🐚Topics covered

• Reflecting on an intensely difficult year & choosing to see lessons in hardship
• Health journey through typhoid fever, pregnancy loss & thyroid dysfunction
• Deciding to go all in on healing rather than splitting focus with business
• Learning horseback archery to honor dad's love of archery & overcome riding trauma
• Picking up crochet to honor grandmother & connect with ancestors through embodied skills
• Cultivating intuition by choosing embodied practices over logical thinking
• Finding peace through skills that require full presence & attention
• Discovering audiobooks paired with crochet as perfect combination
• How ancestral skills bring deceased loved ones closer in felt presence
• Choosing to be your own peace & peace for those you love

About the Host

I’m Iris Josephina, a functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones, and more.

Let’s stay connected:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cycleseeds

📧 Join my newsletter: https://www.cycleseeds.com/cyclseeds-newsletter

💻 Visit the Cycle Seeds website: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

📝 Check out the blog: https://www.cycleseeds.com/blog

📚Join my courses: https://www.cycleseeds.com/courses-masterclasses

📊 Chart Your Cycle Masterclass: https://cycleseeds.plugandpay.nl/checkout/chart-your-cycle-37-f-a

🐚Topics covered

• Why measuring progesterone directly changes everything
• The difference between temperature tracking & hormonal data
• How technology can be a conversation partner
• What true contraceptive autonomy requires
• Why contraception should be collective responsibility
• The shift that happens when you stop the pill
• How to evaluate "non-hormonal" options
• The pharmaceutical industry's response to declining pill use
• Nature's collective design of fertility

About Eirini Rapti

Eirini started inne in 2017 motivated by her own desire to use natural contraception, but realised that traditional natural fertility methods were almost impossible to use reliably in real life. She was determined to find a way of leveraging technology to enable all women to have a greater understanding of their bodies and take control of their contraceptive choices, so that they could make the most of their careers and relationships. Eirini set about developing a saliva biosensor device that enables women to identify and predict the fertile phase in their natural cycle. Based on her own experience and through multiple user interviews, Eirini understood that a new product had to be compatible with a busy daily life, simple and hygienic to use, and more insightful than the period-tracking apps already on the market.

Where to find Eirini Rapti and Inne

📝Website: https://inne.io/
📷Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inne_io/

About the Host

I’m Iris Josephina, a functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones, and more.

Let’s stay connected:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cycleseeds

📧 Join my newsletter: https://www.cycleseeds.com/cyclseeds-newsletter

💻 Visit the Cycle Seeds website: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

📝 Check out the blog: https://www.cycleseeds.com/blog

🎓 Holistic Hormone & Cycle Coaching Certification Training: https://www.cycleseeds.com/hhcc-waitlist-2027

📚Join my courses: https://www.cycleseeds.com/courses-masterclasses

📊 Chart Your Cycle Masterclass: https://cycleseeds.plugandpay.nl/checkout/chart-your-cycle-97

🐚Topics covered

• Karissa's journey from corporate wellness to birth work through personal initiation
• Why intellectualizing birth doesn't prevent power outsourcing during labor
• Four waves of Wavework: physical prep, emotional alchemy, trance state, primal intelligence
• Rehearsing birth intensity through simulations before labor arrives
• Emotional cathexis versus catharsis: befriending fear rather than clearing it
• The cervix as frequency gate responding to safety & environmental attunement
• Bringing birth partners into rehearsal for nervous system regulation
• Why men struggle witnessing powerful birthing women without preparation
• Connection between birth trauma & postpartum depression epidemic
• Wavework for postpartum integration, loss, preconception & life thresholds

About Karissa Bollinger

Karissa is a physiologist, birth worker, and founder of WaveWork™, a method that bridges biomechanics, nervous system science, and altered states of consciousness to prepare the body for birth. Her work reframes labor as an initiated state of expanded awareness and teaches women how to condition their physiology for intensity, coherence, and trust. After supporting hundreds of women through birth, trauma healing, and psychedelic integration, Karissa created WaveWork™ to bring the body back to the center of birth. She’s passionate about helping women rehearse intensity before they meet it, rewire their nervous systems for safety, and return to their power as creators of life.

Where to find Karissa Bollinger

📝Website: http://www.goldenteacherwellness.com

📷Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wavework.birthing/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wavework.birthing

Join Karissa’s Masterclass and get a $50 usd off (CYCLESEEDS50) https://www.goldenteacherwellness.com/waveworkbirthing

About the Host

I’m Iris Josephina, a functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones, and more.

Let’s stay connected:

📸 Instagram: @cycleseeds

📧 Join my newsletter: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

💻 Visit the Cycle Seeds website: https://www.cycleseeds.com/

📝 Check out the blog: https://www.cycleseeds.com/blog

🎓 Holistic Hormone & Cycle Coaching Certification Training: https://www.cycleseeds.com/hhcc-training-2025-selfstudy-vip

📚Join my courses: https://www.cycleseeds.com/courses-masterclasses

📊 Chart Your Cycle Masterclass: https://cycleseeds.plugandpay.nl/checkout/chart-your-cycle-97