by Jess Quinn and Katherine Douglas
The go-to women’s health podcast for real, honest conversations about hormones, periods, PCOS, endometriosis, fertility, and the rest. Hosted by Jess Quinn & Katherine Douglas, we dive into all things women's health and help you to demystify owning a female body— with expert advice and real stories to help you feel empowered and informed. If you’re tired of being dismissed and want to decode your body, this podcast is for you. Subscribe now and let's learn to cycle better together.
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July 7, 2026
<p>Two gut girlies sit down to talk.</p><p>In this episode, Jess is joined by Tessa Stockdale, co-founder of Nomu Matcha, the award-winning New Zealand ceremonial matcha brand she built with her mum Karen, for a conversation that started, fittingly, over a shared obsession with gut health.</p><p>Tessa takes us back six years to when her gut issues first started showing up in her mid-twenties. She was in advertising, early mornings, late nights, plenty of alcohol, high-intensity exercise on an empty stomach. The kind of lifestyle that looks pretty normal from the outside but, she now knows, was putting enormous stress on her body. What followed was months of severe bloating so extreme her mum asked if she was pregnant, constipation, brain fog, thunderclap headaches, and a histamine response that felt like boiling water in her gut.</p><p>She walks us through the medical journey, the gastroenterologist referrals to rule out stomach and ovarian cancer, the $250 specialist appointments, the lack of holistic perspective in the system, and then the moment she drove to Hamilton to see applied kinesiologist Kate Moffat out of sheer desperation. The session that changed everything, where the pressure of a hand on her leg identified leaky gut, an estrogen imbalance, IBS, and candida overgrowth, and finally gave her somewhere to start.</p><p>Tessa shares what the anti-candida diet actually looked like, how twelve weeks of eating nothing from a packet during COVID lockdown taught her more about food and inflammation than anything else had, and why the healing process, while transformative, also came with unexpected consequences. Developing a peanut anaphylaxis allergy. New intolerances she hadn't had before. A fear response around food that nobody warned her about. The exhausting mental tax of navigating every meal, every restaurant, every dinner with friends.</p><p>The conversation moves into the gut-brain connection, why 90 to 95% of serotonin is made in the gut, why anxiety and gut issues are so deeply intertwined, and why Tessa's move from Auckland to Mount Maunganui last year has given her something she says she's never had in her adult life: a balanced nervous system.</p><p>And then there's Nomu. Because Tessa's caffeine sensitivity, a direct result of her gut journey, is what led her to matcha, and a blunt comment from a barista at 7am who raised an eyebrow at a decaf order is what started it all. She and Kat talk about building a business while managing a chronic health condition, why hustle culture is not the only path to success, and why showing up well for yourself is actually what makes you show up better for your business.</p><p>This is an episode for anyone who has spent years trying to figure out what's wrong with their gut, anyone running a business while managing a chronic health condition, and anyone who has ever felt like healing one thing just opened the door to something else.</p><p>Find Tessa and Nomu Matcha at nomumatcha.com and on Instagram @nomumatcha_</p><p><strong>Follow and connect</strong></p><p>Instagram: @wearethecyclist</p><p>Website: <a href="http://wearethecyclist.com"><u>wearethecyclist.com</u></a></p><p>Hit play. And maybe make yourself a matcha first.</p><p><br></p>
June 23, 2026
<p>There’s a third person in the room in this episode with Kat and Jess… </p><p>Jess is pregnant! In this episode, Jess and Kat talk about baby number two and share the full journey of how they got here. </p><p>This is the conversation Jess says she has dreamt of recording, and it's everything. Honest, emotional, funny, and deeply real.</p><p>Jess takes us back to the beginning. After a two-year journey to fall pregnant with Marla, a loss along the way, and a more recent miscarriage that hit harder than she expected, Jess and Todd made the call to take six months away from trying. She opens up about what it's like to try for a baby when you're already living with a panic disorder, the internal conversations around medication, the question of whether it was irresponsible to grow a family when she wasn't in her best space, and the fear that the panic disorder might never fully end.</p><p>She talks candidly about going on sertraline, the two years she resisted medication because pregnancy was on the horizon, and the guilt of knowing the research said it was safe while still carrying a quiet doubt in the back of her mind. The decision that finally shifted things: realising she wasn't able to enjoy the life she'd worked so hard to build, and that a healthy mum was the most important thing she could give her family.