The PeriMeno Co founder Brodie Taylor

OUR FOUNDER - Brodie Taylor

I hadn't even heard the word Perimenopause when this started.

If you’ve landed here feeling unlike yourself lately, you’re not alone.

For me, it started in my thirties. I was ambitious. Career-driven. Climbing the corporate ladder. The person people relied on. The one with the answers. The one holding everything together.

And then, slowly, something started to shift.

I was exhausted all the time, but sleeping badly. Anxious for no obvious reason. Flat. Foggy. Overstimulated. I’d walk into meetings and lose my train of thought halfway through speaking, struggle to find basic words, and second-guess myself in ways I never had before.

And honestly, that shook me. Because when you’ve spent your life being capable and “on top of things,” suddenly not feeling like yourself is destabilising.

At the same time, I was doing everything I thought I was supposed to be doing for my health. Exercising. Eating well. “Pushing through.” But my body suddenly felt against me.

Everything felt harder. The fatigue hit differently. Recovery slowed. The effort I was putting in no longer seemed to match how I felt physically.

And yet every answer kept sounding the same:
“Your bloodwork is normal.”
“You’re stressed.”
“You’re too young for perimenopause.”

More than 1 in 2 women in their 30s. Told they're too young. But already living it.*¹

So naturally, I started researching. That became confronting too. So much of the conversation around perimenopause felt disconnected from the women actually living it.

The imagery made women seem invisible at the exact moment many of us were already questioning who we were becoming. Because while perimenopause can absolutely be emotional and difficult, I rejected the idea that women navigating it were somehow suddenly “past it.”

Women in this stage of life are still themselves. Still vibrant. Still capable. Still evolving into who they are becoming. And yet so many women are navigating enormous physical, emotional and cognitive shifts without the support or recognition they deserved in the first place.

That experience sent me looking for a smarter, more considered approach to support.

The more I learned, the more I kept coming back to one thing: the gut and microbiome were rarely part of the conversation.

So I built what I felt had been missing. Working closely with Australia’s leading microbiome scientists and formulation specialists, I created The PeriMeno Co. as a microbiome-first daily system designed specifically for perimenopause.

Not more symptom-chasing. Not more noise. Just a more intelligent and considered way to support women through it.

If any part of this feels familiar to you, you are not alone. And you are not losing yourself.

*Cunningham, A.C., et al. (2025). Perimenopause symptoms, severity, and healthcare seeking in women in the US. npj Women's Health. doi.org/10.1038/s44294-025-00061-3

The PeriMeno Co founder Brodie Taylor
Black-and-white lifestyle image representing the shared experience of perimenopause

Not a decline. A plot twist.

You've been told this stage is something to survive. It isn't. Perimenopause is the part of the story most women were handed without a script — once you can see what's actually happening, this stage stops happening to you and starts working for you.

A reset. A reclaim. A reckoning.