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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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Dr Mikhail Kogan: Medical marijuana + menopause
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Dr Mikhail Kogan came to medical marijuana via his work as a geriatrician at GW Medical Faculty Associates and as an associate professor of medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in the US. He co-wrote one of the most comprehensive books on the subject of cannabis in health care, Medical Marijuana, published i…
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75. Jennifer Harrington doesn’t want you to start at the end of perimenopause
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FYI: this is a very important replay of one of my most popular episodes, which was originally posted in November. Jennifer Harrington is a naturopathic doctor based in Sydney, Australia. Her interest in natural therapies started when she was diagnosed with PCOS in her early twenties and told she may struggle to ever have children. After experimenti…
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74: The most helpful perimenopause podcast ever
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It's a broad claim, but if I’m more clear on what is going on now that I’ve done it, I can guarantee you will be if you listen. Dr Kirstey Holland is a Melbourne, Australia-based doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine who holds a double degree in acupuncture and herbal medicine. She is a practitioner of environmental and nutritional medicine, funct…
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A solo episode where I talk about my mom. She died right after she turned 53. I am about to turn 53. This has been a thing. This is a thing for people. Also: the gifts my mom gave me by dying young, the message I want to give you about living courageously, with fear, honoring the ones we love that we lose, energy, breaking generational barriers and…
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Morgan Adams is a holistic sleep coach, with two advanced certifications in sleep science coaching. She works withwomen who struggle to get a good night's sleep consistently. And that is something she knows all about, because she spent almost a decade using prescription sleeping medication, even though she knew that her overall sleep quality suffer…
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71. Dr Quentin Oury talks andropause (aka manopause)
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Dr Quentin Oury is a leading British GP at a busy NHS service with 16,000 patients. He is focused on men’s health, including the areas of erectile dysfunction and low testosterone. He joins me to talk about a topic that doesn't get much air time, but we are slowly starting to hear more about: andropause. Many people don’t even know what the word me…
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70. Dr Mary Claire Haver has to take a stand on hormone therapy
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Dr Mary Claire Haver is a Texas-based board-certified ob-gyn and Certified Culinary Medicine specialist. She’s also TikTok’s top menopause doc with two million followers, published The Galveston Diet in January and is working on another book, this one specifically about menopause. I spoke to Dr Haver in early April and we talked about everything fr…
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69. Joyce Harper believes in HRT and worries about it at the same damn time
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Day raver, cold swimmer, rabble-rouser, educator, author, podcaster, academic and publisher of scientific papers: Joyce Harper is a professor of reproductive science at the Institute for Women's Health, University College London. She’s also author of the 2021 book Your Fertile Years and hosts the podcast Why didn’t anyone tell me this? Harper is un…
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68. SOLO My big health kerfuffle (and why I'm not on HRT - yet)
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A special episode in which I talk all about being beset with a variety of health problems that could spell trouble, and how that made me feel, and what I was finally able to do about it. This is a podcast for anyone who is trying to get help but is tired, sick and down, or for someone who wants to avoid feeling that way. It's about getting help, ma…
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I'm a journalist critical thinking my way through my own perimenopause. In searching for good information, balance and context for myself, the Substack I publish on the subject, various social media accounts, and the interviews and solo episodes I do on this podcast, sometimes I just get floored at the things I see and hear on social media and in t…
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66. HRT + heart disease: 'We don't believe it's going to protect you'
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With so much hype surrounding menopause hormone therapy today, it’s very hard to know what or who to believe. There is a big push to portray HRT not only as helpful for menopause symptoms, but also as a preventative for cardiovascular disease. But does this bear out in the research we have so far? That was the question of the latest literature revi…
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65. Kate Deering: ‘Stop blaming your metabolism on aging’
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Kate Deering is a San Diego-based personal trainer, holistic nutritionist and author of the ground-breaking book How to Heal Your Metabolism. Kate has some no-nonsense guidance for healing broken metabolisms and how to make the transition through menopause as easy as possible by drawing on the pro-metabolic approach to nutrition. That involves lear…
