A nurse practitioner with more than 25 years of clinical experience, Cynthia has become one of the leading voices in the perimenopause space through her podcast, writing, and widely viewed TEDx talk on intermittent fasting. But this conversation moves beyond wellness trends and into the mechanics of what actually changes in midlife: the decline in microbial diversity, the role of the estrobolome in estrogen metabolism, the relationship between cortisol and intestinal permeability, and why chronic inflammation so often sits underneath hormonal symptoms.

Policy is often discussed in the abstract, as spreadsheets or legislation. But for Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, policy is something we carry in our cells. As a distinguished scholar and CEO of the health tech company HyperVigilant, she has spent over 25 years studying the lethal combination of racism and ageism she calls "rageism," and how these systems dictate who is protected and who is left to weather the storm. Her new book on the subject, RAGEism: Racism, Ageism, and the Quest for Liberation Democracy, is set for release on May 5th.

A century after The New Yorker began as a humor magazine, women cartoonists are still redrawing its cultural edges. In this conversation, we speak with Liza about the feminist roots of cartooning, the power of humor to make invisible experiences legible, creative confidence after menopause, and why a drawn line, when paired with laughter, can shift culture faster than argument alone.

Abigail Wilson is a London-based writer, director, and actor whose work often explores emotional extremes and overlooked realities. We spoke to Abigail about the making of Overdrive, her award-winning short film Overdrive dives deep into the lived experience of PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder), using sound, stunts, and storytelling to express what words alone often can’t.