Black Menopause & Beyond

Anita sits with her teenage daughter for the first time to talk about menopause. Anita is very comfortable talking to adults about menopause but has never sat down with her children to have this discussion.  So today, in this podcast, she talks about menopause with her teenage daughter. Anita has never had a sit-down conversation with her mother and both Anita and her daughter feels slightly uncomfortable. However, the fear of starting the conversation is the biggest obstacle - in reality, it’s good to talk.

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Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/

Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.

Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. 

Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. 

She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.

Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.

The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. 

An episode will be broadcasted monthly with the occasional bonus episodes. The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.

I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.

My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.

Black Menopause and Beyond work with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/

Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/

Anita Powell's email address: [email protected]

https://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell

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Exploring all things positive when entering the menopause.

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A bitesize podcast. Anita is fed up with the media over glamourising Menopause. The media needs to stop focusing on celebrities who are part of the dialogue because they are women. We need realism, and images used to reflect real everyday women, women of different classes, colours, sizes etc. Every day women are working hard to include menopause as part of everyday living for everyone and all you seem to see is affluence and glamorous women. STOP IT, you are making the conversation around menopause elitist.

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In today's episode Anita interviews Una Alexis, Una is the cofounder of ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ a CIC (Community Interest Company). Within today's episode Una tells us about her experience, we explore hot flushes, libido, HRT, black cohosh, men and menopause, Testosterone, National Health Service plus we talk about Menopause in the Caribbean and Africa.

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Within today's podcast, Anita will be exploring low libido, low libido and being single, menopausal dating, menopausal cougars/panthers, testosterone and menopause and men marrying a younger woman once existing wife enters menopause. 

Links: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9525265/

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In this podcast, Anita, the host, explores the need to represent women of colour within menopause media. Menopause affects most women of a certain age; however, the media image of menopause lacks diversity and is often shown as an affluent middle class, slim caucasian woman. Within the podcast, Anita explores how and why the lack of representation can affect engagement; ‘is Black menopause different than menopause within other ethnicities’, what do black women talk about when discussing menopause, and what and how does health inequalities impact black menopause. 

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Jennifer, in my last interview, talks about her infertility and menopause journey. Here she has written a poem for the podcast all about menopause

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Jennifer's story.

Jennifer struggled with infertility and now struggles with Menopause. Little to no advice was offered to her, doctors told her nothing, and her mother never spoke to her about her struggles or offered Jennifer guidance. Years on, she realised that Infertility and Menopause problems were inherited. Jennifer explores her diet and physical activity changes, the struggles of work, giving up rum and the need for the black community to take Menopause serious and talk.

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This podcast is a get to know Anita podcast; I am the presenter of Black Menopause and Beyond Podcast; I talk about my Health (including how covid impacted) Menopause and Menopause conversation journey and how I got here.

In 2018 I realised the Menopause lasted for years; I was shocked and horrified that it was not just a quick switching off a bodily activity. I was horrified to find out that Menopause was a transition, and for some women, the change was quite dramatic and could last for years. Plus, I wondered why Menopause was a secret.

In 2019 I started an online peer menopause group (that I still run), then on to a face to face group sessions (this has stopped since covid). This group work with local women within my town. I organised my first menopause conference in 2019 and my second in February 2020. My Borough Council supported the group, and the events had NHS professionals such as Gynaecologist, Women Health Providers, BBC Presenter Nana Akua, TUC talking about work rights, plus everyday women speaking about their personal experiences. The group was interviewed by ITV News and BBC radio in 2019. I was nominated for an 'Everyday Hero' award by my local Newspaper, Bedford Independent, for the menopause group. I am currently planning a regular walking group for the women, arranging regular online talks and face-to-face sessions, and working with the Borough Council and borough councillors to engage the local women to discuss what they need from the council their experiences with the NHS.

In 2020 I met Nina, the founder of Black women in Menopause; I became a co-founder with Nina and her online black women in menopause group. I loved my first menopause group, but I quickly noticed an absence of women of colour and other groups within my sessions. I realised that menopause taboos and the menopause conversation were more challenging for some groups than others. Also, the discussions did not include conversations around cultural foods, differing cultural taboos, different hair types etc. I joined Nina, and with black women Menopause, the aim was not to exclude other women but to add black Menopause to the menopause conversation. So that black woman would feel that they too can talk about Menopause. The Black menopause group are currently organising loads of activities and talks for the future.

So, I currently work on two peer menopause groups, and now I have started this podcast. 

Anita at [email protected]

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Hi, this is Anita, and this is the trailer for my new podcast, 'Black Menopause and Beyond'. Within the podcast, I aimed to look at menopause from my perspective as a woman of colour, working-class with a fuller figure. I've noticed that not only is menopause a taboo topic, but specific communities are not part of the conversation. I aim to discuss this taboo topic, including health interviews, talk to women about their experiences, explore why the menopause dialogue does not have all women as part of the discussion, and talk to other groups absent from the conversation.

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