Esther Blum Speaking Topics

• The Menopause Leadership Gap: The Business Case for Supporting Women in Midlife

  U.S. businesses lose $1.8 billion annually due to unmanaged menopause symptoms. Between 10% and 13% of women leave the workforce entirely because of those symptoms, and up to 40% have considered quitting, reduced their hours, or turned down promotions because brain fog, anxiety, and fatigue made their jobs too difficult to maintain. The majority of these women are in senior leadership, navigating perimenopause or menopause with zero workplace support and no idea what is actually happening to their bodies.

  Esther Blum makes the business case with receipts, breaking down the science, exposing systemic failures in women's healthcare, and giving leaders a concrete framework for retaining and elevating women in midlife.

  Attendee Results:

  • Understand the true cost of untreated menopause on retention, productivity, and leadership pipeline
  • Identify the most common symptoms derailing senior women at work and why they go misdiagnosed
  • Understand why less than 20% of GYN residency programs include formal menopause training and what that means for your workforce
  • Learn what your employees are actually experiencing and why the most qualified women on your team may be the ones suffering in silence
  • Learn how to normalize menopause conversations at work so your most experienced women feel seen, supported, and motivated to stay

• Make Menopause Your Power Move: Reclaiming Leadership, Longevity, and the Midlife Advantage

  Midlife is the decade women have been written out of. Between dismissive medical care, outdated hormone protocols, and a culture that tells women to quietly white-knuckle their way through, too many of the most experienced and capable women in the workforce are burning out, checking out, or walking away from careers they worked decades to build.

  Esther Blum flips that narrative. Drawing on three decades of clinical work and the kind of humor that makes hard truths land, she gives women the science, the strategy, and the permission to stop apologizing for getting older and start leveraging everything midlife has to offer.

  Attendee Results:

  • Understand why the most experienced women in any room are also the most underserved by the current medical system
  • Learn why midlife is a leadership accelerator, not an exit ramp
  • Gain the language and confidence to advocate for the care you deserve without apology
  • Discover why the symptoms you've been told to push through are actually signals worth listening to
  • Leave with a concrete framework for reclaiming your energy, focus, and ambition in midlife and beyond

• Birth Control, Wine, and Antidepressants: The Prescription Pad of Misogyny

  For decades, women have been handed antidepressants, birth control pills, and a glass of wine instead of real answers. This is the talk that started a movement. Esther Blum's TEDx closing talk, selected from nearly 200 applicants, exposes the systemic failures that have left generations of women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and medicated into silence. Raw, funny, and backed by science, this is the talk audiences cannot stop talking about.

  Attendee Results:

  • Understand the historical forces behind two decades of hormone misinformation and why it still affects the care women receive today
  • Learn why the women in your organization who seem fine are often the ones holding it together with nothing left in the tank
  • Walk away with the language to demand better care and the confidence to use it
  • Discover why what you have been told about hormones and cancer risk is not the whole story
  • Leave lit up, informed, and ready to rewrite the rules for yourself and every woman who comes after you

• Your Brain on Menopause: What Every Woman Needs to Know Before It's Too Late

  Two out of three people living with Alzheimer's are women. This is not a coincidence. It is a consequence of decades of missing the connection between estrogen, brain health, and the narrow window of opportunity that opens in midlife and closes faster than anyone told you. This talk is the one women wish they had heard ten years earlier, and the one that changes what they do tomorrow.

  Attendee Results:

  • Understand why Alzheimer's is a women's health crisis hiding in plain sight and what midlife has to do with it
  • Learn why the brain fog, word loss, and memory lapses you have been dismissing as stress are actually neurological signals worth taking seriously
  • Discover the critical window for intervention and why timing is the single most important variable
  • Walk away with concrete, evidence-based strategies to protect cognitive function at any age
  • Leave knowing more about your own brain than 95% of the medical professionals you have ever seen

• Stop Blaming Yourself: Why Everything You Were Taught About Food and Your Body Was Wrong

  You have not changed. Your discipline has not changed. Your commitment has not changed. And yet your body is completely unrecognizable. The weight, the exhaustion, the muscle that keeps disappearing no matter what you do. This is not a personal failure

  • this is a metabolic shift that nobody prepared you for, and Esther is here to fix that with zero judgment and zero deprivation.

  Attendee Results:

  • Understand exactly why the nutrition and fitness strategies that worked in your 30s are actively working against you now
  • Learn the single most important dietary shift midlife women can make to preserve muscle, stabilize energy, and lose fat without starving
  • Discover why chronically under-eating is one of the most common and most damaging mistakes women in midlife make
  • Walk away with a clear, practical framework for eating in alignment with your hormones rather than against them
  • Leave nourished, empowered, and done apologizing for having a body that deserves to be fed properly

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