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The Educate & Empower Podcast
Where women are guided, grounded, and gracefully reminded that every season of life deserves care.
Welcome to The Educate & Empower Podcast , a space where clinical wisdom meets soulful conversation. Hosted by Rebecca East, Nurse Practitioner, CEO & and Founder of The Holistic Care Collective, this podcast is your companion through The Seasons of Her, from puberty to pre-pregnancy, postpartum to perimenopause, and every chapter in between.
Each episode invites you to explore the connection between body, mind, and purpose, blending evidence-based women’s health, honest storytelling, and heartfelt empowerment. Whether you’re navigating hormonal changes, rediscovering your identity, or learning how to truly care for yourself, you’ll find insight, compassion, and community here.
Through real conversations with health experts, thought leaders, and women just like you, Bec brings education to light and empowerment to life, so you can move through every season feeling informed, confident, and deeply supported.
✨ Because when women are educated and empowered, everything changes.
Episodes
47 episodes
47. Pregnancy After Loss: Holding Hope While Honouring Grief | with Rachel Barnes
Trigger warning: This episode contains discussions about fertility and pregnancy loss. Please take care while listening.In this deeply honest and heartfelt episode, Bec welcomes back Rachel Barnes for a powerful conversation about...
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46. Healthy Communication: What Every Couple Should Know - With Dani O'Brien
Healthy relationships aren't built on never disagreeing, they're built on knowing how to communicate through life's challenges.In this episode of The Educate & Empower Podcast, Bec is joined by counsellor Dani O'Brien for an honest c...
45. Bec's Fertility Journey
In this deeply personal solo episode, Bec shares her own fertility journey and opens up about the challenges, heartbreak, uncertainty, and resilience that shaped her path to motherhood.With honesty and vulnerability, she reflects on year...
44. Let's Talk About Anxiety
In this solo episode, Bec opens up about her own experience living with anxiety while drawing on her clinical knowledge to explore one of the most common yet misunderstood health challenges affecting women today.Anxiety can impact anyone...
43. Pelvic Floor Health Across Every Stage of a Woman’s Life with Grace Gillett
Pelvic floor health is something many women don't think about, until something goes wrong. Yet these muscles play a vital role in bladder and bowel function, core stability, sexual health, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and healthy ageing....
42. The Identity Shift No One Talks About After Becoming a Mother with Benita Bensch
In this episode, Bec sits down with Benita to explore the often-overlooked concept of matrescence; the profound physical, emotional, psychological, social, and identity transformation that occurs when a woman becomes a mother.Together, t...
41. PCOS is now called PMOS - So what does this mean?
PCOS, or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome was recently renamed PMOS, or Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. But what does this mean? Join Bec as she dives into why the name has been changed and what this means for people living with PMOS movin...
40. The Role Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Can Play in Optimising Hormones with Chloe Stubberfield (The Which Doctor)
In this episode, Bec sits down with Chloe Stubberfield - The Which Doctor, to explore the role acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can play in supporting and optimising women’s hormones.Together, they unpack the differences between Chinese ...
39. 4Cyte Conference Debrief with Bec
In this episode of The Educate & Empower Podcast, Bec sits down for a solo chat and debrief on everything she learned and had affirmed at a recent conference she attended around women's health.In the episode Bec shares information ar...
38. The Peri-Equation with Vik Linke
In this episode, Bec sits down with Nurse Practitioner Vik Linke for an insightful and empowering conversation on perimenopause, a phase that often goes unrecognised, misunderstood, or dismissed altogether.Together, they unpack the wide ...
37. From Lost to Empowered: A Patient's Journey
In this episode, our nurse and midwife Jane is joined by a special guest — one of our own patients, who has chosen to remain anonymous — to share her personal health journey.Together, they explore what it felt like to experience o...
36. Supporting & Empowering our Teen Girls with Phoebe Barnes
In this episode, we’re joined by Phoebe Barnes — teacher, mentor, and advocate for student wellbeing and positive mental health.Phoebe shares her passion for supporting young girls through her program Grounded Girls, which ...
35. Preparing for Labour and Birth with Jane McLeish
This episode is hosted by Jane, Registered Nurse and Midwife, to explore how to prepare for labour and birth. Drawing on her clinical experience supporting women through pregnancy and delivery, Jane shares practical insights into what to...
34. Hormones, Breakouts & Teen Skin, with Mel Lonergan
This week we’re joined by the incredible Mel Lonergan — Registered Cosmetic Nurse from MKL Aesthetics and founder of teen skincare range Nora Luvs Skin Co.We’re diving into all things teen skin, including the ...
33. Redefining Midlife & Reconnection to Self with Dani O'Brien
This episode Bec is joined by special guest Dani O'Brien - Holistic Counsellor, as they talk about redefining midlife, perimenopause and beyond, as a time of reconnection, clarity, and self-trust.Through honest conversations and reflective ...
32. Welcome to "The Seasons of Her"
Today we're proud to introduce "The Seasons of Her" - our new signature framework for women's health. Because women don't move through life in straight lines. We move through seasons.Awaken. Nurture. Restore. Evolve....
31. Mini series: “From the Airwaves to You” Endometriosis
This December we have hand picked some of Bec's favourite radio episodes to get you through the festive season and to get you excited about our 2026 'movement' This episode, Bec and Darcy are diving into an important conversation ab...
30. Mini Series: “From the Airwaves to You” Women's Health Checks!
This December we have hand picked some of Bec's favourite radio episodes to get you through the festive season and to get you excited about our 2026 'movement' This weeks episode on It All Starts Within... Health & Wellbeing wit...
29. Mini Series: “From the Airwaves to You” Women in Healthcare!
This December we have hand picked some of Bec's favourite radio episodes to get you through the festive season and to get you excited about our 2026 'movement' This weeks episode on It All Starts Within... Health & Wellbeing wit...
28. Mini series: “From the Airwaves to You” My most famous guest so far!
This December we have hand picked some of Bec's favourite radio episodes to get you through the festive season and to get you excited about our 2026 'movement' This weeks episode on It All Starts Within... Health & Wellbeing wit...
27. What we wish we knew back then...
This week on the Educate & Empower podcast, I sit down with my brilliant business bestie Krysten, teacher, brain science queen, and all-round legend, to unpack a conversation we wish we had in school:💭 What if we were actually taug...
26. My Mate Kate...and her unexpected journey post WL surgery!
This week on The Educate & Empower Podcast, Bec is joined by Kate, an inspiring mum, wife and all the other things! Kate and Bec started their journeys as patient and practitioner but have over the course of the years developed a beautiful ...
25. Lets Chat Postpartum
In this week’s episode, Bec is joined by the amazing Jane registered nurse, midwife, and part of the team at Bec’s clinic, THCC. Together, they’re diving into an essential, yet often overlooked topic: postpartum recovery. It’s time to break the...