Who am I?

By training, I'm a surgical gynecologist. By lived experience, I'm both of the women this site is for: a former collegiate athlete who competed through every question my cycle threw at me — and a perimenopausal woman navigating the next chapter of ever-changing hormones right now.

In countless conversations — with athletes, with coaches, with women my own age — I keep hearing the exact same sentence: "Oh, that's how my body works?!" It comes from a sixteen-year-old point guard and it comes from a fifty-two-year-old executive. Because having female anatomy doesn't mean anyone ever taught us how it functions, how to work with it, or how to navigate its changes.

So that's the job I've given myself: understanding. I believe every hormonal chapter of your life can be understood — and once you understand it, you get to decide how to use your body to its fullest, whatever "fullest" means for you.

For athletes, that means learning what your cycle actually does to your energy, strength, and recovery, so you can train with it instead of pushing through it blind. I'm especially driven to reach girls early — no one should drop out of sports just because nobody championed them through puberty's changes.

For women in perimenopause and menopause, it means honest answers about what's shifting and why, every option on the table — hormonal, non-hormonal, and everything the headlines get wrong — so you walk into your physician's office prepared to advocate for yourself. As a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP), this isn't a side interest of mine. It's certified expertise — and now, lived experience.

The thread through all of it: at any age, your hormones aren't a problem to endure. They're information. I work where gynecology, hormone health, and technology meet — through coaching, live events, and building Hormone Athlete Club — to make sure every woman has that information, on the field, at work, and everywhere in between.