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EPISODE #251: Managing Your Perimenopausal Rage

Feeling enraged lately? Dr. Kameelah Phillips gives us the facts about perimenopausal mood swings — and gets personal about her own. (Red lipstick while listening is not mandatory, but highly encouraged!)

EPISODE #250: When Rumors Spread Like Wildfire About the Fire Commissioner

Laura Kavanagh knew she would encounter challenges as the first female fire commissioner of the FDNY. But she didn’t anticipate the false rumors that she slept her way to the top — or the nastier rumors about her supposed pregnancy. Now, for the first time, she shares what was actually going on in her reproductive life when she ran the fire department.

EPISODE #249: Painful Sex and Elusive Orgasms in Perimenopause

If you’ve given birth, or you’re entering menopause, or you simply have a vagina… chances are, at some point, you’ve had painful or uncomfortable sex. Today, Dr. Lauren Streicher, OBGYN and menopause expert, gives us the inside info on sex and perimenopause.

EPISODE #243: Birth Control Troubles and Vibrator Triumphs

As the daughter of an OBGYN, Danielle Bezalel learned all about vaginas — but pleasure wasn’t part of the conversation. Now she’s on a mission to help people prioritize pleasure.

EPISODE #242: Actually, Sir, That’s Not How You Put on a Condom

Zaraia Fabunmi became a sex educator and a doula as a teenager. Today she shares how she’s used that training to help her peers — and, at times, her teachers — plus the fascinating reproductive health research she did in India.  

EPISODE #239: Breasts

When Jean Hannah Edelstein went to college, she realized she had great breasts. Like, the kind that could win a wet T-shirt contest. But they also made her a target for harassment. Things got even more complicated when she started breastfeeding — and yet again, when she had to say goodbye to them.

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Episode #233: A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross

Join us for a deep (and delightfully nerdy) dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas, where we’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wingspans, vagina lollipops, wandering wombs — and the research on female anatomy we still desperately need.