About Paula - Your Menopause Doula

Paula Bradbrook is an Adelaide-based women’s-health advocate, menopause and midlife coach, workplace strategist and speaker. She is the founder of Your Menopause Doula, co-founder of Midlife Advantage, a Board Member and Community Liaison with Bleed Better, and a co-founder of Her Health Hero. 

With more than 25 years of experience in corporate leadership, transformation, sales, customer experience, process improvement, change management and organisational development, Paula brings a rare combination of commercial insight, lived experience and practical coaching to women’s health and workforce advocacy.

Her corporate career includes senior leadership at Telstra Enterprise, where she worked across transformation, customer experience, business improvement and people-centred change. 

That experience now informs her work with organisations seeking to retain experienced talent, support managers and respond more effectively to the realities of midlife at work.

Paula’s move into women’s-health advocacy was personal. Following decades of heavy menstrual bleeding, then perimenopause and surgical menopause, she experienced firsthand the impact that poorly understood reproductive and midlife health can have on a woman’s energy, cognitive capacity, confidence, relationships, financial security and career. She has spoken publicly about the way these experiences affected her ability to perform at the level she had come to expect of herself despite years of leadership experience and high professional capability.

Today, Paula works to ensure women are not left to silently “push through” symptoms, uncertainty, dismissal or workplace pressure.

Through Your Menopause Doula, Paula supports women in Adelaide and online across Australia through evidence-informed, biopsychosocial menopause and midlife coaching.

Her approach acknowledges that menopause is not simply a hormone issue. It can affect the body, sleep, mood, cognition, confidence, work, relationships, identity and a woman’s sense of direction.

Paula helps women make sense of their experience, recognise and track patterns, prepare questions for GPs and specialists, build self-advocacy skills and develop practical strategies for navigating health, work and life changes.

Your Menopause Doula provides education, coaching and practical support. It does not diagnose, prescribe, replace clinical care or provide emergency support.

As co-founder of Midlife Advantage, Paula helps organisations recognise midlife as a strategic workforce issue not a wellbeing topic.

Midlife Advantage supports employers to mitigate avoidable risk, protect reputation, strengthen culture and retain experienced talent by embedding knowledge of midlife biological transitions into workplace systems. Its work spans organisational education, manager and leader capability, policy and procedural gap assessment, practical workplace adjustments, communications, workforce coaching, peer-support structures and implementation support.

The organisation’s approach addresses perimenopause, menopause and an introduction to andropause through a workforce lens: employee performance, leadership, psychological safety, continuity, talent retention, regulatory readiness and employer reputation.

Paula’s ability to translate complex, often taboo health experiences into practical business language helps leaders understand that supporting midlife employees is both a human and commercial imperative.

Paula is co-founder of Her Health Hero, a social-impact enterprise created with Associate Professor Erin Morton. Her Health Hero delivers health education designed to build knowledge, confidence, self-agency and self-advocacy across schools, workplaces and communities.

She also contributes to Bleed Better as a Board Member and Community Liaison, advocating for greater awareness and earlier action around heavy menstrual bleeding. Her advocacy is informed by her lived experience and her commitment to helping women and girls be heard, believed and supported.In partnership with Bleed Better, Paula has contributed her lived-experience perspective to education for Australian medical students through the Australian Medical Students’ Association Sexual and Reproductive Health initiative.  She was introduced as a passionate heavy menstrual bleeding advocate and lived-experience patient speaker, joining conversations intended to help shape how future health professionals support women with HMB.

Paula has also participated in a Telstra-linked International Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Day discussion, bringing lived-experience advocacy into conversation with clinical perspectives and workplace awareness. Supported International Medical Education via my Live Experience Clip 1000's of clinicians get to hear the human impacts of HMB.

Paula’s advocacy and lived experience have been featured in CPA Australia’s INTHEBLACK, in the article “Why supporting women’s health is just smart business.” The feature explores the workplace and economic implications of women’s health, and Paula’s call for leadership commitment, practical flexibility, manager confidence and better support structures.

She has also been featured in the Herald Sun in “My perimenopause ‘life quake’ was the best thing that happened to me”, sharing the turning point that led to the founding of Your Menopause Doula.

Paula speaks at workplace, professional, community and health-education events on topics including:

• Perimenopause, menopause and midlife health.
• Heavy menstrual bleeding and women’s health self-advocacy.
• Menopause as a workplace capability, retention and leadership issue.
• Midlife confidence, identity, career and reinvention.
• Supporting women to prepare for GP and specialist conversations.
• The role of partners, men and allies in creating more informed support.

For media or partnerships enquires please email hello@yourmenopausedoula.com.au or text Paula on 0448 780 952