The Hormone Hub Podcast Is Back: Why I Took a Break and What’s Coming Next
The Hormone Hub Podcast Is Back!
After recording more than 120 episodes, I stepped away from the podcast for nearly two years.
And today… we’re officially back.
In this first episode, I wanted to start with an honest conversation about why I took a break, what’s changed, and why these conversations matter now more than ever.
The Problem Women Are Facing Right Now
When I first started working in this space back in 2017, hardly anyone was talking about perimenopause.
Now?
It’s everywhere.
And while that’s a good thing… it’s also created a new problem:
Information overload.
Women are being told to:
Eat massive amounts of protein
Try the latest menopause supplement
Train harder
Follow extreme protocols
Completely overhaul their lifestyle
And when those things don’t work, women often assume they’re the problem.
But the truth is much simpler.
There's nothing "wrong" with you, you're evolving.
If nutrition feels confusing right now, I’ve created something to help.
Download the FREE Healthy Hormone Foods Guide
Inside you'll learn:
✔ The foods that support hormone balance
✔ How to stabilise energy and metabolism
✔ Simple nutrition foundations that actually work
👉 Download it here:
https://www.myhormonehub.com/hormone-healthy-foods-guide
This guide is designed to help you focus on the fundamentals — not the trends.
The Hormone Code
Tailored program for high achieving women to regain your energy and focus, conquer mood swings, lose unwanted weight and rebuild your confidence, knowing how to work with your changing hormones.
All without sacrificing your quality of life.
Let’s rewrite the narrative on perimenopause and menopause and do it differently.
This is an incredible time to course-correct your life so let’s start with resetting your menopause symptoms.
The Hormone Reset
Who says you have to feel tired all the time? Let’s change that!
The Hormone Reset is designed to reboot your system so you have more energy, feel less bloated, sleep better and kick those pesky cravings.
The Hormone Reset has no calorie counting, no expensive meal replacements and no crazy “detox in a box” that leaves you on the loo!
Simply fresh whole foods designed to support what your body does naturally.
Transcript
If you've been feeling like nothing works anymore, you are not alone. You are eating the same foods you always have. You're exercising, you're trying to look after yourself, but suddenly your body feels different. You wake up at 3:00 AM and can't get back to sleep. You're exhausted, even after a full night in bed, your weight's creeping up even though nothing has changed.
Your mood feels unpredictable and your patience is a little shorter than it used to. And a lot of women end up asking the same question, what on earth is going on with my body? If that sounds familiar, you are absolutely in the right place. But before we dive back into these conversations, I wanna share something with you because if you've noticed that the [00:01:00] podcast disappeared for a while, there's a reason.
Now the honest truth is I needed a break. Like many women, I found myself juggling a lot, the business, family, life, and at one point I realized I was feeling quite burnt out, but there was another realization as well. I started noticing that the work I was doing had drifted away from the type of women that I absolutely love working with. So the women I enjoy working with are curious about what's going on. They're invested in their health. They want to understand what's happening in their body, and they're open to learning and making some changes. Now, not perfect changes, not totally upending their life, but just realistic ones.
But I'd started working with some clients who were hoping that the changes would happen without doing the work, and that's a really difficult place to be as a practitioner, because at the end of the [00:02:00] day, it's my job to guide you. I can teach you, I can support you, I can hold you accountable, but I can't make the changes for you.
It's a bit like joining a gym. Just because you have a gym membership doesn't mean you're gonna get a six pack. You still have to show up. You still have to do the work. And I realized that that dynamic had shifted in a way that just wasn't enjoyable for me anymore. So I made the decision to take a step back.
So I did, and there was a lot of things going on with the family. So two kids had left school. One of those has since gone into the defense force and you know, he's training to be an intelligence analyst in the army, which is amazing. So proud of him. But yeah, kind of with all that's going on in the world, that also feels a bit weird and a bit uncertain right now.
He'll always have a job that's for sure. The other one has left [00:03:00] school. He is cruising in between ski seasons, so here in Australia, and also he's headed for Canada. So that's exciting for him. And my daughter, who I've spoken about her dyslexia before, so she has left her school that she's been at since grade one and has gone to an industry school, which is really exciting.
So it's a school for year 10, 11, and 12. She still comes out with a year 12 qualification. She can still go down the university pathway if she wants to. But what they do is they do a five week, like across the 10 week term, they do a five week education block, and then they do a five week, like practical experience, work experience type blocks.
So she's loving it. She's one of eight girls and 120 odd boys. But being a girl with two older brothers , anything that the boys throw at her, it's like water off a duck's back. [00:04:00] And the same with the other, you know, there's eight girls, so the same with the other girls. They're all the same. So they're pretty much immune to the boys, she just thinks that they're all a bit stupid. So, um, but yeah, I'm really proud of her too for, you know, stepping out of a school that she knows is something she's familiar with and is, yeah, stepping into that, that, I guess boys world and she's loving it. So, just that practical, um, you know, that suits her better than traditional classroom style learning.
So, so kids are all in a great place. Still have the Border Collie, he's still as crazy as ever. And we lost our old cat socks and, which was very sad, but we now have, 'cause we can't be petless for too long, two little itty bitty kitties. We've got 10 week old Arlo and Luna, so little kittens, so they've definitely bought a beautiful energy into the house.
