Hormone Reset and Self-Care for Women in Business with Robin Nielsen

Welcome to The Limitless Women podcast. Our mission is to help women business owners like you grow profitable businesses and actualize your opportunities to serve and give to yourself and others. Here's your host, the founder of Limitless Women. Laura Gisborne,

all right, so today I am joined by the lovely and talented Robin Nielsen, such an honor and a privilege to have you here. You know I've known you for several years, and I just love the work that you do to help women say yes to themselves, and so thank you for saying yes to me.

Thank you so much for having me, and I just love you, and I love the work you do in the world, and just the love you bring to your communities and yeah, and to the work that you're doing are amazing, and you've helped us so much.

Thank you. I'm so honored, darling. And I, you know, I love the divine I love divine timing. I love the divine nature of things that brought us back together and and I was, you know, in California in the fall, we hadn't spoken in a while, and just, you're on my heart. I thought, I wonder where she is and what's happening. And then we had our whole, like lunch meeting, and got together and then realized we had all these synchronicities about combo to like, Oh, God is good. There's so many good things there. So for today's chat, what I've asked you to do is just join me today for a love letter to our community and to our audience. I know Robin that you and I both are in a season of life where we've kind of gone through different seasons of being mamas and business owners and wives and life and challenges and health and all of it. And I, you know, I want a woman who's listening today to know that wherever she is, that she is well, that she's on her path. And I feel like you're one of the most expert experts I know, which is why I was so honored when you said you would come and join us in person at the upcoming conference, you know, just to love on women and let them know that it doesn't have to be so hard that if their body is telling them something, that often, their body is giving them a message, and maybe their traditional general practitioner, who's doing the best he or she can doesn't necessarily understand the message, but I think you've spent many years crafting a body of work around hormones and understanding our bodies, that balance of our hormones that's so important for every woman in every industry and every whatever career walk of life she's In, to understand that the seasons of our lives are natural, and that understanding that is one of the best gifts we can give to ourselves. So can you tell us a little bit about you and how you came to know all these amazing things? I mean, I know that's a big question, but like, what

brought you to this work, and then how did you go in your own discovery? Give us a little bit of of insight into that, yeah,

oh, my goodness, that was quite a journey. You know, at a pretty young age, you know, I had two kids by the time I was 25 and I got married when I was 21 and then, you know, when I was 26 or Yeah, well, maybe 25 I started working in the family business, which was a large printing company. So, you know, I was kind of thrown into a lot early. But of course, I always felt very capable. It was nothing I couldn't do, which was so funny, because I had a lot of health challenges then, so it's easy to look back and see all the issues. And you know, I was a, I was not a great leader back then, but I was thrown into leadership. And, you know, we do the best we can, yup, and I think oftentimes we're really bad leader before we become a good leader. So that's how it was for me. I'm sure, great anyway, you know, we do the best we can with the information and knowledge we have at the time, and that's how I did. But, you know, looking back, I realized that I had a lot of health issues as a teenager. Okay, you know, I had, I had, I could gain five pounds in a day for no good reason, which I thought was no good reason. I had acne on my face, my chest and my back, which was very embarrassing. And, you know, kept me from doing a lot of social events and wearing certain clothing, you know, I couldn't wear, you know, this sort of top and, you know, I was told, Oh, it's, you know, just teenage acne. It'll go away. And, you know, as I got into my late teens, early 20s, I now still could gain five pounds in a day for no good reason, and I still had the acne on my face, my chest and my back and I and now I had receding gums, and I had receding enamel on my teeth, so I. So the dentist handed me a tube of Sensodyne toothpaste and said, just use this, because it'll keep you from, you know, having pain when you eat hot and cold. Okay, so I said, okay, so that was the solution. You just use this numbing toothpaste. Interesting, as I moved into my mid 20s, remember,

