Real Menopause Talk

Kim is a busy, successful woman in Perimenopause. She is a mum, a nan and a coach to many high performing women…who are often also going through Perimenopause. To HRT or not to HRT is a big question and has been for Kim herself. The request she get the most is, "Can I please have my smile back?" so Kim shares how she would suggest we might do this for ourselves and what is helping her with her own...

Victoria is a mum of two, a wife and works for a large bank. She is a writer, content creator on IG and podcaster. She is also a fierce advocate for Women's Health. At just 38, she is 4 years post hysterectomy and has had 19 operations due to severe endometriosis. Victoria tells a deeply moving story that sees her still finding her way through Menopause and all the challenges that brings, especial...

  Lee is a celebrated psychologist and wellbeing consultant, a radio host, award winning entrepreneur and proud dad. As a champion of Menopause awareness and education, Lee has been dubbed the Trojan Horse of Menopause - a moniker he is happy to adopt. In this episode, Lee opens up about how he has found triumph in the face of adversity and when his immune system failed him, how he found a deeper...

Nicci is a married mum who was born here, grew up in South Africa and recently moved back to the UK. After her hysterectomy due to fibroids, she found herself barely capable of even the smallest daily tasks such as taking a shower and was totally unprepared for such a radical change to her character post op. In fact, she was unprepared full stop. She tells us of her deep struggle to regain control...

#MakeMenopauseMatter  Diane is the OG Menopause Warrior. After her own incapacitating experience of Menopause, she decided that nobody should ever have to go through what she and her loved ones had to endure. From this, MenopauseSupport and the MakeMenopauseMatter campaign were born. In this episode, she tells her story and all I shall say at this point is, thank goodness for her dogs and her husb...

Carolyn Harris is Menopause Royalty. As an MP she has orchestrated dramatic and ongoing change for the way Menopause is treated in the UK. HRT is already free in Wales and Scotland and a reduction in HRT prescription costs will come in for England in the near future. Undergoing her own Perimenopause was not simple. She was going through deepest grieving after the sudden loss of her son, Martin, wo...

Lavinia Winch knows what she is talking about and you instinctively feel you are in safe hands with her. She is happily married, a mother of three adult children, a grandmother and going to celebrate her 70th birthday this year. When Viagra came on to the market, did anyone ever think how it might impact Menopausal women? Lavinia will tell you. She explains here, the difference between vaginal moi...

Katrine has travelled and worked as an osteopath and manual therapist all over the world, starting life in Canada and finally settling in London in the UK. As we know, reducing our stress is key to living a healthier, happier life. One of Katrine's super powers is teaching Intelligent Stress Management - simple, practical, scientifically proven techniques that can be done anywhere. I've tried it -...

Dominique is a mother to two boys and Founder of Periwink. She has has a longterm preoccupation with longevity and health and started biohacking before it became a "thing".She started lifting in her forties and won state and national records. Clearly already living a healthy lifestyle, her "Peri-slam" was just that, a total slam and when a vulture set up shop in her backyard, she knew she had to t...

Elizabeth Joseph has declared herself a Menopause Guinea Pig. I n an attempt to combat her debilitating Perimenopause symptoms, she was willing to give anything a go. And now… you name it, she's tried it from taping and tapping to fart pants and hormone yoga. If she hasn't discovered it yet, it may not even exist. She has been so open and brutally honest about her entire experience of Perimenopaus...

Dr Terry specialises in hormonal acne, aesthetic treatments and hormonal balance, especially for Perimenopause and Menopause. She has an impressive list of highly respected medical credentials and is a working mother who understands the pressures and stresses of modern day life. She shares her experience of Perimenopause, what she does to take care of herself and maintain optimum health. She is a...

Louise is a full time TCM Practitioner and mother based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Her passion is endometriosis and she treats many, many women for fertility. As she grows with her patients and enters Perimenopause herself, she is seeing more evidence of this in her clinic. Insomnia is the symptom that she battles with the most at the moment but she sees it regularly in clinic as well. The trouble wi...

