I'm Ann Marie McQueen, journalist and founder of Hotflash Inc, a platform to inform, entertain and encourage people going through perimenopause, menopause andropause and midlife around the world. I'm here reminding you that while nothing about this peri/menopause transition is easy, it is going somewhere good. My aim is to give you the best information, in the most objective, balanced manner I can muster. I'll give you access to some remarkable people, cutting-edge information and research, ...
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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. AMx Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc Episode website: Hotflashinc See hotflashinc.com/privacy-…
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105: The menopause transition: 'It's a deconditioning'
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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 her about so many things we don’t talk about much in the menopause conversation. Sherry is a registered y…
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104: Journalism, my mom, and the search for health harmony
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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 on a path to finding out whatever I could about health and wellness, all while I struggled with unchecked I…
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103: Dr Vonda Wright: What to do about your perimenopause body pain (and protect your body as you age)
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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 body pain and a range of other symptoms. All of that combined is fuelling her mission to educate women everyw…
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102: 4 women go through perimenopause and along comes WILE
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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 “tincture”) Introductions: Gwendolyn Floyd is a venture-backed serial social entrepreneur – five companies …
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101: The most inspiring mid-sex-life story ever
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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 when she was 53, going through menopause – and had never had an orgasm. Through the love of a patient and …
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100: SOLO 10 things I've learned from 100 episodes
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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 amount of things, and refined and iterated the podcast intensely, getting it to the point that I'm pretty sur…
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99: Dr Junella Chin, CBD and perimenopause pain knows pain
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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 working in holistic medicine. She is currently a professor at New York University and Syracuse University t…
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98: Perimenopause “down there” 101 with Dr Karyn Eilber
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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 of three, co-founder of the clean, luxury intimacy company Glissant, founding medical partner at Doctorpedi…
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97: Dr Vikram Talaulikar: Straight facts about hormone therapy
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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 specialist in reproductive medicine at University College London Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust and an assoc…
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96: Hot Flashes & Cool Topics x Hotflash inc
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“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-based friends – Colleen is an attorney turned pilates instructor, Brigit is a former elementary school t…
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95: Lara Briden explains the stages of perimenopause
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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 hormone repair manual, is a sought after speaker and guest, has her own podcast and helps 171 thousand people on…
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94. SOLO episode: Don’t get FUDed
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FUD = Fear, uncertainty and doubt This 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 not. I talk about why that doesn’t make any sense, doesn’t align with any of the current advice from the …
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93. Compounding pharmacies are not meth labs
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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 industry, which accounts for about 1 to 2 per cent of drugs sold, and getsa very different story. Meet Scott B…
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92: Why Paula Rastrick wants you to go low and slow on HRT
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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 complex trauma survivor and classed as a Highly Sensitive Person and her mission is to raise awareness of b…
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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 Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc Ep…
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90. Kashif Khan - What’s your DNA got to do with menopause?
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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 testing was something to avoid, because you don’t want to find out what diseases you are going to die of, then…
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89. Tania Elfersy: What is your body telling you?
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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 symptoms. She suffered too, and then after a profound emotional shift, became free of her own physical and emoti…
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88. Andrea Donsky knows her menopause supplements
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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 into a movement – and a company. Now a Menopause Educator and Researcher with 300,000+ TikTok followers, sh…
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87. HRT + heart disease: 'We don't believe it's going to protect you'
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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 confounding episode here: With so much hype surrounding menopause hormone therapy today, it’s very hard to know…
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86. SOLO episode: 'I belong in this room'
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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 big event on behalf of Hotflash inc. And how I finally realized that I belong in the room. The broad themes …
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85. REPLAY Dr Maria Luque: "Muscle is life"
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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 episode: Dr Maria Luque is an Austin, Texas-based, United States Air Force veteran (she was a fitness program manag…
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84. Part 2: More menopause vagina stuff with Dr. Burt Webb
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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 this podcast.) This week he gets into all the different treatments, hormone therapy and otherwise – that …
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83. Part 1: Menopause vagina stuff with Dr. Burt Webb
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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 Hotflash inc podcast to talk about how our entire body plays a role in our vaginal health – and genitourina…
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82. Michelle Aspinwall is a Body Whisperer
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Michelle Aspinwall is a Medical Intuitive, Body Whisperer, and transformative healer whose mission is to shift women’s health specifically beyond 40. Michelle works with women worldwide using both science and spirit channeling leading them through specific and transformative health challenges. She teaches women that how they think, believe, support…
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