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Hi, everyone. It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to Work in progress, friends.

I hope your January is off to a fantastic start.

I know so many of us think about this time of year as a time to go inward, learn about our health, our mental health, our bodies, maybe our families, the world around us. And today we have a guest

who I adore both personally and professionally, who is managing to take some of her own

curiosity and turn it into a resource for all of us. Today we are joined by Jeannie Mai. She is an Emmy-winning television host producer,

cultural commentator, and she's built a career around honest conversations because she consistently

uses her platform to explore the intersections of womanhood and well-being. And now she is an

executive producer of the docu-series, Balance,

the perimenopause journey. It's a series that's confronting the stigma,

misinformation, and systemic gaps surrounding this life stage. And this is important because

let's be honest, perimenopause is something every woman will experience.

Yet most of us don't really know what it means when it's happening. When it's entered, it's

often with confusion, a lack of preparedness, and rife with feeling dismissed or alone.

It's a transition that reshapes women's bodies

and emotions and work and identity, but one that all of us women have been taught to kind of shrug

off as inevitable? Absolutely not. Advocates and experts are finally breaking the silence and

bringing this long overdue conversation to the forefront.

And with Jeannie at the helm, this show feels incredibly personal because her curiosity, lived experience,

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