No Bleeding, No Breeding: A Supremely Badass Gyno on Living Sexily Ever After in Midlife

Most clinicians treat menopause like a clinical problem with a clinical solution. Hot flashes, prescription, see you in a year. Dr. Heather Bartos, the OB GYN Cosmopolitan once called a supremely badass gyno, is one of the women rewriting that script. She has spent the last four years stepping out of delivering babies, over five thousand of them, and into the work almost no one wanted to do, which is sitting in the actual story of women in midlife. In this episode of the Wellness and Growth Journeys podcast, Mialisa Garnes talks with Dr. Bartos about why menopause is the disruption Gen X was raised for, the sixty-year-old patient who walked out of an annual exam having never known what an orgasm was, why hormones are not the cure-all social media promises, and the one point eight billion dollar problem of midlife women quietly leaving the workforce because nobody told them how to handle a hot flash in a board meeting. About Dr. Heather Bartos Acclaimed author, OB GYN, and nationally recognized menopause specialist named by Oprah and Maria Shriver as a top five expert in midlife care. Her latest book is Quickies: One Hundred Little Lessons for Living Sexily Ever After in Midlife. Her debut novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Menopause, comes out September 2026 under her maiden name, Heather Robertson. She is also the founder of Empress Editions, a publishing imprint for midlife women's fiction. Connect with Dr. Heather Bartos Website: DrHeatherBartos.com LinkedIn: Dr. Heather Bartos Connect with Mialisa Wellness Growth Agency: wellnessgrowthagency.com #Menopause #Perimenopause #HormoneReplacementTherapy #WomensHealth #MidlifeWomen #MenopauseSupport #HRT #SexilyEverAfter #ReversePuberty #SupremelyBadassGyno