I've had two kids now and and later. 20s, you know, I still could gain five pounds in a day for no good reason. I still had the acne on my face, my chest and my back. I still had the receding gums and the receding enamel on my teeth, and now I was getting arthritic symptoms in my hands and and I had varicose veins. Wow. So Young veins all this stand for very long. You know, I have a little saying that I was old when I was young. I felt old when I was young. But again, I'm looking back, right? So it's really for me to see this now, but the arthritic symptoms in my hands were a little bit of a deal breaker, because my father had was starting to have bad arthritis, and I saw what it was doing to his life. So I started freaking out a little bit, but I still didn't know what to do. So come my mid 30s, I now have all the same things, the weight gain, the acne,

yeah, it's no longer a teenage acne at this point. Now, I've had

it for decades, and I don't know if you've ever had this before, but I had rough elbows. No, my daughter had that. That's interesting. I thought it was a lotion problem, so I tried 50 different lotions. Turns out it wasn't a lotion problem, interesting. So then I was getting really tired, because I was the Yes girl, right? I said yes to of course, I can do that. Yes, I could do that. I think as president of three associations, including our company, two nonprofits, three, two nonprofits at the time, I ended up being president of another nonprofit later, and I was getting really tired, and one day I had a meltdown driving home from work. I was we lived kind of in the country, but I had a 45 minute commute each way, each day. I was driving from the freeway to home on our little country road, and I just started sobbing, Tony. I just felt I cry when I think about I couldn't push through anymore, right? I felt like I was doing a bad job at work, like I wasn't a good mom, like I wasn't a good wife, and I was the only one kind of who knew that or who felt that. So it was a little lonely. Not Being Well is lonely, yeah, and so, so I vowed right then and there to figure my stuff out. And you know, if believe in the power of the universe, if you believe in the power of God, whatever it is for you, when you decide the things that you need to help you fulfill, that decision start to come your way. And that's exactly what happened for me when I decided I was going to figure my stuff out, you know, why was I constantly gaining weight? Why were my you know, why was my dental health deteriorating so much? Why did I varicose veins? Why was this our Why is showing up? Why was I exhausted? Why? Why? Why? Yeah, why all these things? So, you know, within a couple of months, I was back in school. I was, you know, running a full time business, but I was back in school, and I just said yes to everything that came my way to help me figure this out. Now I'm

going to age myself, because there was no Dr Google back then go online and figure out less. He was seeing an endocrinologist who was a pioneer, okay, functional medicine, so that's root cause based medicine, right? Fact, it's shocking that her license wasn't revoked, because this was probably 30 years ago, maybe 35 years ago, at least. Yeah, so I started following her advice. Every case study was me, and I realized that my issues were hormonally related. Every health issue is hormonally related, and that's interesting. As a woman, we know hormones, but we just don't know what to do with them, right? We don't know what they mean, how to balance them, how they impact our health. And so that was kind of my thing. I learned that. And what was so interesting is that as I was learning in school and following her advice, I got healthier and healthier and healthier. You know, over weeks and months and few years, I brought that to my business. And the people, we had 40 employees, and they started to take better care of themselves, nice with good role modeling. We had, you know, two or three who were still smoking, and they quit. It. And we had healthy lunch days, and I brought lunch every day. I told my that. I said, if I bring you lunch every day, will you eat it? He said, Yeah, nice. And within two months he had lost 20 pounds. Person now this, that's a man. Okay, keep that in mind, ladies, men transition a lot better with weight than women do based on hormones. But anyway, so that's my story, and and then, you know, and then I got to I had an opportunity to actually, we sold that business, and I had an opportunity to follow my passion. And I can imagine, this is my passion. Yes, of course. Yours. January of 2005

I started this business. Wow, congratulations. So exciting, so exciting. So typical overnight sensation from the business standpoint, right? I mean, this whole thing, and you

have, you know, it's my seven figure business, but you know, it

was not your first business. You're smart cookie and very, very focused, and your ability to GSD is like nobody in the world I've ever met. And so we know, we always say that Robin has the get stuff done, Gene, like nobody else. GSD, and so your commitment, you know, your commitment, your follow through, is very inspiring. I think about the compassion for yourself as that opening, you know, kind of that driving down the road and being, you know, it often is a I think about this from a faith perspective. You know, for me, it's often when I can't figure it out on my own, when I turn to God and say, Okay, give me the resources. And often I think the resources are there. But what you're saying is, is like when you realized that you needed to choose and you made the commitment, all of a sudden you could see those things, right? I mean, they start lining up and start being there for you.

