Tell us a bit about yourself and the Hot Flashes & Cool Topics Podcast My name is Colleen Rosenblum and I am a wife (married to my high school sweetheart), mom of 2 adult daughters and a podcaster.  I started my professional career as an attorney and then...

Kim, you are such an inspiration to many of us - tell us what you do and how you've come this far! You and I likely have a lot in common: I’m a 49 year old mother of 3 teenagers (heaven help us all as we cyber school this year)  whose world has been rocked by...

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks feeling especially disconnected. Not sad or blue, although that can happen too. It’s more like I just can’t seem to “plug in.” I lack focus. I wonder if I have ADD (which I know many women are diagnosed with in their middle years)....

We connected with the lovely Rachel, who has offered incredible insight into some unexpected changes when she entered peri. Read on, friends! Have any of you Perry beauties out there found that when your evening partakes in a little vino, or whatever strikes your...

Once upon a time lived a reasonable woman, let’s call her, oh, I don’t know…Rachel….with a sound head on her shoulders, a positive outlook on life and all those who inhabit that life. Rachel especially liked her husband who made her laugh frequently and she set about...

Or really, another other time? It occurred to me, after being locked in my bedroom for approximately twelve thousand days, that “ladylike” is a shitty concept. I read something today while performing the vital task of mindlessly scrolling through social media while...

No, not that song by Bob Dylan's kid. I just wiki'd Jakob Dylan. He was born in 1969, in case you weren't feeling old today. I'm talking about nipples. My nipples have been behaving oddly for a while now. I don't mean they've been distant or have been staying out at...

I’ve had beauty on the brain a lot lately and am spending arguably way too much time mulling over aesthetics for the after 50 set. But, I’ve recently turned 50, you see, and am still largely in quarantine and have, arguably, way too much time to google best skincare...

I know what you’re thinking. Really? I already can’t sleep at night. My face is breaking out. Every last person on the planet is on my freaking nerves and what is up with this sweating? For all that is holy, I have cramps again. I haven’t had cramps since I was 17...