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This week Alex and Mary reflect on some comments they received on one of their TikTok videos. They discuss the difference between knowledge and fear in regards to research, awareness, and growing through experiential information. Why do we fear learning more about our bodies, our health? Why is sharing our experiences, in order to help others be advocates for themselves, viewed as “fear-mongering” by some? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sit down to talk about stress, how to spot it, how to treat it, and the role it plays in our lives. Stress can serve as a motivator, but more times than not it has a negative impact on our lives. Learn how to recognize the stress in your life and various ways to manage it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary discuss feminine hygiene and the conflict between Science and big corporations. The medical community, in particular those who deal with the female anatomy, recommend basic good hygiene in taking care of our bodies. However, big corporations have launched numerous marketing campaigns, targeting teens and preteens, planting the seed in their growing minds that their bodies should smell like flowers or fruit and, thereby, making them believe the very natural act of menstruation to be dirty or nasty. All this to make a dollar. Doctors tell us using such products is not necessary and may even prove to be harmful to our bodies. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sit down to reflect on their own menstruation stories, share some facts from an interesting article, and discuss some of the feelings and reactions to starting a period, having a period, and no longer dealing with periods at all. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sit down to discuss some of their best laid plans, how those plans have been interrupted, and how they responded to those interruptions. They have discovered that, oftentimes in hindsight, it’s easy to laugh at how they have responded to change, but when reacting in the moment, a sudden and unexpected detour can cause a lot of heartache, often unnecessarily. They have learned developing a mindset that accepts change, prioritizes actions, and understands how to move forward can help guide their reactions to change, presenting as more of a ripple, rather than a tidal wave. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sit down to discuss some of their experiences that could have (and should have) been handled better by the medical community. Their intent  is not to disparage those who work in the medical field, but rather to share these experiences and how they were resolved, hoping to be of some help to our listeners. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sit down to discuss disparities in health care. They share data from various resources that highlight the progress we’ve made to narrow the gaps in health outcomes but also sheds light on the fact that the goal must be to eliminate health care disparities, completely. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sit down to discuss cervical cancer, in recognition of January as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. They share some current research and encouraging statistics regarding cervical cancer and HPV. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sit down to reflect a bit on their first season and to look ahead at Season Two and some new and exciting things to look forward to as their podcast continues to grow and develop. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In the last episode of their first season, Mary and Alex discuss some factors to consider when choosing where to make year-end donations.  We will see you back for season two on Monday, January 4, 2021! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sat down together to discuss what they have learned since starting the podcast in February of 2019. The past 10 months have truly been a learning experience for both Alex and Mary and they talk about what that has meant to them in the midst of a global pandemic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Alex and Mary sat down together to discuss why they began the podcast, almost a year ago. They talk about what went into making the decision and how they have managed to keep it going during a global pandemic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Courtney, one of their sorority sisters, who lives in Atlanta, GA. Courtney shares some valuable information about Turner Syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality, and how that diagnosis, when she was an infant, has affected her life and her path to motherhood. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Nicole, an FSU graduate and fellow sorority sister. Nicole discusses her experience with abnormally heavy periods, severe cramping, and suffering with the pain of huge fibroid cysts. These conditions resulted in her needing to undergo a hysterectomy at the age of 35, having never had the opportunity to birth a baby. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Mandy, who lives in Nashville, TN. Mandy shares her experience with multiple miscarriages, being dismissed by some in the medical community, and the tangible ways she honors the babies she never held in her arms, but will forever carry in her heart. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Nishaa, a performer, teacher and music advocate based in Orlando, FL.  Her journey with infertility began in 2014, when she was unable to conceive again after a miscarriage. She went on to go through 3 rounds of IVF, however  was unsuccessful in carrying a baby to term. She is currently 36 weeks pregnant after a truly miraculous conception. This podcast will be her first time talking about her infertility struggles. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Sarah, a stay at home mom who homeschools her five children, one girl and four boys, ages one to ten. Sarah shares the difficulties she and her husband experienced while trying to conceive early on in their marriage, the subsequent gift of several children, and the heartbreak of loss in the midst of those blessings. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Jennifer. Jennifer is the Director of Graduate Programs at FSU’s College of Business and a self-proclaimed “hippie”. Jennifer and her husband, Paul, journeyed through pregnancy loss together and now have two adult children. Jennifer shares what she learned about the physical damage of a miscarriage and subsequent D & C years after she endured both. Her perspective about the effects of having a hysterectomy in regard to “womanhood” and all that entails is thought provoking and inspiring. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Trisha. Trisha is a clinical social worker, musician, nature-lover, and arts enthusiast out of North Carolina. She has a specialty in working with people experiencing eating disorders and body image distress, practicing from a Health At Every Size approach. Through many years of unexplained symptoms, pain, and three pregnancy losses, Trisha has battled to find effective and holistic treatment options for diagnoses of fibromyalgia, IBS, endometriosis, PCOS, and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. She is continuing to travel along her fertility journey after experiencing two ectopic pregnancies and one “missed” miscarriage. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week Mary and Alex sat down with Dana Starr Ball.  Dana is 34, a wife, and a mother to two wild boys. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist in the Charleston, SC area and has been practicing since 2008. She teaches Kinesiology, Myology and Clinical Massage techniques in a Massage Therapy training program and continuing education courses for LMTs as well.  Dana was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 29. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app