I kept launching on my period. Every single time. Masterclass one — day one of my cycle. Masterclass two — same. Another launch, another live, and there was my period. Right on time. Front row. Completely uninvited.
For months I thought I just had terrible timing. It wasn't until I built an app and looked at six months of my own data that I finally saw what was actually happening. And holy seaweeds, y'all — the data had been there the whole time.
This is the episode I almost didn't record. We are talking about periods, menstrual cycles, PCOS, hormonal birth control, and what happens when you spend 25-plus years managing around your body instead of actually living in it. And what it means for your business.
In This Episode You'll Learn:
→ Why the taboo around periods has been costing women entrepreneurs more than we realize — in business AND in life
→ What PCOS is and how 25+ years of hormonal birth control disconnected me from my own natural rhythm
→ What cycle syncing actually is — explained simply, no certification required
→ The four phases of the menstrual cycle and what each one means for your launches, content, and energy
→ How to identify if your biggest business moments are accidentally landing in your lowest energy phase
→ A three-step action stack to start noticing your own patterns this week
Moments From This Episode:
"I was mortified. I thought I was dying. I hid it from her." — on getting my period at 10 with zero preparation
"I decided to fight for my cycle." — on removing my IUD at 45
"Holy seaweeds — the data was right there the whole time and I kept blaming myself."
"Your body is not your enemy. It has been trying to be your partner this whole time."
"Your cycle is not a disruption to your business season. It IS a business season."
"Rest is not a sign of weakness. It is a phase. And when you skip it, your body takes it anyway."
Episode Chapters:
→ 00:00 — Hook: I decided to fight for my cycle
→ 02:00 — What are you sipping on? + why this episode scared me
→ 04:30 — Nobody told me — the origin story
→ 08:30 — PCOS, birth control, and 25+ years of silencing my body
→ 13:00 — Getting my cycle back at 45 — and the masterclass pattern I couldn't explain
→ 16:00 — What the app showed me in the data — the holy seaweeds moment
→ 20:00 — What is cycle syncing? The four phases explained simply
→ 24:00 — What this means for YOUR business
→ 32:00 — Your three-step action stack + close
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I grew up being taught that periods were something you needed to hide, you needed to manage and quietly push through.
Speaker A:And that is exactly what I did for almost 25 years.
Speaker A:Plus and when I finally decided to fight for my cycle and it came back at the beautiful age of 45, I realized that not only did I not have a launching timing problem, but I also realized that I never learned to actually live with my natural body.
Speaker A:And by the end of this episode, you're going to understand why that taboo cost us more than we realize, both in our business and our life, and what it actually looks like to build a business that works with your cycle instead of against it.
Speaker A:So grab your cup of whatever's keeping you grounded and let's dive in.
Speaker A:Welcome to Heart Led CEO, the podcast for women wellness entrepreneurs who are ready to build, scale and automate their business businesses without sacrificing their soul, sanity or authenticity.
Speaker A:I'm Anakani Walters, a nurse turned entrepreneur, military spouse, first time mama in my 40s, and a recovering burnout survivor who's making it a mission to help heart led women just like you create thriving businesses that really feel good, do good, and give you the freedom that we all do deserve.
Speaker A:Because here's the thing, you don't have to hustle harder to succeed.
Speaker A:You don't have to drown in tech overwhelm or try to do everything alone.
Speaker A:And I'm here to give you the strategies, automation, tools and mindset shifts that will help you step fully into that leader, CEO and impact maker that you are meant to be.
Speaker A:If you're ready to grow your business in a way that aligns with your values and your life, you are in the right place.
Speaker A:Let's get into today's episode.
Speaker A:Hello.
Speaker A:Hello my beautiful friend.
Speaker A:Welcome back to another episode.
Speaker A:I'm so happy to be here with you today.
Speaker A:Quick question because I'm going to be getting into it and it is going to be deep.
