Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jimmy Lidramel. I'm really excited because I think

you're going to love today's episode and I can't wait to hear what you think about it and I

want to read all your messages about it. It's one of my favorites so far of this entire podcast

and I've been trying to book this guest for ages but she's so busy and important that it was really

hard and when she finally did sit down with me she did not disappoint and that's why the episode's

a bit long because it's just so good there was nothing we could cut. It's just an empowering

gold mine of information whoever you are whatever your age whatever your gender her work and her

words are for you because she writes about things that happen to pretty much half the population

and so even if you're not part of that half to understand them in their daily experience

is only to live in a more connected empathetic interesting and better world. Her name is

Maisie Hill and she is a great writer and great podcaster and it was her book period power that first

introduced me to her. Now I'm not going to lie when I first heard that it was a whole book about

periods I was like no I don't think I want to read that that sounds disgusting but that's because

I'm a product of a deeply misogynist patriarchal world that taught me that my periods are this like

gross inconvenient terrible thing that I must keep a secret from not just everyone else but also

almost myself I've been encouraged to never look at it just to shun my periods and kind of survive

them. Maisie Hill teaches you to use your periods and your hormonal cycle to thrive through your

period. She also explains to us so many different things that many of us are experiencing through our

periods that are gynecologists and our friends and our mothers don't tell us about we don't talk

about this enough and I really didn't understand that until I saw how much her work revolutionalyzed

the way that I look at everything. We talk about periods we talk about hormones she explains everything

in such a funny and witty and interesting clear way and how you can use your hormones and periods

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