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Today I unleash an update on my own epic perimenopause experience, which began sometime in my early 40s, wreaked all sorts of havoc, and continues to this day – aged 52, looking ahead to turning 53. I cover a lot here, so buckle up! • A little about my early years and what led to Hotflash inc • A taster of some of the symptoms I've dealt with • Wha…
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Dr Maria Luque is an Austin, Texas-based, United States Air Force veteran (she was a fitness program manager) and health science professor who studied fitness in menopause for her doctorate. She is bothered by the reams of health, fitness and nutrition information on social media, never mind when it comes to what we are supposed to be doing in peri…
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62. OG Menopause Goddess Lynette Sheppard: 'Now there's TOO MUCH information' (REPLAY)
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Lynette Sheppard is such an important voice in the menopause space because she has such depth of experience and context for this conversation. The former nurse/manager, artist, speaker, advocate and more has, for 17 years now, been the author of The Menopause Goddess Blog. She started it, and gathered a group of 15 women around her, when "the chang…
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61. SOLO: How to stop spending so much money on perimenopause
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Are you sick of spending money in menopause? According to a report from the Female Founders Fund women in North America spend an average of US$2,000 finding solutions. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Today I share many of the tips and tricks I’ve learned to feel better now from the evidence, from experts I’ve interviewed and from my own experie…
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60. Gerianne DiPiano: "We've been conditioned to accept hormones from cradle to grave"
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Gerianne DiPiano is chairman and CEO of FemmePharma, which produces among other things a range of solutions for women going through menopause. That includes personal lubricants and moisturizers, and hot flash and sleep remedies. Geri has had a three-decade career in women's health, working at the top levels of the pharmaceutical industry as well as…
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59. Dr Rachel Rubin: "Too often the word hormone scares people"
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Dr. Rachel S. Rubin is one of the most important voices on social media, advocating for women’s sexual health. Her frank manner and deep educational background – she is that rare combination of board-certified urologist and sexual medicine specialist and one of only a handful of physicians with fellowship training in sexual medicine for all genders…
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58. Brooke Faught wants you to know more about testosterone
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Brooke Faught is a nurse practitioner and director of the Women's Institute for Sexual Health, a division of Urology Associates in Nashville, Tennessee. She knows a lot about testosterone and women’s sexual health because she uses it in her practice every day. I first came across Brooke when she presented her research and experience during the Nort…
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57. Ann Garnier is donating her hot flashes to science
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Ann Garnier is CEO and founder of Lisa Health, the US company that launched an app for menopause called Midday in conjunction with Mayo Clinic. Ann has been a senior technology executive in the healthcare space her entire career, and it just so happens that when she started Lisa Health, she was also going through perimenopause. The Midday app is on…
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56. SOLO: 11 lessons about menopause + midlife for 2023
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Ann Marie is back with a solo episode, her last of the year. Get ready as she makes sense of a crazy year she's still trying to make sense of, and looks at taking that wisdom forward, so maybe you can make a little sense of where you are headed too. Highlights: • Why our bodies and brains work overtime to keep us safe – and why we need to recognize…
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55. Amy Fleming is way too young for menopause but it's happening anyway
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Amy Fleming is way too young to be going through menopause, but her attitude about it would outshine many of her much older peers. She was just 27 when a series of painful issues landed her in the hospital multiple times, and ultimately found out that she was going through primary ovarian insufficiency (POI, which I accidentally call "premature" in…
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54. Jessica Jolie Badonsky: ‘Take the pressure off perimenopause with HRT’
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What a discussion this is. (The first explicit one too!) Jessica Jolie Badonsky is a New York City-based, board-certified family nurse practitioner and North American Menopause Society certified practitioner with more 18 years of experience in the medical arena. She is also a life coach who specializes in menopausal health, human sexuality, medicin…
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53. How Hello Again's Patty Pappas and Carrie Mapes turned a parking lot conversation into perimenopause solutions
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In the last 3+ years longtime friends Patty Pappas and Carrie Mapes have completely transformed how THC and CBD can be delivered to help people through peri/menopause, all without any psychoactive effect. They were stay-at-home moms when they dreamed up and launched their fast-growing California-based company Hello Again, which recently expanded fr…
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52. Esther Blum is going to sort your perimenopause out
