Frequently Asked Questions

In our store system, it seems you have to be LOGGED OUT of your account to start the process of accepting the offer and then only log in when prompted. What can sometimes happen is that if you are already logged in somewhere in the background (e.g. another tab in your browser), when you try login again and purchase, it takes you straight to your old product page by mistake.

PLEASE FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

1. Go to https://www.drstacysims.com and make sure you are logged OUT.
2. Now go to https://www.drstacysims.com/store  and choose your option. On the screen that appears, type in the email you currently use for Dr Stacy Sims products.
3. Once you finish typing the email it will recognize you and change the form so now click on SIGN IN and then you will get the normal login screen.
4. Log in as normal with your email and your password.
5. On the next screen, you should be able to finish the purchase. NOTE: Depending on what option you choose it may ask you if you want to purchase another product as well. Make your choice here.

If you have any issues, please email Steve at [email protected]

There are 3 online products to choose from:

• The WANSM course is our flagship course and it is for all active women who want to know more about themselves and/or their athletes. It is for those who want to work with female’s physiology to optimize performance. Participants have access to Dr. Sims via pre-submitted questions that she will answer live in Facebook Live Sessions. Learn more ...
• The Menopause course goes into this topic in a lot more detail than the comparable section of the WANSM course. Overall it is smaller than the WANSM course and there is about 20% of common content between the two courses. Participants have no access to Dr Sims beyond the content of the course. Learn more ...
• Microlearning Collections are focused, bite-sized units of learning that take a deep dive into a very specific topic. These are for people new to my material and want to take small steps before buying one of my courses, or who are wanting to learn more on a specific topic.  Learn more ...

Yes, the older Menopause for Athletes course, and its replacement, the Menopause 2.0 course, were both designed to be understood by non-science learners with added content for coaches and medical professionals. Everyone who has worked diligently through the course has understood enough to have gained valuable knowledge from the experience.
 

Yes, think of Next Level as your textbook for learning about menopause. However, the Menopause 2.0 course extends you much further. 
ROAR is nothing like these courses; compared to that book, it will be mostly new material.

These courses are presented by Stacy, who uses her casual style and informative audio-visuals to make sometimes complex concepts understandable and enjoyable to learn.

My big courses (Meno 2.0, WANSM) are more holistic and much bigger. They take you on a journey of learning through many stages to give you the whole picture, whereas Microlearning courses are all about learning one particular thing in much greater detail.

This one really depends on what you want. 

• If you wanted to dip your toes into our products, then you can do so with Microlearning at a relatively low cost. It is a safe way to see how we present information and the standards we aim for.
• If you have some knowledge and want to fill in the ‘holes’ then you can pick and choose which Microlearning you need when you need it.
• If you want to be taken on a journey of learning through multiple topics that are all created and arranged to give you a fuller picture of women’s physiology, then a 'big' course is for you.  Then you can see what extra learning you want to do and do some Microlearning Units in the form of a Collection from then on.

You can learn more by watching the comparison video.

We have the option for those people who have paid for the full courses to buy continued access to the same course material in a product we called Continuing Education. This yearly subscription is usually sold for about 20% of the initial price. We currently have one for the Women Are Not Small Men (WANSM) course and one for the Menopause for Athletes course. The Menopause for Athetles Continuing Education product will disappear and be replaced by the Menopause 2.0 Continuing Education product.

Unfortunately, the system we use (www.kajabi.com) does not have the concept of a shopping cart like a true online store. Although we can create an Offer by grouping multiple products together (for example, the 4 Microlearning Collections on Supplements and our Microlearning PLUS subscription), you can’t pick and mix your own selection, you need to purchase them one Offer at a time. Fortunately, this is a quick process and Kajabi has indicated that they will develop a cart type store, but it could be some time off.

Have a look at these web pages to learn more about microlearning.

https://elearningindustry.com/what-is-microlearning-benefits-best-practices

https://www.talentcards.com/microlearning-definition-benefits-examples?aff=eli

Yes, you can access all the Microlearning Courses for as long as we are in business for a one-off payment.  It's called the Microlearning Pack. 

