Women's Health Unplugged Dr. Jordan Robertson ND

This week we are diving into the vault and bringing back our most downloaded and listened-to episode in 2021! We will be back next week with a brand-new episode. 
Is your morning routine part of your secret sauce or are you a roll-out-of-bed-and-run kind of person? My morning routine has been an important part of my life for years and I’ve spent a lot of time testing various strategies to make the most of my day. In this episode I give you some ideas of how to create your own routine by talking about:
Coffee and caffeine and whether it’s helping you or not (spoiler: it’s helping me!) Creating calm by “deciding” how you want your day to go.  How I delegate tasks and projects. How my partner and I troubleshoot what our pain points are for the day.  Not waking up with an alarm, and how this affects me.  The importance of my morning of coffee (worth talking about twice!) The overall theme is that my morning is a CHOICE and in this episode I want you to get inspired to choose your morning and your day. It’s a practical episode (not just a conversation about mindset) and I tell you exactly what my routine looks like.

It’s common for us to skip over an episode if we feel like a topic doesn’t apply to us, or if we feel nervous to listen. 
 
This particular episode is for everyone, and we’re going to help you feel more confident thinking about cancer either for yourself, or in your family and loved ones. 
 
I’m joined today by Dr. Martha Sharpe ND who focuses her practice on cancer survivorship. We discuss her personal journey with a cancer diagnosis and how she felt as a healthcare practitioner trying to navigate the system. Martha has dedicated her career to helping women understand how to reduce their personal cancer risk, but also to feel empowered in their survivorship. 
 
In this episode we cover:
The importance of feeling autonomous in your health care. 
The difference between prevention and blame. 
How to stack your health deck in your favour to reduce your cancer risk. 
The impact of alcohol on cancer risk. 
How an anti-cancer lifestyle is actually a whole-health lifestyle. 
You don’t need to spend a ton of money to have an anti-cancer health plan. 
 
Dr. Martha Sharpe, ND, is a Naturopathic Doctor in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Martha is dedicated to filling this gap and rewriting cancer survivorship with comprehensive, individualized, and holistic care.  She is passionate about helping people find the clarity and empowerment they need to step back into life post-cancer, and feel at home in their bodies again. You can find her on Instagram @marthasharpe_nd and learn more about her offers including a 4-week course on foundations for fuelling your body after cancer (and for cancer prevention) where she is offering our listeners a $100.00 promo. Learn more here https://marthasharpend.com/podcastpromo 
 

There are patterns that people who are successful with nutrition change adopt, and in today’s podcast, I’m sharing the 3 food categories that I want you to include in your kitchen to help you make it through tougher weeks (and help you meet your goals!).

It’s common for a new nutrition plan to focus on novelty, new recipes and unique ways of incorporating unique ingredients into your diet. New nutrition plans can often feel like a part-time job for many people, 🥵 and this level of bandwidth is not often available to make the changes that many people need to make with their food quality.

My 3 food categories are as follows:


Aspirational. Foods that are new, recipes, and unique ways of putting foods together that bring novelty and excitement.

Every Day. Foods that you need to eat every day to help you meet your nutrition goals. These are the foods you reach for in the grocery store every week that are on your plan, and that can easily be pulled together in an autopilot kind of way.

Oh 💩 S*!T💩. This category of foods are the foods in our pantry and freezer that are going to SAVE us from the wheels falling off the bus when things aren’t going well, when we’re tired or when we run out of everyday foods.
Enjoy the podcast and next time you’re grocery shopping, consider if you’re filling up your cart with foods from each category.

Today’s conversation is an important one. On a few levels. 
When I sat down to do this podcast I was thinking about the medications for obesity (we’re focusing on Semaglutide/Ozempic today) I was going to focus on the “clinical” discussion. Does it work? Who benefits? What do we expect?
Then, that very week, there was a social media explosion about weight loss drugs for adolescents. 
And I realized that our conversation had to be much more emotional than that. 
Should we treat obesity with medication? Should people be able to manage their medical condition of obesity without help? Shouldn’t people be able to handle this in a drug-free way?
Just because some of the challenges related to obesity require changes in policy, access to nutrition, physical activity and mental health support doesn’t mean we don’t also need treatment options today to support the youth and adults that are at risk from their obesity today. 
I also asked hard questions like, “why do we care what medications other people are using?” or “what are your personal triggers when you hear of someone using medication for their obesity?”. 
We also dive in on some of the research in the STEP trials for Semaglutide, the longer-term data on weight regain and who benefits the most from these anti-obesity medications. 
It’s a bit of a spicy episode that I think we’d all benefit from thinking about. We know someone who qualifies for these medications or who is at risk from their obesity. How we approach this conversation touches us all. 

Janette Yee, an athletic therapist who supports people after vaginal birth and c-section is a joy to listen to. She’s vibrant, excited and passionate about something that we’ve all kept to ourselves. 
 
How freaking hard it is to recover from birth. 
 
As an athlete herself, Janette gives us the metaphor we’ve been waiting for. Birth is a season ending injury. And yet, while most athletes get trainers, time off and rehab, we send people who have given birth home with a screaming baby expecting sleepless nights, selfless weeks and no education on how to take care of themselves. 
 
Even if you don’t identify as an athlete, birth is a traumatic event to your body, and expecting things to just right themselves without support is a hope, not a plan. 
 
I loved recording this episode with Janette (we could literally talk for days) because we both get fired up about how we need to empower ourselves and other women to seek out support after this major physical (and emotional) event. 
 
You can find Janette on Instagram (@askjanette) and download her free resources from her website https://www.janetteyee.com/resources

It’s probably a bit of a stretch that an adult with ADHD who has 17,000 undread emails (at last count) is going to do a podcast about managing your email. 
 
But hear me out. 
 
I think we are in an opportunity to show up with leadership when it comes to both our inbox and our outbox, by breaking down some of the email culture we’re observing out there. 
 
We’re going to talk about how our email culture is breeding:
 
Unrealistic expectations of each other. 
To-do lists that we can’t finish. 
A lack of self-responsibility and self-reliance. 
Confusing channels for communicating with each other. 
 
We also talk about solutions such as:
 
Muting your inbox
Not caring
Not responding
But also real solutions that don’t compromise your relationships and your work. 
 
I think you’ll enjoy this real and honest call out of all of our email behaviour. We all have an inbox AND an outbox. 
 
Maybe we can slowly change the culture of email for good.