The Hotflash inc podcast

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Hotflash inc is an evidence, expert and human-experience driven podcast looking for the true truth in perimenopause, menopause and beyond.  In more than 200 episodes menopause and midlife journalist and host Ann Marie McQueen has spoken to a wide range of experts from around the globe, including practitioners, activists, researchers, doctors and industry leaders about this perplexing transition we still know too little about. She’s talked about her own frustrations and personal experiences. And she has connected with a perimenoposse of powerful women in the midst of a perplexing transition. As of March 2026, Hotflash inc Podcast is number 1 on GoodPods in Women's Health Podcasts. It is amongst the top 3% percentile on Listen Notes and in the Top 60 Menopause podcasts on Feedspot. *Last updated January 2026

  1. 4d ago

    "Why I Stopped Weighing Myself For Good": Anne Poirier on Body Neutrality

    🌿 The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy digital guide is here. An unbiased, birds-eye view of what's happening that will help you cut through the confusion and have a real, informed conversation with your doctor about HRT. Get it now: go.hotflashinc.com/hottruth Anne Poirier is a nationally recognized body image expert, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of The Body Joyful, where she traces her own path from self-loathing to self-acceptance. She's also a pioneer in the body neutrality movement – a middle ground that's often misunderstood but, as this conversation shows, might be exactly what so many of us need in midlife. Highlights 01:39 – How Anne's eating disorder started in 7th grade gym class 05:42 – Working in fitness while struggling with her own body image 07:28 – The cultural pendulum swinging back toward thinness 10:39 – How she quieted her own food noise without medication 14:31 – Why perimenopause can also trigger eating disorders 15:45 – Body positivity's origins vs. body neutrality 17:34 – Exhausting wellness trends: protein, heavy lifting, vibration plates 20:52 – Listening to her body instead of outside rules 25:15 – Why she refuses to weigh herself 27:00 – Where to begin 28:47 – Your body as "the vessel you get to experience your life in" Connect with Anne Poirier Books: The Body Joyful, Not a Fat Annie, The Body Neutrality Playbook Connect with Hotflash inc TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc YOUTUBE @hotflashinc Facebook: @hotflashinc LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen Disclaimer This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    32 min

  2. Jun 10

    Episode 213: Why you're confused about hormone therapy (and why it's not your fault)

    🌿 Pre-order now: The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy — A Journalist's No BS Guide to the Lay of the Land Five videos, five PDFs, and a bonus guide on talking to your doctor. Launches June 15th for $47. 👉 https://go.hotflashinc.com/hottruth After six years researching hormone therapy – interviewing more than 250 practitioners, following the money, tracking the influencers, and regularly reading the research – I've still had moments of being completely bamboozled. In this solo episode, I break down something I've been mapping for years: the 12 distinct belief systems around hormone therapy, from hormone maxxing through to the Estrogen-Free camp and finally, the groups that don't believe hormone therapy is required or even recommended. They're not just different opinions – they're entire belief systems, and most of them are convinced they are right. This episode is the clearest lay of the land you're going to find – and it's the foundation of my new guide, The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy. Whether you're newly curious, deep in the weeds, or a practitioner trying to understand what your clients are navigating, this one is for you. Pre-order the guide now at https://go.hotflashinc.com/hottruth. Highlights 3:10 – The commercial forces shaping the HT conversation 4:30 – Research gaps: less data than hormone therapy in cows 5:50 – Why OBGYNs leading the charge is complicated 7:15 – The 12 belief systems, explained 16:20 – Why testing is a minefield 17:45 – Progesterone-forward prescribing and why it's been ignored 23:15 – Traditional medicine systems: TCM, Ayurveda, homeopathy 24:30 – The problem with tribalism inside belief systems 26:00 – What women actually need: a map before a decision Quotable "I think everyone just has pieces of the puzzle. Very few people have the whole picture." — Ann Marie McQueen, journalist and founder of Hotflash Inc Resources mentioned Dr. Felice Gersh episode: The Hormone Therapy Revolution You've Never Heard OfDr. Neal Barnard episode: Dr Neal Barnard is a Soy ManThe Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy guide: https://go.hotflashinc.com/hottruthConnect with Hotflash inc TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc YouTube: @hotflashinc Facebook: @hotflashinc LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen Disclaimer This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    17 min

