Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast.

I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist,

and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon.

So today with me I have Jeanette Cardi, who is a fitness presenter, who has linked with me a few months ago now, and I was very keen to record a podcast talking about her, about her

background, but also we want to talk quite a lot

about fitness as well. So welcome, Jeanette. Thank you. So tell me a bit about you and what you do,

if that's okay. Yeah, so I've run my own fitness company for 20 years. It's definitely,

it's quite diverse. So we run fitness classes in the community.

We run classes out of gyms. We also do personal training. And then we also do corporate wellness and

kind of life coaching within that world and nutrition. So the whole body of health and fitness really comes together.

So how did you get into doing that? Well, I've always been sporty and, you know, I was a runner and a

swimmer when I was at school. And then when I left school, I got a proper job and I worked in a bank and I hated it,

absolutely hated it for three years and then just decided that I needed to get back into fitness

and so I started working in a gym and then set up my own business and so from there really.

So my passion has always been sport.

And for someone who I'm not genetically sporty, and I sort of force myself to do exercise,

and every time I do, I feel better. And as many of you know, who've listened to me before,

know that I do quite a lot of yoga, which is very good. I find both mentally and physically,

but there are so many different types of

sports so how do you direct people or help them to know what's best for them because it's really

important isn't it that we all find an exercise that suits us yeah most definitely I think it's

important that you enjoy what you do so if you don't look forward to it or it's an effort every single time and you don't get

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