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Well, hello there, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast, the one where we're going to talk about menopause, perimenopause. This is in particular for those of you women who are in either of those stages in your life, menopause, perimenopause, or, you know, here's the thing. Like, I just feel like there's not enough conversations about this topic.

And it's like it's the weirdest thing because I also feel like we don't realize even yet how much menopause affects us women, but also I feel like there is a tendency, sometimes from people in the medical spaces, to blame things that are unknown on menopause. Does that make sense?

Like, if you listen to the podcast episode I did, I think it was last week, it came out on December 2nd with Dr. Ariana.

She talks about like that.

We discuss how sometimes when doctors maybe don't know what's going on with things in your body,

that they'll kind of blame it on, you know, age and menopause.

And that's super frustrating.

But also when you look at like all the ways per know, age and menopause. And that's super frustrating.

But also when you look at like all the ways perimenopause and menopause can affect a woman,

like it's, there's such a huge variety. There's so many ways that your body and your mind can be affected that I really was not prepared for. And I am on the other

side of menopause. I am postmenopausal. And so, but I wanted to do this episode as a follow-up to

the one with Dr. Ariana, just because I think it's a really important conversation. And I really

want to hit on how I feel like very menopause and

menopause affected me and continue to affect me in business today and how they can perhaps

and might and perhaps will affect you in business as well. Okay. So just a little bit of backstory.

I hit metapause when I was 45. I am 53 right now. And so, you know, they say to like,

look at your mother and you can kind of gauge at what age you'll hit menopause based on that.

Oh, my mom had a full hysterectomy. I believe in her late 30s. So when I was 45, I just started missing periods and I was all of a sudden,

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