Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, August 3rd.

Today on Forbes, How Hallie Berry became the new face of menopause.

Hallie Berry knows what you think of her.

The first, and so far only, Black Woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress,

the former model and fixture on most beautiful people lists

is all too familiar with being best known for her performances and her looks. But three words

she shouted on Capitol Hill in May 24, while surrounded by a bipartisan group of all women senators,

might change that. She said, quote, I'm in menopause.

Barry says, quote, for so long, people have put me in this sex symbol box. For someone like

me to speak about going through menopause, which has been so stigmatized, if I can say,

hey, it's sexy to arrive at this time of our life. It's actually a privilege to age.

I hope I'm giving women the courage to stand tall and accept that we don't have to stay

eternally 30. I mean, who wants to stay eternally 30?

In her sixth decade, Barry is laser-focused on women's health. It's a mission of both

advocacy and entrepreneurship that began when her own perimenopause

was misdiagnosed as herpes, and she realized just how much more awareness both doctors and

patients needed about this crucial, and for those who live long enough, universal, life stage.

Barry's vehicle is Respin, originally a wellness and exercise website she founded in 2020,

but which relaunched this February as a menopause-focused healthcare company.

With less than $5 million in funding from investors, including Kossela Ventures,

Respin is still in its earliest days, telehealth visits just launched in July, and revenue is still

mostly nascent. But she's feeling invigorated by the task of growing and scaling her startup.

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