Welcome back to my new podcast series, Rage Against the Menopause.

Episode two has something for everyone, really, not only women, but those with male partners

and kids also, because perimenopause and menopause radiates to everyone around you.

If you like me, and at times really struggling with the symptoms some days,

chances are your support network is looking for ways to help

and also trying to understand what's going on with their matriarch.

Miserable magical menopause features author Alison Dado.

You may remember her as the 80s Aussie supermodel married to actor Cameron Dado,

but she's also a hugely successful author of the bestseller, Queen Menopause,

finding your majesty in the mayhem, which touches on the impact of menopause on her marriage and her family unit.

It's really helped me and my husband and teenage daughter. I think you'll find

it useful also. Alison, congratulations on your book. Thank you so much. Thank you. And can I say

the title, it's just an absolute triumph. It's absolutely, the title is brilliant. How did you come up with it?

You know, it jumped out at me at the very beginning because as I was writing the book, sort of towards the end, I was just like, God, I just want women to feel at the end of their menopause or as they're going through it that they feel like a queen

that they can somehow find the queen and then that they don't feel like some broken horrible

washed up old lady at the end of it i want them to feel so good about themselves and there is

so much mayhem um as we all know often with perimenopause and menopause.

Not for everyone, of course, but it certainly was for me.

And I had that title, Queen Menopause for a while, and then I actually changed it

because I'd mentioned it to my family, my daughter went oh so you're saying that

your queen menopause I was like oh crap no no no no no I'm not clean menopause I'm

like oh I can't have this this is going to be terrible you're going to haunt me that people are

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