</p><p>Then there's the trying-to-conceive reality, the scheduling, the long cycles, the months of negative tests, the switch that flips when you've had a loss and every negative brings it all back. The moment Todd came down with man flu on what turned out to be their last window for a 2026 baby. The password on Jess's laptop. The morning she snuck into the bathroom to take a test she was expecting to be negative, and wasn't.</p><p>Kat shares what it was like to watch from the outside, holding her tongue through the hardest months because she had a feeling it was going to happen, and not wanting to say that out loud in case she was wrong.</p><p>They also go into the pregnancy itself, the four emergency scans, the breakthrough bleeding that sent Jess to the hospital at eight weeks, the anxiety of standing up slowly every single time and checking for blood. The moment at the studio, ten minutes before a podcast interview, when Jess came to Kat and said she was bleeding and had to leave. And through all of it, the mindset she kept coming back to, miscarriage is never anyone's fault, and worrying about it won't change the outcome.</p><p>Jess is now in her second trimester, due in early December, and not finding out the gender. Baby's working name is Pickle. Marla has been told there's a baby in mummy's tummy and has asked whether it's in her boobies too.</p><p>This one will stay with you.</p><p><strong>Follow and connect</strong></p><p>Instagram: @wearethecyclist</p><p>Website: <a href="http://wearethecyclist.com" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wearethecyclist.com</a></p><p>Hit play. And congratulations, Jess!</p><p><br /></p>
June 9, 2026
<p>She's had a rebrand. And it's been a long time coming.</p><p>In this episode, Jess sits down with Sara, New Zealand registered dietitian, women's health expert, and founder of Your Monthly Club, to unpack one of the biggest developments in women's health in recent years. </p><p>PCOS has officially been renamed PMOS, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, and Sara is here to explain exactly what that means, why it matters, and what it changes for the one in ten women living with this condition.</p><p>Sara breaks down the name change from the ground up. Why the word "cysts" was always misleading, why so many women were being misdiagnosed or dismissed because they didn't have cysts visible on ultrasound, and why the new name is a far more accurate reflection of what PMOS actually is. </p><p>A full-body, metabolic, endocrine experience, not just a reproductive one. She explains why the change took over 14 years of global consultation to get right, and why the online community's response felt, in her words, like a feminist moment.</p><p>They go deep into insulin resistance, the driving force behind 70 to 90% of PMOS symptoms and Sara dismantles some of the most common nutrition myths that women with PCOS have been living by for years. Cutting carbs, going gluten-free, skipping meals, and fasting. </p><p>She reframes the conversation entirely. It's not about taking foods away, it's about what you add alongside them. Her practical rule of four (protein, fat, fibre, and carbohydrate together) is one of the most accessible and genuinely useful pieces of nutrition advice we've had on the show.</p><p>Jess shares her own experience of years of unexplained weight gain before her endometriosis diagnosis, the self-blame, the guilt, the constant comparison to friends who seemed to lose weight easily, and Sara explains exactly why that experience makes complete biological sense for women with insulin resistance, and why the weight loss advice most women receive is actively working against their physiology.</p><p>They also touch on inositol and its role in improving insulin signalling, GLP-1 medications and Sara's honest and nuanced view on their place in PMOS management, and what she hopes the name change will actually change in terms of how women are diagnosed, informed, and cared for long term.</p><p>This is a rich, reassuring, and genuinely eye-opening episode for anyone who has a PCOS or PMOS diagnosis, suspects they might, or has ever been made to feel like their symptoms are their own fault.</p><p>Find Sara at yourmonthlyclub.co.nz and on Instagram @yourmonthlyclub</p><p>Follow and connect</p><p>Instagram: @wearethecyclist</p><p>Website: wearethecyclist.com</p><p>Hit play. Your hormones aren't broken. You just haven't been given the full picture yet.</p><p><br></p>
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The go-to women’s health podcast for real, honest conversations about hormones, periods, PCOS, endometriosis, fertility, and the rest. Hosted by Jess Quinn & Katherine Douglas, we dive into all things women's health and help you to demystify owning a female body— with expert advice and real stories to help you feel empowered and informed. If you’re tired of being dismissed and want to decode your body, this podcast is for you.
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