Kylie: [00:00:00] Welcome back to episode of the Hormone Hub Podcast, where we talk all things perimenopause, menopause, and have the conversations no one else is having. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this episode. 

Hello, hello, and welcome to the Hormone Hub podcast. I’m your host, Kylie Pinwill, and today we are celebrating 100 episodes. So it’s a pretty huge milestone. You know, given that most podcasts, new podcasts get to, or they average about eight episodes. So the fact that we are 100 episodes down and we haven’t missed a week is pretty amazing.

So Today I thought we would celebrate, we’d do something a bit different. So I wanted to share a bit about the journey of how we got here, the highs, there have been [00:01:00] some lows the growth that we’ve had and yeah, and just sort of. Give you a bit of an insight into what goes into it and also why we do it as well.

So first up, I want to acknowledge and thank you, our listeners, our beautiful community. And you know, I. I want to, recognize this incredible community that’s grown around the podcast. We, I feel so supported you know, when I put this together and I get your beautiful feedback and, just watching it grow and watching the engagement of our listeners grow has been amazing.

So I wanted to give a personal shout out to some of our dedicated listeners who have been with us from the start. And, we’ve also had listeners who’ve jumped in, at some point along the journey, gone back to episode one and listened the whole way through. So that is commitment. So I do want to thank you from the [00:02:00] genuine bottom of my heart, because if it wasn’t for you and our regular listeners.

I would have chucked this in ages ago. So, I always appreciate your feedback. I love seeing, emails from you, with topics that you’ve suggested, topics you’ve enjoyed, topics that you’ve got more questions on and just having that engagement and, the weeks that I don’t feel.

And I’ll be honest here, some weeks I’m not feeling it when I sit down to record. It’s definitely harder to, come up with the energy to continue on. But, it’s reading these emails and getting the feedback from all of you that, keeps me going. 100%. And I also love it when you know, someone books in for a hormone help call and then, you know, they’re so used to hearing my voice on the podcast, they’re actually really surprised when they get me on the phone.

They’re like, Oh, I feel like I know you, which is, it’s [00:03:00] funny, but it’s also really nice as well because we are not a big team. And yes, you do get me on the hormone help calls. So, yes, I just wanted to, to thank you, because if we didn’t have listeners, we wouldn’t have a podcast, let’s face it. Certainly not doing it for the money, that’s for sure.

So, we’ve had a lot of success stories both from, listeners who have taken on board, you know, topics that we’ve covered in the podcast and they’ve taken that information and they’ve been able to go and make some really positive changes. 

We’ve also had a lot of women who have been listeners and they have become clients. So they have joined me in the Hormone Code program. They’ve joined me in Weight Loss Wisdom program, and we’ve just witnessed some beautiful transformations, both inside and outside of our programs. So seeing women, get their energy back, get their spark back and really turn a [00:04:00] corner with their health is, it’s just amazing.

And I can see, like, the confidence grow in women, that clarity, that brain fog lifts. And all of a sudden, they’re a lot more focused, a lot more. Clarity. There’s always a celebration when we, work on our digestive system and get the perfect poo. If you’ve been listening for a while, you’ll know what I mean by the perfect poo.

Of course, kilos and kilos and kilos have been dropped, which is always exciting. But I love, like the many milestones that are. We always, get excited about, weight loss or, health improvements, but, but, those personal milestones, like, women sort of getting the confidence to put the hand up for a promotion, because they deserve to be there. They deserve to put their head in the ring for that promotion, but their confidence had taken a knock to get that confidence back at that clarity back. And, they see them put their hand up is just amazing. Or, women who take a big step forward in their business, you know, because.

They’re feeling [00:05:00] better in themselves, and, they’ve got that vitality to kind of propel themselves forward. I love seeing that. I love seeing women put boundaries in place to preserve their energy for, the things that really matter. Finding a long lost libido.

