It's Not You, It's Your Hormones

Chelsea McLeod
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It's Not You, It's Your Hormones podcast is hosted by Chelsea McLeod, a corporate dropout turned Integrative Health Practitioner. She helps busy, driven women release weight and feel amazing by balancing hormones and fixing gut issues. Healthy Hustle Method is for women who want results without endless cardio or fad diets. Chelsea combines her unique background as a corporate director, cycle instructor, former college athlete, and results-driven practitioner to bring you cutting-edge, no-fluff science-backed strategies. Join Chelsea each week for a mindful and balanced discussion on how you can better understand your symptoms and what you can do about it. Do you ever feel like your body is speaking a language you can’t understand? Whether you’re experiencing weight gain, fatigue, poor sleep, energy crashes, cravings, hair loss or changes in mood or feeling anxious, you will learn first steps in healing your hormones so you can look and feel amazing. Chelsea cuts through the wellness noise with science-backed solutions that work for ambitious, busy women. This isn't just another health podcast—it's your roadmap to feeling as powerful on the inside as you look on the outside. Whether you're scaling the corporate ladder or building an empire, discover how to fuel your ambitions without burning out.

  1. 22h ago

    79. #1 Mindset Hack for Losses, Broken Bones & Illnesses

    Took me 16 years to learn this and I’ll teach you in 15 mins. I broke my toe this week...so here’s the pep talk I gave myself, and will now give to you to save for a rainy day. This would be funny story on its own, except I broke this exact same toe at 19, and back then it completely wrecked me. Same injury. Sixteen years apart. Two entirely different women. That gap is what this one is about. Why the universe keeps picking rest days for women who refuse to choose their own, and the shift that took me from why is this happening to me to what a gift, without any of the toxic positivity nonsense. If you are currently in something hard, an injury, an illness, a loss, a job loss you did not see coming that stopped you in your tracks, press play. ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

  2. Aug 11

    78. Adrenal Fatigue & Weight Loss Resistance in Toddler Moms: Courtney’s Story

    I get some version of this DM every single week. My labs came back normal but I feel like garbage. Cool, so now what. That was Courtney. She watched my stories for two full years before she ever booked a call with me, and I want to be careful here because I do think women have to feel ready, but I also sat across from her on that first call knowing exactly how those two years had gone. Her husband physically getting her out of bed at 7am so she could get two toddlers out the door. An allergist, a neurologist, a sleep study, an MRI of her head, a full hormone panel from her gyno. Everything normal. The recommendation was an antidepressant and less stress. So she did what every high performing woman does when she's told nothing is wrong. She tried harder. Cut alcohol, sugar, gluten and dairy for all of January, HIIT four or five days a week, and two and a half weeks later not a tenth of a pound had moved. Then she started the actual protocols and dropped 17 pounds in the same amount of time. That number is not the point. The point is that effort was never her problem, and she'd spent years quietly concluding it was. The part I did not expect was where this conversation went. Her dad's cancer came back in month four and he died ten days after they put him on hospice, and what she did that week is one of the most honest things anyone has said on this show. We also get into what she says she regrets most about waiting, which made both of us emotional, and the thing she now brings on every single trip that she used to make fun of other people for. If you're currently in year two of thinking about this, this one is for you. ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

  3. Aug 4

    77. 9 Sneaky Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight

    If you're eating clean, working out, doing everything "right" and the scale still won't move, this one's for you. I'm breaking down the nine things that are actually keeping your body in a fat-storage state, the ones your doctor's labs were never built to catch. ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

  4. Jul 28

    76. Autoimmune Disease in Ambitious Women

    80% of autoimmune disease is women and I’ve identified 3 core personality traits of women with autoimmune issues. After working with hundreds of clients who've healed from Hashimoto's, lupus, eczema, gut issues, and the "your labs are normal" runaround, I've watched the same pattern show up again and again. This episode is for every eldest daughter, nurse, lawyer, HR manager, and team lead who has somehow become the family and workplace shock absorber while her own body quietly falls apart. I'm breaking down the exact biology of how chronic people pleasing turns into cortisol dysfunction, leaky boundaries, and an immune system that starts attacking its own tissue, plus the three personality traits I see in almost every autoimmune client before we even run a single lab. ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

