Hormone Health Series

This conversation features Yasmin Nouri, Co-founder and CEO of Beeya Wellness. Yasmin shares her journey with hormonal birth control and how her symptoms came back with a vengeance after coming off of it. Yasmin discusses her love for Cycle Syncing® and how it has helped her on her hormonal journey. She also sheds light on the normalization of misinformation around our periods, and how completely revamping her lifestyle and setting a solid foundation of the basics - from food as medicine, to seed cycling, to adequate exercise, sleep and sun exposure - have completely transformed her life, health, and cycle.

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Meet Yasmin Nouri:

Yasmin Nouri is the Co-founder and CEO of Beeya Wellness. She is also the host of the Behind Her Empire podcast.

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What you'll learn:

• Yasmin's journey with hormonal birth control
• How seed cycling can help balance our hormones
• Her love for Cycle Syncing® and how it helped her on her hormonal journey

This conversation features Kristyn Hodgdon, Co-founder of Recripted, and Host of the Dear (In)Fertility Podcast. Kristyn dives deep into her unexpected journey with fertility - through birth control, fertility specialists, multiple miscarriages, as well as IUI and IVF treatments. She also shares more about the holistic journey she is now on to optimize and maintain a healthy cycle and better support her fertility today.

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Meet Kristyn Hodgdon:

Kristyn is the Co-founder of Recripted and the host of the Dear (In)Fertility Podcast.

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What you'll learn:

• Kristyn's infertility journey
• Her experience with IUI and IVF treatments
• The holistic journey she is now on to support her cycle

This conversation features Actress, Advocate and Host, Ricki Lake. Ricki shares about this current season of her life as a 54 year old with a regular cycle and not a single hot flash, and how she embraces the beauty of still having an active sex drive and cycle! She also candidly shares about her journey with hormonal birth control, and how it led to significant hair loss for over two decades - a symptom she was never educated about. She reveals how she overcame this and other symptoms, and found empowerment and personal freedom.

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Meet Ricki Lake:

Ricki is an Actress, Advocate and TV Host.

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What you'll learn:

• Ricki discuses still having a regular cycle at 54
• Her journey with birth control
• The hair loss she experienced due to hormonal birth control

This conversation features Elizabeth Stein, founder and CEO of Purely Elizabeth. Elizabeth shares about the lack of education she had for years about her hormones until finally learning more about Alisa Vitti's methods. Elizabeth was on birth control from age 18 up through her early 40s, and only recently went off of it after learning the impact hormonal birth control has on the body. From being more intentional with Cycle Syncing® her food and exercise choices, Elizabeth shares how she now moves with more grace throughout each phase of her cycle.

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Meet Elizabeth Stein:

Elizabeth Stein is the founder and CEO of Purely Elizabeth.

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What you'll learn:

• Elizabeth's birth control journey from age 18 to her 40's
• How she has implemented Cycle Syncing®
• Her lack of hormonal education over the years

This conversation features Dr. Shefali, Clinical Psychologist and NYT Bestselling Author. Dr. Shefali shares about the work she has done to cultivate a deeper love for her body and how to approach the aging process with grace and gratitude. She also discusses her journey with hormonal birth control - and how much better she feels finally being off of it - as well as the tools and practices she has cultivated over the years that have allowed her to experience an easeful (and even enjoyable) perimenopause.

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Meet Dr. Shefali:

Dr. Sheflai is a Clinical Psychologist and New York Times Bestselling Author.

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What you'll learn:

• Dr. Shefali's graceful approach to aging
• Her easeful experience with perimenopause
• Her journey with hormonal birth control

Courtney shares about her journey with hormonal birth control in her 20s and how it caused anger, mood swings, cravings and a complete disconnection from self. She also struggled with non-stop cystic acne for years and explains the holistic journey she went on utilizing food, supplementation and a whole-systems approach that helped her finally achieve balance within her body, restoring her cycle and overall health.

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Meet Courtney Swan:

Courtney is an Integrative Nutritionist and a real food activist on a mission to change America's broken food system. She is also the host of the Real Foodology Podcast.

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What you'll learn:

• Courtney's hormonal journey with birth control, cystic acne, and PMS symptoms
• The holistic approach she took to start to heal her hormones
• The work she is currently doing to be a force in the fight against our broken food system.

In this conversation, Danica shares about her own hormonal journey, and becoming educated on the importance of cultivating greater balance in her life, particularly throughout her athletic career, coming off birth control, and navigating a profound process of healing after getting her breast implants removed. From tackling thyroid issues, gut dysbiosis and more, Danica dives deep into the practices - including Cycle Syncing® - that have worked for her.

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Meet Danica Patrick:

Danica is a former U.S. Pro Race Car Driver, Entrepreneur, and Host of the Pretty Intense Podcast.

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What you'll learn:

• The effect that Cycle Syncing® has had on her hormones
• Danica's process of getting her breast implants removed and how she felt after
• Her journey with coming off of birth control

Alisa and Pia discuss her hormonal journey from her adolescence onward, including her mental health struggles, as well as her experience with birth control and prescription medication. She also speaks candidly about having PCOS and ovarian cysts that ruptured, and how practicing the Cycle Syncing® Method and using the MyFLO app has transformed her health and her cycle, and finally having happy, healthy periods. 

