The M-Factor 2: Before the Pause (Perimenopause) Film Screening + Live Q&A

Perimenopause isn’t “all in your head.” It can begin as early as your mid-30s — often long before anyone tells you what’s happening.

BEFORE THE PAUSE is a powerful, eye-opening documentary that reveals the hidden reality of perimenopause through the voices of women whose lives are being quietly disrupted and dismissed. A teacher is told her symptoms are “just stress” while her career and family life unravels. A firefighter navigates heavy bleeding with no women’s restroom in sight. Doctors themselves admit they were never trained to recognize or support what their own patients are experiencing. By centering real women’s stories alongside leading experts, the film exposes a massive blind spot in women’s healthcare — and why catching perimenopause earlier can change everything. It also looks at how this transition affects the heart, brain, bones, and sexual health, and what women can do to truly thrive through it.

Produced by Women in the Room Productions and Take Flight Productions.

What to Expect

This special New Orleans screening includes:

• Film screening of BEFORE THE PAUSE
• Live Q&A panel with
— Bella Blue, Founder & Headmistress, New Orleans School of Burlesque (and your emcee for the evening)
— Crystal Burke, FNP-C, MSCP, The Menopause Clinic
— Steven Youngblood, MD, The Menopause Clinic

Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

After the Q&A, the evening continues with Diamonds & Pearls Burlesque, a celebration of women’s bodies, confidence, sensuality, and power at every age. You are invited to stay and support the performers. (tickets purchased separately: Diamondspearlsburlesque.eventbrite.com)

Schedule

Doors open at 5:00 PM
Film screening from 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Live Q&A immediately following

Location
The Original Nite Cap
1300 St. Bernard Ave, 2nd Floor
New Orleans, LA

Tickets

The film screening and Q&A are free.

The burlesque show begins at 8:00 PM.
Burlesque tickets are $25.50 and are purchased separately:

https://diamondspearlsburlesque.eventbrite.com

Your Hosts

This event is co-hosted by:

The Menopause Clinic — a women’s health practice specializing in perimenopause and midlife hormone care and

Bella Blue — New Orleans native, culture bearer, Founder & Headmistress of the New Orleans School of Burlesque, owner of Pulcinella! and The Original Nite Cap (and actively in perimenopause!)

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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