  3. Jun 5

    Episode 212: 'Menopause was the most important event of my life'

    🌿 Grab my new expanded and improved free Fix It Fast Perimenopause List. 🔥 Get on the waitlist for The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy: A Journalist's No-BS Guide to the Lay of the Land (in Under 3 Hours) – it drops June 15. Luce Beaulieu is a certified menopause coach, researcher-turned-guide, and founder of the Midlife Temple community. She came to this work from the design and business world after being hit simultaneously with menopause, a traumatic breakup, and a toxic workplace in her late 40s, all during COVID. She clawed her way through, found HRT, healing practices and a 4,000-year-old myth called Inanna — and now she helps women do the same. If you like what you hear, lucky you! Luce has opened the doors to Portals of Liberation, her 4-week guided deep dive into the four thresholds your body is already asking you to cross. Don't wait! It starts June 22. Highlights 04:30 – Menopause as the most impactful event of Luce's life 05:02 – Why treating it as "physical deterioration" misses the point 05:27 – Grasping for resources beyond the purely medical 08:00 – Leadership, peak career, then menopause hits like snakes and ladders 08:30 – Ageism: from sought-after to invisible 10:21 – 20–30 hot flashes a day, no sleep, depression, suicidal ideation 13:16 – Why she'd assumed she wouldn't "need" hormones 20:30 – The U-shaped descent 23:13 – Getting back into the body through somatic work 29:57 – The missing archetype between mother and crone 32:24 – What a spiritual awakening actually feels like Connect with Hotflash inc TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc YouTube: @hotflashinc Facebook: @hotflashinc LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    40 min

  4. May 29

    211 When Hormones Don't Work: Dr. May Hindmarsh on Histamine, Epigenetics, and Trusting Your Body

    🌿 Grab the free Fix It Fast Perimenopause List so you can make sense of what's happening and what to do about it. 👉 http://go.hotflashinc.com/fix-it-fast 🔥 Join the waitlist for The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy — the only in-depth guide that looks at all the approaches so you can make an informed decision for your body. Out June 15! 👉 http://go.hotflashinc.com/hottruth-waitlist Dr. May Hindmarsh is a Canadian-trained family medicine doctor who — along with her husband, also an MD — has been questioning the medical establishment long before it was fashionable to do so. Their podcast, BS Free MD, was born from decades of clinical experience that didn't match what the pharmaceutical reps, the government, or the studies said it should. May has seen it all and she's landed on team what actually works for each individual woman. May is also speaking as a patient who spent three years convinced something was catastrophically wrong with her, while she was already on hormone therapy and working with hormone specialists. Highlights02:04 – Training as scientists vs. trusting pharmaceutical reps 12:39 – Practicing before the Women's Health Initiative — what Mai actually saw clinically 17:47 – How the WHI hit her practice and why the data didn't match what she was seeing 20:25 – Her own perimenopause begins: libido tanks, testosterone at zero, migraines spike 26:17 – When things started to go wrong 35:40 – MTHFR, COMT, and why genetic variations change everything 45:06 – What mast cells actually are and what histamine does in the body (way beyond allergies) 51:22 – Why nutraceuticals can be just as overwhelming as pharmaceuticals 53:11 – Why "just optimize more" culture is so harmful 57:06 – What she's doing now 1:01:14 – Why you have to trust yourself over your practitioner Connect with Hotflash incTikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc YouTube: @hotflashinc Facebook: @hotflashinc LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen DisclaimerThis podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    1h 20m

