The Menstruality Podcast

Karen Arthur lives her life in full colour, and her rebellious spirit is catching. A fashion designer, host of the ground-breaking Menopause Whilst Black Podcast, and a leading voice in the global conversation to rewrite menopause, she busts menopause myths and shares refreshing ideas to manage menopause challenges with a rare kind of honesty, fire and wit. In this episode we explore:How Karen made the bold transition from teacher to fashion designer, moved through depression to creative expression, learned that NO is a complete sentence, and found a new freedom in her voice through menopause.Her powerful work to make menopause diverse, amplify the voices of Black British  women in menopause, and tell a new story of menopause as a pathway home to yourself (rather than something to dread). Why ‘wearing our happy’ is a powerful antidote to menopause challenges, and how it felt to invite Davina McCall into her fashion design studio for the Channel 4 ‘Sex, Myths and the Menopause’ documentary. ---Registration is open for our 2021 Menopause: The Great Awakener is now open. You can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menopause---The Menstruality Podcast is hosted by Red School. We love hearing from you. To contact us, email info@redschool.net---Social media:Red School: @red.school Karen Arthur: @thekarenarthurMenopause Whilst Black: @menopausewhilstblack

Wise author, grandmother and revolutionary Jane Hardwicke Collings is passionate, provocative and also funny - even as she busts through taboos, heals collective wounds and creates a roadmap for a positive menstrual and menopause culture. We explore:The roots of menstrual shame and its impact on our cycles and our bodies.How to live and bleed shamelessly through the spiritual practice of menstruation.How to heal the menopause shame (and a surprising fact about the five other mammals who go through menopause, and how it serves their offspring and communities.)---Registration is now open for our 2021 live round of Menopause: The Great Awakener. You can explore the five phases of menopause here: www.redschoolmenopause.com.---The Menstruality Podcast is hosted by Red School. We love hearing from you. To contact us, email info@redschool.net---Social media:Red School: @red.school - www.instagram.com/red.schoolJane Hardwicke Collings @janehardwickecollings - www.instagram.com/janehardwickecollings

This episode re-writes the collective story of menopause from a looming disaster to an initiatory pathway into your unique way of leading; in your family, community, and work in the world. If you’re entering menopause, or find yourself in the midst of this initiation, this conversation with Red School’s co-founders, Alexandra and Sjanie will dignify you, affirm your experience and give you insight into the deep process at work in you. (It’s also a resource for any person who menstruates who wants to prepare for the transformational power of menopause.) We explore:The ‘Ground Rules for Initiation’ that allow you to craft your own form of menopause sabbatical - even amidst the responsibilities you hold, using the 1% change rule. The menopause leadership superpower of discernment, and how to practice your ‘NO’ (without justifying it).How menopause makes you into an organ of intelligence, anchoring you in deep time, transforming your loyalties and plugging you into a bigger consciousness.---Registration is now open for our 2021 live round of Menopause: The Great Awakener. You can explore the five phases of menopause here: www.redschoolmenopause.com.---The Menstruality Podcast is hosted by Red School. We love hearing from you. To contact us, email info@redschool.net---Social media:Red School: @red.school

In this tender, honest and intimate conversation Red School’s founders, Alexandra and Sjanie reveal how the menstrual cycle activates a fresh kind of relational, creative leadership within each of us, and the possibility that holds for the future of our global community. We explore:The arch nemesis that we have to battle in order to grow up as leaders - the inner critic, and the sacred role it plays in calling us home to ourselves. The surprising ego-deflation devices that live in the second half of the cycle and how they wake us up to our humanity.Personal leadership stories: how Sjanie gets humbled each and every pre-menstruum and what Alexandra means when she says she’s now a ‘comic cycler’.---Registration is now open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can explore the curriculum at www.menstrualityleadership.com---The Menstruality Podcast is hosted by Red School. We love hearing from you. To contact us, email info@redschool.net---Social media:Red School: @red.school 

Welcome to The Menstruality Podcast where we speak with ground-breaking changemakers and creatives about how you can unashamedly claim the power of the menstrual cycle and conscious menopause to cultivate your unique form of leadership; for yourself, your community, and the world. Hosted by Red School, where we’re training the menstruality leaders of the future. To subscribe visit: www.redschool.net/podcast