Have you, or a woman close to you, ever experienced a great tragedy? How does grief impact the hormonal cycle and how do hormones affect grief? In this episode Lissie chats with flower grower and merchant, Hannah Robertson. A woman who has lived a life of incredible adventure, stepped with ease into bold situations of survivalism, embraced her body's capacity to bring 6 babies into this world, grows and sells the most glorious flowers and has endured the deepest grief that exists in the human...

Do you see your cycle as something that gets in the way of your progression as a woman in business? Have you ever thought how you can actually utilise the various different, powerful qualities of your cycle to enhance and grow your business?  More than likely in your workplace at one time or another, you've dragged yourself into work and through your day, despite the weariness, pain or discomfort of your bleed, the feelings of fragility before your menstruation or the fogginess that can come...

At 37 years of age, with a two year old babe in arms, Leah Burgess was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since her teens, her hormonal relationship had been filled with pain and disharmony, then after finding a beautiful man, producing a beautiful baby and getting into a beautiful groove, she was asked by her body to begin the fight of her life. With a wicked sense of humour and one-two-f**k-you-cancer attitude that fits right in at Living Hormoniously HQ, this brilliant woman shares deep...

Carrying the DNA of Mungo Man and Woman - the oldest known human bones ever discovered - Kaz Ross has the 'knowing' of human connection and consciousness running through her blood. Currently living on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, Kaz Ross remembers a childhood filled with lessons of culture, river stories, the removal and displacement of children, of cultures converging and the unique experience of growing up in a children's home WITHOUT being a ward of the...

You may never, no, you will not hear another conversation around these three deeply significant aspects of a woman's life, as extraordinary as this one. Zenith Virago is a remarkable human being. Skilled in death, joy, ejaculation, courage and so, so much more. Byron Bay's citizen of the year for 2020, Death Walker, creator of The Vagina Conversations, Dike, Mother, Grandmother, Elder. This conversation will not just change your attitude about menopause but about life. We are deeply...

Have you ever wondered exactly what's going on inside a woman's body - perhaps your own body - hormonally, once a baby is born? Expressions like post baby blues have been bantered about for decades but with little education around exactly why some women feel a little low a few days after such a wonderful event as birth. In this episode, Tahlia and Lissie share invaluable information around the postpartum hormonal plummet, explaining exactly why the tears may flow around three to four days...

Ovaries and their owners worldwide are no strangers to oppression. Different rules for different g******s have almost always negatively impacted more greatly the female of the species. In Ireland the misogyny was born through invasion by the British and when church then hopped into bed with state. Ireland became a nation littered with horrendous events - some as bizarre as banning tampons due to their 'sexual nature' to the horror of church and state-led infanticide. What was it like to grow...

Working night shift fighting fires, coming home to swoop the kids off to school, heading off to work at the cafe her and her husband own and run. Welcome to the wild world of Emily Hayes - a smiling assassin of athleticism, motherhood and a killer wardrobe. How exactly does she do all of this and continue to wear one of the world's most glorious smiles on her face - and some of the best outfits in the Northern Rivers of NSW? Along with her epic firefighting gear, Em is also kitted out with an...

What do you know about perimenopause? What can you do to use it to your fullest advantage when it comes? What even IS perimenopause? In this episode, Lissie and Tahlia discuss the ins and outs of one of the most dynamic hormonal phases of a woman's life. Often fraught with big feelings about youth and aging, a buffet of shifts in the physical body, symptoms that vary dramatically from women to woman and a societal narrative that may be the most negative of them all, perimenopause is in fact...

On this episode we chat about what it's like to be a woman in the spotlight from puberty to menopause. As star of the 1981 box-office smash Puberty Blues, to co-writer of the global success story Strictly Ballroom, onto TV, Radio and so much more, all supported by a passion for surfing, Nell Schofield is a potent, intriguing woman, full of stories about her external life, as well as the personal experiences of her inner landscape as a tidal woman ebbing and flowing with the power of a female...

Meet Sophie Wilksch, an extraordinary woman who many years ago heard the call of the building site and decided to turn away from her architectural degree and up tools instead. Her dream became to empower others through the practical skills of carpentry, opening up an all-inclusive workspace project called Shedding.  What was it like to be a cycling woman in a very masculine and very physical environment? Did she have to fit in with the fellas and their endocrine systems or was it a space to...

Inside every single woman is an extraordinary symphony of hormones; brain and ovaries constantly whispering to each other, to maintain a delicate calibration of one of the most intricate and important systems in the human body. This communication network impacts energy, mood, creativity, interaction, digestion, libido, clarity and so much more but for most women it's simply happening as a consequence of being woman, rather than something we've been taught to wield to our highest advantage. In...