Welcome to the You Are Not Broken Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kelly Casperson, a board-certified

jurologist, thought leader, and conversation starter on midlife living, hormones, and sexuality.

Enjoy the show. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the You Are Not Broken podcast. I'm so excited

today to have on somebody who I think I know. So now I understand it when people tell me they think they know me, Autumn Calabrese. Did I say your last name, right, though? I've known you for like seven years. I don't know how to say your last name. It happens all the time. It's Calabries or Calabres, depending on where you are. But yes, Calabres.

I love it. Oh, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

I was thinking about you today because I went to the gym and it is December and it is freezing.

And my body was cold and stiff. And I'm like, how do we get women to understand, you got to warm your body up so

you stop feeling cold? Fitness is the way to not be cold. Exactly. Build that muscle, create that

heat, especially this time of year when it is, I was in Ohio for Thanksgiving, visiting my family,

and I don't do Ohio temperature. I don't do Ohio. I'm from Minnesota originally. And I'm like,

I don't know how people reproduce. I don't know how they go on and get naked. I literally, I was like

the thought of getting in the shower. I was like bone, chilling cold. It was snowing. I didn't want to

do anything. I was like, man, I forgot. But I understand why it's a little harder to get motivated when it's freezing outside. Yeah. But I also just couldn't wait to move to reduce that heat in my body. Yeah. To me, I'm like, that's like, I think a lot of people don't know that as a physician. Like, people come to the office and they're like, I'm cold. And you want to be like, let's check your thyroid. Let's make sure everything's functioning. But like lift weights, spin bike, do a bunch of push-ups. Like it really warms your body up. And I hadn't thought about it in a while until the weather's changed. And this morning, I was like, had I not had a fitness routine that I do, you just stay cold all day. I'm like that. Even in L.A. I'm like that.

I wake up in the morning

and I'm like that. Even in L.A., I'm like that.

I wake up in the morning and I'm chilly. But the second I get my workout in, it's like, okay,

all systems ago. Now the body feels like it's functioning properly. I'm not shaking and I'm ready

to do the day. Yeah, and then you stay warm for a long time afterwards. Like, it keeps going. Like, right now I'm still warm, and my workout ended an hour ago. It feels so good. It feels so much better than being cold. So to all the Midwest people, because I know that it's winter right now, that's the pro tip, is get moving, even though your body doesn't want to and your mind doesn't want to,

because it will work. One of the things I really like about you and all your programs is all the

mindset stuff that you throw into it. And like you're very consistent in that. So was that always how

you were or have you been like a student for a while and now you're like, I've got to put this in here?

I think both. I've always been a mindset person, but I think the more comfortable I got,

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