Imagine returning from maternity leave, you're settling into a new chapter of your career, new routines and new realities of life with tiny humans. Aside from the parental tiredness and squiggly navigation of this fresh life set up, something doesn’t feel quite right. You start to mention a few symptoms to a colleague and they give you the gentle nudge that you could be experiencing peri-menopause. 

That’s a tiny slice of the story of what happened to Anna Allerton. 

Her experiences escalated and Anna found herself leaving a decorated career in broadcasting because the combination of stepping out of maternity leave and into peri-menopause wasn’t the heady mix she was looking for (not sure anybody would be). 

Anna isn’t alone in her story. This is happening to so many women who are quietly trying to push through and finding the back to back life transitions are too much when the right support isn’t in place. 

So, Anna and I sat down to cover three really practical things to consider as an employer and what you can actively do to face these conversations in the workplace.

The three things we covered were:

If you’d like to find out more about Anna’s work you can head to her website.