During Dr Helen Webberley’s hearing we’re bringing you Transitions, a new mini-series from the GenderGP podcast. GenderGP team member, Cleo Madeleine, will be joined by members of the community to talk about the journeys they have been on, the transitions they have been through and the moments that changed everything. In this episode, Marianne rejoins the show to interview Cleo.

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 The GenderGP PodcastTransitions: Cleo

Cleo:Hi there. My name's Cleo Madeline from Gender GP, and I'm stepping in for Dr. Helen Webberley for a special new mini series of the Gender GP podcast. Over the next few weeks, we'll hear firsthand accounts from members of the community about the journeys they've been on the transitions they've been through and the moments that change everything.

Marianne:Welcome listeners today. I got the lovely Cleo Madeline with me and, um, we're just gonna enter into conversation and I'm hoping to learn a bit more about Cleo for now. I'm just gonna hand over to Cleo and say, Cleo, could you just introduce yourself and tell me a little bit about what you do with your work at Gender GP.

Cleo:Thank you so much, Marianne. It's really exciting to be on this side of the desk. I've done quite a few interviews in my time, but I haven't been interviewed quite so often. So with Gender GP, I work on the communications team, which means we're behind the articles, the letters and the podcasts, of course, which is where my heart is. The listeners at home. Won't be able to see it, but as Marianne can see, I am a bit of an amateur audio file and have got a piece of kit, the size of my head floating in front of me on the video. , I'm actually relatively recent at Gender GP. I started gosh about three months ago and it's been an amazing journey being able to work on these projects for them. So yeah, real privilege to be here.

Marianne:I've got so many question I wanna ask you now. So I'm gonna ask you two questions. So one of them is what was your road to being involved in comms mm-hmm and, and what is comms just for the listeners that, that don't know the terms, but also, also, what was your journey to Gender GP as well? If that makes sense, cause I'm sure they kind merge somewhere.

Cleo:So what is comms is a great question. If I answer this wrong, sorry, Abby comms is communications. So it's the department of Gender GP. We're quite a small team compared to the patient facing teams and we deal with the way that the company communicates to the outside world and the way that the world communicates with us. So we do advocacy and outreach. We do newsletters, blog pieces, podcasts. As I said, basically all the bits and pieces that Gender GP puts out. It's been genuinely really exciting working here because there is such a close team and such a diverse array of projects. It's like a really thriving environment. Shout out to all the rest of the comms team, by the way, without whom I would be totally lost in terms of how I got here. So I am actually still finishing my PhD kind of on the motorway off ramp of academia. I started at university and back in 2009 at the UEA in Norwich, and basically never left.