The Heat Seat

"Have sex with impunity and gay abandon!"

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:00:19 GMT

Last in The Heat Seat for Series 2 is Broadcaster Anna Richardson.

For this series of The Heat Seat, Menopause Mandate teamed up with Replens - the No.1 GP recommended vaginal moisturiser. Their Ambassador Anna Richardson spoke to us about "The Unspoken Issue” campaign, focussing on gaining a better understanding about the menopause and the more embarrassing symptoms such as vaginal dryness. While with us, Anna also recorded an episode of The Heat Seat, where she discussed her traumatic ectopic pregnancy experience and her fear of having children after this. The dreaded menopause symptoms, what she's doing holistically. Plus how she is discovering the positives of this third time of life.

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Laura Biggs

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:00:06 GMT

In The Heat Seat this week we have one of the Founding Directors of the Menopause Mandate campaign

Also the Founder and CEO of Intuitive Events, a multi-platform events company, Laura's passionate about raising awareness and helping people through some of the same struggles that have impacted her life.

Laura discusses her debilitating periods, which led to a diagnoses of endometriosis. Her struggle to have her children, ending in her second arriving at aged 47! Plus how she became involved with Menopause Mandate.

In partnership with Replens - the GP No#1 Recommended vaginal moisturiser brand.

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Kate Rowe-Ham

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:00:39 GMT

Trigger Warning: this episode covers disordered eating and miscarrage.

In The Heat Seat this week is women's health fitness coach and the Founder of Owning Your Menopause, Kate Rowe-Ham.

As a patron for the Menopause Mandate campaign Kate is keen to impart the message of health and nutriton during peri / menopause, born out of her own debilitating experience.

Kate discusses her ADHD and how she manages it through diet and lifestyle, her multiple miscarriages, and her battle with disordered eating.

In partnership with Replens - the GP No#1 Recommended vaginal moisturiser brand.

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Dr Philippa Kaye

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:00:29 GMT

Trigger Warning: this episode covers baby loss and Dr Philippa's experience with cancer.

In The Heat Seat this week is the brilliant Dr Philippa Kaye.

Dr Philippa is a GP, media doctor and mum of three.

One of our wonderful Menopause Mandate campaign experts, her passion for women's health and raising awareness is unprecedented.

In partnership with Replens - the GP No#1 Recommended vaginal moisturiser brand.

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Thorrun Govind

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:00:33 GMT

Thorrun Govind is a practicing pharmacist, healthcare lawyer, and TV Health Expert. She is also the former Chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in England, and has utilised her position to advocate for healthcare.

She joined the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign as an expert and recorded The Meno Series - a series of interviews, to support healthcare professionals understand the menopause and HRT, from a prescribing and dispensing point of view.

Thorrun tells of her hatred for periods, why she wants to see more done in this area, and what life was like to be a pharmacist when HRT were at their lowest levels across the country.

In partnership with Replens - the GP No#1 Recommended vaginal moisturiser brand.

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Melissa Robertson

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:00:36 GMT

In this episode we meet Melissa Robertson, the CEO of Dark Horses, and one of the Directors of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign

Melissa has written extensively about how businesses need to more actively respond to the challenges of menopause and has created a fantastic open source Menopause Policy, which businesses can take, adapt and use as their own.

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Karen Arthur

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:00:37 GMT

In The Heat Seat today is the fabulous Karen Arthur!

Black women are more likely to start our menopause up to two years earlier than their white counterparts. They're also half as likely to take HRT. As a patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign Karen's fight and drive to get the M word out, and raise awareness for Black women who don't have the same voice in this area.

Karen tells her own story, from believing she was going to die, to feeling like she wanted to die, to finding her way back to herself.

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Cherry Healey

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 06:00:26 GMT

In The Heat Seat for our first episode of this series, it's the phenonminal Cherry Healey!

As a patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign Cherry's passion for women's health, and raising awareness in this space - particularly for perimenopause - is relentless.

Cherry covers her traumatic childbirth, perimenopause, and learning later in life about the female anatomy!

In partnership with Replens - the GP No#1 Recommended vaginal moisturiser brand.

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The Heat Seat - Series 2 Trailer

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:43:49 GMT

From the team that brought you Menopause Mandate, The Heat Seat is back for a second series!

