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The Hotflash inc podcast

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Send us a text Thank you to our sponsor, Timeline Nutrition – makers of Mitopure™, the first clinically tested Urolithin A supplement that supports cellular energy and muscle strength. Visit www.timeline.com and use the code HOTFLASH for 20% off your first order. In this episode of the Hotflash inc Podcast, host and founder Ann Marie McQueen sits down with Laura Ghita, a Romanian psychotherapist and Family Constellation practitioner, for a deeply personal and revealing conversation about how ...

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Send us a text Thank you to our sponsor, Timeline Nutrition – makers of Mitopure™, the first clinically tested Urolithin A supplement that supports cellular energy and muscle strength. Visit www.timeline.com and use the code HOTFLASH for 20% off your first order. In this episode of the Hotflash inc Podcast, host and founder Ann Marie McQueen sits down with Laura Ghita, a Romanian psychotherapist and Family Constellation practitioner, for a deeply personal and revealing conversation about how ...

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Episodes (20/184)

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184: Why self-connection matters most in perimenopause with Dr Leigha Saunders

Send us a text Hosted by journalist and Hotflash inc founder Ann Marie McQueen, this episode features Dr Leigha Saunders, a naturopathic doctor, menopause specialist and mom of two whose own postpartum sleep struggles ignited a mission to help women reclaim their rest and balance. From her sold-out “Woman Up” event to her candid insights on burnout, radical self-responsibility, and the real roots of fatigue, Leigha and Ann Marie dig into the science and soul of women’s health. They unpack why...

4 days ago

59 minutes

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183: How Family Constellation therapy helps you heal midlife patterns

Send us a text Thank you to our sponsor, Timeline Nutrition – makers of Mitopure™, the first clinically tested Urolithin A supplement that supports cellular energy and muscle strength. Visit www.timeline.com and use the code HOTFLASH for 20% off your first order. In this episode of the Hotflash inc Podcast, host and founder Ann Marie McQueen sits down with Laura Ghita, a Romanian psychotherapist and Family Constellation practitioner, for a deeply personal and revealing conversation about how ...

1 week ago

45 minutes

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182: Journalist Fiona Clark on hype, hormones and finding better science

Send us a text Thank you to Timeline for sponsoring this podcast. Powered by Mitopure®, Timeline’s clinically proven Urolithin A gummies are designed to boost energy and support healthy aging at the cellular level. Use code HOTFLASH at timeline.com for 20% off your first order. Don't miss The Perimenopause Game Plan. Six weeks to sorted – mind body and soul – so you can be the journalist, scientist and CEO of your own health. It's everything I've learned in my work researching this transition...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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181: How to stop people pleasing and start living for you with Riana Malia

Send us a text Thank you to Timeline for sponsoring this podcast. Powered by Mitopure®, Timeline’s clinically proven Urolithin A gummies are designed to boost energy and support healthy aging at the cellular level. Use code HOTFLASH at timeline.com for 20% off your first order. In this empowering episode of the Hotflash inc podcast, journalist and founder Ann Marie McQueen speaks with Riana Malia, a transformation coach with over 20 years of experience helping ambitious women break free from ...

3 weeks ago

38 minutes

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180 SOLO: Burnout, news about hormone therapy, Gwyneth Paltrow and three midlife questions that change everything

Send us a text Thank you to Timeline for sponsoring this podcast. Powered by Mitopure®, Timeline’s clinically proven Urolithin A gummies are designed to boost energy and support healthy aging at the cellular level. Use code HOTFLASH at timeline.com for 20% off your first order. In this deeply personal solo episode, Hotflash inc founder Ann Marie McQueen returns to the mic to debrief after organizing and hosting the Hotflash inc Summit – including how it impacted her mind, body, and career dir...

