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The Cycle Advantage
Hosted by Renae Fieck · EN
Welcome to The Cycle Advantage Podcast—where we're redefining what it means to be a woman in business.
We believe your hormones aren't a hindrance—they're your greatest asset. Your menstrual cycle holds the key to scaling your business, leading with confidence, and making a bigger impact without the burnout. It's not about doing more—it's about syncing your work, creativity, and leadership with the natural rhythms of your body.
Here, we challenge the hustle culture and rewrite the rules of success through feminine leadership, cycle syncing, and aligned business strategy. Tune in for raw, unfiltered conversations and practical strategies that will help you harness your cycle as your ultimate superpower—so you can work smarter, earn more, and thrive in both business and life.
It's time to stop fighting your body and start working with it. Let's dive in.
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Pleasure, Power, and The Hidden Key to Feminine Leadership Nobody Talks About with Brooke Jean
Nov 400:58:42Tap to summarizeTell me if this sounds familiar: you're hustling to be the perfect mom, perfect partner, perfect boss… and secretly wondering if it's slowly killing you. No wonder we're exhausted, anxious, and quietly wondering if this is really what life is supposed to feel like. In this episode, I sat down with Brooke Jean, therapist and founder of Unperfected®, to unpack the perfection pressure on modern women and how it's fueling burnout, anxiety, autoimmune disorders, and disconnection from our own desires. Brooke's mission is clear: it's time to unsubscribe from "perfect" and reclaim the joy, truth, and power you've always had inside. What You'll Hear in This Episode: ✔ Why "modern women expectations" are breaking our nervous systems ✔ The sneaky ways perfectionism shows up as protection (and how to heal it) ✔ Feminine leadership vs hustle culture and how to know which one you're operating from ✔ The dance between masculine + feminine energy in business, motherhood, and relationships ✔ How to reclaim your energy and channel it into what actually matters Key Takeaways 1️⃣ Perfectionism isn't who you are, it's a survival strategy. 2️⃣ Your body holds the truth of what you desire. 3️⃣ Feminine leadership isn't about being "soft." It's about desire, power, and creation with masculine structure to support it. 4️⃣ Burnout isn't inevitable. When you unsubscribe from the pressure, you make space for wealth, pleasure, and sustainable success. Why It Matters If you keep hustling to meet impossible standards, you'll stay stuck in survival: burned out, resentful, and secretly Googling "is it normal to fantasize about getting the flu just to rest?" But when you start leading from your truth (not someone else's rules), you reclaim your energy, soften into your feminine, and finally create success without self-sacrifice. This is how you scale your business, enjoy your family, and build a legacy you actually want to live. This Episode Is For You If… ✔️ You feel like you're doing all the things, but never enough ✔️ You've checked every box, yet still don't feel fulfilled ✔️ You're tired of burning out but scared to slow down ✔️ You're craving a business and life that feel aligned, joyful, and true to YOU Meet Brooke Brooke Jean is a therapist turned truth-teller, speaker, and founder of Unperfected® — a brand and methodology that helps high-achieving, anxious women drop the pressure and rise in their power. Through nervous system work, somatic practices, and identity alchemy, she guides women to heal perfectionism, reconnect with their bodies, and live a wildly alive, unapologetic life. Whether she's leading a corporate training, dancing barefoot at a retreat, or dropping soul truth on The Unperfected Pod, Brooke brings a rare blend of psychological depth, real-world leadership, and raw, unfiltered heart. Her mission: help women stop performing and start creating from their truth. Links + Resources Find Brooke on IG: @brookejeanunperfected Listen to The Unperfected Pod + learn more at liveunperfected.com FREE LIBERATION: From Pressure to POWER Masterclass Ready to Grow Your Business in Flow Without Burning Out? If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step… ✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage: A 9-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout. For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth… ✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind: A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business… ✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book: A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.
