💡 ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Natalie is joined by Priya Patel — a pelvic health physical therapist and healthcare MBA — for a conversation that a lot of people needed and almost no one is having. Priya shares her diagnosis of a complete septate uterus (originally misdiagnosed as uterus didelphys), the series of surgeries and IVF rounds that followed, and what it felt like to be a clinician who didn’t know what was happening in her own body. They get into why women’s health research is shockingly new, why common and normal are not the same thing, and why your pelvic floor is working all day whether you’re paying attention to it or not. Priya went from dealing with all of this privately to standing in front of 70 healthcare leaders and saying it out loud for the first time — and that shift is exactly what this episode is about.
🎯 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Common is not the same as normal — and blurring that line is costing women their health
• Your pelvic floor is working all day — and most women don’t meet a pelvic PT until something is already wrong
• What Priya’s diagnosis actually means — and why hundreds of thousands of women may be undiagnosed
• Why women’s health research is newer than most people realize — and what we’re still flying blind on
• How IVF, miscarriage, and grief forced Priya to stop doing it for the baby — and start doing it for herself
• Why the support system you start with — may not be the one that gets you through
• It wasn’t a calling, it was a collision — what changed when the grief ran out and the fuel kicked in
TOPICS
HEALING & SELF-TRUST
LIFE TRANSITIONS
COMMUNITY & CONNECTIONS
