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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to do something in the podcast space

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Speaker 1: for a number of years now. My thirty plus years

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Speaker 1: in Australian commercial radio and news really dictated that I

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Speaker 1: should add my voice to a project. But I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to do something just because I should be seen too,

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Speaker 1: because of all my years in broadcasting. It had to

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Speaker 1: be something I was really passionate about and if I

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Speaker 1: could try and enforce a shift in the attitudes. In broadcasting,

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Speaker 1: you really have to bring your whole self to work,

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Speaker 1: and especially in Brecky Radio, that means your home life.

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Speaker 1: You know, the stuff that's happening outside of the studio,

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Speaker 1: all those little nuggets of life experience that other people

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Speaker 1: can relate to. I've always prided myself on authenticity, on

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Speaker 1: being real. I am, after all, essentially amom from the

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Speaker 1: Western Suburbs who struggled with infertility and pregnancy loss, a

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Speaker 1: cancer survivor, but also unwittingly jumping on board the perimenopause express,

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Speaker 1: stopping all stations to what we're assured is the promised

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Speaker 1: life and of no more pesky periods. However, enticing the

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Speaker 1: destination the travel time isn't entirely clear, and nothing I

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Speaker 1: would really subscribe to because I'm not really sure. I

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Speaker 1: like the view out of my foggy economy class window.

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Speaker 1: Rage Against the Menopause is about changing the narrative around

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Speaker 1: perimenopause and menopause, budging the stigma that still hangs over it,

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Speaker 1: and removing the uncertainty for women like me. I feel

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Speaker 1: women really need this. I truly believe in my heart

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Speaker 1: of hearts that they really want it. After all, knowledge

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Speaker 1: is power, and there's so much strength to be gained

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Speaker 1: after menopause, or so I'm assured. In this first series,

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Speaker 1: I speak to a wealth of women who just like me,

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Speaker 1: doing their best to navigate this stage of their lives,

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Speaker 1: all experts in our own writer at telling our lived experiences,

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Speaker 1: and in doing so, I really think making the one

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Speaker 1: in three women experiencing perimenopause and menopause feel heard.

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Speaker 2: Think about all the words that are used, you know,

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Speaker 2: old chalk and crone and a bunch of grandma's and

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Speaker 2: you know, where do you think about women in their

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Speaker 2: forties who are getting these symptoms, you know, and sort

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Speaker 2: of being embarrassed I think to be associated with aging.

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Speaker 1: I'm Patrina Jones, and that's coming up on Rage Against

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Speaker 1: the menopause. Make sure you don't miss an episode, Press

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