Last in The Heat Seat for Series 2 is Broadcaster Anna Richardson.

For this series of The Heat Seat, Menopause Mandate teamed up with Replens - the No.1 GP recommended vaginal moisturiser. Their Ambassador Anna Richardson spoke to us about "The Unspoken Issue” campaign, focussing on gaining a better understanding about the menopause and the more embarrassing symptoms such as vaginal dryness. While with us, Anna also recorded an episode of The Heat Seat, where she discussed her traumatic ectopic pregnancy experience and her fear of having children after this. The dreaded menopause symptoms, what she's doing holistically. Plus how she is discovering the positives of this third time of life.

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In The Heat Seat this week we have one of the Founding Directors of the Menopause Mandate campaign

Also the Founder and CEO of Intuitive Events, a multi-platform events company, Laura's passionate about raising awareness and helping people through some of the same struggles that have impacted her life.

Laura discusses her debilitating periods, which led to a diagnoses of endometriosis. Her struggle to have her children, ending in her second arriving at aged 47! Plus how she became involved with Menopause Mandate.

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Trigger Warning: this episode covers disordered eating and miscarrage.

In The Heat Seat this week is women's health fitness coach and the Founder of Owning Your Menopause, Kate Rowe-Ham.

As a patron for the Menopause Mandate campaign Kate is keen to impart the message of health and nutriton during peri / menopause, born out of her own debilitating experience.

Kate discusses her ADHD and how she manages it through diet and lifestyle, her multiple miscarriages, and her battle with disordered eating.

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Trigger Warning: this episode covers baby loss and Dr Philippa's experience with cancer.

In The Heat Seat this week is the brilliant Dr Philippa Kaye.

Dr Philippa is a GP, media doctor and mum of three.

One of our wonderful Menopause Mandate campaign experts, her passion for women's health and raising awareness is unprecedented.

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Thorrun Govind is a practicing pharmacist, healthcare lawyer, and TV Health Expert. She is also the former Chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in England, and has utilised her position to advocate for healthcare.

She joined the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign as an expert and recorded The Meno Series - a series of interviews, to support healthcare professionals understand the menopause and HRT, from a prescribing and dispensing point of view.

Thorrun tells of her hatred for periods, why she wants to see more done in this area, and what life was like to be a pharmacist when HRT were at their lowest levels across the country.

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In this episode we meet Melissa Robertson, the CEO of Dark Horses, and one of the Directors of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign

Melissa has written extensively about how businesses need to more actively respond to the challenges of menopause and has created a fantastic open source Menopause Policy, which businesses can take, adapt and use as their own.

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In The Heat Seat today is the fabulous Karen Arthur!

Black women are more likely to start our menopause up to two years earlier than their white counterparts. They're also half as likely to take HRT. As a patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign Karen's fight and drive to get the M word out, and raise awareness for Black women who don't have the same voice in this area.

Karen tells her own story, from believing she was going to die, to feeling like she wanted to die, to finding her way back to herself.

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In The Heat Seat for our first episode of this series, it's the phenonminal Cherry Healey!

As a patron of the mighty Menopause Mandate campaign Cherry's passion for women's health, and raising awareness in this space - particularly for perimenopause - is relentless.

Cherry covers her traumatic childbirth, perimenopause, and learning later in life about the female anatomy!

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