Endo Warriors

Host Callie Greenberg interviews Yvonne Richardson-Hay, an endometriosis warrior, advocate, and memoirist, about growing up in rural Queensland with environmental chemical exposure, her decades-long struggle with severe endometriosis, surgeries, motherhood against the odds, and the emotional aftermath that led her to write her memoir.

The episode explores diagnosis delays, identity shifts caused by chronic pain, relationship strain...

Sometimes pushing through stops working. This episode of Endo Warriors is for anyone who has been told their symptoms are “normal” while knowing something isn’t right. Callie Greenberg sits down with Dala McDevitt, CEO of DLDNation Team, to talk about burnout, delayed diagnosis, and the long road to answers around endometriosis. From working in healthcare to IVF and eventually receiving an endometriosis diagnosis, Dala shares how y...

When endometriosis takes years from your life, connection stops being optional and starts becoming a lifeline.

In this episode of the Endo Warriors, host Callie Greenberg sits down with endometriosis advocate Pam Bove to explore the long-term impact of having pain repeatedly dismissed. Pam shares how being told she was “just sensitive” did more than delay a diagnosis. It created lasting trauma that slowly eroded her trust in her ...

Excision surgery often sits just out of reach in endometriosis care, and Nicole Notar explains why. Insurance barriers, outdated coding, and persistent misconceptions turn a medically necessary procedure into something patients must fight for or fund themselves. Who pays the price when effective care is delayed?

Callie Greenberg talks with Nicole about years of being dismissed with labels like anxiety and IBS before real answers ...

The reason so many women are dismissed when they report severe period pain has less to do with their bodies and more to do with how medicine was built. Callie Greenberg digs into that reality with OB-GYN and former NIH-funded researcher Dr. Margo Harrison in a conversation about menstrual pain, endometriosis, and why symptoms that disrupt daily life are still treated as normal in women’s health care.

From her experience in academ...

Before listening, please note that this episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss and child loss. These topics can be deeply personal, so take care of yourself as you listen and feel free to pause, skip, or come back when it feels right for you.

Endometriosis does not always show up as pelvic pain. For many women, it looks like years of unexplained symptoms, quiet self-doubt, and being told everything is fine when it clearly ...

When endometriosis pain is normalized and women are dismissed, cannabis often enters the conversation as both a medical option and a source of tension.

Callie Greenberg speaks with Melanie Wentzel, an international speaker, healthcare strategist, and bestselling author of Cannabis Queens, about cannabis, pain management, and endometriosis through a women’s-health-forward lens. They unpack how stigma, limited research, and delayed...

Living with an invisible chronic illness often means trusting yourself before the system catches up. How do you know when something is wrong if no one else can see it?

Callie Greenberg reconnects with longtime friend Lauren Buchsbaum for an honest conversation about life with a chronic inflammatory condition and the reality of navigating care that often feels incomplete. Although Lauren lives with ulcerative colitis, her experien...

Medical gaslighting reshapes the mind as much as the body… and this episode explores how endometriosis can slowly strip a woman’s voice, confidence, and sense of safety long before she ever receives a diagnosis.

Callie Greenberg is joined by clinical therapist and former OR nurse Marissa Chabai for a look at what repeated dismissal does to a person’s intuition and mental health. How does someone start to doubt their own reality? ...

Callie Greenberg introduces Endo Warriors by opening up about her twenty-four year search for answers and the way endometriosis shaped her health, her decisions, and her sense of self long before anyone gave it a name. She shares the reality of being pushed into surgical menopause at thirty-nine and the grief that comes with infertility, late diagnosis, and a body that had been asking for help for decades. Her story invites real re...

Endo Warriors is a weekly podcast created and hosted by endometriosis expert and stage four endo warrior Callie Greenberg. Each episode dives into real stories, expert insights, and practical tools to help listeners understand, manage, and advocate through life with endometriosis. Each week we discuss topics like diagnosis, fertility, pain management, holistic health, and mental well-being. New episodes every Thursday—empowering wa...