#154 Cycle Wisdom & Business Success with Kim Bilyk

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am especially excited about this episode because this conversation
about cycle sinking and really tapping into the seasons of
our body has been coming up over and over again
in our office hours inside the Seizing Happy Hybrid community.
And so if you don't know about the Hybrid community,
this is a space where we do in person and

(00:22):
virtual get togethers every single week. I open for office
hours on Thursdays and you can bring in whatever you
need coaching on and I coach you on the spot,
whether it's for like your business growth or your personal growth,
all fun things. And it just keeps coming up. Cycle
sinking and cycle thinking. And I've been practicing, or I
don't want to say practicing, I've been learning and figuring

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out my own cycle and sinking my business and my
life to it, and it has been life changing. But
I am in the learning process. I am in no
position to teach this yet, right and I also don't
feel called to teaching it at all. But I kept thinking,
I'm like, gosh, there has to be someone who is

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really really knowledgeable about this, who this is like their
life's work, that this is what they love to do,
that they're a pro. And the way you know, you
talk to the universe and the universe answers. And I
had met Kim Billick before and she like popped into
one of our networkers that we were doing, one of
our fundraising networkers for the season Happy Hybrid Community. She

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told me she was going to come, but she's in
Fort Lauderdale, and I was like, there's no way she's
gonna make it all the way down here. And she
went and we started talking, and the moment that we
talked to I was like, Oh, yes, you got to
be on the podcast. You're the person.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
It's you.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's you who the ladies in my community have been
asking for. You're the one that's got to come teach this.
So I'm so excited that she's on this episode because
we are going from if you know nothing about cycle
sinking to metopause. So this is it's going to be
a fun one. I recommend right now that you grab

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a notebook because she is giving you all the goods
and so. Kim Vilik is a women's hormone health coach,
certified in functional nutrition, perimenopause and menopause, and as a
vaginal steam therapist. She is an author and a founder
of Sacred womb cycles through the use of multiple holistic approaches.

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She supports women thirty five m beyond with healing their hormones,
releasing their emotional blocks, and embodying their sexual energies so
they can reclaim their health and have their best years yet.
Plus she's a total powerhouse and super fun to talk to.
So here's the deal. Listen to this episode, take your notes,

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reach out to Kim directly for more questions, and if
you're in Miami and you're listening to this episode before
August seventh, you can meet her in person at our
next wellness networker that's happening at miav SPA in river Landing.
My ivspall has phenomenal support for your wellness, whether it's
A B twelve shots, they have NAD, they have amazing

(03:07):
IV infusions, and they'll be donating fifteen percent of any
wellness service that you that you purchase from them to
the Seizing Happy Foundation. Kim is going to be there
as one of our speakers, and she's going to bring
her tea to taste and to enjoy. You'll learn more
about her tea in just a few moments when you
listen to this episode, and we're also going to have
doctor Kyle who's going to do chiropractic evaluations and alignments

(03:33):
on the spot, all complimentary. All you need to do
is show up, network, learn how to take care of
your health, pause to boost your wellness, and it's all
going to be for a wonderful purpose and you get
to meet amazing people while you're there. So meet Kim
in person on August seventh, the end. If you're listening
to this after August seventh, just reach out to her directly.
All of her contact info is in the show notes.

(03:56):
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Speaker 2 (04:38):
Are you ready? Here we go, Kim.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I am so excited to have you on the show.
Because one of the things that we talk about all
the time inside our Seizing Happy ecosystem is how to
do business like women and how to honor and support
the business and the woman behind the business equally. That
is literally the model of everything we do in Seizing Happy,
and you're like the pro a how to support the

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woman behind the business in one of the.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Parts of our.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Woman existence that I feel has been kind of pushed aside. Right,
it's the taboo, it's thirty, it's all these things, and
it's like, no, it's kind of magical, and we're just
now starting to remember how our cycles are such a
powerful experience and also such a powerful tool for us

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if we know how to use it right. First, I
want you to tell me what led you to this
particular curiosity and then expertise.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, well, first, thank you for having me. I got
goosebumps just you talking about that, because I'm just so
passionate about educating women around this. And what led me
to being so passionate about women's health and educating about
our mental cycle is Back in twenty seventeen, I was
prepping for my first bikini competition, and I come from

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a Western medicine background as an occupational therapist. At that time,
I was finishing my yoga therapy training as well, so
I'm a certified yoga therapist. And I lost my period
for eight months, and you know a little bit of
neglect in my end. I trusted my coach and I
was like, I'm just going to go down this journey.
And in that time, the only thing the doctor had

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to offer me was birth control, and I knew that
wasn't like the root cause of why this was happening. Yes,
the training's intense, you know, we cut our diet, but
I learned from my body. My body doesn't handle stress
as well, Like I don't get sick, I don't get
the common cold flu. When I'm stressed out, my cycle
talks to me. So in that time, I was living

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in La, very involved in the fitness and wellness world,
and I'm very open about what was going on, and
I kept hearing the same thing from women. I feel
so alone. I don't feel heard from my doctor. The
only thing that they want to offer me is birth
control and in some cases surgery. And hearing that from

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so many women, I was like, I want to be
a change for this. So I actually just went quietly
and I just started studying women's hormones, women's health. Like
I wasn't saying I'm a woman's hormone health coach, nothing
like that. I was just studying it. And I do
have that nerdy side, and so I got my period back.
I did compete again after that four more times because

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it's something I wanted to do. And something I always
say is we could be a badass in all areas
of our life if we listen to our cycle. We're
cyclical in life or cyclical with our cycle. So it's
just like adding a little bit and taking a little
bit away. So because we were not always one hundred
percent focused on maybe the business or growing the family

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or competing, I know, that's like you know, very extreme
or traveling. So we get to put energy into one
bucket but maybe have to pull from another, and during
certain times of our cycle, we really just get to rest.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
I love to hear that, and it's funny that you
should say neglect on my part, I trusted my coach.
Those words are wild to me because it goes to
show nothing against your coach, but it goes to show
how sometimes even professionals and experts in certain fields don't

(08:35):
have all the answers. Yeah, because I imagine a coach
would have been working with many women, not just you,
and has a history of working with women who are
competing and has probably heard this stuff. But if it's
happening to everyone, then it must be common, it must
be a part of the thing.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
And so it must be normal.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
And it's like so many things like that are kind
of just accepted without being found out deeply, like what's
the cause? And I've noticed that happens a lot with
women in medicine. I feel like medicine was initially created,
you know, like not created, but studied by men, and

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the focus was always men, and men were practicing it,
and men were, you know, doing the studies on men.
And it's like there's an entire mystery behind the woman's
body that even medicine can't explain, you know. Even I
remember through my first pregnancy with my son, I would
ask my gynecologist questions, and the response to half of

