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11/12/2025

Wow! We've hit 1000 in our private community today! Join us over at Shoup - Your Hub for Menopause Resources.

11/10/2025

📣There's a whole lot of uncertainty in the world right now, but one thing that is certain is...The FDA will lift warnings on for !

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5604283/fda-menopause-hormone-therapy

Shoup - Your Hub for Menopause Resources

Hormone therapy drugs have carried box warning labels for years. The Food and Drug Administration is removing them, saying the risks were overstated.

10/01/2025

Happy October!

It’s officially Menopause Awareness Month 🎉

Menopause marks the natural end of the menstrual cycle, defined as going 12 consecutive months without a period.

But here’s the thing—menopause is just one day on the timeline.

The years leading up to it (perimenopause) and the years after it (postmenopause) are part of the full journey.

💡 Did you know the average age of menopause in the U.S. is 51—but the transition can start in your 40s (or earlier)?

And symptoms like hot flashes, brain fog, night sweats, joint pain, and sleep disruption can impact daily life for years.

At Shoup™, we’re here to make sure you don’t have to walk this road alone.

Drop your biggest menopause questions in the comments—let’s talk about it, together. 👇

P.S. Know someone in menopause (or on the road there)? Invite them into Shoup (Formerly Pause&Reset) - Your Hub for Menopause Resources!!!

09/12/2025

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09/01/2025

Happy September, Shoup friends! It’s !

According to the Pause Life website, “Perimenopause is defined as the time period during which your body makes the transition to menopause.”

Did you know that perimenopause can last up to 10 years? 😩

Yeah, we know.

Symptoms range from mood swings, weight gain, skin changes, hot flashes, insomnia, and more!

At Shoup, we want to equip you with everything you need to navigate perimenopause with support so you can show up for yourself.

Drop an emoji if you’re in perimenopause? Need support?

Join the Shoup group! Link in comments below! 👇🏽

08/28/2025

🤩 Are you a menopause-informed provider or resource? 🤩

Our Shoup community is looking for YOU!

Check the link in the comments below to get on the SUBSCRIBER WAITLIST! 👇

08/24/2025

Oh my gosh…'s FB group has 565! That’s 565 stories, voices, and journeys showing up together. We’re celebrating, we’re expanding, and we’re just getting started. By being here, you’re showing up for YOU, so yay you!

Let’s show up for those we love navigating peri/menopause, invite them to join us, so they know they don’t have to walk this path alone.

Shoup's private FB community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/shoup

08/21/2025

Do you or someone you know have a peri/menopause related event coming up now through December 2025?

We want to hear about it!

✓Workshop
✓Seminar
✓Retreat
✓Online event/webinar
✓Panel discussion
✓Community meetup

Drop your details in the comments below, and fill out the form so we can include them on our website.

Let’s create community + connection! 🤩

08/18/2025

💡A Light Bulb Moment

When Shoup™ began as Pause & Reset in March 2024, our goal was simple: create a place to connect, share, and support one another through the menopause transition.

Over the past year and a half, we’ve reviewed every piece of data we could gather, your responses, poll answers, and the conversations we’ve had together.

It all pointed to a glaring gap that hit home during the screening of The M Factor documentary, when we asked the audience: “Who here is in need of resources?” Nearly 80–90% of the room raised their hands. Then we asked, “Who here is a resource?” Only about 5–10% raised theirs.

At the same time Shoup™ began, No Show Hero was born, cofounded by our own group's founder, Anna, alongside Gigi.

Over the last year and a half, we’ve built No Show Hero into a thriving community-driven marketplace, connecting service providers with unexpected openings to appointment seekers needing flexibility.

A couple of months ago, a light bulb went off: we can use this same model to bring women seeking menopause-informed care together with the providers and resources they’ve been searching for.

The power of a community-driven marketplace:

✔ For MENOPAUSE-INFORMED RESOURCE OR PROVIDER: Get directly in front of the women who need you, with Shoup's monthly subscription.

This includes:
🔥Unlimited ISO (in search of) responding when someone is looking for a provider/resource
🔥Spotlight welcome post
🔥Unlimited standalone posting in the Shoup Facebook group
🔥Multi-provider posting (for larger practices/orgs)
🔥Listing on the Shoup Directory of menopause-informed resources on the website
🔥Event listings on the website/FB group

If you’re interested in getting on the waitlist to subscribe, fill out our Resource Interest Form (link in the comments below).

✔ For WOMEN NAVIGATING THE PERI/MENOPAUSE JOURNEY: Find the help you need, right when you need it, right where you need it. This includes: providers, functional medicine, personal trainers, nutritionists, yoga instructors, and social connections through in-person and online events.