1 month ago

45 minutes

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179: REPLAY The Bare-Ass Minimum Approach to Thriving Through Menopause with Jennifer Jefferies

Send us a text This podcast originally ran on May 9, 2025 In this honest and energizing conversation, Ann Marie sits down with 64-year-old Australian naturopath, speaker, and wellness rebel Jennifer Jefferies – aka @presentdaywisewoman – to talk about how women can embrace midlife and menopause without fear, extremes, or pharma dependency. Jen brings over 30 years of clinical experience, a surfboard, and a no-BS attitude to the conversation. Once a burned-out pharmaceutical rep, she mad...

1 month ago

45 minutes

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178: REPLAY Finding our Pink Zones: How women really thrive in perimenopause, menopause + midlife with Dr. Heidi Lescanec, ND

Send us a text This podcast originally ran on May 29, 2025 On this episode of the Hotflash inc podcast, journalist and founder Ann Marie McQueen is joined by Dr Heidi Lescanec, a naturopathic physician based in Vancouver, BC, who brings over two decades of experience blending the latest scientific research with natural, clinically proven forms of medicine. Heidi has coined the term The Pink Zones to describe the cultural, emotional, physical, and communal conditions that allow women to not on...

1 month ago

38 minutes

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177: SOLO Inside the Hotflash inc Summit

Send us a text Announcing the First Hotflash inc Summit: Everything You Need to Know In this episode, the host discusses their excitement about hosting the first Hotflash Inc. Summit from September 29th to October 4th. They detail their extensive preparation over the past three months, including interviewing 36 experts to create a comprehensive resource on menopause. The summit aims to dispel fear and provide evidence-based information on menopause. Highlights include multiple expert sessions...

1 month ago

25 minutes

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176: REPLAY Cracking the perimenopause code with Jessica Barac

Send us a text This podcast originally ran on 13 March 2025 Jessica Barac is a registered nutritionist, personal trainer, and the founder of What The Menopause, a women's health platform of over 950,000 women globally. After struggling with perimenopause in her late 30s and receiving little support from traditional healthcare, Jessica made it her mission to crack the perimenopause code and regain her vibrancy. Today, she has educated millions of women through her content and developed The Pau...

2 months ago

35 minutes

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175: SOLO Updates, books deals and what's next

Send us a text In this solo episode, journalist and founder Ann Marie McQueen shares an honest update on her journey with Hotflash inc, the challenges and triumphs of building a community for women in midlife, and her personal experiences navigating menopause. Highlights include: The story behind launching Hotflash inc and the drive to create meaningful resources for womenReflections on career pivots, imposter syndrome and embracing the role of entrepreneurThe emotional impact of losing a par...

2 months ago

23 minutes

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174: REPLAY Your midlife brain health action plan with neurologist Dr Teryn Clarke

Send us a text This podcast originally ran on February 13, 2025 In this episode of Hotflash inc, GenX journalist and host Ann Marie McQueen sits down with neurologist and award-winning dementia care professional Dr Teryn Clarke to discuss the science and lifestyle strategies that can reduce the risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, which disproportionately affect women. Drawing from her book, Brain Health Action Plan: Simple, Science-Backed Lifestyle Changes that Optimize C...

2 months ago

43 minutes

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173: REPLAY Why Do Women Go Through Menopause? with Dr Deena Emera

Send us a text This podcast originally ran on March 26th, 2025 In this episode of the Hotflash inc Podcast, GenX journalist Ann Marie McQueen sits down with Dr Deena Emera, an evolutionary geneticist, senior scientist at the Buck Institute’s Buck Center for Healthy Aging in Women, and author of A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be. Dr Emera’s research focuses on the genetic basis of reproductive longevity in mammals, and in this fa...

2 months ago

1 hour

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172: REPLAY The Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause with Dr Vonda Wright

Send us a text This podcast originally ran on July 10, 2024 In this episode Florida orthopedic sports medicine surgeon Dr Vonda Wright published a review paper Climacteric, the journal of the International Menopause Society, introducing Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause. The paper has been shared widely across social media, and this interview with Dr Wright is an edited version from last year diving into Dr Wright’s efforts to create awareness of this constellation of muscle and joint pro...

