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Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

FFP 621 | 30+ Years: Taking Charge of Your Fertility with Toni Weschler

Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

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Alternative Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Fertility Friday Podcast, Lisa welcomes back Toni Weschler, MPH, author of the landmark book Taking Charge of Your Fertility, along with Toni's niece Sabrina Nowicki, co-creator and product lead of the Cyclisity app. Toni shares the behind-the-scenes story of how Taking Charge of Your Fertility came to be — from a humbling experience at a women's health clinic in the late 1980s to a bidding war among major publishers — and reflects on what has changed in the field of fertility awareness over the past 30-plus years. Sabrina walks listeners through the vision behind Cyclisity, explaining how the app was designed as an educational companion to Taking Charge of Your Fertility, running the four FAM rules as taught in the book and directing users back to the relevant pages and chapters as they chart. The episode also covers the importance of data privacy, the limitations of ovulation predictor kits as a standalone tool, and why education remains the foundation of effective fertility awareness practice.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's officially here. Early Bird registration for our fertility awareness mastery mentorship program is officially open.

0:09.3

We officially start on the 13th of May, but early bird registration is only open for a short time.

0:17.3

As a woman's health professional, you already know that you're seeing an increasing

0:21.5

number of clients come to you asking about their menstrual cycle, asking about charting.

0:27.1

Some of them may already be tracking their cycles in one way or another. And even if you have

0:33.0

personal charting experience, if you have any clients who are sharing their charts with you, you've

0:38.2

already discovered that most of the charts your clients share with you look nothing like yours.

0:43.9

And your training certainly hasn't prepared you to support clients who have abnormal cycles

0:49.4

and complex charts. That's exactly what we do in FAM.

0:59.4

We teach our practitioners to interpret even the most complex menstrual cycle charts and confidently guide your clients through their hormonal and reproductive health challenges

1:04.5

using our evidence-based strategies and practitioner-facing protocols.

1:10.4

Head over to fertility friday.com slash

1:13.2

bam live to apply today. That's fertility friday.com slash f-a-m-m-l-I-V-E.

1:20.7

This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 621.

1:30.9

Today's guest needs no introduction, but I mean, of course, we're still going to introduce

1:35.7

her.

1:36.2

But I'm really excited to welcome Tony Weschler back to the show.

1:41.0

It's been quite a few years since our initial interview. Of course, Tony Weschler is the

1:46.4

author of taking charge of your fertility. And one of the reasons that we were connecting today is

1:51.6

because she's currently working on the 30th anniversary edition, which is a huge landmark. So at the time

1:57.9

of the release of this recording, it hasn't been officially released yet,

2:01.9

but it's certainly a work in progress. So we talk about that. Tony shares some really fun

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