Hello and welcome to my Friday 5, my weekly topical look at news and views from the world

of well-being. And as my regular listeners will know, I am coming to the end of my research

and field trips out here in Kenya, and I'll be heading back to the UK in the coming weeks.

But while I've been out here, I have been busy setting up various women's health initiatives

and projects, including educational resources to better help women during perimenopause and

menopause, more on that a non, as well as working with some of the charities and NGOs that

I am an ambassador and advocate for, including ACE, Africa, Tier Fund and the Fair Trade Foundation.

And as part of my work, I've been visiting various humanitarian and wildlife conservation projects

with a special focus, as always, on sustainable and nutritious food production,

especially when it comes to organic and regenerative agriculture. So I'm delighted to be welcoming

and especially fab Kenyan female founder to join me in a moment to talk about all this and more.

But first, I have managed to stay somewhat connected with the UK and my homeland during my travels

and something that popped up into my inbox this week, which I have to say was a bit of a surprise,

was a cutting from the new issue of Horse and Hound magazine. I have to say, not my regular reading,

having neither a horse nor a hound, but it was a press clipping alert from my press monitoring

service, who send me things from the media whenever I mentioned or quoted. So I was curious

to see how I could possibly feature in such a specialised publication not normally in my orbit.

Well, it turned out to be the most brilliant article written by Lucy Elder entitled

lack of information on menopause symptoms, directly affecting riders, women speak out to

empower others. But how brilliant that the tentacles of menopause awareness and evidence-based

information is spreading across all areas of our lives, also it would seem. Well, I was intrigued

to see a bit more on this, so I clicked on the article and I will read you just a few highlights

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