2026 MATRIX HONOREE

Tamsen Fadal

Emmy Award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, host of The Tamsen Show podcast, filmmaker, menopause advocate

Tamsen Fadal is a multiple Emmy Award-winning journalist, producer of the globally recognized menopause documentary The (M) Factor, and the New York Times bestselling author of How To Menopause. Her groundbreaking work is helping reframe one of the most overlooked chapters in a woman’s life, midlife, and she’s doing it across platforms with reach, impact, and authority.

Tamsen is the creator and host of The Tamsen Show, a weekly top-ranked podcast focused on the midlife transformation from women’s health, menopause, perimenopause and reinvention.

Tamsen has built a trusted audience of more than 4 million across social platforms and is a sought-after speaker, storyteller, and media voice on the topics of workplace wellness, women’s health equity, and personal reinvention. Tamsen speaks to global leaders, C-suite executives, and Fortune 100 audiences and has taken the stage to advocate for women’s health at Milken and SXSW. She regularly advises healthcare startups, wellness brands, and global companies looking to better support women at work and beyond.

TFM (Tamsen Fadal Media), produces award-winning content, national advocacy campaigns, live events, and educational tools designed to drive cultural change in how we talk about aging, health, and identity. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, and Forbes, and her film The M Factor has screened in more than 700 cities and 42 countries.

A former evening news anchor and one of the few women in media to publicly share her experience with menopause, Tamsen is using her voice to build a movement and not just a message.

She is an investor in several wellness companies and serves on the Board of Advisors for Let’s Talk Menopause.

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Order Tamsen’s Book, How To Menopause: Website, Amazon

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Presenting the Matrix Award to Tamsen Fadal

Reshma Saujani

Founder and CEO, Moms First

Reshma Saujani is a leading movement builder, the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, and the host of My So-Called Midlife with Lemonada Media. For more than a decade, Reshma has launched and led bold, culture-shifting movements for gender equality by working to close the gender gap in tech, fighting for paid leave and affordable child care, confronting the penalties women face in midlife, and, most recently, examining the widening divide between men and women in America. Her work has ignited national conversations on bravery, connection, motherhood, and aging.

She is a New York Times bestselling author of several books including PAY UP, Brave, Not Perfect, and the Girls Who Code series. Her 2025 Harvey Mudd commencement speech on gender division and her 2023 Smith College speech on imposter syndrome have been viewed over 20 million times. Her TED talk, “Teach girls bravery, not perfection,” has over 54 million views globally.

In 2024, she launched My So-Called Midlife, a podcast with Lemonada Media that quickly entered Apple’s Top 10 show chart, reached #1 in Health and Fitness, and was named one of the best new podcasts of the year by TIME magazine.

Reshma began her career as an attorney and Democratic organizer. In 2010, she surged onto the political scene as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. 

She lives in New York City with her husband, Nihal, their sons, Shaan and Sai, and their dog Steve.

Social Media Handles: @reshmasaujani