Jo Mathisen: Breaking the Silence on Menopause
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
EP457: This week, Renee chats with Jo Mathisen, a producer behind the groundbreaking documentary The M Factor, which explores the very misunderstood and almost taboo topic of menopause. The conversation touches on everything from personal experiences with difficult symptoms to the creation of the film itself to the self-advocacy work that Jo stresses every woman should be doing. Jo also talks about the eye-popping revelation that through her own journey, she was repeatedly misdiagnosed and under-cared for, as there was a severe lack of knowledge and understanding in the medical establishment about this significant phase in women’s lives. As a result, one of the film’s key goals is to normalize menopause, raise awareness, and advocate for better education, both for women and medical professionals. Tune in for an enlightening and important conversation about women’s health!
Find out more information on the film at themfactorfilm.com or on socials @themfactor
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| 0:44.9 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Welcome to the mom room. |
| 0:59.8 | How is everybody feeling? I am starting to get into the holiday spirit. |
| 1:04.0 | And the reason I know this is because we went shopping the other day. |
| 1:07.2 | And usually as soon as I go in a physical store, look, I can shop online all day. But going |
| 1:13.6 | shopping in person since we lived that quarantine life, I just can't do it and I don't enjoy it at |
| 1:21.0 | all. But we went shopping the other day and by shopping I mean Home Sense. Home Sense is always |
| 1:25.6 | enjoyable to me. But still, like, I felt like I could |
| 1:29.4 | shop all day. I think it's because I'm going to do stockings for my mom and my dad this year, and then I'm |
| 1:35.5 | going to do a stocking for my husband, obviously a stocking for Milo. And my favorite thing to shop for |
| 1:41.0 | are, like, little trinkets, likeets like little things you know i bought my dad a |
| 1:46.2 | fishing ornament because he's obsessed with fishing and then i bought him socks with little fish on them |
| 1:51.9 | i love just picking things out like that for people and so i'm just in the holiday spirit we also |
| 1:58.5 | went to a laura they have a little christmas market set up with all the shops in the holiday spirit. We also went to Allura. They have a little Christmas market set up with all the |
| 2:02.7 | shops in the little town. It's gorgeous, first of all. All the shops look like they should be in a |
| 2:08.9 | hallmark movie. You walk in. I took some photos. I'll share them at some point. You walk in and it's like |
| 2:14.9 | you're in a hallmark movie. The stores are decorated so nicely. They have the |
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