Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

So today on the podcast I've got someone with me who, again, I haven't met in real life,

but I've been stalking from afar and watching what she's done for many years, actually.

And more recently, she's popped into the menopause space. So someone called Emma Kennedy, who many of you

might have heard of, very inspirational, the work that she's done. And now she's here talking about

the menopause. So welcome, Emma. Thanks for joining me today. Hello, hello. Hello. Thank you for

asking me on. Oh, no, it's great. So for those people that don't, hello. Hello. Thank you for asking me on.

Oh, no, it's great. So for those people that don't know you, can you just give a bit of a push-it history about who you are and some of the incredible things that you've done?

I'm an author and screenwriter. I was an actress back in the day and also a TV presenter. And I used to be a lawyer, but I gave up the law in order to be a writer.

And I got sidetracked into acting and presenting and all those things.

And then I sort of jacked that in in order to become a proper writer again.

The book I wrote that was a bestseller, it was called Tent the Buck Bucket of Me, which lots of people have read about my family's disastrous holidays, disastrous attempts to go on holiday, I should say, in the 1970s.

And I've written for lots and lots of children's animation series at Paddington and Danger Mouse and Waffle the Wonder Dog, etc., etc.

Great. So lots of skills. And so, yes, I mean, I grew up in the 70s, great time.

And things in the 17th when thinking about the menopause, people didn't really talk about it.

They didn't talk about any conditions, really. If they did talk about the menopause, it was the change. I don't think anyone would ever use it. They didn't talk about any conditions, really. If they did talk about the

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