Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.
Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.
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Understand Your Cycle is a medically-verified guide and platform to the menstrual cycle and women's health. The Understand Your Cycle podcast turns taboos into table topics, by sharing women’s health experiences with a human lens. We talk to women about going through these experiences, and how it actually feels. We also ask our women’s health specialist doctors our community's FAQs.
Keen to learn everything we should have been taught in school about our menstrual cycles? From period products, contraception, fertility, endometriosis, menopause, PCOS, PMDD, and lots more? Without taboo nor shame, you can ask our doctors all your questions and learn to love your menstrual cycle through Understand Your Cycle.
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What happens when you spend 15 years on hormonal contraceptionm and then have to relearn your body from scratch?
In this episode, Coni, co-founder of period underwear brand NIXI Body, shares her journey from being prescribed the pill for teenage acne, to navigating infertility, cycle syncing, pregnancy, and now early motherhood.
We talk about the messy reality behind women’s health: how hard it is to advocate for yourself with doctors, the silence around infertility, and the complicated mix of empowerment and guilt that comes with cycle syncing. Coni also opens up about her fertility struggles, the emotional toll of “just relax” advice, and what it’s really like to balance running a business with having a newborn.
But this conversation goes far beyond contraception and fertility. We explore period shame, the role of community, and why creating products like period underwear is about so much more than comfort. It’s about changing culture.
We cover:
🩸 What it feels like to be on (and come off) hormonal contraception for over a decade
🩸 Why knowledge is power — but also a double-edged sword
🩸 Infertility, and the emotional toll of trying to conceive
🩸 The reality of cycle syncing for work, exercise, and life
🩸 Period shame, stigma, and breaking taboos through products
🩸 The juggle of business ownership, pregnancy, and motherhood
🩸 Why shared parental leave is still radical in 2025
Whether you’ve struggled with contraception, fertility, or simply want to understand the link between hormones, identity, and womanhood, this episode is raw, honest, and empowering.
Find Coni:
Instagram – @conilj
NIXI Body – @nixibody / www.nixibody.com
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