So can you start us off by telling us what are your connections with ADHD personally and professionally?

Yeah, well, you know, I think I'm like a lot of the ladies listening in.

I grew up and didn't know that I had ADHD.

I wouldn't say that I was super rambunctious.

I did like to hang out with the boys and climb trees and do those kinds of things.

But I really struggled with math and discovered when my son, my middle son, was in middle school that he had ADHD.

He was tested for that.

And then the next piece is what can they do to either prepare for, to handle, to deal with some of those symptoms of perimenopause?

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... will say I don't know worldwide stats on pelvic floor dysfunction and pelvic organ prolapse, but I can tell you, you know, just to define the population of women that we're actually talking about- Statistically reported cases, it's one in every three women in the United States that are dealing with some type of pelvic floor dysfunction.

And essentially, that is a very fancy diagnostic word for a lack of coordination of your pelvic floor muscles to perform the job that they're supposed to be performing.

So this can look different for a lot of different women, but essentially in the US, we're talking about over 52 million women who are dealing with this.

And just to give context to that number, we know how many women are struggling with breast cancer.

That's about half of that number in the US.

So this is a silent epidemic that has been happening for quite some time, and obviously we'll zero in on, um, the perimenopause population because that is really a point in time in a woman's life where these issues be- get to the point where they can no longer ignore them anymore.

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And then that got infected, and, um, just from I was pushing for a very long period of time, so I was completely incontinent both ways postpartum.

So just a lot of trauma to the tissue of the pelvic floor specifically.

And then obviously getting pregnant six months later, I wasn't fully healed, and so that led to something called vulvar varicosities, which are essentially hemorrhoids of your vagina.

They can get the size of coconuts during pregnancy, and very painful.

And so I dealt with that my second pregnancy and was able to deliver via C-section.

And my OB at that point pretty much told me, "Jen, you really shouldn't have any more babies." Um, my husband and I practice natural family planning, waited, and then did get pregnant nine years later, and that pregnancy threw my body into stage two pelvic organ prolapse, essentially, of all three pelvic compartments.

So tell people where they can find it and what it is, and then I, I would love to walk through, like, from puberty through womanhood, what are some things that we should be looking out for and know that we may not know? But before we get there, can you ta- tell us about your signature program?