Hello Menopause!

Bobbi Brown built two beauty brands, reinvented herself at 59, and at 69 is strength training three days a week and refusing to apologize for any of it. The makeup artist and founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and Jones Road Beauty joins Stacy London to talk about midlife beauty, starting over, and the simple daily habits that actually make a difference.

"When you get to fifty, I could either be depressed 'cause I'm fifty, or I could just say, okay, watch me." — Bobbi Brown

Bobbi Brown is a renowned makeup artist and entrepreneur, best-selling author, sought-after speaker, beauty industry icon, and a hotelier. She founded two successful cosmetic brands: Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and, more recently, created the clean beauty brand Jones Road. She also envisioned and now operates The George Hotel in Montclair, NJ.

Bobbi made the TIME100 “Most Influential People in the World” list and was also named one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women and Forbes' "50 Over 50" Most Influential Women. She has received the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, the Fashion Group International Night of Stars Beauty Award, and the Jackie Robinson Foundation’s ROBIE Humanitarian Award. She was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. 

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller. Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in this episode, Stacy is joined by three women who've lived where breast cancer and menopause collide: journalist and survivor Gaby Natale, Alloy co-founder/co-CEO and survivor Monica Molenaar, and breast oncologist and survivor Dr. Marisa Weiss of Breastcancer.org.

Gaby talks about "breaking the news to yourself" after her diagnosis, and the hot flashes that hit mid-interview on live TV. Monica shares how she went into surgical menopause overnight at 40 with no warning, spent years getting conflicting advice, and later chose a preventive double mastectomy partly so she'd never have to give up hormone therapy. Dr. Weiss breaks down what's actually on the table for survivors and high-risk women, because "no hormones" isn't the same as "no relief."

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Gaby Natale is a three-time Daytime Emmy–winning journalist, author, and founder of Menopausia.com, a bilingual menopause platform. Monica Molenaar is co-founder and co-CEO of Alloy Women's Health. Dr. Marisa Weiss is a breast oncologist and the founder of Breastcancer.org.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller. Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

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Penn Holderness is the first husband to join Hello Menopause — and he and Kim (married 21 years, and the comedic duo behind the Holderness Family's viral songs and videos) sit down with Stacy to talk about what happens when perimenopause shows up in a marriage. They cover the physical-touch code words that saved their intimacy, the hormone "character" they invented to separate Kim from her symptoms, Kim's own panic-attack-to-diagnosis story, and why they think there needs to be a book about menopause written for men.

Follow Kim and Penn @theholdernessfamily

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We're back. Season 4 of Hello Menopause returns with part two, and Stacy's kicking things off with a lineup that spans beauty, partnership, and breast cancer. In the trailer: Kim & Penn Holderness open up about navigating perimenopause as a couple, Bobbi Brown talks aging without apology, and Dr. Corinne Menn joins for a conversation on breast cancer and menopause — plus so many more incredible guests on the way.

First episode of part two drops September 23.

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This season of Hello Menopause is sponsored by CVS Health. CVS Health is committed to closing gaps in women's health at every life stage — because every woman deserves care that is accessible, affordable and personalized. To learn more, visit CVSHealth.com.

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Dr. Mary Claire joins Stacy for a robust discussion about the reality of menopause, and shares her top exercise and nutrition tips, as well as her toolkit philosophy - techniques that she’s incorporated into her own life that she can apply as she ages to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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Dr. Mary Claire Haver is a board-certified OB-GYN and leading advocate for midlife women's health, with a social media following of over 7 million. She is the founder of The 'Pause Life educational platform and The 'Pause Wellness Clinic, where she focuses on evidence-based care for hormonal transitions. She is also a multi-time bestselling author, known for her books The Galveston Diet, the #1 New York Times bestseller The New Menopause, and The New Perimenopause.

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This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long. Real talk. Real experts. All-new episodes return in September.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller. Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

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"Muscle is nature's Spanx." Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Vonda Wright joins Stacy to make the case for why your bones deserve as much attention as your hot flashes. They cover what a DEXA scan number actually means, why bone loss isn't just a postmenopausal problem, and why women with osteoporosis can — and should — still lift heavy.

Listen to the full episode at ⁠letstalkmenopause.org⁠ or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long — our most-loved conversations plus brand-new voices. Real talk. Real experts. All-new episodes return in September.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller. Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

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Breast cancer risk. Heart disease. Hip fractures. Alzheimer's. In this Summer Short, Estrogen Matters co-authors Dr. Avrum Bluming (oncologist) and Dr. Carol Tavris (social psychologist) walk through what the Women's Health Initiative study actually found — and why a whole generation of doctors are still working from data the study's own authors have since walked back.

Listen to the full episode at letstalkmenopause.org or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long — our most-loved conversations plus brand-new voices. Real talk. Real experts. All-new episodes return in September.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller. Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

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Is it perimenopause, or ADHD that's been there all along? Executive function coach Debbie White — diagnosed with ADHD at midlife herself — joins Stacy London to explain why the two look so similar and how to tell them apart.

Debbie's core insight: perimenopause doesn't cause ADHD, it reveals it. ADHD is a lifelong neurobiological condition, but inconsistent estrogen can break the systems that kept it manageable for decades — and because it's lifelong, postmenopausal women navigate it too. She shares the strategies that work: the one-notepad rule, "eat the frog," planning ahead, and the power of the pause.

This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long — our most-loved conversations plus brand-new voices. Real talk. Real experts. Under ten minutes. All-new episodes return in September.

Connect with Debbie White: LifeStormer.com

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

Visit LetsTalkMenopause.org for menopause resources, expert Q&As, and a symptom checklist.

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Cardiologist Dr. Jayne Morgan has a message that cuts through the noise: menopause is not a gynecological footnote. It's a cardiovascular inflection point — and most women don't find out until it's too late.
In this episode, Dr. Morgan and Stacy cover the full arc of women's cardiovascular health: why complicated pregnancies are early warning signs, what happens to blood pressure at age 51, how every perimenopausal symptom signals estrogen loss and rising cardiac risk, and why perimenopause is actually your best window to intervene. They also discuss the racial disparity in symptom severity, the limits and promises of AI in women's health, and why the case for estrogen doesn't require the studies we don't have.

Dr. Jayne Morgan is a Cardiologist and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Hello Heart, specializing in women’s health, particularly AI and digital heart health technology, and cardiovascular research.

Follow Dr. Morgan @drjaynemorgan

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

Visit LetsTalkMenopause.org for menopause resources, expert Q&As, and a symptom checklist.

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Stacy and NYT journalist Susan Dominus pick up where Part 1 left off — this time going deep on the hormone that's barely made it into the mainstream menopause conversation: testosterone. Susan, who recently reported an in-depth piece on testosterone for women, breaks down what the research actually shows, why the US is so far behind other countries, and what happens when women go far beyond the studied dose. They get into the delivery problem — why there's no FDA-approved option for women yet, the proposal for a testosterone pill, the risks and side effects at high doses, and how telehealth is filling the gap with varying degrees of rigor.
From there, the conversation expands: GLP-1s and their surprising reach beyond weight loss, what longevity researchers actually say is the number one predictor of a longer life, and a fascinating new field called cellular rejuvenation that may one day reverse aging at the cellular level.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

Visit LetsTalkMenopause.org for menopause resources, expert Q&As, and a symptom checklist.

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