14/10/2026
"Women in midlife are still marketed to as though we're a problem to be fixed."
Cherie Clonan — proud Autistic woman and the Founder and CEO of The Digital Picnic, a digital marketing agency and education platform built on the simple belief that you can build high-performing businesses without burning people out.
In our chat, Cherie talks about the season when she had far less to give and what she built around herself to cope, why exhaustion gets treated as character-building, and what it would actually take for a workplace to treat menopause the way it treats everything else. She also names the thing she wanted most — and every woman reading will know exactly what she means.
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'A Cuppa With…' is our October series for Menopause Awareness Month.
Women we admire. Five questions. Answered in their own words.