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Esther Blum is an integrative dietitian and lifestyle coach based in New York City. She’s a bestselling author and has been on a number of the top US shows including Dr Oz and the Goop Podcast. In her fifth and latest book, See You Later, Ovulator, she draws on 27+ years in nutritional counseling as well as her own personal experience to give women…
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50. Rochelle Weitzner is the menopause skincare OG
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It’s hard to believe that when Rochelle Weitzner launched her company in 2019, Pause-Well Aging was the first to target the wide-open menopause space. The beauty industry veteran ran or helped run brands like Erno Laszlo, Laura Mercier Cosmetics and RéVive Skincare before she started having hot flashes, brain fog and other “experiences”, leading he…
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49. Gennev co-founder and CEO Jill Angelo is riding the highs and lows of perimenopause too
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Jill Angelo is the co-founder and CEO of Gennev, a virtual care platform for menopause in the US. Jill spotted an opportunity six years ago, and although Gennev started out a little different than it has ended up, they were one of the first companies to become a leader in this space. And over the pandemic Gennev pivoted to providing education and t…
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48. How Irene Ndagire launched Menopause Uganda
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Ann Marie McQueen speaks to Irene Ndagire, a physiotherapist based in Kampala, Uganda. She runs the Women’s Health Foundation, launched in 2014, and has been advising women on all aspects of menopause. She recently launched Menopause Uganda to help even more people menopause symptoms, fear and other issues associated with the transition. She's also…
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47. Karen Arthur doesn’t want menopause to bite anyone else in the butt
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Karen Arthur is the ultimate multi-potentate: a leader in the global menopause space; former teacher, fashion creative, model, activist, grandmother, mentor and so much more. Her podcast Menopause Whilst Black is now in it’s third season; she’s been featured across major media platforms in Britain and North America, and she’s a well-respected and r…
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46. Sally Mueller and Michelle Jacobs are climbing a Womaness-sized mountain
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Ann Marie speaks with Sally Mueller and Michelle Jacobs, who as co-founders of the skin and supplement line Womaness have surged to the forefront of the industry since they launched in 2021. Highlights: • Celebrities and menopause (4.00) • How they settled on their brand of menopositivity (9.12) • Why a business partnership is like a marriage (11.2…
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45. Why 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? To find out Ann Marie turns to two people who are inside the industry, which accounts for about 1 to 2 per cent of drugs sold, and gets a very different story. They are Scott Brunner, CEO of the Alliance…
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44. Dr Kourtney Sims does not want you sliding down a wall
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Dr Kourtney Sims has an unusual combination of skillsets when it comes to menopause, and has really dedicated her continuing education post-medical school to understanding this transition. The Texas-based, North American Menopause Society-certified obstetrician-gynecologist is also an herbalist, a yoga teacher, and a functional integrative women's …
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43. Jenn Salib Huber loves being in menopause
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Dr Jenn Salib Huber is a Canadian registered dietitian, naturopathic doctor and intuitive eating coach and she's on a mission to help women thrive in midlife. Dr Jenn Salib Huber is a Canadian registered dietitian, naturopathic doctor and intuitive eating coach and she's on a mission to help women thrive in midlife. She uses Instagram to break down…
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42. Evernow founder Alicia Jackson is all-in on menopause
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Dr Alicia Jackson is an American scientist, health-tech entrepreneur and CEO and founder of Evernow — a next-generation telemedicine startup that is completely focused on menopause and provides FDA-approved treatment from specialists. Evernow also recently announced a very significant round of funding, with some very influential donors. We speak al…
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41. Professor Martha Hickey: Menopause IS Normal
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Ann Marie speaks to Martha Hickey, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and co-director of the Gynaecology Research Centre at the Royal Women’s Hospital. Prof Hickey is a leader in developing national guidelines for menopause management in Australia and New Zealand and also in developing a new model of care for man…
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I'm Ann Marie McQueen, a Canadian-born, Middle East-residing, perimenopausing journalist. I'm also founder of Hotflash Inc, a platform to inform, entertain and encourage the global perimenoposse. I'm here reminding you that while nothing about this peri/menopause transition is easy, it is going somewhere good. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: W…
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Ann Marie talks about some of the cool things that are happening – including season 2 of the podcast starting Friday, September 9 2022 – before moving on to why perimenopause is all about figuring out how to exist in the middle. Then a few words about something that is definitely not our friend at this time, and that is A-L-C-O-H-O-L. Join the Hotf…
