Reproductive Rebel
The Reproductive Rebel Podcast is where women and womb-bearers unlearn shame, reclaim their power and rise into feminine wisdom. Hosted by Adrienne Irizarry, this show blends body literacy, menstrual cycle awareness, reproductive health, perimenopause and menopause support, sound healing and Traditional Chinese Medicine to help you remember your innate wisdom and live in harmony with your body.
Episodes
211 episodes
How Did I End Up Here? High Achievers, Gaslighting and the Relationships That Bend Reality with Heather Melville
You’re not naive.You’re not weak.And you’re definitely not “the kind of person this happens to.”And yet… here you are.In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Heather Melville to explore the hidden link be...
Still Brilliant: Power, Perimenopause and Thriving at Work Without Self-Abandonment with Dr. Melanie Gray
Perimenopause is often framed as a personal problem to be managed quietly—especially in the workplace. Mood swings. Brain fog. Fatigue. “Just push through.”But what if the real issue isn’t the body…What if it’s the systems demandi...
Say It Louder: Reclaiming Your Voice on the Fertility Journey with Dr. Katie Wood
There comes a moment on the fertility journey where silence stops feeling safe.Where the polite nods, the “okay, I guess,” the waiting… start to feel like a quiet betrayal of your own body.In this episode, I sit down with...
Stronger Through the Shift: The Science of Creatine for Perimenopause, Nervous System and Longevity with John Moro
Perimenopause is not just a hormonal shift—it’s a full-body recalibration that impacts your brain, metabolism, and nervous system.In this episode of Reproductive Rebel, we explore one of the most overlooked yet well-researched tools in w...
Perimenopause as Initiation: What No One Tells Women About This Threshold
Perimenopause Is Not the End. It’s an Initiation.For generations, women have been told that perimenopause is something to endure—a slow decline marked by changing hormones, uncomfortable symptoms, and the loss of what once was.
Speaking the Threshold: How Language Shapes Feminine Rites of Passage with Megan Edge
What if the most powerful initiations of your life didn’t come through ceremony…but through the words spoken over your body?In this episode of Reproductive Rebel, I’m joined by master healer Megan Edge for a soulful, illuminating ...
Women, Wealth and Worth with Nancy Griffin
In this empowering episode of Reproductive Rebel, we explore the rising landscape of women’s wealth with financial planning expert Nancy Griffin. Together, we dismantle the old patriarchal money stories that have kept women small and unprepared...
Pleasure at the Edge: Understanding the Kinky Erotic Blueprint with Sacha Fossa
Desire doesn’t always live in the soft and gentle—it sometimes lives at the edge of sensation, power, and taboo. And that doesn’t make it wrong. It makes it information.In this episode of the Reproductive Rebel Podcast, Adrienne Irizarry...
Regulated, Real, Ready: Why Authenticity Is the Missing Link in Reproductive Health with Christina Kantzavelos
What if your body isn’t broken…but responding intelligently to a life that doesn’t feel like yours?In this Reproductive Rebel conversation, I sit down with Christina Kantzavelos to explore the often-overlooked truth:your me...
Triggered by Design: Attachment Styles, Hormonal Shifts & the Midlife Reckoning with Bev Mitelman
If you’ve found yourself more emotionally reactive, more sensitive in your relationships, or questioning patterns you thought you already healed—this episode is your mirror.In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, I sit down wit...
The Myth of Balance: Why "Hormonal Balance" Keeps Women Disconnected From Their Bodies
For decades, women have been told that the goal of hormonal health is balance.But what if that goal is the very thing keeping us disconnected from our bodies?In this episode of Reproductive Rebel, we explore the cultural ...
Sexual Blueprint with Sacha Fossa
Your body speaks a unique erotic language—and when you learn to listen, everything changes.In this episode of the Reproductive Rebel Podcast, I sit down with Sacha Fossa to explore the Sexual Erotic Blueprint, a framework that reveals ho...