2 months ago

33 minutes

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171: REPLAY The Metabolism Reset with Lara Briden

Send us a text This podcast originally ran on July 4, 2024 Hotflash inc – the platform designed to find the true truth in perimenopause, menopause and beyond – makes a return to the podcast world this week! In the first episode back journalist and host Ann Marie McQueen interviews Lara Briden, an expert in women's health and author of the new book The Metabolism Reset. They discuss the complexity of this entire subject, insulin resistance, the impact of modern diets, and the importance ...

3 months ago

53 minutes

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170: How blockchain could finally fix the menopause research gap

Send us a text In this episode of the Hotflash inc podcast, host and founder Ann Marie McQueen takes you into a whole new realm of possibility: decentralized science, or DeSci. Joining her is Mack Stachowiak, a physicist, software architect and healthcare innovator who is pioneering the integration of blockchain, AI, and Web3 into healthcare as co-founder of Axon DAO. You might be thinking, “why are you talking about this?” – and we get it. Crypto and blockchain can feel like a foreign langua...

3 months ago

52 minutes

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169: SOLO Hormone therapy confusion, five years of Hotflash inc, and how to figure out what's right for you

Send us a text In this powerful solo episode, Hotflash inc founder and host Ann Marie McQueen reflects on the five-year journey of building the platform, from launching her first newsletter in 2020 to preparing for the first Hotflash inc Summit and her first product launch – a much-needed tool to help women navigate the hormone therapy maze. Ann Marie opens up about how far the conversation has come, how far it still has to go, and what she’s learned through thousands of hours of research, in...

3 months ago

35 minutes

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168: Is estrogen really the problem? Jay Feldman breaks down what’s actually driving your midlife symptoms

Send us a text In this deep-dive episode, independent researcher and Energy Balance Podcast host Jay Feldman walks Hotflash inc founder Ann Marie McQueen through his bioenergetic approach to health, exploring how modern life disrupts our energy systems and misleads us around hormones. Jay explains why perimenopause symptoms aren’t necessarily signs of estrogen deficiency, what progesterone’s underrated role is, and how metabolism, stress, and gut health all converge to influence the midlife t...

3 months ago

52 minutes

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167: Dr Lara Briden unpacks what really matters in midlife

Send us a text In this episode of the Hotflash inc podcast, host and founder Ann Marie McQueen sits down with Dr Lara Briden – a naturopath, women’s health speaker, and author of Period Repair Manual, Hormone Repair Manual, and Metabolism Repair for Women. Together, they unpack some of the buzziest and most confusing midlife health trends: from hormone therapy + GLP-1 combos to supplement overwhelm, vaginal estrogen, and the sudden concern over labia shrinkage. Dr Briden brings a refreshing a...

4 months ago

27 minutes

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166: From Scotch to hot flashes: Carin Luna-Ostaseski’s journey to perimenopause

Send us a text In this episode of the Hotflash inc Podcast, founder and host Ann Marie McQueen talks with serial entrepreneur Carin Luna-Ostaseski – creator of Hot or Just Me?, a comprehensive online platform supporting women through perimenopause and menopause. Carin’s path from successful whiskey founder to menopause advocate is anything but ordinary. After launching the first American woman and Hispanic-created Scotch whisky (SIA), and pioneering a grant program for underserved entrepreneu...

4 months ago

22 minutes

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165: SOLO Let's maybe cool it a bit on the supplements

Send us a text This week’s solo episode is all about supplements – the good, the bad, and the potentially dangerous. I open up about my own rocky road with pills, powders, and tinctures, including the time I returned a popular fat burner in the early 2000s and, more recently, when I accidentally took five times the recommended dose of desiccated thyroid. This episode is both a cautionary tale and an invitation to slow down, listen to your body, and ask what you really need – beyond the bottle...

4 months ago

24 minutes