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Listen to our latest episode: 65. Georgia Cloepfil on soccer, stress and losing your period
We’re exploring the intersection of elite athletics and women's health with author and former professional soccer player Georgia Cloepfil and Mayo Clinic women's health expert Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt. Using Georgia’s book The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game as our lens, we delve into the emotional and physical toll of high-level sports, particularly the underrecognized condition of functional hypothalamic amenorrhea (FHA), a type of absence of menstruation. We discuss the cultural silence around menstruation in sports, the physiological consequences of FHA, and the need for more research, awareness and support for women navigating intense physical demands in both sports and professional life.
Question for discussion:
- Georgia reflects on the emotional and physical sacrifices of being a professional athlete. What parallels do you see between her experience and other demanding careers?
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I sacrificed financially because I wouldn't compromise my ethics.
More than once, I ended up at shady organizations that were breaking the law or had egregious practices.
I couldn't stay and participate in work that I knew was just plain wrong. (At least twice, those companies ended up in Federal court. One CEO would certainly have gone to prison, but he died of a heart attack before the trial.)
It has made for some lean times in my household, but I had to do what I had to do. (What disappointed me was how readily most people would go along with the evil, as long as they got paid.)
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