About Tamsen
Podcast Host. Author. Journalist.
Emmy-winning media personality and digital creator, New York Times bestselling author of How to Menopause, and host of The Tamsen Show. Tamsen helps women navigate midlife, reinvention and whatever comes next, with honest, expert-backed answers.
Hi, I'm Tamsen. I'm an Emmy-winning journalist, and only one thing ever took me off air:
Perimenopause.
One minute I was reading the teleprompter. The next, I was sweating, dizzy, and couldn’t sit upright.
A colleague walked me to the bathroom, where I collapsed on the floor, cheek against the cold tile, heart racing, unable to finish the broadcast.
I had no idea what was happening to me because perimenopause wasn’t a conversation anyone was having.
Half the population goes through it. Millions of women have their own version of this story, and for decades have suffered in silence.
I’ve covered war zones, natural disasters, and breaking news, but I never expected menopause to be the story that changed everything.
From TV news anchor to global menopause advocate
here’s the story so far...
30-year news career
Primetime TV anchor in NYC, covering national and international stories including the Columbia Shuttle crash and the war on terror in Afghanistan
2022
Launched Tamsen Fadal Media, producing documentaries, podcasts, and educational resources about midlife and menopause
2024
Documentary creator and executive producer of The (M) Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause, with 1,000 screenings in 45 countries
March 2025
Published How to Menopause, researched and written with input from over 42 experts and now a global resource translated into multiple languages
March 2025
Launched The Tamsen Show Podcast with honest, expert-backed, real conversations about what midlife is really like
March 2025
Held the World’s Hottest Menopause Party with 62,000 women, including Halle Berry and Naomi Watts, to help break the silence on menopause
April 2025
How to Menopause became a New York Times bestseller, debuting at No. 3 on the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous list
January 2026
Premiered The (M) Factor 2: Before the Pause in New York.
May 2026
Named a New York Women in Communications Matrix Award honoree.
October 2026
Won an Emmy for hosting The Broadway Show.
October 2026
The Tamsen Show: Winner of 8 Signal Awards, including Gold.
Before the podcast, there was the anchor desk
I spent 30 years in TV news. I worked at WFTV in Orlando, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WCBS-TV in New York before I joined PIX11 (WPIX) in 2008.
For more than 15 years at PIX11, I co-anchored the 4, 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 p.m. news. Over the years, I covered Superstorm Sandy, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the Pope’s visit to the U.S., and I was embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.
I’ve won 14 Emmys, 13 of them as a news anchor and reporter, including three for anchoring the PIX11 Evening News. I signed off from PIX11 on November 10, 2023, to start my next chapter.
The (M) Factor films
With my fellow filmmakers, I produced and executive produced The (M) Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause, the documentary that opened up the menopause conversation.
It has had 1,000 screenings in 45 countries and has been seen on PBS.
Our prequel, The (M) Factor 2: Before the Pause, is about perimenopause. It premiered on PBS on March 19, 2026.
Learn about The (M) Factor
My earlier book
Before How to Menopause, I wrote about dating, breakups and starting over.
The New Single: Finding, Fixing, and Falling Back in Love with Yourself After a Breakup or Divorce (St. Martin’s Press, 2015)
This movement is dedicated to my mom and all your mothers who suffered in silence
I lost my mother when she was 51 years old from breast cancer, around the same age I found myself on the bathroom floor, blindsided by a hot flash I didn’t understand.
Back then, she didn’t have language for medical menopause. I remember watching her struggle with the heat, the sleepless nights, the silence. She never talked about it. None of us did.
I think about that a lot now.
She is why I'll never stop talking about menopause — until no woman has to go through it confused and alone.
Women everywhere are taught that their stock goes down as their age goes up. But life’s not over at 50.
This isn't the end of the story. It's your chance to rewrite it.
For me, it was a complete life reboot: I walked away from a 30-year news career, built a global advocacy platform, and even got married at 50. Midlife cracked me open and gave me the chance to live more fully, more honestly, more on purpose.
I serve as Chief Women’s Health Ambassador for Midi Health and am also an investor in the telehealth platform.
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