We never know the how we all Yeah, only have to know the what, but you have to take action. So opportunities come your your way, you have to take action. You have to say, Yes, like that. Those are the rules.

Didn't make up that. So what do you think when you what's the most common thing that you hear from women? I know now you have a team of coaches, and you have the hormone reset program out there for people that are just really wherever they are, again. It doesn't have to be so hard. What's the most common challenge that you hear from your audience that our audience might resonate with? Obviously, the symptoms are there. What? What do you hear the most from women?

Well, I don't have time. I don't have time to hear what my body's saying. I don't have time to take action on it. I don't have I don't have time. And my response is, then you're just not ready, right? So when you're ready, then you're the perfect, right person for us to support.

Yeah, yeah. What are some of the things? Let me ask a better question. What are some of the things that a woman's body might be telling her, like, what are some of the symptoms that she may be experiencing? You shared some of your own symptoms. What was some of the other symptoms that you see that are fairly common when women's hormones are trying to speak to them?

Mm, hmm. So what I didn't finish up with my own story was that I healed everything, awesome. And you know, I was making an assumption there, that you knew that, but the gum, my gums, completely healed. Gorgeous teeth on my teeth completely healed. Wow. No longer had to use Sensodyne toothpaste. I was able to bite into hot and cold for the first time in my life, kind of, I didn't have rough elbows anymore. I had beautiful skin. The arthritic symptoms in my hands went away. Varicose Veins went away. Like, how crazy is that? Yeah, crazy. So our bodies start whispering to us with little things, like, maybe you're tired on a consistent basis, maybe your tummy doesn't feel so good, or maybe you feel a little ache or pain here, or maybe you have regular headaches or headaches that come and go. I mean, those are smaller things, but they're persistent and they're they're huge signs. Like, they may not seem like they're huge, because you can still push through them, right? But there are huge signs that something is out of balance and it's time for you to do something. And then they you know, then if you don't do something, if you don't, you know, make some self care switches, then you know, your body's going to speak louder, you know, right? Eating some of the awful, you know, symptoms that I had, and brain fog is one, you know, I think brain fog is something that is really hard for women who have businesses, you know, I I was thinking about all those things that are so important to run a business, all those kind of personal health attributes that we need if we want to be successful in business. And there's things like energy and mental clarity and stress resilience,

yeah, no focus, being able to

weather all the stuff that comes our way with grace and ease, you know, and and then having flexibility, you know, Plan A didn't work, so we just shift over here to Plan B, right, yeah. And when you're in a launch, you know, we're completely online and so, you know, sometimes things aren't working, so we have to pivot and being okay with it, yeah. Oh, and you can only be okay if you have that stress resilience. You just, you just pivot, you know, and there's no being upset

about it, right? It just

says what it is from, or it's just all good, right, yeah, having compassion like that was one thing that was really hard for me when I was exhausted, you know, I had a really short fuse. I just wanted to fire people who weren't working out because they didn't have the bandwidth, right, figure out what their problems were and to fix them. Yeah, yeah. I'm just like, if you can't manage yourself, you're out of here, right? That was the young leader. I was like, it's like, I don't want people I have to manage just manage yourself. And if you can't do it, then, you know, leave, like, yeah, the kind of, you know, and looking back, it's like, oh, you had no stress resilience.

