Episode 43: MANIFESTING A MIDLIFE RESURRECTION IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with MELISSA AUF DER MAUR

⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

September 4, 2026 ∙ 81 mins
Episode 44

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❤️‍🔥This week we channel a brighter future with legendary 90’s bass babe, badass photographer, writer and all around mystical human Melissa Auf der Maur !! ❤️‍🔥


⚡️A truly delightful multidisciplinary artist and deeply ebullient spirit Melissa brings us into how her radical feminist Canadian upbringing inspired her wild bass adventures in 90’s rock with Hole & The Smashing Pumpkins and why she intuitively brought a camera with her everywhere she went, the power of channelling the eternal feminine into modern life, learning to always recognize where women are in the patriarchal timeline and how various waves of feminism change how women live, how creativity coming full circle in midlife can fuel the soul, her experience with perimenopause hitting at the same time as her daughter’s ascent into puberty, how to maximize intergenerational empowerment through art and music, writing and photography as a protection ritual and so much more!❤️‍🔥


💪We just happened to talk on THE DAY SHE SLAPPED ON HER FIRST ESTROGEN PATCH!  NOTHING is a coincidence with this cosmically tapped in mage.  Thank you for sharing your incredible story with MenoPunks XMADMX!🥰💪


⚡️ Pick up her gorgeous new book “My 90’s Rock Photographs" out 9/8 and be sure to tear thru her brilliant and breezy 90’s rock memoir “Even The Good Girls Will Cry” available wherever you buy books!⚡️


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⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ COMING 2027 ⚡️


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⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

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44

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September 4, 2026

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81 mins
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    From smartwatches to fitness trackers, more of us than ever are monitoring our health in real time. With just a glance at our wrist, we can check our step count, sleep quality, heart rate and, more recently, something called HRV. But what do these numbers actually mean? And more importantly, how can we use them […]

  • 235 | Want Less Belly Fat? Stop Throwing Away Your Good Weeks

    What if the healthy habits you’re tempted to dismiss are already changing your body? You planned three workouts but finished two. You ate well most of the day, but dinner went sideways. You walked three times instead of every day. When the week wasn’t perfect, you decided it didn’t count. But it did count. In […]

  • 354 🪞 How We Lose Ourselves in Love: Trauma Bonding, Self-Abandonment & Breaking Free with Jessica Anne Pressler, Author of “Traitor Within”

    Have you ever looked back at a relationship and wondered, how did I lose myself like that? In this powerful episode, Wendy sits down with Jessica Anne Pressler — a Columbia-trained psychotherapist, hospice grief counselor, and author of the new psychological suspense novel Traitor Within — to talk about self-abandonment, trauma bonding, and the hidden […]

  • Why I changed my coaching process for women over 50, in menopause.

    I’ve completely changed my mind about how I approach fat loss for women in menopause, and my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. I used to believe slow, steady weight loss was the best and only sustainable approach. But I kept watching women struggle to maintain a calorie deficit for months, then […]

  • Begin Again Moments: Growing Up With A Narcissistic Parent

    In this episode of Begin Again Moments, Simon Squibb and psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton examine how the behaviour of a parent can shape the person you become long after childhood is over. Simon shares the reality of growing up with a mother he describes as a narcissist, from being left to find his own way home […]

  • Liz Houghton: Losing My 20-Year-Old Son & How To Keep Living When Your World Ends

    How can you really support someone you love when they’re going through unimaginable loss? In this moving episode of Begin Again, Mint Velvet co-founder Liz Houghton joins Davina McCall and shares the heartbreaking story of losing her 20-year-old son Will after a cycling accident, and the moment she learned his injuries were unsurvivable.  She opens […]

  • Episode 45: BURNING THE MENOPAUSE PLAYBOOK TO START A HORMONAL RIOT w/ THEO KOGAN & SYDNEY SILVER of LUNACHICKS

    ⚡️This week we laughcry our ever loving buns off with two absolute PUNK ICONS Theo Kogan and Sydney Silver of Lunachicks! 🎉❤️‍🔥⚡️ We get into the wild pre-teen origin story of the Lunachicks, their roller coaster of a ride through the music biz as an all-female band, their own rollicking peri/meno tales, the role of […]

