B. Real Podcast
You have spent years holding it together for everyone else.
Your kids. Your partner. Your job. Your family. Everyone except yourself.
Somewhere along the way you stopped recognizing yourself. Not because you are broken — but because nobody told you the truth about your body, your hormones, your trauma or your healing. And you have been running on empty ever since.
B. Real — The Sh!t Nobody Told Me is where that shit stops.
Hosted by Brittany Bijan — certified health coach, trauma coach and yoga teacher, mama of 4, nana of 2 and a woman who figured out everything the hard way — this podcast exists for the midlife woman who has spent years taking care of everything and is finally ready to take care of herself.
Every week we get real about four things:
Your body — building strength and capability that has nothing to do with how you look and everything to do with how you live and how you feel.
Your nervous system — understanding what chronic stress, burnout and fight or flight are actually doing to you mentally & physically and what to do about it.
Your story — the trauma, the healing, the hormones and everything they forgot to tell us. Said out loud. Finally. We all have shit and we’re gonna unpack our shit together.
And Who you are beyond everyone and everything else — your identity, your relationships, all of it.
No one ever talked to me about any of this, I figured it all out on my own through experience. I am happy to be able to share all with you now.
No bullshit, all raw and honest conversations from a woman still working through her own shit daily — with guests who keep it a hundred too.
You are not broken. You got this.
New episodes every week on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
If this is your show - hit follow. Come find me on Instagram at Brittany Bijan and grab The 40 Fit Blueprint through the link in my bio.
Episodes
23 episodes
23. How Even "Good" Change Wrecks Your Nervous System
In Episode 23 of the B.Real Podcast, Brittany Bijan gets real about something nobody warned her: even a change you chose and dreamt about can dysregulate your nervous system. Fresh off her family's move to Spain, Brittany shares her personal ex...
22. Life in Spain Begins
Brittany opens up about her family's life-changing move to Spain — nine people (including her kids, son-in-law, and grandbabies) and four dogs relocating to a country where they don't speak the language. She shares the emotional toll on her ...
21. The Decision We Kept Talking Ourselves Out Of
In this raw and emotional episode, Brittany opens up about her family's life-changing decision to leave Santa Barbara and move to Spain. She traces her lifelong nomadic spirit back to a childhood spent bouncing between homes, shares the logi...
20. we all have sh*t, this is how I show up and share mine
Celebrating 20 episodes of B.Real, host Brittany Bijan gets real about the self-doubt she faced before ever hitting record, why she started the podcast, and the roadmap of topics — trauma, strength, hormones, sleep, boundaries, and grief — that...
19. Part 2: Strength Training Is Your Armor: Building Consistency as a Busy Mom with Bec Taylor
In this episode, Brittany dives into why we're all running on "borrowed time," the power of putting a goal on your calendar, and why fueling your body right—starting the moment you wake up—changes everything. From marathon training to protei...
18. Part 1: Strength Training Is Your Armor: Building Consistency as a Busy Mom with Bec Taylor
In this first half of a two-part episode, host Brittany Bijan sits down with Nike coach and Her Sports founder Bec Taylor for a real conversation about strength training, motivation, and making fitness work amid the chaos of motherhood and busy...
17. The Hormone conversation you need to hear with Dr. Talina Hermann Part 2
In Part 2 of this two-part episode, host Brittany Bijan sits down with Dr. Talina Herman to dig into the real conversation around women's hormonal health in their 40s and beyond. They cover how declining estrogen and progesterone affect sleep, ...
16. The Hormone conversation you need to hear with Dr. Talina Hermann
In this episode, host Brittany Bijan sits down with Dr. Talina Hermann — functional medicine practitioner, East Asian medicine specialist, clinical herbalist, and acupuncturist — for a raw, honest conversation about women's hormonal health. The...
15. Cortisol, Why You Feel Fat, Tired & Anxious (And What to Do About It)
In this episode of B.Real Podcast, host Brittany Bijan breaks down everything you need to know about cortisol — your body's primary stress hormone. Brittany explains how chronic stress silently wreaks havoc on women's bodies, especially during ...