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my questions, if not more, was it's normal. Oh, don't
worry about that, it's normal. And it's like, Okay, I
hear you, it's normal, But what's the cause. Oh, you know,
there's just not enough studies to know, or like it
just happens all the time, and then it's like the
the fluff answers that lead to no science behind what's

(09:57):
the cause? I get it's normal, cool, what happens to everybody?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Awesome? Why?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
And even doctors couldn't tell me? And that's what it
made me think of, was like, oh, it's neglect. I
trusted my doctor, and that sentence to me like makes
my brain short circuit, because if you trust your doctor,
that that's really not neglect. If you're trusting somebody who's
an expert in something, it's not, it feels like it's
it shouldn't be neglect. And it kind of makes us

(10:23):
really realize that we need to take full responsibility for
our health, full responsibility for our business, full responsibility for
our life in general, and that trust has to be earned.
It can't just be given to a title. And I
feel like that's really a big awakening that's happening right now,
especially in medicine and in health and in well being.

(10:46):
I feel like a lot of us are starting to
realize that you know, what is normal and standard, and
that everybody's doing is not necessarily what's best for us,
and there's like a wisdom that is awakening in that.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, whether it's like what an influencer is show or
you know, saying you should be doing, or the doctor.
I always say to my clients, like, you got it.
You get to tap into what you need. What is
your body telling you? Like I saw a post recently
and she's a women's hormone health coach. Generally, during our

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luteal phase the week before a period, and like those
first couple days of our period, we're meant to keep
the womb warm. Ancient traditions even say that for me,
that works too. But this woman was saying, you know,
what feels good for me is actually being in the cold.
She's like, a cold plunge feels good for me. And

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sometimes we just need to like listen to those things.
Like I know that might be a little bit of
an extreme example, but sometimes it's just like this works
for me.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I think that that self trust is also something
that has been kind of stripped away from women. We've
been told so much for so many centuries, how we
should be, how we should look, how we should talk,
how we should this and that and the other that
we kind of just grow up performing a role that
we're expected to perform.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Regardless of your culture, your background.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
We are all in every culture, in every background, women
have a role that they're supposed to play. It's like
this character you're supposed to be, and we do it
because we're supposed to do it. As children, we don't
question what we're told by our parents. In our society especially,
and then i'm you know, not every woman has the
opportunity or the time or you know, like that the

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thing that changes something in their life that makes them say,
hold on a second, is this even me? And to
develop the inner trust of saying, okay, I see all
of this is happening. I've been told this my whole life.
Every single woman in my lineage has done it this way.
But something in me is telling me that this is
not it, and I'm going to trust that. That is
so courageous, you know, And for the women who are

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starting to dabble into rediscovering that self trust and that
ability to listen inward before taking what's happening out there
as you know, the path or the answers, what would
you say are some steps that we can take to
reconnect with that with that inner knowing, with that trust
in ourselves.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, you know, for some it could be very hard,
but it's really just sitting with yourself. So I'm not
sure if you're I know you know about my teas.
But I also created the Womb Wisdom Journal, and it
talks about the different phases of our cycle and then
takes you on a three month journey and so you
could really see how your energy is shifting throughout the month.

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But at the beginning of that journal, I describe a
breathwork practice called cosmic breathing, and it's tied in with
contric practices, and all it takes is two to three minutes,
and I just say put your hand on your room
and basically when you're doing it, so you could close
your eyes, just get you know, get comfortable, and starting

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right from your pubic bone, take an inhale, feel the
energy rising up the front side of your body, up
through the heart, up all the way to the crown
of your head. And then as you exhale, breathing down
the backside of your body, down the back of the head,
the neck, the spine, all the way down to your tailbone.
And then as you inhale, feel the energy loop around

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through the front side of your body, coming all the
way to the crown of your head, and then exhaling
down energies running down the backside of your body. And
as you're doing that, just asking yourself, asking your womb
which I call your womb tuition, like what are you
needing today? What are you needing now? And you could

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get a vision, you could get a sensation, you may
get a download and actually hear something. And that's something
so simple. I have my clients and I say to women, like,
just do that two three minutes in the morning on
your own, before the kids come up, get up before
your husband, before you need to run to work, and
just something so simple like that could actually just like

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set you for the day and you get these little
downloads of like what your body really needs. Another thing
is just sitting in nature. And I know some people
that if you're in the middle of brickle might be
hard travel down to the beach or something. But you know,
just sitting in nature, even for a little bit, you know,
I feel like for me too, like nature's feminine, so

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you're connected to the feminine. Just sitting outside is very
grounding and you feel your body calm. You feel the
nervous system calm down, and that's where you get these
little downloads of like what your body needs. And then
of course journaling. I think journaling is such a powerful thing.
You were talking earlier before we hopped on here, how
you like to write things out, you know, just like

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whether it's business, you know, you feel like you need
to go hand to paper. But even and maybe you've
heard this with manifesting, you know, writing down what you're
calling in and so it's spelling, you are creating your spell.
So the same thing, like what is coming up for you,
just writing it out, that's a way you could be releasing.

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If you're trying to get some emotions out, you're actually
just physically releasing that. And if it's something positive, you know,
you're just like putting it to paper like okay, this
is real. So those would probably be three things that
like really come to mind right away.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
And it's wild because they're so simple.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
They are.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
They're so simple, and they're not always easy to do.
That I feel like it's such a yummy pause, you know,
like it's it's simple to go sit in nature, but
like you said, if you're living among the brick, right,
and so much of Miami does.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Have just all brick everywhere.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
You know. It's like you got to make it somewhere
where you can have some of that calm, you know.
And I feel like, I you're right, I was just
I showed you this earlier. It's like I have little
notes everywhere, like thoughts, and I have my notebook that
I write like the official things in and and the
writing part is so important, but you have to pause
and take the time to allow the writing to come,

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to allow your brain and the speed, the wild speed
of our thoughts to find the pace of the ability
of your hand.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
And I feel like that.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Matching of speeds is where like you center and the oh,
I didn't even realize I was thinking that, Like, oh,
I didn't even realize that I was needing that, or
oh shit, that's a great idea, you know, Like how
long have I been sitting on that idea?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
You know?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
But we can't we can't let our true self out
when we are busy doing and running around and listening
to what everybody else is saying.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
The other thing I hear a lot from women is
I didn't even realize I was feeling that way I
didn't even realize like my period was this bad, or
like these symptoms were this bad. It was you know,
you just get so caught up in life and it's
not until I feel like a lot of times something
significant happens. And sometimes it's even I had a lady recently.

