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“Just put it out there. No one expects you to be perfect.”
When Colleen Rosenblum talks about starting the Hot Flashes & Cool Topics podcast with her partner Bridgett Biagi Garratt in 2019, you kind of want to stand up and cheer. These Nashville-based friends – Colleen is an attorney turned pilates instructor, Brigit is a former elementary school teacher – are two of the most clear-headed voices in the North American midlife sp, all the things that happen in midlife and how we get through them.
They also just had their first IRL Hot Flashes & Cool Topics with Prime Women event this month, where they talked about menopause, midlife and a lot more.
Highlights:
Navigating politics in the menopause space
Doctors private public
Doing scary new things in midlife
How backward it was (and still is) that midlife have the purchasing power but are left out of media coverage
Shining a light on the positives of midlife
Growing through the grief and loss in your empty nest
Starting over and deciding what you want to do with the rest of your life
What they’ve learned interviewing doctors
The most controversial topic they’ve come across – testosterone pellets – and Bridget’s own experience with them
Why we don’t want to change doctors – even when ours knows nothing about perimenopause
How being scared of menopause can make it harder
Colleen and Bridget look back on their own perimenopause experiences
Why they left their careers behind and how they feel about it now
What it felt like when they launched their podcast – and why women need to stop underestimating the experience they have in life
NB: For an alternative view about testosterone, check out episode 58 with Nashville, Tennessee-based nurse practitioner Brooke Faught and for testosterone pellets, listen to episode 79 with Phoenix, Arizona-based integrative physician Dr Angela DeRosa.
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