In this week’s episode of Soft Focus, I’m joined by Dr. Erin Borbet—licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and doula—for a nourishing conversation on women’s hormone health from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective.

Together, we explore what it means to live with our cycles rather than in resistance to them. Erin shares how TCM views the phases of a woman’s life—menstruation, fertility, perimenopause, and menopause and beyond—not as problems to be fixed, but as sacred windows of transformation and renewal. We talk about how the energetics of food, the importance of rest, and simple, seasonal practices can deeply support hormonal balance and long-term vitality.

We also discuss the difference between protein and good protein, and why quality and energetics matter so much when it comes to nourishing a woman’s body. Erin offers gentle insight into the all-too-common state of running on fumes in midlife, and how we can begin to restore from a place of wisdom and rhythm, rather than depletion and force.

This conversation is both grounding and illuminating—a reminder that the answers we’re seeking are often already within us, waiting to be remembered.

In this episode, we explore:

• How Traditional Chinese Medicine understands women’s hormonal health
• Why seasonal and cyclical living supports balance and energy
• The importance of good protein and food energetics in nourishment
• How to support yourself in fertility, perimenopause, and midlife
• The cost of pushing against our hormonal rhythms—and what’s possible when we stop
• The role of herbs, rest, and ritual in long-term vitality

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Imagine a world where food isn't just a commodity, but a connection to community, sustainability, and hope. In this powerful episode, we're diving deep into the heart of America's food system with Austin Frerick, author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry.

Meet Austin Frerick: Champion of Food Justice

More than just an author, Austin is a passionate advocate for transforming our agricultural landscape. His groundbreaking book Barons isn't just research—it's a rallying cry for anyone who believes that how we grow our food matters. Critically acclaimed by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, his work shines a light on the hidden stories behind our food systems.

Inside the Conversation: What You'll Discover

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who:

• Cares about where their food comes from
• Wants to support small farmers
• Believes in building stronger, more resilient communities
• Seeks to understand the real story behind our food supply

We'll explore:

• The personal journey that inspired Barons
• How big corporations are reshaping farming in rural communities
• The truth behind agricultural "efficiency"
• Practical ways to support local food systems
• Strategies for rural economic resilience

Why This Matters to You

As farmers, mothers, community builders, and conscientious consumers, we have the power to create change. Austin's insights offer a roadmap for reimagining agriculture—not just as an industry, but as a vital part of our shared community ecosystem.

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Welcome back to Soft Focus! Today, we’re diving into winter garden planning—ensuring a thriving, resilient harvest for 2025. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned gardener, these expert strategies from Late Bloomer Ranch and my kitchen gardens will set you up for success.

Though it’s winter, now is the ideal time to prepare your garden. Strategic planning now leads to a bountiful harvest, so let’s explore essential steps for a productive growing season.

What You’ll Learn:

• Many gardeners overestimate their capacity, buying too many seeds and planting more than they can maintain.
• A well-thought-out garden plan creates a manageable, efficient, and enjoyable growing experience.
• Understanding your USDA zone, frost dates, and latitude ensures proper timing and crop selection.
• Prioritize growing food you love and will actually eat for a rewarding and practical harvest.
• Companion planting enhances biodiversity, attracts pollinators, and naturally deters pests.
• Herbs and flowers provide culinary, medicinal, and ecological benefits while beautifying your space.
• Seasonal experimentation allows for adaptation, learning, and long-term garden success.
• Short growing seasons benefit from techniques like indoor seed starting, row covers, and succession planting.
• Latitude affects plant performance, so selecting region-appropriate varieties is key.
• Whether gardening in containers, raised beds, or a homestead, intentional planning leads to optimal yields.

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Imagine a perfect superfood, that was abundantly available and chock full of essential vitamins and minerals.

That superfood is pork liver! As in, the largest organ in the pig’s body. In fact, all organ meats are nutrient-dense and have so much to offer.

Are you curious about organ meats, but also a little grossed out? Or maybe you’ve hopped on the desiccated liver capsule train, but aren’t really sure how much or how often you should be taking them? Perhaps you’ve had organ meats in one capacity or another, but been scarred by the metallic taste, or the opaque supply chain with quality concerns?

If so, this episode is for you!

