Sophie Solomon has lived in four countries, spoken four languages, and worked at some of the biggest companies in the world.Autodesk, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Accenture. She quit a leadership track at 34 to raise four kids, started a company while pregnant with her fourth, and came back to corporate America like nothing happened.At 59, perimenopause hit her like a freight train. Debilitating brain fog. No real answers from doctors. No support from her company. So she did what Sophie does: she built it herself. With zero budget and zero mandate, she created a menopause education program inside an 800,000-person organization and turned it into a model that others are now following.But this episode is about way more than menopause. It’s about what it takes to reinvent yourself, not once, but multiple times. About cultural intelligence and why most people in global business don’t even know they’re missing it. About the difference between empowerment and militancy. About being a people connector so relentlessly that you steal everyone’s friends (Jose’s words, not hers). And about a woman who has never once asked for permission to take up space and has no intention of starting now.This is one of the longest episodes we’ve done. Not a single minute was wasted.00:00 Intro03:39 Born in France, raised everywhere else10:59 Autodesk, four kids, and a disappearing act15:33 She helps businesses sell more candy22:10 Quitting when everyone says stay24:11 The most dangerous friend in the room31:13 How they actually became friends34:32 Hit with a brick at 5940:58 Building something from nothing46:37 Why men need to be in this conversation52:37 Talking to your mom thirty years later 57:03 Menopause is a billion-dollar business problem1:01:38 If not this, then Gaza1:03:47 Rapid Fire1:23:58 The child model who walked away at 141:29:37 Cultural intelligence and reading the room1:39:21 How to stay relevant when everything is changing1:44:56 Empowerment, not militancy1:52:07 The one thing she hasn’t forgiven herself for2:02:59 The LLM sees the future (sort of)