(18:10):
I was like why, Like I always ask, I'm like,
why is the time now? Why are you coming to me?
And she said because I have so many people to
take care of. And I was like, ooh, let's sit
with that for a while. I'm like, and who's taking
care of you?

Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
So there's like these significant moments of you know, you're
getting really sick or maybe you do need to take
care of people, and you're realize, I need to take
care of myself better so I can support these people.
But that's when I like, that's something I hear often.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Too, And that's such a big part of what's happening
with women these days. I feel like we're so focused
on nurturing our children, on making sure a marriage is
doing well, on growing and scaling the business six and
seven figures and eight and nine, and on the marketing
and content and the cleaning and the cooking and the

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meal prepping and then reading all the ingredients and then
looking up the ones you've never read before, and like,
you know, when.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
You pause, it's like, if I remove.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Myself from this situation, will any of this get done?
Nine times out of ten the answer is no. And
so if all of those things are so important to you,
you have to be the strongest piece of that puzzle.
You have to You're like the center piece that all
of the little puzzles tie to, and then everything the

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whole puzzle goes out from there, like and we forget
that so much. And so I want this episode to
I want to start light and then go deep for
those that are already cycle sinking, and then for those
that are, like, my cycle has phases. I thought it
was just a period. It's so common, very common. Yeahact,

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so let's break down the cycle and then give me
like a brief explanation of the obviously like the cycle phase,
what the body means, and how it usually feels okay
in that phase so we can identify it perfect.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
So first, let I want to just like ease some confusion.
We have our period and we have our menstrual cycle.
Those are two different things. So our period length is
how many days we're actually bleeding. So a healthy period
is usually three to seven days. The first day of

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our period is day one of our cycle, our menstrual cycle.
Our menstrual cycle is from day one of that period
all the way until we bleed again. So if I,
you know, today's day one of my period and day
one of my cycle, and then I bleed again twenty
nine days later, I'm on a twenty nine day cycle.

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Healthy cycles anywhere between twenty six to thirty four days.
It doesn't have to be a perfect twenty eight like
a lot of the apps share, and that's why you
need to be careful with those free apps. We don't
also all ovulate on day fourteen. You know, a couple
months ago, as I was as you know, as I

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was healing from my accident, my cycle actually got a
little longer, and I was ovulating on day seventeen. So
you know, if I was having unprotected sex and thinking
I ovulated on day fourteen, I could get pregnant on
day seventeen. So it's really important to like really just
start tracking your cycle for many reasons. So during our
period day you know, days one through seven ish, our

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hormones are at our lowest, especially days one and two.
That's estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and that is why you likely
are feeling a little more low energy. Now. If you're
the type that you like can't even get out of bed,
like you have zero energy. If you're having cramps that
you're having to call off work every month, that's not normal.

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But if you're just like I don't want to go
to the gym today, I don't feel like going to
that social event, that's normal. That's your body just telling you,
you know what, you get to sit inward, relax. Our
body's bleeding, our hormones are at our lowest, so and
during this time we're actually really connected to spirit. So
this would be a time I would say, just like sit,

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do a meditation, sit in nature and just see what
kind of downloads come in and like you do gig,
write it down. You don't have to do anything with
it right then, but just write it down. And yes,
this is a time like if you can I know
it's not always perfect, but if you can meal prep
or you know, if you want to order in or

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your partner could cook for you or something like that.
The grandparents take the kids, you know, for an afternoon
just to let your body, you know, calm, relax. If
a lot of us work remote nowadays, so you know,
have a lighter schedule on your calendar, things like that.
That's during your period. The second and this is our

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inner winter. We call it our inner winter, think wintertime,
mother nature hibernates. That's what we get to do. Then
the second phase is our follicular phase. This is our
inner spring. And I know myself and a lot of
women do say this. Around day four, like the fourth
day of your period, you kind of you're like, oh, yes,
all ready to go again, right, You kind of get

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like that shift in energy, so you know your periods ending.
You're kind of moving into the second phase, our follicular phase.
This will run anywhere, you know, from when your period ends.
I'll say to around days third, around day twelve thirteen,
and I'm giving a rough ballpark because all of us
have a different cycle. So during this time, our estrogen's rising,

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testosterones starting to rise a little bit. This is when
we're creative. This is where we maybe the down load
that we got during our period we get to start
putting it into action. So this is a good time
also to start something new, whether it's a new routine
with the children, something new for yourself to fuel your body,

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something new in your business. But this is the time
a good time to try something new. You're creative, and
you could have like a little bit of those longer
workdays during this time as well. And then we move
into ovulation. A lot of us know, you know, this
is when we're fertile. But if you're not calling in
a child right now with that energy, you could call

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in whatever you want with that sexual energy. I call
that sex magic. Estrogen peak peaks, testosterone peaks, So this
is when you probably feel like, wow, I have so
much energy or way more energy. I want to be social,
I want to be out, I want to be seen.
I feel more sexy. My skin's glowing because estrogen actually

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makes our skin glow. I say, it's like the hormone
that keeps us juicy. Yeah, so we're glowing. This is
a good time to have your presentation, if you're hosting
an event, negotiate any deals that you're doing, anything that
you're out there in public. This is a good time
for that. And this is our inner summer. From a

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fitness perspective, this is also a good time to like
have your biggest workouts, like you know, your heaviest lifting,
just because our body could tolerate it. But what I
want to warn you to be careful about during this
time is don't overbook yourself because you have so much
energy for these couple of days and you're like, oh, yeah,

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I'm good for next Friday, but remember what next Friday is.
That's your luteal phase, our fourth phase, our inner fall,
and we're getting ready to bleed again. So we're peaking
energy here, but a week later we're going to be
down here. So you just want to be a little
bit mindful of that. And oot phase it's a little
bit of a longer phase, so it's from the day

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right after we ovulate until we bleed again, so it's
gonna be about twelve days. And the first couple days
of it, you still kind of have that ovulation energy.
You still feel kind of high energy, and then you're
gonna shift into that inner fall, and you may notice
during that time you just naturally you feel your energy
kind of slow down. So if you ovulate and in

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a healthy cycle, your estrogen peaks during ovulation, and then
the estrogen's going to drop, and then your progesterone is
going to go up, and that in a healthy cycle. Progesterone,
I say, is like your natural anti anxiety medication, so
it keeps you calm, it helps with your sleep. And

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then so that's all happening in the first part, and
then the couple days leading towards your period, all the
hormones are starting to drop again, preparing for your bleed
in this time. I know the ludial phase PMS gets
a really bad reputation, but for your listeners right now,

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just reflect what do you try to push through during
this time when we're meant to start slowing down? And
I say, this is that's why my tea is called
the wild Woman, because we're the bullshit detectors. We actually
see like through this veil. And this is a very
reflective time. So for business, this is a good time

