Too many women are told their symptoms are “normal,” dismissed, or left without answers. In this powerful conversation with Amy and Heidi Andrews, Founders of The Khush Place, we explore the realities of living with undiagnosed PCOS, endometriosis, the heartbreaking IVF rollercoaster and the devastating impact of medical gaslighting in women’s healthcare.

You’ll hear their first-hand experiences of what it’s like to be ignored by specialists, misdiagnosed for over a decade and repeatedly told that your pain and anxiety are “just in your head.” These experiences are not from the 1970s — they are happening today, in modern healthcare systems across Australia and beyond.

Their online platform and in-person events across Australia give women the space to connect, share openly, and finally feel validated. The Kush Place’s goal is to lead a new conversation around hormones, cycles, and women’s health that medical systems often neglect.

In this episode we explore:

• Why women’s pain is still dismissed in medicine

• The shocking gap in knowledge around women’s hormones, cycles, and reproductive health

• How functional and integrative medicine offer a way forward by looking at root causes, not just symptoms

• How personal struggles with IVF and anxiety sparked the creation of The Kush Place

• Why Balance Me is the first supplement in Australia to target emotional, metabolic, and hormonal health — all in one

This episode is not just about frustration, feeling dismissed, unseen, or gaslit by the healthcare system. It’s a powerful conversation about reclaiming the narrative around periods, hormones and women’s health. It’s about ending the silence and saying: this is not normal and you deserve better care.

🎙️ If this episode resonated with you, please follow me, subscribe, rate and review the podcast—it helps more women and practitioners find these conversations.

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In this episode of Things I Want My Daughters to Know, I sit down with Fiona Clark, a women’s health physiotherapist, menopause movement specialist, and author of MenoWars. Together, we explore the realities of how menopause impacts the body—not just hormonally, but physically and functionally—and why the current healthcare system often leaves women without the answers and support they need.

Fiona shares her mission to challenge the gaps in women’s healthcare, where menopause is still too often misunderstood, dismissed, or oversimplified. Through her work and her book MenoWars, she brings clarity, compassion, and empowerment to women navigating this stage of life.

In this episode we explore:

· 🌸 How menopause changes the body’s relationship with movement, energy, and recovery.

· 🌸 Why pelvic floor health matters for every woman—and how it connects to confidence, vitality, and long-term health.

· 🌸 The myths around exercise in midlife, and why “pushing harder” isn’t always the answer.

· 🌸 The role of movement as medicine—supporting mood, bone health, cardiovascular function, and nervous system regulation.

· 🌸 The challenges of the conventional medical system—why women are often offered quick fixes rather than true understanding, and how we can change the conversation.

· 🌸 Fiona’s vision for empowering women to understand and honor their bodies, rather than seeing them as “failing” in midlife.

This is a conversation that reframes movement as a source of empowerment, not pressure—while also shining a light on the urgent need for better menopause education and support in healthcare.

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Welcome to Things I Want My Daughters to Know—the women’s health podcast redefining midlife through honest, unfiltered conversations.

I’m Jacqueline Rose, a Menopause Educator and Coach, passionate about supporting women on their menopause and midlife journey. Over the years, I’ve seen too many women dismissed, misdiagnosed, or left without answers when it comes to their health. The truth is: our medical system wasn’t built with women’s bodies in mind. Symptoms get overlooked, concerns are minimized, and so many of us are left believing we just have to “put up with it.”

This podcast was born from my vision to change that. To shine a light on the gaps in conventional healthcare, to challenge outdated narratives, and to create the kind of open, honest conversations that women have been missing for far too long. Because women deserve better—a better health conversation, better support, and better access to knowledge that can truly transform the way we live and thrive at all stages of life.

Each week, I’ll sit down with leading experts and real women to share their stories, bust health myths, and uncover the truth about women’s health—from PMS to perimenopause, menopause to postmenopause, hormones, aging, and everything in between. Together, we’ll share evidence-informed strategies and practical tools to help you feel more connected to your body, empowered in your choices, and confident at every stage of your life.

This podcast is not just about sharing information—it’s about empowering you with women's wisdom and creating intergenerational conversations between mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends.

In the first episode of the Things I want my Daughters to Know podcast, Jacqueline is joined by her 3 daughters to discuss what they know and understand about women’s health having a mother who works in the field – and works from the family dining room table, so her kids hear all her conversations!

Orli, Keren and Eliya share their own health experiences, how having a mother in the women’s health space has impacted them and their own health journeys, what they know about women’s health and how it compares to what their friends know, what their friends are talking about and what their friends SHOULD be talking about when it comes to health, periods, pregnancy and more.

This episode sets the stage for future episodes in the podcast – having open and honest intergenerational conversations on women’s health issues to bust the myths that are still present in our society, share a different approach to women’s health issues, empower and support women who are struggling with lack of information, professional care and feel alone in their journey, and show that there is a different way to feel amazing at all stages of life, especially in midlife and beyond!