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This week, I’m talking to Candace Burch. She’s a hormone-health educator and founder of Your Hormone Health.  In this episode, Candace and I discuss what hormones are, how to know if your hormones are out of whack, synthetic vs. bioidentical hormones, weight gain, perimenopause, birth control, Hashitmoto’s, and how stress and lifestyle choices can impact our hormones.      Show Notes: Candace’s Website + Instagram Hormone Test Kit + Consult (use code ONEPART for $100 off)  Functional Medicine Doctor Directory  ZRT Lab Testing  Hashimoto’s Protocol by Izabella Wentz  Beyond The Pill by Jolene Brighten  This Your Brain On Birth Control  **** One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram ***** I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.

This week, I’m talking to Lisa Bryan. Lisa is a recipe developer and the founder of Downshiftology (a digital community of 11M). In this episode, Lisa and I discuss how she started her career over at 40, adding more humanity to your brand, building trust with your audience, and learning to downshift your life.    Show Notes: Lisa’s Website + Instagram + YouTube Falafel Recipe  Sababa by Adeena Sussman (cookbook with best hummus recipe ever) **** One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram ***** I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.

This week, we brought back Elizabeth Stanley, PhD. Elizabeth is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University and the author of Widen The Window: Training Your Brain and Body To Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma. She’s the creator of Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)® – and her research has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, NPR, and in Time magazine, among others. An award-winning author and U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. She’s also a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based trauma therapy. In this episode, Elizabeth and I discuss how we can begin to mend fractured relationships due to political choices (or move on from them), the survival brain vs. thinking brain, how the stress of the past year may have triggered or resurfaced past trauma, feeling powerless, and reminding ourselves that we will not have to live this way forever.      Elizabeth Stanley’s Website Dr. Stanley’s Course On Stress + Trauma*  Widen The Window: Training Your Brain and Body To Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma *Email Kjestinew(at)soundstrue.com for free access for public school teachers, health-care workers, first responders, military personnel (active, reservist, and veterans, and diplomats and intelligence agents. **** One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram ***** I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.

This week, I’m talking to Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD. Margaret is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist. She’s the founder and executive director of the Climate Mobilization Project and author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency. In this episode, Margaret and I discuss why you don’t have to be a scientist to have a position on climate change, why we need climate transformation not reform, how to talk to kids about climate change, how to process the anxiety/overwhelm of the climate crisis, and the single greatest thing you can do to help right now.  SHOW NOTES: Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram Dr. Stanley’s Course On Stress + Trauma  Widen The Window One Part Plant Cookbook  Guest  + Show Links! The Climate Mobilization’s Website + Instagram  Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth Sunrise Movement  Banana Ice Cream Recipe ****** I sometimes receive an affiliate commission from links I include. 

This week, I’m talking to Lara Parker. Lara is a writer, editor, deputy director at BuzzFeed.com, and the author of Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics. In this episode, Lara and I discuss living with multiple chronic conditions, finding pain-management tools, learning to advocate for yourself, decision fatigue, and finding glimpses of hope and acceptance (even in the darkest days).    SHOW NOTES: Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram Dr. Stanley’s Course On Stress + Trauma  Widen The Window One Part Plant Cookbook  Guest  + Show Links! Lara’s Instagram Vagina Problems  Victoria Williams / Endo At Work Sex Without Pain  Heal Pelvic Pain  A Headache In The Pelvis  Toca CBD Sex Oils  ****** I sometimes receive an affiliate commissions from links I include. 

This week, I’m talking to Dr. Jaclyn Tolentino. Jaclyn is a Board-Certified Family Physician, an integrative and functional medicine practitioner, and a breast cancer survivor. She has received extensive training through the Institute for Functional Medicine, and additional training in integrative oncology. She is a frequent contributor to publications including Vogue, Well+Good, CNET, and Bustle, and practices a comprehensive, patient-centered approach to whole-body wellness as Senior Doctor on the Virtual Team at Parsley Health.  In this episode, Dr. Jaclyn and I discuss how surviving breast cancer changed how she thinks about health, weight gain and weight loss during the pandemic, stress and hormones, why our bodies are responding in ways they never have before, striving to be healthy vs. fat phobia, and why testing is important to better understanding our bodies. SHOW NOTES: Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram One Part Plant Cookbook  Bellicon Mini Trampoline  Guest Links! Jaclyn’s Website + Instagram Parsley Health  Cream Of Mushroom Soup  ****** I may receive affiliate commissions from links I include. 

This week, I’m talking to Angela Tucker. Angela is a speaker, educator, film producer, and of the host of The Adoptee Next Door podcast. Her work’s mission is to amplify and center adoptee stories and bring honest narratives about race, class, and identity. In this episode, Angela and I discuss what transracial adoption means, why Angela has felt like a “grand experiment” in nature vs. nurture, family preservation, racism in the adoption system, the debate of consent when it comes to sharing adoption stories online.  SHOW NOTES: Sign up for the Know Your Endo Newsletter  Know Your Endo Instagram Angela’s Website + Instagram  Closure  The Adoptee Next Door Podcast  Spinach Potato Tacos  Know Your Endo  One Part Plant Cookbook  ****** I may receive affiliate commissions from links I include. 

