Hormones and Hustle - How Women's Biology Fuels Mental Resilience | 0031 | She Set Fire To Doubt Podcast

For every woman out there who feels like she’s doing all the right things—showing up, staying strong, getting things done—but still feels off, foggy, snappy, or just... not herself, this episode is for you.I’m not here to give you medical advice or pretend to be a hormone specialist. I’m simply sharing my lived experience—one that took me by surprise after undergoing a radical hysterectomy and bowel resectioning.I trained like an athlete to prepare for that surgery, but what I wasn’t prepared for was the crash afterwards. I was thrown into surgical menopause without any warning, and what followed was a fog of anxiety, confusion, and emotional lows I’d never experienced before. And the hardest part? I was leading a team, running my business, and from the outside—it looked like I had it all together. But inside? I was struggling.In this episode, I open up about what that period taught me—not just about hormones, but about how little we’re taught to listen to our bodies as women. We push through. We “crack on.” And when it gets harder, we assume it’s our fault, our mindset, our failure.But what if it’s not?What if your hormones are impacting your mental resilience more than you realise? What if that brain fog, irritability, exhaustion, and disconnection from yourself isn’t just burnout—but your body signalling something deeper?I walk you through the small but mighty shifts that helped me reconnect with myself—tracking mental patterns, leaning into strength training, prioritising sleep, finding the right kind of magnesium, and tuning into the voices that genuinely support women's health.This is a deeply personal conversation—and just the start of a series where I’ll be bringing in expert guests to go even deeper on what it means to be dismissed, misunderstood, and misinformed as women navigating both ambition and hormonal shifts.If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why can’t I hold it together like I used to?”—I invite you to press play.Because you’re not broken, you’re not weak, and you’re not failing.You might just be hormonal—and no one ever told you.Let’s change that, together.Listen to the full episode now. You deserve to be heard.