Speaker A:But I want to know, what are you sipping on right now?
Speaker A:Is it tea?
Speaker A:Is it coffee?
Speaker A:Is your drink bubbly or is it brown?
Speaker A:Is it purple?
Speaker A:Like, I genuinely want to know because I always have a cup of hot tea with me when I'm recording and I always get curious, what are people drinking while they're listening to me?
Speaker A:So if you're willing to share, I would love this important information.
Speaker A:Now I want to go deep.
Speaker A:Today I'm going to be talking about some really personal stuff.
Speaker A:To some of you, it might be a little TMI and up till actually recording this and even while I'm actually recording it.
Speaker A:I'm not even sure that I'm ready to talk about this publicly myself.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:It is this quiet season for me.
Speaker A:I am feeling the pull to talk about this and I'm going to go ahead and lean into it.
Speaker A:Nervousness and fears combined.
Speaker A:Because I really want to be vulnerable.
Speaker A:But I also want to talk about the things that not everyone is talking about.
Speaker A:And I think that we should because the thing that we never talk about, especially for me when I was growing up, it was the taboo thing to talk about.
Speaker A:Like we didn't talk about it.
Speaker A:I don't remember anybody talking about it until it happened to me.
Speaker A:And I really believe genuinely that if it had been something that was talked about, normalized, I don't know if I would have liked the celebration, but I would have dealt with, would have changed my entire relationship with my body.
Speaker A:And I definitely feel like it would have changed my business.
Speaker A:And we are talking about periods.
Speaker A:Like we are talking about menstrual cycles.
Speaker A:We are talking about the thing that when we were teenagers and for some of us, hand raised right over here, Preteen, I was 10, you were given this pad or God forbid, a tampon and some instructions and like, okay, here you go.
Speaker A:Welcome to the rest of your life.
Speaker A:And like zero education.
Speaker A:And for most of us, zero celebration.
Speaker A:My mom didn't even know that I was having my period.
Speaker A:I was mortified.
Speaker A:I thought I was dying.
Speaker A:I hid it from her and I want to talk about it because if you're like me, what happens when it just happens?
Speaker A:You don't really have any guidance.
Speaker A:It wasn't something that you were prepared for.
Speaker A:Maybe for me it was because I.
Speaker A:It was none.
Speaker A:Not expected to happen so young.
Speaker A:But then you end up spending 25 plus years managing around your body instead of actually living in it.
Speaker A:You end up feeling like menstrual cycles are this negative bad thing.
Speaker A:It just doesn't do a lot of good.
Speaker A:And so I want to talk about my story.
Speaker A:And if you're out there listening and it resonates, maybe this is where you are.
Speaker A:Maybe you've experienced this or maybe it's something that you're curious about.
Speaker A:So I grew up in a very cultured, you know, home and generations were literally periods were not a topic of some big celebration.
Speaker A:Now I will say when I did get my menstrual cycle, I vaguely remember like my mom telling everybody, like all my aunties and it was mortifying.
Speaker A:I was so upset.
Speaker A:There was no like permission asked.
Speaker A:It was just like, oh, my God, you know?
Speaker A:And Connie had her period.
Speaker A:And, like, my mom had not realized I had it for, like, months.
Speaker A:I was just ashamed of it.
Speaker A:I didn't know what was going on, and I hid it from her.
Speaker A:Like, I was straight up dealing with it with, like, wadded toilet paper on, like, survival mode.
Speaker A:I didn't know if I was going to get in trouble.
Speaker A:Like, I didn't know Nothing.
Speaker A:I was 10, y'.
Speaker A:All.
Speaker A:I think that is very much, for my generation, very common.
Speaker A:It is not some big honorary rite of passage.
Speaker A:Like, nobody sat me down and said, hey, this is what's happening in your body.
Speaker A:It actually is a beautiful thing.
Speaker A:This is what it means.
