and the tug of war around health choices
09:18 How Jen accidentally became a midlife-humor creator
Eps 460: Why Perimenopause Can Be Your Golden Era, Not Your Breakdown with JJ Flizanes
Episode 460
Thursday, October 22, 2026 • Duration 51:33
What if perimenopause is not only asking you to manage symptoms, but asking you to finally pay attention to the needs you have spent years putting last?
In this episode, I sit down with empowerment strategist, author, and podcast host JJ Flizanes for a deeply honest conversation about midlife identity, emotional health, resentment, relationships, empty nesting, and nervous system regulation.
We talk about what can happen when women spend decades caring for everyone else, becoming useful to everyone but disconnected from themselves. For many women, perimenopause and menopause arrive alongside changing relationships, more independent children, career shifts, body changes, and the uncomfortable question: who am I when I am no longer needed in the same way?
JJ shares why understanding your needs is not selfish, why asking for help can feel so difficult, and how unmet needs can show up as resentment, overgiving, and a nervous system that never truly gets to settle.
If midlife has made you feel emotional, restless, disconnected, or unsure of who you are becoming, this conversation is a reminder that you are not broken. You may simply be ready to come back to yourself.
IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Why this conversation goes beyond physical perimenopause symptoms
01:45 Why JJ started podcasting during a difficult marriage
02:52 Why your partner is not meant to be your trainer, mother, or therapist
07:37 Reframing perimenopause and menopause as a powerful new era
10:17 Empty nesting, identity, and the question of purpose
10:50 Why many women were never taught to name or meet their needs
11:03 The role of unmet needs in resentment and emotional overwhelm
14:00 Emotional patterns, caregiving, and a nervous system carrying too much
18:40 Why vulnerability can feel harder than overfunctioning
Eps 459: 3 Free Ways to Support Bloating in Perimenopause, From a Functional Nutrition Practitioner
Episode 459
Monday, October 19, 2026 • Duration 29:26
Are you eating more protein, taking supplements, training consistently, and still dealing with bloating, gas, constipation, reflux, fatigue, brain fog, or weight that feels harder to manage in perimenopause?
In this solo episode, I break down gut health debt: what can happen when your digestive system is not keeping up with the demands placed on it, even when you are trying to make healthy choices.
We talk about why eating more protein can sometimes bring digestive symptoms to the surface, why “I eat well” does not always mean your body is breaking down and absorbing everything it needs, and why gut health is connected to muscle, recovery, energy, immune health, hormones, metabolism, and healthy aging.
I also share my own gut-testing story, including the clue that made me look more closely at protein digestion and why I call it having a “desert gut.” This episode is not about treating every symptom as a gut problem or buying every supplement marketed online. It is about learning to notice patterns, reduce your digestive workload, and know when testing may help you and your practitioner make more targeted decisions.
You will hear practical starting points to try before expensive testing, including slowing down at meals, chewing thoroughly, considering cooked foods when bloating is high, taking a short walk after meals, and paying attention to how your digestion changes from morning to night.
In This Episode
00:00 Why healthy habits may not be giving your body the return you expect
02:39 More protein, more digestive symptoms, and what that may tell us
04:22 What gut health debt means in perimenopause
08:25 Bloating, constipation, reflux, growing bloat, and other gut signals
09:04 My “desert gut” story and why symptoms do not always begin in your belly
12:26 Protein digestion, nutrient absorption, and the testing clue I found
16:29 Gut health, hormones, estrogen metabolism, and HRT conversations
22:39 Bria’s story of breaking her nose and considering rhinoplasty
24:34 Teeth whitening, hair dye, and personal risk tolerance
25:44 Looking at health decisions in the bigger picture
27:08 A question for you: what would you choose without judgment?
Have a question, win, or something you need support with in midlife?
You do not need perfect words or a polished story. Leave a voice message with what has changed in your body, what you have tried, what is helping, or the question you want covered next on the podcast.
Ready for more support through perimenopause and menopause?
Inside Midlife Mojo, I help women build stronger foundations for hormones, metabolism, strength, sleep, recovery, and sustainable weight loss. You’ll find practical education on nutrition, labs, HRT, peptides, workouts, stress, and nervous-system support, plus a community that understands this season.
Your membership includes:
💜 The 90-Day Hormone Revival
💜 Midlife metabolism and weight-loss education
💜 Nutrition, recipes, and meal-planning support
💜 Strength-training plans for women over 40
💜 Lab-testing, HRT, and peptide resources
💜 Guided meditations, live coaching, Q&As, and community support
Low libido is part of perimenopause and health debt, too.
A change in desire can be one clue in a much bigger picture: hormones, sleep, stress, nervous-system support, body changes, pain, nourishment, relationship capacity, and recovery all matter.
Take Bria’s free Health Debt Quiz to explore where your body may be asking for more support right now and get a clearer, more personalized place to begin:
Coming next in Midlife, Unfiltered: Bria and Michele unpack the influence of social media, the manosphere, and the messages shaping how women think about their bodies, health, and worth.
This episode is for education only and does not replace individualized medical advice. Speak with a qualified healthcare professional before starting, stopping, or changing medication.
18:17 Coffee, butter, fasting, and workout fueling
20:01 Long runs, strength training, and exercise intensity
27:21 Foods that may support fullness and GLP-1 signaling
27:45 Fiber after 40 and practical sources of fiber
30:00 Meal order, glucose monitoring, and food flexibility
35:00 Processed foods, gut health, and digestion
40:00 Building an approach that supports energy, muscle, and longevity
45:00 Simone’s first practical step for women feeling overwhelmed
HAVE A QUESTION, WIN, OR SOMETHING YOU NEED SUPPORT WITH IN MIDLIFE?
Bria would love to hear from you. Leave a voice message with a question, a win, something you are noticing in your body, or a topic you want covered on the podcast. No perfect wording needed.
READY FOR MORE SUPPORT THROUGH PERIMENOPAUSE AND MENOPAUSE?
Inside Midlife Mojo, Bria helps women build the foundations that support healthier metabolism, strength, sleep, recovery, nutrition, and sustainable weight loss. You will find practical education on lab testing, hormones, HRT, peptides, workouts, stress, and more, alongside a community of women navigating this season with you.
READY FOR MORE SUPPORT THROUGH PERIMENOPAUSE AND MENOPAUSE?
Inside Midlife Mojo, you will find practical education around nutrition, weight loss, strength, sleep, lab testing, HRT, peptides, stress, and recovery, plus a community of women navigating this season with you.
Have a question, win, or something you need support with in midlife?
Leave a voice message with what you are navigating, what has helped, or the topic you want me to cover next. You can be vulnerable, unstructured, and completely yourself.
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