Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues
Podcast Description
Welcome to Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues, where the shimmering heat of real-life truths meets the crackling sparks of creative fantasy.
This is not your mother’s menopause manual, nor is it a collection of dreary statistics to send you scrambling for the nearest sage tea. Instead, it’s a brazen celebration of a universal experience that so often goes unspoken, unexplored, and underestimated.
This podcast series features monologues collected from the book series ”The Menopause Monologues” written by Helena Jevons, dramatised and performed by actors all with lived experience of menopause. From stories inspired by real-life women to imagined experiences from history and fiction, it’s an emotional rollercoaster - not unlike menopause itself.
Look out for bonus episodes, interviews and live events as HOT FLASHES warms up...
A Soundliness Production 2025
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The show explores themes surrounding menopause, showcasing deeply personal experiences through humor and creativity. Topics include awakening sexuality during perimenopause as illustrated in 'Awakening the Fire', and societal perceptions of hormonal changes in 'Not the Same Clock'. Other examples include challenges with prescriptions in 'Seven Equal Dabs' and how historical narratives intersect with menopause in 'The Menopause Creation Myth'.
Welcome to Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues, where the shimmering heat of real-life truths meets the crackling sparks of creative fantasy.
This is not your mother’s menopause manual, nor is it a collection of dreary statistics to send you scrambling for the nearest sage tea. Instead, it’s a brazen celebration of a universal experience that so often goes unspoken, unexplored, and underestimated.
This podcast series features monologues collected from the book series ”The Menopause Monologues” written by Helena Jevons, dramatised and performed by actors all with lived experience of menopause. From stories inspired by real-life women to imagined experiences from history and fiction, it’s an emotional rollercoaster – not unlike menopause itself.
A Soundliness Production 2025
The Panel Discussion: Recorded live after the Hot Flashes Menopause Monologues performances, Em Anastasi of In The Flow, Louise Harman, artist and social impact advocate, Mo Kanjilal of Watch This Space and of course Helena Jevons, chat to panel host and Hot Flashes actor Natalie Chisholm about the origins of the monologues, the people impacted by menopause from minority communities and the need for further conversations and awareness – especially in workplaces.
What can and should be done to help improve the lives of those affected?
**Contains some strong language and frank discussion about menopause.**
The Menopause Monologues are written by Helena Jevons. For more about the books, events and the podcast, visit hotflashes.info
Music from Artlist.
With grateful thanks to Ironworks Studios and the team!
Hot Flashes is produced by Helen Quigley and is a Soundliness production.
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