Speaker A:I see some TikTok videos now of, like, little girls surrounded by all these women, and they're singing and they're celebrating, and they're making it, like, this norm.
Speaker A:And for all I can tell, the little girl does not look mortified.
Speaker A:Like, my experience.
Speaker A:She actually looks, like, excited.
Speaker A:Like, she just entered, like, the cool kids club.
Speaker A:And I definitely support that because I did not have the best experience.
Speaker A:And again, my mom had no idea that I had was even getting my period.
Speaker A:I was muscling through my experience every month, trying to just survive it and get through it as fast as humanly possible.
Speaker A:And I just kept trying to move from cycle to cycle like that.
Speaker A:And I hated being a girl, to be honest.
Speaker A:Like, growing up, I was a tomboy.
Speaker A:I was feeling like, women are cursed.
Speaker A:This was, like, the worst thing ever.
Speaker A:And I'm not blaming anybody for, like, my experience, because, again, I realized that was pretty normal, and that was what was modeled.
Speaker A:But it ended up creating in me, I think, even in a lot of us, especially for my generation, this deeply unconscious belief that our cycle is an inconvenience in our lives.
Speaker A:Like, it has nothing to do with rhythm.
Speaker A:There's no sacredness.
Speaker A:It's not beautiful.
Speaker A:There's no data.
Speaker A:And it's just this terrible thing that happens once a month.
Speaker A:And the goal was literally to get through it until you got to an age where you needed to get pregnant to have offspring.
Speaker A:And then it had some type of purpose.
Speaker A:Now, I found out very early that I had pcos and I was getting a lot of ovarian cyst.
Speaker A:So I was put on hormonal birth control, and that problem pretty much went away.
Speaker A:Like, not just the cysts, but periods in general.
Speaker A:And I thought, great, this is the best thing ever.
Speaker A:Problem solved.
Speaker A:I will never have to deal with this stupid thing ever again.
Speaker A:Best thing on planet Earth.
Speaker A:And I was on birth control for more than 25 years, for pretty much my entire teen years, all the way up until my late 30s.
Speaker A:And in that time, I had built an entire life.
Speaker A:I built my nursing career.
Speaker A:I eventually got married.
Speaker A:I started my business.
Speaker A:I had a whole life completely, completely disconnected from my natural rhythm and basically silencing it, because that was my coping mechanism.
Speaker A:As it turns out, anytime things get difficult or whatever, my like go to is to just put it under the rug, don't talk about it, ignore it, go do something else to distract me from it.
Speaker A:And then eventually I grew out of this feeling.
Speaker A:And of course, as it happens, I wanted to try to get pregnant, which finally forced me for the first time in, like, my entire life, to actually start listening to my body.
Speaker A:And then in some miracle case, because everything was literally against me medically, I ended up with a miracle.
Speaker A:I had my baby.
Speaker A:Now, the one thing that I will say is that six weeks postpartum, at like, your normal checkup, I ended up getting an iud.
Speaker A:And it was because that was the thing to do.
Speaker A:It felt really normal, and it was the only thing that I had ever known.
Speaker A:And it made sense when the doctor was like, you need to do it.
Speaker A:You cannot leave this without some type of plan.
Speaker A:Now, a few years later, I was in a training with one of my coaches, Leonie Dawson, and she had somebody in there from the community who did a session on cycle syncing.
Speaker A:And I was blown away by the presentation.
Speaker A:And it really started to, like, make the wheels in my head turn and got me thinking about all kinds of stuff.
Speaker A:And I'm a nurse, so now I'm in the space of I know how to read, I'm educated, I like to research.
Speaker A:I don't like not knowing.
Speaker A:So I started digging in.
Speaker A:I started researching all the stuff that she was bringing to my attention.
Speaker A:And I started to see the connection that really nobody in the medical field had ever talked to me about with regards to the side effects from being on birth control all the time and never letting my body go through that natural cycle.
Speaker A:And so I decided, well, this is it.
