Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Menopause affects roughly half of all people on earth, and most people with ovaries experience it at the height of their careers. So why aren’t we talking about how menopause impacts us at work?

This week on Hello Monday, Natalie Nixon and Anne Marie Squeo join Jessi Hempel for a candid conversation on one of your workplace’s best kept secrets.

“It was such a stigma attached to menopause that no one even said the word. Like, my mother called it ‘the change’ and she whispered it,” Anne Marie admits. This secrecy towards menopause followed her and so many others into their workplace and personal lives.

“It's cultural that we don't give space and time to really not just skirt away from these transitions, but to honor them, to talk about them, to give space,” says Natalie. “ It all is meant to be, but it only gets normalized and surfaces if we can talk about it, if we can have conversations about it.”

Let’s break the silence on menopause. Watch the full conversation on #hellomonday #podcast