Holding It All Together While Falling Apart: Pregnancy Loss for the High Functioning Woman with Dr. Marline Duroseau
There is a particular kind of grief that knows how to show up to meetings on time.It answers emails.It keeps the team afloat.It smiles when spoken to.And then it cries in the car.In this deeply honest conversa...
Healing at the Root — The Functional Medicine Revolution for Anxious + Depressed Women with Laurie Hammer
In this powerful Reproductive Rebel conversation, I sit down with Laurie Hammer, functional nutritionist and practitioner of amino acid therapy, to dismantle the myth that women’s anxiety and depression are lifelong sentences.Togethe...
Grief in the Womb: Fertility, Chronic Illness and the Emotional Alchemy of Healing with Christina Kantzavelos
When you live with chronic illness, the body can feel like a stranger—unpredictable, fragile, or even betraying. And when fertility enters the conversation, the grief can land in the womb, the bones, the nervous system.In this episode of...
What the Feminine Remembers: Why the Patriarchy Fears Her Power with Megan Edge
What if control over the feminine was never about superiority—but about fear?In this episode of Reproductive Rebel, I sit down with master healer Megan Edge to explore a question that lives beneath politics, religion, medicine, and even ...
When the Body Becomes the Healer: Frequency, Embodiment & Radical Recovery with Dr. Neja Zupan
What if the body already knows the way back to wholeness?In this deeply embodied conversation, Reproductive Rebel sits down with Dr. Neja Zupan to explore healing through frequency, nervous system regulation, and presence—not as abstract...
Biology Meets Breakup: The Hormonal Roots of the Menodivorce Surge with Alyx Coble-Frakes
Why are midlife marriages dissolving at unprecedented rates? Is it cultural? Emotional? Spiritual?Or is it something deeper — something biological?This week on Reproductive Rebel, I’m joined by the brilliant Alyx Coble-Frakes for ...
Metabolism Is Not Broken: Reclaiming Midlife Vitality with Carla Wainwright
If you’ve been told that midlife weight gain, low energy, blood sugar swings, or stubborn inflammation are simply “part of getting older,” this episode is your rebellion.In this conversation, I’m joined by Carla Wainwright, metabolic hea...
Regulate to Receive: How Your Nervous System Shapes Hormones, Cycles + Conception with Christina Kantzavelos
You’ve been told to track more.Optimize more.Fix more.But what if your body isn’t asking for more effort…it’s asking for safety?In this episode of Reproductive Rebel, we explore the deeper truth benea...
Same Symptoms, Different Seasons: Decoding Perimenopause vs Postpartum with Daffney Allwein
Fatigue. Hormonal shifts. Mood changes. Weight fluctuations. Low libido.These symptoms are often brushed off as “just hormones”—but what happens when no one helps you understand which phase your body is actually in?In thi...
The Art of Savoring: Sensual Energy as a Path to Wholeness with Sacha Fossa
What if pleasure wasn’t a reward, but a rhythm your body was born to remember?In this episode of Reproductive Rebel, we journey into the Sensual Erotic Blueprint — a way of understanding your unique pleasure language that goes far beyond...
The Body's Red Flags: Understandings Allergies as Messages on the Path to Fertility with Hanna Kok
In this eye-opening episode, we explore the deep and often overlooked connection between allergies, the immune system, and fertility. I’m joined by the brilliant and compassionate Hanna Kok of I Thrive to unravel how our bodies create allergies...
The Woman Who Changed What's In Your Pad: Susie Hewson on Menstrual Advocacy and Radical Care
For decades, period products were something women were expected to use—but not question.Bleached fibers. Plastic layers. Synthetic fragrances. Pesticide-laden cotton.And very little transparency about what was actually inside....
Forest Bathing for the Modern Soul: Reclaiming Calm In a Stressed Out World with John Moro
In this episode, we wander into the woods — not for exercise or escape, but for healing.John Moro joins Adrienne to explore the ancient art and modern science of forest bathing, or Shinrin-yoku — the intentional practice of immersing the...