Speaker A:I want to be in my own body now.
Speaker A:And now I noticed this connection between the natural cycle and what it does to actually help protect women molecularly with all kinds of stuff.
Speaker A:And so I was like, oh, my goodness, I have been cheated out of so much that naturally happens in a woman's body.
Speaker A:And really the real purpose behind cycles for decades where there were other alternatives to what I was dealing with.
Speaker A:And I'm not saying that you should stop your birth control now.
Speaker A:You need to obviously have a conversation with your health care provider.
Speaker A:But I'm saying that for me, I was like, I'm 45.
Speaker A:I don't know how many more cycles I'm going to end up having.
Speaker A:And I want this protection that is happening that I'm missing out on.
Speaker A:So at 45, pretty much, like a little bit before I turned 45, I ended up having the IUD removed.
Speaker A:Now, the thing about it is that I didn't really know one if I'd get a regular cycle because my cycles had always been irregular.
Speaker A:But I was prepared to figure it out.
Speaker A:Like, I had reached out to the lady who did the presentation and, like, let her know, like, I'm scared.
Speaker A:She's like, what are you scared about?
Speaker A:Like, it's just something that naturally happens, like, you'll deal with it.
Speaker A:And I'm like, yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker A:So lo and behold, my cycle came back.
Speaker A:It was actually pretty regularly, and it ended up being on clockwork.
Speaker A:And I was like, okay, cool, this is happening.
Speaker A:We're doing this.
Speaker A:I felt kind of empowered.
Speaker A:I was like, gosh, it's a little bit like getting used to it because I have been without for so long.
Speaker A:And now this is kind of where.
Speaker A:Where again gets a little bit more specific.
Speaker A:Because in retrospect, when my cycle come back, I was in the middle of really, really starting to build my business.
Speaker A:I started to learn about a lot of stuff, started organizing my stuff, learning about, you know, running master classes and launches and going live and being more out there and putting myself out there and doing all the things.
Speaker A:But I kept noticing something very specific, that right before a big moment, I would start to get this struggling sensation.
Speaker A:Like, I had no energy.
Speaker A:I would tend to be very irritable.
Speaker A:I was having just like, trouble just gathering my thoughts.
Speaker A:Everything took so long.
Speaker A:And it was like, what is wrong with me?
Speaker A:And then I would look at the calendar and think, oh, man, this is the supposed to be like, the primal time to do all this stuff.
Speaker A:Because I started to like, okay, the best time to do some of this is during a full moon.
Speaker A:Cool, I got this.
Speaker A:And then it would be like, I must have got something wrong because I would end up getting literally my cycle around the.
Speaker A:The start of of all these things.
Speaker A:Like, this is like the worst timing ever.
Speaker A:And I didn't really pay too much attention to it because I had planned this stuff, like, sometimes months, weeks in advance, and then it just would coincide with my cycle.
Speaker A:And I Genuinely thought, dude, you got some bad luck.
Speaker A:And it kept going and it kept happening.
Speaker A:So master class one, it would be like day one and day two was my cycle, or I would have another launch and it would be the same, or I would get it like the night before and I just was like another live another moment.
Speaker A:And I kept building towards the same thing over and over, not really putting together that it was happening, not in a coincidental way.
Speaker A:Why does this keep happening to me?
Speaker A:Am I really not that good about planning?
Speaker A:Not really putting two and two things together.
Speaker A:Now I decided, okay, I'm an AI strategist.
Speaker A:I'm going to build myself an app.
Speaker A:Because I was like, I really need to start, like, paying attention and, like, start to monitor my cycle and put down, like, when it's starting and how long.
Speaker A:And I was like, maybe I'm going to, like, menopause.
Speaker A:I don't know what's going on, but this is really weird.
Speaker A:So I did.
Speaker A:I built an app to help me track more than just my cycle.
Speaker A:That was part of it, but it also helped me track my productivity, what days of the week I was more productive.
