​EPISODE 9: RECLAIMING OUR BODY: WHEN WOMEN CREATE MENOPAUSE SOLUTIONS WITH DEBBIE DICKINSON

​“There was an inferno in my body, and I felt unprepared.”

Debbie Dickinson and her daughter are innovating to solve your menopause frustrations. They join us in our women’s health over age 50 podcast series after a summer refresh break. You get fresh ideas grounded in good medicine and like-minded friends in our Living Loud Living Long Community.

• Have you wondered if your career journey is giving you fulfillment or taking you where you want to go? Debbie wondered that too and it started her on a fabulous path from a JD at Harvard Law and Wharton Business School to innovation motivated by helping herself, her friends and family. Listen to share her journey.
• “Why do we as a society teach young women about puberty but don’t teach women about menopause?” That is the key question Debbie and Dr. Hughes discuss but find no answer to today. We reaffirm our missions to address this gap.
• Debbie gives our listeners tips and advice about being a later in life entrepreneur who is also a woman of color.
• Learn how menopause can change your day-to-day life.
• Hear about Debbie’s approach to solving menopause challenges, including her startup Thermaband, for today’s 50up women and for our daughters and young women who will one day be in our place in life.
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About: Debbie Dickinson, Esq. is an experienced Harvard Law benefits attorney, Wharton Business School alumna and Lecturer, as well as a serial entrepreneur.  Debbie was a Benefits executive at Johnson & Johnson, then practiced Benefits law in Atlanta, before starting several small businesses. Her expertise includes wearable technology, direct sales, and ecommerce.  Debbie is very active in her church and community and serves on several nonprofit boards, especially with organizations which serve the needs of women and children. 
As a perimenopausal woman battling hot flashes, Debbie envisioned a discreet smart tech wearable to provide thermal relief, utilizing digital health data, and founded Thermaband with her daughter, working diligently with Yale scientists, physicians, engineers, and a highly involved community of women.  She is passionate about women's health, wellness, and rebranding menopause as a natural and empowering phase of life, by shattering negative stereotypes. She is also an advocate, speaker, author, change agent and happily married mom of four.