Rhiannon runs her own divorce consultancy. Previously a family law solicitor, she now provides practical help and emotional support to people struggling with divorce or separation. In this episode, we cover A LOT. Not only is Rhiannon's Perimenopause story fascinating but her relationship perspective and advice is gold. A couple of years ago, Rhiannon underwent a hysterectomy, keeping her ovaries....

Susan is a Dyslexia Tutor , mother of three grown-up children (aged 17 - 24) and a Specialist Menopause Yoga Teacher. She is some years Post Menopause and shares her retrospective experience of Peri all the way through to Post Menopause and reflects on what she may have done differently with the knowledge she has today. We have come a long way from women 'having a turn' and being sent to a sanator...

Lucy Goff lives London with her husband, daughter and dog. She is not phased by Perimenopause because she knows she has a way through. In this episode she explains that she never envisaged setting up her own company but her own illness lead her down a route to healing that was so powerful that she decided to bring the solution to genuine wellbeing to market. She says of midlife, "It's the first ti...

Dr Andie Siggers is a GP and Functional Medicine Practitioner. Carol Milliner is a Health and Lifestyle Coach. They make up half of Change The Change. They each have two children and an impressive passion for fitness having run ultra marathons together. It was this friendship and Perimenopause discussions through running that brought the team together to change the way Menopause was managed. With...

Herschel "Buzz" Peddicord lives and works in Wisconsin, USA. He has dedicated his life to female pelvic health. His mother challenged him to find a solution to her many night time visits to the bathroom…so he did. We discuss the two types of incontinence, sexual health and what Buzz has created to solve all of these problems that women can encounter after childbirth and in later life. He describes...

Charlotte is a Menopause Nutritionist with an astounding knowledge of hormones and their wide ranges of functions. Due to a myriad of health issues, she underwent a rather sudden hysterectomy at the age of 44 and overnight went into Menopause, feeling as though she had been 'hit by a bus'. She tells us of her GP's reaction to her HRT prescription and then throws divorce into the mix as well. Tune...

Charlotte Cave is an exceptional hairdresser. She treats everyone as though they were a good friend and her best client, as do the rest of her team. When you leave her chair, you feel as though you could take on the world and all that it may throw at you…glamorously. She owns two salons in South London, is a wife and a mother to two sons. In this Episode, Charlotte is contagiously candid about her...

Christine and her husband Christophe own a magnificent tourist estate that can accommodate 42 people and receptions for up to 100 and an adjacent restaurant in the South of France. It's the sort of place that if you stay there, you can't help but feel great by the time you leave. Between them they have four grown-up sons, two cats and a selection of chickens. In this Episode, Christine shines a li...

Gia is a renowned and highly regarded Make-Up Artist having worked with 'A List' actors, models and singers, worked on editorial for the likes of Vanity Fair and Vogue as well as high profile advertising campaigns. When she discovered a staggering 75% of women are put off exercise for fear of being judged on their appearance, she decided something had to be done. She created Skin In Motion, a crue...

Outside of Instagram, Lotti is a mother of two, a wife and works in safeguarding in a secondary school. Inside Instagram, she documents her experiences of Perimenopause with great candour and humour. In this Episode, she shares the fear she felt when, out of the blue, her mind was filled with dark and intrusive thoughts; it was tough and upsetting because she couldn't rationalise anything about th...

Julie works independently and alongside Sarah Davison who you may remember as our homeopath from Season 1's Episode 15. Julie's first symptoms of Perimenopause were night sweats but when she went to her GP, he told her that his wife also had those and he was going to send her for a chest x-ray. She tells us where she went from there. Julie shares her professional tips for how to manage Menopause w...

Benvon is a skilled COO and mother of three. She tells us of her deeply intense years of Perimenopause when she was entirely unaware of what was happening to her. She felt as though she was genuinely losing her mind and became so ill that she even feared she was dying. When she finally sought help, the doctor discovered a complete lack of oestrogen in her body and she was then gradually able to co...

Karen Arthur is a Fashion Creative and podcast host of Menopause Whilst Black, she is also a mum, a grandmother and creator of Wear Your Happy ® In this first Episode of Season 2, she shares with us how she went from a busy, fulfilling and dynamic career as a teacher to closing herself off due to the onset of Menopause and addresses what it is to be Black and Menopausal. To get her through, she ga...