Brain Fog at Work: It's Probably Perimenopause

What it actually feels like when perimenopause comes for the part of you that built your career — and why nobody at work is allowed to see it happen.

You walk into a meeting you used to run in your sleep. You say something with your usual confidence. And the woman across the table — ten years younger — corrects you. She's right. You were wrong. And the recall you've trusted for twenty years just didn't show up.

This episode is about that moment. The one almost nobody at work talks about. The slow erosion of the professional self high-performing women built across two decades — happening quietly, around 47, with no warning, no language, and nowhere safe to name it. Karen walks through the lost-recall moment, the self-trust spiral, the timing cruelty of perimenopause arriving right at the peak of your career, and the silence that costs Canadian women $3.5 billion a year. Honest, practical, and zero filter.

 

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