Shelly Horton

Journalist, TV presenter, keynote speaker, emcee and proud peri and menopause warrior.

Shelly Horton is a journalist, TV presenter, keynote speaker, emcee, runs her own company ShellShocked Media and is an out-and-proud peri warrior.

She appears weekly on Channel Nine delivering opinion segments. Her career highlights (outside of the current eight years at Nine) include 11 years reporting for the ABC, eight years as a presenter on Channel Seven and six years as a journalist at Fairfax.

Shelly has been a long-time advocate for women’s health including publicly speaking up to destigmatise topics such as a woman’s choice to be childfree, PCOS, dense breasts, depression and peri/menopause.

She has co-created online and in-person educational courses about confidencehealth advocacymedia training and peri/menopause in the workplace, she consistently sells out workshops specialising in helping people Speak with Impact.

She has been a corporate trainer for 25 years helping companies communicate effectively internally and externally. The natural-born conversationalist has spun her magic with some of the country’s biggest organisations including Australian Digital Health Agency, Johnson & Johnson, Bond University Medical Faculty, Channel Nine, University of Sydney and SpecSavers.

She’s an ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation and HER Mental Health.

She is a member of the International Menopause Society.

She’s too busy to put up with her peri symptoms, but it’s rare to see her without a fan.

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cartoon character of red haired woman repeated 3 times, first instance is holding both arms up to her head, the second instance is looking confused and third instance rubbing eyes while crying because she is experiencing the symptoms of peri and menopause with no support at her workplace
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