Changing Seasons Podcast
A podcast that explores the changing seasons of our life through a traditional medicine and lived experience lens. The first season of ten episodes focuses on Perimenopause and Menopause phase of life.
Episodes
21 episodes
21 - The Pelvic Floor - what all women need to know with Kim Vopini
In this episode Jody talks with Kim Vopini, Vagina Coach, about all things pelvic floor. We discuss prolapse, incontinence, urgency and hormones. Kim shares her personal experience with prolapse and Jody reveals her own journey and how strength...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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58:42
20 - Learning how to honour the “pause” with Edwina Peden
Edwina Peden guides women through perimenopause using the wisdom of Ayurveda. As a perimenopausal women herself Edwina has learnt to honour rest. Edwina notices how her mood, energy and interactions with her two young boys is impacted if she do...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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1:11:17
19 - Navigating perimenopause without HRT as an option with Jane McCann
Jane McCann is a total inspiration for any aging woman. She has embraced this stage of life with vigour and has no fear around speaking up about the lack of options available to perimenopausal women who have a history of cancer or cancer in the...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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1:03:33
18 - Trauma and how it can resurface during perimenopause with Lucy Slater
Lucy Slater is a Somatic psychotherapist who helped people come home to their bodies and feel their emotions. Jody talks to Lucy about how important it is for women on their perimenopausal women to acknowledge and feel their feelings and what h...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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1:04:18
17 - How I managed modelling and perimenopause by moving towards challenges with Kate Bell
Today Jody speaks with Gen X model, writer and yoga teacher Kate Bell about her experience working in the modelling as a perimenopausal woman and what it was like being the oldest woman in the room. We discuss how Kate tendency to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:07:19
16 - Grey area drinking and how it can slowly unravel your life with Sarah Rusbatch
Sarah Rusbatch is the author of the best-selling book “Beyond Booze”. She is a Grey Area Drinking Coach, menopause coach and key note speaker who shares about her journey to sobriety.In todays conversation we discuss the following:
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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57:05
15 - Nourishing oneself throughout perimenopause with Dr Lauren Tober
Dr Lauren Tober is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, educator and author. Her new book Mental Health Aware yoga is a must have for any yoga teacher.In today’s episode here are some of the questions we have covered:You ar...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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57:24
14 - How to maintain health and balance with Brad Hay.
Today Jody speaks with Brad Hay. Brad is an Ayurvedic & Tantra Teacher, father and builder. We talk about how Brad manages the stresses of young children, a mortgage and a busy life using Ayurvedic wisdom. Jody and Brad discuss ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:07:35
13 - Ayurveda & achieving good gut health in perimenopause with Kate O’Donnell
Today Jody speaks to Kate O’Donnell Ayurvedic Educator and Author about the importance of good gut health as we enter perimenopause. Kate encourages us to include good fats in our diet to avoid dryness that naturally occurs in our body as we ag...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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42:46
12 - Ayurveda teaches us that nature is regenerative & so are we because we are nature with Laura Plumb
Jody speaks to Laura Plumb, Ayurvedic practitioner and educator about the elder phase in which a woman becomes ready to pass on the chores to the next generation and we rest and consider what is their legacy and purpose.Laura stresses th...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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58:54
11 - Meditation, mindfulness and perimenopause with Jacqui Lewis
Jacqui Lewis – The Broad Place In this conversation Jody talks to Jacqui Lewis, founder of The Broad Place, a successful international meditation school and retreat business. Jacqui describes her own journey through per...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:12:03
10 - My perimenopause & postmenopause journey through an Ayurvedic lens with Jody Vassallo
Jody Vassallo is an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, cookbook author and yoga teacher.She has written two cookbooks on Ayurveda.Jody has been working in the women's health arena for many years and today she talks about her own journ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:00:22
9 - Aging, grieving & running a successful online business in perimenopause with Amy Crawford
In today’s episode Jody chats with beautiful Amy Crawford owner of The Holistic Ingredient an online store, host of the podcast Woman, Conversations for the curious.Jody and Amy discuss:Amy’s perimenopause jou...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:04:00
8 - Can you create a sattvic life in perimenopause with 5 kids and a business? with Katie Rose
In this episode Katie Rose and I speak about the importance of living a Sattvic life and how modern life keeps us on this hamster wheel that is challenging to remove ourselves from.We speak about Bhakti, what is and simpl...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:02:42
7 - The impact chemicals are having on your health and hormones with Alexx Stuart
In this episode Jody talks with Alex about all things Low Tox and how chemicals can impact women and men as they age.We cover a lot of ground in this podcast talking about:Simple changes people can make in the...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:11:30
6 - Invisibility And Aging And Why 40 Is Not The New 30 with Jane Tara.
Today Jody talks to Jane Tara author of Tilda is Visible, a comedic novel about Tilda who is diagnosed with invisibility in her mid forties.Jody and Jane speak in depth about:Ag...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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58:48
5 - The Benefits Of Tonic Herbs & Medicinal Mushrooms with Mason Taylor
In 2011 Mason Taylors passion for health and his desire to access the world’s best supplements, herbs and medicinal mushrooms led to the creation of SuperFeast.From humble beginnings in his mum’s garage SuperFeast has grown into Australi...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:05:53
4 - Is It Possible To Have A Healthy Intimate Relationship Whilst Navigating Perimenopause? with Scott & Kate Foster
In this episode Jody has an honest conversation with her friends Scott and Kate Foster about what it is like to be a couple navigating peri menopause and menopause.Scott and Kate own Mrs Birdy Café in South Golden Beach on the Northern R...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:21:50
3 - Andropause, Menopause And The Wild Nature Of Mid-Life Hormonal Changes with Dr Jimi Wollumbin
In this episode Jody has a fascinating conversation with her medicine man, Dr Jimi Wollumbin.Their discussion touches on:Jimi’s own andropause journey and the physical and emotional issues he had to navigate
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:05:10
2 - 'I Don’t Have The Estrogen For That' with Lisa Fitzpatrick
In this weeks episode Jody chats with her dear friend Lisa Fitzpatrick. Lisa is a Pelvic Floor physiotherapist and owner of Womankind Pelvic Care Physiotherapy. The practice has been created with a commitment to providing a caring, safe, gentle...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:05:47
1 - 'Living The Medicine Of Subtraction' with Dr Claudia Welch
In our first episode of Changing Seasons Podcast Jody talks with Dr Claudia Welch about perimenopause and menopause through an Ayurvedic lens.Jody and Claudia chat about:The importance of using the medicine of subtract...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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57:21