The DTA Podcast

Women's health has been whispered about for too long. On Down There Aware, host Amy Milne gets loud about everything below the belt—endometriosis, PCOS, menopause, pain, medical gaslighting, and the healthcare system's failure to listen. Amy interviews doctors, researchers, advocates, and real women sharing raw stories of misdiagnosis, survival, and resistance. Don't expect polite conversation that makes light of women's health issues or brushes them off as "just how it is." The conversations are bold, honest, unapologetic, and real. Whether you're in your own fight with the medical system, battling chronic pain, supporting someone who is, or ready to join a movement demanding better care, this is your space. We're done with whispers. It's time to get loud.

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  Episode #26

  Ep. 26: Sandra's story & how pelvic floor physio can help during menopause

  Sep 28, 202644 minS1

  Sandra Ghaly, founder and clinical director of Makewell Health , sat through two to three days of pelvic floor education in physio school and thought (along with every other woman in her class) "no chance am I ever doing that." She built an entire career in orthopedic physio instead — until she kept meeting patients who told her they leaked when they squatted or felt heaviness she had no idea how to treat. It took her own two pregnancies, one vaginal delivery and one C-section, both requiring her to fight for her own answers, to realize how deep the gap in women's healthcare actually runs. Now she owns a multidisciplinary women's health clinic in Oakville built entirely around the idea that nobody should have to repeat their story five times to five different specialists. Amy and Sandra get into what actually happens during a pelvic floor assessment (it's a lot more than "fingers in your vagina"), why Kegels are terrible generic advice, and the genitourinary symptoms of menopause that don't go away on their own — they get worse the longer nobody treats them. KEY COMPONENTS She spent physio school swearing she'd never specialize in the pelvic floor, and what changed her mind after she'd already built a career in something else entirely. "Your pelvic floor is not weak — sometimes it's guarding" : Why the advice to "just do your Kegels" is often exactly backwards. The genitourinary symptoms of menopause that never go away on their own — unlike hot flashes and brain fog, this set of symptoms gets worse the longer it's ignored. Why she has patients bring a mirror into the room, and what she's found most women have genuinely never looked at. "If something doesn't feel right, tell someone about it. It's probably a very common thing that you're feeling, but also very treatable. There's help out there." Visit Makewell Health's website here Follow Makewell Health on Instagram Follow Sandra on Instagram Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio For informational and entertainment purposes only — not medical advice. We're here to get loud, not to play doctor.

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  Episode #25

  Ep. 25: Shirlee's story & menopause, steel maces, and crying over HRT

  Sep 21, 202657 minS1

  Shirlee Williams ran a successful yoga and spin studio for 14 years — she was in the wellness industry and still spent her first year of menopause convinced she was dying. Joint pain, funky blood work, a mysterious itch her doctor kept treating as a yeast infection four rounds running, before anyone thought to check for lichen sclerosis. She even went to her family doctor certain she was pregnant, only to find out she was actually in menopause. It took years of being told she was "fine" before she finally started hormone therapy — and cried the day she began it, feeling like she'd somehow failed her own body. Now she's a strength and mobility coach on a mission to change how women think and talk about aging, and she's doing it by handing women literal weapons: steel maces, in her words, an "ancient weapon" that builds strength and confidence at the same time. Amy and Shirlee get into perimenopause, testosterone, the exhausting work of medical self-advocacy, and why "good enough" is no longer good enough for either of them. KEY COMPONENTS She thought she was pregnant when she was actually in menopause: What her family doctor's blood test revealed instead. Four rounds of yeast infection treatment for something that wasn't a yeast infection: The diagnosis her naturopath caught that her doctor initially dismissed. She cried the day she started hormone therapy: Why beginning estrogen and progesterone felt, at first, like letting her own body down. Why she's teaching women to swing an ancient weapon, and what happens to a woman's confidence when you put a steel mace in her hand. "When you know better, you do better. I wouldn't go to my GP for a root canal — so source out the people that are doing the things you have questions about." Connect with Shirlee on Instagram Visit Shirlee's website Check out the Wild Hearts Tulum retreat Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio For informational and entertainment purposes only — not medical advice. We're here to get loud, not to play doctor.

