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My name is Anita Powell I'm a 47-year-old black female born in the UK I am suffering the symptoms of peri menopause. A few years ago, I noticed that my body was responding different to how it used to be. Conversations with my peers and they too we...

My name is Anita Powell. I'm a 49-year-old black female born in the UK I am suffering from the symptoms of perimenopause. A few years ago, I noticed that my body was responding different to how it used to be. Conversatio
Latest Episode3/10/2023

Anita is back after time off, talking reintroduction to you all, health concerns around cancer and the importance of adding the word black to our healthcare narrative.

Season 2, Ep. 1
Anita returns and reintroduces herself, she also highlighting the importance of adding the word black when talking about healthcare for black people, and explains how health concerns around cancer has affected her for the past few months. Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers, an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/Anita Powell's email address: BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.com  https://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell.https://www.instagram.com/blkmenobeyond/https://twitter.com/blkmenobeyondhttps://www.facebook.com/blackmenopausebeyond/
3/10/2023

Anita is back after time off, talking reintroduction to you all, health concerns around cancer and the importance of adding the word black to our healthcare narrative.

Season 2, Ep. 1
Anita returns and reintroduces herself, she also highlighting the importance of adding the word black when talking about healthcare for black people, and explains how health concerns around cancer has affected her for the past few months. Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers, an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/Anita Powell's email address: BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.com  https://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell.https://www.instagram.com/blkmenobeyond/https://twitter.com/blkmenobeyondhttps://www.facebook.com/blackmenopausebeyond/
12/23/2022

Menopause Christmas Wishes #26

ANITA wishes you all a Merry Christmas,  Christmas is a time for joy, but for some, it's stressful. Within this short podcast, Anita gives out Christmas suggestions. Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers, an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/Anita Powell's email address: BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.com  https://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell.https://www.instagram.com/blkmenobeyond/https://twitter.com/blkmenobeyondhttps://www.facebook.com/blackmenopausebeyond/
12/20/2022

What happened when Men attended the menopause support group #25

Ep. 25
ANITA returns after a break,  Anita has a few topics she wants to talk about, so she has decided to produce several podcasts exploring these topics. Within this podcast, she talks about what happened when men were invited to attend a menopause group, the group she runs in her home town. https://www.facebook.com/MenopauseAllianceBedfordshireBlack Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers, an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/Anita Powell's email address: BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.com  https://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell.https://www.instagram.com/blkmenobeyond/https://twitter.com/blkmenobeyondhttps://www.facebook.com/blackmenopausebeyond/
10/14/2022

#24 Jenny Stoute explains why she is no longer on HRT (re-Release )

Ep. 24
Two-time Olympian winner, ex tv Gladiator, busy owner and model Jenny Stoute experienced abnormalities found in her routine cervical smear test; she tells Anita why in response, she has decided to come off HRT and go Menopause Natural. Jenny Instagram: gorgeousfiftiesBlack Menopause and Beyond work with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. An episode will be broadcasted monthly with the occasional bonus episodes. The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond work with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/Anita Powell's email address is BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.comhttps://linktr.ee/AnitaPowellhttps://www.instagram.com/blkmenobeyond/https://twitter.com/blkmenobeyondhttps://www.facebook.com/blackmenopausebeyond/
10/5/2022

#23 Anita interviews Des Dennis a holistic Personal Trainer helping women through the Menopause

Ep. 23
Des is a holistic personal trainer who helps his clients 'from the inside out" he helps women work through what is stopping them from being who they want to be and helps them be who they once were through exercise, diet, massage and meditation. He also encourages women to use their body weight when exercising rather than weights. Black women and obesity and the black diet is also talked about in the podcast.Des Dennis Social Media https://www.instagram.com/strongsoulfitness_uk/Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers, an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/Anita Powell's email address: BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.com   https://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell
9/27/2022

Anita talks to Shell about her menopause journey, wild water swimming, camping, and wellbeing.

Ep. 22
Anita talks to Shell Robshaw-Bryan, 47 and perimenopausal. A full-time marketing director and side hustles as an outdoor, camping and wellbeing writer, writing for various publications and her own successful outdoors blog, Camping with Style. Shell loves to travel, and the outdoors and is a nature-loving, comfy-camping girl and cool water swimmer. She used the great outdoors and the healing power of nature to aid her slow recovery. She continues to spend time outdoors whenever she can, regularly meditating and practising mindfulness as she navigates through a challenging peri-menopause journey; she was diagnosed aged 42 and suffering from Peri-Menopause Disorder, and yet at 47, she is still struggling to find the right mix of medication and natural remedies. Shell Social mediahttps://twitter.com/wildandmindfulhttps://twitter.com/CampWithStylehttps://www.facebook.com/campingwithstyle/https://www.instagram.com/campingwithstyle/https://www.tiktok.com/@campingwithstyleHer bloghttps://www.campingwithstyle.co.ukBlack Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers, an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News. The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Anita Powell's email address: BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.com https://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell
9/22/2022

Anita talks pre diabetes, cost of living, plus explains Jenny Stoute on why she has come off HRT

Ep. 21
Within this episode, the host, Anita, reflects on her Menopause week and thoughts. Anita was diagnosed with Prediabetes in 2022. In this episode, she talks about her pre- diabetes Experience and Menopause and Diabetes.Anita wonders if the rising cost of living impacts menopausal women. Two-time Olympian winner Jenny Stoute is interviewed; she tells Anita why she has decided to come off HRT and go Menopause Natural. Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Black Menopause and Beyond podcast look at Menopause from the eyes of a Black woman. Anita expresses her views and also interviews individuals and experts discussing the conversation of Menopause.Are you fed up with not being included in the discussion of Menopause? If you are, this is the podcast for you. Anita Powell, the host, is the Co-founder of Black Women in Menopause with Nina Kuypers an Online peer support group for Black women. She is also the Founder of the Menopause Alliance, a face-to-face peer support group in Bedfordshire. Also, Anita is a Community worker/advocate and a Menopause Activist and facilitator. In addition, She has worked in community radio for many years. Plus, in 2016 was awarded 'I am Inspiring.' by Evans Clothes, Garnier Skin Care and Marie Claire Magazine. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and interviewed with Kate Muir, the producer of Davina McCalls Menopause Documentary, BBC 3 Counties Radio, Magic FM and Marie Claire Magazine. Also, her Menopause Alliance ( prev. known as Bedford support group) appeared on ITV News.Anita uses her personal experience and experiences gained from her peers, profession and activism to explore the topic of Menopause.The podcast aims to inform, explore, and educate the listeners. An episode will be broadcasted monthly with the occasional bonus episodes. The podcast will include individual and group interviews and personal views.I hope you enjoy it; please follow and subscribe to my podcast wherever you listen to your podcast episodes.My social media:  Twitter BlkMenoBeyond, Insta: BlkMenoBeyond, Facebook: Black menopause and Beyond.Black Menopause and Beyond works with the Peer Group Black Women in Menopause Insta/Twitter/Facebook BlackwomeninMenopause.  https://www.instagram.com/blackwomeninmenopause/Awarded  5th UK black women podcast https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_black_women_podcasts/Anita Powell's email address: BlackMenoBeyond@yahoo.comhttps://linktr.ee/AnitaPowell