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.
Look out for bonus episodes, interviews and live events as HOT FLASHES warms up…
A Soundliness Production 2025
“Quork-X7” – An alien visitor to Earth reports back to their senior management about a little green planet utterly baffled by the weird biological process called “menopause” which half of its human population endures.
Author Helena Jevons steps behind the mic to record “NuVag TM”, a rebranding of the intimate reconstruction process required when giving birth later in life…
Hot Flashes: Menopause Monologues features two dramatised monologues each week and the writer’s inspiration behind each one.
“Quork-X7” is performed by Helen Goldwyn and “NuVag TM” is performed by Helena Jevons.
The Menopause Monologues are written by Helena Jevons. For more about the books (available now), events and the podcast, visit hotflashes.info
Music from Artlist.
Hot Flashes is produced by Helen Quigley and is a Soundliness production.
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