What Your Cycle Is Really Telling You About Your Health, Fertility & Ovulation (That Most Women Don’t Know) with Toni Weschler
Real Pod
Dear Media
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This book turned Vic into a self-proclaimed mini OBGYN, so today she is joined by the woman behind it: Toni Weschler. Toni is the author of the groundbreaking book Taking Charge of Your Fertility, the guide Vic thinks should be required reading for every woman. In this episode, Victoria sits down with the renowned public health educator and fertility expert to break down menstrual cycles, fertility awareness, and why understanding your body is empowering whether you want kids someday or never. Toni explains how to identify your fertile window, what cervical mucus and other body signals really mean, and why so many of us grow up without the most basic education about our own reproductive health. From natural birth control to trying to conceive to simply understanding your body better, this conversation is a crash course in fertility literacy every person with a period deserves.
Get Women’s Health Resources:
- Read: Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
- Read: Cycle Savvy (read online version)
- Read: Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods
- Get the Cyclisity app: cyclisity.com
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back. |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight. |
| 0:15.9 | Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. |
| 0:19.1 | Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered, |
| 0:22.0 | and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content |
| 0:27.5 | that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just |
| 0:31.8 | unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real. |
| 0:44.2 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to RealPod. I am geeking out about today's episode and our guest because Tony Weschler is joining us today. |
| 0:52.7 | She is the author of the renowned, life-changing book |
| 0:56.7 | Taking Charge of Your Fertility. She's a master of public health. I first came across this book |
| 1:01.9 | from my VIPs on Instagram who recommended it to me, and I could not put it down. I learned so |
| 1:07.5 | much about my cycle, the different phases my body was in, what certain things meant. |
| 1:13.8 | I really truly believe that every single person with a period should read this book. |
| 1:19.6 | I don't know why it's not mandatory. |
| 1:21.7 | Something I also want to say is this book is for everyone with a period. |
| 1:25.4 | It does not matter if you want to get pregnant tomorrow or |
| 1:28.1 | you never want to have kids. It's just all about understanding your own fertility, which is something |
| 1:33.6 | that occurs in your body every single cycle, whether you want it to or not. And maybe it doesn't, |
| 1:38.1 | which then Tony's book can help you understand why it's not. But my point is, if you are |
| 1:42.9 | interested in a natural form of contraceptive, |
| 1:45.2 | so to know when you're fertile to avoid having sex if you don't want kids or to know when your |
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