How can menstrual cycle awareness and conscious menopause enhance your health, creativity and leadership? That's the question we'll explore together in the Menstruality Podcast, brought to you by Red School, where we’re training the menstruality leaders of the future. Your host, Sophie Jane Hardy will be joined often by Red School’s founders, Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, as well as pioneering thought leaders, troublemakers and culture-shifters to discover how you can unashamedly claim the power of the menstrual cycle to activate your unique form of leadership; for yourself, your community, and the world.
204 episodes transcribedHave you ever “lost it” in the days running up to your bleed? Of course you have! We all have. Today we break down Sophie’s latest premenstrual losing...
Asha Frost is an indigenous healer and author. She is an Anishinaabe, Ojibwe woman who was raised in a menstrually positive culture and in today’s epi...
Clare Dubois has given her life to reforesting the topics as the founder of the not-for-profit, TreeSisters, but her menopause experience is demandin...
Our menstrual cycles can be a profound ally in work and leadership. Today we do a deep dive on how to channel our cyclical wisdom as it shifts and cha...
Today’s episode is about what it’s like when our experience is actually supported, honoured and dignified through menopause, and it’s also about relat...
Dr Sonia Wright - aka The Midlife Sex Coach for Women - combines her natural ability to talk about uncomfortable topics with her medical knowledge, se...
The premenstrual phase of the menstrual cycle - or ‘inner autumn’ as we lovingly call it - is often the most uncomfortable phase emotionally, and it i...
Once you’re in menopause, you appear to be off all the usual maps. You're cast off from a familiar shoreline onto a dark ocean of unknownness, wi...
Today we’re talking about a much misunderstood part of the body… the cervix. Olivia Bryant is the founder of Self:Cervix, an organisation dedicated to...
Today’s conversation follows a powerful idea that woke Alexandra up in the early hours a few days ago. It’s the idea that drives our new menopause boo...
The menstruality journey begins at menarche with our first bleed, and ends as we go through the great initiation of menopause. For some, pregnancy, bi...
When teacher and activist Jewels Wingfield felt menopause calling, through intense physical symptoms, she knew she needed to take a deep retreat. In t...
There are a handful of trailblazers who have paved the way for the positive menstrual culture we’re beginning to see today, and Dr Lara Owen is one of...
When you explore old European myths, it’s the elder women and grandmothers who run the world. In Greek mythology, there are the Fates - three elder wo...
We want to create a world where everyone is in love with the menstrual cycle - not a perfect version of the cycle - but exactly the cycle you have. B...
What is the connection between trauma, the nervous system and menstrual health? This week we’re speaking with Lisa De Jong, who shares in depth about...
In our 40s, many women and people with periods begin to experience a variety of health symptoms and challenges, as well as emotional and psychological...
Across the ages women and birthing people have been invited by midwives and doulas to relax their jaw and throat to support the opening of the cervix...
In today’s conversation, we get practical, down-to-earth and real about the initiation of menopause and how on earth do we actually get through to the...
Do you suffer from menstrual pain, or other cycle challenges such as PMS, PMDD or managing irregular cycles? In this episode we explore how the practi...