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  Episode #24

  Ep. 24: Nicole's story & why she's taking the stage at The Down There Affair

  Sep 14, 202651 minS1

  Nicole King — known as Ms. King, of Ms. King's Kitchen, serving caribbean-inspired meal prep, catering & events — spent over a decade on birth control before anyone asked why she was in pain in the first place. It took passing out mid-catering-job on a 300-person boat ride, a fallopian tube destroyed by endometriosis before anyone told her, and a parade of doctors offering the same three "solutions" — birth control, painkillers, or go get pregnant — before she landed anywhere close to real answers. She's since been declined for a specialist referral four times. Amy and Nicole get into what it's like to become "the guinea pig" at your own corporate job, why fertility gets treated like a cure for a disease that actually causes infertility, and why two women who don't look anything alike ended up becoming the exact partnership this movement needed. This is a conversation about being dismissed again and again — and choosing to get louder every single time. Nicole is now a partner of The Down There Affair and will be stepping on stage with Amy on September 26th! KEY COMPONENTS: She passed out mid-shift catering a 300-person boat ride and kept working, and it finally pushed her to demand answers. A doctor told her a dye test would check her fallopian tubes and the room went silent. Everyone's face told her something was wrong before anyone said a word. Declined for a specialist referral four separate times: The bureaucratic runaround that happens after you finally find a doctor who believes you. Why she posts her surgery scars on Instagram and doesn't care who's uncomfortable: The reaction that made her decide to keep doing it anyway. "Your pain is your pain. Don't ever let anyone dim it or try to tell you anything differently. People aren't living in our bodies — they can assume they may know what you're going through, but you are the only one that actually knows." Follow Ms. King's Kitchen on Instagram Watch Ms. King's Kitchen on YouTube Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio For informational and entertainment purposes only — not medical advice. We're here to get loud, not to play doctor.

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  Episode #23

  Ep. 23: Erin's story & Nila, the app filling the gaps in menopause care

  Sep 7, 202644 minS1

  Erin Beattie spent twenty years bleeding through her clothes, flooding through overnight pads in a two-minute car ride, before anyone said the word endometriosis out loud. Then, in the middle of an 18-month wait to get diagnosed, she was found to have breast cancer — three surgeries in nineteen months, including a bilateral mastectomy and a total hysterectomy that finally revealed stage three endometriosis along the way. Now, almost a year into acute surgical menopause with almost no map for what she's going through, she's built Nila : an app born out of her own research spiral, designed for the other 23 hours a day when you're not in front of a doctor and don't want to fall down a Google rabbit hole. Amy and Erin get into what it's like to be dismissed for decades, why "having kids cures endometriosis" is a myth that keeps costing women years, and why the gaps in menopause research go a lot deeper than most people realize — especially for anyone who doesn't look like the woman on the pamphlet. Key Components: Twenty years of "flooding" before anyone said the word endometriosis: What finally made her doctor connect the dots — and why it took so long. A breast cancer diagnosis found completely by accident: How a routine pre-surgery scan for something unrelated changed the entire next two years of her life. The myth that having kids "cures" endometriosis, and why Erin spent nearly two more decades being told her symptoms couldn't be what she already suspected. Why she built her app, Nila, instead of waiting for the healthcare system to catch up: What she noticed was missing for anyone who doesn't fit the typical menopause picture. "We then just live fine versus great and wonderful and blood-pant free. There's so much that we endure quietly." Check out Nila at hellonila.com Connect with Erin on LinkedIn Follow Nila on Instagram Get more information about endometriosis and adenoymyosis Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio For informational and entertainment purposes only — not medical advice. We're here to get loud, not to play doctor.

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  Episode #22

  Ep. 22: Marnie's story & how Thigh Society is fixing what women's underwear got wrong

  Aug 31, 202632 minS1

  Marnie Rabinovitch Consky, Founder & CEO of Thigh Society , didn't set out to build a company — she got mad. Seventeen years ago, after a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and being told her thighs touching was a problem to fix, she went looking for something to stop the chafing and found nothing that wasn't marketed like a consolation prize for not being thin enough. So she built it herself. Today Thigh Society has sold over three million pairs and basically invented the long-leg underwear category — but this conversation is about a lot more than fabric. Amy and Marnie get into the real (and often absurd) economics of underwear design, why women have spent decades getting the "scraps" of product innovation, and what it actually takes to talk about sweat, chafing, and bodies out loud without flinching. It's funny, it's blunt, and it's about something much bigger than underwear: permission. Permission to take up space, to stop apologizing for your body, and to say the things out loud that others won't. Key components: Thigh Society exists because of a rage moment, not a business plan: What happened on one hot summer day that made Marnie stop accepting what was already on the market. The real reason most underwear doesn't actually fit real bodies: A cost-cutting design choice most brands make — and why Marnie's team refused to make it. The slogan a man pitched her that she loved but legally can't use, and what it revealed about how differently people talk about comfort once given permission. Why Marnie says "your body is the least interesting thing about you" — the mindset behind Thigh Society that has nothing to do with the underwear itself. "It came out of a rage that I had — that I was being told, and millions of other women were being told, that we should shrink our bodies to avoid the problem of thigh chafing." Check out Thigh Society's anti-chafing shorts here! Follow Marnie on LinkedIn Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio For informational and entertainment purposes only — not medical advice. We're here to get loud, not to play doctor.

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