Still focussing on the female health stories of our brilliant patrons, experts and ambassadors, the team will be telling all!

From menstruation, fertility and menopause the podcast explores how phenomenal women, such as Cherry Healey, Dr Philippa Kaye and Anna Richardson dealt with the lows that life has thrown, gained their female health knowledge, and found the path to the influential roles they’re now in.

Let's go girls!

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Michelle Griffith-Robinson

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 09:00:28 GMT

In The Heat Seat this week, Michelle Griffith-Robinson is sweating it out in The Heat Seat!

As a Patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign Michelle's passion for helping women and raising awareness - particularly for black women and their female health - is admirable.

Michelle talks about her struggle to have her son in her 40s, her cancer scare, and her fight to give her community the right knowledge so they can live their best life.

In partnership with The Better Menopause

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Emma Kennedy

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:00:20 GMT

In The Heat Seat this week, Emma Kennedy gets fired up!

Emma is a Patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign and aims to raise awareness on a number of female health topics, including the menopause and also mental health.

Emma discusses her complicated relationship with her own mother, her horrific experience during a routine gynae procedure, and being taken to hospital in an ambulance with heart concerns that turned out to be the peri-menopause.

In partnership with Let's all Talk Menopause

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Lavina Mehta MBE

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:00:36 GMT

In the hot seat this week, Lavina Metha MBE shares her female health stories - from menstruation to peri menopause.

South Asian women can go through peri/menopause 5 to 6 years earlier than the average white female, so Lavina is on a mission to raise awareness of this.

In partnership with The Better Menopause

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Tina Backhouse

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 09:00:29 GMT

In The Heat Seat this week... Tina Backhouse, the MD of Theramex - a women's health company.

Tina talks about her difficult start in life, growing up in care and her fight to educate herself, to get out of the system. Her unpleasant experience of menopause, preventing her from leaving the house on a regular basis. And her job at Theramex, which went on to save her.

TRIGGER WARNING - Tina talks about babyloss, which we know can trigger some people.

In partnership with Let's all Talk Menopause

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Lisa Snowdon

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:00:00 GMT

In this episode we have author, presenter and wonder woman for the Menopause Mandate campaign taking the hot seat!

Lisa talks about desperately wanting her period to come, so she could finally feel like a woman. She tells of her lengthy battle with her first tampon! Plus candidly describes a hideous experience with a private doctor, on her quest to diagnose those pesky peri-menopause symptoms.

Now in her fifties, Lisa describes herself as feeling "the best she has ever felt"

In partnership with The Better Menopause

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Alice Smellie

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 08:00:35 GMT

In this episode we meet health journalist and one of the Directors for the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign.

We hear how little Alice really knew about her own menopause, despite her job.

She talks about her birth experience and being shamed for asking for pain relief, her passion for raising awareness for women and their health, plus how she talks to her teens about it all!

In partnership with The Better Menopause

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Carolyn Harris MP

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 08:00:49 GMT

In this episode, Sophie Sulehria talks to Carolyn Harris, the Labour MP for Swansea East, about her female health experiences.

From losing her son in a road accident, to finally "owning" her menopause, and her tireless fight for women to have a better life experience.

Now a patron for the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign, Carolyn is a sheer force.

In partnership with The Better Menopause

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Mariella Frostrup

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 08:55:23 GMT

The first episode tells the story of author, journalist and women’s campaigner, Mariella Frostrup - who also chairs the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign.

Mariella talks about her life being brought up in the Republic of Ireland, with very little female health knowledge. Her problems conceiving her first child. Plus her surprising menopause symptoms, which led her into campaigning for better.

In partnership with The Better Menopause

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The Heat Seat

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:57:22 GMT

From the team that gave birth to Menopause Mandate, The Heat Seat focuses on the female health stories of a collection of powerful women!

The Heat Seat brings together the patrons, experts and ambassadors behind the fantastic campaign that is Menopause Mandate.

From menstruation, fertility and menopause the podcast explores how women, such as Mariella Frostrup, Lisa Snowden and Emma Kennedy dealt with the lows that life has thrown, gained their female health knowledge, and found the path to the influential roles they’re now in.

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