Power Up your Productivity
Learnings, teachings and advice for women looking to better understand their menstrual cycle, so that they can use it to their advantage to improve energy and success at work.
Top 5 Predictions for the Future of Productivity Tools in 2026
Discover Phase’s predictions for how productivity tools will revolutionize your workflow in 2025! From AI-powered assistants to mental health-focused features, our top 5 predictions highlight the game-changing trends shaping the future of work. Learn how technology is evolving to support creativity, balance, and personalized productivity like never before.
The Ultimate Guide to Setting your 2026 Goals
Learn how to set achievable goals for 2026 using evidence-based strategies and cycle-aware planning. Step-by-step guide includes goal-setting worksheets, progress tracking methods, and the neuroscience behind why most goals fail. Perfect timing: use your luteal phase for realistic planning that sticks.
Year-End Burnout Is Not Inevitable: A Biology-First Approach
Q4 burnout isn't inevitable - it's the result of ignoring your menstrual cycle. Learn how to finish the year strong with cycle-aware planning, strategic boundary-setting, and biology-based productivity. Protect your energy and thrive through the holidays with Phase.
Menopause at Work: Redefining Productivity, Energy, and Hormonal Health in Midlife
Partner Blog: Menopause typically hits during women's peak career years (45-55), yet 3 in 5 women report symptoms that negatively impact work performance. This isn't about capability declining—it's about hormones evolving. From managing brain fog and sleep disruption to requesting workplace accommodations, navigating menopause at work requires understanding your body's new rhythms and redefining productivity on your terms. The team from 3mbrace explain all.
Daylight Saving Prep: Protecting Your Cycle Through Time Changes
The end of Daylight Saving Time disrupts your circadian rhythm — and your menstrual cycle. Learn how to reduce hormone swings, sleep disruptions, and cycle symptoms during the seasonal time change with light management strategies, cycle syncing, and the Phase app. Prepare now to protect your productivity and wellbeing.
The 4-Day Work Week That Actually Works for Women
Discover why women thrive with 4-day work weeks. Women have shown that when they work can be even more important than where they work. Microsoft Japan saw 40% productivity gains. Learn how to work with your biology,. Women who work from home or have flexible positions often report increased well-being and efficiency when they not against it.
How to Get the Most from Q4 - End the Year on a High
Maximize your Q4 productivity with cycle-aware strategies. Finish the year strong without burnout using science-backed planning that works with your biology and energy levels. Discover Phase for your most successful ending yet.
How to get the most from your performance review (and why timing matters)
Maximize your performance review success by timing it with your natural confidence peaks. Science-backed strategies for career advancement.
5 Signs of Hormonal Imbalance in the Body (and What to Do About It)*
Hormonal imbalance can cause chronic fatigue, mood swings, bloating, cravings, brain fog, and disrupted sleep — yet many women mistake these symptoms for stress or aging. This guide explains the top five signs your hormones may be out of sync and offers science-backed strategies to support balance, including cycle tracking, nutrition tips, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes. Learn how fluctuations in estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, and other hormones affect energy, mood, digestion, cravings, and mental clarity — and how to work with your cycle to reclaim productivity and wellbeing.
5 Things you might not know about your menstrual cycle
Most women were taught about periods, but not about the full power of their cycle. In this clinically reviewed guide, discover 5 surprising facts about the menstrual cycle, including how it impacts strength, metabolism, mood, and even your voice 💪.
What Can Cycle Syncing in Sport Teach Us About Productivity?
Elite athletes like Jessica Ennis and the England women’s football team have embraced cycle syncing—a method of tailoring training schedules to the phases of the menstrual cycle—to optimize performance and reduce burnout. This innovative approach involves aligning physical activities and recovery plans with hormonal fluctuations, enhancing energy, focus, and resilience.
In this blog, we explore how cycle syncing principles, commonly used in professional sports, can be applied to productivity in the workplace.
Why Cycle Syncing Could Be a Key Piece in the Longevity Puzzle
Could cycle syncing be the secret to longevity? Women are burning out earlier, juggling more, and spending more of their longer lives in poor health - yet most solutions ignore the hormonal rhythms that shape female energy, cognition, and resilience.
This blog explores how aligning your work with your menstrual cycle (known as cycle syncing) can reduce stress, improve productivity, and protect long-term health.
Introducing the Happy Hormone - The Dance of Dopamine and Estrogen in our Brains
Discover how estrogen and dopamine work together to shape your mood, focus, and motivation throughout your menstrual cycle. In this expert-reviewed guide, we explore why dopamine is known as the “happy hormone,” how estrogen influences its production, and how syncing your work with your cycle can help you unlock flow, energy, and emotional balance. Plus, learn practical tips for supporting your brain chemistry across each phase of your cycle—backed by science and written for real life.
Can You Cycle Sync If You Have ADHD?
Struggling with ADHD and wondering if cycle syncing can help? This expert-reviewed guide explores how hormonal shifts impact ADHD symptoms in women—and how syncing your cycle with tools like Phase can boost focus, motivation, and emotional balance.
From Burnout to Balance: How My Healing Journey Inspired Phase
In this personal blog, our founder shares how her journey through burnout, postpartum challenges, and chronic health issues led to the creation of Phase. Learn how cycle syncing transformed her life, and how Phase is redefining productivity, leadership, and wellbeing for women everywhere. If you’ve ever felt burned out, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your body, this story is for you.
Your go-to guide for Getting Started with Phase
This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to install and set up the Phase app on mobile and desktop, integrate it with your calendar, and unlock powerful insights into how your hormones influence your energy, focus, and productivity.
Learn how to personalize your experience, explore key features like the Daily Radar and Calendar View, and discover how Phase helps women work in sync with their cycles.
From Hormones to Health Hacks: 10 FemTech Innovators We're Watching
The FemTech industry is booming, and a wave of innovative startups is leading the charge in transforming how women manage their health, hormones, and productivity.
In this blog, we spotlight ten groundbreaking FemTech companies:from hormone testing and fertility tracking to neuroscience and supplements, that we think are super interesting. Whether you're a biohacker, wellness enthusiast, or just FemTech-curious, discover the names you need to know in 2025.
Introducing the Phase Calendar Extension
The Phase Calendar Extension brings cycle-aware planning directly into your Google Calendar, helping women optimize energy, focus, and confidence by aligning daily schedules with their hormonal rhythms. Unlike traditional productivity tools, Phase overlays your current cycle phase and cognitive strengths onto your calendar, offering smart prompts and insights to support better planning, fewer burnouts, and more aligned workdays.
How Self-Esteem Shapes Productivity: The Confidence-Performance Connection
Self-esteem plays a critical role in productivity, influencing motivation, focus, and resilience. Research shows that individuals with high self-esteem take initiative, persist through challenges, and perform better at work, while low self-esteem can lead to procrastination, self-doubt, and burnout. This blog explores the psychology behind self-esteem, including the impact of self-efficacy, the self-fulfilling prophecy, and the dangers of negative self-talk. It also provides actionable strategies to build confidence, reframe failure, and develop a sustainable approach to productivity. Understanding the link between self-esteem and performance can help you unlock greater focus, efficiency, and long-term success.
Are We Ever Going to Talk About Periods at Work?
Are we finally ready to talk about periods at work? This blog explores the history of corporate wellness, the persistent gender health gap, and why women’s health remains overlooked in the workplace. With statistics on absenteeism, menopause, and menstrual health, we highlight the economic impact and the urgent need for change. Backed by data and expert insights, we uncover why companies must prioritize inclusive wellbeing initiatives, and how Phase is leading the conversation.