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Amy, do you remember that most work.

Amy B, do you remember that moment in season four toward the end of our episode, aging up, not out, when I brought up Menopause?

Yeah.

Yes, I do and I have to admit I got a little

squirmy when you did but I realized that we were going to go there and we did.

It was a squirming moment for me to a bit,

though it made total sense to talk about menopause

if we're talking about aging at work.

Yeah, totally. So do you remember the email we got

after that app came out from the woman in her early 50s who works in banking? I do. I

I think I actually responded to that email. So she was in Amy 2 and I went into our

inbox and search for her email. She gave us the okay to read this part and it makes me smile once again so let me share it with you.

She wrote, I think this is the first time I've ever heard the words menopause and work in the same breath.

Yes, I had to take off my sweater, plug in my little laptop fan, then get chilled, and have to put my sweater back on all during this

podcast, but the feeling that I'm not alone really made my day. I love that. I

I remember reading it and thinking, yeah, that's exactly why we talk about topics that sometimes people don't want to talk about right so we don't feel alone.

Yeah, I agree. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.

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