  5. May 15

    210: Dr. Maria Luque wants you to stop chasing squirrels in menopause

    Grab the Fix It Fast Perimenopause List: http://go.hotflashinc.com/fix-it-fast Get on the waitlist for: The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy: A Journalist’s No-BS Guide to the Lay of the Land (in Under 3 Hours) https://go.hotflashinc.com/hottruth-waitlist Dr. Maria Luque is a health scientist, fitness expert, and menopause coach – for Halle Berry no less — and the author of New Moves in Menopause. We talk about body image, exercise addiction, the pressure to "fix" yourself, and what it really looks like to build a movement practice that's sustainable and joyful, and actually yours. Highlights 02:20 – The slow erosion of identity through life's demands 03:10 – What "I want my 20-year-old body" really means 06:25 – Why community is the biggest tool you have 08:08 – Letting go of the lifelong self-improvement project 10:10 – Grey rocking the body image monster 12:12 – How the fitness industry makes body image worse 13:15 – Having a child as a turning point for body kindness 15:00 – The Valley of Neutrality — and why it's the goal 16:28 – GLP-1s, peptides, and people selling you a magic map 17:15 – Maria's take on supplements and products she won't promote 19:38 – How fear-based menopause content crosses a line 26:41 – Integrity as a core value, full stop 27:08 – Consistency over perfection: why 10 minutes beats 60 30:16 – The truth about heavy lifting (and who actually needs it) 32:23 – Meeting women where they are with equipment they have 34:07 – Maria's own hormone therapy journey — what's worked and what didn't Get Dr. Maria Luque's 📖 New Moves in Menopause: www.newmovesinmenopause.com Connect with Hotflash inc TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc YouTube: @hotflashinc Facebook: @hotflashinc LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen Disclaimer This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    38 min

  6. May 8

    209: The Best New Menopause Book I've Read – Andrea Donsky on Nourishing Menopause

    🌿 Get the free Fix It Fast Perimenopause List — your quick-start guide to feeling better now. → http://go.hotflashinc.com/fix-it-fast 🔥 Want to understand the full hormone therapy landscape in under three hours? Get on the waitlist for The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy. → http://go.hotflashinc.com/hottruth-waitlist I don't say this lightly: Andrea Donsky's new book Nourishing Menopause is the best menopause book I've read. And I've read a lot of them. What makes it different is that Andrea actually bridges the gap — the one between "go see your doctor and get hormones" and "go natural and avoid everything." Most women don't even know that gap exists. Andrea lives in it, and she wrote an entire book from there. With a foreword from a naturopathic doctor and a foreword from a board-certified OB-GYN and former president of The Menopause Society, this book doesn't pick a side. It just tells you the truth. Highlights00:29 – Why Ann Marie called this the best menopause book she's read 01:31 – In perimenopause for 14 years without knowing it 06:57 – Do supplements actually work? The evidence they won't tell you about 10:30 – Artificial sweeteners, seed oils, and why research supports everything 11:35 – Why we need to start listening to our own bodies again 12:41 – 17 reasons women gain weight in perimenopause 13:12 – The Gen X diet culture PTSD we all carry 14:45 – Why the self-blame has to stop 18:46 – What misinformation actually looks like 22:20 – Phantom smells, itchy ears, and why the symptom list needs to grow 24:46 – How to actually evaluate research you see online 26:45 – Why Gen Z kids are already menopause savvy Connect with Hotflash incTikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc YouTube: @hotflashinc Facebook: @hotflashinc LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen DisclaimerThis podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    28 min

