You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Hello, strong, feisty women.

Menopause is hell.

It also made me a better climber. That was the title of a feature article

written in Outside magazine by Jeannie Wall, who is a legendary athlete and outdoors woman.

She has also run the rim to rim to rim of the Grand Canyon twice, was the women's champion

of the Birk Biner International Nordic

race, and has climbed Mount Fitzroy, Denali, and numerous peaks around the world, just to name

a very few of her feats. Today, her primary sport is climbing, and she's experiencing the menopausal

transition through that sport.

And she says that this hormonal transition has offered her an opportunity to better understand herself and what she still wants from her sport.

This feature was hands down the best piece I've read from the perspective of a menopausal athlete.

So we dig into all of it and go deep. We address topics of fear, anxiety, rage, hot flashes,

night sweats, fatigue, and the power, yes, the power of invisibility.

I loved this conversation so, so much.

So speaking of conversations and continuing this, I do invite you to check out the ones she's having over at Broad Beta, which is a space that she has started with some partners

to openly share women's experiences of adventures in the wild from what she says,

the ordinary to the heroic.

And they just bring you raw stories, technical tips, all the outdoor life through the prism of women in this part of our lives.

And, you know, as she says, the women, they're featured broads behind broad beta,

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