  5. Jul 21

    75. Macro Counting vs. Intuitive Eating: Why Both Are Failing Women

    “Should I be counting macros or eating intuitively?” Honestly, neither because they’re both so one-dimensional. Honestly, I'm done watching women get burned by both. I grew up on Cosmo and Seventeen magazine diet culture, I've coached hundreds of women who have tried both extremes, and here's the truth: neither one works until you fix what's actually broken underneath. In this episode I'm ending the debate for good. I break down exactly who macro counting works for (and who it does NOT help whatsoever), why intuitive eating backfires hard when your hormones are out of whack, and the four things you have to check before you pick any strategy at all. ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

  6. Jul 14

    74. 10 Traits of Highly Successul Women

    What are the core traits of women who have successful careers, healthy bodies, and strong relationships? I've spent a lot of time with higly successful women and will break down the 10 common core threads between these women. These women are running these 10 plays to create the life that you want. Press play. ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

  7. Jul 7

    73. Bulding a Business without Burning Out: Amber's Story

    I get DMs constantly from women running their own businesses who look completely put together on stage and are falling apart the second they get off it. Amber is one of them. Dental hygienist, business owner, on a plane more than she's home. She had a suit. Fit perfectly in January. By October it wouldn't button. Same workouts, same "eating well," same everything. So she went to her doctor and said it felt like perimenopause. Got told she was too young. She's 38. This one gets into what actually happens when your hormones are dysregulated and you're still doing "all the right things," why the scale was never the real signal, and what it took to fix it while she was still living out of a suitcase. Products Mentioned: Blue Blocker Glasses (code CMHEALTH): https://boncharge.com/collections/blue-light-blocking-glasses?rfsn=7236550.af5a97 ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

  8. Jun 30

    72. Rebuild Years: When Life Falls Apart

    So many of my clients are in the same exact season right now. Divorce, career pivot, moving countries, leaving corporate, becoming a mom. The life they used to have is gone and the next one hasn't taken shape yet. And they're just sitting in the middle going, what the f**k is even happening. I'm right there with you. I got deported from Australia with 28 days notice after eight years of building a life there. I left a relationship my visa hinged on. I walked away from a corporate career with stock options and a team I loved to start something with zero guarantees. Now I'm in Bali with no idea where I'll be in two weeks, and I had to learn fast that this in between season isn't something to survive. It's the actual work. In this episode I'm breaking down what a rebuilding year really is, why most people waste theirs, and what separates the women who come out the other side completely transformed from the ones who stay stuck. Save this for when life feels like it's falling apart. This is the pep talk you need for your rebuilding year. ✨ Get the guide for 5 food swaps to release the first 5 lbs here. ☀️ For even more hormone healing and down and dirty tips to release weight and feel amaze, let’s connect on Instagram,  TikTok, & LinkedIn ✨ Grab the Busy Girl’s Guide to Hormonal Weight Loss ebook, with prescriptive guidance on how to heal your hormones to release weight and feel amazing.  ✨ Ready to figure out if your hormones are at the root of your weight loss, energy, sleep, or cravings struggle? Let's find out if it's your hormones and give you the first step to fix it. 📞 Book a Hormone Reset Call and crack the code behind your symptoms to see if hormone are at the root and get your first action step to fix it. Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or supplement routine.

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It's Not You, It's Your Hormones podcast is hosted by Chelsea McLeod, a corporate dropout turned Integrative Health Practitioner. She helps busy, driven women release weight and feel amazing by balancing hormones and fixing gut issues. Healthy Hustle Method is for women who want results without endless cardio or fad diets. Chelsea combines her unique background as a corporate director, cycle instructor, former college athlete, and results-driven practitioner to bring you cutting-edge, no-fluff science-backed strategies. Join Chelsea each week for a mindful and balanced discussion on how you can better understand your symptoms and what you can do about it. Do you ever feel like your body is speaking a language you can’t understand? Whether you’re experiencing weight gain, fatigue, poor sleep, energy crashes, cravings, hair loss or changes in mood or feeling anxious, you will learn first steps in healing your hormones so you can look and feel amazing. Chelsea cuts through the wellness noise with science-backed solutions that work for ambitious, busy women. This isn't just another health podcast—it's your roadmap to feeling as powerful on the inside as you look on the outside. Whether you're scaling the corporate ladder or building an empire, discover how to fuel your ambitions without burning out.

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