In our context, a Microlearning Unit (MLU) is a 7-15 minute ‘nugget’ of learning, typically delivered as a video. When you get a group of these MLU’s together they are called a Microlearning Course/Collection (MLC). Typically, we have 4-6 MLU’s in a Course/Collection, plus other learning material to support them such as interactive activities, reference lists, FAQ’s, etc.

Unlike our big Courses, Microlearning are for sale as soon as we make them, and they stay on sale. This fits with one of the definitions of microlearning which is to do the learning when you need and/or want to. Plus, you have access to the courses you have purchased for as long as we offer them without any recurring payments.

Conversely, our courses are released on certain dates (about 3 times a year) and have cohorts that go through the learning together. Purchasers of the courses have access to the material for a year.

Some do call them Microlearning Courses or Mini-Courses, and others don’t. We have chosen to distinguish our ‘big’ courses (i.e., Women Are Not Small Men, Menopause2.0, and more coming!!) as big Courses and these products as Microlearning courses. 

Maybe/Not really/It depends. If a big course was planned to be made up of Microlearning Units from the start, and it has supporting material, multiple chapters, etc., you could potentially make a course. However, the Microlearning courses we make are designed to be standalone collections from the start and not be part a part of a course. Similarly, the courses we make are designed to take you on a journey of learning that passes through multiple stages.

Not in general. Some of the Microlearning Units (MLU’s) are covered superficially in parts of the big Courses, but generally, the MLU’s are deeper dives into specific topics. Basically, you can’t make up the Courses by doing lots of MLU’s and, conversely, you can’t get all the info of the MLU’s in the big courses. 'Big' Courses are bigger and cover lots of topics and sometimes they don’t need too much detail to get the concept across. Whereas Microlearning Courses are deep dives into very specific topics.

Each Microlearning Units (MLU’s) are videos that usually last about 7-15 minutes. A topic collection typically has 4-6 units, plus other learning material to support them such as interactive activities, reference lists, FAQ’s, etc. We design it so a Microlearning course takes about 3 hours to complete.  Of course, you can revisit it anytime and as many times as you want to really reinforce the learning.

We can’t say forever as we won’t be around forever, but we can say you will have access to the individual courses you have purchased for as long as we are in business. You won’t have to pay for them again. Having said that, if we make a new one on a similar topic, you will have to pay for that.

If you are a subscriber of the Microlearning PLUS, then you have access as long as you are a paid-up subscriber of good standing.

Microlearning typically uses Badges rather than Certificates. We are using the industry-standard accreditation system, Accredible, to deliver a Badge for each Microlearning you complete. You will apply for the badge on the last page of each Microlearning. Once you have submitted your application, an email will be sent to you with a link to the electronic Badge. You can collect all the badges, add them to website, social media, LinkedIn, your email signatures, and print them out.

If you can’t find your notification email, please make sure you check you Junk/Spam folder as some have been ending up there.

To watch all the module videos, do the supplementary educational material, and watch all the Facebook Live Q&A’s will be about 30 hours of your time over the 8 weeks (7 Modules, 85 Chapters). You could spend many more hours of additional learning by going through the resources that will be supplied to you. For the duration of the course, you will also have unlimited access to the private Facebook group where you can talk with your fellow students.  You have access to the online educational material for 1 year.

NOTE: Dr. Sims will not be answering questions via Facebook, you will submit your questions underneath the Chapter as you work through the course, and she will answer them in five 1-hour Facebook Live sessions.

All questions to Dr Sims for the Women Are Not Small Men course must be submitted using the Questions area at the end of each Chapter.  We will collate them all up and then Stacy will do a Facebook Live session to answer them live.  This session is also recorded and available as part of the course contents.

NOTE: Dr Sims will not be answering questions in the private Facebook group.  This Facebook group is only for community discussions.

Basically yes, but you will not be able to communicate with your fellow class members. The course material (videos, text, etc) for the Women Are Not Small Men Course is delivered on a very good system called Kajabi (www.kajabi.com). Understandably some people are not happy being on Facebook. If you are not on Facebook, you can still see replays of the Facebook Live sessions with Dr Sims as those videos are put into Kajabi. The only thing you would miss out on is the communal aspect. We are constantly looking to improve our systems so any other ideas would be considered.

