Welcome to this episode of Menopause Conversations with my guest : Mel Berry - co-founder of Her Spirit which is your one-stop shop for inspiration, information and accountability all via a 100% FEMALE COMMUNITY - Her Spirit is the Best fitness App FREE for ALL women.
Her Spirit was founded by Mel Berry and Holly Woodford to make it easier for women to get active.
Holly and Mel became frustrated at how the needs of ALL women are being continually underserved in traditional sports, gym and leisure markets. 42% of women in the UK are not active enough for their health. A persistent 5% gender gap remains between men’s and women’s activity levels and even more concerning the 12% gap in activity levels between Black, Asian and ethnically diverse women and white women and a 13% gap for women with a disability.
In 2018 they set out on a mission to change what was on offer for women and to find new ways to reduce the inequalities in sports and physical activity. Since then Holly and Mel have run, swam, cycled and walked with hundreds of Her Spirit community members. They have also had their fair share of coffee, cake and chats to better understand the motivators and barriers of women starting and staying active
Her Spirits Mission is to motivate 1 million women to be more active and in doing so raise £1 million to enable women on a low or no income to become more active. Our mission will see the first increases in women’s physical activity rates for more than two decades and enable more women than ever to reach a healthy 150 minutes of heart-raising activity each week. Because - Statistically women's health IS getting worse!
From the 1st of July, Her Spirit will establish the Her Spirit Women’s Sports Fund. Her Spirit will be calling on funders and partners to match our collective minutes of activity to help us reach £ 1 million to invest in supporting women in members’ local communities.
Her Spirit have everything from yoga, Pilates, to strength based training programmes for all levels.
They also offer low pressure training plans and coaching support for running, swimming, cycling and triathlon. They have pioneered a motivational experience
specifically for women, aiming to help you have fun as you build your fitness.
Mel talks us through what makes Her Spirit different as a women only community and its starts with a great observations :'comparison is the thief of joy' -so how do we stay fit during the midlife phase - without succumbing to the anxiety and spiral of thinking we're not good enough? feeling like we're not succeeding?
Mel says its all about understanding that women's thought processes are different to Men's which is why we need a different approach and why a women only community works so well. It leans into 3 key areas:
1) Education
2) Community - which enables us to access inspiration and relatedness
3) Guidance - to be able to know we can grow through the process and have experts on hand to help us.
So if you are a workplace - looking to add meaningful value to the women in your workforce - get in contact with Mel Berry - because not all employees wellbeing needs are the same especially when looked through the different psychology of people.
Website: herspirit.co.uk/
Linkedin : / her-spirit
Linkedin: / melanie-berry
Instagram : / herspirituk
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