Speaker A:It helped me figure out kind of more mapping.
Speaker A:I also have it built in with my lunar buying framework, which also helps me to know during the moon cycle when it's great for me to do certain things from a marketing standpoint, not just tracking my energy and things like that, so that I can eventually sink my cycle and see where I am from a face perspective.
Speaker A:And just something kept feeling off.
Speaker A:And I just kept blaming myself, like something was wrong with me because that's what we're used to doing.
Speaker A:And so I built the app and it's like this beautiful ritual tracker that I, like, love using.
Speaker A:And then I started to really look at, like, all the data.
Speaker A:It feels like it's so obvious now, but it didn't.
Speaker A:When I was, like, thinking through some of it, like, this is weird that this just kind of coincidentally happens every single time that I started laughing at myself.
Speaker A:Because what ended up happening was I realized that my cycle was literally synced to the full moon every single month.
Speaker A:And I had been scheduling all my master classes, my lunches, my biggest visibility moments at the top of the phase of the full moon at the same time while my body was actually trying to reset and restore and I'm trying to do literally the yin and the yang at the same time.
Speaker A:Four months.
Speaker A:When I say, holy seaweeds, I just wanted to, like, smack myself in the forehead, because again, my first instinct was I saw the data and was like, okay, that's interesting.
Speaker A:What's wrong with me?
Speaker A:Like, this is some freaky voodoo stuff, like I don't understand how this happened.
Speaker A:And I ended up catching myself because again, that automatic self blame that is just this legacy thing that's built in.
Speaker A:And so I was like, no, no, no, like let's just figure out what's going on because this is obviously just something that there's got to be some explanation to it.
Speaker A:So I looked into it and learned all about it, which was really interesting.
Speaker A:Like what it means when you're actually like, it's a real thing, it's not just me, there's other women out in the world where it happens.
Speaker A:And I was like, well that's pretty interesting.
Speaker A:There's even like information out there.
Speaker A:If it really bothers you enough to try to reverse it, which I don't think would work for me for a bunch of other reasons.
Speaker A:We can talk about that in a different episode.
Speaker A:But the data was there and I was like going from this 25 years of being taught that it was a problem to manage and then just trying to turn it into it's just data.
Speaker A:Anakani.
Speaker A:And now it's evidence that something is happening and your body is trying to tell you and you've just not been listening.
Speaker A:And so when I said in the last episode, you cannot read the label from the inside of the body bottle, this is what I'm talking about.
Speaker A:The data like literally was right there and my body had been completely consistent the entire time.
Speaker A:But I really just needed a bigger mirror that was big enough to finally like see it and connect the dots.
Speaker A:And so I'm thousand percent glad that I built the app which ended up being my mirror.
Speaker A:Now I want to give you this information because if what I just shared is like, oh my gosh, that sounds me, or if you have ever had one of those days where you feel foggy and depleted and you just cannot show up the way you want to, and you've never connected it to where you are in your cycle.
Speaker A:It just might be that missing piece that I just want to bring to your attention.
Speaker A:Now.
Speaker A:Cycle syncing for all intensive purposes is just a really simple practice of literally aligning your activities so it could be like your workload, whether that's your content or creating launches, writing your emails, you know, if you're doing like live videos and stuff, when to do that, but to sync it with the natural four phases of an actual menstrual cycle.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:That's basically all it is.
Speaker A:You don't need like some crazy certification.
Speaker A:Your body pretty much goes through these phases every month.
Speaker A:Everybody's different.
Speaker A:It doesn't start at the same day.
Speaker A:You kind of have to track your cycle to understand and time it.
Speaker A:You can go crazy into it.
Speaker A:Like the lady was teaching in this webinar where you can check your temperature and you can like check your fluids and all kinds of other stuff, but you can get a general idea by just tracking your cycle.
Speaker A:And again, there's other things that play into it, but this is like the basis.
