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Female Fluence is a female empowerment podcast hosted by Pearl Mashour, spotlighting powerful women who transform adversity into impact, leadership, and purpose.Resilience is more than bouncing back. It is rising stronger, wiser, and more aligned because of what you’ve endured.

In this powerful episode, Pearl Mashour sits down with Maimah Karmo, breast cancer survivor, best-selling author, transformational speaker, and founder of a global women’s health movement. From surviving civil war in Liberia to being held at gunpoint, struck by lightning, navigating single motherhood, and facing an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis, Maimah’s story is one of extraordinary courage and reinvention.

Rather than allowing trauma to define her, she transformed her diagnosis into purpose, building a leading force in breast cancer awareness, health equity, and advocacy for women worldwide. This episode explores personal resilience, women’s health empowerment, and how community becomes the foundation for healing and impact.

Guest Spotlight
Maimah Karmo is a breast cancer survivor, international speaker, transformational coach, philanthropist, and founder of the Tigerlily Foundation, a nationally recognized organization dedicated to breast cancer awareness, education, advocacy, and health equity. A refugee from Liberia who escaped at 15, Maimah has turned survival into leadership, inspiring women globally to claim ownership of their health and power.

Key Insights

• Resilience is built through adversity, not in the absence of it
• Women’s health advocacy begins with personal ownership and awareness
• Community is one of the most powerful tools in healing and empowerment
• Turning pain into purpose creates lasting impact
• Health equity and education are essential to women’s long-term wellness

Her journey from refugee to global women’s health leader demonstrates that adversity can become the fuel for transformation. Through courage, conviction, and community, she shows that survival is not the finish line, thriving is.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that our wellness is not optional. It is foundational. And when women rise together, we build movements that change lives.

Connect with Maimah

🌐 Website: https://maimah.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maimahkarmo
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maimahkarmoofficial/
🎗 Tigerlily Foundation: https://tigerlilyfoundation.org

Pearl Mashour is a Master Women Empowerment Coach, Life Coach & Multiple Subject Credentialed Teacher.

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“Free Birding” is an empowering reframe of the traditional idea of empty nesting, shifting the narrative from loss to liberation. This episode explores how midlife can become a season of renewal, freedom, and self-reclamation once children leave home. Rather than focusing on what’s gone, Free Birding celebrates what’s opening: space, possibility, creativity, and choice.

This conversation centers on the idea that raising children who are ready to fly is a success, not an ending. With the sky open again, midlife becomes a powerful invitation to reconnect with identity, pursue long-held dreams, explore new careers, deepen relationships, travel, and step fully into a long-awaited second act.

Guest Spotlight

Paria Hassouri is an Iranian-American pediatrician, author, and advocate whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Huffington Post. She is the author of the memoir Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change and the novel Harvesting Rosewater. Based in Los Angeles, she provides gender-affirming healthcare for trans and gender-diverse youth and speaks widely on identity, motherhood, and midlife transformation.

Key Insights

• Empty nesting can be reframed as a midlife awakening rather than a loss
• Free Birding is about reclaiming identity, time, and personal freedom
• Midlife transitions often unlock creativity, courage, and reinvention
• Past experiences shape midlife growth but don’t have to define it
• Reinvention is possible at any age, and often multiple times

Episode Summary

This episode of the Female Fluence Podcast explores Free Birding as a modern, empowering lens on midlife and empty nesting. The conversation highlights how this life stage can become a renaissance, inviting women to reconnect with themselves after years of prioritizing others.

Through reflections on identity, motherhood, cultural memory, and personal evolution, this episode reframes midlife as a powerful second act. Instead of grieving what’s ended, listeners are encouraged to honor what’s opening: freedom, creativity, and a deeper alignment with who they truly are becoming.

Connect with Paria

🌐 Website: pari

Pearl Mashour is a Master Women Empowerment Coach, Life Coach & Multiple Subject Credentialed Teacher.

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Your body isn’t broken. And your symptoms aren’t random. They’re data.

In a world built on quick fixes and constant hustle, women are often taught to ignore fatigue, brain fog, and burnout. But these signals aren’t inconveniences. They’re communication.

This conversation explores how personalized nutrition, hormone awareness, and stress regulation support lasting energy, clarity, and confidence. When women stop overriding their bodies and start listening, healing becomes sustainable.

My guest today is Dr. Lahana Vigliano, a board-certified clinical nutritionist and CEO + founder of Nuvitru Wellness, a private practice in Austin, Texas that helps women balance hormones and improve digestion using food as medicine.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition Science, a Master’s in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, and a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition, Lahana brings both deep expertise and genuine empathy to her work.

She’s deeply passionate about helping women uncover the root causes of their symptoms, especially when they’ve felt dismissed or gaslit by conventional care. Through personalized functional nutrition, she guides women toward healing that actually supports their lives.

Beyond her professional work, she’s a wife, mother of two, and a lover of heavy lifting, natural remedies, good books, and family meals. She’s not just a practitioner, she’s a purpose-driven leader who lives what she teaches.

Key Takeaways

✨ Symptoms are signals. Fatigue, brain fog, and mood shifts are messages, not failures.

🥗 Fuel supports focus. Eating enough, especially earlier in the day, stabilizes energy and hormones.

🧠 Stress disrupts balance. Chronic stress keeps the body in survival mode and affects digestion, sleep, and clarity.

🌿 Gut health matters. A supported gut improves hormones, immunity, and mental well-being.

😴 Sleep restores systems. Quality sleep is essential for nervous system and hormone regulation.

💪 Wellness over hustle. Sustainable health creates better productivity than pushing through exhaustion.

🩺 Self-advocacy is power. Women deserve personalized care and must trust their body’s signals.

Connect with Dr. Lahana

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlahana/

🌿 Nuvitru Wellness: https://www.instagram.com/nuvitruwellness/

🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drlahana

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NuvitruWellness

Pearl Mashour is a Master Women Empowerment Coach, Life Coach & Multiple Subject Credentialed Teacher.

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