The Hotflash inc podcast

🌿 The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy — I mapped what's actually happening in our bodies, the 12 different (and often conflicting) approaches to prescribing hormone therapy that are on offer – YES 12 – answered the tough questions, pointed out the gaps and so much more so YOU can feel good about what you decide and how you choose – or whether you even choose hormone therapy at all. Know why you are doing what you are doing – and get regular updates as things change. Find out more 👉 here
🔥 Free: The Fix-It-Fast Perimenopause List — And if hormone therapy definitely isn't for you, 👉 here is a really good list that will help you find some relief.

This week Ann Marie is going solo – and getting straight to the point. If you're going through perimenopause or menopause, she says, you have exactly one job. It's not losing the weight, fixing your hormones, saving your marriage, or finding the perfect supplement.

Ann Marie talks candidly about the health crisis that sent her looking for deeper answers and why she's suspicious of anyone – however well-meaning – who's selling a single fix for a complicated transition. It's a call to stop outsourcing the question of who you are, and start trusting what you already know.

Highlights
The blame-game buffet: hormones, gut, patriarchy, cortisol 
What if this decade is for questioning everything? 
Breaking down fear, shame, and expectations 
The real job (and it’s not fixing yourself) 
Wishing someone had told me THIS in my 40s 
Everyone’s selling their solution as THE solution 
The heroine’s journey: the descent, the meat hook, the dark night 
Your one job today 
Why it’s worth the trip to find out

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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.

🔥 The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy – get the guide that cuts through the noise on HRT

Simon Salt spent four years watching his wife get dismissed by doctors – told it was UTIs, bad diet, lack of sleep, anything but perimenopause — before she finally got a diagnosis. He spent another year and a half after that figuring out it wasn't happening to her, it was happening to both of them. Now he's a certified menopause coach and the writer behind The Quiet Transition, a publication helping men in midlife support their partners through peri- and post-menopause with actual empathy instead of good intentions and bad timing.

Highlights
8:29 – The slow erosion: loss of intimacy, and filling the silence with stories
18:20 – The yogurt tub story – and what those irritations really mean
22:46 – Renegotiating intimacy when what used to work stops working 29:00 – Simon's framework: sit, listen, believe
34:12 – Why releasing control is so hard — and so necessary
40:22 – The new wave of men writing about menopause, and what Simon makes of it
42:58 – "There is no man who doesn't know a woman going through this"

Quotable
"Perimenopause doesn't usually cause cracks in a relationship. It reveals them." – Simon Salt, certified menopause coach, The Quiet Transition

Connect with Simon Salt The Quiet Transition:
Substack: https://www.thequiettransition.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsalt

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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.

🔥 Breaking news! Get The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy – it's out now! This is a digital guide to help women and the women who care for them to navigate the chaos.

Anissa Nova spent years in corporate tech before retraining as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, herbalism and energy work. Now she runs Pure Alchemy in Sydney, Australia, where she blends strength training, breathwork and rest with acupuncture and energy alignment to help women reconnect with their bodies.

Highlights

02:04 – The Yellow Emperor's Classic and the 7-year cycle
03:52 – Yin, blood, and turning inward
06:59 – The liberation of no longer being "fertile"
09:05 – Hormone therapy isn't the only solution
10:30 – "We weren't built incorrectly"
12:06 – Helping women transition off HRT when it's not working
17:23 – The energetic nature of herbs
21:43 – What medical qigong actually is
26:12 – Mind, emotion, and energy shaping reality
28:31 – Applying a modern model to ancient medicine
29:47 – Why clinical trials don't reflect real-world treatment
31:06 – Where science's gold standard falls short
31:48 – Appreciating the placebo effect
36:11 – Emotions are energy — clean up now or later
37:30 – Acupressure vs. acupuncture
38:41 – Those electric zaps during acupuncture, explained

Connect with Anissa Nova
Website: Pure Alchemy
LinkedIn: Anissa Nova
Instagram: @Purealchemytcm
Pure Alchemy — Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia

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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.

🔥 Need help right now? Hotflash inc has got you: The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy is a clear + comprehensive guide to understanding the entire landscape of prescribing approaches – at least 12 – to empower you to make the right decision, for you. The free Fix It Fast Perimenopause List offers quick, practical non-hormonal relief options. Or cover all your bases and get both!

Adele Wimsett spent 20 years working in the criminal justice system before a health crisis of her own – her period stopped due to "healthy" habits like fasted training and keto – sent her down the rabbit hole of gender bias in medical research. She retrained as a women's health practitioner, and after her own ADHD diagnosis at 41, turned her science-nerd brain toward a question almost nobody was asking: what do hormones actually do to the ADHD brain?

Highlights
10:06 – The "perfect storm": ADHD plus declining progesterone
12:26 – The problem with medicine's obsession with estrogen
18:35 – Organized at work – trauma connection
19:37 – The hidden cost of decades of masking
23:26 – Estrogen and testosterone through a neurodivergent lens
31:08 – Is an ADHD diagnosis essential?
35:57 – 3 practical daily tools

Connect with Adele Wimsett:
Instagram: @adele_wimsett
Free SKOOL Community ADHD & Hormones

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TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause
Instagram: @hotflashinc
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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.

🌿 Get The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy — my complete guide to the confusing world of HRT. 5 videos, 5 PDFs, get through it in under 3 hours. It's currently $47 — price goes up July 15. Use code STACY10 to get $10 off.
Today I'm sharing an interview done with me — about The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy — from an Instagram Live I did this week over on Stacy London's channel.

Stacy is the stylist and TV personality who, with Clinton Kelly, spent an iconic decade making TLC's What Not to Wear. These days the two of them have reunited for "Why'd They Wear That?" — their creator-owned web series and podcast where they rewatch iconic movies and TV. It followed their Amazon series Wear Whatever the F You Want.

Stacy has also been in the menopause fight for years, and she's one of the few people in this space who genuinely wants women to have more information, not a party line — which is exactly why this conversation happened.

We got into the whole reason I built the guide: Everyone's making it sound like you're going to crumble into dust without hormones, and the truth is a lot messier and a lot more hopeful than that.

Highlights

• Why Stacy still wants to talk about menopause
• The wheel: at least 12 different approaches to prescribing
• The testing gap, explained
• Why the "hormones or no hormones" framing is harming women
• Observational studies, healthy-user bias, and how"it prevents dementia" is running ahead of the evidence
• Progesterone vs. progestin
• Peptides and GLP-1s stacked on top of hormone therapy before we've even figured out the basics
• Why nobody who's 100% sure should get your full trust
• The belief systems underneath it all

Connect with Hotflash inc
TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause
Instagram: @hotflashinc
X: @hotflashinc
YOUTUBE @hotflashinc
Facebook: @hotflashinc
LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen

Disclaimer This content 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.