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Meet Pia Baroncini:

Pia is an entrepreneur, creative director, and host of the Everything is the Best podcast.

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What you'll learn:

• Pia's journey with hormones from a young age
• Discussions about PCOS and her journey with lifestyle and dietary changes
• How Pia incorporated the Cycle Syncing® Method into her life

This conversation features Latham Thomas, a Professor, Doula and Founder of the incredible platform, Mama Glow. Latham shares more about some of the cultural challenges that Black women have faced for generations - from forced sterilization to experimental birth control testing, to a lack of reproductive care and real support for hormonal symptoms. In fact, Black women are at least twice as likely as white women to receive a hysterectomy. She also talks through some of the deeper meanings of fibroids, the inspiration behind Mama Glow and so much more.

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Meet Latham Thomas:

Latham is a professor, a doula, and the founder of Mama Glow, a doula and maternity lifestyle brand.

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What you'll learn:

• The cultural challenges in health care that Black women have faced
• Discussions about birth control
• Fibroids and the deeper meaning behind them

Becca candidly shares about the difficulties she’s experienced with her own hormonal imbalance through birth control and beyond, as well as her fertility journey. Becca reveals more about her past miscarriages, and the difficult depression she navigated, before finally reaching out for support which allowed her to understand her body and hormones in a whole new way, and feel less alone as she reclaimed a sense of herself.

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Meet Becca Tobin:

Becca is an actress, singer, and Co-Host of The LadyGang podcast.

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What you'll learn:

• Becca's journey with hormonal imbalance and birth control
• Her fertility journey and past miscarriages
• Depression she experienced navigated throughout her pregnancy journeys the support which allowed her to understand her hormones

In this episode, Amanda shares how her experience with her own hormonal awareness was initially triggered by health issues with her thyroid, including Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism. Amanda discusses the significance of establishing a deeper connection with her hormonal health and how being in sync with her cycle is something that goes beyond the physical body, exploring the link between hormones and intuition.

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Meet Amanda Chantal Bacon:

Amanda is a mother, author, entrepreneur, and founder of Moon Juice. Moon juice was created by Amanda after her experience of putting her autoimmune conditions into remission, after being told it wasn’t possible.

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What you'll learn:

• Amanda's hormonal experience with thyroid issues
• An deeper connection made with hormonal health and being in sync with her cycle
• How Amanda explores the link between our hormones and intuition.

In this episode, Pānquetzani shares Indigenous wisdom, offering a Mesoamerican perspective to our feminine biology and reproductive health. She also shares her own personal hormonal journey, her experience with natural fertility practices, and how attuning to the inner wisdom of her body creates a deeper reverence for how she navigates the world, throughout each phase of her cycle.

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Meet Pānquetzani:

Based in Long Beach, California, Pānquetzani is a postpartum healer, wellness coach, and doula who offers ancestral healing rooted in Mesoamerican traditional medicine through her practice Indigemama. Centering reproductive health, she draws on folk practices passed down to her by the matriarchs in her family to support people throughout their pregnancies.

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What you'll learn:

• Pānquetzani's hormonal journey, as well as the hormonal experiences of her matriarchal lineage
• A Mesoamerican perspective to reproductive health and the feminine biology
• Folk practices for feminine care

Gabby shares about her journey as an athlete and how that continues to impact her now, through perimenopause. She also shares how she has maintained a regular and symptom-free cycle at 53 and her strategies on biohacking perimenopause without the stereotypical misery. This conversation talks through the chemical experiences we navigate through our reproductive years, and how to have more grace - as well as more accountability - in how we better care for ourselves throughout this time. Both Gabby and Alisa are passionate about helping to educate other women on how to make these transitions more easeful and supportive as we age.

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Meet Gabby Reece:

Gabby is a former American professional volleyball player, New York Times best selling author, sports announcer, model and podcast host.

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What you'll learn:

• Gabby is 53 and is still getting her period every month
• A symptom-free perimenopause experience is possible
• When we take care of our bodies, it is possible to have freedom from hormonal symptoms

Alisa and Whitney discuss Whitney's decade long struggle with cystic acne. She went to countless doctors who were dismissing her and over-prescribing her. Whitney eventually learned that her diet and her gut were a major underlying cause of her acne and how to address these issues from within.

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Meet Whitney Tingle:

Whitney is the Founder and Co-CEO of Sakara Life, which is a plant-based meal delivery service. The Sakara Life meals are nutritionally designed, plant-rich organic meals delivered to your door, ready-to-eat. Whitney is also the co-host of "The Sakara Life Podcast".

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What you will learn:

• Whitney's decade long struggle with cystic acne
• The role that the gut microbiome plays in balancing our hormones
• When you nourish the body and take care of the inside, it reflects on the outside
• The importance of getting to the root cause of symptoms and healing them

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Alisa and Emily dive deep into the world of mindfulness and meditation. Emily elaborates on the topic of stress and how it can have a profound effect on our physical, emotional and hormonal health.

