082 - The Personal & Professional Costs of the Menopause - Chris Oglesby & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Chris Oglesby is the chief executive of Bruntwood, which remains a family-owned and run company founded on a belief that its success comes from the success of its colleagues, customers and the communities in which it operates. He works tirelessly helping cities such as Manchester to thrive in many ways including by improving health inequalities, funding research and by supporting cultural and community initiatives.

Chris talks to Dr Newson about how his wife, Jane, really struggled during her perimenopause and menopause and how difficult it was for him to watch her experience various symptoms. He also speaks openly about his sister, who also found it difficult to receive adequate help and treatment for her menopause.

Dr Newson and Chris explore ways in which menopause in the workplace can be addressed to improve organisations and also about how poor menopause care is a global health problem which urgently needs to be addressed.

Chris Oglesby's Three Take Home Tips for employers:

Start with your own awareness, do your research and learn more about how the menopause may affect your staff.
Then you can roll out a programme of awareness within your business to benefit all colleagues, both male and female.
Look at pathways into providing your female staff with high quality treatment and menopause advice.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause
0:15.8	specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health
0:22.5	Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:31.7	This week I'm really delighted to introduce to Chris Oglesby, who is the second husband of a person who I've already
0:39.9	interviewed before. So it's a bit of a theme going on, but it's a different theme. So I'll
0:44.4	explain more in a minute. So welcome, Chris. Thanks for joining me today. Great to be here,
0:48.1	Louise. So Jane, I have known for several years and for some of you who listen to the podcast
0:53.4	frequently will have
0:54.3	heard. We talk to her. Jane is someone I went to medical school with actually, so we do go back
0:59.4	a long time. And she's been working very closely with me for the last 18 months or so,
1:05.7	developing our free app called Balance, which has been already downloaded by more than half the countries worldwide,
1:13.3	which we're very proud of. So Chris has known Jane for a long time. You've probably known Jane
1:19.7	almost as long as I've known my husband. And I met my husband in Freshers Week, so 31 years ago.
1:24.8	So it's a long time, isn't it, that you've known, Jane? It's a very long time, yes.
1:29.1	So what, 27 years now. And certainly when we were all young, we weren't thinking about hormones or
1:36.6	menopause or anything like that. And despite being a medical student, I was never taught anything
1:41.2	about the menopause either. So I'm sure it probably wasn't on your
1:44.5	radar, was it, many years ago? So the menopause wasn't, but actually hormones have been for a little
1:49.4	while. Again, very lucky to have met Jane, who's an incredible wife and sort of life companion
1:55.4	on the journey that we've gone on trying to sort of make sense of the world. And there have been
2:00.2	various stages
2:01.1	where particularly for her, hormones have had a big impact. So she was somebody that suffered quite
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