Month: November 2025

RAF431:Hot Flashes, Cold Truth 6 – Reclaiming Power: Menopause as a New Beginning

It’s part 6 of our series on Menopause. Today we’re closing out our series with something bold, beautiful, and deeply personal: reclaiming power. Menopause is often framed as an ending — the end of fertility, the end of youth, the end of vitality. But what if it’s actually a beginning? What if this transition is…

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RAF430: Hot Flashes, Cold Truth 5 – Relationships: Navigating Change Together

It’s our birthday! Believe it or not, we’ve been running a fever for eight years now. And this episode is the first of our ninth year. Yes, the anniversary date is two days ago, November 17. Back in 2017, we started with literally a walk in the park. Four hundred thirty episodes later, we can…

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RAF429: Hot Flashes, Cold Truth 4 – Running Through the Change – Fitness, Fatigue, and Recovery

Menopause isn’t just a hormonal shift — for active women, it can feel like the body’s playbook has been rewritten mid‑game. Endurance that once came easily may fade faster, recovery can take longer, and the fuel that used to power a run might suddenly fall short. But this isn’t the end of the race —…

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RAF428: Hot Flashes,Cold Truth 3 – Andropause: The Silent Transition

What if one day you woke up and felt like a stranger in your own body—but no one ever warned you it could happen? We’re in the middle of a series on menopause. In the last episode, we discussed the emotional and mental impact and how it works in the brain and body, and shared…

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