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The Menopause Collective

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The Menopause Collective is a podcast for people to share their stories of living alongside menopause and how they have overcome barriers and stereotypes to challenge the narrative around menopause and help other women through their advocacy to 'join the dots' on menopause and decide what they want to happen next in their lives.

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June 19, 2022 ∙ 55 mins

The Menopause Collective – a conversation with Jane Tarrant

In this episode we get to meet Jane Tarrant – a breathing re-trainer and awareness coach;  founder of LiNK BREATHING. On average, a human being will take 670 million breaths in our lifetime.   That’s roughly 25,000 inhales and exhales a day.  Research shows that asthma, anxiety, ADHD and other modern maladies could be reduced […]
April 26, 2022 ∙ 46 mins

The Menopause Collective – a conversation with Bev Thorogood

This episode is all about menopause in the workplace and features Bev Thorogood, a specialist menopause trainer and advocate for inclusive conversations in the workplace. Bev shares her own lived experience of menopause in the workplace and journey into menopause training and what she hears women describe most about their own  experiences of living alongside […]
April 5, 2022 ∙ 34 mins

The Menopause Collective – a conversation with Clarissa Kristjansson

This episode features Clarissa Kristjansson who is a mindfulness and menopause expert, author of the ‘Mindful Menopause’, host of ‘Thriving through Menopause’ Podcast and international speaker on menopause.As a self-professed ‘anxiety sister’ Clarissa shares her insights into how the function of our brains change during perimenopause with the fluctuation of estrogen and progesterone which alters […]
March 28, 2022 ∙ 31 mins

The Menopause Collective – a conversation with Sarah Clein

In this episode I speak with Sarah Clein, founder of Wildflower Fire Coaching. Sarah is a coach, counsellor and a writer, writing on topics related to shame, burnout and divorce, all of which is born out of her own life experience.  We discuss these in relation to menopause, mid life choices and empowerment.
March 15, 2022 ∙ 47 mins

The Menopause Collective – a conversation with Amantha King

The first episode in a series of conversations with people about their lived experience of menopause.   I chat here with Amantha King , strengths performance coach and a 'menopauser', about her journey through menopause, and in particular, the discovery that she is histamine intolerant.  We learn about the role of histamine in menopause and […]

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The Menopause Collective is a podcast for people to share their stories of living alongside menopause and how they have overcome barriers and stereotypes to challenge the narrative around menopause and help other women through their advocacy to 'join the dots' on menopause and decide what they want to happen next in their lives.
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    In this episode I speak with Sarah Clein, founder of Wildflower Fire Coaching. Sarah is a coach, counsellor and a writer, writing on topics related to shame, burnout and divorce, all of which is born out of her own life experience.  We discuss these in relation to menopause, mid life choices and empowerment.

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The Menopause Collective

The Menopause Collective is a podcast for people to share their stories of living alongside menopause and how they have overcome barriers and stereotypes to challenge the narrative around menopause and help other women through their advocacy to ‘join the dots’ on menopause and decide what they want to happen next in their lives.

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