It's A Circus – A New-Parent Wellness Podcast
It's A Circus - A New-Parent Wellness Podcast
Podcast Description
🎪 It’s a Circus 🎙️Step right up to the podcast that tells it like it really is—because parenting isn’t always picture-perfect, but it’s always worth the ride.Hosted by entrepreneur and mom Elsa, It’s a Circus brings you real, unfiltered conversations with parents who know what it’s like to balance the chaos of kids, careers, and everything in between. Through heartfelt interviews and personal storytelling, Elsa peels back the layers of parenting to reveal the messy, hilarious, and deeply human moments we all experience—but rarely talk about.This isn’t a guide to having it all figured out. It’s a reminder that you don’t have to.Tune in for laughs, confessions, and insights that will leave you feeling connected, comforted, and ready to take on the next act. Hit subscribe—because life in the circus is better when we’re in it together. 🎪✨www.chernerbroscircus.com
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as the balance of self-care and motherhood, navigating parenting challenges, and the support systems that help parents thrive. Specific episode topics include managing breastfeeding struggles, tips for handling picky eaters, and personal journeys through surrogacy and postpartum life.
Unfiltered stories of motherhood, identity, and the art of self-care.
Hosted by Elsa Marit, It’s a Circus pulls back the curtain on the beautiful chaos of parenting. Through raw conversations with mothers, entrepreneurs, and women of all walks, the show explores what it really means to raise kids while holding onto yourself.
Each episode is part confession, part community — reminding you that you’re not alone in the madness. From the heartbreak and humor of matrescence to the little rituals that keep us sane, this podcast is equal parts relatable, vulnerable, and empowering.
✨ Motherhood may be a circus, but here you’ll find clarity, connection, and the confidence to step back into your own spotlight.
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Host Elsa welcomes Dr. Rachel Smith, founder of Aspect Wellness, who shares her path from early motherhood to a career delivering over a thousand babies as a nurse midwife, then transitioning through burnout and perimenopause into obesity medicine and a cardiometabolic longevity-focused practice. They discuss the joy of parenting adult children, how midwifery differs philosophically from traditional OB care, and why perimenopause can bring “hormone chaos” with symptoms like mood changes, sleep disruption, anxiety, decreased libido, brain fog, joint issues, weight gain, and hot flashes. Dr. Smith explains the evolving landscape of hormone replacement therapy, including recent FDA label changes, and emphasizes individualized care. They also cover GLP-1 medications’ benefits and safety concerns, skepticism about “microdosing” as marketing, cautious use of peptides, and considerations around postpartum depression, including hormone-related treatment options.
00:00 Welcome to the Circus
00:24 Meet Dr Rachel Smith
01:14 Motherhood With Adult Kids
05:09 Early Parenting Wake Up Call
09:31 Tornado Meets Midwife
12:37 Fast Track Through Training
17:40 Building a Midwife Career
20:26 Midwife vs OB GYN
24:43 Perimenopause Career Pivot
29:57 Hormone Therapy Updates
33:04 Hormone Chaos Symptoms
34:02 From Weight Clinic to Coaching
36:14 Private Practice and Lifelong Learning
38:21 Data Driven Longevity vs Biohacking
40:03 HRT as the Original Biohack
42:38 GLP Ones Benefits and Risks
44:55 Microdosing Myth Busting
48:43 Peptides Hype and Safety
51:43 Who She Helps in Practice
56:43 Postpartum Hormones and Depression
01:01:47 Personalized HRT and the Magic Window
01:05:02 Wrap Up and Final Thoughts
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Website: https://aspect-wellness.com/
Rachel Smith, DNP, FNP-C, CNM is the founder of Aspect Wellness, a precision health and longevity practice focused on helping high-performing men and women optimize metabolism, hormones, recovery, and long-term vitality.
With 20 years of clinical experience spanning women’s health, family medicine, and obesity medicine, Rachel combines evidence-based medicine with performance-focused coaching to help clients maintain the energy, clarity, resilience, and physical capacity needed to lead ambitious lives.
Her work focuses on the intersection of longevity science, metabolic health, behavior change, strength, stress physiology, and hormone optimization—cutting through health industry noise to help people focus on what truly drives long-term outcomes.
Rachel is known for translating complex medical science into practical, actionable strategies that help busy professionals protect their health before decline becomes their new normal.
Through her clinical practice, speaking, and media appearances, she advocates for a modern approach to health optimization rooted in data, physiology, and sustainable performance—not trends, quick fixes, or fear-based wellness culture.
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