Michael Easter

So many women dread the luteal phase because it sucks if you're trying to operate the

the same way you have been, with the same workload, with the same expectation, with the same management, with the same everything.

It gets much harder typically to do that in the luteal phase.

We can, but at what cost?

What do we do to our hormones?

And it's almost like you found with trying to do the same workouts and wondering why do I suck?

Exactly.

So it's like those really subtle changes, a little bit of awareness just goes a long way.

We're going to break, and then we'll talk about why Misha, after retiring, decided to un-retire and get back into the ring.

I inherited that fandom from my mom.

I like watching it with my dad.

It's a connecting force.

After I had retired, I was gone for about four years and I met Johnny and we had two kids and the pandemic hit.

And I think that was a time of self-reflection for a lot of us, right?

We were kind of stuck indoors.

There was less things going on.

It's just like, okay, I started asking myself, like, what do I want out of life?

And I kind of quickly came to the realization that I wasn't done with fighting.

I had fallen out of love with fighting.

I had a bitter taste in my mouth for fighting, but not so much because of fighting, but because I lacked the ability to show up in the ways that were good and healthy for me.