The Call that Started it All

It started with a phone call.
My annual check-up. You know, the one where you answer awkward questions, get your blood drawn, and pretend you only have one glass of wine a week?

I asked if they’d be running hormone tests this year.
The nurse paused. “Oh, that’s not part of a typical annual.”

And that’s when I lost my mind. I may have hung up. (Case in point, the hormones they weren’t testing.)

Backing up a minute. I’ve spent my entire career helping people see patterns, especially in behaviors at work. I'm a damn-near expert on increasing self-awareness so we can break self-destructive patterns. But nothing prepared me for the pattern I found in women’s healthcare.

The system is broken.
Women’s health is underfunded. (As in 1% of research. More to come on that.)
Doctors aren’t trained.
And we’ve been trained to gaslight ourselves.
To tolerate, to push through, to label pain as “normal.”

Back to my hormones.
Memory loss. Poor sleep. Mood swings that left my family running for cover.
And to top it off, three teenagers, all going through their own hormonal rebellions. The irony writes itself.

So, I did what I always do when something knocks me off balance - I went looking for answers.
What started as research turned into a full-blown quest. Articles, experts, rabbit holes. And something else: every conversation I had with another woman…at the grocery store, school pickup, the coffee shop…turned to perimenopause within 30 seconds. Every. Single. Time.

That’s when I knew this wasn’t just my story. It was our story.
The New Pause Project™ grew out of that realization - that midlife doesn’t need to be managed quietly or alone.

I’ve spent years coaching leaders to find their voice. Now I’m helping women find theirs again, in a world that never taught us to listen to ourselves.

Because once something touches me, I don’t just talk about it.
I build something around it.

I'm so happy to have you join me. We have work to do.