(27:31):
to do any editing. So if you're writing a book,
like do your edit then it finances copy for you, know,
your presentation or your event that you're doing in a
couple of weeks, like this is a good time to
do those edits. And it's also a good time to
do a life audit, like what what do you get
to let go of in your life. And I always

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say to the women that get really emotional during this time,
whether it's anxious, just crying, where are you not fully
expressing yourself? What gets to be said that you're not saying,
I got goosebump? Says I say that, And I do
have to say there again, reflect on this and write

(28:17):
it down, because this might not be the best time
to have that uncomfortable conversation or that clearing conversation with
the person. Because in our luteal phase and when we're
on our period, we're very connected to the feminine, and
feminine tends to be a little bit more emotional, whereas
the first half of our phase follicular and ovulation, we're

(28:37):
in our masculine energy, and that's why probably ideas come
out and we're more outward because think masculine energy, you're
thinking logical, you're leading. So if something does come up
of how you're not expressing that, if you can hold
it for a week or two, and then if you
feel that a conversation gets to be had, and it

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can be in business, sometimes we need to have those
uncomfortable conversations in business. If it's with your partner, maybe
your mom, a sister, brother, wherever it needs to be
a friend, have that conversation later when you're more in
your logical thinking, and generally it's going to come out better.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
This is so useful, not just for the entrepreneurial part
of nurturing yourself as the person who has to have
this business, who has to develop a business that is
able to hold them because I feel like a lot
of times it's like we want to hold our business,

(29:37):
but it's like, no, my business needs to hold me.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
The only way that we can build that deeply, because
that's a huge restructure of the way we even approach
entrepreneurship is if we can understand ourselves that deeply. And
so you know, I say this at least three hundred
times a day. It's like your business is a reflection
of you. And so how can we get our business
to support us through the different seasons of life, the

(30:05):
different needs that we have. If we don't even understand
our own seasons, if we don't even understand our own
physical needs right on a weekly shift, give or take right.
And so you know, now that we understand these four
cycles a little bit better, what are the ways to

(30:26):
support ourselves through them. So I want to talk about
your tea because I know that it has it's built
to support through each of these seasons as you call them.
I love that, So tell me about that and what
other ways can we support our bodies?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, thank you for that question. So there's there's many ways,
of course, yes, the tees so I created for Herbal
Teas and this was a download too. I was in
I was just finishing my doll and Contra Killing arts training.
I was on retreat, like that was the closure of
the training, and we just had a ceremony and I
was like sitting in nature and just like taking it

(31:03):
all in, and I got like this download to change
my business name. It used to be a Mala Living
that was tied to my yoga era a little more
meaning pure living. And then I was like, no, I
get to rebrand in Sacred Moon cycles because as I'm talking,
we're cyclical in the month, but we're also cyclical in life,
and we could get into that a little bit more
from you know, our reproductive years, perimenopause, menopause which is

(31:27):
really only one day and then postmenopausal, but we're shifting
through that, so we're cyclical in life, and yeah, I
got this download to create these teas. So as i've
you know, it was just explaining our hormones are shifting,
right and our body needs different things throughout the month
to support this hormonal shift. So I created the four
herbal teas. And I do know a little bit about herbalism,

(31:51):
but I do not consider myself an herbalist. But I
had my mentor from the Dow and Tantra killing Arts.
Her sister is a sert of fed herbalists and actually
she's here in Miami or just moved for Lauderdale. She
was in Miami, Ariel. I don't know if you know her.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I don't think I've met her, but she's amazing.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
We'll get connected somehow. She's amazing and so knowledgeable. So
we actually sat down together to blend these teas. I
kind of knew what I wanted, but then she was like,
some herbs actually infuse better in hot water than others,
and some are actually meant to be a tincture, so
they infuse better in alcohol. So there was a lot

(32:34):
of thought process like around this, and so I created
these teas to nourish our bodies through each face to
help keep us regular on like a regular normal cycle,
to help manage our symptoms that are coming up, to
help support a woman that's trying to get pregnant. My cousin,

(32:57):
she followed a little bit of like what I told her,
Like I didn't actually coacher. She's just like him. You know,
I got off birth control. We're trying to you know,
start a family. What should I do? And I was
just do like ABCD. It was just like a conversation
at I think Thanksgiving dinner. And then she got my
teas and she started drinking them. Her husband was even
drinking them because he's like they taste so good. And

(33:20):
then she texts me she's like, first try Kim, we
got pregnant.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's amazing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
So it's to like support, just support us. And I
get this question off often because even though they're created
to support each phase of our cycle. Well, I'm like tour,
I'm in perimenopause in like forty nine and I don't
have a regular cycle, or I don't even have a
period anymore, Like are these still going to support me?
And yes they will, because for example, restore, which is

(33:51):
for when we're on our period, it's a very detoxifying
tea has cinnamon, ginger, licorice, root, dandelion, root, meadow sweet
all anti inflammatory, detoxifying. So yes, if you're having digestive
issues and you're fifty one, this is going to support you.
The Wild Woman Tea is full of root herbs, just ironically,

(34:15):
and roots are very grounding. I'll talk about food in
a second, but I even recommend eating a lot of
root vegetables when we're in our luteal face. So that's
in the tea. It's a very calming Lemon bom is
a heart opening herb, so that's in that blend. So
it will still support you even if you're not regularly cycling.

(34:37):
So that is one way to support your cycle. Is
the teas right and quickly. Why I created those two
is because they're easy. They're loose leaf. You could travel
with them easy. You just bring your little stainless still infuserble,
put that in a cup of hot water and you're
good to go. Like you know, sometimes with the powders,

(34:59):
you're like shape and you're like this thing's all clumped up,
like you know. Don't get me wrong, I do take
some powders, but you know it's just an easy way
and a way to create ritual. How many of you
ladies listening have your glass of wine before bed, especially
after the kids go to sleep, No judgment, but that's
actually disrupting your sleep. So I get some of my

(35:22):
clients and just women I talk to, like you know,
we're talking right now, I'm like, try the tea before bed,
and that's what I do. That's when I usually have it.
I have like, that's kind of become my ritual before bed.
So the other ways to support your.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Cycle and before we go into the other ways, because
I just want to like throw this in there. It's
having ritual is one of the key ways of connecting
with ourselves. That is a great time in the day,
whatever the ritual is at night morning, But creating ritual
throughout your life and really honoring the pauses of the

