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in Vidal, hello and welcome to Iaway, how are you?

Thank you, wonderful, thanks for having me.

I'm so thrilled to have you here. I think your work is so important and I wish it had just arrived sooner for my mother's generation and her

mother's generation. I can't believe how long it has taken for us to be able to start really speaking

openly about the menopause.

It really feels like something I've only heard in the mainstream in the last

maybe nine months and your documentary and your work with your book is such a well-timed and explicit way to have this important

conversation and now that I'm coming to an age where this is something I have to be cognitive of, I feel immensely grateful for the,

not just for the fact that you're putting it out there, but for the way in which you have packaged this information.

You don't make this change that I'm going to go through that half the population is going to go through feel terrifying.

Thank you. And I think it's the absence of information that makes it so scary because no one talks about it and everyone

refers to it as you know the change and all these kind of my dad I think clumsly once referred to it as

men on pause. So that went down like a

fucking sack of shit as you can imagine.

And it's this something that feels like I'll have no control and no agency and this terrible

thing is just going to happen to me and no one's going to talk to me about it and I'll have to suffer in silence and try to hide it.

You know, even now I've got friends who are, you know, experiencing perimenopause and they apologize for their hot flashes still even in

in 2024 and and all these things freak me out and I feel less freaked out for having watched your documentary so thank you.

Oh thank you for saying that because I know what you're saying that that feeling

of not knowing what's next or not knowing what's coming is is the reason for it because how are we still

saying something's taboo in 2024 I just I couldn't get my head around it.

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