  • Ep #207: Insulin, GLP-1s & Menopause | Dr. Sarah Wilson, ND

    My labs came back "normal." So why do I feel like I'm falling apart and gaining weight? If you've heard that from your doctor, this one's for you. Andrea sits down with her friend (and her own doctor), Dr. Sarah Wilson, ND, founder and clinical director of Advanced Women's Health. They recorded this with no […]

  • Is your gut the secret to anti-aging? 6 science-backed ways to boost your bone strength, muscle, and balance | Prof Elaine Dennison

    Picture the sound of a bone snapping – the kind of sound that makes you wince – and ask yourself how often you’ve thought about your bone health. Most of us only think about bone density when something breaks. Until then, your bones stay almost invisible, carrying you through every day. In today’s episode, Professor […]

  • SEEN & HEARD: Breast Cancer at 38, Menopause, and My One Chance at Motherhood

    Breast Cancer at 38, Menopause, and My One Chance at Motherhood What changes in healthcare when we stop starting with the expert and start with the woman who lived it? Seen & Heard is built around lived experience. Real women tell their health stories in their own words: what happened, what it felt like, where […]

  • 234 | What If Eating Less Is Keeping Your Belly Fat Stuck?

    What if your next step for losing stubborn belly fat isn’t taking away more food—but adding a little more fuel? When weight loss slows down, most of us immediately start looking for something else to cut. Fewer carbs. Less fat. More Fuel Pulls. Maybe another round of fasting. Before long, we’re eating from a tiny […]

  • It's Not Your Hormones — It's Your pH – With Dr. Anna Carbera, The Girlfriend Doctor | 301

    Christian women navigating perimenopause and menopause who have adjusted their hormones, cleaned up their diet, and still feel off may be missing the layer that sits underneath everything else: the internal chemistry that either lets your hormones work or quietly prevents them from working no matter what else you do. Picture a fish tank. If […]

  • 258 From Size 12 to Size 6-8, and What Happened in Between!

    From Size 12 to Size 6/8, and What Happened in Between! What happens when you stop fighting your body, start listening to yourself, and discover that your next chapter might involve a paintbrush instead of a classroom? You get my sister Teresa! 🎨(listen to our first episode #232B) In this episode, we’re chatting about her incredible […]

  • The Grief No One Talks About: Menopause, Caregiving & the Weight We Carry

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  • 102: Optimizing your sleep with Stephanie Silberman

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  • Estrogen, Interrupted: Real Talk on New Meds, Old Myths, and What to Do When You Can't Take Hormones with Drs. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Amy Voedisch (Episode 291)

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  • How to Create Healthy Boundaries Without the Guilt with Therapist Jessica Miller

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  • Episode 235 – Why Testosterone After Breast Cancer Is Becoming a Mainstream Conversation

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  • Most replayed moment: How to build a better breakfast | Prof. Ben Gardner & Tim Spector

    We’ve all heard the saying: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And while it may sound like a cliché, there’s some truth to it. Because for many of us, breakfast is the one meal we keep the same – day after day, morning after morning.  This consistency means our breakfast choices have […]

  • 233 | Why Your Body Stores Belly Fat Instead of Burning Fuel

    Does your body seem much better at storing food than burning it these days? You’re eating healthy and exercising, but a few hours later you’re hungry, tired, or searching for something else to eat—and that stubborn belly fat still isn’t changing. It’s easy to blame a damaged metabolism or hormone imbalance. But your body may […]

  • 353 👑 Stop Waiting for Him to Change: Marriage Transformation, Intimacy Skills & Femininity with Alicia Johnson, Certified Relationship Coach

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⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

I’m filmmaker and musician Alicia J. Rose, and I want to empower women with the motherf$#@!% energy to start a hormonal revolution. By 2030, one billion women will be in menopause. One. Billion. Imagine if every man’s testosterone flatlined by 50 — you think the world would stay quiet about that? Welcome to menopause: complete hormonal upheaval. And perimenopause? She’s the […]

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