(35:57):
rituals in your life is an opportunity to do your
two minutes of breathing. It's an opportunity to grab a
notebook and write down, like how have I felt today?
What kind of things am I grateful for? What kind
of things do I wish I had done instead? You know,
are there any parts that I feel like I don't
want to take with me until tomorrow. Like having that
pause in the day. I mean, it's the same way

(36:18):
that we do our mornings, right, You get your coffee,
you bring it in, you smell, it's the same thing.
Can you pause in that moment with a tea and
write down what do I want out of today? Take
your two minute breather and say what do I need
out of today?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
And you know.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
It's it's the required pause so that we can get
out of that the hamster wheel feeling of I got
to do this next, I gotta do this next, I
gotta check this off, I got to check this off.
And you don't realize that your body is screaming for
help until you're in a hospital someplace, you know, or
until like your hair's falling out, or until you're like, oh,

(36:54):
my pregnancy test is negative, but I haven't had my
period in three months. What's happening? And so you know,
ritual is not just the woo woo part of ritual.
It's the pause to connect with yourself, even just to
hear your own thoughts for a moment, whether or not
you're bringing a spirituality practice into it. So for those

(37:17):
that are like Gigi, don't get woo woo on me,
which I'm going to anyway, even without the woo woo part.
The ritual is the pause. The ritual is the routine
of pausing to listen. And that's very important and so
just wanted to add that to So what are the
other ways that we can support ourselves through our cycle?

Speaker 3 (37:36):
So herbs aren't the only thing. Our food different foods
that we eat throughout the month. So when we're on
our period, I know I'm gonna say Western medicine will
be like, don't eat red meat, don't eat butter, all
those things. That's not the problem. I laugh at myself
when I go into the grocery store and I'm on
my period, I'm like, I want elk and bison and

(37:58):
me too. And it's my like when you start listening
to the foods or kind of understanding like what your
body needs hormonally as you were shifting, you're gonna laugh
at yourself when you go to the grocery store because
you're like, why am I craving kiwis? And I can't
leave without the kiwis or the meat. So yes, when
we're on our period, think we're bleeding we're losing iron,

(38:20):
so having red meat, it's good to have red meat.
Having lentils or beans fiber you know there too there's
iron and all that. So having those type of foods
and I know I mentioned this a little bit earlier,
like the warm foods, so having stews. I love like

(38:40):
vice and chili is on the menu every month for me.
And make like hoot warm soups anything like that. Of
course teas, anything warm to like kind of soothe the womb,
especially if you are a woman with a lot of cramps,
like really bad cramps, heavy bleeds, clotting so like clots

(39:03):
bigger than a quarter. A lot of that is tied
in with stagnation, which is connected to the liver. So
we need to get things moving and the warmth is
going to help support that when we move into our
inner spring, the follicular phase. If you did have a
heavy bleed, you could still have some red meat there,

(39:25):
but having even like fish, so tuna, your whitefish, anything
like that. Start having some citrus foods and you could
start adding in also like chryciferous vegetables, And I really
like kind of encourage that when we're ovulating because our

(39:47):
estrogen's at its highest point. So and then also with
follicular phase, you know, you could have like wild rice.
I'm not you know, I'm not one of those coaches
or women that's saying cut out all the carbs. We
do need carbs, we do need fiber. So having those
foods and then ovulation, we want to support our ovaries

(40:08):
to help with the ovulation. So think omega three fats.
That's where salmon comes in. That's really good. We also
want to think of antioxidants, So our citrus vegetables, all
our berries, red peppers, vitamin cea, oranges, we want to
think of that. And because it is our inner summer,

(40:28):
we naturally will end up like having little more cooling foods.
Think here, how hot it is. We just want like
salads during the day, or like a shake or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
I am the wrong person to say that too, because
I want to eat soup all day, every day, no
matter what the temperature is outside, no matter what point
at my cycle I'm in, I want a giant hot soup.
And if there's fire under it while I'm eating it,
even better, if it's.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Just gonna get hot. It's like as I go through
the bowl it's even better. But you know, I'm weird,
but I think.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, but it's funny that you should say that, because
I can. I can think of throughout my throughout my
own cycle, my cravings do change dramatically, and and You're right.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
When I'm on my.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Bleed, I could eat an entire cow, like I want
all the meat, all of it, you know. And and
I do feel during my luteal phase that like my
digestion kind of even slows down. It's almost like I
can physically feel like, oh, wait a minute, I can't

(41:46):
eat certain things because it's just going to take a
little longer to process through my body, and then I'll
get kind of like bloated, and it's like kind of opt.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Out of that.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
But listening to the body, I think is just the
most powerful way to really cut and know what you
need too, you know.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, Like it really will tell you once you start
kind of understanding what what foods you should be having.
And I'm not saying you have to follow it perfectly,
but just like kind of starting to like under understand.
And I know I had mentioned like the carciferous vegetables
too during our during ovulation, so because estrogen's peaking. We want,

(42:26):
so chrysiperous vegetables are like cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale.
What those vegetables do is they help metabolize excess estrogen.
So some of you may have heard of DIM it's
a supplement and it's basically compounded like a compressed caciferous vegetablest.

(42:47):
A lot of you may have even heard of the
term estrogen dominance. Est dominance is when our estrogen levels
are too high. But there's two ways it could be happening.
We actually could have too much estrogen in our body.
And the thing is it's even happening to men nowadays
because of all the garbage in our environment. So from

(43:08):
plastic bottles, perfumes, us women, we put over one hundred
chemicals on our body a day, from our makeup, our
scented lotions, maybe even our tampons, pads, Like if we're
not using some of the organic ones our yoga clothes,
which I mean, I know I still wear some of

(43:28):
it because I'm like, if I do a squat and
my pants are falling down because the organic ones aren't
holding up, I'm like that stress is hurting me more
than my pants day and the pants right, I'm like,
choose your battles eighty twenty. But what can we do
even though we're like ingesting some of the chemicals, literally
we're ingesting it through our skin, through our mouth, how

(43:50):
can we detoxify? So these type of vegetables help that.
The other thing is if progesterone is low and our
estrogen is say even normal, but progesterone levels are low,
it still is like estrogen dominance. It's that ratio between
estrogen and progesterone. So there's two ways of why it
could be showing up. So yeah, an ovulation. That's why

(44:11):
it is good to have those carycipherous vegetables to kind
of help support that. I don't know, I like my
greens anyway.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
It's funny, I never liked greens before. And my husband
is like a little rabbit, like he could eat like
I eat soup all day every day. He's like that
with all the green things. He wants a salad all day.
He wants a salad every day. And at first I
was like, and I mean, I'm Cuban, so like our
cooking is probably the most unhealthy type of cooking and

(44:40):
I've had to like really teach myself to cook other stuff.
But I was always like, listen, I'll make you a
salad because it's easy, right, and it's fast, and that's
great for me.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
But like, aren't you going to eat at roconfrijoles? Like
what are you? Who are you? What's wrong with you?
Like why are you just trying to eat grass all day?
And slowly? Now?

