129 - Taking a mid-life career leap to help menopausal women with Gaele Lalahy

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Gaele Lalahy had a successful career in consumer electronics as Board Member and Head of Brand Communications & Olympic marketing at Panasonic. Having been with the same company for two decades, Gaele became fearful of not having tried a different career, so she decided to take the leap and leave her job without a plan in place. When the opportunity came up to run Dr Louise Newson’s balance menopause support app, it didn’t immediately grab Gaele’s interest because, as she admits, she knew nothing about the menopause or the scale of the problem facing women. After doing her own research and realising hundreds of thousands of women were suffering and struggling to get treatment, Gaele came on board as the Chief Operating Officer for balance at the start of 2021. Since then, the app has grown ten-fold and is really helping to change the narrative around perimenopause and menopause and empower women with the information they need to get help from their local GP practices. Gaele shares some of the remarkable statistics that show how the app helps women get a diagnosis and treatment more efficiently, and she discusses plans for the app’s future that will make even more of a difference to people’s lives. Gaele’s 3 reasons to use the balance app: The balance app is a safe space to share and get support from like-minded people who also going through the peri/menopause. All the information on the app is very easy to digest, all medically approved and based on the latest evidence. Come to the app to figure out what is going on with your body and mind and join the dots. You will learn more about the many changes you may be experiencing and can then use this insight in discussions with your doctor to get a diagnosis and treatment. Find out more information about the balance app on the balance-menopause.com website here. Read about balance for healthcare professionals (HPs) or share with your HP on their website here. Look out for balance+ coming in early 2022! You can follow the balance app on their social platforms at: Facebook @balanceMenopause Instagram @balancemenopause Twitter @balanceMeno LinkedIn @balance-app

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.9	So today with me in the studio I have someone who I've not long known actually called Gail,
0:52.0	but actually I speak to her at least once every day I think and email
0:55.7	certainly more than once every day so welcome to the podcast Gail I'm very happy to have you here
1:03.1	so some of you hopefully all of you listening know that I've been working very hard behind
1:08.9	the scenes actually to develop a free Benipause app called
1:12.7	Balance, which we launched, well, about 18 months ago now. And Gail was introduced to me by
1:20.3	someone who we both know to become the COO of Balance. And I was delighted that she accepted. So I just really thought it'd be really
1:30.3	useful for you to be introduced to Gail and she can tell you a bit about her story and her background
1:36.2	because it's not from healthcare actually and certainly not from menopause either. So Gail, just
1:42.0	start off telling us a bit about your background before we met, if you don't
1:45.3	mind. Yeah, well, first of all, thank you for having me in this podcast. I've been grading the day
1:49.9	that you would ask me. So the day has come, so I couldn't say no. Of course, I can never say no to you.
1:56.8	You know that. So yeah, my background is completely, completely remote from startups, from
2:02.8	healthcare professional. I actually have a 20 years experience in consumer electronics where I kind of
2:08.5	worked in my background is digital marketing and then climb up the ranks within Panasonic,
2:14.1	who really, really treated me super well with an amazing career,
2:18.3	international career, where I could indulge my passion for Olympics.
2:22.5	Panasonic is a global Olympic partner and for Japan.
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