Transcribe →Why High-Achieving Women Burn Out (and How to Finally Break the Cycle)
Oct 2800:56:45Tap to summarizeIf you've ever pushed through exhaustion with another cup of coffee, ignored your period cramps to meet a deadline, or worn "busy" like a badge of honor, you're not alone. You want the thriving business and the thriving body, but right now it feels like success is costing you your health. This week's guest, Charlène Gisèle, knows that story all too well. Once a high-powered attorney sleeping less than three hours a night, she hit full-blown burnout before discovering how to rebuild her life from the inside out. And her story is a roadmap for every ambitious woman who's ready to succeed without sacrificing her body. Episode Summary In this powerful conversation, Charlène and I uncover what burnout really is (hint: it's not just being tired) and how women can recover before hitting rock bottom. We talk about the signs of burnout in women, the hidden ways our nervous system and hormones reveal when we're out of alignment, and how nervous system regulation and cycle syncing can become your greatest business advantage. Charlène shares her journey from workaholic to high-performance coach, offering science-backed and deeply feminine strategies to protect your energy and create sustainable success. If you've ever wondered how to keep growing your business without burning out, this episode is your wake-up call. What You'll Hear in This Episode 🌿 The three D's of burnout that most women ignore until it's too late 😴 How Charlène went from chronic insomnia and anxiety to reclaiming her vitality 💡 Why "awareness is a gift" (and the first step to lasting change) 🔥 The surprising truth about ambition, addiction, and why women burn out 🗓 Practical ways to integrate cycle syncing even in corporate jobs Key Takeaways 1️⃣ Burnout doesn't happen overnight: it builds quietly through ignored signals like fatigue, anxiety, and irregular cycles. 2️⃣ "Awareness is a gift." Simply noticing your patterns is enough to start change. 3️⃣ Your body is not an inconvenience: it's the foundation of your creativity, ideas, and sustainable performance. 4️⃣ Recovery doesn't require drastic changes overnight. Small, consistent shifts (like meditation, nourishing food, or mindful breaks) compound over time. 5️⃣ You can achieve big goals without living in hustle mode, success is possible without sacrificing your health. Why It Matters Because staying stuck in hustle culture comes at a cost: your energy, your health, and the very life you're working so hard to build. If you don't shift, burnout will rob you of your impact, your income, and your joy. But when you learn to listen to your body, regulate your nervous system, and sync your work with your natural rhythms, you unlock more freedom, creativity, and energy than you thought possible. This Episode Is For You If… 💼 You're ambitious but exhausted, constantly wondering how to keep up without burning out. 😑 You've hit the "meh" stage in life going through the motions instead of feeling lit up. 💃 You're ready to build sustainable success without sacrificing your health, hormones, or happiness. 🛑 You've tried the productivity hacks, but you still feel like you're running on fumes. 🌸 You want practical, science-backed tools to prevent burnout and feel more alive in your body. Press play now and discover how to finally recover from burnout and create success that lasts. 👉 Want more on building a business that supports your body? Check out How to Align Your Business with Your Cycle and Breaking Free from Hustle Culture on the blog. "Awareness is a gift. If the only thing that you gain today from listening to us both is awareness, that's enough." Charlène Gisèle Meet Charlène Charlène Gisèle is a former Big Law attorney turned High-Performance Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist. She helps high-achieving professionals recover from burnout and optimize their vitality through nervous system regulation, subconscious mindset work, and science-backed tools for sustainable performance. Ready to Grow Your Business in Flow Without Burning Out? If you're a coach, healer, or feminine leader scaling to $10K–$20K months and tired of hustle-based strategies, here's your next step… ✔ Apply for Your Cycle Advantage: A 6-week business planning program that teaches female entrepreneurs how to create a cycle-synced business strategy, build consistent $10K months, and grow without burnout. For the woman ready for aligned business planning, feminine CEO leadership, and sustainable income growth… ✔ Join the Flow Collective Mastermind: A high-level mastermind for women entrepreneurs scaling to $20K+ months using cycle syncing, feminine business strategy, wealth energetics, and embodied leadership For those cycle curious and ready to get started with understanding your body and its impact on your income and business… ✔ Grab Your Free Cycle Sync Your Business Book: A guide to planning your coaching business around your menstrual cycle. Designed for women ready to stop hustling and start syncing for more impact, income, and ease.
Transcribe →What Most Women in Business Are Missing (And How to Get It Back)
Apr 17, 202500:31:46Tap to summarizeSomething powerful happens when women gather. Not to plan. Not to hustle. But to remember who they are. That’s exactly what happened at the Awaken Retreat, and I’m still integrating all the magic that unfolded. So much came through that I had to record a full podcast episode to share it with you. And friend, if your soul is craving depth, alignment, and that grounded “this is who I really am” kind of energy—this episode is for you. Here’s a peek at what I dive into… The power of gathering with women who are all so different—yet create the most soul-aligned, supportive energy together What it actually means to awaken your feminine leadership and stop leading from your head Why your womb space is a portal for intuitive, creative leadership (and how this applies even if you don’t have a uterus) The truth about why we’ve been conditioned to disconnect from our bodies, our sensuality, and our desires A practice I use in Your Cycle Advantage that helps women reconnect with their desires The difference between cognitive alignment (makes sense) vs. energetic alignment (feels undeniable) and how to build your business from that space If you’ve been building your business from the neck up, wondering why things still feel hard or misaligned... If you’ve been craving more play, more permission, more purpose... If you’ve felt the nudge to stop doing it like everyone else and finally start leading from within... This episode will be like a breath of fresh air (and a fire in your belly 🔥). You don’t need to add more to your plate. You don’t need to follow another five-step strategy. You just need to come home to yourself—your body, your rhythm, your desire.
