What Every Woman Should Know About Menopause with Dr. Sharon Malone

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week, IMO welcomes our first returning guest: Dr. Sharon! Her new show, The Second Opinion, is available to listen to now. Dr. Sharon discusses her childhood growing up in Mobile, Alabama; her close friendship with Michelle; and why women’s healthcare is so personal to her. Plus, she goes deep on what every woman should know about menopause.

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0:00.0	This could have been an uncomfortable discussion for a guy. It absolutely was not. It was the opposite.
0:05.7	I felt safe and informed and educated. Did you feel safe?
0:11.1	Let's hold his hand.
0:12.3	You see, he felt safe. You were safe to you.
0:26.5	This episode is brought to you by Rivian and Alloy Women's Health.
0:28.3	Hey, you.
0:29.4	Hi, Craig.
0:32.7	It's Michelle Obama in her favorites place. And Martha's Vineyard in this beautiful barn in Chill Mark on the vineyard.
0:38.3	I like Chill Mark. Yeah. It's a perfect name for it. Chill. It's chill. Mark. I'm sure there's a deeper meaning to the name of the town. But yeah, one of my happy places. How you've been? I've been good. Do you know what I did this trip? I'm so proud of myself. What did you do? I got some pictures of myself taken all around the vineyard. Oh, fancy pants.
0:59.6	Down by the port. In Edgartown?
1:04.4	In Edgar Town and where you could see the lighthouse. By Harbor View? By the Harbor View.
1:10.0	Yeah. Yeah. And you know how I booked View? By the Harbor View. Yeah. Yeah.
1:11.3	And you know how I booked it? How? On Airbnb. Oh, okay. You can book services and experiences. Oh, wait, wait. You booked a photo shoot? I booked my own photo shoot. Oh, wow. Yeah. Well, I didn't book it. Yeah, yeah. My secretary. So that's a part of the special amenities, the new approach to Airbnb, the experience.
1:33.7	You can get different kinds of services.
1:37.0	You can get a chef.
1:38.0	You can get a tour guide.
1:42.4	And you can get a photographer.
1:43.7	So I got a photographer. Well, that's very cool. I'll send you the shots. I know this generation, which likes to photograph themselves everywhere, their food, they're, you know, that's a great idea. Yeah. So did you, I can't wait to see the photos. We got to post them up on IMO. I'm going to send them to you. I'm going to send them to you. We're going to have them on social media. Yeah. Were you cute? Of course. I was cute. All right. Well, wonderful. Wonderful. And I, a little birdie, as dad would say, a little birdie told me, you have another book coming out. How come I didn't know about this? I do. You did know.
2:18.4	You probably weren't paying attention. That could be true. But we, you know, announced in the
2:24.0	summer that my third book is coming out. And I'm really excited about this book because it's called
2:30.8	The Look. And it's all about my fashion evolution, something that I never
2:35.9	talked about as First Lady because I didn't want, you know, to be limited to what I look like
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