Cracking Open The Menopause Conversation with Shirley Weir
Episode description
EPISODE #47
Cracking Open The Menopause Conversation with Shirley Weir
In this episode, I have the pleasure to talk to Shirley Weir, Founder of Menopause Chicks. Menopause Chicks empowers women to talk openly about perimenopause and menopause, to navigate midlife health information and to connect to women’s health professionals.
Since launching Menopause Chicks, Shirley spoke at TEDx Gastown Women, Pecha Kucha, received a YWCA Vancouver Woman of Distinction Award and Menopause Chicks has been featured in the National Post, Toronto Star, and OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network.)
In 2018, her first book, MOKITA: How to navigate perimenopause with confidence & ease reached #1 on Amazon.ca in women’s health.
Her online Facebook community fields an average of 15,000 questions and comments every month. Members regard the group as unbiased, trustworthy and the “go-to” place to get their questions answered and to affirm they are not alone.
Shirley’s marketing & communications career spans 30 years, she holds a certificate in Peer Counseling from the University of British Columbia, and she is a mom to two teenagers and one gold doodle.
Topics discussed
- Shirley shares her own experience going through perimenopause more than ten years ago and what led her to launch MenopauseChicks.com at forty-six
- What perimenopause is and some of the feelings that women experience along with what you can do to feel better
- What menopause and post-menopause really is
- Birth Control prescribed for perimenopause - I share my own experience with taking BC during my perimenopause
- Social media and its effect on spreading the word about menopause
- Becoming a health advocate for your own health
- Shirley’s book, Mokita and what it means for a woman going through Menopause
- The Placebo Effect
- How to crack the conversation open and remove the shame around menopause
- How to love the menopause transition
Find Shirley here:
Menopause Chicks Private Facebook community
Menopause Chicks Facebook Page
Find Lori here:
To 50 & Beyond Facebook Community