Speaker A:Okay, we're not going to go really too deep into.
Speaker A:And cycle syncing just means you are trying to stop fighting with your natural energy cycle, which I talk about a lot.
Speaker A:And you start more or less working with it so that you're more productive.
Speaker A:You can, you know, do more, be more, and then actually give your body what it needs during the phases that it needs, like more R and R, basically.
Speaker A:So if you're not familiar the four phases that you just need to know in order to like get started, is the day 1 to 5 ish.
Speaker A:Is your like considered your menstrual cycle?
Speaker A:So you tend to have the lowest energy.
Speaker A:Your body's doing really heavy internal work.
Speaker A:So they recommend to do like, no launches.
Speaker A:It's a time to really like rest, reflect on your business, do things like that.
Speaker A:Now your follicular phase is day six to the 13th.
Speaker A:And that's when your energy starts to come back.
Speaker A:You feel more creative, you're getting more curious, your ideas start floating and you're ready to start doing stuff.
Speaker A:So typically it's great for planning, for pitching, for, you know, getting organized with new ideas, jotting it down, journaling, that kind of stuff.
Speaker A:Now we would have the conversations with AI I had this great idea, you know, to your language model.
Speaker A:And then you have the ovulatory phase, which is 14 to the 17ish.
Speaker A:And it's when you are at the peak of your energy, your peak communication.
Speaker A:You feel very magnetic and charismatic.
Speaker A:You tend to be more outward facing.
Speaker A:You want to go out.
Speaker A:This is typically when we would consider like your launch window.
Speaker A:You would do live calls, your masterclass windows, that kind of stuff.
Speaker A:And then you have your luteal, which is the 18th to the 28th.
Speaker A:Your.
Speaker A:You start to feel it, your energy starting to decline.
Speaker A:So we tend to try to create things that are detail oriented because that's the part of your brain that typically kicks in during this time with the hormonal shifts.
Speaker A:So you end up Wanting to do more editing, deep work, you do a lot more copywriting, you deal more with systems.
Speaker A:Because at this point your body's starting to need that R and R. Now what you need to understand is that most business advice is literally written and by and for people who don't have menstrual cycles.
Speaker A:So most advice out there is assuming that your energy is the same every day and the same pattern throughout the day.
Speaker A:It assumes that you can go hard and every day, all day, 24 7, you don't need rest and if you do, something is wrong with you kind of situation.
Speaker A:Now rest, my friend, is not a sign of weakness.
Speaker A:It is a part of our phase.
Speaker A:And when you skip it, your body will take it anyway, at whatever cost necessary, even if it is taking you to the ground.
Speaker A:And take it from me, like I burnt out my body that I wrote it hard and I didn't listen.
Speaker A:And you guys know my story, so I understand this.
Speaker A:You know, it's just the way mother Nature works.
Speaker A:It will do what it needs to do to self regulate and our bodies will do the same exact coping mechanism.
Speaker A:The thing that I thought was wrong with me was nothing wrong with me.
Speaker A:It was just that I didn't have like this map of figuring out like this is what you're supposed to be doing at this time.
Speaker A:So the question that I want you to sit with right now is when you have those days of you feel irritable or you're super tired, you have so much, you want to do so much, but like the rest of your body just is not there, everything feels crazy hard.
Speaker A:Have you ever thought about where you are in your cycle when this happens?
Speaker A:Now for me, it's a little bit more complicated because of the fact that I also have my own framework, which is the Lunar Bind framework.
Speaker A:So I mesh a lot of things going on at the same time, which is why I was trying to launch during not the best time.
Speaker A:It didn't like my cycle and the energetic cycle that I was sinking to was like this head butting situation essentially.
Speaker A:And I don't want to get too much into this one.
Speaker A:Specifically, if you guys want to learn more about my lunar framework, I'm happy to go more in detail in another episode, but really it's just more about this awareness.