Today, Corinne is talking about eating liver, kidney, and heart for your health and making it taste amazing. The truth is, eating organs is an essential part of radical health. And, they are abundantly available! But, not all organs are created equal, and you don’t have to eat them every single day. Even a few ounces a week have been linked to better energy, clearer skin, better immune response, improved cardiovascular health and more.

Corinne isn’t a doctor or nutritionist— she is a farmer and rancher, and she shares her experience here.

Corinne discusses:

• How her vanity led her to an interest in organ meats.
• The first pig heart failure
• What are organ meats? What is offal?
• Why organ meats are more nutritious than muscle meat
• The link between industrial agriculture and organ meats falling out of fashion
• Key nutrients in liver
• Why pork liver might be a better fit for you than beef liver
• Key nutrients in kidney
• Key nutrients in heart
• Why do we need these key nutrients?
• How to conceptualize organ meat portions?
• Why you need to be aware of vitamin A
• How Corinne meal plans in her house to integrate organs
• Holistic perspective on eating whole animals
• Misconceptions about eating liver and kidney
• The importance of sourcing your organ meats from trustworthy farmers using biologically appropriate feeds
• Cooking tips and notes from the kitchen
• Primal Ground Pork— the cheat code
• Super easy organ meat cooking hack

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After a little hiatus, the Soft Focus is back. And today’s episode is a deep dive into the world of ghee— an ancestral superfood of clarified butter.

Sheerlie Ryngler, the woman behind cult ghee brand Belly of the Sun, is on the podcast today sharing the magic of healthy fat. At Belly of the Sun, she clarifies grass-fed butter and blends it with powerful herbs to make amazing treats that nourish body and spirit. Not only is her ghee sumptuous and full of nutrition, it is also crafted to support mood, immunity, fertility and more.

Corinne and Sheerlie discuss—

• Why Ghee?
• Herbal ghee as a way to stack functions
• Sacred traditions around the world celebrating ghee, milk, etc
• Fat fueling abundance and safety
• Chronic misunderstanding of fat in the diet
• The interplay of fat, safety, fertility, and resilience
• The various body systems that rely on fat
• The essence of being and feeling nourished
• How Sheerlie makes her blends
• The power of direct-experience with herbs
• How Sheerlie sources her products
• Sierra Nevada cheese company
• Why grass-fed, pasture-raised butter is different
• The key detail about getting enough vitamin D
• The power of ancestral practices
• The nutritional profile of ghee, and why it might be better for people sensitive to dairy
• How food sensitivities are mostly reversible
• Corinne’s personal experience getting over her food sensitivities
• The radical power of simplicity
• Sheerlie’s experience moving to a rural area from an urban upbringing
• How coming home to ourselves can be a challenging process
• Sheerlie’s new direction with Belly of the Sun
• Our societal misconceptions about premium food products
• Why some food on grocery stores shelves is so cheap
• The importance of raising prices and valuing ourselves in our businesses
• Sheerlie’s view on living with deeper intention and clarity
• Connecting the dots between our choices and what we wish to create in the world
• Digging deep to find strength when it feels like everything is stacked against you

Interested in connecting with Sheerlie? Find her online www.bellyofthesun.com and on instagram bellyofthesun.
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“Is your baby sleeping okay?” is probably the #1 question new parents get when they bring a new child into the world. And of course it is! Sleep is essential. But it is also a hot topic, and there are many opinions about how to do it “right”.

Today’s guest is Brittany Chambers, and she has a lot to say about the natural, biological rhythms of infant sleep. Brittany is an Infant and Family Sleep Specialist, on a mission to help parents return to their intuition and connect more with their babies. She shares some keen insights about why you can stop trying to manipulate baby sleep (at all), how she embodies a family-centered way of living, and the joys of raising babies from a “foundation of safety”.

If you’re a new parent, looking to become a parent, or know someone who is, be sure to check out Brittany’s wisdom. And of course, share it with someone who you know would enjoy it.

