Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsom and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP, menopause specialist and founder of the free balance app.

My mission, to break the taboos around women's health and hormones, shining a light on the issues we've been too afraid to talk about.

From contraception,

sex and testosterone to menopause-related addictions and beyond, we're covering it all. I'll also be

joined by experts and inspiring guests, sharing insights and real stories, as well as answering

your questions and tackling the topics that matter to you the most.

Today on the podcast, I've got Gina Miller, who is founder of Money She and co-founder of SCM Direct.

We've had the most amazing conversation about how to be kind, how to stand up for yourself,

how to look after others,

and about the financial crisis, actually, of being a menopausal woman.

So, Dina, I'm really excited to have you here, actually in the podcast studio as well.

There's so much I want to talk about, but we're going to have to try and

calm it down because I'm really excited. There's so much that you've done in your life,

which is incredible, and you've got so much more that you're doing. Oh, yes. Absolutely.

Not finish yet. No, absolutely. But one of the first things I want to hear about, really,

is what keeps you going? What keeps that far in the belly? What gets you getting up in the morning?

It's interesting because I always sort of reflect and think, is it nature and nurture? And I've come to the conclusion as a bit of both. I was always this really disagreeable three-year-old at school who never took anything from the teachers, always why, why, why.

So it's always been part, I think, of my personality.

But I also think it's the way I was brought up.

You know, I was very fortunate to grow up at the knees of parents who instilled in me.

My father was an activist lawyer, which now I think we should celebrate, not denigrate.

And he always said that, you know, you never know what's going to happen down the road.

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