The Heat Seat

In The Heat Seat this week, Michelle Griffith-Robinson is sweating it out in The Heat Seat!As a Patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign Michelle's passion for helping women and raising awareness - particularly for black women and their female health - is admirable. Michelle talks about her struggle to have her son in her 40s, her cancer scare, and her fight to give her community the right knowledge so they can live their best life.Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with The Better Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In The Heat Seat this week, Emma Kennedy gets fired up!Emma is a Patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign and aims to raise awareness on a number of female health topics, including the menopause and also mental health. Emma discusses her complicated relationship with her own mother, her horrific experience during a routine gynae procedure, and being taken to hospital in an ambulance with heart concerns that turned out to be the peri-menopause.Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with Let's all Talk Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the hot seat this week, Lavina Metha MBE shares her female health stories - from menstruation to peri menopause.South Asian women can go through peri/menopause 5 to 6 years earlier than the average white female, so Lavina is on a mission to raise awareness of this.Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with The Better Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In The Heat Seat this week... Tina Backhouse, the MD of Theramex - a women's health company.Tina talks about her difficult start in life, growing up in care and her fight to educate herself, to get out of the system. Her unpleasant experience of menopause, preventing her from leaving the house on a regular basis. And her job at Theramex, which went on to save her.TRIGGER WARNING - Tina talks about babyloss, which we know can trigger some people.Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with Let's all Talk Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we have author, presenter and wonder woman for the Menopause Mandate campaign taking the hot seat!Lisa talks about desperately wanting her period to come, so she could finally feel like a woman. She tells of her lengthy battle with her first tampon! Plus candidly describes a hideous experience with a private doctor, on her quest to diagnose those pesky peri-menopause symptoms.Now in her fifties, Lisa describes herself as feeling "the best she has ever felt"Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with The Better Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we meet health journalist and one of the Directors for the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign.We hear how little Alice really knew about her own menopause, despite her job.She talks about her birth experience and being shamed for asking for pain relief, her passion for raising awareness for women and their health, plus how she talks to her teens about it all!Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with The Better Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Sophie Sulehria talks to Carolyn Harris, the Labour MP for Swansea East, about her female health experiences. From losing her son in a road accident, to finally "owning" her menopause, and her tireless fight for women to have a better life experience.Now a patron for the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign, Carolyn is a sheer force.Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with The Better Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first episode tells the story of author, journalist and women's campaigner, Mariella Frostrup - who also chairs the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign.Mariella talks about her life being brought up in the Republic of Ireland, with very little female health knowledge. Her problems conceiving her first child. Plus her surprising menopause symptoms, which led her into campaigning for better.Follow us on Instagram @menopausemandateIn partnership with The Better Menopause Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the team that gave birth to Menopause Mandate, The Heat Seat focuses on the female health stories of a collection of powerful women!The Heat Seat brings together the patrons, experts and ambassadors behind the fantastic campaign that is Menopause Mandate.From menstruation, fertility and menopause the podcast explores how women, such as Mariella Frostrup, Lisa Snowden and Emma Kennedy dealt with the lows that life has thrown, gained their female health knowledge, and found the path to the influential roles they're now in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.