Hi, everybody. Welcome to this edition of Over 50 and Flourishing. This podcast is being released in

October, where it is World Menopause Month. Finally, a month dedicated to menopause and the

conversations thereof. I've got a wonderful guest who's going to be in just a second, but I figured

I would start out each of these episodes with my own

personal menopause story. And I know that we all have many of them. And as I think back on that

journey and some of the symptoms and signs that would hit me, I would never forget, and I was

anchoring the news at the time, brain fog is such, can be such a big part of a woman's

menopause journey. And I'll never forget, I always felt so assured of my brain's ability to

function in a news set, especially during breaking news coverage. And that was one of the things that

I really enjoyed doing the most was taking a story that was

happening live, not being scripted, and having to piece together and thread together the

narrative as you're learning information.

And I will never forget, I would sit there and I would struggle to remember what was

just said or even just putting my sentences together.

There were these lapses and these gaps that were starting to happen.

And I thought, my gosh, you know, this isn't me.

This isn't who I am.

You know, this was an area where I felt that I excelled.

And I'm, and I'm struggling to find the words.

And it was so, so scary for me.

And it wasn't until I started to get help and to get treatment for my menopause that suddenly

the words came back and I can actually speak the English language. Thank goodness.

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