The Hotflash inc podcast
by Hotflash inc
Your heart health starts BEFORE your first period!
About this podcast
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
Episodes
The newest 20 of 224 episodes
- Your heart health starts BEFORE your first period! · 18 min · Episode 223🌿 Be first to find out about the Peri/Menopause Game Plan. My new live experience is coming very soon. Get on the list and you’ll hear about it before anyone else. Join the list…
- 222 Roxanne Prichard: Sleep Is a Feminist Issue · 33 min · Episode 222🌿 THE HOTFLASH INC SUMMIT IS COMING BACK IN SEPTEMBER! Get on the newsletter to be the first to hear, so you can sign up the moment doors open. You do not want to miss this year…
- 221 Dr Aviva Romm wants to know: how are you really feeling? · 58 min · Episode 221THE HOTFLASH INC SUMMIT IS COMING BACK IN SEPTEMBER! Watch this space, get on the newsletter, or follow us on socials to find out more. This is one of our most popular talks from…
- 220 SOLO: THE ONE QUESTION EVERY WOMAN IN PERIMENOPAUSE NEEDS TO ASK HERSELF · 16 min · Episode 220🌿 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…
- 219 'Perimenopause Doesn't Break Relationships – It Reveals the Cracks Already There' – Simon Salt · 37 min🔥 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…
- 218 Anissa Nova on Reclaiming Menopause with Traditional Chinese Medicine · 43 min · Episode 218🔥 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…
- 217 ADHD, Perimenopause + the Female Nervous System with Adele Wimsett · 40 min · Episode 217🔥 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…
- 216 Why Perimenopause Might Be the Perfect Time to Try Psilocybin · 43 min · Episode 216🔥 The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy is here — my guide mapping 12 different approaches to hormone therapy, built from 250+ practitioner interviews and six years of research…
- 215: Think you know about calcium supplements? With Seen Nutrition's Dr Adrienne Bitar · 54 min · Episode 215Dr. Adrienne Bitar has a PhD working on food studies scholarship and is the co-founder — along with pharmacist Dr. Jenny Han — of Seen Nutrition, a food-first bone health company…
- "Why I Stopped Weighing Myself For Good": Anne Poirier on Body Neutrality · 32 min · Episode 214🌿 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…
- Episode 213: Why you're confused about hormone therapy (and why it's not your fault) · 17 min · Episode 213🌿 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…
- Episode 212: 'Menopause was the most important event of my life' · 40 min · Episode 212🌿 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…
- 211 When Hormones Don't Work: Dr. May Hindmarsh on Histamine, Epigenetics, and Trusting Your Body · 1 h 19 min · Episode 211🌿 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…
- 210: Dr. Maria Luque wants you to stop chasing squirrels in menopause · 38 min · Episode 201Grab 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…
- 209: The Best New Menopause Book I've Read – Andrea Donsky on Nourishing Menopause · 28 min · Episode 209🌿 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…
- 208: The Hormone Therapy Revolution You've Never Heard Of · 57 min · Episode 208🌿 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…
- 207: Hot 50 & menopausal with comic JoAnna Ross · 47 min · Episode 207🌿 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…
- 206: Emotional fitness, primal wounds and perimenopause · 1 h 9 min · Episode 206🌿 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…
- 205 SOLO: Emotional Fitness shouldn't take 15 years · 15 min · Episode 205Emotional Fitness shouldn’t take 15 years In this solo episode, Ann Marie shares a deeply personal story from her years in breaking news journalism and how unprocessed trauma…
- 204: Why is perimenopause so freaking hard? With Dr Kirsten Smith · 50 min · Episode 204Naturopathic doctor and menopause specialist Dr. Kirsten Smith unpacks why perimenopause and menopause symptoms can feel so intense, where hormone therapy helps, where it gets…







