The Midlife Spin

In this Hot Flash Report, Christina Cervantes and Kristen Holmes recap a weekend of fun, celebrations, and the very real aftermath that hits differently in midlife. From St. Patrick's Day parties that start at 7:30AM to one glass of wine that turns into days of exhaustion, puffiness, and brain fog, they talk about how their relationship with alcohol has completely changed. What used to feel normal...

In this Hot Flash Report, Christina Cervantes and Kristen Holmes open up about what it feels like to be in a full season of just trying to get through the day. From extreme fatigue that doesn't add up, to sleep struggles, racing thoughts, and the emotional weight of everything piling up at once, they talk through what midlife is actually feeling like in real time. Even when one of them is sleeping...

In this episode of The Midlife Spin, Christina Cervantes and Kristen Holmes are talking about friendship in midlife, and how your social battery can go from fully charged to completely depleted in record time. They're keeping it a little unhinged and definitely unmuted, because the change needs a better publicist and they're taking the job. They get honest about how much friendship and socializing...

In this Hot Flash Report, Christina Cervantes and Kristin Holmes reflect on the advice they wish they could go back and give their 30-year-old selves. From mistaking anxiety for butterflies in relationships to overtraining at the gym, diet culture, gut health, and learning to stop people pleasing, they unpack some of the lessons midlife has taught them so far. Some of it is funny, some of it is pa...

In episode two of The Midlife Spin, Christina Cervantes and Kristen Holmes are tackling the ultimate perimenopause initiation rite: The 3AM Club. They're keeping it a little unhinged and definitely unmuted, because the change needs a better publicist and they're taking the job. They dive into the exhaustion of midlife insomnia, sharing their own late-night routines and the absolute frustration of...

Are Mondays actually miserable… or are we just doing them wrong? In this spontaneous midweek Hot Flash Report, we debate whether Monday should become a Rest, Reset, Recover day and whether Tuesday would simply turn into the new Monday. It's 10 minutes of real-time brain fog, laughter, and classic midlife overthinking. Rest. Reset. And… whatever that third R was. New episodes every Friday. Connect...

In the premiere episode of The Midlife Spin, Christina Cervantes and Kristin Holmes kick things off a little unhinged and definitely unmuted, because the change needs a better publicist and they're taking the job. They share how they became friends, why midlife conversations need to be louder and more honest, and what it actually feels like to navigate hormones, brain fog, bloating, sleep issues,...

Welcome to The Midlife Spin. A little unhinged and definitely unmuted, because the change needs a better publicist and we're taking the job. In this kickoff episode, Christina Cervantes and Kristin Holmes share how eight years of friendship and countless voice memos turned into a podcast about midlife, hormones, and everything no one warned us about. They talk about what midlife actually feels lik...