So I love that stress resilience. I mean, I think about one of the badges of honor, you know, of being an entrepreneur, which is not for everyone. Obviously, the world is made up of all different types of people as as it's well balanced that way. Often, I think that when I think about my entrepreneur girlfriends, you know, there's a few clues that were a little different, right? It's where the ones when you talk about your history with I was volunteering over here, and then I was having my children, and then I was running my business, and then I was saying, you know, I was saying, you know, I was watching out for my dad. You know, it's very common in our world, because we're not the Type A's. We're actually the triple A's, right? We're the super duper all the different moving pieces are actually kind of like magnetic for us, right? When somebody says, Oh, that can't be done, we're the first people like, wait a second, get out of the way. Let me figure out how to do this, or let me show you how it can be done, right? And I think that there's so much brilliance in that. But I think about, you know, I was going to say, almost like, the elasticity that it requires. And I was talking to one of our team members about, you know, it was like, sweetheart back in the day when we had four brick and mortar locations like you didn't, there were humans that had to be there. It wasn't, you know, there was no AI, there was no computers, or, you know, we actually had businesses before the internet. We marketed ourselves, or the internet before cell phones. You know, we actually had businesses. Kind of a hard thing for people to get their head around today, if they're young in that next generation where they've only grown up with these things, right? But the, you know, it's 100% 100% going to be that there's something that's going to not work every day. If you have multiple locations and you have dozens of employees, I mean, just for sure, something's going to

happen. So I appreciate you telling on yourself, because I I can kind of see my own self in that of not being my daughter says I was a Karen when she was a child, and I didn't know what a Karen was. I thought I was a Laura, but she's like, Oh no, no, no, you were. She's like, you've become so much nicer. I'm like, Well, I think I'm old. I think I've gotten mellow, you know, to me, even though I don't pretend like I'm not old and deny that I'm old, you know, I mean, a lot, lot of life experience kind of softens you up a little bit. I think, you know, perspective is a beautiful thing. So what would you say would be the best way, I believe that you have some ways in your programs right for women to assess where they are, see how they're doing. You know what would be the best way for a woman to check in and see where she is on track? And I mean, on track or maybe off track? Do you have some recommendations for that? Yeah.

So you know, when the pandemic came upon us. Yes, It freaked me out a little bit, and mostly because I didn't know how to serve it was so big, and, you know, there was so much mystery around it, I had no, you know, no one had any idea what was causing it, and so I had to pivot. I had to think, okay, how can I serve at the highest level possible right now? Like, that's the question I always ask. I always ask my divine team to help me, help to guide me, as to how I can serve at the highest level possible right now. And the feedback. Act was, women need to know how to take care of themselves so that they have a stronger immune system, because we can fight this if we take better care of ourselves. And, you know, I think that, you know the whole thing about, I don't have time, right? Because, because we, all of us, are, you know, we all have the same amount of time and and, and we've decided that our time is better spent doing everything we're taking better care of ourselves. But when you take better care of yourself, magic happens because you actually have the bandwidth, the time and space, the Yeah, just the the quietness for ideas and things to come in. I used to go surfing on a regular basis, you know, during the work day, and I called it my board meeting. And that's when all the really good ideas came for me. That's when I went surfing with a friend, and she taught me how to boost Facebook posts and make them ads nice, and that's when my business took off. So it's that space that we give ourselves that can make all the difference. So when the pandemic hit, I created Robin's hormone reset, and that was a foundational program affordable for every single woman to learn how to better take care of herself. And I think that the so we've served over 15,000 ladies in that program to this day. Congratulations. You know we were we were talking about how sometimes we can be a mess. The second time we ran it, it was January 2021, both of my

parents had just passed away. They passed away two weeks apart from each other, and I decided to hold it anyway, because I felt that was my gift. Like to help me get through it, to help other women, you know, navigate their struggles, because life is always in session 100% you know when you say, I don't have time, but in a couple months, I'll have more time. You're faking yourself out. You will never have the time, because there's always big things. Laura alluded to that earlier, like this is happening and this is happening. This is

happening when it when is life? I mean, my we have a friend, Shayla Boyd gills, who says life is life thing. She's a mother of six children, has her own mom, again, another remarkable woman that we've interviewed for the show before. But, you know, think about it, life is life thing. I mean, that's what life is supposed to do. So it's that whole ownership and and it's one of those things where it's funny that that becomes your you hear the most often women saying, I don't have time, because it's also for us in our work, one of the first red flags, right? Women don't come to me and say, Hey, will you heal my poverty consciousness? They're not thinking that way. They're like, i No matter how hard I work at the end of the day, I'm never feel like I get caught up or no matter how much money comes in. There's not anything really left over, right? We're still in that thing that it's not always about. You know, same game, more zeros. So we end up having more volume coming in, but not profit necessarily. So it's