Speaker 1 (44:58):
I love a good salad, Like now, like we were
both heartbroken. There's this salad spot that's been around forever
and ever. It was called Beverly Hills Cafe in Miami Lakes,
and we loved going there. They used to serve these
bowls when I tell you a bolt, it's like a bucket,
and their salads were just so delicious and so like

(45:21):
full and fresh and crispy crunchy, like it was just
the best. And they closed down, and we're just like heartbroken,
and every at least once a week.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
I'm like, I wish Beverly Hills was still bad. It's
the only satellite.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Liked, you know, because I'm still learning to like the
greens and the crispies, and so.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I think that's something else too.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
It's like when we're in this space of a new
discovery for ourselves, of becoming that improved version of ourselves.
Who we surround ourselves with is so important because it's
easy to you know, it's easy to be with to
say I want to eat these things because it's what
my body needs right now. It's what I feel like

(46:04):
is going to be the best thing to so have
been doing a little research. I have my tea with
me and all these things, and you want to go
out with your girlfriend, and your girlfriend's like, but I'm
less mimosa than pizza.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
It's like, ah, you know, what do you mean, philicular?

Speaker 3 (46:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
I don't care. Let's just go drink.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
You know, not that there's anything wrong with bottomless mimosas
once in a while, but you know, when you're with
someonhen you're when you're on a journey of becoming a
different you, sometimes that requires different people around you, and
it's you know, I thought about that with the salad
because there are so many things about my husband that
I tell him all the time. I'm like, you don't

(46:43):
even know it, but like, you make me so much
better just being like he doesn't tell me anything and
never tells me what to do because he thinks the
same thing about me. He tells me, he's like, are
you are you crazy? Like, no, I'm always looking to
you to to like improve myself. And it's just nice.
And it made me think of this, like, if you're
trying to how you show up and what you eat,
and how to support your body and how to really

(47:04):
like slow down and not live that crazy life, and
you have the people around you like that chaos, and
they don't. They don't stop to they don't stop to
think or to connect or value conversations like this. You know,
they they'd rather gossip about what so and so is doing.
It's not conducive to the change, you know for sure.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
And as you say that, I think of what do
they say? You're like a reflection of your five closest people. Yeah, right,
so And with that, sometimes as you make these changes,
it can feel a little bit lonely. You can are
letting go of some of those people that maybe aren't
in alignment. And I always say, I'm like, it's not
you being better than them, You're just in a different

(47:43):
phase of life. And if it's going to make you
feel better, if it's going to help you have better
periods and more energy and be more focused and be
able to, you know, be more successful in your business
because you know everything else is in alignment. Then it's
sometimes it's worth letting go of that friend or that Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yeah, letting go of habits is as important as letting
go of the people who support that habit.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
In your life.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
You know.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
So what about you know, I turned forty this year
or this year? Yeah, I turned forty this year and
a lot of my friends are talking about perimenopause, and
I feel like I'm late to the to the cycle sinking.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Already.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
And it's like, wait, I just started doing this like
a year ago. What do you guys mean perimenopause. I'm
not ready, Like, I'm still doing this and figuring it out,
and sometimes I forget what I'm doing, Like, so what first?
What is perimenopause? And then how do we support our
bodies through that? And what are the signs?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Like how do I know?

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah? So I turned forty this year too?

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Oh cool?

Speaker 3 (48:56):
R forty in February.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
I turned forty in December.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Okay, I didn't realize we're the same age. I don't
feel forty though, I'm just like there, Oh.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
This is the oldest I've ever been, and it's the
youngest I've ever felt.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Isn't that the craziest thing?

Speaker 3 (49:11):
So funny you say that because I keep saying like
I feel better than I did in my twenties, Like
I've always been healthy, but I'm even healthier now, and
just like I feel like I'm just like flowing through life.
I don't know, yeah, but I'm here. I'm forty. Yeah, So, Perry,

(49:31):
menopause is the phase before menopause, and it could be
up to ten years before we hit menopause. So the
average age of menopause here in the US is like
fifty one fifty two average age. I know woman that's
fifty five and still bleeding. So, you know, just like
all of us are on a twenty eight day cycle,

(49:55):
we all hit menopause at a different time. So ten
years before you hit menopause, you know, those perimenopausal symptoms
could start showing up. And as I kind of briefly
just said, this, menopause is technically only one day. Menopause
marks the day that it's been a full year since
you had your last period, and then after that day

(50:16):
it's postmenopausal.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
The menopause is not a whole season of life.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
It's just technically it's only one day.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
The anniversary of your last period.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Yeah, And there's so much, like obviously on each side
of it. I feel like, you know, menopause is one day.
There's a lot, you know, at the end phase of perimenopause,
and then there's a lot happening postmenopausal because women are
going into menopause earlier for some reason. That's what statistically

(50:49):
is kind of showing perimenopause can start as early as
thirty five they're seeing now. So if you go into
menopause at forty five, perimenopause right, and think like most
of us are like, this is still reproductive yours.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
And I even remember my old coach and she's because
she's two years younger than me. She was like, I
don't even know, like you said, You're like, what the
heck's perimenopause? Right? And some what doesn't get talked about
a lot is we hear about estrogen in perimenopause. Right.
Estrogen's going up and it's going down and it's on
a roller coaster. But I feel like what doesn't get

(51:25):
talked about enough is our progesterone, and progesterone actually starts
to drop before our estrogen. And when I was talking
about cycle sinking earlier, what is progesterone. It's our natural
anti anxiety medication, as I say, keeps us calm, helps

(51:48):
with our sleep. So what are some of the common
early signs moodiness like more than normal and especially right
before you appeared likes it gets even worse, Like you know,
I think you see memes like I'm watching a commercial
about dogs and I'm crying like things like that, just
like you're like, this just doesn't seem right, getting up

(52:11):
at three in the morning or in the middle of
the night. Just your sleep's not good. But especially like
I hear a lot of times like that three o'clock
in the morning. And I know we kind of skipped
over the luteal phase in food, but tiight in just
with all of it, like luteal phase, eating a lot
of root vegetables is really good because we want to

(52:31):
support our blood sugar and then you know you could
have magnesium, so you could have some dark chocolate then,
but tid in with our blood sugars is through all
phases every day. I want you to be eating protein
and fats and fibers with all your meals and snacks,
so get twenty five to thirty grams of protein. I

