Why 60% of Women Misinterpret Perimenopause as Career Failure? | Karen Herrera | #TGV735

Talk about the layoff-to-authorship pivot playbook.

So what is the first 90-minute action you recommend for someone who is reeling from an unexpected career setback and needs clarity first?

Clarity doesn't really arrive in the first 90 minutes.

When something like that happens, your nervous system is still processing the shock.

I mean, it took me almost a week before my mind even started to settle.

And give your, give your brain some time to breathe.

That way, we're not overanalyzing the worst case scenarios, or even potentially the best case scenarios because we've just dumped it all out.

For me, how the decision to start working on the book came, yeah, uh, is because of just getting everything out.

You're immediately in this ah mode, but taking time to get it out and breathe and just let it all settle.

I mean, that goal in the first 90 minutes is- isn't really reinvention.

It's just regulation of your brain and w- and what's going on.

Let's talk about high performers.

Many of them in their 40s lose their voice at work.

How do you rebuild internal authority?

Um, a lot of women think it's, it's burnout or that we're somehow losing our edge professionally.

But, but more often than not, right, it's [laughs] act- it's actually perimenopause.

It's these hormonal shifts that, that can affect our cognition, right? It's affecting our sleep.

Is our com- our competence.

Um, our brains aren't broken, right? It's navigating, uh, a biological transition.

Which symptom-driven shifts most distort self-perception, and what's your three-part self-audit to separate this biology from identity?

One of the hardest parts of perimenopause is that these symptoms don't just affect your body.

They also affect how you see yourself.

So w- sleep disruption is a big one.

When we're not sleeping well, our brain is literally operating on less restoration.

Then [laughs] there's an anxiety that comes with all of this, but part of it comes from hormonal shifts.

Talk about the layoff-to-authorship pivot playbook.

So what is the first 90-minute action you recommend for someone who is reeling from an unexpected career setback and needs clarity first?

Clarity doesn't really arrive in the first 90 minutes.

When something like that happens, your nervous system is still processing the shock.

I mean, it took me almost a week before my mind even started to settle.

And give your, give your brain some time to breathe.

That way, we're not overanalyzing the worst case scenarios, or even potentially the best case scenarios because we've just dumped it all out.

For me, how the decision to start working on the book came, yeah, uh, is because of just getting everything out.

You're immediately in this ah mode, but taking time to get it out and breathe and just let it all settle.

I mean, that goal in the first 90 minutes is- isn't really reinvention.

It's just regulation of your brain and w- and what's going on.

Let's talk about high performers.

Many of them in their 40s lose their voice at work.

How do you rebuild internal authority?

Um, a lot of women think it's, it's burnout or that we're somehow losing our edge professionally.

But, but more often than not, right, it's [laughs] act- it's actually perimenopause.

It's these hormonal shifts that, that can affect our cognition, right? It's affecting our sleep.

Is our com- our competence.

Um, our brains aren't broken, right? It's navigating, uh, a biological transition.

Which symptom-driven shifts most distort self-perception, and what's your three-part self-audit to separate this biology from identity?

One of the hardest parts of perimenopause is that these symptoms don't just affect your body.

They also affect how you see yourself.

So w- sleep disruption is a big one.

When we're not sleeping well, our brain is literally operating on less restoration.

Then [laughs] there's an anxiety that comes with all of this, but part of it comes from hormonal shifts.