Welcome to Meet Your Body with Jessica Valant, MSPT — a podcast dedicated to helping women feel strong, safe and empowered in their bodies through every season of life. Combining science-backed education, professional expertise, advocacy, and compassion, Jessica brings honest conversations and practical tools to the complex world of women’s health and aging. Each episode explores the topics women are too often left to navigate alone, including perimenopause, menopause, endometriosis, hysterectomy, prolapse, infertility, exercise, aging, recovery, body image, and learning how to advocate for yourself in healthcare and everyday life. Through expert guests, personal stories, actionable strategies, and evidence-based guidance, Jessica...
Latest episodes
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52 min
Aging Trends - What I'm Doing and What I'm Skipping
It seems like everywhere we turn, there's another wellness trend promising to help us look younger, feel better, live longer or optimize our health. Full-body scans, peptides, weig…
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44 min
Is Walking Enough? What Walking Does For Your Health - and What It Doesn't
Walking is one of the most accessible and beneficial forms of movement we have. But with all the current emphasis on strength training, lifting heavy and changing how we exercise a…
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44 min
What Does It Actually Mean To Be "Toned"?
“Toned” is one of the most common words in fitness. We are told we should want toned arms, toned legs and a toned stomach. We believe certain workouts will give us “long, lean musc…
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37 min
Strength Training for Women Over 40 - What You Need To Know For Success
Women over 40 are hearing the message loud and clear: You need to strength train. You need to lift heavy. You need to build muscle. But what does that actually mean—and how much st…
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46 min
How to Help Kids Have a Positive Relationship With Their Bodies
How can we help kids grow up feeling safe, confident and connected to their bodies in a world that constantly tells them that looks and size determine their value? In this episode…
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46 min
My HRT Journey - My Questions, Symptoms and Plan
In this personal episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica Valant shares her own HRT journey: the symptoms that finally pushed her to consider hormone therapy, the questions and concerns…
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52 min
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT): What Every Woman Should Know
Hormone replacement therapy is having a resurgence—but HRT isn’t one medication, one dose or the right choice for every woman. In this episode of Meet Your Body, physical therapist…
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24 min
The Women's Health Initiative - How One Study Changed HRT for Women
In 2002, the results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) changed the conversation around hormone replacement therapy almost overnight. Millions of women stopped taking HRT, pres…
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42 min
Hormones in Perimenopause and Menopause - All About Estrogen, Progesterone and Testosterone
What actually happens to your hormones during perimenopause and menopause? In fact, what are hormones anyway and why are they important? We hear constantly that estrogen is droppin…
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38 min
The Five Keys to Sticking With Health Habits
Why is it so hard to stay consistent with the health habits we know are good for us? In this episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica breaks down the five keys that are essential to crea…
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17 min
How I Create Your Workouts - A Connections Episode
In this short Connections episode, Jessica is sharing what matters most to her when she creates workouts for you—and how those priorities shaped her new four-week BUILD Program sta…
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47 min
Why You're Running on Empty - How To Refill Your Energy Bucket
We all want more energy and somehow it seems that running on empty is a normal part of life. Your energy isn’t an unlimited resource—and understanding what’s draining yours may be…
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23 min
Back To School Lessons and Strategies - Connections Episode
In this short and personal Connections episode, Jessica talks about the eight lessons she's learned as a parent as her kids go back to school. From being their safe place to answer…
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1 h 06
GLP-1's Explained with Ashley Koff, RD
GLP-1s seem to be everywhere right now, from social media to popular television commercials to your neighbors down the street. Yet most of us don’t understand what they are or how…
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47 min
My Biggest Pet Peeves in Health & Fitness (And Why They Matter)
What if some of the biggest barriers to your health aren't your habits—but the messages you've been taught to believe? In this episode of Meet Your Body, Jessica shares her six big…
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42 min
Chronic Stress - My Own Healing Journey (Best of)
Jessica never would have described herself as an anxious or stressed person. But in her early twenties, her body told a different story. In this deeply personal episode of Meet You…
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47 min
Overwhelmed By Health Advice? You're Not Alone! (Best of)
Does it feel like every day there's a new health trend, supplement, workout, or expert telling you what you should be doing? With so much information available, it's easy to feel o…
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34 min
How I'm Navigating Change
Change is one of the few things we can count on in life—and yet it's something most of us resist. In this personal episode, Jessica shares what she's navigating in her own life rig…
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59 min
Mother-Daughter Book Recommendations for Tween and Teen Girls
After her annual book recommendations episode, Jessica couldn't resist creating one more reading list—this time with a very special guest! Her 13-year-old daughter joins her to sha…
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52 min
My Annual Book Recommendations!
It's one of my favorite episodes of the year! In this annual tradition, I'm sharing the books that inspired me, challenged my thinking, made me laugh, let me escape and kept me tur…