I'm taking a short break, and we are going to come back stronger than ever. Here I explain why! I also butcher Joe Pulizzi's name, and for that I am sorry. See you soon. AMxJoin the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.comTikTok: @hotfl

105: The menopause transition: 'It's a deconditioning'

Dec 23rd, 2023 32m 15s

Today we are doing something a little bit different because let’s be honest, everyone is overwhelmed right now and I’m no different. This summer I was a guest on Sherry Jibb’s Happy & Healthy in Midlife Summit, and had a great conversation with

105: The menopause transition: 'It's a deconditioning'

Dec 23rd, 2023 31m 32s

104: Journalism, my mom, and the search for health harmony

Dec 15th, 2023 32m 50s

I'm giving a talk at the Organic & Real show in Dubai and this is my test run. I talk about the intersection of my 30-year journalism career, which launched around the same time as my mother's death from pancreatic cancer. And how that set me o

103: Dr Vonda Wright: What to do about your perimenopause body pain (and protect your body as you age)

Dec 8th, 2023 48m 50s

Dr Vonda Wright is an American double board-certified orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, who has spent a career working with high-level atheletes and immersed in clinical research. She’s also a woman in her mid-50s who experienced terrible bod

102: 4 women go through perimenopause and along comes WILE

Dec 1st, 2023 49m 14s

I have two power players in this perimenopause space: half of the four-person team that founded Wile, “a plant-powered hormonal and emotional wellness brand for women 40+ that reframes midlife as a time of peak power”. (You will hear the word “

101: The most inspiring mid-sex-life story ever

Nov 24th, 2023 1h 2m

This is a very special podcast, because it’s with a person who is so authentic and honest about what she’s been through – a rare thing indeed. Over in Canada (Peterborough, Ontario, to be specific) Deborah Porteous takes us back eight years to

100: SOLO 10 things I've learned from 100 episodes

Nov 17th, 2023 26m 49s

I started the Hotflash inc podcast two years ago on a wing and a prayer and a glass desk, and quickly learned that is the worst possible surface for audio. Along the way I have spoken to the top experts in the world, found out an incredible amo

99: Dr Junella Chin, CBD and perimenopause pain knows pain

Nov 3rd, 2023 43m 22s

Dr June Chin knows about pain and how to treat it on the deepest levels: from her own experiences that started in her teens years and through to that of patients. She’s an integrative medical cannabis physician and has spent more than20 years

98: Perimenopause “down there” 101 with Dr Karyn Eilber

Oct 28th, 2023 42m 9s

Dr Karyn Eilber is board certified in urology and female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, as well as an associate professor teaching, training and working in administration at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She’s a mom o

97: Dr Vikram Talaulikar: Straight facts about hormone therapy

Oct 21st, 2023 41m 51s

This week we get down to basics, and basics are exactly what we need in this confusing world right now. This is THE podcast to listen to if you are confused about all things to do with taking hormone therapy.Dr Vikram Sinai Talaulikar is a spec

96: Hot Flashes & Cool Topics x Hotflash inc

Oct 14th, 2023 58m 29s

“Just put it out there. No one expects you to be perfect.”When Colleen Rosenblum talks about starting the Hot Flashes & Cool Topics podcast with her partner Bridgett Biagi Garratt in 2019, you kind of want to stand up and cheer. These Nashville

95: Lara Briden explains the stages of perimenopause

Oct 7th, 2023 50m 21s

The first encore guest on the Hotlflash inc podcast is the women's health ND Lara Briden, who is a calm, cool, collected and highly knowledgeable voice in the women’s health space. She is the author of two books, period repair manual and hormon

94. SOLO episode: Don’t get FUDed

Sep 30th, 2023 21m 18s

FUD = Fear, uncertainty and doubtThis is a special solo episode on the eve of Menoapuse Awareness Month to talk about the current situation that exists where people are trying to scare women into taking hormone therapy, whether they need it or

93. Compounding pharmacies are not meth labs

Sep 23rd, 2023 50m 57s

We hear this message all the time: compounding pharmacies and the bioidentical hormones they produce are dangerous and unregulated. But, are they? In an encore episode of Hotflash inc, to find out we turned to two people who are inside the indu

92: Why Paula Rastrick wants you to go low and slow on HRT

Sep 16th, 2023 1h 5m

Paula Rastrick is a British psychotherapist who was prescribed too-high levels of hormone therapy at a private clinic in the UK, which ended up causing more physical and emotional problems than she originally sought treatment for. She is also c

91. SOLO episode: My big big big big news

Sep 9th, 2023 6m 54s

Hotflash inc is the #1 podcast in Women's Health on Goodpods and in the top 1.5 percent globally according to Listen Notes. A quick update this week on where I am at right now, and how I feel about it, and what I think it means.Join the Hotflas

90. Kashif Khan - What’s your DNA got to do with menopause?

Sep 4th, 2023 45m 17s

There is something that is discussed very little in the current wave of menopause awareness, yet it is, in essence, our very structure.Yet obviously our DNA is a very big piece of this midlife puzzle. And if you, like me, thought that DNA testi

89. Tania Elfersy: What is your body telling you?

Aug 24th, 2023 50m 37s

Tania Elfersy is a transformative coach, speaker and award-winning author specializing in midlife women's health. Tania has spent years researching perimenopause and menopause: what causes it, what makes it worse and what can relieve the sympto

88. Andrea Donsky knows her menopause supplements

Aug 19th, 2023 55m 30s

The Hotflash inc podcast is the #1 podcast in Women’s Health on Goodpods and in the top 1.5 percent on Listen Notes. Thank you for making that happen! Andrea Donsky is a Canadian nutritionist who turned her own terrible and epic perimenopause i

87. HRT + heart disease: 'We don't believe it's going to protect you'

Aug 13th, 2023 24m 2s

BIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. Thanks so much for making that happen! While Hotflash inc takes a break, we are replaying a popular and confo

86. SOLO episode: 'I belong in this room'

Aug 4th, 2023 30m 59s

BIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. Thanks so much for making that happen! In today's episode, I talk about traveling to New York for my first bi

85. REPLAY Dr Maria Luque: "Muscle is life"

Jul 30th, 2023 51m 40s

84. Part 2: More menopause vagina stuff with Dr. Burt Webb

Jul 20th, 2023 27m 24s

Dr. Burt Webb is an Arizona-based ob-gyn and intimate wellness specialist who takes a holistic, functional, integrative approach to women’s health. (He also represents the non-invasive soundwave treatment Cliovana, which we discuss in part 2 of

83. Part 1: Menopause vagina stuff with Dr. Burt Webb

Jul 13th, 2023 36m 1s

Dr. Burt Webb is an Arizona-based ob-gyn and intimate wellness specialist with a holistic approach to women’s health. (He also represents the non-invasive soundwave treatment Cliovana, which we discuss in part 2 of this podcast.)He joins the Ho