The DTA Podcast

The DTA Podcast

Ep. 23: Erin's story & Nila, the app filling the gaps in menopause care

Sep 7, 2026 · 44 min · 10 segments

Erin Beattie spent twenty years bleeding through her clothes, flooding through overnight pads in a two-minute car ride, before anyone said the word endometriosis out loud. Then, in the middle of an…

Erin Beattie spent twenty years bleeding through her clothes, flooding through overnight pads in a two-minute car ride, before anyone said the word endometriosis out loud. Then, in the middle of an 18-month wait to get diagnosed, she was found to have breast cancer — three surgeries in nineteen months, including a bilateral mastectomy and a total hysterectomy that finally revealed stage three endometriosis along the way. Now, almost a year into acute surgical menopause with almost no map for what she's going through, she's built Nila: an app born out of her own research spiral, designed for the other 23 hours a day when you're not in front of a doctor and don't want to fall down a Google rabbit hole. Amy and Erin get into what it's like to be dismissed for decades, why "having kids cures endometriosis" is a myth that keeps costing women years, and why the gaps in menopause research go a lot deeper than most people realize — especially for anyone who doesn't look like the woman on the pamphlet. Key Components: - Twenty years of "flooding" before anyone said the word endometriosis: What finally made her doctor connect the dots — and why it took so long. - A breast cancer diagnosis found completely by accident: How a routine pre-surgery scan for something unrelated changed the entire next two years of her life. - The myth that having kids "cures" endometriosis, and why Erin spent nearly two more decades being told her symptoms couldn't be what she already suspected. - Why she built her app, Nila, instead of waiting for the healthcare system to catch up: What she noticed was missing for anyone who doesn't fit the typical menopause picture. *"We then just live fine versus great and wonderful and blood-pant free. There's so much that we endure quietly."* Check out Nila at hellonila.com Connect with Erin on LinkedIn Follow Nila on Instagram Get more information about endometriosis and adenoymyosis 👉 Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org 🩲 Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care! 🤘 Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio For informational and entertainment purposes only — not medical advice. We're here to get loud, not to play doctor.

Erin Beattie spent twenty years bleeding through her clothes, flooding through overnight pads in a two-minute car ride, before anyone said the word endometriosis out loud. Then, in the middle of an…

Welcome to Down There Aware0:02 – 2:21

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Welcome to the Down There Wear podcast.

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Hi, I'm Amy Milne, your host.

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This is the show where we get loud about women's below-the-belt health from menstruation to menopause and everything in between.

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So many women continue to silently endure issues like endometriosis, PCOS, menstrual disorders, and menopause-related challenges without the proper support.

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We're done with that.

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We're done with the whispers.

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We're here to break the taboos, share the stories, and have the conversations no matter how uncomfortable.

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Whether you're dealing with your own health journey, supporting someone who is, or you're just ready to join the movement, you're in the right place.

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Let's jump in.

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I've been on the hunt for beautiful women doing beautiful things for other women.

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And I found Erin Beatty on LinkedIn, slid into her DMs, and she said, heck yeah, let's meet.

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My guest today is Erin Beatty, founder of Mila, cancer survivor, dragon boater, word nerd, and 16 days out from turning 50.

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Her story isn't tidy.

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18 years of endometriosis, nobody named.

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Then in the middle of a wait list to finally get diagnosed, breast cancer.

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Three surgeries in 19 months.

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And it was the last one, a total hysterectomy, that finally found the stage 3 endo that had been there all along.

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She's cancer free now.

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Yes.

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Which is great because she's turning 50 in 16 days.

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And 11 months into surgical menopause, which she'll tell you flat out, has been brutal.

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So she did what she does.

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She researched the shit out of it and built Nila.

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A place for the plain language, the doctor-ready export, and above all the gaps, surgical, chemical, neurodivergent, everyone who never makes the brochure for the other 23 hours when you're spiraling and you don't want to Google it.

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We get into all of it, the flooding, the IUD from hell, surgical menopause with no map, and her mission to get the word vagina spread all over LinkedIn.

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For the woman who's been told she's fine when she knows she isn't, this one's for you.

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This is the Down There Aware podcast.

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I'm Amy Milne.

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Let's get loud.

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