Speaker A:Especially if you've ever been really curious about cycle syncing, if you've ever, you know, if you're still menstrual cycling, but if you're not, a lot of women end up trying to do the same thing.
Speaker A:But cycling it to the moon.
Speaker A:And I think most of us don't pay attention.
Speaker A:We're just not taught to track it in that way unless you are trying to get pregnant.
Speaker A:And it's more than just that.
Speaker A:Our cycles have more to do than just having babies.
Speaker A:And it has so much to do with our productivity and our business and our ability to show up in our lives and in our business.
Speaker A:And naturally, society has taught us to just push through all of it.
Speaker A:But it is not the best way to, to live in vitality as a female.
Speaker A:It has everything to do with how you manage this cycle.
Speaker A:And it's almost like riding the wave and being okay, waiting to catch the next one, instead of being upset that you have to wait for it.
Speaker A:And so I'm not again telling you that you need to restructure your entire business overnight and start stressing about remembering every single cycle.
Speaker A:I'm just saying that what if you just started noticing?
Speaker A:Like, what if you, instead of blaming yourself every time you hit a wall in your business or in your personal life, you have meltdowns, whatever, you instead got curious about where you are in your cycle.
Speaker A:If you're sinking to the moon, where is the moon in all of this?
Speaker A:Because that's what changed for me when I started to pay attention.
Speaker A:And so now I have the opportunity with this foresight to say, okay, well, I can stop scheduling my big launches or master classes during the full moon because I know it's going to coincide with my menstrual cycle.
Speaker A:I now know this.
Speaker A:And so when it is another part of my, my phase, my lunar cycle and my menstrual cycle, that would naturally still give me the similar effects.
Speaker A:And for those of you who are just regular cycle thinking, you would just figure out where your optimal time is based on that.
Speaker A:Not necessarily me and the moon.
Speaker A:And so if I wanted to stay with the full moon energy for my launches, I now have the information I need to know that I need to be better at batch creating.
Speaker A:I need, I can invest that time in having that skill because it's something that I can just learn, learn, even though I'm not great at it now I know that it's been something that's been on the back of my mind and that I need to be better about it.
Speaker A:And this would be my push into that so that during my high energy phases, I'm doing all the things I'm recording or I'm writing and I'm creating and I'm doing everything that I need so that literally all I would need to do is get on camera even when my energy is like low.
Speaker A:But I'm not scrambling, I'm not adding extra stress.
Speaker A:I know that I need to be like super good about nutrition and sleep and hydration to optimize everything in my body to support me at this peak time.
Speaker A:That I need to show up because I'm choosing to, not because I have to, because it's my content's already out there working for me and I just bring a separate energy and I just deal with that.
Speaker A:And then if it's not converting, then I know that it's probably not the best thing.
Speaker A:And then I just deal with that too.
Speaker A:It has nothing to do with avoidance or laziness.
Speaker A:It is about building a business around the truth of how we as females, our body actually works.
Speaker A:And stop being in denial that we are literally the same as men, because we are not.
Speaker A:And those of you who are on birth control, please understand that I am not telling you what to do with your body.
Speaker A:Birth control is like any western medicine.
Speaker A:For some women.
Speaker A:It is absolutely necessary and it is life changing.
Speaker A:What I am saying is that if you've ever been curious or this conversation has started a spark of something that you have been thinking about or now want are questioning, guess what, you live now in the age of AI, this incredible research too.
Speaker A:You can advocate for yourself in ways that literally were not possible 10 years ago and ask the questions, get curious and start the conversation with your health care provider.
Speaker A:So that was a lot.
Speaker A:But what do I want to really have you take away from today?
Speaker A:Know that your body is not your enemy.
Speaker A:So if you're listening to this and you're younger, please take it from me, it is not self sabotaging your life or your business.
Speaker A:It literally is trying to be a partner with you in your life and it has been this whole time.
Speaker A:But it needed you to take a moment to look up long enough to actually listen.
