Tams and Fidel, hello and welcome to I-Way. 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, clumsily once referred to it as men on pause.

So that went down like a fucking sack of shit as you can imagine um and it's this i'm yeah um and

uh it's just something that feels like i'll have no control and no agency and this terrible

thing's 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 2024 and all these things freak me out and I feel less freaked out for having watched your documentary.

So thank you.

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