Adrienne Herbert is a leading wellness professional, international TEDx speaker, podcast host, and author. Adrienne is a strategic advisor at the UK's leading fitness startup Fiit and is often invited to deliver talks and workshops for brands such as Apple, Barclays & Microsoft, to motivate and empower their employees to perform at their best. Adrienne is best known for her weekly self development podcast Power Hour that has millions of downloads and last year released her first book by the same title with Penguin Random House.

This episode covers:

• How the pandemic has changed how we work.

• Hybrid working and it’s impact on our well-being

• How companies can support their employees health

• Setting boundaries with work

• Why we all need white space in our diary

• How to prevent burnout when building your career.

• Busy vs productive : whats the difference?

To celebrate publication of the female factor, Dr Hazel is interviewed by David Birtwistle.

David is Founder & CEO of Endeavour Life LTD, "proper coaching for everyday people" and Hazel’s boyfriend.

They chat about the book - why Hazel wrote it, why it’s so important and touch on some important topics covered in the book. This is a really fun episode and we hope you love it.

On this episode Hazel is joined by Ariana Rodriguez and Cassie Barnard who are Registered Dietitians, Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellors and Founders of Embody Health London - London’s online eating disorder and disordered eating nutrition clinic. They are best known as the “Dancing Dietitians” on social media, where TikTok deemed them as Mental Health and Wellness Ambassadors for their platform in 2021.

This episode covers:

• Intuitive eating

• Red flags of disordered eating

• Supporting someone with disordered eating

• Binge eating, why it happens and what to do about it

• Emotional eating and comfort food

• Breaking up with diet culture

On this episode we are chatting about returning to exercise after having covid.

Our guest this week is Dr Amal Hassan - a Sport & Exercise Medicine Consultant Physician, working in elite sport, ballet, and at the Institute for Sport, Exercise and Health in London.

This episode covers

• Risks of returning to early to exercise post-covid

• When to safely return to exercise

• How to phase your return to exercise

• Long-covid complications impacting physical activity

• Managing long-covid fatigue

• Fitness and recovery related to the covid vaccine

This week we are talking about staying active in pregnancy and getting back to activity in the post-partum period with two experts in this space - Emma Brockwell and Dr Marlize De Vivo.

Emma is a Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist . She has co-authored the first ‘Returning to Running Postnatal Guidelines’ and published her book ‘Why did no one tell me? How to protect, heal and nurture your body through motherhood In 2021.

Dr Marlize De Vivo is a qualified Biokineticist, Sports Rehabilitator and Trainer, and senior research fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is also Co-CEO and and founding member of the Active Pregnancy Foundation

This episode covers

• Staying active safely in pregnancy

• Benefits for mum and baby

• Situations where a woman may be advised not to exercise

• Lifting weights during pregnancy

• Pelvic girdle pain

• Getting active in the post-partum period

• Running during and after pregnancy

• How to train your pelvic floor

On this episode Dr Hazel is joined by Dr Will Bulsiewicz (or "Dr. B") to chat about fibre, bloating and the key to optimising your gut health.

Dr. Will Bulsiewicz is an award winning gastroenterologist, internationally recognised gut health expert and the New York Times-bestselling author of Fibre Fuelled and The Fibre Fuelled Cookbook.

This episode covers:

• Fibre and the fibre paradox

• 30 plant points per week and how to get there

• Signs your gut is not in a healthy place

• Bloating and constipation

• Probiotics - to use or not to use?

• Gluten free diets are harming your gut

On this episode Dr Hazel is joined by Dr Thivi Maruthappu - a Consultant Dermatologist in London and has pioneered the field of Nutritional Dermatology. Her research is based at King’s College, London where she works closely with Nutritionists and Dietitians to understand the relationship between nutrition and the skin.

They discuss:

• Nutritional dermatology as an emerging area of research

• Can you really eat your way to glowing skin?

• The role nutrition has in managing certain skin conditions.

• The role nutrition plays in hair health

• Skin supplements - splurge or skip?

• Skin health quick fire true or false

Our guest is Sohee Lee - founder and head coach at SoheeFit Systems. She has a B.A. in Human Biology, M.S. in Psychology and is currently, pursuing her PhD in sports science. She is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and has been coaching in the virtual realm since 2012. You can learn more about her on her Instagram at @soheefit.

Topics covered:

• Sohee’s approach to fitness and how it has evolved

• Add don’t restrict approach to nutrition

• Pro-body autonomy vs anti-diet

• “Processed foods are unhealthy”

• Focusing on health behaviours vs body weight

• Why it’s okay to pivot and change your mind

In this epsiode Dr Hazel is joined by Professor Barbara Ryan - co-author of What Every Woman Needs to Know About Her Gut.

Professor Barbara Ryan is a consultant gastroenterologist at Tallaght University Hospital and Hermitage Clinic in Dublin, and a professor of gastroenterology at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. she is also one half of TheGutExperts alongside dietitian Elaine McGowan RD.

This episode covers:

• How the female gut differs to a male gut

• IBS and other gut related conditions that are more common in women

• The role of the mind in gut functioning

• The role of sex hormones in the function of the gut

• How pregnancy alters the gut

• Changes to gut function during the menopause

• The role for probiotics for vaginal health

In this episode we are joined by Kaisa Keranen - a personal trainer, fitness educator, and social media influencer known for her fun and innovative ways to get people moving. She graduated from the University of Washington where she was a member of the Track and Field team and later went on to get her Master's in Exercise Science, Sports Performance, and Injury Prevention As the founder of Just Move, she has developed her own method of movement which she shares daily with her clients and social media followers worldwide - you can find Kaisa on social media as KaisaFit.

*trigger warning : discussion of suicide*

In this episode we discuss how we are More Than Our Bodies and How you can make movement fun and life-affirming, even if you’ve never been into fitness.

This episode covers:

• How movement saved Kasia’s life

• When the goal isn’t about body transformations or weight loss

• Selling “health” over aesthetics

• Mental health and movement

• Just move philosophy

• Making movement fun and life affirming
  Advice for people new to fitness

In the season 8 finale Dr Hazel is joined by Tiktok sensation Dr Julie.

Dr Julie is a Clinical Psychologist with over a decade of professional experience but many of you will know her from Instagram and Tiktok where she shares bite-sized mental health and motivational videos online, with a combined following of more than 3.5 million people. She is also an author of

The book ‘Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? A mental health toolbox that is filled with ideas, techniques and insights to help you feel calmer, stronger and more resilient, no matter what life throws your way.

This episode covers:

• Condensing complex mental health issues into creative bite-sized videos

• The moment Dr julie went viral

• Working as a team with her husband

• Anxiety - what it is, how it manifests and what to do about it

• Stress vs anxiety - how is it different?

• How to better cope with stress

• The issue with “i’ll be happy when…”

• Creating a life aligned with your values