Under the Hood

Latest Episodes:

Rosé Roundtable - The Sex Ed Edition May 12, 2019

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BONUS! This is our first installment of a new series on Under the Hood that we're calling the Rosé Roundtable. We're taking the topics we've covered on UTH and bringing them to real women to hear about their personal experiences in womanHood. In this episode we're highlighting what we did, and more likely didn't learn in sex ed during our formative years, and how it shaped our understanding of sex and sexuality for many years after.

A Look Back At Under The Hood Season 1 Jan 08, 2019

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We did it! Season One of Under the Hood is complete. We're taking a quick break to celebrate and of course tape new episodes for Season Two. But we wanted to share this look back at Season One that we taped after an year-end dinner. And wine was definitely involved.

Like A Mother: Angela Garbes Dec 19, 2018

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This week Patti and Aleks are getting reverently irreverent in a special LIVE recording with Angela Garbes, author of the must read book "Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy." This conversation touches on everything from pregnancy and placentas to loss and body image, as well as the systems that have been working hard to keep us in the dark.

The Myth of Control Dec 12, 2018

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Dr. Britta Bushnell holds a doctorate in mythological studies and studies the ways we wrap ourselves in stories and myth to understand who we are. She is a storyteller, a listener, and a communication guide, and she applies these skills in her work as an award winning childbirth educator. How we navigate the transition to parenthood says A LOT about how we as a whole honor this rite of passage, how we value the female experience, and what stories and myths we have believed about our own bodies.

Don't Bleep Birth! Dec 05, 2018

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G-strings. Guts and gore. A patient cut open on an operating table. All were acceptable in the eyes of Instagram, Facebook, and their millions of users, but images of birth? Not allowed. Too "unpleasant." Katie Vigos was brave enough to ask, WHY? When she recognized this double standard on Instagram, she set out to change the rules. Katie successfully petitioned the powers that be at Instagram and Facebook to STOP censoring photos and videos of birth and allow them to be shown for exactly what they are: realistic portrayals of birth. C-Sections, water births, home births, hospital births, babies born en-caul (so rad, look it up!) You name it, it's been featured on Katie's page.

Closing The Pleasure Gap Nov 28, 2018

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Patti and Aleks sit down with CEO and Co-Founder of Dame Products, Alex Fine, to talk about the relationship between meditation and masturbation, packaged sexuality, and what presence in our own experience of pleasure can do for us. It's more than you think.

Ask the Midwife: Conception Control Nov 21, 2018

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Patti and Chelsea sit down with Aleks to get a midwife's perspective on some of the topics we've been taking Under the Hood. We're talking "conception control" options, what kinds of contraception we've all tried, and the power of knowing how your body works.

Man-Doula Nov 14, 2018

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We're sitting down with the Dude-la himself, Dr. Elliot Berlin and talking about more than just cracking backs. Dr. Berlin has made a name for himself here in LA as the go-to chiropractor for pregnant women. He's been known to help flip a baby or two and his unconventional methods will have you wondering why this is not a standard of care for every woman, pregnant or not.

Something biological happened... Mary Beth's story Nov 09, 2018

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In the second of our Story Episodes, we sat down with Mary Beth LaRue to talk about the unplanned, but beautiful outcome, of her struggle with infertility. She reminds us all that there are many paths to motherhood and that even if we don't birth our babies, they birth us in exactly the ways we need to grow.

Conscious Conception Oct 31, 2018

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What does it mean to "feed your fertility?" And how exactly does acupuncture and Chinese Medicine relate to getting pregnant? This week we sat down with the ever grounded Laura Erlich, founder and clinic director of Mother Nurture Wellness to talk about what it means to consciously conceive and all the things we can, and should do, before even trying to make a baby.

For more about Laura go to Mother Nurture Wellness