some of these topics. I love talking business. We want to address that from a hormonal perspective. Thanks, please, please. So what happened in January 2021, the very first day of Robin's hormone reset. I dumped my tea on my computer keyboard. So we're on Zoom. You know, I'm welcoming to all the ladies. I dumped my tea. I share how I just dumped my tea on my pick up my tea. I have some Kleenexes nearby. I sop it up, and we just keep going. Good job. Yeah. And the lady said, Oh my gosh, she's my hero. Like that. Taken me out, right? Oh, cool. Yeah. People just flow. So, so what is so great about the reset is that we actually do an assessment perfect every day of the reset, a hormone assessment, because being busy, busy all the time, running from one task to the next, trying to cross things off your to do list is a hormone imbalance. I do talk more about that. Hang on. I do not have a to do list.

Me neither. Me neither. And people think I'm so nuts when I say that, but it's like one of the first things those movies coming into our accelerator, right from the kind of their emerging leaders they're getting started. I'm like, the number one repatterning for you is to get out of a to do list. And they're like, You don't understand. I'm like, oh, okay, but I'm just giving you this you know. I mean, again, if we're full of poop, your old life is waiting. But you want to try not carrying this list. So I know how I do it. How do you not have a to do list. So here's

the thing, Laura. Now you can say a to do list takes you out of hormone balance. Interesting, because what happens is, so first of all, it's, you know, you'll learn about this in the reset, and either way, we are gifting it to all of your. Our community. We're so excited to do that, because one thing that that we don't know is all the things that are kind of nagging at us, all these symptoms that that are a problem, and we're just not aware. So we're aware of kind of the big things, but we're not aware of some of the smaller things, and we're definitely not aware that they are symptoms of hormone imbalance. So it covers six hormones, the most important hormones for women, and you'll be so surprised which hormones are the two biggies that you have to pay attention to. So I don't use a to do list, because what happened? What happened to me with a to do list was, not only is it a symptom of hormone imbalance, but it takes you out, because you cross things off, but you add way more on, and you get OCD about trying not to forget things, and so you write it down, so your list just keeps growing and

growing and growing and growing and growing

thinking about it just takes you out. So I don't know how I get by without it. It just like, it's just not a thing for me, what I teach my clients is, if something is important, you have to make space in your calendar for it.

Yeah, like, so I was gonna say you probably do this intuitively at this point. But for us, it's the actual fact of like, scheduling things in your calendar. So if you don't, you get this because you're doing it right. So, so you now it is, it has a space. It has time for execution. If it doesn't get done in our world, you know, if we move it, you can move it, move it to another day. But there's a personal integrity. There's a discipline around it, right? And so if I see that I have moved something multiple times, then I have to start asking myself, well, who can help me with this? I know like I clearly either someone around me that already exists can help me with this, or I need to hire someone like and it takes the discipline to do that, to say and it's often, it often costs less than you think it is. But if it's important enough to live in the calendar, it's important enough to be a part of your precious day, which only has a few hours for working and a lot of time for self care and love and relationship and family and God and all the things that really matter, this whole idea of like, if it deserves to be on the calendar and you don't get it done. Who can do it for you or with you, right? Like, that's that place we actually everything lives our calendars.

That's, I love that. And a to do list because it's not in your calendar. So for a busy you know, entrepreneur or business owner, your calendar is already full. Your to do list is, are those additional things? And then that's, you know, that's what takes you out. So we teach something called the The doing now, not doing now, never doing now lists. And anything that's on your doing now has to go on your calendar so that you have space for it. And that includes, like, laundry, if you do the laundry that includes grocery shopping, if you do the grocery shopping like this is a whole little hour talk, but, but Laura, totally, you know, gets it, and can walk you down that path. But I love the concept of your to do list. They're all the extra things because they're not in your calendar, and your calendar is already full. That's the problem. But the the running from one task to another, the doing, doing, doing, that's a hormone imbalance.