This week, I’m talking to Aishwarya Iyer. She’s the founder + CEO of Brightland, a modern pantry-essentials company.  In this episode, Aishwarya and I discuss the unpaid labor of female founders/influencers, performative social media, staying true to your brand values, growing organically vs. paid social, and building a food brand from the ground up (packaging, design, food safety, etc).  SHOW NOTES: Sibo Made Simple  Brightland’s Website + Instagram  Aishwarya’s Instagram  UC David Olive Center  Citrus + Fennel Salad Recipe  Know Your Endo  One Part Plant Cookbook  ****** I may receive affiliate commissions from links I include. 

This week, I’m talking to Robyn Conley Downs. Robyn is a speaker, educator, podcaster, and the author of The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness By Creating Small Shifts That Create Big Change. In this episode, Robyn and I discuss why our brains recognize threats before recognizing good, making small mindset shifts for big change, why personality and psychology are not interchangeable, and how gratitude can interrupt anxiety.    SHOW NOTES: Robyn’s Website + Instagram  The Feel Good Effect book  Feel Good Effect Podcast  Self-Care: A Novel The Joy Of Movement  Self-Compassion: The Proven Power Of Being Kind To Yourself Tuscan Pumpkin Soup  Grilled Hummus, Apple, and Caramelized Onion Sandwiches  Know Your Endo  One Part Plant Cookbook  ****** I may receive affiliate commissions from links I include. 

It’s the season premiere! This week, I’m talking to Meera Lee Patel. Meera is a writer, speaker, author (find her books in the show notes), and a self-taught artist.  In this episode, Meera and I discuss why we can’t always fear the unknown, how she approaches anxiety, the unpaid labor of free content, promoting your work with transparency, and how she’s pivoted her business during the last six months.  SHOW NOTES: Meera’s Website + Instagram  Create Your Own Calm Made Out Of Stars My Friend Fear  Start Where You Are  Self-Compassion: The Proven Power Of Being Kind To Yourself Pav Bhaji Recipe via Food and Wine  Pav Bhaji Masala (Meera’s favorite store-bought) Pav Bhaji Masala Recipe  Know Your Endo  One Part Plant Cookbook  ****** I may receive affiliate commissions from links I include. 

This week, I’m talking to Dr. Uchenna “UC” Ossai. Dr. UC is a sex-positive pelvic health physical therapist and sexuality educator and counselor. She’s an assistant professor at the University of Texas Dell Medical School and also serves as pelvic health program manager at UT Health Austin. Dr. UC is one of few licensed physical therapists in the world with an AASECT certification in sexuality counseling and the only Black physical therapist with this specific designation.  In this episode, Dr. UC and I discuss pelvic floor therapy, sexual communication, orgasms (having them/not having them/faking them), painful sex, libido, and why penetration is not the gold standard of sex.  SHOW NOTES: Dr. UC’s Website + Instagram  C Is For Consent  Girls And Sex  Darkness To Light  Sex Positive Families  Dame Products  Lelo  Unbound Babes  Soul Source  Intimate Rose  Heal Pelvic Pain  Healing Painful Sex  Know Your Endo  One Part Plant Cookbook  ****** I sometimes receive affiliate commission from links I share. 

This week, I’m talking to Robby Barbaro. Robby is the co-founder of the online diabetes-coaching platform Mastering Diabetes and the author of Mastering Diabetes.  Robby and I discuss the different types of diabetes (there might be more than you think), why fruit isn’t the enemy, insulin resistance, and Robby’s number one suggestion for what you can do today to make change if you have diabetes.      SHOW NOTES: Rock The Vote  Human Rights Campaign  Jospeh Hernandez on BA’s Recipe Auditing  Robby’s Website + Instagram  Mastering Diabetes Book Fiber Fueled  Plant-based TeleHealth  Dr. Gemma Newman 

This week, I’m talking to Laura Wright. Laura is an author, a recipe developer, and the founder of the award-winning blog, The First Mess.  Laura and I discuss equity in food blogging/influencer content, her missteps in the past and how she’s fixing them, crediting ingredients, how she’s rethinking and changing the way she creates content and works with brands, and why context, intention, and clear communication matters.   SHOW NOTES: Laura’s Website + Instagram  Lily Diamond  Inclusion Rider  Algorithms Of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble Rick Martinez’s Website + Instagram Nik Sharma’s Website + Instagram

