The Hotflash inc 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 100 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.
Hotflash inc is among the top 1.5 percent of podcasts in the world according to Listen Notes. It was named the number one podcast in women’s health in August 2023 by GOODPODS.
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53. How Hello Again's Patty Pappas and Carrie Mapes turned a parking lot conversation into perimenopause solutions
In the last 3+ years longtime friends Patty Pappas and Carrie Mapes have completely transformed how THC and CBD can be delivered to help people through peri/menopause, all without any psychoactive effect. They were stay-at-home moms when they dreamed up and launched their fast-growing California-based company Hello Again, which recently expanded from Everyday and Sleep versions beyond the midlife bracket. The details of how they became game-changing entrepreneurs and executed their vision – in a pandemic, no less – is rare, awe-inspiring and relevant to all of us. Stay tuned to hear the fascinating story of how they continue to beat the odds and their perimenopause symptoms, too.
Highlights:
- How Hello Again was born out of a need for new symptom solutions
- Carrie and Patty’s particular perimenopause issues (and why HRT wasn’t enough)
- How and why THC + CBD work with our body’s endocannabanoid system
- Why it had to be a “vagitory”
- How their “vagitory” impacts gentiourinary syndrome of menopause
- Why the 80s “war on drugs” still messes with us
- New Hello Again products + expansion plans
- Their take on the wisdom of menopause
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Web: HelloAgainproducts.comInstagram: @HelloAgainProducts
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