Corinne and Britt discuss:

• How Britt’s experience being sleep trained herself translated into a passion for sleep education decades later
• The perils of late-night Google searching in the throes of parenting strife
• Reconnecting with intuition around sleep and parenting in general
• The history of “sleep training”— why is it mainstream
• Why some believe cosleeping is not only suboptimal, but even harmful
• The science behind bed-sharing in infants and resilience
• The Nurture Revolution
• Responsiveness day and night as supportive for brain development
• What Britt refers to as a “foundation of safety”
• Discernible differences Britt’s clients are seeing with children being raised with and without sleep training
• Getting trapped in parenting as a “labor of love”
• Why you don’t need to manipulate your baby’s sleep
• Helping our children learn to trust their bodies
• Britt’s emphasis on normalizing contact sleeping, and stop pathologizing infant sleep
• Why women are so scared of advocating for ourselves and our babies
• Counteracting the tendency towards the martyr complex
• Dr Sophie Brock and the Perfect Mother Myth
• The way women’s brains are wired to caretake infants in groups
• How living in a “village-less” culture contributes to the prevalence of sleep training
• Britt’s personal rhythms of living and working with her small children
• How Britt supports women returning to work and wanting to integrate children into their careers
• Embodying a family-centered way of living, and why that paradigm shift matters
• Integrating children into our daily lives
• Hunt, Gather, Parent
• When couples need to come together and get on the same page about sleep
• The importance of learning your baby’s cues
• Serve and Return
• Britt’s work with parents 1 on 1, and her group Cuddle Crew
• The critical importance of nervous system work for mothers
• Connect with Britt at goodnightmoonchild.com and on IG @goodnightmoonchild

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We are back with another solo episode on the podcast. Today, Corinne is diving into the (sometimes thorny) topic of motherhood. This time, the context is in agriculture.

This isn’t about advice, and it’s not a how-to. This is simply a personal reflection on how Corinne wound up raising babies at Late Bloomer Ranch, and her general philosophy around parenting.

In this episode, Corinne dives into:

• A holistic approach to parenting, and life
• The interconnectedness of ranching and motherhood
• Her personal resistance to getting married, and having children
• Her background and early preference for urban life
• How farming came into her life by accident
• The Late Bloomer Ranch Story with Corinne and Elliana
• The ways that farming healed her, and her life in recovery
• When things started to shift, and how she knew she actually did want to have children
• The similarities of motherhood and farming
• How Corinne thinks about the core principles of holism in parenting
• Accepting all feelings with boundaries and limits
• Dealing with overwhelm
• Asking for help
• Joys of children connecting with the more-than-human world
• Bringing children into all aspects of the birth-death cycle
• Lastly, tips for selecting livestock for your own small acreage and homestead endeavors.

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Dani Beinstein is back on the podcast today, gracing us with her ever-growing wisdom and grace. The topic du jour is change, from the inside out, and adapting to life as it is showing up right now.

In some ways, change is inevitable— “the only constant is change”, as the cliche goes. Yet, on the other hand, letting go of challenging behaviors and patterns can be incredibly difficult and sometimes completely impossible. Where do these truths meet?

If you’ve ever woken up and looked in the mirror and felt tired of your own self-deceptions, this episode is for you. It’s not a discussion about how to improve productivity or how to break old habits— this is a soul-deep discussion of who we really are at our core, and how we can come into deeper communion with that truth.

Corinne and Danielle discuss:

• Danielle’s near death experience, and how it shifted her orientation from being “ethereal, to rooted”
• How relationship has also changed her perspective on the world, and the natural world
• The role of the body in change, and how cultural conditioning has alienated the body
• Danielle’s belief that we get the lessons we need, in whatever form they will be most effective
• Soul contracts, and how to explore them
• Resisting the urge to reach for certainty, and to rush through life
• How we are all “renting”, at the end of the day
• Danielle’s love for her dogs, and how they open up the exploration of loving with the awareness that this too shall pass
• The role of resourcing ourselves to be steady through massive upheaval
• The power of ritual to initiate, or guide us through, radical change
• Danielle’s role in interpreting charts to see where the soul contracts and karmic patterns live
• Outer planets— Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto— and what they might mean in an astrological chart
• Looking at the role of the massive, tectonic, technological shifts in our society today
• Danielle’s experience coming of age in the time of the creation of the modern internet
• The Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain
• Rasputin by Douglas Smith
• How we’ve lost interest in what is true
• Using technology with intention

Interested in connecting with Danielle? Find her online www.daniellebeinstein.com and on instagram @danibeinstein. She is available for one-on-one astrological counseling sessions and new moon circles in Nashville and on Zoom.

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