The Hotflash inc podcast

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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.

🌿 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.
Highlights
00:29 – 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 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.

🌿 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.
Highlights
07:40 – 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 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.

🌿 Join us for the Emotional Fitness Retreat
Transform Perimenopause into Power
Wilson4Q x Hotflash inc
Menla Mountain Resort, New York 
June 4-7 2026 
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🔥 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.

🌿 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.
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When I first heard Janice Taylor describe Emotional Fitness Intelligence, something clicked. It felt like the through-line of 15 years of therapy, books, experiments, backstops, progress and questions. Janice is the founder of Wilson4Q, and what she’s building – Emotional Fitness Intelligence – is her attempt to define, measure, and teach something many of us have been trying to figure out the long, hard way. It also happens to land right at the heart of midlife.

Quotable
"The moment you give anything power outside of yourself, you are operating from your emotional injury." – Janice Taylor

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.