Hello and welcome to this what might be slightly echoy episode of the ESG Fitness podcast.

I'm not going to apologise for it. I'm not putting a towel over my head. It's too hot, it's too stuffy.

I feel like I can't breathe. Okay. So if it's a little bit echoy, I'm sorry, I will be back in the UK next week with my microphone,

which I often forget to plug in.

So probably also, sure what, no, I'll get a proper set out.

We're going to do this properly now.

After almost 400 episodes, I've decided now is the time to make it professional.

Anyway, welcome to this episode.

I hope you're all having wonderful days.

I spent some time...

Some time feels like a bit of an understatement.

I spent a lot of time this week talking about the menopause.

I don't think I've ever had so many messages ever about anything

and a lot of things came up which I will discuss throughout,

well, over the next couple of weeks I imagine.

One thing that came up a lot, which I was a little bit disappointed at myself for, actually, was just people

thanking me for discussing the topic and saying that they really felt heard and that they felt

understood and that they felt seen. And I'm sorry if you didn't feel like that before.

I think that's a huge letdown of the industry as a whole

and also myself.

The menopause shouldn't be a niche topic.

Every single woman will go through it.

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