(52:53):
have a small hand, but a fist is about is
that's basically you're serving. And what that's going to do
is that's going to help those blood sugar spikes. Blood
sugar spikes are going to give us those crashes in
the afternoon could actually play into our moodiness, our fatigue
and waking up in the middle of the night. So
we got our moodiness coming in at the beginning of

(53:15):
perimount of pause, not sleeping well throughout the night, and
then just that fatigue like oh, I slept nine hours,
but why am I still tired? Those are usually like
the first early signs of it, and like I'm sure,
as I'm saying this right now, some.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Of you are like, oh, I wouldn't even think that,
and you probably just would attribute it to I'm tired
because I'm working a lot, or I'm tired because you know,
the kids are the vacation's coming, or I'm planning something,
or I'm in the middle of a launch, and it
goes back to that pause, like am I tired? Or
is this a different kind of tired, and you can't

(53:49):
even know how to compare, because if you didn't pause
for the previous type of tired, you ain't gonna know
that this tired is any different.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
You're just tired.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yeah, And you know, I'll use myself as an example,
so you know, I was in a bad car accident
a year ago and that did impact my cycle significantly,
like cramps. Never had cramps in my life. But I'll
say the beginning of this year, the day before my period,
I was like abnormally emotional, but I was over that

(54:19):
healing phase kind of from my accent, I knew there
was a lot of emotions around that, but I was like,
this is really weird. I'm like, is this an early
sign of Harry meno haats? And it was like for
about three cycles, like three cycles. I remember. I even
went back to Canada at Easter and I was in
my old bedroom at my parents' place and I was
just crying and I'm like, oh Dad, I'm just so

(54:40):
tired right now, and I just feel so emotional. I
felt like a little kid again. But I was just like, Wow,
this stuff never used to happen to me. So I
was like, huh, I wonder if it is just a
little face. So it's like these little things that we probably,
like you said, you're just like, am I overworked right now?
So those are the early signs. But then I mean
the other thing things that are really common is having

(55:02):
a regular period. It's like your cycle, you know, normally
being a twenty nine day cycle, and all of a sudden,
it's you know, maybe thirty six, thirty seven one month,
you have a regular bleed. In the next month, You're like,
I got to change my tampon every hour, Like what's
going on? I hear dropping libido often, and there definitely

(55:22):
is a hormonal component to that drop in estrogen, drop
in testosterone could be happening. And you talked about this
earlier about like so many roles that us women are in.
And another thing, I think in our age and like
older like late forties, fifties, we also have aging parents.
So all of a sudden, we're taking care of our
parents too, So that's another responsibility. But I just question

(55:46):
the and I will ask my clients this sometimes. I'm like,
how's your relationship really with your partner? So I feel
like there's like factors like playing into that drop of
libido outside of just the horn monal shift. But that
is something else I hear quite often, and the I
just I feel weird in my body. I hear that often,

(56:08):
like I don't know what's going on, but I don't
feel like myself. The brain fog is another one. I
hear a lot brain fog concentration. But if you could
really dial into you know, your nutrition, like something so
simple as having protein and fats with your meals, you're
not going to get those blood sugar spikes and we
become as our estrogen drops, we actually become more sensitive

(56:33):
to sugars and carbs and like, so it's even more
important to be having those healthy proteins fast. Oh and
then of course that's stubborn weight gain. You're like, I
didn't change my diet and I gained weight, or I
didn't change my diet, or I'm trying to, you know,
exercise and lose some weight, but I just can't get

(56:53):
rid of it. I can't remember what the actual statistic
I saw is. But like in perimenopause, we like with
if we didn't change our diet, exercise nothing, we're actually
like gaining like a pound a month or sorry a year.
It was like something. I was like, it was like one.
It was like a small number. But I'm like, just

(57:13):
that small number is enough to be like our bodies changing,
so we're not in our twenty year old body anymore.
We get to make some of some of these changes
to support that.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
What do we need to do to support our progesterone?
It sounds like that's something that's really important that we're
kind of overlooking, and I want to pause on that
for a minute.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Yeah, that's a really great question. Stress ah, managing managing
our stress nervous system work, whether it's medal. Like I said,
I know I sound like I'm repeating myself, but these
little tools are so powerful. Meditation, journaling, being in nature,

(57:57):
having good girl time with our girlfriend, like that good
girlfriend that you just could laugh with and you're not gossiping,
but you're just like, really, because we release oxytocin, that's
so good for our body. There's for our vagus nerve humming.
So I actually, even though I don't love the cold,

(58:18):
I've started doing cold plunging since my accident. I don't
do it on my period because I want to keep
everything warm, but I go in the cold plunge, and
I hump. Cold plunging actually could help listen to your
body as women are different than men. So this is
this is one I know. There's like women shouldn't cold
plunch listen to your body. Some of you will respond
very well to and some of you know. But I

(58:39):
go in the cold plunge and I hum. I just
sit there and hum the whole time, and two minutes
goes by so quick. I think. I get like, I
don't know if you practice yoga, but the oh, I
just hm and you do that six times and two
minutes is like.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Gone, that's so wild. Yes, I love that for you.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
Yeah, I've looked at the whole cold plunging thing and
I've asked my body over and over again, like is
this for us? And I get like a full body now.
Then it doesn't feel supportive for me at all. Yeah,
And it's not just the discomfort part of it. It's
like I can feel that it's just like that's not
going to support me.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
That's so weird. It might change in the future, I guess,
but I've tried because it's like I want to do
the cool things, you know. It's like I want to
do all the new cool things.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
That everybody's doing to live forever, but not all of
them are for everyone.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Yeah, I know there are, Like there's one in Fort Lauderdale.
I know they're around the country. It's called Sweat House,
and you book a room for an hour. The room's
your own. You could I turn the lights off, I
listen to spa music. There's a cold plunge, and then
there's the infrared sauna and for that hour you get
to go back and forth as much as you want,

(59:52):
put a bikini on, sit there naked, do whatever you want.
And then I bring my dry brush, which is good
for lymphatic movement. I do my guash for my face.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
It's so relaxing. So I think if I just was
outside in a cold plunge, I don't know if my
body would respond, but I think just that whole environment
and it's just so calming. So maybe one.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
That's something to think about.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
I think there might be one in Miami.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Yeah, and what about nutritionally? Is there anything nutritionally that
we can do to support progesterone?

