This week Steph sits down with Heather, a former magazine editor turned women’s health practitioner. After her second baby, Heather jumped on a trampoline and leaked for the first time. She was furious nobody had warned her, so she went back to uni and studied health science, Pilates, women’s medicine and clinical sexology. Then she founded Core Restore Co a pelvic floor and core strengthening clinic with five locations across New South Wales.

Heather breaks down the education we should have had in high school. She covers how your pelvic floor actually works, what your hormones are doing across your cycle, and why women have been treated as passengers in their own sex lives. It’s honest, funny and full of things you’ll want to send to every woman you know.

They also cover:

• Pelvic floor 101, and why it’s involved in almost every move you make
• The four phases of your cycle, and how to work with them
• The monthly self-check every woman should be doing
• Prolapse: what it is, how common it is, and why not to panic
• Kegels done properly, with the squeeze and the release
• Why leaking after birth is common, treatable and not something to joke your way through
• How stress tightens your pelvic floor and affects your sex life
• Why so many women stop prioritising sex, and how to make it enjoyable again
• Safety, trust and the link between pleasure and self-worth
• The glass ball analogy for balancing everything

Chapters 00:00 – Welcome 00:39 – Meet Heather: from journalist to women’s health 05:02 – The moment on the trampoline that changed everything 08:13 – Pelvic floor 101 12:47 – Hormones and the four phases of your cycle 22:26 – The monthly self-check and prolapse 29:03 – Pelvic floor changes after birth 33:01 – Stress, the nervous system and your pelvic floor 40:13 – Why women stop prioritising sex, and how to enjoy it again 52:51 – Glass balls, self-worth and the myth of balance

This episode is a conversation about general wellbeing and is not medical advice. Please speak to your health practitioner about your own circumstances.

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This week Steph sits down with Halima, a beauty therapist with 23 years in the industry. She started as a 17-year-old apprentice who hid her cystic acne behind her hair and turned off the bright lights in the treatment room. Today she runs a home-based clinic in Sydney, a product like ‘Dermal Code’ and a community for solo operators.

Halima shares the whole path: mobile pampering with a newborn, carrying a massage bed at eight months pregnant, and opening a home-based studio when brands told her they didn’t supply home-based studios. Then she and Steph get into why your nervous system, hormones and inner child all show up on your face.

They also cover:

• Why clear skin didn’t bring the confidence she expected
• Antibiotics, Roaccutane and the “strip everything” era of acne treatment
• Why you can’t heal stressed skin, and when to refer out
• Pro-ageing vs anti-ageing, and why her skin is better at 41 than at 27
• Barrier first, always, before retinol or microneedling
• Early motherhood, postnatal depression and raising kids as a “different version” of yourself
• Boundaries, people-pleasing and showing up on socials without makeup
• Advice for solo operators: just start, find your community, don’t undervalue yourself
• The two treatments she won’t give up in her 40s

Chapters
00:00 – Welcome
00:32 – Meet Halima Dandan
00:57 – Starting out at 17 01:50 – Motherhood and mobile pampering 02:43 – Her first spa product formulations 04:40 – Building a home-based clinic 06:22 – Dermal Code: supporting solo operators 08:14 – Creating a community for solo operators 09:42 – Hiding her cystic acne in the treatment room 12:02 – Clear skin didn’t bring confidence 14:01 – Stress, lifestyle and skin inflammation 14:44 – Antibiotics, Roaccutane and the stripping era 17:52 – You can’t heal stressed skin 18:37 – Tips for anyone struggling with acne 20:44 – Shifting from anti-ageing to pro-ageing 22:01 – Better skin at 41 than at 27 24:35 – Barrier first, and selling fear 26:03 – Why clients come for the experience 28:22 – What true skin health means now 29:36 – Cosmetic acupuncture and skipping Botox 30:23 – Motherhood, success and being kinder to yourself 32:27 – Different children, different versions of you 35:13 – Postnatal depression and burnout 37:25 – Can women really have it all? 38:42 – Boundaries and people-pleasing 40:30 – Social media, comparison and the unfollow button 46:12 – Perimenopause and zero filter 47:13 – Why your community matters for ageing well 49:25 – Advice for solo operators 53:42 – Building your own table 55:07 – What she’d tell her younger self 59:36 – One tip: be your own hype girl 01:01:22 – Her non-negotiable when life gets overwhelming 01:03:31 – Two treatments she can’t live without in her 40s 01:04:55 – Let go of the BS

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This week the tables turn. Stephanie hands over the mic to Tessa Lloyd and becomes the guest on her own show, talking through twenty years in skin, wellness and the family business that raised her.

Steph is a dermal therapist and co-owner of Skintrition, the clinic her mum started three decades ago. She takes us back to being brought in after school at 13, the rule that she had to study something else before she could work there, and the shift from spa to clinical and back again. Then she gets into the part she could talk about forever: why skin is the last place a problem appears, not the first.

