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. 20h ago

    85. How long does it take to fix your hormones or gut?

    Every Friday I do a health Q&A in my stories, and this week someone asked me the question every woman is secretly thinking. How long is this actually going to take? And I get it. You've done the 21 day cleanse. You did keto. You hired the trainer. Your doctor says your labs are normal. And you still feel like garbage. So of course you want a number. Here's the thing nobody wants to hear. You didn't get here in 21 days, so you're not getting out in 21 days. But it's probably not as long as you think either. In this one I'm breaking down the real hormone timelines I see after working with 350 women in 3 years. What happens in the first 30 days, why the first 90 days is a weight loss phase and not a fat loss phase, why gut issues need their own timeline, and why getting the result and keeping the result are two completely different skill sets. I also tell you about my 20 year old self driving around Cambridge with the check engine light on for years, which is basically how most high achieving women treat their cortisol. And there's one factor that can double your timeline. It has nothing to do with your hormones. It has everything to do with 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.

  2. Sep 22

    84. 24lbs down while breastfeeding (no cardio or diets): Robin’s Story

    When Robin booked her first call with me she was pumping in her car outside her office. I asked if it was a good time. She said, girl, this is the only time I have. That's the woman I want you to hear from. Full time attorney in DC. Three kids, the youngest still breastfeeding. Four to five days a week in the office, home to dinner, bath, bedtime, repeat. She and her husband call it a razor's edge, and most days it tips one way or the other. She was about to go on a GLP-1. The doctor wouldn't prescribe it while she was breastfeeding, and she didn't want her weight to be the reason she stopped feeding her baby. So she came to me, fully expecting to hear that she'd have to wait. What I didn't expect was how much of this episode would be about a 12 year old girl at a Weight Watchers meeting every Saturday. Popcorn for lunch because it was low in points. Earning dinner with a workout. Sneaking chocolate chips so nobody would see. 20 years of that, and it was still running the show at 37. We get into what she actually changed, which is less than you'd think, and the 5:30am boot camp class I told her to quit. Her husband still can't wrap his head around that one. We talk about the year she refused to be in a single photo with her second baby, the red bathing suit at the pool, the farmers market moment by the peaches, and a word I think every working mom needs to hear. If you're breastfeeding, working, exhausted and assuming your body is on hold until the kids are older, listen to this one first. ✨ 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. Sep 15

    83. Colonics, Enemas & Gut Issues They Won’t Fix

    Enema Kit: https://amzn.to/4xj9rND   Most women get colonics when they’re desperate. Permanently constipated, permanently bloated, planning my whole day around when and where you might actually poop. That was before I fixed my gut. Before I fixed my hormones. I thought maybe colon hydrotherapy was the answer and not just a very expensive rinse. Here’s the truth. If you're only going every other day, your liver is packaging up your estrogen and sending it out, and you're not letting it leave. Which is why the bloating after meals, the weight that won't move, the three months pregnant look by 3pm, none of it responds to another probiotic or another elimination diet. So in this one I'm telling you exactly what a colonic and an enema actually do, what happens in the room, who should never do either, and the 5 gut stats I run every woman through to find out whether her problem is constipation or something living a lot further upstream. Plus the client who did enemas for 15 years because it was the only way she'd go. Clear scope, normal stool test, and five things on her labs that no colonic was ever going to reach. You're not broken. You're backed up in a place the hose doesn't go. ✨ 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. Sep 8

    82. Lose belly fat, fix sleep & build muscle after menopause: Tammy’s story

    To connect with Tammy on abiguous loss and grief education: LinkedIn—   www.linkedin.com/in/tammyjmcleod or her website www.patandtammymcleod.comOne of the biggest misconceptions I hear about hormones is that they stop mattering after menopause. That whatever happened to your body, happened, and now you just live with it. The belly is the belly. The sleep is the sleep. Welcome to being 60. I have a very specific person I want you to hear from on that. My mom. Tammy. She was my actual first client, back when I was managing ecommerce at Crocs from 8am to 6pm and doing my practitioner course at night with no real idea what I was doing. She raised her hand to be my beta client because I wanted to know if this thing that worked for me could work for a woman past menopause. She is also the reason I have the nerve to do any of this. She came in exhausted from a work situation that was quietly wrecking her, sleeping through the night about half the nights a week, and carrying weight around the midsection she had gained over a decade and could not shift. She had tried the running, the rowing, the lifting, Body for Life, the grapefruit diet. Her doubt going in was not "will this work," it was "I do not have time for this." What happened next is the part I want you to sit with, because it is not a diet story. It is a woman at 66 who ended up under her college weight, in a sleeveless black dress she had not worn in 30 years, with a raincoat that now overlaps four inches, who reads 400 pages on longevity on her sabbatical and comes back telling me why women in their 40s, 50s and 60s need to be lifting right now. Read Outlive, the book Tammy mentioned in the podcast  ✨ 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. Sep 1

    81. The Hormone Reset Method Revealed: What to Expect, Who It’s For, Why It Works

    This ep is exclusively for women who want to release weight efficiently (and sustainably) without fad diets, gym time and GLP-1s. If speed scares you, jog on. If you're ready, book a call here. We'll discuss your symptoms, and whether you're a fit for the Healthy Hustle Hormone Reset program. I've been in online rooms with other fitness professionals lately and I've seen what they're selling. A macro plan, a weightlifting plan, and a weekly check in. For five, seven, ten thousand dollars. And honestly it made me want to 10x my prices, because I know that is never going to work for the kind of woman I work with. So this episode is me lifting the curtain on the whole thing. Not to sell you. To show you exactly what happens when a woman comes into my program, so you can actually tell the difference between real protocols and really good marketing. Because here's what I keep running into. A woman gets on a call with me, tells me she's been eating 1400 calories, going to the gym, not perfect but definitely not eating like a slob, and the scale hasn't moved in over a year. Her doctor ran her labs twice and both times everything came back normal. And she's furious, because it's not for lack of effort. Four in five women have a hormonal imbalance that explains exactly why they don't look or feel the way they want to. And most of them will never find it, because doctors are looking for disease, not imbalance. Those are two very different things. So I walk you through it. What I look for in a client and why I'll tell you straight if you're not a fit. The intake, the two personality tests, the symptom map I build before we even talk about labs. When I test and when I genuinely don't need to. And then I take you through one client start to finish.   ✨ 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. Aug 25

    80. Cold & Flu Cheat Code: The Bounceback Protocol

    I never get sick. I do not even own a box of tissues. So the fact that I am recording this with a deep chest cough, a puffy face, and hair going in nine directions after a Gojek ride is, honestly, a little bit funny and a little bit humbling. And I decided to do the thing I do with every client and run a full audit on myself and why I got sick. You probably do not have a bad immune system. You have a body running an overdraft, and immunity is one of the most expensive departments in the building, so it gets defunded first. It is why the sickest week of your year lands right after the big deadline, or on day one of vacation. You did not catch something on the plane. You got on the plane depleted. In this one I break down the four real reasons immunity drops, including the one almost nobody connects, which is your gut and every round of antibiotics you have ever taken. I had strep throat from age 10 to 14 and it was not a coincidence. Episode Links: Blue Blocker Glasses (code CMHEALTH) Cold & Flue Bounceback Protocol ✨ 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. Aug 18

    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.

  8. 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.

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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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