April Summerford is a stage 4 endo survivor, health strategist, and credentialed coach. She is the founder of BeyondEndo.com which she started for women looking for community and sustainable solutions to pelvic pain and endometriosis. April has a unique way of breaking down the complexities of endometriosis, particularly the parts about getting a diagnosis and building a team to help you along the way. She has done it all and has a ton of great information to share with anyone who recognizes that they have symptoms that indicate endo but have no idea what to do next. In this episode, we talk about April’s endo journey from painful periods in her teens to diagnosis and beyond, why you need to be your biggest advocate, how to arm yourself before going to a doctor, what to look for in an endo specialist, the lifestyle changes that made a significant impact on April’s symptoms, the different types of endo surgery, and so much more! Enjoy this episode and share it with someone in your life who has endometriosis or suspects they do and doesn’t know what next steps to take.   To learn more about April Summerford, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-to-look-for-the-root-causes-of-endo-and-why-your-obgyn-may-not-understand-them-april-summerford. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Chloe Skerlak is a Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and Certified Fertility Awareness Educator who is wildly passionate about the menstrual cycle! When she's not hosting fertility awareness charting circles, teaching charting online, or taking photos of cervixes, she facilitates Period Positivity Workshops for parents and pre-teens because she believes body literacy is for everyone and every age. This episode is the first one where we’re talking about teenagers and birth control and as someone who was put on the pill as a teenager, Chloe spoke to my heart! Chloe and I talk about how uneducated we were about fertility and periods as teenagers, why it’s helpful to teach teenagers about fertility awareness, when to talk to teens and tweens about periods and birth control, and so much more!   To learn more about Chloe Skerlak, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/fertility-awareness-for-tweens-and-teens-chloe-skerlak. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Jessica Murnane is an author, speaker, and creative consultant. Her most recent book, Know Your Endo: An Empowering Guide To Health + Hope With Endometriosis is a straightforward guide to making endo more manageable. Jessica is a sought-after speaker and has spoken at Apple, SXSW, and Wanderlust, among others. In this episode, we talk about how disruptive endometriosis is to the lives of those who have the disease, how it affects mental health and what to do about that, why it’s important to remember that there is hope with endo, and so much more!   To learn more about Jessica Murnane, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Dr. Mariza Snyder is a functional practitioner and women’s health expert, and a force in the women’s health space. She’s the author of eight books, including her latest The Essential Oils Menopause Solution, which focuses on solutions for women in perimenopause and menopause. For the past ten years, she has lectured at wellness centers, conferences, and corporations on hormone health, essential oils, nutrition, and detoxification. She has been featured on Dr. Oz, Oprah Magazine, MindBodyGreen, and many publications. Mariza is also the host of the top-rated Essentially You Podcast, designed to empower women to become the CEO of their health. In this episode, we talk about the three phases of perimenopause, what’s really happening with your hormones during perimenopause, how your lifestyle impacts the symptoms you experience, Marisa’s experience with postpartum during perimenopause, how you can start addressing the root cause of your symptoms, and so much more!   To learn more about Dr. Mariza Snyder, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Sara Korzeniewski is a registered dietitian and functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner. She suffered from hormone and digestive symptoms for years with few recommendations for relief. Being in the wellness field she knew there had to be more going on and was determined to find a solution. She started studying functional medical nutrition therapy and through functional lab work, nutrition, and lifestyle was finally able to find long term answers to her symptoms. Now she and her team help frustrated women dig to the root causes of their health issues and understand the connection between hormones and gut health. In this episode, we talk about why you can’t supplement yourself out of a problem, what you need to know about calcium shell, why most types of birth control can lead to copper toxicity, the relationships between various vitamins and minerals, how this all ties in with female hormones, and so much more!   To learn more about Sara Korzeniewski, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Georgie Kovacs is the founder of Fempower Health, the go-to resource serving women, their providers, and companies looking to build/improve on products for women. She also hosts the Fempower Health Podcast, where she interviews experts to help women better understand how to navigate their health both day-to-day and in partnership with their providers. Her mission is to minimize the years many take to seek proper diagnosis and treatment. If you’ve ever been in a position where you feel you need to fight to be heard or have spent an exorbitant amount of time trying to get a diagnosis, this episode is for you!   In this episode, we talk about what Georgie learned on her fertility journey, why it takes women so long to receive a proper diagnosis, the problem with quick-fix solutions, why doctors aren’t all equally capable, what you can do to improve your experience when seeking answers about your health, positive changes in the women’s health space, and so much more!   To learn more about Georgie Kovacs, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Today I’m joined by Tallene and Sirak Kalaygian, the founders of PCOS Weight Loss. Tallene is a PCOS Weight Loss registered dietitian and after she was diagnosed at age 18, she was left scared and confused without much information or guidance from her practitioner. She discovered that eliminating gluten and dairy was a huge key to living healthier with PCOS and, together with her husband Sirak, developed a program meant to make living with the diagnosis easier to both understand and embrace. Sirak is a PCOS Personal Trainer and a strong supporter of women struggling with PCOS. He has taken his skills as an engineer and applied his creative genius to editing and producing the content within the PCOS Weight Loss membership and social media channels. Together with Tallene, he co-hosts the A Cyster and Her Mister podcast and brings a light-hearted and understanding approach to PCOS management. In this episode, we talk about Tallene’s experience with PCOS, why reversing your PCOS symptoms requires a full body and lifestyle approach, how changing your workout style can help your PCOS symptoms, why a gluten-free and dairy-free approach works, figuring out your carb tolerance, and so much more. There are so many great takeaways in this episode. I hope you enjoy it!   To learn more about Tallene and Sirak Kalaygian, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Brie Wieselman is a hormone balance and gut health specialist and is the clinical director of her online/virtual Functional Medicine Clinic where she and her practitioners work with women around the world. One of Brie’s areas of expertise is in helping people with digestive problems such as IBS, parasitic infections, Candida overgrowth, and SIBO to rebuild a bulletproof microbiome. Today we’re focusing on bioidentical hormones and this is a super enlightening episode with a ton of really useful information for anyone seeking out hormone replacement therapy as a solution. In this episode, we talk about what bioidentical hormones are, the advantages of bioidentical hormones over synthetic hormones, the conditions where bioidentical hormone replacement can be effective, how to take bioidentical hormones, and so much more!     To learn more about Brie Wieselman, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Jessica Duffin is a certified women’s health coach who specializes in endometriosis and small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Through her blog, podcast, and coaching she empowers people all over the world to live and thrive with endometriosis and its associated conditions using nutrition and holistic lifestyle changes. In this episode, we talk about why you don’t just have to live with your endometriosis symptoms, the connection between SIBO and endometriosis, the conditions that often show up alongside endometriosis, how an anti-inflammatory diet can help you, and so much more!     To learn more about Jessica Duffin, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective

Magdalena Wszelaki is the founder of Hormones Balance, a thriving online community dedicated to helping women balance hormones naturally. Magdalena is a nutrition coach, certified herbalist, and author of Overcoming Estrogen Dominance, which we’re talking about today. She’s got a long history of hormonal challenges that led to total burnout and estrogen dominance. Today she lives a symptom-free life and teaches women how to find their sacred hormonal balance. In this episode, we talk about what estrogen dominance is, Magdalena’s history of period problems and experience with estrogen dominance, the surprising symptoms of estrogen dominance, Magdalena’s top tips for supporting your body and taking control of your hormones, and so much more!     To learn more about Magdalena Wszelaki, visit the show notes. Mentioned in this episode:Join the Fix Your Period CollectiveAre you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.FYP Collective