That’s always exciting. So yeah, so I just sort of wanted to acknowledge those wins, and they’re sort of not necessarily wins that we, we celebrate all the time, but, but definitely, it sort of comes as a result from a conversation that sparked from the podcast. I want to, yeah, say a huge shout out to my, you know, amazing guests that I’ve had. We have had, and I absolutely appreciate the time and the generosity with a lot of our guests. We’ve had some amazing experts, a lot of professionals in their field women who’ve shared their wisdom and their experiences on the podcast. We’ve had, [00:06:00] gosh, so many different topics from thyroid issues and how to deal with a dodgy thyroid to dealing with burnout and feeling absolutely rotten and exhausted. We’ve had women or we’ve had advice on how to deal with difficult people how to work our lymphatic system, how to overcome or how to live with an autoimmune condition. We’ve looked at pelvic pain and dealing with endometriosis.

and adenomyosis leaky gut, we’ve talked about adult ADHD, we’ve talked about, you know, we’ve had some beautiful guests. An ovarian cancer survivor the beautiful Alvina, we’ve looked at, our pelvic floor and core training reconnecting with yourself, hormonal acne, you name it, we have talked about it.

Life on the other side of divorce was another. Great conversation we had. So there’s just so much generosity and knowledge that has, come about in our podcast episodes. So I just [00:07:00] wanted to, give enormous gratitude to my guests. No, I thought I would like flip it around. I’ve had some not so great guests, if I’m honest, and I’m sure that they’re not great.

Yes, I’m not listening. But yeah, it’s, it’s interesting because a lot of people put themselves forward to become guests on the podcast and they might have amazing topics and, I’ve jumped in and gone, Oh my gosh, that’d be a great topic to have on the podcast. You know, that that’s really relevant to our audience.

And then when I’ve got this great guest on the podcast, may or may not be an expert in their field. It might be lived experience or whatever it is, and we’ve just not connected and it’s made for a really awkward interview and a really kind of awkward editing process. So yeah, so we’ve, and hopefully you can’t pick the awkward interviews from the fun interviews, but definitely there have been more fun interviews than [00:08:00] not.

I also wanted today to, show some gratitude and some love for my team. So, I can’t do this alone. So I wanted to recognise the hard work and dedication of the Hormone Hub team in making each episode possible. So the beautiful Zee is our editor and she edits out all my mistakes.

She, puts it up on Apple and Spotify and Google and all the places that you can access it. She puts it on the website, she puts it out on social media. So it reaches your earbuds every week. Because without the team, it was just up to me. Zee also, I get the little gentle prompts to Kylie, pull your finger out and record that episode for me, please.

So, yeah, so I wanted to shout out to my team because this is certainly not a solo effort. 

And we’ve had some fun, behind the scenes things. So just to give you a glimpse into podcasting journey. I would love to say that I sit down every [00:09:00] week with, bucket loads of inspiration on what to record.

And yeah, I hate to say that. Yeah. Some weeks I just sit here and I got nothing. My mind is blank. But I can always dive into our beautiful Facebook community and have a look at what is going on there. And generally, generally there’s somebody asking a question and I’ll just go bing, what a great topic.

I’ll do that on the podcast. So yeah, as much as I would like to say, every episode is planned and mapped out sometimes I do struggle a bit, so it’s, it’s always great. And I love hearing from people. So if you have. Topic ideas that you would like me to cover, let me know because this is a two-way communication.

So even though podcasting is me sort of speaking to you, I always do it as if I was having a conversation with my best friend, and we’re just, a bunch of girls sitting there having a chat. And hopefully that’s how it comes across.[00:10:00] And if there’s topics there that you would love me to talk about, this is what I would love to, to share.

Some of the, like, the reality of being in perimenopause, if you’ve been listening for a while, you know I lose my words on a regular basis, and when, and it’s getting worse, I have to say, so when these sort of first started happening, we would edit it out. And we would just quietly make those little guafs disappear.

But then, after we had a chat about it, we decided that actually that’s the reality, that’s my reality of perimenopause is, I’ll be talking away and then all of a sudden all my words will leave my head. So we decided to leave it in because then that shows the reality of hormones and, also too, that I’m right there with you as well.

So it’s not like I, pretending to come in here and be perfect because yeah, things are, you know, the rollercoaster ride is happening in my world as well. My dog in the beginning would, I’m [00:11:00] sure you’ve all heard Marco the Border Collie he, in the beginning, when I was talking, recording the podcast, he couldn’t hear anyone talking back, so he thought I was talking to him, so he would either bark back at me.

Or cry, you know, so he would just sit there and howl while I’m trying to, to record. My kids, I actually never knew how annoying my family was until I started a podcast and just how many school holidays they have. So it just seems like school terms, you blink and the school terms go and then they’re on holidays and they seem to be here all the time when I’m recording a podcast.

