Naomi Watts is an award-winning actor, producer, activist, and Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Stripes. She has Academy Award nominations for her performances in 21 Grams and The Impossible and starred in Birdman, which won the Oscar for Best Picture.  

She joins me on the podcast today to talk about why she decided to share her own personal menopause experience, despite the risk of being shunned by Hollywood. So far her experience of sharing has only be positive and she uses her platform to amplify the voices of other women so that they don’t feel alone and abandoned like she did.    We have a right old natter and it is a fun, uplifting conversation. 

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Over the last 50 years, women have made extraordinary advances in athletics, accomplishing incredible feats and smashing long-held beliefs about the limits of their physical capabilities. And yet, the institutions of sport and science have largely ignored the needs of this growing population.  

In UP TO SPEED: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes, sports and health journalist Christine Yu disentangles myth and gender bias from real science, making the case for new approaches that can help women athletes excel at every stage of life, from adolescence to adulthood, through pregnancy, menopause, and beyond. She explains the latest research and celebrates the researchers, athletes, and advocates pushing back against the status quo and proposing better solutions to improve the active and athletic lives of women and girls. 

Talking about humans and their bodies within the context of sports and science is a tricky endeavor. Both disciplines rely heavily on binary categories that often conflate sex and gender and don’t accurately describe the larger spectrum of sex or gender. Ultimately, the systemic injustices and assumptions embedded in sports and science don’t just affect women and girls. They affect all people. By examining how women and girls are marginalized and excluded, we can start to uncover ways to make these systems more equitable for everyone. 

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Meredith is one of the co-founders of Tactic Functional Nutrition, with her partner in business and live, Alex Parker. They have the most amazing account on Instagram calling out all the BS nutritional nonsense and breaking down the complexities of nutrition & health to build tools that can be adopted into every day life, to power your potential. 

Meredith has been in the nutrition coaching space since 2015. What started as a fascination with the science of performance nutrition slowly grew into a love for a more holistic approach to nutrition and behavior for performance, health, wellness, and longevity.    She combines her strong scientific and engineering background with an empathetic and open communication style to create an evidence based coaching experience that pushes her clients to learn more about themselves as they grow in the direction of their goals. She has worked with clients across the entire spectrum of humans, from Olympic athletes to everyday people. She is a lifelong student and has curated a coaching approach that draws from some of the best behavior change practitioners and nutrition minds in the space. 

Website: https://tacticmethod.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tacticnutrition/ 

Meredith: https://www.instagram.com/meredith_root/ 

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This episode is a ride, it is difficult to not enjoy the two amazing brothers Dr Spencer Nadolsky and Dr Karl Nadolsky. They are hilarious together and host their own podcast, Docs Who Lift, where they spend time distilling the complicated science into practical morsels that we can all benefit from. We spend a lot of time during this episode myth busting, dropping knowledge bombs and laughing...a lot.  Enjoy!    In their own podcast, Drs. Spencer and Karl Nadolsky talk about nutrition, medicine, and fitness through the lens of two physicians who lift weights. Both doctors are former NCAA division 1 wrestlers who have gone into medicine. Dr. Spencer Nadolsky is a board certified family physician specialized in obesity medicine and lipidology. Dr. Karl Nadolsky is a board certified endocrinologist also specialized in obesity medicine. 

https://open.spotify.com/show/2umc46jxx2i4qyjY0MRbDJ 

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This is a must listen to podcast that shows what true grit looks like – so very incredible. Enjoy!! 

 Meet is Lesley Patterson who won a BAFTA on Sunday for best adapted screenplay but the BBC cut her acceptance speech from the programme . They found time for inane interviews backstage, but not the story of how a 3 x World Champion Triathlete became a BAFTA winning scriptwriter. 

 Let’s start the story after her retiring as an elite sportswoman when she was asked “ What’s next “ she replied “ I am going to move half way across the world from my home here in Scotland  become a scriptwriter and win an Oscar . 

 That was more than 16 years ago when she landed in LA and set out to make a new version of the silent movie ‘ All Quiet On Thé Western Front’ .She bought the rights from the estate of the writer who wrote the best selling book that was made into an Oscar winning film. Over the course of 16 years she pitched the idea to anyone who would listen , listen they did but no one was interested in a German language film about World War 1 , without a famous actor being involved.  

 She used all he savings and remortgaged her house to keep her dream alive , but the dream was about to become a nightmare when she was told raise $10,000 or lose the rights to the film. She was turned down by everyone she tried to borrow from, but fate played it’s hand . There was a triathlon taking place with $10,000 prize money .  Exactly the amount she needed , she entered and began training. The day before the race she fell from her bike and broke her shoulder. She was down but she was not out, she strapped up , cycled, ran and swam a mile using just her legs and one arm .   

She WON the race, the film as we know was made with money from Netflix, and now she has won a BAFTA and was awarded multiply Oscars! 