They're absolutely crazy. They're either zooming around the house [00:05:00] or they're fast asleep. Uh, there's kind of nothing in the in between, so, yeah. So that's really fun. Okay, so while I am obviously still happily married to Sean, so we just hit our 24th wedding anniversary, a couple of weeks ago. So, and still on the Sunshine Coast. Not loving the weather right now, it's humid and disgusting. But yeah, embracing aircon when I can. Hmm. So yeah, so that's sort of like a little snapshot of where I am. And like over the last sort of 18 months, like I've definitely slowed things down a bit. So I continued to work with a few previous clients, couple of new clients, but mostly existing clients.
I did do some speaking at some events and worked on some different projects. I gave myself the space to really think about the direction of the business. But something interesting happened. So even though I enjoyed the break, I realized that something was [00:06:00] missing and that was the conversations. So I missed, you know, just talking about what's actually going on and helping and be that bridge between understanding what's going on and you know, what we can do about it.
And I really miss those moments where a woman suddenly realizes that there's light at the end of the tunnel that she's not failing. She's definitely not imagining things, you know, her body is just changing. And that realization reminded me of why I started work in the first place. So if we wind the clock back to , end of 2016, 2017, when I first started working in this space, you know, no one was talking about it, um, perimenopause, like it just wasn't even on the radar eight, nine years ago, but now it's, you know, everywhere we are all talking about it, which is great and I love that. But on the flip side that I'm seeing is women are also overloaded [00:07:00] with information right now. So there's so much online about hormones, menopause, cortisol, weight loss, supplements, sleep, you name it.
But a lot of that advice is confusing. Some of it is completely impractical. Like there's one chick on Instagram, she gets up at four o'clock in the morning and walks 10,000 steps before she goes to the gym, and then she goes to work and she's basically telling women that you can do this too, if you want it bad enough.
Like, I'm sorry, I don't want anything bad enough to get up at four o'clock in the morning for it. So yeah, so some of this advice just isn't practical. Some of it's not evidence-based, like I've just seen some things that have just made my eyes water and a lot of it is focused on quick fixes rather than real foundations.
So what happens is women jump in, they try a bit of everything, you know, let's up our protein, let's eat more cottage cheese. Like, [00:08:00] oh, for the love of God, women, ladies, you do not need to eat your body weight in cottage cheese. Train harder, another supplement. You know, if I see one more magic menopause supplement, I'm gonna scream. Another diet.
And then when these things don't work out, you know, women start to sort of think, oh, nothing's gonna work for me. And that's not the case. And even the narrative around HRT that's changed a lot too. So, you know, in future episodes, I really wanna dive into the nuts and bolts of of HRT and what's available to us now, because it's really cool.
And not for everyone. So what do we do there? So what we wanna do is sort of like actually dig into what's going on, what's actually happening, and what can we do with this changing body? So definitely as we move into our forties and fifties, we've got those shifting hormones.
Our sleep patterns change. Our stress response becomes more sensitive. Blood sugar [00:09:00] regulation becomes less stable. Metabolism can slow down. And then I sometimes feel like it's come to a grinding halt. Um, yeah, my own weight gain, weight loss, weight gain, weight loss story is a whole other thing. Something for another episode.
And you know, what happens is suddenly those strategies that we've always fallen back on and worked beautifully in our thirties just don't seem to work anymore. And this, again, it doesn't mean that there's no hope for us. It doesn't mean we can't do anything. It just means that the approach needs to evolve with us.
And that's exactly what we're gonna talk about on this podcast. So as we relaunch the Hormone Hub Podcast, my goal is very simple. To give you clear, practical advice that actually works in real life. No extremes, no complicated protocols, no unrealistic get up at four o'clock and do anything. Just evidence-based information and simple [00:10:00] strategies that you can apply in your everyday routine, because when you get the foundations right, your body responds. Your sleep improves, your energy improves, your mood improves, and everything starts to feel a little easier again.
So if nutrition feels confusing right now, I've created something to help get you started. It's called the Healthy Hormone Foods Guide. This guide walks you through the foods that support hormone balance, energy, and metabolism. No trends, no extremes, no crazy ingredients, just the fundamentals that help your body function properly.
So you can download this through the link in the show notes. And if there's one thing I want you to take away from this episode, it's this. You do not need to overhaul your entire life overnight. So those small changes that you make, can make a really big difference. So I want you to start with [00:11:00] one small step this week.
Maybe it's improving your breakfast, getting in some protein, some healthy fats, you know, and some carbohydrates, like within 30 to 60 minutes of getting up. Maybe it's getting outside for some morning sunlight, walking outside, put your eyeballs to the sun. And that's gonna help with sleep, and we'll talk about that in future episodes.
Maybe your body responds by going to bed a little bit earlier. Your body responds really well when you give it the right support. And over the coming episodes, we're gonna have a look at exactly how to do that. So I'm really glad you're here. Thank you for listening. Thanks for having me back in your AirPods, and I'm really happy to be back having these conversations with you.
See you in the next episode.