Farideh writes songs from things most music ignores: diagnoses, symptoms, and sentences women repeat to each other when they’re trying to make sense of their bodies. In this conversation, she explains how her songs are built — from lists of conditions, overheard phrases, and moments when something finally clicks.

She talks about living with PCOS for years before it had a name, about motherhood as a shift into a fuller female experience, perimenopause as another stage of bodily change, and 12 Breakdowns of Christmas — her sketch series about mental load, burnout, and the emotional work behind the holidays.

This episode is about turning what women live through into music — and trusting the body when it keeps asking to be heard.

You’ll hear about:

• How Farideh’s songs are built from diagnoses and real conversations
• Early PCOS symptoms and medical dismissal
• Turning The Female Body into music
• You Are Such a Good Dad and invisible labor
• Comment sections as shared spaces for women’s stories
• Motherhood as an embodied shift
• Perimenopause and ongoing hormonal change
• 12 Breakdowns of Christmas and holiday mental load

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Hosted by Teo, a menstrual cycle coach helping women reconnect with their cycles, tune into their hormones, and live more in sync with their bodies.

Produced by Hatch Up podcasts.