Peri Menopause Power

"Be where your feet are" - Therese ONeill.

In this week's episode, we chat with coach, mentor and keynote speaker Therese ONeill. Therese started her first Business, Alphabroker Mentoring back in 2008, where she mentored over 200 start-up Business Owners over 10 years, culminating in her Winning the prestigious Finance Brokers Association of Australia’s Mentor of the Year Award in 2018. She successfully sold that business in 2019 and started Therese.Co Mentoring, Coaching, focusing on coaching experienced, high-performing Business Owners to increase sales, grow their business and scale their operations.

Therese is an incredibly passionate activist for causes such as “Collaboration over Competition” “Women Supporting Women” and “Mental Health”. She speaks often about Imposter Syndrome and supports women to break that cycle. 

During this conversation, Therese talks through some of the challenges she sees women working in the finance and brokering industry grapple with as they transition through this phase. She openly talks about her experience in becoming a mother and navigating post partum depression and what she has learnt from these life experiences. We also talk about Therese's passion for opening up the conversation and awareness about Endometriosis and shares her daughters personal story with Endo.

You will hear Therese's passion and enthusiasm for supporting other women and we know you will get a lot from this conversation. You can connect with Therese at www.therese.co 

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"Life is happening through me and I need to allow space" - Kath Roberts

In this week's episode, we are sure you are going to love listening to the beautiful and inspiring wisdom of our guest Kath Roberts. 

Kath Roberts is a trained colour therapist and systems coach, an author and international teacher of colour therapy who uses colour to balance energy, restore
harmony and ignite new ways of being. She has a track record of identifying and
cultivating talent following an extensive career in leadership for a FTSE 200
international recruitment company prior to setting up her own coaching and
therapeutic practise in 2009.

She facilitates transformational experiences through one to one or group coaching, empowerment workshops, online programmes and retreat immersions by identifying and then making the unconscious conscious. Her focus is on enabling others to wake up to their core natures, actualise their potential and find the work they love to do. She has co-authored a book “Colourful Boardrooms” that provides colour lessons and principles for a new paradigm in business, one that puts connection and collaboration at the heart of everything.

She values creativity, authenticity, wisdom over knowledge and firmly believes that
we’re all masterpieces in progress and that it’s never too late to be the person you
want to become. She has a compassionate and whole-centered approach to people development. She draws on nature as a source of inspiration, creativity and wisdom, appreciating that our consciousness is part of the greater body and intelligence of earth herself.

Through our conversation with Kath we discuss her passion for our work and empowering others to come into their true selves, the power of reframing our transformations, masculine and feminine energy and how allowing life to happen through us and support our greatest selves. 

You can learn more about and connect with Kath via the links below. 

Website: http://www.kath-roberts.com 
Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kathlroberts

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roberts_kath/

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In this weeks episode, we have the absolute pleasure of speaking with journalist, advocate, mentor and trauma trainer Karen Percy. 

Karen has been reporting for more than three and a half decades and has travelled the world – living in Toronto, Bangkok and Russia – as a broadcaster and writer. She’s skilled in  audio, video and web media as well as social media.Based in Melbourne, she is a champion of diversity and equity especially in the media sector. She advocates for improved media literacy as a way to support democracy.

She takes a trauma-informed approach which entails understanding another person's trauma experiences and dealing with them in an empathetic and ethical way. She’s been enduring menopause for 7 (!) years now.

It was an absolute joy and privilege to interview Karen and discuss how trauma can show up in our life. We have countless conversations with women who are feeling the effects of traumatic life experiences during Menopause or who are feeling like they are suffering with trauma. 

Throughout the episode we talk about what trauma is and can be, taking a trauma-informed approach and how past experiences can show up in our life at times of change and transformation. 

**Trigger Warning around some of the content in today's episode. 

You can learn more about Karen via her website www.karenpercyink.com

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In this week's episode we are joined by menstrual educator and author Jane Bennett. 

With a background in social work and clinical hypnotherapy Jane has
worked with Natural Fertility Management since 1990. In 2000 Jane created Celebration Day for Girls, a program for 10-12 year-old girls with their mothers, and later Fathers Celebrating Daughters for dads. In 2012 she began to train facilitators to run these popular programs in their own communities, which are now available in over 25 countries. 

More recently Jane has founded the Chalice Foundation, a not-for-profit social
enterprise dedicated to menstrual wellbeing, education and positive
menstrual culture, through which she works closely with the Victorian
Women's Trust. 

An author of multiple books, it was Jane's co-authored book About Bloody Time: The Menstrual Revolution We Have to Have that has been incredibly pivotal to our work and passion around women's cycles and phases. 

It was an absolute delight speaking with Jane about her research for her book About Bloody Time, her own experience with her cycles and phases of life and of course we spoke about the menstrual revolution that is happening.