And they always seem to be, pick that moment to fight with each other. Like they’re teenagers, they shouldn’t be fighting anymore, but they do. So yeah, recording. My husband, who is not a singer and rarely walks around the house singing unless I’m upstairs and I’ve hit record on a podcast, then he decides to belt it out at the top of his voice.

So yeah, my family is [00:12:00] annoying. Would love to say that I’m in a, beautiful, funky, professional podcast studio when I record these episodes, but, but no, I’m at home, hiding in a cupboard from my family. So there’s sort of some of the, the, I guess, not so perfect things and, I guess all part of the journey because that none of that has changed.

Since I have started the podcast. So, what’s coming up? So, we’re looking ahead at the future of the Hormone Hub. We have some exciting things coming up. Of course, we’re still taking, topic ideas from you, our listeners. And we’ve got some great guests coming up. We also have a live workshop roadshow coming up this year. So we had a very successful live workshop last year in Noosa which was amazing. So we had the most beautiful women great participation. It was really [00:13:00] great energy in the room. So I thought I would take this on the road. So we’re looking at Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and the Gold Coast.

So if you would like me to do a road trip, you would like me to come to your hometown and you are happy to support me in gathering some of your girlfriends together, let me know because yeah, I am happy to take this show on the road. We have our retreats this year coming up in Bali.

So last year we again, we sold out of our retreat in October last year. So this year we are running April and October. And we had a big group last year. We had two facilitators, Mel and Lee with me. This year I thought, doing two retreats, we would, maybe have like smaller, maybe a little bit more intimate.

So every time, I run a retreat, run a workshop if you’ve been before, you are welcome to come again and we will be sort of tweaking it slightly. So, taking the workshops on the road.[00:14:00] We’ve got the Bali retreats.

I also have an online summit planned, which is super exciting. So we are gathering 20 speakers in the perimenopause and menopause space over five days.

And we will have some pretty amazing content ideas. All around, how to successfully navigate this perimenopause and menopause sort of phase of life. And the other thing that we’re working on this year is, going into sort of workplaces and corporate environments.

So if your workplace has a wellness program. I would love to hear from you and I would love, you know, in on, you know, that workplace program, if your workplace has a maternity program or a family program for maternity leave or family leave, they should also have a menopause policy as well. So let me know if your workplace [00:15:00] doesn’t and again, yeah, let’s have that conversation.

So, going into the environment, because I think, at the end of the day, we’ve reached, we’ve hit some pretty big milestones. We bring experience, knowledge, wisdom to the table, and we should be at the peak of our careers. We should be putting our hand up for more.

But what I see is women not being supported, so they are backing down their demoting themselves, they’re going part time because they’re not coping with the changes that come naturally through perimenopause and menopause. So this is an area that I’m really keen to get into. So if you have any thoughts, any suggestions, any ideas, you sort of nodding going, “Oh my God, that’s my workplace”. Please. I would love it if you, got in touch and let me know. 

So, my loves, share your thoughts with me. I love hearing from you. I reply to each and every one of you. I’d love your suggestions. I’d love some ideas for the next 100 episodes.

So, [00:16:00] make sure you let me know. And just a very grateful thank you. Very heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has been a part of this Hormone Hub podcast journey. So a hundred episodes is, is pretty special. I invite you to, continue the celebration, share your favorite moments with me tag us on social media.

I would love you to leave a review. They do mean, a lot to me. And they also tell the podcast platforms that, people are interested in this content. So they show it, they send it out to more people. So every little bit helps. So yeah. This episode, our 100th episode is, you know, not just to celebrate the milestone, but also celebrate our community that has made the Hormone Hub podcast such a valuable resource for all women navigating perimenopause and menopause.

All right, my loves. Thank you so much. I just, yeah, [00:17:00] blown away and, oh, so, so grateful. All right. I will see you all in the next episode.

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Kylie: Hello, I see you there, juggling work, family, life, all while navigating perimenopause and menopause. But guess what? Maybe it’s time to break up with the hustle and grind. Going on a retreat is more than just about a vacation. It’s an investment in your well being and a step towards a happier, healthier you.

So take a moment, consider the benefits of a retreat and give yourself the gift of rejuvenation and self care. Self care is all about giving the best of you, not what’s left of you. I want you to save 500 now, jump in for the Reignite You Retreat. We’re running in Bali in April 2024 and October 2024. And yes, we sure do have payment plans available.

See you there. 

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