Melinda French Gates

We have to do the training.

Quite honestly, we also should have done in the last 50 years so much more research on this time in life for women.

The fact that we have one study on HRT that was then misread-

And we've had to go back to it again.

Like, come on, we should be studying a lot of things about women's hormones throughout their life.

So in my book, The Next Day, I talk about big transitions in life because we all go through them, right?

We launch our kids to college if we have kids.

We start our first career.

We might finish university.

We go through this transition in life, menopause, and we need each other.

So I talk about in the book how I have gathered a circle of friends around me and kept those friends over long periods of time.

I talk about reaching, taking quiet time, which works for me in the morning.

Some people go out and jog or do something different, but I like quiet time and I like to reach for authors who have written about transition times or difficult times.

There are words to me, there's words of wisdom there and also some soothing.

I say to her, it can be so much more vibrant than you think.

It can be better than you even imagine.

I'm sure when you left your career, it was scary, right?

Petrifying.

Exactly.

Some of these transitions feel like you're standing on a cliff and you're going to jump, right?