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Ageism Disruptor, Author, Midlife Mentor, Podcast Host

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I'm about empowering women to live their best lives, especially as they go through midlife, and society starts telling them they're no longer relevant or have value. 

In my presentations to organizations, at online summits and real world events, I inspire women to thrive not just survive through menopause and demonstrate how to deal with the messy stuff of midlife. I show women that anything is STILL possible for them, and give them the tools they need to create a magnificent next chapter.  

I was given an initially devastating early menopause diagnosis at 41, which ended my dreams of a second child, but which I was able, for a short while, to reverse!  I help women feel better about getting older. My mission is to challenge overwhelmingly negative narratives about midlife, menopause and aging in general and give women more control over their hormones. I want women to be prepared, not scared.

I've been featured in/on BBC Woman’s Hour, i News, Sheerluxe, Thrive Global, The Sunday Times, Authority Magazine, Woman’s Weekly, Prima Magazine etc. and numerous podcasts including Mediastorm, Make Time For Success, We Should Talk About That, Experience 50 and The Happy Menopause. 

I was on the BSI panel for the new standard on Menstruation and Menopause in the Workplace. I'm on the Advisory Board for the new national menopause education and support programme, In Tune. I'm also the editor of The Mutton Club, an online magazine celebrating women 40+ which is where this all began.  And I founded MenoClarity in 2023 because I felt there was too much scaremongering, hype and fear in current menopause narratives, especially in the UK. I'm the author of  Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause and Beyond which was recommended in the New York Times as one of the 7 top books about menopause! And I'm host of the Magnificent Midlife Podcast which was recommended in the Sunday Times!

I've given midlife and/or menopause talks to organizations such as Change.org, the Career Development Institute, Peppy Health and at events like the EveryWoman and Mind Body Spirit Festivals.  Recent events have included chairing the main stage session on menopause at the EveryWoman Festival with Diane Danzebrink and Kathryn Pinkham, a book talk and menopause workshop at the Vagina Museum with Kate Codrington, and a menopause talk to Kashmir Lifeline in Srinagar.

My own midlife reinvention came after a long and successful career in financial communications which took me all over the world, including 3 years working in New York and as communications manager for a FTSE 100 company.  I have an MBA from Imperial College, London and speak fluent Mandarin Chinese and Spanish, as well as reasonable French. 

I'm available for talks, expert comment, event panels, chairing events, campaigns, interviews, media opportunities and features on:

• Menopause and midlife
• My book Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause and Beyond
• MenoClarity
• Busting menopause myths
• Dodgy data around menopause (my research was quoted in the Australian Senate)
• Ending ageism
• Disrupting ageist, sexist narratives about older women
  
• Midlife reinvention/career change
• Doing a Masters degree in your 50s 
• Gerontology
• Digital exclusion of older people
• Midlife angst
• Empty nest syndrome
• My podcast, which has 170+ episodes, Magnificent Midlife
• Natural remedies for menopause issues
• Coping with early menopause and secondary infertility
• Being self employed at 50+