4:15 PM · Oct 18, 2026
Unfiltered: The Hot Seat
Real questions. No script. No raised hands.
Nobody puts their hand up to ask about painful sex, or rage, or why their doctor shrugged. So we took the microphone out of the audience and put a screen behind the panel instead.
Questions are read by the team before they go on the screen, and the screen never shows a name.
How it works
01 — Text it in, anonymously
Scan the QR code on your table, type the question you would never say out loud, and watch it scroll up on the screen behind the panel with nobody’s name on it. You can send yours right now, weeks early.
02 — The myth round
A menopause myth flashes on screen. Paddles up: TRUE or FALSE. The panel has ten seconds and no time to hedge. Fast, loud, and extremely watchable.
03 — The clinicians answer the room, not the format
Same expertise a panel would have given you, aimed at the questions the room actually has instead of the ones a moderator prepared.
Who is answering
Mihai Patru
Executive Director, Blue Zones Project Palm Springs
Dr. Divya JoshiMD, MMM
Interim Chief Medical Officer, Eisner Health, CA
Tricia Gray
Founder, Aditus Partners · Author of A Lotus Legacy
Additional panelists announced soon. RSVP required · capacity capped at 350 — the hot seat is part of the livestreamed block, so a virtual RSVP gets you the same screen.
The myth round
Paddles up. See how you do.
Same six statements the panel will get on stage, minus the ten-second clock.
6 myths · paddles up
Call it before you read the answer.
“Menopause is over in a year or two.”
“Hot flashes are the main event.”
“Lifting heavy is risky once you are past 45.”
“Muscle is the closest thing to a retirement account for your body.”
“If your labs come back normal, nothing is wrong.”
“You are allowed to ask for a menopause-informed clinician.”
The myth round is general education, not medical advice. Bring anything specific to a menopause-informed clinician — and if you do not have one, that is a question worth putting in The Hot Seat.