Speaker A:And that taboo, the silence, the whisper warnings like, oh, just so you know, this is going to happen.
Speaker A:The uncomfortable so to speak talks, we need to have them more because that's why they're uncomfortable, because nobody's talking about it.
Speaker A:And the more that we talk about it, the less that it's going to cost us and our generations of women in front of us if we don't start talking about, if we don't start normalizing, if we don't start trying to find some way of celebrating it in like not a icky way or like an embarrassing way, it's going to cost the Future generations, self knowledge, body trust, and years of blaming ourselves themselves for things that our bodies were just trying to tell us.
Speaker A:So a little action step because you know I love to give you some homework.
Speaker A:You don't have to do all three, just pick one.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:Just start with one.
Speaker A:Number one, look at your last two or three launches or like big lives, major visibility moments in your business and think about if you roughly know where you were in your cycle or the moon cycle is.
Speaker A:And just notice if there's a pattern, if one did better than the other and noticing where you were, if there was a difference, you don't have to do anything about it.
Speaker A:Just see just because once again you see something like this, you genuinely cannot unsee it.
Speaker A:Now, option number two, maybe you're curious about cycle syncing.
Speaker A:So start tracking this month.
Speaker A:Like it doesn't need to be anything special.
Speaker A:You can just start noting on a notes app, even if you're just saying when your period starts and when it ends and then doing it for the next one.
Speaker A:Like even that single data point over like a few months can show you where your rhythm actually is and how consistent consistent you are in that, so to speak, 28 day cycle.
Speaker A:And then the last one, number three, you can come and tell me what you found.
Speaker A:You can come and tell me what you're drinking while you're listening and I would love for you to join us in our free Facebook community.
Speaker A:The link will be in the show notes and then just come in there and say hi.
Speaker A:You don't have to do anything else than that.
Speaker A:Super simple number three.
Speaker A:Now for those of you listening or like completely uncomfortable like omg, I cannot believe that she talked about all this.
Speaker A:Guess what?
Speaker A:This is not woo woo.
Speaker A:This is not like some feminist anti hustle strategy craziness.
Speaker A:This is data backed.
Speaker A:It is how you can align with your nervous system to feel safe.
Speaker A:This is how you build a business and a life and vitality that you can actually sustain.
Speaker A:And guess what?
Speaker A:We all deserve that.
Speaker A:Now if this episode changed something in you, sparked something beautiful, or just felt like you feel seen in some small way, I would love for you to help me keep this going by sharing this with another wellness woman entrepreneur who might just need to hear this.
Speaker A:And we're not alone.
Speaker A:I'm sorry if you didn't have a great experience like me.
Speaker A:But we have the power now to help make it better for the women in front of us.
Speaker A:And as always, let me know that what you took away from this, you can screenshot it or take a selfie.
Speaker A:Tag me at Empower Her Wave and let me know what's on your mind.
Speaker A:As always, my beautiful friend, continue to be you.
Speaker A:Continue to be beautiful and continue leading from your heart.
Speaker A:I will catch you in the next episode.
Speaker A:All right, beautiful.
Speaker A:That's a wrap on today's episode.
Speaker A:But before you go, let's talk about something really important.
Speaker A:You are not just another entrepreneur trying to figure things out alone.
Speaker A:You are a Wave leader.
Speaker A:Someone whose work is meant to create real impact, touch the lives of others and make this world better.
Speaker A:And I want you to know you don't have to do it alone.
Speaker A:If today's conversation resonated with you, I'd love to keep this energy going inside of my free Facebook community.
Speaker A:Empower Her Biz Collective.
Speaker A:It's where we take these conversations deeper with live trainings, tech walkthroughs and real heart centered support from other women wellness entrepreneurs who really get it.
Speaker A:So if you're ready for community, clarity and support as you build your own business with heart and ease, I'd invite you to come and join us.
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Speaker A:Until next time, keep leading with heart.