Two gut girlies sit down to talk.
In this episode, Jess is joined by Tessa Stockdale, co-founder of
Nomu Matcha, the award-winning New Zealand ceremonial matcha
brand she built with her mum Karen, for a conversation that
started, fittingly, over a shared obsession with gut health.
Tessa takes us back six years to when her gut issues first
started showing up in her mid-twenties. She was in advertising,
early mornings, late nights, plenty of alcohol, high-intensity
exercise on an empty stomach. The kind of lifestyle that looks
pretty normal from the outside but, she now knows, was putting
enormous stress on her body. What followed was months of severe
bloating so extreme her mum asked if she was pregnant,
constipation, brain fog, thunderclap headaches, and a histamine
response that felt like boiling water in her gut.
She walks us through the medical journey, the gastroenterologist
referrals to rule out stomach and ovarian cancer, the $250
specialist appointments, the lack of holistic perspective in the
system, and then the moment she drove to Hamilton to see applied
kinesiologist Kate Moffat out of sheer desperation. The session
that changed everything, where the pressure of a hand on her leg
identified leaky gut, an estrogen imbalance, IBS, and candida
overgrowth, and finally gave her somewhere to start.
Tessa shares what the anti-candida diet actually looked like, how
twelve weeks of eating nothing from a packet during COVID
lockdown taught her more about food and inflammation than
anything else had, and why the healing process, while
transformative, also came with unexpected consequences.
Developing a peanut anaphylaxis allergy. New intolerances she
hadn't had before. A fear response around food that nobody warned
her about. The exhausting mental tax of navigating every meal,
every restaurant, every dinner with friends.
The conversation moves into the gut-brain connection, why 90 to
95% of serotonin is made in the gut, why anxiety and gut issues
are so deeply intertwined, and why Tessa's move from Auckland to
Mount Maunganui last year has given her something she says she's
never had in her adult life: a balanced nervous system.
And then there's Nomu. Because Tessa's caffeine sensitivity, a
direct result of her gut journey, is what led her to matcha, and
a blunt comment from a barista at 7am who raised an eyebrow at a
decaf order is what started it all. She and Kat talk about
building a business while managing a chronic health condition,
why hustle culture is not the only path to success, and why
showing up well for yourself is actually what makes you show up
better for your business.
This is an episode for anyone who has spent years trying to
figure out what's wrong with their gut, anyone running a business
while managing a chronic health condition, and anyone who has
ever felt like healing one thing just opened the door to
something else.
Find Tessa and Nomu Matcha at nomumatcha.com and on Instagram
@nomumatcha_
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Hit play. And maybe make yourself a matcha first.
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