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The Ready State Podcast

Dr. Sara Reardon: Fixing Pelvic Floor Dysfunction - Expert Advice from The Vagina Whisperer

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9623 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode of The Ready State Podcast, Dr Sara Reardon sits down with Kelly and Juliet Starrett to break the silence around leaking, pelvic pain, painful sex, and what every woman should know about their body — but probably wasn’t taught.

Join Dr. Sara Reardon, aka "The Vagina Whisperer," as she shares groundbreaking insights from her book Floored about pelvic floor health at every age and stage. Discover the real causes behind pelvic floor dysfunction, practical tips to strengthen and care for your pelvic floor, and how to advocate for better medical support. Whether you're navigating perimenopause, postpartum recovery, or just curious about improving your pelvic health, this episode is packed with expert advice and actionable solutions. Don't miss it—empower yourself with the knowledge every woman deserves!

What You'll Learn in This Episode
  • Why pelvic floor dysfunction is a silent epidemic
  • How to tell what’s “common” vs. what’s actually “normal”
  • What postpartum care should look like
  • The simple things you can do every day to improve pelvic floor health
  • How posture, breathing, and movement all connect to pelvic health
  • Why men should care about pelvic floor health too

Sponsors

This episode of The Ready State Podcast is brought to you by Laird Superfood, The World As You'll Know It podcast, Momentous, and LMNT.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Subject I would love to tackle is painful suss.

0:03.5

What that means for women and what that means for relationships.

0:07.5

If you're in perimenopause, some of the things that you may start noticing are dryness during intercourse.

0:12.5

You may have to feel like you are using lubricant or there's just dryness or itchiness, a feeling of pressure or heaviness in the vagina.

0:18.5

Dr. Sarah Reardon. Dr. Sarah Reardon, Dr. Sarah Reardon, also known as the Vigna Whisperer.

0:24.6

The power of social media to educate women about their health.

0:27.6

She is out with her first book, Floored, a woman's guide to pelvic floor health at every age and stage.

0:34.6

Word certified pelvic floor physical therapist.

0:36.6

She's the founder and the chief

0:38.8

vagina officer of the vagina whisper, an online pelvic floor workout program for women of every

0:44.1

age and stage. What would be an ideal postpartum care situation? You know, I think there's

0:51.1

always like levels like, I'll take this, but the dream would be this. What is wrong with society that women have children? And then we're like, good luck. Why is it

1:00.0

that we have to sort of wait till there's a problem or react? That is the way that our medical system

1:04.9

work. And it's really unfortunate and ineffective. This episode is sponsored by Laird Superfood.

1:13.3

One of the things I'm on a mission to do is to get adults to eat breakfast again.

1:18.3

Yeah, and one of the reasons that we're really excited about people eating breakfast is

1:22.1

we need to eat enough and in most cases more protein.

1:26.7

And if you skip an entire meal you're behind you're

1:29.1

behind already like by the time you get to lunch you can't catch up could not agree more the other

1:33.1

thing that we're seeing is that sometimes people just aren't breakfast people I have a daughter

1:37.2

who's not a breakfast person I'm sitting next to not a breakfast person and you have trained

1:42.1

yourself to get some micronutrients and some macronutrients, specifically protein in the morning. And I really

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