We have people from all over the world doing the courses, from Dubai, to South Africa to Australia and the UK and the US. If you can’t make the live broadcast, the way to be involved in the Facebook Live sessions is to submit your questions in the Question area at the end of each Chapter a few days beforehand and then watch your answers being explained by Dr Sims on the replay on our learning system (called www.Kajabi.com). Not being able to watch the live sessions is not such a big disadvantage at all.

Everyone who has purchased the WANSM course gets access to the content, and any newly added content, for a year from the date their cohort started.

PLUS we now have a WANSM Continuing Ed option where you can get continued access after the first year. For a yearly fee, you will get access to all of the learning material plus any new material we add, which includes any updates to the content videos, supplementary learning material, and the Facebook Live sessions from each new cohort. Every WANSM video (content and Live) we have ever made, we have put into a database where you can search for keywords within the entire library and then click on the result(s) to see that segment of the video. The tool is called Searchie and revolutionizes how you can search a library of videos for specific key words.

If you choose to subscribe to the WANSM Continuing Education, your account will be moved from your current WANSM product (e.g. Nov-2019, Jan-2020, March-2020, etc) to the WANSM Continuing Education class. The only thing you will notice after the move is that your progress bar is back to zero. There will not be any FB groups or any FB Lives for you, but on a year by year basis you do get access to the videos from ALL the other past and future FB live sessions.

Yes. Links to pertinent resources will be supplied in each module. These links will direct you to research papers, blogs, videos, PDF’s, newspaper articles, etc. They have all been compiled and reviewed by Dr. Sims.

You can view and download the course syllabus here.

Yes - this course will have specific information for pre, peri, and post-menopausal women.

However, you should also look out our newer course that is specifically designed around menopause.  You can learn more about this course at www.drstacysims.com/menopause

Yes, once you have completed the complete course (and we do check!!) you will receive an email instructing you on how to access your Certificate of Completion from Dr. Sims.

Yes. Roar is now 8+ years old and this course will have additional research, information and access to Dr. Sims that ROAR does not.

This is course is not sport-specific, it is for any active woman looking to gain knowledge regarding her physiology and how to improve her performance (be it health, an event, a race, etc.) Dr. Sims has worked with mildly active women through to elite athletes of all ages in a long list of different sports from skydiving, to rugby to cycling.

Active women, Coaches (male, female), anyone seeking additional information on female physiology in sport and fitness.

The course will earn you credits with USA Triathlon and we are working on a few other ones. However, many students have been submitting the certificate and syllabus to their employers and institutions for credit.

By the end of this course you will:

• Have the tools to critically assess the media and marketing information coming into the fitness and wellness world.
• Have the foundation to build training plans based on women’s physiology.
• Understand the implications and use of different foods to help mitigate some of the common issues surrounding PMS (bloating, fatigue, negative moods).
• Expand your network and connections to a group of individuals looking to enhance women’s experiences and performance in fitness and sport.
• Have been able to ask Dr Sims questions that were answered in 5 private Facebook Live sessions.

The reason we don't make the material accessible forever is, unlike pretty much all other content out there on other topics like marketing, knitting, dog handling, or whatever, ours is 100% based on science and science evolves.  We don't want old material out there that is possibly misleading or even wrong, so we need to keep up with the science and change our material as evidence emerges, and that takes a LOT of time, and that expense needs to be recouped somehow.  

In that regard, we do offer a well-priced Continuing Education product that people who have done the full course can subscribe to on a yearly basis, and this gives them access to the latest version of the course. 

Dr. Sims will be teaching the whole course.  Don't accept any substitutes, get it directly from the person who wrote the book on this topic, literally!

Active women at any level, coaches (male, female), and anyone into sport and fitness seeking additional information on the physiology of menopause (early 40's upwards) and how to eat and train in each of the stages of menopause.

Yes, the course would work for you because you would just follow the Post -Menopausal information.

Definitely, the course is for active women at any level from 40 years of age onwards. It's for coaches (male, female), and anyone into sport and fitness seeking additional information on the physiology of menopause and how to eat and train in each of the stages of menopause.

