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.

So it's very exciting today to have a guest from Across the Waters in America.

So Donna Francis, who is an award-winning beauty journalist, an editor, and she's kindly agreed to

talk about her work and about her experience.

So we've got lots to talk about.

But you're not from America initially, are you?

No, as you can tell, as soon as I open my mouth, I'm a proper Londoner.

And I'm going to keep that accent as well.

Very good.

Very good. Very good.

So tell me just a bit about your work, if you don't mind.

Yeah.

So I've been in the beauty industry for 26 years, not that I'm counting.

I thought when it got past 25, I would stop, but no, I'm still counting.

And I've worked across numerous titles.

I started on company magazine. I'm sure many of your listeners will remember that because it was quite a cool magazine back then.

And I've worked on Teenage Magazine Cosmo Girl and newspapers, the day email. I was at Boots for five years as their beauty director

and it was there that I introduced no retouching to all of their marketing materials and that's

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