Where Women Win with Sarah Fechter

Why You Quit Before It Worked (Ep. 149)

It is Sunday night and she is standing on the cold bathroom tile. She has done everything right for three weeks. She trained hard, increased her water. She hit her prot

From Survival To Service: Going All In & Lessons Learned After 14 Years Running SFHQ (Ep. 148)

Picture a woman sitting at a long conference table. She's 32 years old. She's there by herself and she's the only woman in the room. In front of her is a contract, an

Your Hormones Have Been Talking Since You Were 16 (Ep. 147)

There is a moment I have had hundreds of times over the years. A woman sits across from me or she's on the other end of a call, and she lowers her voice a little and sa

Midlife Is Your Best Decade (Ep. 146)

For a lot of women, midlife arrives hard. The symptoms, the unveiling, the way everything you buried starts rising to the surface. I'm not going to sit here today and t

Your Perimenopause Started Before Age 7 (Ep. 145)

September is Perimenopause Awareness Month, and I want to lead a conversation today that is not being talked about nearly enough. One I think deserves a lot of attentio

It's Not About You (Ep. 144)

There is a fear a lot of women carry in their forties, and they will not say it out loud to a single soul. The fear is that they're becoming difficult, cold too much, t

Your Labs Are Normal. That's the Problem (Ep. 143)

There is a word that gets said in doctor's offices every single day. For a lot of women, it is the most frustrating word they will ever hear. The word is normal. Ea

The Label Is Not the Truth (Ep. 142)

There is a bottle right now in your pantry that says Pure Avocado Oil. There's a bag of chips in the pantry that says it's made with avocado oil, and there is a real ch

I'm Sick of My Own Shit (Ep. 141)

My coffee had already gone cold on the counter the way it often does when the morning gets away from me. An SF Coaching Method inquiry came through my email. I opened i

Perimenopause Didn't Do This. The Last Twenty Years Did (Ep. 140)

By the time the fire alarm goes off, the house has been quietly filling with smoke for ten years.  You don't smell it at first. A little tiredness you blame on a busy w

What I'd Do To Lose Fat In 90 Days (Ep. 139)

In this episode, I walk through exactly what I would do if I wanted to lose 15 pounds in 90 days, including the parts most people don't want to hear. We talk about why th

Grief Grows Up With You (Ep. 138)

Today I'm going to pull my chair up close to yours. The way you would connect with a friend who came over to you, knowing that she's going to stay there for a while.  B

Stop Setting Goals Based On What You Want (Ep. 137)

It's late. The house is finally quiet and a woman I'm coaching is typing me a message for her check in. I can tell she's been sitting with it for a while because of how

"Your Cholesterol Is High" Good. Now Let's Ask Why (Ep. 136)

The phone rings on a Tuesday afternoon.  It's the nurse from your doctor's office and she's using her gentle voice and she says, "we've got your labs back and your chol

A Perimenopause Guide for the Partner Who Loves Her (Ep. 135)

We're going to get intimate today and who I typically speak to will be a little different today. I have coached women from the floor of my own life. I have presented on

You Can Take the GLP-1. Can You Hold the Result? (Ep. 134)

Right now, someone in your life is on a GLP one. Maybe it's you. Maybe it's half of your group text and everyone keeps asking the same question should I take it. I wa

The Longevity Conversation Women Should Be Having (Ep. 133)

What if we stopped asking how much do I weigh and started asking how well am I aging? Sit with that question for a moment. Before we go any further, I want to tell yo

Stop Apologizing for Wanting Help (Ep. 132)

Today's conversation is going to feel a little different than some of our recent episodes. We've spent a lot of time talking about hormones, perimenopause, menopause, m

The Pepcid + Allegra Trend Part 2: Risks, Tradeoffs & The Missing Conversation (Ep. 131)

This is part two of our conversation on the Pepcid and Allegra trend that has exploded across social media, particularly among women navigating Pmdd, histamine intoleranc

The Pepcid + Allegra Trend Part 1: Histamine, PMDD & Perimenopause (Ep. 130)

Today we're diving into part one of a two part series conversation that has absolutely exploded across social media, comment sections, and private messages. The Pepcid