Definitely, the course is for anyone working with active women at any level from 40 years of age onwards. Therefore it's for coaches (male, female), and anyone into sport and fitness seeking additional information on the physiology of menopause and how to eat and train in each of the stages of menopause.

Yes and no. Stacy has taken the Menopause for Athletes course she wrote two years ago and completely re-vamped it to include new science and examples. Some parts will be the same, some parts will be updated, and some parts will be completely new. The original Menopause for Athletes course will be retired as Menopause 2.0 rolls out over the top of it during Sept/Oct 2022.

Definitely, the course is for active women in all stages of menopause. It's also for coaches (male, female), and anyone into sport and fitness seeking additional information on the physiology of menopause and how to eat and train in each of the stages of menopause.

Yes. Links to pertinent resources will be supplied in each module. These links will direct you to research papers, blogs, videos, PDF’s, newspaper articles, etc. They have all been compiled and reviewed by Dr. Sims.

The course material (videos, text, etc.) for the Menopause For Athletes course is delivered on our online teaching platform (called Kajabi www.kajabi.com).

If you want to eat well, take some medications, and do a few walks, then this course is NOT for you. If you want to eat well, perhaps take some medications if needed, and exercise with purpose and intensity, then this is the course for you. I use exercise stress, and nutrition, to create a stimulus for adaptation the way our hormones use to. To do this, I include heavy resistance training and intensive exercise a couple of times a week. For example (with care!!), lifting heavy, plyometrics, high-intensity endurance training, adaptogens, protein, and appropriate fueling, to name just a few.

By the end of this course you will:

• Have the tools to critically assess the media and marketing information pertaining to menopause coming into the fitness and wellness world.
• Have the foundation to build training plans based on women’s physiology throughout menopause.
• Understand the implications and use of different foods to help mitigate some of the common issues surrounding menopause.
• Expand your network and connections to a group of individuals looking to enhance women’s experiences and performance in fitness and sport.

Yes, the Menopause 2.0 course is designed to be understood by non-science learners with added content for coaches and medical professionals. Everyone who has worked diligently through the course has understood enough to have gained valuable knowledge from the experience.

The course will earn you credits with USA Triathlon and we are working on a few other ones. However, many students have been submitting the certificate and syllabus to their employers and institutions for credit.

Yes, think of Next Level as your textbook for learning about menopause. However, the Menopause 2.0 course extends you much further. The course is presented by Stacy, who uses her casual style and informative audio-visuals to make sometimes complex concepts understandable and enjoyable to learn.

To watch all the videos will be about 15 hours of your time. You could spend many more hours of additional learning by going through the resources that will be supplied to you.

No, the course is online 24/7 and you have access to it for 1 year, so you can view and review any time you please.

You don’t need to do anything. You will automatically get the new Menopause 2.0 course material as it rolls out week by week over September and October. You will have access to the course material until your year’s access ends as normal. After that, you will need to purchase the Menopause 2.0 Continuing Education subscription to keep access.

As a previous Menopause for Athletes student, you are eligible to subscribe to the Menopause 2.0 Continuing Education product. This significantly cheaper option gives you year-by-year access to the Menopause 2.0 course material and resources. This is only open to those who have already done a Dr. Stacy Sims Menopause course, and you will be emailed the subscription code individually in early October.

You don’t need to do anything except keep your subscription up to date. You will automatically get the new Menopause 2.0 course material as it rolls out over the top of the original course during September and October.

Absolutely, it is never too late to start, and this course specifically covers post-menopause.

Yes, once you have completed the complete course (and we do check!!) you will receive an email instructing you on how to access your Certificate of Completion from Dr. Sims.

The Menopause 2.0 course includes:

• 5 Modules (57 Chapters) of learning totaling over 15 hours of educational time, including 9 detailed case studies.
• Links to other interesting and relevant content.
• Critical thinking exercises.
• Keyword searchable access to all the videos so you can find a topic quickly and easily.
• Access to all the course content for a year.
• Use a Credit Card or PayPal.
• On-Demand Learning - learn from anywhere and at any time.

Learn about pricing on the Menopause web page