Inclusive Strength & Therapy Conversations with Bethany Busch, CSCS & Auria Zahed, LMFT
Where strength meets softness, and healing meets momentum. Browse episodes below or press play to start your reset.
About the Podcast
UpLift Women’s Wellness is co-hosted by Bethany Busch, CSCS and Auria Zahed, LMFT—two millennial women with Master of Science degrees, lived experience, and a shared mission to flip the wellness script.
Season 1 explores the emotional realities behind strength, therapy, body image, exhaustion, and the pressure to perform womanhood a certain way. From rebuilding after breakdowns to redefining motherhood, dating, and leadership, we get loud (and honest) about what it means to care for yourself in a world that rarely does.
This isn’t surface-level self-care—it’s reclamation in real time.
We talk about:
Strength training as nervous system support
Therapy that meets you where you are
Body image, media distortion, and weight loss culture
Recovery and radical rest
Dating with emotional intelligence
The power of childless women and redefined nurturing
Female friendships and leadership without rivalry
Less perfection, more truth. Less grind culture, more wholeness. Come sit with us. We saved you a mic.
Featured Episodes
Auria's Path From Passion to Therapy Empowering Women
Leading with Love: The Strength of Female Friendships & Leadership
Bethany’s Interview - From Passion to Purpose
Head 2 Tail: Navigating Dog Nutrition, Adoption, and Vet Care
The High Cost of Being Likable: Narcissism, People-Pleasing & Lost Identity
Behind the Episode: Real Reflections from the Mic
Each episode of UpLift Women’s Wellness is followed by a blog post built from the transcript—making the facts, data, and insights accessible to all. We strip away the fluff and highlight the science, strategies, and takeaways so listeners can read, reference, and apply the information for themselves.
🎙️ Behind the Episode: Empowering the Maternal Journey: Addressing Mental Health during Pregnancy and Postpartum
Motherhood isn’t just a milestone—it’s a mental health reckoning. From preconception therapy to birth trauma and postpartum depression, LMFT Alexa Levine exposes the emotional cost of pregnancy and the pressure to perform wellness while unraveling. With 1 in 5 mothers facing perinatal mental health challenges and 1 in 4 experiencing miscarriage, this episode affirms the need for advocacy, self-compassion, and support systems that actually support.
Syndication + Authority
UpLift Women’s Wellness is proudly syndicated on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Good Pod, WDJY 99.1 FM, Podchaser, and ListenNotes.
This show is built for women of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and anyone reclaiming care through strength, emotional safety, and radical honesty.
What landed for you? UpLift Women’s Wellness is more than a podcast—it’s a space for reflection, resonance, and reclaiming what care can feel like. Whether this episode sparked a new thought or softened something old, we invite you to sit with it. And if you’re ready to explore support beyond the mic, we’re right here when you are.
This episode spoke to you. Let’s talk. Try this: What came up for you while listening? Where in your body did it land? What would support look like right now, if it was built around you?
Feeling resonance in what you heard? Let’s take the conversation off-air—into real life, real care, and real support.
🎙 Guest Inquiry
We’re honored by the interest in joining UpLift Women’s Wellness. If you or someone you represent would like to be considered as a future guest, please fill out our Guest Inquiry Form. We review submissions seasonally and prioritize emotionally intelligent pitches that align with our values of authenticity, safety, and lived experience.
We welcome pitches that highlight women who are changing the world with their work or their voice—whether in media, education, healthcare, entrepreneurship, or the professional spotlight.
If your story centers real-world impact, emotional resonance, and actionable insight—we’d love to hear from you.