the cycle coach show podcast
Menstrual cycle coaching is an emerging field that's redefining how we approach the female mind and body.
Hosted by Claire Baker and Lauren Olivia Hughes, and in affiliation with the Cycle Coach School, this podcast brings you insights into the growing field of menstrual cycle coaching with interviews from leading voices, tips on building a successful practice, and discussions on industry trends.
welcome to the cycle coach show podcast!
The world's first podcast dedicated to the modality of menstrual cycle coaching.
Whether you're an established coach or just exploring this career path through the Cycle Coach School, join us to gain the inspiration and knowledge you need to excel in menstrual cycle coaching.
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5 Ways to Work with Archetypes in Cycle Coaching
In this special season finale, Claire and Lauren come together to wrap up Season 2 of The Cycle Coach Show with a deep and practical conversation all about working with archetypes in menstrual cycle coaching. Drawing from their own client experiences, personal practices, and stories from this past season, they explore how the archetypal framework can be a transformative tool for self-awareness, creativity, and embodiment.
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Cycle Coaching Across Cultures
In this episode, Lauren speaks with Zainab Alradhi — Cycle Coach School graduate and founder of Niswa, a growing platform dedicated to menstrual cycle awareness and body literacy for Arabic-speaking women. Zainab shares how she built a community of over 100,000 women by choosing to teach exclusively in Arabic, despite being told her audience "wasn't ready" for this work.
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Coaching Female Clients with ADHD
In this episode, Lauren Olivia Hughes and Claire Baker dive into the unique challenges and strategies for coaching female clients with ADHD. Joined by women's health practitioner Adele Wimsett, they explore how ADHD manifests differently in women, particularly when intertwined with hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle.
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The Wild Mother
We’re back with Season 2 of The Cycle Coach Show, and we're opening the season with a powerful conversation between Lauren and Olivia Waller—also known as @cyclicallyolivia. Olivia is a women’s hormone health practitioner, mother, and graduate of Cycle Coach School, and in this episode, she shares her journey of becoming a mother and how it transformed her personal life, business, and creativity.
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The Inner Seasons of Pregnancy
In this episode, Claire speaks with Monique Dickson, a menstrual cycle coach, women's hormonal health practitioner, and graduate of Cycle Coach School. Together, they explore the powerful connection between menstrual cycle awareness and the journey of pregnancy, diving into Monique’s framework of the "inner seasons of pregnancy."
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Social Media, Comparison & Building Real Relationships
In this episode, your host Lauren Olivia Hughes dives into an enriching conversation with Lucia Mazzella and Mariah Berendt, two hormone health practitioners. You'll hear how they’ve both rapidly grown their social media channels, continued to study and learn together, and ridden the highs and lows of going viral.
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How Two Period Pioneers Are Transforming Youth Support
In this episode, Lauren is joined by two powerful voices in menstrual education: Hannah Brown & Beth Moxon. Both are graduates of Cycle Coach School who have gone on to pioneer youth-focused menstrual work through schools, community programs, and innovative peer-led education models.
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the cycle coach show PODCAST IS FOR YOU IF:
You're curious about menstrual cycle coaching as a modality.
You want to grow your business in a more feminine, intuitive way.
You have a strong desire to connect with your womb's innate wisdom.
You love conversations amongst wise, brilliant and magical women (like you!)
The Cycle Coach Show features the voices of many industry leaders in menstrual cycle coaching, hormone health, fertility awareness education, ADHD in women, and more. Have a topic for a future episode in mind? Send me (Lauren) an email here.
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Conversations with your favourite menstrual cycle coaches.
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We dive into the birth of Cycle Coach School, a 6-month online training and certification program, and discuss the growing need for menstrual education. If you've ever felt disconnected from your body's natural rhythm, then this episode is for you.
In this episode we dive into what it truly means to be a menstrual cycle coach. From debunking myths about cycle syncing to exploring how you can live in harmony with your cycle, we're offering valuable perspectives to transform your approach to menstruation and self-care.
In the season finale, Claire & Lauren unite for a reflective conversation. As the Equinox approaches, they explore the highs, lows, and unexpected moments of the season. From personal growth to professional highlights, they celebrate their podcast journey so far.
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Somatic Cycle Coaching & Working With Grief
How do you move in your playful inner spring or when embodying the wise Crone archetype at menstruation? We're inspired by the creative ways our alumni integrate cycle awareness into their work, and in this episode, you'll hear from Dayna Wilson — a massage therapist, pole dance teacher, and Cycle Coach School graduate — about the healing power of movement and menstrual cycle awareness, and the unique "Embody Your Cycle" pole dancing classes she's teaching in London.
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What Menstrual Cycle Awareness Has To Do With Female Sexuality
Did you know female desire is cyclic? In this episode, Claire Baker chats with sex and relationship coach Melissa Vranjes about the powerful intersection between menstrual cycles & sexuality. Melissa shares how discovering her cycle patterns revolutionized her intimate life and personal relationships, and how this shows up in her work with clients.
