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The active, performance-minded woman's guide to menopause.

19/12/2025

A new study found that menopause symptoms are common and can be performance-limiting in endurance athletes.

After interviewing 187 female endurance athletes, they found that they experience joint discomfort, poor sleep, exhaustion and weight gain and that perimenopause had the highest burden.

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18/12/2025

Most of us have big goals and dreams we never embark on because we’re afraid of failing. We’re afraid of what people will think of us if we don’t make it. But, as this week’s guest ultracyclist Paula Ralph ( ) explains, if you start and try, you haven’t failed, even if you fall short. You have learned and progressed further in life.

Paula set out to achieve a world record by completing a solo, unsupported ride from Cape Town to Norway—a journey spanning 20,000 km, crossing 19 countries and 3 continents–in just 73 days. Financial challenges, endless mechanical mishaps, a traumatic collision in Zambia, and mandatory re-routes made that record impossible. But she pivoted, completed a revised version of the journey, covering 12,290 km across 17 countries in 126 days and returned with something far more valuable than a record: a deep belief in the power midlife women hold within and what you achieve when you set your sights high, even if you fall short.

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17/12/2025

Got a big goal you’d like to do someday? Maybe it’s an Ironman or bike tour or hiking a massive mountain in some faraway place. But it never seems to be the right time? That’s because there never is a “right” time. You just need to put your stake in the ground and start, as this week’s guest ultra-cyclist Paula Ralph ( ) explains during this week’s show.

Paula set out to achieve a world record by completing a solo, unsupported ride from Cape Town to Norway—a journey spanning 20,000 km, crossing 19 countries and 3 continents–in just 73 days. Financial challenges, endless mechanical mishaps, a traumatic collision in Zambia, and mandatory re-routes made that record impossible. But she pivoted, completed a revised version of the journey, covering 12,290 km across 17 countries in 126 days and returned with something far more valuable than a record: a deep belief in the power midlife women hold within and what you achieve when you set your sights high, even if you fall short.

Listen to our conversation with Paula on your favorite podcast platform.

13/12/2025

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12/12/2025

It’s here: your official Feisty Menopause wrapped 🔥

Thank you for spending your year (and the last five!) with us 🫶

Let’s do it all again next year.

11/12/2025

As active women who care about our performance, perimenopause can mirror, or even pave the way for burnout. Symptoms of perimenopause can lead to drops in our performance that leave us wondering if all the effort is worth it. If we tend to be overachievers with strong athletic identities, those dips in performance also can leave us struggling, maybe doubling down on our efforts and ultimately just frying us emotionally and physically.

This week we sat down with sports psychologist and endurance athlete Dr. Erin Ayala ( ) to unpack athletic burnout in midlife women—what it is, how it shows up, how it overlaps with perimenopause and mood changes, and of course what to do about it.

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10/12/2025

As active midlife women, we’re always raising the bar on ourselves. 5K? Check. Time for a 10K…time for a ½ marathon…let’s do a full. More, more, more. Always putting that bar higher…until it’s nearly out of reach. But the bar in our lives is already high. Sometimes we need to put it back down, so we don’t get burned out and run out of the joy that fuels our fire.

This week we sat down with sports psychologist and endurance athlete Dr. Erin Ayala ( ) to unpack athletic burnout in midlife women—what it is, how it shows up, how it overlaps with perimenopause and mood changes, and of course what to do about it.

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

04/12/2025

Muscle and strength loss during the menopause transition is multifactorial. It’s hormonal changes and estrogen decline. It’s the symptoms of menopause. It’s inflammation. It’s aging itself. Our approach to making and maintaining it has to be multifactorial as well.

This week we talk all about muscle and menopause–from basic science to menopause symptoms to hormone therapy–with double board certified reproductive endocrinologist and OB/GYN specializing in menopausal medicine, Dr. Carla DiGirolamo ( )

Listen to the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts, or on YouTube!

03/12/2025

Myriad factors impact muscle health, function, and maintenance during the menopause transition. One that is often overlooked is chronic inflammation. If you want to maintain your muscles, staying on top of inflammation through diet and exercise and lifestyle is key.

This week we talk all about muscle and menopause–from basic science to menopause symptoms to hormone therapy–with double board certified reproductive endocrinologist and OB/GYN specializing in menopausal medicine, Dr. Carla DiGirolamo ( )

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27/11/2025

Menopause is a precarious time for bone health. The acceleration in bone loss begins in late perimenopause and continues for about 3 to 5 years after menopause starts, with some women losing up to 20% of their bone mass during this period.

Dr. Lisa Moore, DPT, ( ) founder of Brick House Bones, is on a mission to help women hang onto their skeletal strength and to help those with low bone density or osteoporosis rebuild confidence, strength, and resilience. She shares how on this week’s show. (This specific clip is discussing her strategy for helping healthy women maintain bone through the transition.)

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26/11/2025

For far too long women believed their goal was to get as small and thin as possible. We accepted that we would become fragile. That we–and our world–would get smaller. Women like Dr. Lisa Moore, DPT, ( ) founder of Brick House Bones, is on a mission to change that and help those with low bone density or osteoporosis rebuild confidence, strength, and resilience so they can keep doing the things they love with the people they love.

She increased her own bone density 3% a year after receiving a surprise osteopenia diagnosis and she helps hundreds of women–including special populations like women in cancer recovery–get results, too. She shares how on this week’s show.

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