Welcome to the Pompy Politics Podcast, the podcast where we discuss matters of international, national and local importance in a calm, measured and reasonable way to get to the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury, the one frantically pulling his air out trying to sort out the audio issues. Evening in.

Marvel. Good evening. And tonight, a matter of, well, at least national importance, if not international importance.

We're looking at the issue of menopause, women's health, and because, let's be frank, Simon,

neither us are experts in that field.

We've got ourselves a learned guest.

Yes, we have indeed.

We are joined this evening by Claire Hattrick, who is an executive menopause coach.

So knows a darn sight more about this than we do.

So good evening and welcome Claire.

Oh, good evening, Simon E. And thank you so much for having me on. It's an absolute pleasure to join you tonight.

And yeah, I'm hoping to educate you all on menopause. So when everybody leaves the call, they will be a lot better informed.

If you are a woman, 51% of us will go through menopause

and the other 49% will be affected by menopause in some way, shape or form,

whether that be partner, work colleague, niece, neighbour or other.

Well, fantastic.

Well, it's certainly the big issue, even if it isn't getting the audience

that it normally, that it should deserve. But we're here to, we're here to listen and we're here,

we're here to learn. So members of the audience, if you've got any questions, then by all means,

please do pop them into the comments as we go along.

And we'll talk through them as we go.

But we've got some questions for Claire.

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