From the City to your corner
You've probably been told it's just your age, just stress, just part of being a woman.
So you've learned to manage the bloating, the broken sleep, the stubborn weight and the disappearing energy one symptom at a time.
You've tried to fix each problem as it appears, hoping that if you could just get your sleep sorted, or lose the weight, or get your hormones balanced, everything else would fall into place.
After nearly twenty years working in financial services, and my own long battle to understand what my body was doing, I realised it rarely works like that.
My own story started much earlier.
I was diagnosed with PCOS in my teens and spent years navigating the symptoms while building a career in the City.
Like many women, I became very good at pushing through.
I was juggling long hours, pressure, deadlines and eventually fertility struggles, while trying to look after my health with the limited time I had available.
At one point, my typical lunch was a panini and a Diet Coke grabbed between meetings.
Convenient? Yes.
Supportive of my hormones? Not even close.
What changed everything was discovering that a zinc deficiency nobody had ever tested for was contributing to my fertility challenges.
Once I started looking deeper and supporting my body properly, things began to shift.
Eight months after my first IVF pregnancy, I conceived naturally.
My PCOS reversed.
My energy returned.
And for the first time, I realised how much influence nutrition, hormones and lifestyle could have when you understood how they worked together.
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That experience changed the course of my life.
I couldn't unlearn what I'd discovered.
So I left fund management and retrained.
Since then I've completed comprehensive nutrition certification, advanced hormone analysis training and become a DUTCH hormone testing specialist.
But perhaps more importantly, I learned that the sleep, weight gain, energy crashes, mood changes and hormone symptoms women experience in midlife are rarely separate problems.
They're connected.
The sleep isn't separate from the stress.
The stress isn't separate from the hormones.
The hormones aren't separate from the nutrition.
Once you understand the picture as a whole, everything starts to make much more sense.
That's the work I do now as The Hormone Geek.
Why my corporate background matters
Many of the women I work with are successful professionals juggling demanding careers alongside everything else life throws at them.I've been there.
I understand the pressure of showing up when you're exhausted.
I understand trying to perform at work when your sleep has fallen apart.
And I understand what it's like to look like you're coping on the outside while quietly wondering why your body feels so different underneath.
Alongside my private clients, I now work with organisations including Citibank, Clyde & Co, Simmons and Simmons, Heidrick & Struggles and Tokio Marine, delivering talks and workshops on hormones, stress, sleep, resilience and performance.
Because hormones don't just affect how we feel.
They affect how we think, lead, communicate and perform.
Think about hormones like optimising the engine that powers everything else.
Energy for life, resilience through change, performance.