So that's I think most women who are alive and breathing, especially if we've got more than one thing. I'm always fascinated, because I I don't remember. I mean, obviously I remember. I'm not that, I'm not that senior, that I don't remember, like life before children. But you know, my life began when I had my children. My children are everything to me. So I think about when I meet a young woman who has a job and no kids and just herself, and she's single and she has just herself to take care of, and I'm like, what you do with all that free time? Right? Most of the women that I know have a lot of other stuff going on, you know, besides just their self care. So it's an it's an interesting thing, how we choose to value our time, that we choose to focus on what's important to us, and and etc, etc. So I feel like I could talk to you forever about all these goodies, and I'm so excited that you're coming to spend three days with us at the conference. I just feel like it's going to be so nourishing and enriching for all the women they are to be in your essence, in your energy and your leadership and your role modeling, you have such a beautiful balance of getting stuff done and at the same time having space and compassion like, you know, just a You're an amazing balance for me of what I would call masculine and feminine energies, right? You know, the the direct the focus, the things that need to get done, and also the sweetheart and compassion and warmth and collaboration that you are for women and communities. So, yay. So excited. So we're going to share your Robin's hormone reset. And I'm so honored that you are offering that to our community at no cost. And you guys, this is probably worth 1000s and 1000s of dollars if you actually do the work, maybe priceless to change your life if you want to actually have this opportunity. And Robin is offering it to us at no charge. So we're very, very grateful for that. And, you know, give yourself permission

and do yourself a favor to dive into this and give yourself an opportunity to just take a look, you know, take a look and take a feel and learn this, and take the commitment. How, how many days is the reset?

It's five days. And I think the best part of it is that you're going to feel seen and heard delicious, because it helps you identify, like, all the things that that you might be experiencing, probably for the first time in your life, you're going to be, oh my gosh, like she gets it, and then you're going to be, you know, kind of walked through what's happening, You know, in your body, and you're gonna better understand those six hormones, and you're gonna you're gonna feel like you have so much power around your health and your life when you're finished, and then you'll have an opportunity to talk to one of our coaches, you know, if you want to just have Somebody to debrief with. So it's love that it's fantastic, and it's our gift.

Yeah, I'm so excited. I'm excited to take the experience myself, because I think again, we're at different places and different seasons of life, and it's not, you know, again, like we're aware of hormones as something that's like, just isolated in some lane, versus hormones really addressing everything in all the different systems, like the ecosystem that is the body. So very cool. Well, thank you so much.

Yeah, you're welcome. And I just wanted to add one more thing. It doesn't matter, because, as you could see, I was old when I was young, right? So we have women, you know, want to get pregnant, who are nursing, you know, are kind of in that transitioning towards perimenopause, right in perimenopause, post menopause. And just one quick little takeaway, or yeah, that that you might love to have is that, you know, post menopause, ladies, is when you can really step in to who you truly are. So if you think it's the end, it's really the beginning.

If you're alive and breathing, God's not done with you yet. There's more. But wait

how your hormones have shifted. Yeah, you now get to step in to who you truly are. So it's a blessing. So no matter what your age, you're going to love, yeah, just learning more about what's going on.

So Delicious, Robin. Thank you so much again for making time to visit. We will put the links on how you may access Robin's hormone reset. If you're hearing this and it is before April 22 of 2025 please come and join us. If it's after that, maybe come join us at a future event. But this year, we're very honored and blessed to have Robin with us in person. You know, there's just something great about the experience that happens when we disconnect from day to day operations and really commit everybody's busy life is lifeing. But when you take time to say yes to yourself and do this deep dive, whether you're able to do an at home, gentle few day reset and take a look at it from that perspective, or if you're going to join us in a deeper dive in person, either way, we're just so grateful that you're part of this community and that you said yes to yourself to listen in to this call in this this recording so good for you, and we wish you the very best. Thank you again, Robin, thank you.

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