Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

Today on the podcast I've got with me someone who I do know well and I have met in real life

and I'm very lucky because she works with me in our Newsome Health Clinic.

So I've got Sumi with me, who is a GP.

She's still an NHS GP.

She works with us in the clinic.

And she has a really interesting story, which I feel embarrassed because I've only recently learned about it when we went to visit a prison together.

And she told her story in front of

about 200 prisoners I think wasn't it so me yeah about that so we had a wonderful day I've been

doing some visits to prisons and we had a day where we were speaking to the staff and then later in

the day we spoke to prisoners as well. So you actually told your story twice.

And each time I felt very emotional.

And actually, everybody felt emotional.

But they tell you what, the people who were prisoners really got it and really felt very emotional.

But it fired something up in them because a lot of what you were saying resonated with them and their past.

So let's get going then.

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