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Building a Thriving Coaching Practice Part 1
In part one of this two-part episode, Claire Baker is joined by Charlotte Pointeaux, a menstrual cycle coach who specializes in the shamanic dimensions of cyclical living. They explore how integrating spiritual practices and understanding life’s natural cycles can enhance both personal growth and professional development.
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Building a Thriving Coaching Practice Part 2 — A Q&A Episode!
In part two, we dive into a dynamic Q&A session where Claire Baker and Charlotte Pointeaux answer questions from our community. From starting a business as a menstrual cycle coach to overcoming self-doubt & finding balance, this episode is packed with practical guidance and empowering advice for aspiring cycle coaches.
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Trust The Timing of Your Creativity
Have you ever felt the push to “do something” with your creativity before it’s fully ready? Lots of ideas in your Notes app that go from inspiration to overwhelm when you realise you’d need to live 100 lifetimes to do them all? Maybe like us, you want to birth your work more slowly, more intuitively, and in a way that feels deeply aligned. In this episode, Claire Baker is joined by writer, circle facilitator & Cycle Coach School graduate Daniella Elias for a rich and soulful conversation.
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Can I Work with Clients if My Own Menstrual Cycle is Irregular?
In this episode, Lauren interviews Nat Martin and Nat Daudet. Together they discuss working in the field of menstrual cycle coaching while personally experiencing irregular cycles, PCOS, pregnancy, and post-partum amenorrhea. Can you still work as a Cycle Coach if your own cycles don’t follow a 28-day pattern? Absolutely.
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fresh flower OBSESSED, ENNEAGRAM 4, romantic daydreamer, nature lover, david rose admirer and writer.
Hi, I'm Lauren, your menstrual cycle coach, small business mentor & creative cheerleader.
Since I was a kid, I've been in love with creating. Writing stories with elaborate characters, inventing small businesses with my best friends, and pasting collages across endless pages.
What I love now is helping others create their unique version of success through the magic of menstrual cycle awareness. To guide them in discovering a future full of possibilities as endless and expansive as their ability to manifest them.
learn more about my incredible co-host
Claire Baker is a leading menstrual cycle coach, author, speaker & creator of the Cycle Coach School.
For nearly a decade Claire has taught thousands of women how to live in harmony with their menstrual cycle. She believes menstrual cycle awareness is the missing key in women’s wellbeing, empowerment and creativity, and her immersive online courses and workshops inspire women to know their flow and become the authority in their own lives.
Claire is also the author of the wonderfully informative, 50 Things You Need To Know About Periods, available for purchase here.
The Cycle Coach Show would not be possible without our insightful, generous and dynamic guests.
We as women and menstruators thrive when we exist in a community. That's what this podcast is: a community wealth of knowledge, experiences, perspectives and stories. If you don't follow our guests' work already, I highly recommend that you do. They are pure embodied magic.
Another extra special thanks to Zoe of Sun Daughter Music for creating our ethereal intro music for the podcast. Her other song 'Blood' can be found on Spotify here — it's amazing!
Mariah is a nutritionist on a mission to help women eat their way to healthier menstrual cycles. She focuses on real food & body literacy.
Nat is a fertility awareness educator whose practice focuses on charting ovulation as the anchor of the cycle & as a tool for birth control.
Monique is a mum to four, almost five kids, a farmer's wife, a hormonal health practitioner, menstrual cycle coach living in rural New Zealand.
Hannah is a Cycle Coach, cyclical supervisor, social worker, and facilitator with over 20 years of experience supporting people through change.
Zainab is the first Arab certified Fertility Awareness Educator and believes in women’s right to physical education from birth.
Beth is a passionate period educator, teacher, Cycle Coach & First Moon Circle facilitator with a recent MSc in Teacher Education from the University of Oxford.
Melissa is an internationally Certified Sex and Relationship Coach in New Zealand who is passionate about guiding women to feel sexually alive.
Olivia combines her education in nutrition and hormonal health with menstrual cycle awareness to provide a holistic experience for her clients.
Dayna is a trauma-informed Cycle Coach and bodyworker who is passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies as sources of joy and release.
Adele is a women’s health practitioner whose passion is to empower women to harmonize their hormones in order to live an optimized life.
Daniella is a Cycle Coach, intuitive guide, and author who has supported hundreds of women in reconnecting to the power they hold within.
Lucia is a functional health cycle coach and foodie who believes the world needs more well-fed, well-rested women living in their power.
Nat advocates true cyclical alignment by helping women work to their unique cycle instead of rigidly sticking to learned frameworks.
Charlotte is an award-winning menstrual cycle & business coach, host of the Wild Flow podcast and creator of First Moon Circles facilitator training.