All resources, providers, and people navigating peri/menopause, come join our FREE Facebook group (link below)!

Same heartbeat. Different mission. Perfect timing. 🔥

08/13/2025

Meet Shoup™!

YOUR hub for menopause-informed everything. Providers, resources, events, community and real support to feel like yourself again.

Our Mission: Shoup is the hub for menopause-informed providers, resources, and a deeply supportive community. We bring together those navigating the menopausal transition and those ready to support them.

Our Vision: Our vision is a world where everyone moves through their menopause journey fully resourced, fully supported, and fully alive.

SHOUP is built on four foundations: Community: Your circle. Shared strength and stories. Support: Real tools for real needs. Self: Arriving fully formed, wide open to what's next. Agency: Your body, your choices, your power.

We're your admins Anna, & Vanessa and we're here to show up for this journey with you.

Ready to join us?

08/13/2025

Welcome to Shoup™.

Your hub for menopause-informed everything. Connecting those navigating the menopause journey to providers, resources, events, and real support.

Shoup (pronounced Shoop) was born from our founder, Anna's #1 personal value, showing up for the people she loves.

This journey is hard enough, so we wanted to make it bold, bright, and colorful to add a little fun.

When the name Shoup emerged, it unexpectedly sparked a tune we’ve sung, danced to, and toasted with, a song that defined an era. And how beautiful, because music makes everything a little easier.

Let's give a proper nod to one of the classics of our time by some badass women, Salt-N-Pepa:

Here I go, here I go, here I go again 🎶
Girls, what's my weakness? (Men...opause!)
Shoop, shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop 🎵
Shoop ba-doop, ba-doop, ba-doop
Shoop, shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop, ba-doop, ba-doop 🎶

We’re officially launching in the area, so join us and invite your friends.

Let’s make this hub the hottest around!

Comment ME or check the 🔗 in our bio. 🕶️

08/04/2025

Meet the Shoup Team!

🔥ANNA🔥
A visionary who sees what’s missing and builds what matters. With a deep love for technology, innovation, and community, she uses both as tools to solve real problems and bring people together.

As CEO & Cofounder of No Show Hero, she’s combined these loves to build a first-of-its-kind, community-driven marketplace that connects service providers with unexpected openings and people needing flexibility and spontaneity in making appointments. It’s a platform grounded in trust, flexibility, and the power of community that helps providers generate clients, grow their brand, and expand their reach.

Shoup (formerly Pause & Reset) was born from Anna’s own experience navigating perimenopause, when what she desperately needed was a healthcare professional who would hold her as the expert of her own body, but got someone very different. So, she started a group. A space to find answers, ask questions, connect, and share stories. A space to experience menopause together.

🔥GIGI🔥
Gigi is the powerhouse COO and Co-founder behind No Show Hero, a fast-growing platform built to connect real-time availability with the people who need it most. She leads with deep care for small business, a sharp eye for operational excellence, and a lifelong passion for building community. She’s especially excited about Pause & Reset joining the No Show Hero family.

A serial entrepreneur, Gigi is also the founder of Silver Key Career Solutions, a boutique firm offering resume writing, career coaching, and job search support, and KTM Language Partners, a government contracting company specializing in immersive cultural programs.

She co-founded Networking Women of the Triangle (NWOTT)—a 67,000-member community supporting women professionals and entrepreneurs across the region.

Born and raised in Fayetteville, Gigi is a fierce advocate for smarter, more inclusive paths to success—especially for women and underestimated founders.

🔥VANESSA🔥
Vanessa is a lifelong word lover and storyteller who wore out her Speak & Spell in the early '80s. With nearly 30 years of experience, she thrives on creating meaningful connections through creativity, community building, and authentic storytelling. She brings people together and helps brands find their genuine voice through communication strategies rooted in care and connection.

She's also a published writer, certified life coach, and co-administrator of Shoup (formerly Pause & Reset), a community for people in the Raleigh-Durham area navigating menopause.
She writes about midlife transitions, the becoming and unbecoming of menopause, and finding daily joy through her newsletter Flourish & Flow. She created a self-care method, FLOW, and has been writing, speaking, and coaching about it since 2019.

A retired homeschooling mom of three young adults, she shared her insights on the popular Homeschool Mom website for four years, as well as on podcasts, at in-person and online homeschool conferences, and summits. You'll often find her journaling, looking for journaling supplies, taking walks, drinking tea, and eating chocolate.

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