14. Here’s The Crazy Ass Thing About Hormones
In this episode, Brittany Bijan breaks down the hormone reality every woman needs to hear — but was never taught. From perimenopause starting as early as your mid-30s to the science behind lifting heavy, fueling properly, and protecting your br...
13. Let It Go or Let It Wreck You: The Science of Forgiveness & Your Body
In this episode, host Brittany Bijan dives deep into the science and personal side of forgiveness — not as a moral obligation, but as an act of radical self-preservation. Drawing on research from Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and the work of physici...
12. 12 Episodes In: Everything We've Covered, Why It Matters, and What's Coming Next
In this special recap episode, Brittany celebrates hitting a major podcast milestone and takes listeners back through every episode from the B.Real archive — episodes 1 through 11. From her raw personal story to burnout, grief, mindset, natu...
11. Female Friendships, Motherhood, and Rewriting the Music Industry with Tamar Kaprelian Part 2
In this episode of the B.Real Podcast, Brittany sits down for a deep, honest conversation about authenticity, friendship, motherhood, and creative expression. They explore how writing and music helped heal a fragmented friend group, the many fo...
10. Female Friendships, Motherhood, and Rewriting the Music Industry with Tamar Kaprelian
In this episode, Brittany sits down with songwriter, artist, and music entrepreneur Tamar to explore how creativity can heal fractured friendships, how motherhood reshapes identity, and what it means to build a female-led, creator-first musi...
9. Why are we so disconnected from nature Part 2, with Dr. Lena Dicken
In this episode of the B.Real Podcast, host Brittany Bijan sits down with psychologist and self-described “outdoor mom” Dr. Lena Dicken to explore how therapy gave her the “language” of emotion, why honest conversations deepen relationships,...
8. Why are we so disconnected from nature Part 1 with Dr. Lena Dicken
In this episode of the B.Real Podcast, host Brittany Bijan sits down with Dr. Lena Dicken, a licensed clinical psychologist and creator of The Outdoor Psychologist, to explore how nature, awe, and intentional daily practices can transf...
7. The Shit Nobody Told me about Grief with Gianna Part 2
In this deeply personal episode, Brittany and her daughter reflect on the loss of their beloved Brooke, sharing how tribal traditions, spiritual signs, family humor, and intentional rituals help them navigate grief. They discuss the power of...
6. The Shit Nobody Told me about Grief with Gianna Part 1
In this deeply personal episode, Brittany and her daughter Gianna open up about the loss of Brittany’s sister Brooke, exploring the raw reality of grief, the invisible labor of holding a family together, and the spiritual ways their love contin...
5. The stories we tell ourselves
In this episode, Brittany opens up about her own history with negative self-talk and how the “stories” we internalize in our hardest moments shape our identity, health, and daily choices. She breaks down the biology of chronic self-criticism...
4. Burnout, Boundaries and the power of the word NO
In this powerful episode of the B.Real Podcast, host Brittany Bijan unpacks the hidden cost of people-pleasing, burnout, and the cultural pressure on women to always say “yes.” She explores how chronic stress, suppressed emotions, and lack of b...
3. The Shit Nobody Told us about getting stronger with Bec Taylor Part 2
This is Part 2 of a 2-part series with strength and run coach Bec Taylor on the B.Real Podcast. Host Brittany Bijan continues the conversation on living pain-free, training with your female physiology, and building a lifestyle that supports you...
2. The Shit Nobody Told us about getting stronger with Bec Taylor Part 1
In this episode of B.Real: The Shit Nobody Told Us, Brittany talks strength and conditioning with coach Bec Taylor. They touch on what women in their 30s and 40s really need for strength, energy, and longevity. Bec shares her journey from an...
1. Why B.Real: The Trauma, and Healing Behind the Mic
In this powerful debut episode of B.Real, B opens up about her turbulent childhood, teenage years marked by excessive drug use and alcohol abuse and instability, and the long, hard road to building a safe, loving life for herself and her family...