Transcribe →From Proving to Power: The Feminine Shift That Creates Offers that Sell Themselves
Apr 1, 202500:20:52Tap to summarizeYou know that feeling when you’re creating an offer and suddenly you're like… “Okay but is this enough?” “Should I throw in another bonus?” “Maybe add a Voxer thread, a workbook, six coaching calls, and a puppy for good measure??” Yeah. Been there. For a long time, I used to equate more with value. And if I’m being really honest, it came from a place of self-doubt. I was terrified that someone would join my program and think, “Wait… this is it?” So I overcompensated. I stacked and stuffed and overdelivered not out of generosity, but from fear. In this week’s podcast episode, I’m peeling back the curtain on that pattern — the one so many of us fall into when we’re building offers from our ego instead of our essence. I also talked about: Why I used to overdeliver + undercharge (and how that backfired) The real reason your offer doesn’t need more stuff The sneaky way ego shows up in your offers (yes, even when you mean well) How to shift from proving your worth to fully owning it Why your offer becomes magnetic when it’s rooted in purpose The secret to creating offers that feel good AND sell (no hustle required). Because here’s what I’ve learned (and what I want to pass on to you)… Value doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from being more aligned. So if you’ve been questioning your offers… wondering if they’re “enough” in all the ways — this episode is your reminder that real value isn’t about more stuff, it’s about deeper alignment.
Transcribe →The ONE Thing I did to Manifest $16k in 2 Weeks
Mar 25, 202500:25:22Tap to summarizeI recently manifested over $16,000 into my life and it didn’t come from hustling harder, launching something new, or burning the candle at both ends. It came from something so simple, yet so transformative… and it shifted everything. Now before you roll your eyes and think, “Sure, there’s always some ‘secret’ to success,” hear me out. Because this wasn’t about chasing another strategy or checking more boxes on my to-do list. It was about shifting my state of being. Tuning into alignment. Opening myself up to receive in ways I never saw coming. And in this episode I’m going to show you the ONE 2 minute practice that created this shift and brought in over $16k in 2 weeks. In this episode I also share with you: Why “gratitude lists” might be keeping you stuck (and what to do instead) The secret to feeling content without killing your ambition How to manifest more by doing less (yep, really) Why feminine flow creates bigger results with less burnout When we trust the universe, trust ourselves, and allow gratitude to anchor us, abundance has no choice but to flow. The question is… are you open to receiving it?
Transcribe →Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Menopause Is Wrong with Jessica Green
Mar 18, 202500:44:26Tap to summarizeSomewhere along the way, we were taught that menopause is a loss… A loss of youth, energy, clarity, and vibrancy. That we have to brace for weight gain, exhaustion, brain fog, and mood swings. That we should just “deal with it” because it’s part of aging. ❌ That’s a LIE. What if perimenopause and menopause were actually your body’s way of calling you into deeper power, alignment, and self-trust? In this episode, I’m sitting down with Jessica Green, a Certified Integrative Health Practitioner, shares holistic strategies to balance hormones, boost energy, and step into your most powerful self. Inside this episode, we’re unlocking: ✨ The real reason menopause feels so hard in Western culture (and how to shift your experience—starting now). ✨ The hidden link between stress, food, and hormone imbalances ✨ Why women in some cultures barely experience symptoms at all and how to bring those practices into your own life ✨How the energetics of food & mindfulness play a huge role in hormone balance You don’t have to suffer through this transition. You don’t have to accept the struggle. This is your invitation to step into a whole new way of living and thriving.