  7. Apr 30

    208: The Hormone Therapy Revolution You've Never Heard Of

    🌿 Get the updated + free Fix It Fast Perimenopause List. → http://go.hotflashinc.com/fix-it-fast 🔥 Get on the waitlist for my new digital guide, The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy. → http://go.hotflashinc.com/hottruth-waitlist Dr. Felice Gersh is a dual board-certified OB-GYN and integrative medicine physician here to talk about Rhythmic Physiologic Dosing (RPD) – and what she believes is wrong with the current approach of "low, static" dosing of hormone therapy. Highlights07:40 – What "regular" HRT looks like vs. RPD 12:00 – Her argument why "lowest dose" makes no sense 15:00 – Why measuring estradiol blood levels matters 19:52 – Yes, you will have a bleed — that's the point 21:00 – Growth factors, the brain, mitochondria, and estradiol 27:00 – The case for endometrial ablation as an option for RPD patients 31:31 – Vaginal and rectal progesterone — why it matters 38:00 – Progesterone intolerance — what's going on 43:39 – The tissue hormone argument — and why it doesn't pick up the slack 54:47 – Is this safe? 55:35 – The future: hormone pumps and new ovaries Connect with Hotflash incTikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause Instagram: @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc YouTube: @hotflashinc Facebook: @hotflashinc LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen DisclaimerThis podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    57 min

  8. Apr 24

    207: Hot 50 & menopausal with comic JoAnna Ross

    🌿 Join us for the Emotional Fitness Retreat Transform Perimenopause into Power Wilson4Q x Hotflash inc Menla Mountain Resort, New York  June 4-7 2026  Sign me up! 🔥 Need help right now? Grab my free Fix It Fast Perimenopause List for quick, practical non-hormonal relief options, and get on the waitlist for  The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy, a clear + comprehensive guide to understanding the entire landscape of options and empowering you to make your best decision. This week, I’m talking to Joanna Ross – a former Broadway dancer turned stand-up comic, yoga teacher, and creator of the deeply personal comedy special Hot 50. We talk about reinvention, the strange and often frustrating reality of navigating menopause, and what happens when you decide to put the truth – all of it – on stage.  This is one of those conversations that wanders in the best way. It’s real, it’s funny, and it gets to the heart of what so many women are quietly dealing with. Highlights 03:39 – What comedy really teaches you 05:20 – How menopause became her material 06:01 – The ‘wild west’ of menopause 07:24 – Celebrities, marketing & mistrust 10:41 – Doctors, hormones & “don’t suffer” 12:54 – When symptoms hit hard (and fast) 14:13 – The advice that misses the mark 15:14 – Finding relief (and stability) 17:19 – Why isn’t this being diagnosed properly? 18:00 – Learning menopause on the fly 21:08 – The problem with “quick fix” wellness 22:14 – Healing your relationship with food 25:12 – Why women need conversation, not products 27:57 – Comedy meets menopause 29:01 – Prepare before you’re in it 31:32 – Why it’s never too late to start something new 34:46 – The problem with yoga 41:19 – Intuition, discernment & midlife wisdom Connect with JoAnna Ross 🎧 Comedy Album & Special: Hot 50 (available on major streaming platforms) 🌐 Website: https://www.hotjoanna.com Connect with Hotflash inc TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause  Instagram:  @hotflashinc X: @hotflashinc  YOUTUBE  @hotflashinc Facebook:  @hotflashinc Linked in:  Ann Marie McQueen Disclaimer This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

    47 min
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Hotflash inc is an evidence, expert and human-experience driven podcast looking for the true truth in perimenopause, menopause and beyond.  In more than 200 episodes menopause and midlife journalist and host Ann Marie McQueen has spoken to a wide range of experts from around the globe, including practitioners, activists, researchers, doctors and industry leaders about this perplexing transition we still know too little about. She’s talked about her own frustrations and personal experiences. And she has connected with a perimenoposse of powerful women in the midst of a perplexing transition. As of March 2026, Hotflash inc Podcast is number 1 on GoodPods in Women's Health Podcasts. It is amongst the top 3% percentile on Listen Notes and in the Top 60 Menopause podcasts on Feedspot. *Last updated January 2026

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  • Creator
    Hotflash inc
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    215
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Hotflash inc
  • Show Website
    The Hotflash inc podcast

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