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Meet Emily Fletcher:

Emily is the founder of Ziva Meditation. Emily had a career on Broadway where she struggled with insomnia, anxiety, and premature aging. She began to incorporate meditation into her life, which had such an incredible effect on her that she left Broadway and went to India to become a meditation teacher. She now dedicates her life to helping people learn how to incorporate mindfulness and meditation into their lives, and has taught meditation professionally for the last 13 years.

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What you'll learn in the video:

• Emily's journey with hormones and how they have impacted her life
• How Emily has incorporated Cycle Syncing® into her daily routine
• How mediation has transformed Emily's health and hormonal journey
• The profound impact that stress can have on our hormones and how it creates hormone imbalances
• Building a healthy relationship with the body as a whole

Alisa and Torrey discuss her journey to living in flow with her cycle through Cycle Syncing®, eating the right foods, and honoring where she’s at in her cycle, and using it as a means to balance other elements of her life (work, social, and personal). 

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Meet Torrey DeVitto:

Torrey is a actress, producer and advocate. You may know her from her roles in Chicago Med, One Tree Hill, Pretty Little Liars. She is also an advocate for women's safety, health, and rights, as well as reproductive rights.

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What you'll learn in the video:

• Torrey talks about her experience with heavy PMS symptoms during her cycle and the need to normalize conversations about women’s hormonal health. 
• Torrey and Alisa discuss how our current societal narrative makes light of PMS and the symptoms some women experience during their cycle instead of understanding that these symptoms are indications that something within our bodies is unbalanced. 
• They discuss how cycle syncing isn’t about perfection, but rather about encouraging the understanding of one’s cycle in order to help women navigate different elements of their lives in ways that support their health and hormones.

Alisa and Krista talk about a new level of healthcare for women, learning how to treat our bodies with love and kindness, and discovering how the body responds to compassion and grace on our healing journey.

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‍Meet Krista Williams:

‍The co-founder and co-host of Almost 30, a top 50 podcast, global brand, and loving community created to raise the collective consciousness.

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What you will learn in the video:

• Learn to tap into your inner guidance and begin listening to what’s going on in your body. 
• Learn how to connect with your body in a compassionate way.
• Work smarter, not harder; the female body is designed to be efficient.
• Choose joy in your body. Love it, tend to it and embrace the feminine.

Alisa and Beatrice discuss societal conditioning about menstruation, PMS, mental health and more. They discuss whole menstrual care and supporting the body from first bleed to your last.

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Meet Beatrice Dixon:

Beatrice is the CEO of The Honey Pot Company. Since launching in 2014 in her kitchen with plant-derived ingredients after experiencing chronic bacterial vaginosis for 8 years, the company has grown prominence within the wellness space, becoming a brand women trust.

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What you'll learn:

• Getting the right support for your hormonal journey
• Grace and discipline for a hormonal lifestyle journey
• Improving endocrine system to reduce symptoms
• New way to relate to your body, not a quick fix

Alisa and Freida discuss her journey with endometriosis and the effects of synthetic birth control on the body and the brain. Freida has used Cycle Syncing® to address her endometriosis instead of the pill and to support her path to motherhood. They also discuss why some women end up going against their instincts and inner voice. The reality of getting hormone care is not always straightforward, and understanding it all is not easy.

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‍Meet Freida Pinto:

Freida Pinto is an actress, producer, and advocate for maternal health and female reproductive rights. Best known for her critically acclaimed performance in "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Malcom’s List".

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What you'll learn:

• How synthetic birth control can affect the brain.
• The mission of making understanding your hormones as easy as possible so you do not have to become endocrine system experts.
• Cycle Syncing® is not a diet or a regime, it is a lifestyle. It’s aligning with how your body is working.
• The form of your self care should follow the function of your biology.
• It’s possible to change your relationship with exercise when you have a better understanding of how your hormones work.
• Symptoms are a loving way of asking you to help.

Alisa and Alix dive deep into Alix’s journey as she transitioned off hormonal birth control, improved her fertility, and used Cycle Syncing® to help her win her first Gold Medal!

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Meet Alix Klineman:

Alix Klineman is an American beach volleyball player, and Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics gold medalist. She has won 8 international titles, plays on the AVP Volleyball Team professionally for Team USA, competes domestically and internationally, and is not counting out a run for Paris 2024! She was put on the pill at a young age and she felt the effects of it. She finally got off the pill and saw dramatic improvements in her athletic performance. By practicing the Cycle Syncing® Method, and addressing the root cause of her hormone symptoms, this set her up for her first Olympic success as well as her first pregnancy! 

What you'll learn in the video:

• Hormones are not a liability, cyclical hormonal patterns are an advantage.
• You can take charge naturally of your body with food and supplements.
• Healing your hormones naturally is not a quick fix, it is an ongoing process. 
• You can learn how your endocrine system works, how your cycle works, and how to work in alignment with your cycle. 
• Symptoms are a conversation. You do not have to be at war with your body. Your symptoms are there to get your attention, so you can change your input. When you change your input your hormonal output changes. 
• Change is possible and it doesn’t take that long to feel the benefits.