This week, Giselle Wasfie is back! If you need a refresher, she’s a former hip hop journalist and current Doctor of Chinese Medicine. She’s also the founder of the aromatherapy and beauty line REMIX by Giselle Wasfie.  Giselle and I discuss growing up as an Iraqi American, how things have to fall apart to come back together, hiding and keeping our struggles secret, and using your community to feel less alone.  Here’s Giselle:  SHOW NOTES: Giselle’s Website + Instagram WEED The Okra Project  Jenna Kutcher Case Study via Toi Smith (check out her page to learn more about these emails) White Female Founders Face A Reckoning Over Racism via Forbes  Bon App Editor-In-Chief Adam Rapoport Resigns After Following Allegations of Racist Culture via Eater  Joseph Hernandez 

We’re revisiting an episode from last year, because it feels more relevant now than ever. For everyone saying they want to make change and listen, there are ideas in this episode that you can do today. If you already heard this episode, please listen to it again and then share it with at least one person in your life.  I’m talking to Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison (she goes by Kholi). Kholi is an entrepreneur and growth strategist that helps define brands and growing communities. She’s also the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Whole30. She holds a PhD in Literatures in English, where she studied transhistorical theories of change and revolution.  In this episode, Kholi and I discuss how much context and language matters, her personal struggles with identity and race, how we can do diversity and inclusion better, and making space for everyone (not just for optics, but truly making space and opportunities for everyone).  Here’s Kholi:    Show Notes:   Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison’s Website + Instagram  Campaign Zero  Know Your Rights Camp  ****  

This week I’m talking to Emma Gannon. Emma is a Sunday Times bestselling author, speaker, novelist, and the host of the Ctrl Alt Delete podcast.  Emma and I discuss living a multi-hyphen life (having multiple careers and passions), self-sabotage, reprioritizing your time, chasing someone else’s success, indulgent pajamas, and more.      Show Notes:   Emma’s Website + Instagram Holley Murchison Episode  Sleeper Pajamas  Emma’s Books:  The Multi-Hyphen Life Sabotage: How To Get Out Of Your Own Way Olive Free 2 Month Skillshare Pass to take Emma’s class (use code ONEPART) Cal Newport episode  Deep Work  Chocolate Chunk Cookies  Creamy Mushroom Lasagna  **** One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo One Part Podcast Family Community Page ***** I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.  

This week, Daphne Javitch is back! Daphne is a holistic nutrition and lifestyle coach and the founder of Doing Well.  Daphne and I discuss quieting the wellness noise, finding consistency and routine, acknowledging your limitations, leveling up your health (on your own terms), and the power of “yet.”      Show Notes:   Daphne’s Website + Instagram  Knix Period Underwear (get $15 off your first order!)  One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo     **************** I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.

It’s the season premiere and we’re back for a second round with Dr. Will Bulsiewicz (Dr. B) to talk about his new book,  Fiber Fueled: The Plant-based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Health, Optimizing Your Microbiome. Dr. B and I discuss why gluten has gotten a bad rap, how to have a healthier relationship with food after elimination diets, his take on the low-FODMAP diet and SIBO, the importance of plant-diversity in our diets, what a good poop looks like, and building a healthier gut with food.  Here’s Dr. B:   Show Notes:   Dr. B’s Website + Instagram  Fiber Fueled: The Plant-based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Health, Optimizing Your Microbiome Bristol Stool Chart **** One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo One Part Podcast Family Community Page ***** I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.  

The new podcast season begins May 14th, but we’re bringing you a special episode this week with author and grief therapist Claire Bidwell Smith.  In this episode, Claire and I discuss processing grief during this time, how not to judge or feel guilt about our grief, supporting others (and ourselves) when we cannot be with loved ones, grieving in front of our children, moving grief through our body, and how none of us will be perfect at any of this (and that’s ok).  Here’s Claire:    Show Notes:   Good Food Cooking School  Claire Bidwell Smith’s Website + Instagram  Claire’s Books Arbor Day Foundation Memorial Trees **** One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo One Part Podcast Family Community Page ***** This episode was also supported by Amazon. Click on the Amazon banner in the sidebar anytime you need to make an Amazon purchase. A small percentage of your purchase will support the show (at no extra cost to you).  I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.

This week, I’m talking to Elizabeth Stanley, PhD. Elizabeth is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University and the author of Widen The Window: Training Your Brain and Body To Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma. She’s the creator of Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)® – and her research has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, NPR, and in Time magazine, among others. An award-winning author and U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. She’s also a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based trauma therapy. In this episode, Elizabeth and I discuss trauma recovery, the damaging effects of always pushing through, the epigenetics of stress, how stress responses can be contagious, respo, why breath-focused meditation is not always right for unprocessed trauma and stress, memory capsules, and being a trauma magnet.  Here’s Elizabeth:      Show Notes:   Charleston Wine + Food Event Tickets  Elizabeth Stanley’s Website Widen The Window: Training Your Brain and Body To Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma Grit: The Power Of Passion + Perseverance  **** One Part Plant Cookbook Know Your Endo One Part Podcast Family Community Page ***** This episode was also supported by Amazon. Click on the Amazon banner in the sidebar anytime you need to make an Amazon purchase. A small percentage of your purchase will support the show (at no extra cost to you).  I receive an affiliate commission from some of the links above.