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This week Lisa and Portia joined by Katrina Small, and honestly, this episode has everything.

Katrina shares her wild health journey — from trekking the Kokoda Track and picking up a gut parasite, to years later getting long COVID and feeling like someone had literally switched her brain off.

Not “a bit foggy”.
Not “a little tired”.
More like: successful professional woman suddenly wondering where half her cognitive filing cabinet has gone.

We talk about:
✨ the gut–brain connection
✨ long COVID and brain fog
✨ inflammation, autoimmune responses and microbiome health
✨ why sometimes your body knows exactly what’s wrong even when nobody else does
✨ what it feels like to not be believed
✨ and why asking for help remains one of the rudest personal growth exercises on earth

It’s a big conversation — smart, funny, honest, and full of those moments where you go, “Oh wow… that actually makes a lot of sense.”

Also featured:
poo transplants, medical gaslighting, women being called “difficult” when they’re actually just accurate, and a reminder that healing is rarely tidy.

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