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    Your Workouts Are Making It Harder To Get Pregnant (It’s Not Your Age!) | Dr. Sasha Hakman

    2026-10-21 | 1h 17 mins.
    The fitter you are, the easier conceiving should be. It doesn't always work that way. Dr. Sasha Hakman, a fertility specialist and three time IVF patient herself, breaks down what actually affects your chances in your 30s, what the numbers really look like, and why an hour of high intensity training every day can work against you.

    We cover your real odds of conceiving in a given month, why you can't test egg quality, when to check your AMH and freeze your eggs, declining sperm counts and why he should be tested first, the MTHFR and folic acid myth, melatonin and CoQ10, how to track ovulation properly, the fertile six day window, and the rapid fire myths about conception you can stop believing.

    TIMESTAMPS:

    0:00 - Preview/Trailer

    1:36 - Intro

    7:20 - The fear women feel about conceiving in their 30s and 40s

    8:40 - Being called geriatric at 35

    9:07 - Why that term is really just insurance coding

    9:22 - Advanced maternal age, and what is actually riskier

    10:13 - When you are most fertile, and it isn't your teens

    10:32 - Your real odds of conceiving in any given month

    11:33 - The 12 month rule under 35, and 6 months over

    12:00 - Why waiting costs you, and how long sperm takes to fix

    12:36 - Conception rates from 35 to 39, and what happens at 40

    13:05 - When you shouldn't wait six months at all

    13:46 - Male infertility and the decline in sperm counts

    14:37 - Why sperm is a window into a man's overall health

    15:16 - The heart condition she caught through a semen analysis

    15:49 - Why she tests from the start, not after a year

    17:08 - Sam on Ian's vasectomy reversal

    17:53 - Reversal success rates by how long it's been

    18:26 - Pregnancy rates after a reversal at 35

    20:08 - Her own IVF story at 32

    22:25 - The adrenal condition behind her ovulation issues

    24:12 - The embryo transfer, then conceiving naturally

    25:28 - Going back for a second IVF round at 37

    26:21 - 26 eggs, 15 mature, 6 embryos, 3 normal

    28:29 - Should every woman get tested

    28:54 - You cannot test egg quality, only quantity

    29:37 - AMH, and why she looks for outliers and trends

    30:35 - Why to check your egg quantity sooner than later

    31:30 - Quantity vs quality, and the noise online

    32:41 - When to freeze your eggs

    34:27 - How to prep your body for conception

    34:50 - High protein, high fiber, fewer ultra processed foods

    35:15 - Exercise: resistance training plus cardio

    35:44 - When your workouts start working against you

    36:18 - Body fat, weight and miscarriage risk

    37:27 - Stress, and which kind really interferes

    37:54 - Sam on coming off Ironman training

    38:52 - Supplements, and prenatals for both of you

    39:18 - The MTHFR myth

    42:30 - The patient who skipped folic acid

    44:31 - CoQ10 and the supplements with real evidence

    44:58 - Melatonin for egg quality

    46:43 - Where to get your egg quantity checked

    47:44 - Track your cycle and gather the data

    48:17 - LH, FSH and what ovulation tests show

    50:38 - What ovulation actually feels like

    51:58 - Sam's gut protocol and getting rid of H pylori

    52:49 - Testing your vaginal microbiome before trying

    54:55 - The fertile six day window

    55:30 - How long sperm really survives

    55:56 - How often to have sex when you're trying

    56:23 - Why frequent ejaculation improves sperm quality

    57:25 - How long the egg survives after ovulation

    58:22 - Does the Mucinex trick work

    1:01:27 - The emotional toll of trying

    1:01:56 - Why conceiving is a team sport

    1:05:35 - Rapid fire: myth or fact

    1:06:56 - Does an orgasm help conception

    1:07:59 - Can you ovulate without a positive test

    1:08:40 - What empowerment means to her

    1:09:08 - Where to find her

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    How To Get Lean Without More Cardio: 10 Things I’d Do Differently

    2026-10-14 | 58 mins.
    If I had to lose fat, build muscle and start from zero again, these are the 10 things I'd do. I spent years yo-yo dieting, doing random workouts and weighing myself twice a day, and none of it worked until I changed the way I approached it. This is everything I wish I'd known at the start.

    We cover why discipline beats motivation, prioritizing whole foods without being restrictive, strength training four days a week, progressive overload, tracking macros for the first three months, building a small deficit instead of slashing calories, keeping carbs in, throwing the scale away, changing your environment, and why six months is the number that actually matters.