They also cover:

• Why your skin is a non-living organ, and what that means for how you treat it
• Fascia, jaw tension and where emotion physically gets stored
• Why Steph doesn't do injectables, and what she'd try first instead
• The brick wall analogy that explains your skin barrier in thirty seconds
• Acne, hormones, and why you'll never fix one without the other
• Face mapping, and reading a hormonal issue without a $20,000 camera
• Building your team: GP, integrated practitioner, skin therapist
• Why buying supplements online without knowing your baseline is money down the drain
• The three products she'd keep if everything else went in the bin

Chapters
00:00 – Welcome
00:32 – Turning the tables: Steph in the hot seat
01:32 – The clinic at 13, and the rule about studying
03:46 – How the brand changed: spa, clinical, and back again
06:04 – Biohacking, longevity, and new words for old practices
08:58 – Working with mum and dad
11:08 – Why Steph doesn't believe in work-life balance
16:43 – Skin is the outside of an inside problem
18:12 – Fascia, jaw tension and stored emotion
20:48 – Botox, root causes, and what she'd try first
22:30 – Skin needling, lymphatic drainage and lasers
24:15 – The skin barrier, explained with a brick wall
27:08 – Why you can't trust the trend cycle
28:49 – Doing too much and expecting too soon
33:29 – Acne and hormones: the link nobody mentions
34:06 – Face mapping and the signs to look for
35:14 – Building your team of practitioners
36:38 – Stop buying supplements online
39:10 – The biggest mistakes people make
41:07 – Acne, the inner child and mental health
47:09 – Why home maintenance decides everything 49:50 – The one tool: sleep and a regulated nervous system 50:02 – The three things that actually matter

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This week Stephanie is joined by Tessa Lloyd, a Melbourne-based mental health therapist, occupational therapist and podcast host. Tessa works mostly with women who feel burnt out, stuck or disconnected from themselves, and she's spent years helping people build practical skills to support their mental health.

Together they look at what it costs us to hide parts of ourselves, and how people pleasing, suppressed emotion and chronic stress affect our nervous system and our physical health. Tessa explains why you can't always think your way out of stress, why the body needs its own release, and why slowing down is the first step she recommends to almost everyone.

They also cover:

- Social media, comparison, and how to be smarter than the scroll

- Cheap dopamine, and simple ways to get the real thing back

- The patterns that show up when we're disconnected from ourselves

- Why wellbeing depends on community and equal energy exchange

- How to start therapy in Australia: mental health care plans, Medicare rebates and choosing the right modality

- Why authenticity feels so terrifying, and what it costs to fake it

- Tessa's own slow-living practices and her two daily non-negotiable

Chapters

00:00 - Welcome

01:05 - Meet Tessa: slowing down at 31

04:15 - What hiding parts of yourself really costs

09:24 - Social media, comparison and self-worth

15:07 - Cheap dopamine and how to reset

17:21 - Signs you're disconnected from yourself

22:36 - Why wellness needs community

26:30 - The nervous system and emotional suppression

31:22 - Why you can't think your way out of stress

34:44 - Where to start: slow down and look within

40:15 - What healing and identity stories have in common

45:29 - How to start therapy

48:27 - Why authenticity is so terrifying

53:49 - What wellbeing means to Tessa

58:05 - The takeaway

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In her first solo episode, Stephanie launches the Empowerment Series, a run of conversations with women who inspire her, by sharing her own story first. She talks about rebuilding herself after two big breakups in her mid-20s, a shift in identity, a long stretch of illness, and what followed: buying her first home, paying off debt, travelling solo and speaking at her first conference, all within six months.

She also shares the mission behind Skintrition, the spa her mother Sandra Cannalonga founded in 1983, and the five tools that carried her through it all, each one something you can start using today.

The five tools:

• Journaling with intention, plus the prompts she keeps coming back to
• Solo travel, solo dates and walking into rooms where you don't know anyone
• Vision boards and goal setting, including her two-board method and yearly New Year's Eve ritual
• Protecting your energy, and why saying no is a form of respect
• Prioritising your health through meditation, gratitude, movement and food as nourishment

Chapters 00:00 - Welcome 00:52 - Introducing the Empowerment Series 01:15 - What does it mean to empower yourself? 02:21 - Looking back on my 20s 03:54 - Living in alignment 04:39 - The mission behind Skin Intuition 05:43 - The tools that changed my life 07:23 - Tool one: Journaling 08:06 - Tool two: Solo travel and doing things alone 08:55 - Tool three: Vision boards and goal setting 13:12 - Tool four: Protecting your energy 14:22 - Tool five: Prioritising your health 15:12 - The podcasts and books on repeat 16:12 - Share your story

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This week Stephanie is joined by Chelsey Jean, naturopathic therapist, entrepreneur and founder of Chelsey Jean Lymphatics. Chelsey has spent more than 30 years helping women understand their bodies, and her mission is to reach five million of them.

Together they get into what the lymphatic system actually does, the everyday signs it's asking for support, and why so many of the symptoms women have learned to live with - puffiness, aches, sore breasts, low energy, sluggish digestion - are worth paying attention to rather than normalising. Chelsey also walks through her daily sequence live on camera, so you can follow along at home in about five minutes.

They also cover:
• Chelsey's story - leaving home at 15, starting her first business at 19, and building the movement behind Boob Camp
• Lymph node removal, lymphedema, and what women aren't told before and after breast cancer surgery
• What “arm puffs” are, and the other early signs worth knowing
• Why she's not a fan of compression garments, and what she recommends instead
• Practical tools: gloves, creams, pressure therapy, harmonising mats
• Rapid fire - sauna vs magnesium pool, yoga vs pilates, and the one symptom women have wrongly accepted as normal

Chapters
00:00 - Welcome
01:55 - Leaving home at 15 and starting out at 19
12:20 - The lymphatic system, explained
17:37 - When should women start looking after it?
20:21 - Taking responsibility for your own health
29:24 - Tools for the home
31:19 - The five-minute daily sequence, step by step
32:59 - Lymph nodes, surgery and lymphedema
35:51 - “Arm puffs” and the signs to watch for
43:40 - Water, iodine and what we're missing
48:36 - Rapid fire
52:39 - Every woman deserves to know

This episode is a conversation about general wellbeing and is not medical advice. Please speak to your health practitioner about your own circumstances.

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