Transcribe →Why I Quit My Podcast (And the Real Reason it's Back)
Mar 11, 202500:17:15Tap to summarizeA year ago, I hit pause on the podcast. At the time, it felt necessary… life was full, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep producing content just for the sake of it. I needed a break. But deep down, I knew I wasn’t done. Over the past year, so much has shifted. My business, my perspectives, even my own internal rhythms. And with that, I started feeling this pull to return to the podcast space. But this time, it’s going to look a little different. Deeper Conversations, No More Fluff I don’t want to just create content that checks a box. I want this podcast to be a space for real, meaningful conversations—conversations that challenge us, expand us, and maybe even make us a little uncomfortable at times. I want to have the conversations that are challenging the status quo and that we NEED to be having around women in business, the patriarchy, femininity vs masculinity, women’s health, and so many other beautiful topics that need us to talk about. No Set Schedule—Just Inspired, Impactful Episodes One big change? I’m letting go of the pressure to release episodes on a rigid schedule. Instead, I’m committed to sharing when I feel called to or when I have something truly worth saying. I want every episode to feel intentional, not forced. So, if you’re here for quick, surface-level business hacks… this might not be your space. But if you’re open to exploring deeper truths, to challenging the way we’ve been conditioned to work and lead, and to embracing a more aligned, cyclical, and intentional way of showing up in the world—then I’d love for you to join me. Are you in? Hit play on this episode, and let’s dive in. For those in the USA, grab a free copy of my book, Cycle Sync Your Business at renaefieck.com/freebook (just pay shipping and handling). For those outside the USA, you can grab a copy of my book at CycleSyncYourBusiness.com or grab a free cycle tracker and cycle guide at renaefieck.com/cyclesyncbiz
Transcribe →The Secret to Effortless Success? Stop Hustling and Do THIS Instead with Anna Nichols
Mar 11, 202500:36:45Tap to summarizeYou know that feeling… where you’re doing all the things—showing up, grinding, checking every box—and yet, deep down, you still feel stuck? Drained? Like you’re missing some invisible key that makes success feel easier for everyone else? The problem isn’t you—it’s the strategy you’ve been forcing. This week on the podcast, I’m sitting down with Anna Nichols, a Human Design expert and business strategist, to uncover the missing piece—how to finally stop working against yourself and start creating success that feels natural, aligned, and ridiculously magnetic. Your energy is your greatest advantage—but only if you know how to use it. Inside this episode, we unlock: 🔥 Why 99% of business strategies fail for women (and how to find the ONE that’s designed for you). 🔥 How to make success feel effortless by working with your energy, not against it. 🔥 What happens when you declare your next-level life & business—and exactly how to handle the fear, resistance, and doubts that come up. 🔥 Why “working harder” is keeping you stuck—and the simple shift that changes everything. Anna’s story is living proof that when you finally lean into your true design, everything shifts—clients, money, ease, creativity… it all starts flowing. If you’re done with burnout, done with the struggle, and ready to build a business that feels as good as it looks—this episode is your permission slip. For those in the USA, grab a free copy of my book, Cycle Sync Your Business at renaefieck.com/freebook (just pay shipping and handling). For those outside the USA, you can grab a copy of my book at CycleSyncYourBusiness.com or grab a free cycle tracker and cycle guide at renaefieck.com/cyclesyncbiz
Transcribe →Balancing Self-Care and Business: Overcoming Self-Doubt and Staying Motivated as a Woman Entrepreneur with ilona Varo
Jul 2, 202400:37:06Tap to summarizeAs a woman entrepreneur, I get the grind—we're always pushing ourselves to excel, right? But to be honest, society has set some pretty high expectations for women and it's easy to fall into the trap of tying our self-worth to our achievements. If we’re not constantly succeeding, we start to doubt ourselves. One minute, you’re juggling everything just fine. The next, you’re exhausted, stressed, and questioning everything. It’s not just about being tired; it’s a deeper, more pervasive sense of fatigue. In this podcast episode, Ilona and I dive into the struggle of balancing self-care and business while tackling self-worth issues and battling burnout head-on. Tune in to hear our stories, struggles, and tips on how we find the right balance. We also talked about the following: The repeating cycle of self-doubt (and practical ways on how you can beat it) How to develop habits that work for you and your body Ditching the comparison game Knowing what really drives you versus what society thinks you should Why celebrating every win (even if it’s small) is a must “You have to really remind yourself what your values are, what your lifestyle is, and try to block out the noise of comparison from other people.” ilona Váró If this episode inspired you in some way, take a screenshot of you listening on your device and post it to your Instagram Stories, and tag me, @renaefieck.
Transcribe →How To Dress According to Your Menstrual Phases with Katie Allen
May 28, 202400:46:20Tap to summarizeIsn’t it amazing how something as simple as a piece of clothing can change our mindset? Have you ever noticed how wearing your favorite outfit can boost your confidence? Or how putting on a suit makes you stand a little taller and feel a bit sharper? The clothes we choose can affect how we feel, how we act, and how others see us. What we wear is more than just a fashion statement. It shapes our identity and influences how we show up through different spaces in our lives. In this episode, Katie and I will discuss how fashion choices impact our mental health and femininity. We also chat about how embracing confidence in our bodies can supercharge the business growth of creative female entrepreneurs like you. This conversation will be enlightening and might change how you think about your wardrobe. Ready to tune in? We've got other awesome topics lined up, including: Why understanding our fashion choices is crucial How to use fashion as self-care throughout different cycle phases The connection between clothing, productivity, and self-esteem How a lack of self-knowledge affects fashion choices (which commonly leads to imposter syndrome) The best cycle phase to start a fashion experiment on yourself If this episode inspired you in some way, take a screenshot of you listening on your device and post it to your Instagram Stories, and tag me, @renaefieck. Meet Katie Katie is a '90s hip-hop-loving, a lipstick-obsessed personal stylist who teaches women how to feel good in their bodies NOW without losing weight or working harder. She is the host of The STYLED FOR LIFE Podcast where she shares inspirational messages each week around mental wellness, body confidence & style solutions. Style isn't just about what you wear. It is how you live.
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