The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast

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By: Antoinette Falco

The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast is your place to learn about female empowerment through mastering your menstrual cycle health, the true heartbeat of your hormone status. No subject is TMI, from cervical mucous, to the emotional waves of your fertility journey, to the beauty of childbirth. Each week, your host Naturopathic Doctor, Fertility Awareness Educator and Hormone Enthusiast: Antoinette Falco, will explore the fundamentals of hormone health with science, soulful and heartfelt conversations, a dash of sass and feminine pizzazz! Antoinette shares insightful and informative interviews weekly!

HHP30 | How to Harness your Intuition for Optimal Menstrual Cycles with Kimberley Banfield
#30
05/06/2021

Welcome to another episode of the Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In this episode, I interview Kimberley Banfield, is the Founder of Soulcology™. As a Soulcologist™ & Soul Purpose Mentor, Speaker and Teacher, she guides & supports Entrepreneurial Women to find the clarity, confidence & courage to listen to their intuition, heal past experiences & find & fulfil their Soul's Purposes. She is most passionate about helping women to 'make their life a moment that matters™.'

In Today's Episode: 

Kimberley’s background and personal journey Kimberley’s experience in the corporate world and how her intuition conflicted...


HHP29 | Menstrual Charting, a Diagnostic Tool to Help Treat & Optimize your Fertility with Guests Nora Pope & Dr. Jessica Liu, ND
#29
03/30/2021

Welcome to another episode of the Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In this episode, I interview co-founders of FertilityCE webinars, Nora Pope, and Dr. Jessica Liu, ND. 

Nora Pope is an educator, public speaker, and former Naturopathic Doctor in Toronto. She is the creator of “Cycle Charting: The Key to Fertility” CE Seminars. In her CE lectures, she merges her expertise in Natural Family Planning Cycle Charting with perinatal care in calculating precise due dates, how to flag risks for miscarriages, how to prescribe progesterone to prevent pre-term births, and how to naturally space out the next pregnancy duri...


HHP28 | Essential Oils for Hormone Balancing, Pain Management and Pregnancy with Guest Kathleen Bednis
#28
03/22/2021

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast!

In today's episode, I interview Clinical Aromatherapist, Kathleen Bednis! And we discuss the benefits of using essential oils for hormone balancing, cycle syncing, and pain management associated with hormonal conditions like endometriosis. Kathleen also shares how to safely use essential oils and how to go about creating your own blends. Kathleen's passion for research and health has lead her to a career educating and helping women and families integrate essential oils into their health practices! 

In this episode:

Introduction and what got Kathleen to...


HHP26 | Menstrual Cycles, Moon Phases & Getting Started with Fertility Awareness Method with Joy Davis
#27
03/10/2021

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! Today we are talking about menstrual cycles and the moon phases with Joy Davis, a Fertility Awareness Educator training in the Justisse Method. Joy grew up in Alderville First Nation in Southern Ontario, Canada. Her Anishinaabe culture is a huge part of her identity. She teaches menstruators about using their menstrual cycles as a health tool and to achieve or avoid pregnancy. She strives to make fertility, cervical mucus, vagina's and uterus' fun and talked about openly. She believes in using your fertility to your advantage instead of...


HHP26 |Unexplained Infertility, Discovering FAM & NaPro Technologies with Guest Jannette Carlos
#26
03/01/2021

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! Today we are talking about Jannette's infertility journey and how she came to discover the Fertility Awareness Method and how to use it to become empowered about her fertility and reproductive health. She also shares her best coping strategies and how used NaPro technologies to receive answers about her diagnosis of unexplained infertility. 

Jannette is a Registered Nurse with a critical care background. She felt that her medical education did not prepare her for a diagnosis of unexplained infertility from the conventional medicine point of view. ...


HHP25 | PCOS Management Conventionally vs. Holistically with Guest Callie Crouch, FNP
#25
02/22/2021

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast!

Today we are talking PCOS with Family Nurse Practitioner, Callie Crouch. She is the creator of The PCOS Lifestyle Program and has a private practice in Texas doing primarily telemedicine. Callie struggled with PCOS for years before learning how to control her symptoms, she then felt a need to help other women find their way towards PCOS management. Callie wanted the opportunity to look at each individual woman’s habits and help make small tweaks to move towards a healthier lifestyle so their acne improves, belly fat shrinks, an...


HHP24 | Managing Endometriosis with Food and Functional Medicine with Guest Cindy Dabrowska, RD
#24
02/04/2021

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! 

Today we are talking endometriosis with Registered Dietitian, Cindy Dabrowska. She is the founder of "The Supportive Endo RD" and her passion comes from supporting endo warriors - who much like me, have said “enough is enough” to debilitating, life-altering symptoms of endometriosis. Cindy has supported countless women in her nutrition counseling practice through a functional medicine root-cause approach to endometriosis. As a registered dietitian and endowarrior, she prides herself on being an ally to, and a resource for, the endometriosis community.

In this epis...


HHP23 | Clean Skincare & Makeup for each phase of your Menstrual Cycle with Guest Seanna Cohen
#22
01/11/2021

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In today's episode, we are talking all things clean beauty with holistic skincare therapist, Seanna Cohen.  She is a certified Skin Care Therapist and founder of the Clean Beauty School, an online destination to learn about skincare, shop the effective clean beauty products and get personalized advice through 1:1 consultations. As a trusted expert, she helps women create holistic skincare plans so they can feel confident both in their skin and with their beauty choices.

In this episode:

Introduction and why Seanna got into the clean...


HHP22 | Postpartum & using Fertility Awareness Method for Birth Control with Client Guest Kimberly Parker
#22
12/08/2020

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In today’s episode, we are talking everything postpartum from how to navigate your health and the return of your fertility to how you can use the fertility awareness method as your birth control during this phase!

My guest is Kimberly Parker, a mother of 5, ages 8 to 1-year-old. She grew up in central Minnesota in agriculture and her and her husband's harvesting business took lead the to recently settling in Holyoke, Colorado. As the daughter of a dairy farmer, Kimberly has a strong love for agriculture and nutrition. Sh...


HHP21 | Get your Mojo back, Optimize Libido and Sexual Health with Guest Maraya Brown
#21
06/02/2020

Welcome to another episode of The Hormone Heartbeat Podcast! In today’s episode, we are talking about how to optimizing your libido for your stage of life. And what underlying factors may be leading to you not feeling like you have the same mojo you had in the past.

My guest is Maraya Brown, a Yale Trained CNM, MSN with her undergraduate in marketing.  She has been attending births for 20 years, managed women’s health clinics in Hawaii and Oregon for 13 years, taught at the Chinese Medicine College on the Big Island of Hawaii, and is in t...