Championing Sustainable  Transformation

For more than two decades I worked in senior operations and leadership. I was the capable one. The reliable one. The one who delivered under pressure, led teams through change and somehow still remembered everyone's birthday.  And then perimenopause arrived, and I discovered what nobody warns high achieving women about.  You can be competent, reliable and completely falling apart at the same time. Exhausted but still delivering. Foggy but still leading. Disconnected from your own body but absolutely nailing the quarterly review.  

I was living in a body that felt increasingly like a stranger's. My energy was unreliable. My confidence had quietly eroded. My sleep was broken. And I was asking a question I didn't say out loud:  "Is this it?"  

Then I crashed my car. Twice. In six months.

Physically, I was fine, but emotionally I really wasn't. Perimenopause wasn't breaking me. But it was making me pay attention in a way I'd been avoiding.
 

What I did about it. 

To get myself out of my slump, and get myself moving, I joined a gym. Aside from some Yoga, I'd never really been to a gym, but based on advice that it could really help, I signed up. Within 6 months things had started to change. My mood improved. Movement became medicine. Food started to become fuel instead of comfort or punishment. The more I learned about my health and my body, the more clearly I could see there is a huge gap in knowledge of how we support our female physiology, especially during periods of hormonal fluctuation. At best, we are uneducated due to lack of acess to the right information and advice, and worst, we are misled, ignored and gaslighted. 

The unexpected path.

I became so passionate about making a difference, that I decided to turn my career upside down and learn to help other women who were losing themselves during perimenopause. Why?

I became slightly obsessed with the gap between what women are told: "just push through, try harder, be more consistent", and what they actually need. Spoiler: it's not more discipline. It's a better system. One built specifically around their fluctuating hormones, changing bodies and the real-life identity shift that nobody warned them was coming. 

That obsession is the entire reason Grit & Growth exists.