Rawdogging Menopause: No Hormones, No Pathologizing, No BS with Bett Williams

What happens when you opt out of the standard Western medical menopause playbook?In this episode, Dani sits down with author and babealicious badass Bett Williams to explore her experience navigating menopause without hormone replacement therapy—or the usual medical interventions. Together, they unpack the cultural narratives shaping menopause, the pressure to conform to prescribed solutions, and what it looks like to trust your body through a major physiological transition.This is a conversation about autonomy, language, conditioning, and the unseen forces influencing how women navigate their own health and well-being as they are authentically guided, instead of plugging into a for-profit formula that tries to convince us we need the medicate our milestones.Not a prescription. Not a protocol. An expansion of the conversation.Part 2:danikatz.locals.comwww.patreon.com/danikatz All things Dani, including books, courses, coaching + consulting:www.danikatz.com Plus, schwag:danikatz.threadless.com Find Bett:https://www.bettwilliams.com/https://youmightbehappy.substack.com/ Show notes:Bett’s personal experience choosing not to use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and what “rawdogging menopause” has looked like in practiceHow menopause is culturally framed—and how those narratives shape women’s expectations and experiencesLanguage, conditioning, and the role of fear in driving medical decision-makingEmpowering ourselves with our intuition, self-trust, and sovereignty in navigating major physiological transitionsExamination of symptoms, adaptations, and the realities of going through menopause without standard interventionsCritique of one-size-fits-all approaches in women’s health and the pressure to conform to institutional normsBroader themes of power, influence, and narrative control in societyJeffrey Epstein as part of a larger discussion about hidden networks, elite influence, and what gets surfaced vs. suppressed in public discourseHow high-profile cases like Epstein’s intersect with questions of media framing, accountability, and selective visibilityHow individuals discern truth in complex, often opaque systemsThe importance of maintaining critical thinking and awareness across both personal health decisions and societal narrativesFraming the conversation as an invitation to question dominant paradigms—both in medicine and beyond