187. How Monthly Menstrual Cycles Affect Your Productivity

Teaching to the TOP

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Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This episode is definitely one that is geared towards our menstruating friends, but it can also serve those who live with, work with women who menstruate. We totally understand this might be an uncomfortable topic but the truth is that your menstruation cycle can really affect your productivity. So in this episode we break down menstrual cycles and discuss the impact it has on your productivity, mental wellness, and give you some strategies for overcoming these low times each month. As a side note: We are not experts when it comes to understanding menstrual cycles and the hormones that are impacted because of them. We share some research that we have done, along with our own experiences and data around the topic. Remember, we are all different and therefore you will need to take the information in this episode and compare it with your own cycles. LINKS: 062. We Took a Personality Test... Here Are the Results! https://www.intimina.com/blog/how-your-period-affects-productivity/ https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2023/01/31/menstrual-symptoms-hurt-workplace-productivity-uva-health-study-finds/#:~:text=January%2031%2C%202023-,Menstrual%20Symptoms%20Hurt%20Workplace%20Productivity%20of%20Many%20Women%2C%20UVA%20Health,a%20new%20UVA%20Health%20survey. SUBMIT YOUR TIME SUCKING HURDLE! We want to know what is sucking up all of your time either as a teacher or just a person. Head over to our website and submit your TSH so that you can have a chance to be featured on the podcast! SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.7	All right, ladies, get ready. This has been a topic that we have been wanting to record for quite some time now. This episode is going to be an honest
0:22.7	discussion around how your menstrual cycle can affect your productivity. Now, before we jump in,
0:29.2	I just want to say, I think this episode will be very eye-opening for any men listening as well
0:34.7	because it's important for men to understand how menstruation impacts
0:39.2	the women in their lives, whether it's family members, friends, or colleagues. Yeah. So we wanted to
0:45.0	start off with just a brief description of our own experiences when it comes to our cycles affecting
0:52.2	our productivity. You can kind of think of this as our own TSA-Hs,
0:55.6	right? Yes. So Michelle, can you kick us off? Sure. And just another thing worth noting,
1:01.9	we're going to be getting pretty personal in this episode. I don't have a problem talking about
1:07.4	menstruation and all that because it's a natural thing and I kind of hate the stigma
1:11.9	and like embarrassment surrounding it. So if you are not wanting to hear all about our business,
1:17.8	this is your last chance to turn off this episode. So personally, growing up, it feels like that,
1:26.5	I was born on a cold winter night.
1:28.1	Oh, gosh.
1:29.7	So growing up, I have been involved in sports for a very long time.
1:34.6	And so I went on birth control very shortly after I started menstruating because I was not
1:42.5	frequently getting my period. And a lot of that has to do at the high
1:46.9	levels of exercise. And from that moment, when I started birth control, I was on it for like,
1:53.5	I don't know, 12 years or something. And so I have very limited experience with what I'm going to
2:00.0	call like a natural cycle because when
2:02.7	you start taking birth control, it can manipulate a lot of like the symptoms that you feel and
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