Creating a Positive Menopause Vision with Diesta Goldsmith (Episode 143)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Menopause is all over mainstream media these days. But too many women are still missing the message that they don’t have to needlessly suffer, especially Black women who on average go into menopause earlier and have worse symptoms such as hot flashes, depression and sleep disturbances than White women, but are less likely to receive hormone therapy, as well as medical and mental health services. This week’s guest health and wellness coach Diesta Goldsmith is grateful for the people who helped her when she needed it and is now on a mission to help others who are suffering get their lives back. The former bodybuilder, figure competitor, and system engineering consultant is also a fun, funny, and positive force in the menopause space.

Diesta Goldsmith is the founder of Vision Up Health & Wellness Coaching. She has been in the fitness industry for more than 30 years and now specializes in helping women navigate through menopause and live with vision and vitality through her coaching programs. You can learn more about her and her work at visionupwellness.com.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	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.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.0	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.4	I hope you all are well.
0:35.8	So I have a great one for you this week. I sat down with Deesta Goldsmith,
0:41.8	a vision of wellness to talk about how she went from writing software for astronauts to being a
0:48.4	bodybuilder and figure competitor to now being a menopause fitness coach.
1:00.2	What I appreciate about Diesta and what drew me to her is that she's really fun and funny and a really positive force out here in the menopause space, which can trend pretty negative
1:06.8	and is becoming increasingly combative.
1:10.5	She's also very passionate about and on a mission
1:14.0	to encourage more black women and other women of color to join the conversation and to seek
1:20.3	treatment for their symptoms as well as to recognize their symptoms because research shows
1:26.6	that black women reach menopause earlier than white women
1:30.3	and have worse symptoms such as hot flashes, depression, and sleep disturbances, but are
1:37.4	less likely to receive hormone therapy as well as the medical and mental health services
1:42.8	that can help them. So I called Deesta up and we got into
1:47.8	all of it, her story, her mission, and her message. And I want to say that I also really appreciate her
1:54.6	approach to positive aging. Now entering her early 60s, Deesta is pretty much on the other side looking forward and putting her best days in front of her.
2:06.7	She is positively and definitely infectious.
2:10.6	And you can get a daily dose of her positivity at Vision of Wellness on Instagram where she does really funny reels and learn more about her at
2:19.9	her website, visionup wellness.com. I'll link that in the show notes. And just a note, we did
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