Erin Beattie spent twenty years bleeding through her clothes, flooding through overnight pads in a two-minute car ride, before anyone said the word endometriosis out loud. Then, in the middle of an 18-month wait to get diagnosed, she was found to have breast cancer — three surgeries in nineteen months, including a bilateral mastectomy and a total hysterectomy that finally revealed stage three endometriosis along the way. Now, almost a year into acute surgical menopause with almost no map for what she's going through, she's built Nila: an app born out of her own research spiral, designed for the other 23 hours a day when you're not in front of a doctor and don't want to fall down a Google rabbit hole. Amy and Erin get into what it's like to be dismissed for decades, why "having kids cures endometriosis" is a myth that keeps costing women years, and why the gaps in menopause research go a lot deeper than most people realize — especially for anyone who doesn't look like the woman on the pamphlet.
