We are the WebMD generation. Look up one symptom and pretty soon you’ve diagnosed yourself with an incurable disease, or traced it back to something you ate. A lot of us give perimenopause the same treatment: convinced it’s terrifying, or convinced it’s nothing. Neither is good enough.

70% of OB-GYN residency programs in the U.S. don’t teach menopause at all, and the doctors who are certified in midlife women’s health are wildly outnumbered by the women who need them. So we do what a lot of us have always done: become our own researchers, and hope we get it right.

That’s why this Poppy Candid is bringing both sides of the table: a self-taught patient advocate who found her own answers, and a pelvic health physical therapist and bestselling author who’s spent her career being exactly the kind of support women wish they’d had sooner. Lived experience and clinical expertise, together, covering the same ground from both directions.

On August 24, Poppy Candid is going THERE: menopause, perimenopause, pelvic floor health, permission, and all the questions we were taught not to ask out loud, let alone at work. We’re not softening this one. We’ll also be building care kits for Project Beauty Share, supporting women who are unhoused or in shelters.

Join us August 24 for Hot, Bothered & Making Sh*t Happen, the conversation a lot of us have been having alone, and shouldn’t have to anymore.