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39. Debbie Baisden is having a Menopause Party
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Debbie Baisden is a popular British menopause campaigner, comedian and Pub Landlady (which, if you are not from the UK, is quite different from a bartender. Ann Marie speaks to Debbie while she is in Scotland, spending a week performing and promoting her one-woman show Menopause Party at the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Join the Hotflash Inc p…
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38. Revelry is about menopause, not getting high
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"The minute you get that good night sleep, everything changes." That's from Lilach Mazor Power. Find out how cannabis leader and co-founder of Phoenix-based menopause-focused Revelry Cannabis is helping women sleep better and longer than they ever could – as well as alleviating a bunch of other symptoms, too. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: We…
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Get inspired by Ann Marie's conversation with Amy Schmidt, who is all the things a woman can be at this time of our lives and more. She inspired women through more than 100 episodes of her Fearlessly Facing Fifty podcast before pivoting and launching her Better Than Gossip project. Her journals turned into a book, Cannonball: Fearlessly Facing Midl…
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Ann Marie speaks to Rebecca Ann Simmons, a PhD researcher at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, whose research aims to uncover the multiplicity of experiences among LGBTQ+ people who are or have experienced menopause. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @ho…
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35. SOLO: Menopause Shift Summit Part recap Part 2
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Ann Marie is back with another solo episode, talking about all the individual conversations and lovely moments she had with people out of the Menopause Shift Summit. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @hotflashinc Twitter: @hotflashinc Episode website: Hotflashinc See hotflashinc.com/privacy-po…
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34. SOLO: How to ruin your sleep in perimenopause
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A short example of why sleep hygiene is important, yet it's the first thing to go when things start to get tough. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @hotflashinc Twitter: @hotflashinc Episode website: Hotflashinc See hotflashinc.com/privacy-policy for privacy information…
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33. SOLO: That time chest pain sent me to the ER
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That time I called myself an ambulance in the middle of the night and waited for it like you would for a taxi. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @hotflashinc Twitter: @hotflashinc Episode website: Hotflashinc See hotflashinc.com/privacy-policy for privacy information…
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32. SOLO AMA: "How did DHEA change your life"?
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Ann Marie talks about how, in the early stages of perimenopause she experienced symptoms of adrenal exhaustion that were ultimately successfully treated with a course of DHEA (for several months) and an entire lifestyle overhaul. And she references some of the latest research on the use of DHEA, and the potential of DHEA for treating the symptoms o…
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31. SOLO: Menopause Shift Summit recap, Part 1
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Almost 7,000 people signed up for the Menopause Shift Summit, a project nine months in the making. Ann Marie runs down some of what she and partner Andrea Donsky learned from interviewing 40+ expert speakers over three days. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @hotflashinc Twitter: @hotflashinc …
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30. SOLO: Turkey hiking, fear and new things
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Ann Marie talks about the parallel effort involved in tackling two very different things: her first hiking trip in Turkey and the Menopause Shift Summit (June 21-23), and all the growth and euphoria that comes with making things new things happen, even if you have to go through the same fear, anger and inner resistance every time. Join the Hotflash…
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29. Dana Marlowe: Homelessness, poverty + menopause
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Ann Marie speaks to I Support the Girls founder Dana Marlowe about menopause, their Flash Kits, being homeless and in poverty and devoting all your time to doing something you love. Join the Hotflash Inc perimenoposse: Web: hotflashinc.com TikTok: @hotflashinc Instagram: @hotflashinc Twitter: @hotflashinc Episode website: Hotflashinc See hotflashin…
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Season Two is coming July 1! But first... Emma Hartley is a British journalist and co-founder of 24hourlondon who conducted an investigation into the UK’s HRT shortages for a publication called Tortoise… in 2018. Emma’s story touched on everything from Donald Trump’s trade war with China to manufacturing facilities in India, but in the end, the pro…
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As we ramp up to the launch of Hotflash Inc, the podcast Season Two, Ann Marie talks about why she choose "this is going somewhere good" as one of the tag lines for Hotflash Inc; why she's not having the deficiency narrative, weighing menopause hormone therapy for current (and future) health, magic bullets and some vagina stuff. Join the Hotflash I…
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