ABOUT SPENCER MOORE

I am a women's health educator, podcast host, creative professional, and founder of The Hairy Chin. This platform grew out of dozens of conversations with women, ongoing education, and years spent inside the realities of the healthcare system, not as a casual patient, but as someone who has navigated complex, overlapping diagnoses across three decades.

I also come from a deeply medical family. My father was a cardiovascular surgeon, my mother a diabetic nutritionist, and my extended family includes surgeons, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. I grew up surrounded by medical conversations, clinical thinking, and an understanding of how the system works from the inside.

As a child, when I didn’t yet have the language or confidence to speak up, my parents advocated for me. They asked the questions I didn’t know to ask, challenged what didn’t make sense, and made sure I was taken seriously. That experience gave me something many patients never receive early on: a front-row seat to self-advocacy in action.

I now recognize how powerful that was.

My journey from childhood to adulthood has been filled with ups and downs and a lot of learning along the way, but my parent’s initial guidance gave me a bright light to follow.

Originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, I have lived in Barcelona, Spain since 2016. During that time I have operated inside healthcare in two countries, across both public and private systems, and in two languages. These experiences sharpened my understanding of how medicine works, where it fails, and how patients can participate more effectively inside it.

I am not a physician, and I do not sell cures or protocols. I am here to teach you skills.

MY Story

For over four decades I have moved through layered diagnoses, immune dysfunction, PCOS, debilitating eczema, depression, migraines, endometriosis, and chronic vertigo. And at 40 years old, during my very first mammogram, I was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and later early stage melanoma.

Each diagnosis came with its own network of specialists, appointments, and decisions. At one point I was juggling multiple providers and was memorably referred to as a "hot potato patient," the complex female patient doctors didn't want to treat. I bounced between specialists, private practitioners, and wellness influencers offering expensive protocols and programs.

For years I assumed I was failing myself. That I wasn't committing enough to the protocols (one required me to take 90 pills a day!) that I wasn't asking the right questions, or that I wasn't explaining my symptoms clearly enough to get the answers I needed.

And then it hit me. I wasn't failing at my healthcare. I just wasn't equipped.

No one had ever taught me how appointments actually work, what gets documented, what gets dismissed, and how to present information in a way the medical system can process. Once I began learning those skills, organization, language, and clarity, things started to change. Not the system, and not my diagnoses, but my ability to participate in my own care.

MY MISSION

My work challenges a cultural contradiction: women are told to advocate for themselves inside healthcare systems that rarely explain how. Through The Hairy Chin, my mission is to close that gap.

My focus is on practical advocacy. Not outrage, not wellness trends, and not distrust. I teach the skills that equip women with the language, structure, and confidence to participate actively in their own care.

Experience & Credentials

My work sits at the intersection of lived experience, formal education, and creative communication.

Education & Certifications

  • BA in Spanish Language and Literature, North Carolina State University

  • Certified Women’s Health Coach, Girls Gone Strong

  • Certified Breast Health Educator, Know Your Lemons

  • Certified Breathwork Instructor, Yoga Alliance

Professional Background

  • Professional copywriter and Spanish-English translator

  • 25 years in graphic art/design, creative strategy, and audiovisual storytelling

  • Host and producer of The Hairy Chin Podcast

  • Author of The Hairy Chin Newsletter

  • Creator of The Hairy Chin Advocacy Tools and Toolkits

  • Facilitator of 1:1 advocacy intensives supporting women in navigating complex care

  • Speaker and guest contributor on women’s health, patient experience, and advocacy skills

My hope is that the work I share through The Hairy Chin helps more women feel prepared, capable, and confident participating in their own care.

Thank you for being here!