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
A lot of vitamin C, so vitamin C is like
very supportive for progesterone. So you know, having our citrus vegetables,
our fruits, our berries, bell peppers are full of vitamin C.
Kiwi is full of vitamin C, so that that's something else.
And then of course, I mean, if your levels are

(01:00:46):
really low, you could always supplement with a vitamin C.
But of course if you could get it in your
in your food then and then the other thing I
want to say too is our gut health.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Just feel like that is at the root of probably
ninety percent of all the problems, whether it's related to
our cycle, our mental health, our everything. I feel like
so many of us are not well in the gut
and not even thinking about it because so much of
what we're told also I think by our doctors is

(01:01:21):
to just address symptoms, and so much is rooted in
our gut that we're not doing anything, and then we're
like medicating for symptoms, and that's just making things worse
in the long run, and it's cyclical of like, oh,
doesn't get.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Fixed exactly exactly, and then the medications have some other
side effects and it's just like a whole snowball effect.
So yeah, definitely like supporting our gut health with that
is like our liver you know, I've kind of talked
a little bit about the detoxifying, and you know there's
our liver loving foods outside and just cociferous vegetables, you know,
our garlic onions. What else is there? A grapefruits really

(01:02:01):
good to help with that. Beets could be really good
to support with all that. Some of the herbs, dandelion root,
licorice root. Why am I drying a mind? Blank? It's
like so I could like see it there's but it's
good as a tincture. I don't know. I'll have to
come back to it, you know, as soon as we
probably get off, I'll like remember, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
When it'll come straight to you. What are some things
that women are doing? Say again, thistle, But.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
That one's good as a tincture. I know a lot
of times you see it as a tee and you
get some benefit, But if you want, like the most
potent benefit, you want it in a tincture.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Noted.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
What are some things that women are doing that they
think are helpful but are actually not?

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
Who I know this? So what I know? So the
cold plunch could be one. I know this one's controversial.
Intermittent fasting. Now I'm not totally against it. I say
fast like a girl or a woman. So say, if
you do a fast from like six o'clock a night,

(01:03:09):
you know you're having your dinner at six, and then
you have your next meal, say seven o'clock in the morning,
that's still a good fast. That's still thirteen hours of fasting, right,
But like if you're doing that extended six o'clock till
noon for a lot of women, and I know for
some it works, but there again, listening to your body.

(01:03:33):
For a lot of women, what starts happening is the
body registers that is stress. And if it's registering it
is stress, your cortisol's going up. So you might notice
benefits at first you're losing weight or you have the energy,
but then the long game, you're like, oh now, all
of a sudden, this little muffin top came back, and

(01:03:55):
it's because your cortisol levels are high. So it's not
for all of us. And that's why I say fast,
fast like a woman, like a six till seven. Ideally
we should have, you know, breakfast within an hour of
waking up. Most of us eat before we have our coffee,
our caffeine. I know I'm guilty of that. Sometimes I'm

(01:04:15):
just like and I there again like I I'm very open.
You know, I'm not one hundred percent perfect. But I
notice after my AX and my cortsol levels were high,
so I didn't have an appetite in the morning. If
you're not hungry in the morning, there's something off, don't
don't you know say that as a flex like, oh,
I'm not hungry, I don't need to eat. It's usually

(01:04:36):
because your body's in stress.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
I've never heard that before.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Yeah, and then we have and then we have coffee
and then what is it do? And just upset up
even more so. The interment fasting, I know a trend
thing like I said, the cold plunging. What else are
we doing? I think I've gotten better. I don't know
if it's a shift turning forty, but just setting boundaries,
setting ba how many how many of us are saying

(01:05:04):
yes when we really want to say no. And it
could be it could be a podcast it's not fully
in alignment with you. It could be I don't know,
some event that they're asking you to talk at, a
friend wanting to meet up. There's so many things, right,
but how many times do we say yes when we
really want to say no.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
It has taken me years of work to be able
to find the comfort in myself to say no, thank you, yeah,
and to really own that that's enough that I don't
have to spend twenty five minutes explaining my no, but
rather no, thank you or no. It's not a good

(01:05:45):
fit for me right now. I appreciate it, but I can't.
You know, it's it's been. It's been hard, very hard.
But once I discovered that, I can tell you truly,
my even my mental health was boosted for the better
in the wildest ways. Like I never knew that over committing,

(01:06:10):
over feeling like guilt for saying no, or feeling like
I should or like you know, all of those things
was was really causing harm to my mental health. And
I can say now as I think about it, that
I can now think and also in my physical body,
it was it was causing problems to just want to

(01:06:34):
feel like I needed to be everywhere and say yes
to all the people, and you know, and and and
I've never and even so, I've never considered myself like
a people pleaser.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
I'm not. I'm definitely not that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
But there has always especially like as an entrepreneur in
social settings that works mostly with women. It's like, you know,
the invitations to be everywhere and to do all the
things are always coming, and it's like if I say no,
are they going to think this? Or it's like I
just feel bad because I should, like that's a really
hot room to be in and it could be like
a profitable experience to be in a room full of

(01:07:06):
like your ideal clients, and I should just go. And
it's now it's like no, thank you, but no, I
really appreciate the invite, but no, you know, and it's
not even like let me look at my calendar. It's
just no, and that's okay. And it goes back to
what we were saying earlier too, where if you're in

(01:07:28):
the right company, you don't need to explain it because
you're going to be in the company of women who
also honor their boundaries, and they wouldn't even ask for
an explanation because they wouldn't be willing to give one,
and it would just be like, Okay, I'll invite you
next time. Maybe next time you want to come. You know,
we do these every month, you know, maybe another or

(01:07:49):
let me know if you ever want to join. It's
every Tuesday, you know, or whatever it is, and you're
not going to They're not going to pressure you into
anything because they also honor their own boundaries, their own space.
This has been the yummiest conversation. I'm so excited to
have our listeners reach out to you and learn more

(01:08:10):
directly from you, and we will have Kim's contact information
in the show notes. But also if you catch this
before August seventh, Kim is going to be joining us
at our next wellness networker, which is happening right here
in Miami at miav SPA August seventh.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
She's going to be one of our.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Speakers and she's going to be bringing her delicious tea
for us to try, which is going to be amazing.
So I hope that if you're listening to this before
then that you join us because it's going to be
so much fun. And fifteen percent of the proceeds of
any wellness treatment that you get from MAYAVSPA is going
to be donated to the Seizing Happy Foundation so that

(01:08:50):
we can help more women entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses.
And if you're listening to this after August seventh, that's okay.
You can reach out to Kim directly lead to learn more. So,
whether you're trying to improve your health through your cycle,
you're a business owner who wants to learn how to
cycle sink, you want to get your hands on this

(01:09:10):
delicious tea.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
You want to help.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Your body to get pregnant, you want to recover from pregnancy,
like it's these things are all about your your wellness
and your sacred woop cycle.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
And so I'm just so excited.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
That I got to have you on and that you're
so willing and open and generous with your knowledge.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much for having
I mean, this is my life's work is to educate, inspire,
you know, and support women.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
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