Pilar Guzmán is the editorial director of Oprah Daily, where she leads the brand’s coverage of health, wellness, relationships and living well at midlife. She is one of the editors behind Oprah Daily’s The Book of Menopause: Real Talk, Real Science, Real Strategies for Your Next Chapter, which has an introduction by Oprah Winfrey and an opening chapter by Pilar on why “women’s health is hormonal health.” Before Oprah Daily, Pilar was editor in chief of Condé Nast Traveler and Martha Stewart Living, and she was the founding editor of Cookie. Her work focuses on
bringing women clear, science-backed information and challenging the silence and stigma around women’s health.

Pilar and Dr. Judith have worked together for years, from Oprah Daily’s support of Dr. Judith’s book High Functioning to this year’s collaboration on creativity and mental health. Most recently, Pilar and the Oprah Daily editors visited Dr. Judith’s lab to learn about her psychedelic and women’s health research. Dr. Judith was one of the contributing experts to The Book Of Menopause. Dr. Judith was also one of the experts featured on The Menopause Special with
Oprah in 2023.

In this episode, Dr. Judith and Pilar discuss:
 Why “I just don’t feel like myself” is one of the most common signs of perimenopause
 How anxiety, depression, rage and brain fog can be symptoms of perimenopause and menopause
 Why perimenopause, not postmenopause, is the highest-risk window for depression
 How the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative study shaped decades of fear around hormone therapy
 Why so many women are dismissed by their doctors, and how to advocate for yourself
 How menopause can strain marriages, friendships and work, and what partners can do to help
 “Menopause apathy,” losing the urge to people-please, and finding a new sense of self
 Why many women say postmenopause is the happiest chapter of their lives
 How to overcome High Functioning Depression as a woman in midlife.
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Dr. Chris Pernell is a public health physician and the Director of the NAACP Center for Health Equity. She works on health justice, community advocacy, and preventing disease across whole populations. She earned her bachelor's degree cum laude from Princeton University, her MD from Duke University School of Medicine, and her MPH from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She completed her residency in General Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Before joining the NAACP, Dr. Pernell was the first Chief Strategic Integration and Health Equity Officer at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.

She also founded The Esther Group, a firm that advises on public health and health equity strategy. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a Fellow and Regent-at-Large of the American College of Preventive Medicine. She also serves on the health equity committee of the New Jersey Reparations Council.

Her honors include the New Jersey Public Health Association's Dr. Ezra Mundy Hunt Award and the American College of Preventive Medicine's Ron Davis Special Recognition Award. The NAACP New Jersey State Conference also named her one of its & 100 Black People Who Changed the World. She is a frequent media voice on public health and health equity.

In this episode, Dr. Judith and Dr. Pernell discuss:
 Racial inequity in medicine and how it shows up in patient care
 Why Black patients &; pain and symptoms are still too often dismissed
 How academic medicine recruits Black physicians, then pushes them out
 Mentorship, promotion, and who gets told they don't belong
 The emotional toll of racism on Black healthcare workers
 What health justice could look like, and the NAACP's role in getting there
 Navigating High-Functioning Depression as a Black professional

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Aseanté Renee, LMSW, helps people create lives they don’t need to escape. As a licensed therapist, international speaker, and Founder/Chief Wellness Officer of The Axon Group, an industry leading transformative coaching firm, she focuses on pathways to sustainable growth and healing because no one has time to keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. In practice, she is an executive and performance coach with over two decades of experience in trauma informed care and social justice reform. Much of her expertise lives at the intersection of healing, wellness, leadership, and career advancement. She is also the founder of the Susu House, a nonprofit that elevates healing equity and access while eliminating financial barriers to people of the global majority through sponsored retreats, workshops, trainings, and community events. Because money shouldn’t be a hindrance to healing.

Some of her other work includes onsite performance coaching for executives pitching at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, a Shipt (a subsidiary of Target) Youth Cohort partnership with Issa Rae, and an ongoing partnership with The Loveland Foundation to provide Healing Circles for their therapists. Other partnerships include Yitty, Lizzo’s line at Fabletics, for their “Ask A Therapist” IG Campaign for Mental Health Awareness month, a monthly Dope Black Women Wellness Salon Series, Sister CEO Retreats, and her 4-week The Recovering Perfectionist workshop series.

She launched the Retiring Superwoman Executives Cohort, to support Black women in leadership on HOW to set better boundaries, reduce perfectionism, delegate, rest, and step back from the Glass Cliff. Aseanté is also the author of The Perfect Lie: A Reset Guide for Recovering Perfectionists.

 How to cope with burnout
 How to face anxiety as a leader in the workplace.
 How to take care of your mental health during stressful work situations.
 How be your authentic self in the workplace
 How to challenge leadership stereotypes.
 How to access culturally competent healthcare.
 How to advocate for your mental health?
 How to talk to your co-workers about boundaries.
 How to Cope with High Functioning Depression.

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