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Menopause Breakthrough for Professional Women: Your Path to Energy, Clarity, & Balance helps professional women navigate the challenges of perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause. Hosted by Katina Smith, Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner and Wellness Coach, each episode provides practical strategies, expert insights, and encouragement to reclaim your energy, clarity, and balance so you feel like yourself again.
Disclaimer: As a Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner and Wellness Coach, my goal is to educate, empower, and inspire you on your wellness journey. The information shared on this podcast is for educational and motivational purposes only and should not replace medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making changes to your health, nutrition, or lifestyle plan.
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In this episode, we explore a gentle and empowering conversation around natural wellness and menopause. Many women walk through this season feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, and unsure of where to turn. This conversation offers a different perspective. One that invites curiosity, grace, and small intentional steps toward healing. Our guest shares her personal journey, which began with over 15 years of experiencing hot flashes. That long season led her to seek answers beyond conventional appr...
In this heartfelt and deeply practical episode of Menopause Breakthrough, Katina Smith, Host, sits down with Telishia Johnson (TJ), a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, to explore one of the most overlooked dimensions of menopause: its impact on our closest relationships. From the marital bond to the parent child connection, TJ offers compassionate guidance on how families can navigate hormonal transition together with more grace, understanding, and closeness. What We ...
In this episode, Katina sits down with Dr. Thembi Aquil to explore the connection between midlife transitions, menopause, and financial clarity. Many women reach this stage of life feeling called to make a career change, start a business, or pursue something more meaningful, yet financial fear often holds them back. Dr. Aquil shares practical insights on how women can evaluate whether they are experiencing burnout or a true desire to pivot, how to strengthen their financial foundation, and ho...
Stress is often reduced to simply feeling overwhelmed. In this episode, we go much deeper. There are eight, sometimes nine, different types of stress, and each one impacts your hormones, nervous system, energy, mood, and overall health in unique ways. If you have been feeling tired, anxious, stuck, or not like yourself during perimenopause or menopause, understanding the type of stress your body is carrying can be transformative. In this episode, we explore: • Acute stress and how short burst...
This is one of my favorite topics to talk about because I learned about happiness many years ago. As I grew older, I began to understand that happiness and joy are not the same thing. So how do we define them? Both happiness and joy are states of mind. Happiness is often connected to what is happening around us. It usually requires action to change a situation. Joy also involves intention, but it is much deeper and more enduring. Happiness is often: Linked to external events such as good news...
Menopause is often portrayed as a season of decline, with symptoms like hot flashes, weight gain, mood swings, and fatigue framed as inevitable. In this episode, we challenge that narrative. Menopause is not something that just happens to you—it’s a stage of life you can influence daily, starting with your mindset. How you think about this transition shapes your hormones, energy, stress levels, and overall experience. We explore how shifting from a mindset of “I’m losing control” to one of em...
Many women quietly carry the weight of irritability, mood changes, emotional distance, and a loss of desire without fully understanding what is happening in their bodies. Their partners feel confused. Their children feel rejected. Coworkers feel the tension. And the woman herself often feels lost inside her own skin. In this episode, we explore why these conversations matter. As women move through perimenopause and menopause, hormonal shifts can affect mood, energy, memory, patience, and conn...
In episode 10 of Menopause Breakthrough, we explore something that sounds simple, yet can be deeply transformative during menopause. Diet eliminations. This conversation is not about restriction, punishment, or taking away everything you enjoy. It is about understanding how a few strategic food shifts can calm inflammation, support your hormones, and help your body feel safer, steadier, and more supported during this season. Menopause is not just a hormone transition. It affects how your body...
In this episode, we break down what detox really means and why it’s especially important during peri-menopause, menopause, and post-menopause. Forget the quick-fix juice cleanses — true detoxification is about supporting your body’s natural pathways so it can efficiently process and eliminate toxins. We’ll explore: The body’s main detox pathways — liver, kidneys, colon, lungs, skin, lymph, gallbladder, and blood — and why they matterHow lifestyle, past exposures, and chronic inflammation affe...
In this episode of Menopause Breakthrough, Katina opens up a powerful and heartfelt conversation about loneliness during menopause a topic many women feel but rarely talk about. Hormone shifts, emotional changes, physical symptoms, changing relationships, and society’s silence around menopause can make this season feel isolating. But you are not alone and today's episode helps you understand why loneliness happens, how it affects women in midlife, and what you can do to feel connected again. ...
Episode snapshot You’ll learn what functional nutrition is, how it grew out of functional medicine, and why a personalized, root-cause approach can help you move from just coping with symptoms to feeling more like yourself again. What functional nutrition really means Functional nutrition is built on the principles of functional medicine—looking for the “why” behind your symptoms instead of just trying to cover them up. It focuses on the interconnected systems in your body (like your gut, hor...
Many women dread the word exercise and I get it. You might be thinking, “I don’t have time,” or “I can’t join a gym,” or even “I don’t like exercising alone.” But this kind of thinking can keep you from experiencing one of the most powerful tools for easing menopause symptoms and improving your overall well-being. In this episode, we’re talking about why movement is so essential during menopause and how to make it work for you, not against you. Here’s What You’ll Learn: 1. How Exercise ...
Menopause isn’t just a physical change, it can deeply affect how a woman sees herself. For years, many women have tied their identity to roles like being a mother, wife, professional, or even to how youthful or energetic they feel. But when menopause arrives with changes in mood, energy, and body image (especially weight gain) it can leave a woman asking: “Who am I now?” In today’s episode, we’re exploring how menopause impacts a woman’s sense of identity, and more importantly, how this seaso...
Have you ever wondered why anxiety seems to spike during midlife—or why stress feels harder to manage during perimenopause or menopause? In this episode, Katina dives deep into the powerful connection between anxiety, stress, and menopause, and shares how understanding this link can help you take back control of your mind, mood, and overall well-being. In This Episode, You’ll Learn What anxiety really means, both scientifically and spirituallyHow stress can lead to anxiety and throw your body...
Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you’re there? Or struggled to find the right word mid-sentence? You’re not alone. Brain fog is one of the most common and least talked about symptoms of menopause. In this episode of Menopause Breakthrough, I break down: The hormonal shifts that directly affect memory, focus, and mental clarityWhy stress, sleep disruption, and blood sugar imbalances can make brain fog worseThe difference between normal forgetfulness and when it’s t...
Did you know that stress and menopause don’t just overlap, but they amplify each other? That’s why so many professional women feel like they’re running on empty, quick to irritability, unable to focus, and constantly exhausted. In this episode of Menopause Breakthrough, I break down the connection between shifting hormones and stress, and why this season of life can feel so overwhelming. We’ll talk about: The three stages of menopause (perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause) and what’s happe...
Have you ever thought, “I don’t even feel like myself anymore?” That’s exactly where I was a few years ago, and it nearly cost me my health and career. In this very first episode of Menopause Breakthrough, I’m opening up and sharing my personal story, the struggles, the turning points, and the reason I created this podcast for professional women navigating perimenopause and menopause. I talk about: My season of stress and burnout, fatigue, brain fog, mood swings, and feeling completely discon...
Something exciting is coming for professional women! If you’re navigating stress, burnout, or menopause—and want real solutions for more energy, clarity, and balance—you’ll want to tune in. Launching Sept 29: Menopause Breakthrough for Professional Women podcast with your HIY Coaching & Consulting CEO, Katina Smith, MBA, CFNC, CMC. Mark your calendar—first 3 episodes drop launch day! To learn more about our program visit our website at https://www.happinessinyoucoach.com/menopause-elite-p...
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