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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

The Workplace Secret No One’s Talking About: Breaking the Silence on Menopause

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Menopause Secret No One Talks About at Work—And Why It Needs to Change Breaking the Silence: Menopause in the Workplace with Natalie Nixon and Anne Marie Squeo Why Aren’t We Talking About Menopause? Reimagining Work Culture for All The Workplace Secret No One’s Talking About: Breaking the Silence on Menopause Why don’t we talk about menopause at work, when it’s something roughly half the population experiences? Most people with ovaries hit menopause somewhere between the ages of 45 and 55, often at the height of their careers. But for years, they’re left to push through this period silently. Peers and mentors don’t discuss it. Businesses do little to recognize it, let alone accommodate it. No one is served by this silence. So on today’s episode of Hello Monday, we’re talking about menopause. Jessi Hempel sits down with Natalie Nixon, creativity strategist and president of Figure 8 Thinking, and Anne Marie Squeo, CEO and Founder of Proof Point Communications.  Together, they discuss: Natalie’s experience of going through menopause early and unprepared, following a myomectomy. Anne Marie’s experience of juggling menopause, a global pandemic, and her C-suite position at Xerox. The unexpected advantages at the intersection of menopause and career Managing the symptoms of menopause at work, from irritability, to hot flashes, to sleeping less than five hours a week. How we can reimagine a work culture that destigmatizes menopause and better supports the people experiencing it. Want to keep talking about menopause with us? Join us for Office Hours, Wednesday at 3pm on the LinkedIn News Page Learn more about menopause through the following resources: Mayo Clinic: Menopause The Menopause Society Let’s Talk Menopause

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0:00.0

LinkedIn News

0:02.8

I feel so embarrassed about needing to tell this dean that I need his myomectomy.

0:12.4

He said, use the word uterus, vagina, it will make him a super hard to heart to bowl.

0:17.1

And I did.

0:18.5

You would argue with you.

0:19.2

It was really, he really got scurber.

0:21.1

He's like, okay, how much time you need?

0:22.6

Take seven weeks.

0:23.5

Take seven weeks.

0:27.5

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.

0:32.2

It's our show about work on our own terms.

0:35.8

Most women and people with ovaries will go through metaphors somewhere

0:39.8

between the ages of 45 and 55. And the thing about that age range, right, is it's right

0:46.0

at the moment that most of us will also move into the most senior leadership roles we'll have

0:50.8

in our careers. And yet, we mostly don't talk about this stuff at work.

0:55.8

There are very few accommodations, almost no conversations, very few policies that are designed

1:02.5

to support this.

1:03.9

We just keep quiet.

1:06.5

When I was getting ready for this episode, I heard about this one woman in a very senior role

1:11.6

who used to keep a towel and a change of clothes

1:14.1

under her desk, and she told no one.

1:16.7

And here's the thing, no one is served by that silence.

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