 So if you didn’t know this story, you do now!” 

https://braveheartcoach.com/ 

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Very practical advice and education for menopausal women who like to exercise and stay healthy from an industry expert.  

Dr. Carla DiGirolamo is a double Board-Certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Reproductive 

Endocrinologist who specializes in the care of reproductive age and mid-life women. Carla completed her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brown University Medical School/Women and Infants’ Hospital and her Reproductive Endocrinology fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School. She is a North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Certified Menopause Practitioner and has been featured in multiple podcasts and speakerships at various events discussing the physiology of the hormonal changes of menopause, hormone therapy and optimizing physical performance in elite and avid recreational female athletes. Carla has been in the fitness industry her entire life as a recreational athlete and for the last decade as a fitness professional with credentials as a Crossfit Level 1 Trainer and Certified Nutrition Coach. As a pioneer in Women’s Performance Endocrinology, her focus is on optimizing physical performance in women in high-performance professions and female athletes of all ages. Carla has a blog through Substack called “Athletic Aging”. https://www.athleticaging.blog/ and her second publication “Performance Edge” https://www.performanceedge.blog/ launched in February 2023 Dr. DiGirolamo is currently a Partner Physician at Boston IVF in Waltham, MA. She has over 17 years of experience practicing as a fertility specialist and more recently as a menopause health consultant. She has been featured in Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors in the Boston area for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. 

Website: https://www.drcarlad.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carla.digirolamo.14 

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

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-digirolamo-0109b8103/  

Medfit course: https://www.medfitclassroom.org/product/menopause-health-and-fitness-specialist/ 

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By age 40 we should know about the menopause transition — when it starts and what happens in our bodies. Women Living Better empowers those on the path to menopause through knowledge and collective experience. But most women don’t and Nina Coslov decided to do something about that.    What started as a “what the heck is going on in my body”, to providing women with clear information about menopause, soon turned into research, as Nina knew there were woeful gaps. In 2020 Nina, Dr. Woods and Dr. Richardson conducted the WLB Survey focusing on better characterizing the experience of the path to menopause, beginning while periods are still coming monthly. As a team, this energetic trio has published six papers in peer-reviewed journals and is working on more. 

Nina was honored with the North American Menopause Society’s Media Award in 2021.   

Nina truly believes (as do I) that by our late thirties, we will receive anticipatory guidance about what to expect on the path to menopause. 

 Head over to the Women Living Better for more information and to take their polls! 

https://womenlivingbetter.org/ 

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Stephanie Kruse is the host of the podcast Good Enough For Now, which celebrates stories of the detours in life, the unexpected challenges that happen and lead people to determine how to move forward and redefine what matters most. 

During Stephanie Kruse’s 25-year career she led marketing and consumer insights for brands like Gap, Banana Republic, Yahoo! and Dell. Unexpectedly detoured from a corporate role, she launched her own consulting practice in 2010. Since then, she has driven new business launches, strategic expansions, and loyalty programs at Sephora, Gymboree and a cadre of wellness, retail and emerging technology startups, while working flexibly and starting a family. She lived in Atlanta, Austin and San Francisco before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut in 2016. 

In 2020, Stephanie reconnected to creative writing. She is now working on a memoir. When she’s not trying to find time on her calendar for exercise, you’ll find her singing 80s music in the car, meeting friends for coffee, planning travel breaks, hanging out with her husband and two teenagers, listening to podcasts and daydreaming about taking a nap. 

Follow Stephanie at @_skruse on Instagram and listen to the podcast at https://www.goodenoughfornowpod.com/ 

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Deborah Chambers, better known as Deborah Darling, is a 61-year-old silver model and social media influencer based in Pretoria, South Africa.  

She started modelling as a side-hustle in her mid-fifties while working full-time as a technical writer for an IT company. A friend suggested she create an Instagram account (she hadn't heard of the platform at the time) and to her surprise her following started growing almost immediately.  

Her side-hustle has since become a full-time mission to challenge the negative stereotypes of ageing, and to inspire women to embrace the age they are at.  

She believes that we are never to old, and it’s never too late. 

https://www.instagram.com/deborah__darling/ 

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Catherine O’Keeffe is a Menopause Workplace Consultant, founder of Wellness Warrior, and creator of the Menopause Success Summit. Catherine is the author of the best selling All you need to know about menopause.She helps organisations implement a comprehensive menopause strategy that leads to meaningful change. She’s helped hundreds of companies choose support over silence including Workday International, StateStreet, Department of Health, Sainsburys, and Microsoft. Catherine is on a mission to shatter the menopause taboo, for good. 

We have a good old natter about the current menopause state of the world, and why her advocacy work is so needed and important. We also dig into her new book, which introduces us to the 6 M’s of Menopause which are such practical ways to manage your menopause. 

www.wellnesswarrior.ie   

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