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.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause. So today on the podcast I'm going to introduce to you someone who I've very,

very recently met actually called Jolie, who I've been reading some of her amazing work over the last few

months and then last week someone alerted me to a post where I was mentioned and read some really

harrowing comments actually and I really reached out to her and said let's do a podcast and here we are

on a Sunday morning recording the podcast. So thank you ever so much,

Jody, for coming today. Thank you very much for having me on this glorious, frosty Sunday morning.

Yes. So you are the founder of something called Pregnant Then Screwed, which obviously you can't

listen to that or read that without thinking what's going on here.

But as soon as you read it, I think most women will know exactly where you're coming from,

which is a real shame, isn't it?

But talk to me.

Why did you set this up then?

So I set it up seven years ago because when I was four months pregnant with my first child,

I told my employer that I was expecting.

And the next day they sacked me by voicemail.

And my employer was a children's charity.

So it was quite the shock.

And I found myself unemployed without an income and unable to pay my rent or put food on the table. And then I tried to do

something about it and discovered that accessing justice was almost impossible. It was completely

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