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Dr. Kim Derezil is a double board-certified physician, Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, and certified wealth manager — one of the only speakers in the country who bridges Menopause medicine and financial strategy in a single conversation.
With more than a decade of clinical experience in reproductive and menopause care, Dr. Derezil has spent years at the bedside of high-performing women navigating a transition that no one prepared them for. She founded Meno & Money after recognizing a pattern her credentials uniquely positioned her to name: perimenopause is not just a health event. It is a financial one.
Her signature framework, the Menopause Tax, quantifies the career costs, care costs, and compounding financial losses that accumulate when perimenopause goes unrecognized in the workplace and unaddressed in financial planning. She brings this framework to corporate HR and benefits teams, women's ERGs, financial services organizations, and women's wellness conferences — translating clinical reality into business outcomes and personal financial risk.
Dr. Derezil's talks are precise without being clinical, honest without being alarming, and built for rooms full of women who are accomplished, capable, and ready for a conversation that finally connects the dots.
Most professionals pick a lane. Dr. Derezil built a bridge.
Her passion lives in the gap between a woman's body and her bottom line — the space where a symptom becomes a missed opportunity, a foggy quarter becomes a career pivot, and a transition no one named becomes a cost no one planned for.
She speaks for the woman who is performing at the highest level of her career while quietly absorbing losses she can't explain. And she speaks to the organizations, advisors, and communities who want to support her — but have never been given the language to start.
At a conference, after Dr. Derezil walked through the Menopause Tax framework, a woman approached after calculating her number in real time. She shared that she was on sabbatical — life had felt heavy, her direction unclear.
When the number landed, the woman went still. Down to the dollar, it matched the income missing from her tax return that year — a gap she had been carrying but couldn't explain.
What she hadn't yet connected was this: her body may have been driving the story the whole time. The heaviness she was feeling, the overwhelm, the sense that she needed to step back — those weren't signs of weakness or burnout. They were symptoms. And symptoms that go unnamed have a cost. In her case, that cost had a very specific number.
She saw it in real time. That is what the Menopause Tax does.
When Dr. Derezil shares this moment on stage, the room gets quiet. Because somewhere in the audience, another woman is doing the math on her own life — and beginning to understand what she may have been absorbing in silence.
Dr. Derezil didn't build Meno & Money from research alone. She built it from a moment she still carries.
During her own perimenopause transition, she turned down a professional contract. She rationalized it at the time. Looking back, she could trace the decision directly to what she was experiencing — the brain fog, the fatigue, the quiet erosion of the confidence she had spent a career building. She knew the medicine. She held the credentials. And she still missed it in herself.
That moment — layered over a decade of hearing the same story from patients in exam rooms — became the foundation of her platform. She had something no other speaker had combined: the clinical training to explain what was happening in a woman's body, and the financial expertise to calculate what it was costing her.
Meno & Money exists because women deserve two things no one has been giving them together: a clinical explanation for what their bodies are experiencing, and a clear picture of what that is costing them financially. Dr. Derezil is one of the only people in the country trained to deliver both.
Most women don't know they're paying it. The Menopause Tax is the hidden financial toll perimenopause extracts from a woman's career and wealth — showing up in three ways: Care Costs, Career Costs, and Compounding Costs. Together, they add up to a number she's never calculated. Until now.
Showing up isn't the same as being present. The Presenteeism Penalty explores the hidden career and wealth damage that accumulates when high-performing women push through perimenopause symptoms at work — and what it actually costs them long-term.
At a conference, after Dr. Derezil walked through the Menopause Tax framework, a woman approached after calculating her number in real time. She shared that she was on sabbatical — life had felt heavy, her direction unclear.
When the number landed, the woman went still. Down to the dollar, it matched the income missing from her tax return that year — a gap she had been carrying but couldn't explain.
What she hadn't yet connected was this: her body may have been driving the story the whole time. The heaviness she was feeling, the overwhelm, the sense that she needed to step back — those weren't signs of weakness or burnout. They were symptoms. And symptoms that go unnamed have a cost. In her case, that cost had a very specific number.
She saw it in real time. That is what the Menopause Tax does.
When Dr. Derezil shares this moment on stage, the room gets quiet. Because somewhere in the audience, another woman is doing the math on her own life — and beginning to understand what she may have been absorbing in silence.
Dr. Derezil didn't build Meno & Money from research alone. She built it from a moment she still carries.
During her own perimenopause transition, she turned down a professional contract. She rationalized it at the time. Looking back, she could trace the decision directly to what she was experiencing — the brain fog, the fatigue, the quiet erosion of the confidence she had spent a career building. She knew the medicine. She held the credentials. And she still missed it in herself.
That moment — layered over a decade of hearing the same story from patients in exam rooms — became the foundation of her platform. She had something no other speaker had combined: the clinical training to explain what was happening in a woman's body, and the financial expertise to calculate what it was costing her.
Meno & Money exists because women deserve two things no one has been giving them together: a clinical explanation for what their bodies are experiencing, and a clear picture of what that is costing them financially. Dr. Derezil is one of the only people in the country trained to deliver both.
Most women don't know they're paying it. The Menopause Tax is the hidden financial toll perimenopause extracts from a woman's career and wealth — showing up in three ways: Care Costs, Career Costs, and Compounding Costs. Together, they add up to a number she's never calculated. Until now.
Showing up isn't the same as being present. The Presenteeism Penalty explores the hidden career and wealth damage that accumulates when high-performing women push through perimenopause symptoms at work — and what it actually costs them long-term.