We're sure you are going to love this conversation with Jane, who is so deeply passionate, driven and determined to create the Jane all of us women and everyone needs when it comes to our menstrual cycles and life phases. 

You can learn more or connect with Jane at the Chalice Foundation 
 

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In this episode, we welcome Lou Lugsdin to our podcast. A qualified teacher with over 20 years of experience, Lou has held many roles in the education sector. This broad career experience has provided Lou with the wisdom and expertise to be able to help people who are feeling frazzled, stressed out, overwhelmed, stuck, facing challenges and turmoil or who just want to raise the bar to achieve greater success.​

Taking her educational, teaching, and coaching expertise to a whole new level, Lou has founded The Team Approach where she works with clients and businesses, helping them move forward and create personal and professional change, and helping business owners and leaders to create mentally healthy workplaces.

In our conversation with Lou we shine a light on the importance of building positive mentally healthy workplace cultures, what a mentally heathy culture looks and feels like and why Menopause is a topic for the workplace. 

You can connect with Lou at theteamapproach.com.au

or over on Facebook, Linked In and Instagram.

We hope you enjoyed this conversation. If you are interested in bringing Menopause education and awareness to your workplace, send us an email and let us talk with you about the integrated approach we take so that all individuals feel equipped and supported.

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In this week's episode, Lisa and Nat share some key snippets from their Masterclass The Female Advantage. This masterclass was recorded last week as a webinar for their online community Women Thriving Together. 

The Female Advantage is a signature workshop of Own Your Health Collective. Some of the key takeaways from this episode include a discussion about "The Female Advantage", the benefits of women tracking and knowing about their cycle and bodies, how women's cycles transcend across our lifetime and how knowing about your physiology is a way of getting back to your roots and helping you to support what you need simply. 

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"We give away our power by not knowing" 

In this episode we have a beautiful raw and honest conversation with Grace Zielinski - an award-winning IT Executive. She is the Founder of ‘Menopause with Grace’ an online site and community designed to empower women to take an active role in their mid-life hormonal change.

During our conversation Grace shares with us how at 45 she felt like "something wasn't quite right". She had a challenging and rewarding career as a corporate high-achiever. Not to mention family life, with kids aged five and seven, keeping her busy. Grace had lost her confidence at work. She felt indecisive, overwhelmed and tired. When she decided to take an unplanned career break, she still didn’t know she was experiencing menopause. She just knew she couldn’t work through her symptoms anymore. She left her job to focus on her health.

We're sure that many of you will resonate with Grace's story and in your own way. You can connect with Grace at Menopause with Grace, Linked In or Instagram

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Welcome to this week's episode, where Lisa and Nat take you on a journey through the decades, from the roaring 20s right through to the super 60s. 

There's been a common theme over our decades and that has been the unspoken words about our cycles, our physiology and our phases. 

Lisa and Nat share with you their own stories and experiences across the decades and how they have learnt and grown through connecting with their bodies across their lifetime. It was an incredibly reflective experience looking back at what they didn't know back in their earlier years, their experience at pivotal times and where they both are now. 

This podcast episode was based off a recent blog article they wrote, you can read the full article here. 

Join The Female Advantage webinar March 31st 11:00am AESDT. This Masterclass is part of their Women Thriving Together community. This webinar has been opened up to non-members to join. You can learn more or book in to join in live or watch the recording. 

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In this episode we excitedly bring you our wonderful conversation with Meno Doctor Dr Linda Dear MBBS, FRNZCGP, BA (Hons) Psychology, DRCOG, NCMP.

Dr Linda is a UK trained doctor and certified menopause practitioner with the North American Menopause Society. She is the director of Menodoctor - a private menopause clinic based in New Zealand (www.menodoctor.com)

She holds a post-graduate diploma in women’s health from the UK Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She is also a psychology graduate, ACT therapist, certified personal fitness trainer and yoga teacher. In her younger years, she competed as an international gymnast and is a Commonwealth games bronze medallist.

During our conversation we talk through how Linda supports women in the NZ at Menodoctor, Linda shares her own experience of Peri Menopause and how that was a catalyst for her moving from General Practice to starting her own Menopause clinic and Linda talks about her latest research survey that has finished in NZ and is now being rolled out across Australia. 

This was such an incredible conversation and very inspiring for us, we hope you feel inspired too. 

If you are Australian based and would like to take the survey you can do so at https://www.menosurvey.com/

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In light of International Women's Day this coming week, Lisa and Natalie talk about the power of themed days to invoke inspiration, education and change. 

IWD represents an opportunity to celebrate women from all walks of life. Having just hosted their own IWD event, Lisa and Natalie recap some of the key themes from their event and how you could use some of what they share within your own life for not just IWD but for every day following. 

Enjoy this episode and have a fabulous International Women's Day on March 8th. 

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