Hey girl, I’m Maddy.

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I’m so glad you’re here.

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Willful Women is a space for evidence-based, feminist women's health education, where clinical expertise meets the lived experience of being a woman.

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You’re probably wondering who I am, so let me tell you a little about how I got here.

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I’m a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP-BC), and my career has been devoted to caring for women and advocating for better healthcare. I started my healthcare career in Australia as a paramedic, working in emergency care before eventually moving to London and then the United States. Overtime, my path increasingly led me toward women's health. I went on to pursue graduate education in nursing and women's health and became a board-certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. My experience has included oncology, urogynaecology, obstetrics and gynaecology and lifestyle and preventative medicine. Along the way, I worked across a range of clinical settings and saw the same frustrating pattern again and again: women deserving to be understood, investigated, or treated.

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Willful Women grew from that frustration, and from a belief that women deserve to be informed, heard, and active participants in their own healthcare.

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To me, being willful is a good thing.

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Women don't need to be less willful. We need healthcare that makes room for it.

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My approach sits at the intersection of evidence and lived experience, because both matter. Research and clinical expertise give us the foundation, but healthcare happens in real bodies and real lives. Your symptoms, experiences, values, and goals matter too.

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And in a world overflowing with health information, misinformation, conflicting opinions, and endless advice, I want to help you cut through the noise.

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My goal is simple: to make women's health easier to understand, navigate, and act on, so you can feel more informed and more confident in the decisions you make about your own body.

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Welcome to Willful Women. Evidence-based. Human. Willful.