Menopause Breakthrough for Professional Women: Your Path to Energy, Clarity, & Balance
Menopause Breakthrough for Professional Women: Your Path to Energy, Clarity, & Balance helps professional women navigate the challenges of perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause. Hosted by Katina Smith, Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner and Wellness Coach, each episode provides practical strategies, expert insights, and encouragement to reclaim your energy, clarity, and balance so you feel like yourself again.
Disclaimer: As a Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner and Wellness Coach, my goal is to educate, empower, and inspire you on your wellness journey. The information shared on this podcast is for educational and motivational purposes only and should not replace medical advice. Always consult with your healthcare provider before making changes to your health, nutrition, or lifestyle plan.
Episodes
18 episodes
#17: Hidden Remedies for Menopausal Women
In this episode, we explore a gentle and empowering conversation around natural wellness and menopause. Many women walk through this season feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, and unsure of where to turn. This conversation offers a different ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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50:57
#16: Navigating Menopause Without Losing Connection
In this heartfelt and deeply practical episode of Menopause Breakthrough, Katina Smith, Host, sits down with Telishia Johnson (TJ), a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, to explore one of the most overlooked dimensions of men...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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57:30
#15: Midlife, Menopause, & Money Clarity
In this episode, Katina sits down with Dr. Thembi Aquil to explore the connection between midlife transitions, menopause, and financial clarity. Many women reach this stage of life feeling called to make a career change, start a business, or...
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33:41
#14: Understanding Stress and the Menopause Connection
Stress is often reduced to simply feeling overwhelmed. In this episode, we go much deeper.There are eight, sometimes nine, different types of stress, and each one impacts your hormones, nervous system, energy, mood, and overall...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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23:58
#13: How to Experience Happiness and Joy During Menopause & Beyond
This is one of my favorite topics to talk about because I learned about happiness many years ago. As I grew older, I began to understand that happiness and joy are not the same thing.So how do we define them?Both ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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15:06
#12: How Our Thoughts Can Make Menopause Easier
Menopause is often portrayed as a season of decline, with symptoms like hot flashes, weight gain, mood swings, and fatigue framed as inevitable. In this episode, we challenge that narrative. Menopause is not something that just happens to you—i...
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16:41
#11: How Menopause Hormonal Changes Shape Our Relationships
Many women quietly carry the weight of irritability, mood changes, emotional distance, and a loss of desire without fully understanding what is happening in their bodies. Their partners feel confused. Their children feel rejected. Coworkers ...
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11:15
#10: Simple Diet Eliminations During Menopause
In episode 10 of Menopause Breakthrough, we explore something that sounds simple, yet can be deeply transformative during menopause. Diet eliminations.This conversation is not about restriction, punishment, or taking away everything you ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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11:15
#9: Detox Demystified: Supporting Your Body Through Menopause
In this episode, we break down what detox really means and why it’s especially important during peri-menopause, menopause, and post-menopause. Forget the quick-fix juice cleanses — true detoxification is about supporting your body’s natural pat...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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18:38
#8: Loneliness in Menopause: Why You Feel It and How to Break Free
In this episode of Menopause Breakthrough, Katina opens up a powerful and heartfelt conversation about loneliness during menopause a topic many women feel but rarely talk about.Hormone shifts, emotional c...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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14:57
#7: How Functional Nutrition Can Benefit You During Menopause
Episode snapshotYou’ll learn what functional nutrition is, how it grew out of functional medicine, and why a personalized, root-cause approach can help you move from just coping with symptoms to feeling more like yourself again.Wh...
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11:07
#6: Why Exercise Is Important During Menopause
Many women dread the word exercise and I get it.You might be thinking, “I don’t have time,” or “I can’t join a gym,” or even “I don’t like exercising alone.”...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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11:23
#5: The Effects of Menopause on Your Identity
Menopause isn’t just a physical change, it can deeply affect how a woman sees herself.For years, many women have tied their identity to roles like being a mother, wife, professional, or even to how youthful or energetic they feel. But wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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15:33
#4: The Link Between Anxiety, Stress, and Menopause
Have you ever wondered why anxiety seems to spike during midlife—or why stress feels harder to manage during perimenopause or menopause?In this episode, Katina dives deep into the powerful connection between anxiety, stress, and menop...
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Episode 4
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12:26
#3: Menopause Brain Fog: Why It Happens and How to Get Clarity Back
Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you’re there? Or struggled to find the right word mid-sentence? You’re not alone. Brain fog is one of the most common and least talked about symptoms of menopause.In this epis...
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Episode 3
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12:31
#2: Menopause, Stress & Burnout: What Every Woman Needs to Know
Did you know that stress and menopause don’t just overlap, but they amplify each other? That’s why so many professional women feel like they’re running on empty, quick to irritability, unable to focus, and constantly exhausted.I...
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Episode 2
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24:07
#1: My Menopause Story: Why I Created Menopause Breakthrough
Have you ever thought, “I don’t even feel like myself anymore?” That’s exactly where I was a few years ago, and it nearly cost me my health and career.In this very first episode of Menopause Breakthrough, I’m opening up...
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Episode 1
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14:27