#ShowMeYourBooks: Jessica H. Maurer and Dr. Erin Nitschke welcome Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon — coach, educator, headspace adjuster, menopause textbook author, women's studies pioneer, and one of the most refreshingly unfiltered voices in the wellness space — for a conversation that is equal parts brilliant and hilarious.

Krista has spent her career getting people unstuck, from midlife women navigating perimenopause to special operations military going through elite pipelines, and she brings the same no-nonsense, evidence-based, deeply human lens to all of it. She talks about the predatory tsunami of menopause misinformation on social media, why optimization is a grift, what vaginal estrogen can do for you, and her one and only nutrition rule. Spoiler: don't be weird.

Takeaways

  • Getting stuck is not a sign of failure — it is a normal and universal part of being human and trying to change.
  • A significant portion of what we chalk up to menopause is actually the result of sedentary living and poor nutrition — and both are addressable at any age.
  • Social media has created a predatory tsunami of misinformation targeting midlife women who simply want to feel better.
  • All or nothing thinking is a North American cultural default — and it is one of the most harmful patterns in health and wellness.
  • Optimization is not a real thing. It is a grift designed to create anxiety and sell products.
  • Vaginal estrogen is local, widely accessible, and one of the most underutilized tools available to menopausal women.
  • Preventive screening — the basic, unsexy, evidence-based kind — is one of the greatest gifts a good healthcare provider can give you.
  • Literacy and healthcare system failures leave many women vulnerable to predatory wellness content. A good coach can serve as an evidence-based navigator.
  • Role modeling healthy aging matters. Simple habits, self-trust, and a well-tended garden can carry you to nearly one hundred.
  • Women's wellness is having a moment — but the stages and speaker lineups still do not reflect that. That needs to change.

Chapters

  • 00:00 Words of the Episode: Permission, Power Skills, and Curiosity
  • 02:45 Meet Krista Scott-Dixon: Headspace Adjuster, Menopause Textbook Author, and Coach to Everyone From Midlife Women to Special Ops
  • 06:21 Have You Ever Been Stuck? A PhD, a Pyramid Scheme, and Disordered Eating
  • 09:38 Perimenopause, Midlife Women, and the Predatory Tsunami of Wellness Misinformation
  • 13:32 Why All or Nothing Thinking Is So Dangerous — and What Good Coaching Actually Does
  • 15:39 The Don't Be Crazy Rule and Why It Is the Only One You Need
  • 16:25 Literacy, Healthcare System Failures, and Why Women Are So Vulnerable Right Now
  • 18:32 What Helped Krista Through Her Own Perimenopause Journey
  • 19:05 A Grandmother Who Hauled Wood in Her Eighties and Lived Almost to One Hundred
  • 20:22 Finding Healthcare Providers Who Actually Listen — Including Two Dudes Who Insisted on Preventive Screening
  • 23:41 The First Thing Krista Tells Every Woman She Knows: Vaginal Estrogen
  • 25:38 What We Are Over: Optimization, Biohacking, Anti-Aging Rhetoric, and Men Running Women's Wellness Stages
  • 29:16 Find Krista and the One Percent Better Academy

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