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    TIMESTAMPS:

    0:00 - Intro

    1:20 - The activewear brands I actually wear

    2:42 - What I'd do if I had to start my fitness journey over

    3:12 - The years I spent yo-yo dieting and never sticking to it

    4:03 - Why results take longer than anyone tells you

    4:28 - Everyone starts at a different point

    5:44 - The 10 things I'd do to lose fat and build muscle from zero

    6:41 - 1. Build the mindset before you build anything else

    7:03 - Discipline vs motivation, and why motivation always runs out

    8:27 - The days I still don't want to train

    9:31 - Affirmations and feeding yourself positivity

    10:18 - The first taste of change, and why it keeps you going

    11:04 - Give any program three months before you judge it

    12:24 - 2. Prioritize whole foods

    12:50 - Why food quality matters more than perfect macros

    13:25 - Why processed foods leave you hungry and over your calories

    14:30 - Eating more volume and snacking less

    15:01 - Protein sources, fiber and vegetables

    15:34 - The carbs I actually eat

    15:57 - My 90/10 lifestyle and why restriction never lasted

    16:27 - The Happy Meal rule

    17:08 - Meal prep and my 3-2 rule

    17:54 - Using sauces so meal prep isn't boring

    19:03 - 3. Strength train four days a week

    19:35 - If you want to look toned, it is not through more cardio

    20:18 - How to split your four days based on your goals

    21:08 - Recovery, and the 24 to 48 hour rule

    22:28 - Where cardio actually fits in

    23:28 - 4. Focus on progressive overload

    23:48 - Your body adapts to what you repeatedly ask it to do

    24:15 - What progressive overload actually means

    25:28 - The goblet squat example, week one to week five

    26:43 - Why random workouts kept me stuck for years

    27:30 - Nail your form before you add weight

    29:20 - 5. Track your macros for the first three months

    29:46 - Why the long term goal is intuitive eating

    30:13 - What 30g of protein actually looks like

    30:32 - How quickly fats add up

    31:02 - How tracking showed me I was over and under eating

    32:30 - 6. Create a small deficit, don't slash your calories

    33:13 - Adjusting based on energy, hunger and recovery

    34:15 - How to tell if you're at maintenance, deficit or surplus

    34:56 - 7. Keep the carbs in

    35:26 - The low carb years and how miserable I was

    36:21 - Timing your carbs around your workout

    37:08 - Do you need to eat before a 5am workout

    38:35 - Blood sugar, and what to eat if you feel dizzy

    39:09 - 8. Stop weighing yourself every day

    39:34 - Weighing myself multiple times a day

    40:37 - Everything that moves the number on the scale

    41:19 - What to measure instead of body weight

    42:09 - Throwing the scale away

    42:44 - Why your own body is the best scale you have

    44:42 - Take your before photos

    45:36 - 9. Change your environment sooner

    45:52 - What's quietly pulling you away from your goals

    47:34 - Setting boundaries around your time and energy

    49:54 - 10. Give yourself six months

    50:48 - The biggest mistake I see women make

    52:00 - The restart cycle that kept me stuck

    52:33 - A true body recomposition took me a full year

    53:24 - What changed beyond the physical transformation

    56:05 - Write these down where you'll see them

    57:58 - Wrapping up

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    Dr. Clay Moss: The GLP-1 Mistake Making Women Look Worse

    2026-10-07 | 1h 29 mins.
    Most women are told their bloodwork is normal while they still feel exhausted, foggy and stuck. Dr. Clay Moss breaks down what a standard panel checks, what it misses, and the labs to ask for instead. We get into iron and ferritin, full thyroid panels, cortisol rhythms, and why your baseline in your 30s matters more than any single result.

    We also cover hormone replacement therapy and the study that scared a generation of women away from it, what perimenopause really looks like, GLP-1s and who they help, creatine and vitamin D, why DEXA beats BMI, intermittent fasting for women, and why strength training is the one thing he would never give up.

    TIMESTAMPS:

    0:00 - Intro/Trailer

    1:23 - Training for aesthetics vs training for longevity

    2:15 - When the mirror stops matching what's underneath

    2:52 - Strep throat 22 times and the tonsils that came out too late

    7:17 - What's actually wrong with the medical system

    10:06 - How much nutrition doctors learn in med school

    14:17 - Athletes who look incredible and aren't healthy

    15:11 - How do you know you're healthy on the inside

    15:42 - What feeling like crap actually looks like

    17:42 - When your doctor says everything looks good

    18:03 - What insurance covered labs actually check

    18:24 - The labs to ask for: vitamin D, B12, thyroid, hormones

    18:45 - Why your baseline in your 20s and 30s matters

    19:23 - The top deficiencies he sees in women's bloodwork

    19:40 - Iron and ferritin, and the symptoms to watch for

    20:41 - Why women get thyroid issues far more often than men

    21:04 - Why thyroid and adrenals come before estrogen

    21:27 - Brain fog, fatigue, low libido, dry skin, stubborn weight

    22:05 - TSH, T4, free T3 and reverse T3 explained

    23:29 - Why trending your labs over the years is so powerful

    23:48 - Hormone replacement therapy

    24:34 - The steps to take before you jump to HRT

    25:10 - Why perimenopause is so volatile

    26:30 - Saliva testing and your cortisol rhythm

    27:09 - Urine testing across a full cycle

    28:42 - Why HRT can be an amazing thing for a woman

    29:24 - The study that used horse urine estrogen

    30:31 - How doctors stopped being trained to prescribe hormones

    30:54 - Supplements for women seeing hormonal shifts

    32:28 - Vitamin D, and why normal isn't optimal

    32:51 - Magnesium and creatine

    33:37 - Why creatine may help women more than men

    35:11 - Body composition, and why DEXA is underused

    36:12 - Why BMI is the wrong measure

    36:56 - Waist circumference and the number to aim for

    37:30 - Intermittent fasting

    37:48 - Why women are more sensitive to fasting

    39:09 - Sam on fasting and the calorie mistake she made

    39:44 - Building a protein first morning

    41:39 - Why carnivore worked, and what it really was

    42:33 - Sam on lower carb and the inflammation she lost

    45:37 - A day of eating, and the 80% rule

    46:22 - Why a protein forward Mediterranean diet is the best start

    49:10 - GLP-1s

    49:31 - Why he used to be anti GLP-1

    50:46 - The ApoE4 gene and Alzheimer's as type 3 diabetes

    52:22 - Which peptides he thinks are most beneficial

    53:33 - BPC-157 and the shoulder injury it helped

    54:37 - The Hollywood stack

    56:47 - How GLP-1s get misused and titrated too fast

    58:30 - The DEXA error that made us think GLP-1s destroy muscle

    1:00:06 - The loss of pleasure nobody talks about

    1:02:43 - Non-negotiables if you're on one for weight loss

    1:03:02 - Why strength training is by far number one

    1:04:21 - How much protein, and the body weight number to use

    1:05:32 - Why strength training matters most for longevity

    1:06:27 - Gym or run? Why he picks the gym every time

    1:08:44 - The study where women over 65 lifted heavy

    1:10:48 - Muscle memory and why it's never lost for good

    1:12:07 - Why now is the easiest it will be to build muscle

    1:12:46 - His daily habits, starting with morning sunlight

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    1:16:32 - What he wants to be able to do at 80

    1:18:58 - Where to find Dr. Clay Moss

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    How To Detox Your Kitchen: Hormones, Plastics & Forever Chemicals w/ Jordan Nathan (Caraway Founder)

    2026-09-30 | 1h 2 mins.
    The average person consumes about a credit card's worth of plastic every week, and PFAS forever chemicals are now in roughly 97% of people's blood. I sat down with Jordan, the founder of Caraway, to talk about what's actually in your nonstick cookware, why Teflon was originally created for the atomic bomb, and how to tell in five seconds whether the pan in your kitchen is coated in it.

    We get into the night he gave himself Teflon poisoning and called poison control, why 6 to 8 states have now banned PFAS in cookware, what happens when your nonstick coating starts to flake, and whether heating food in plastic is as bad as you think. Plus the easiest nontoxic swaps to make first, what to do about takeout containers, baby bottles and kids' toys, and the new nontoxic coffee maker that took five years and two dozen factories to build.

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    TIMESTAMPS:

    0:00 - One credit card of plastic a week

    1:13 - Intro

    1:30 - The cheap college pots and pans I had no idea about

    2:16 - The three types of cookware, and where Teflon came from

    3:42 - How to tell if a pan has Teflon in it

    4:22 - What happens when your nonstick coating flakes and scratches

    5:20 - Where these toxins go once they're in your body

    6:15 - PFAS is in 97% of people's blood

    6:24 - Why the FDA hasn't banned forever chemicals

    8:05 - Everywhere else PFAS is hiding in your home

    8:33 - Why manufacturers still use Teflon if they know

    9:59 - Will PFAS ever actually be banned

    11:13 - Is Teflon linked to cancer

    12:44 - How Jordan got into the cookware industry

    14:25 - The night he got Teflon poisoning and called poison control

    18:51 - The friend who melted baby bottles on the stove

    20:31 - Going nontoxic after my son was born

    21:28 - How to handle this when you travel

    22:39 - Takeout containers and plastic

    22:59 - Is cold food in plastic any safer

    23:56 - Why heating food in plastic is the worst thing you can do

    25:04 - What to swap out for your kids

    26:42 - Baby teethers, toys, and whether silicone is better

    27:31 - Why BPA free doesn't mean PFAS free

    28:20 - Clean cosmetics, perfume and lotions

    29:25 - Is nontoxic living just too expensive

    30:52 - Where to start, and how long ceramic cookware lasts

    31:51 - Should you put your pans in the dishwasher

    35:30 - How Caraway products actually get made

    36:17 - Two dozen factories turned them down

    37:51 - Pushback from the legacy cookware brands

    38:33 - Why they started with ceramic nonstick

    39:34 - Cooking with stainless steel vs ceramic

    40:29 - Replace or not: plastic water bottles, microwaves, ice makers

    41:19 - The nontoxic coffee maker, five years in the making

    42:27 - Is Caraway first to market with it

    43:03 - The design, the colors, and one button

    44:29 - When the coffee maker launches

    44:46 - Replace or not: toothbrushes, dental floss, straws

    45:39 - Jordan's favorite Caraway product

    50:05 - What's next for Caraway

    50:56 - Launching in Canada and 500 Walmart stores

    51:26 - Why it looks good enough to leave on the counter

    52:58 - The 100 year vision for the brand

    54:40 - Why I gifted my ex a full Caraway set

    55:36 - Caraway as a gift, and the boomer cohort

    56:46 - Microplastics in clothing and activewear

    57:45 - What it's like waiting five years for a launch

    58:19 - The factory that dropped them three years in

    59:27 - Building trust with customers

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    1:01:20 - Wrapping up

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    Our Wedding Q&A: Body Prep, The Cost & What I'd Change

    2026-09-23 | 58 mins.
    We're finally answering every question you sent us about our wedding. Ian and I sat down to go through the whole day, from the venue in Chattanooga and the three dress changes, to the kids' recorded voice notes that played as they walked down the aisle, the tattoo artist we had at the reception, and the cinnamon roll cake we poured icing over instead of cutting.

    We're also getting into the practical stuff you asked for most. How I prepped my body in the weeks leading up, what we splurged on and where we saved, what our wedding actually cost, and the one thing I'd do differently if I could go back. Plus why I did my own makeup, where my veil is from, and the five hour nail saga the day before we left.

    TIMESTAMPS:

    0:00 Preview
    1:10 Welcome back, and how we're feeling post wedding
    2:45 The Q&A you sent in on Instagram
    3:00 Big wedding or elope, and why we chose a wedding
    4:30 The venue, and why Chattanooga
    5:30 The karaoke bar after party
    6:20 Our wedding planner and why she was worth it
    7:40 Ian on the aesthetic
    8:20 What I felt seeing him for the first time
    9:45 This is my Prince Charming
    10:30 Ian's side, and a huge sense of pride
    11:15 Why we wrote our own vows
    11:50 Reading excerpts from our vows
    12:45 The moment Ian got choked up
    13:30 Thrive Market
    15:30 AquaTru Shower
    17:20 The kids' voice notes before the ceremony
    18:40 The gifts we gave the kids
    19:40 What went wrong, and the bouquet I forgot
    20:30 Three dresses and three looks
    21:50 We didn't eat all night
    22:40 The kids' second wind and the inevitable crash
    23:10 The one thing I'd do differently
    23:50 Why Ian didn't wear his uniform
    24:50 Ian cut his hair
    25:00 The kids joining our first dance
    26:20 The detail that meant more than expected
    26:45 One last dance, just the two of us
    27:00 The cinnamon roll cake instead of a wedding cake
    28:15 Remi
    30:00 Just Thrive
    32:00 We had a tattoo artist at our wedding
    32:40 How many people actually got tattooed
    33:30 Our matching tattoos and what they say
    35:20 The photo booth and the saxophonist
    35:45 Did we drink on our wedding night
    36:30 The most unexpected moment of the night
    37:40 Lucy made it into the wedding
    38:50 The protein waffle bar
    40:10 What we splurged on and where we saved
    41:40 Our perfume and cologne
    42:30 How we chose our officiant
    43:40 What our wedding cost
    44:40 Paleo Valley
    46:10 Caraway
    47:40 How I prepped my body for the wedding
    49:30 All the food we never got to eat
    50:20 Why I did my own makeup
    51:30 Where my veil is from
    52:20 My favorite dress, and why I wore my hair slicked back
    52:50 The earrings for each look
    53:20 The jewelry I forgot
    53:40 The five hour nail saga
    55:20 Favorite and least favorite parts of the day
    56:30 Where we're going on our honeymoon
    57:40 Wrapping up

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About The EMPWR Podcast
Welcome to THE EMPWR PODCAST— the show where wellness meets real life + confidence becomes your way of being. Hosted by Fitness Entrepreneur, Certified Personal Trainer + Nutritionist, Samantha Christine, each episode is packed with workout tips, nutrition hacks, expert advice + personal stories designed to empower you on your journey to a healthier, happier you. No matter where you’re starting, or how far you’ve come, this is your space for transformation, self love, connection + growth. Whether you’re getting in a sweat, navigating traffic, or unwinding on the couch, tune in + let’s move together— physically, mentally + intentionally— toward your strongest self. Because here, we believe every season of wellness, whether you’re pushing new limits or finding your rhythm, deserves to be empowered.
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