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- 2026
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About Hotness
Hotness - The podcast where hormones, confidence, and desire come back online. Hotness is where science meets soul, helping midlife women reconnect to their vitality, confidence, and desire. Hosted by Dr. Liz Lyster, Board-Certified OB/GYN and hormone expert, this show offers medical insight and lived wisdom to support you through the physical and personal shifts of this life stage. Each episode explores hormones, sexuality, identity, love, loss, movement, and desire, providing practical tools for understanding your body. Embrace your hotness at every age.
- Publisher
- Dr. Liz Lyster
- Category
- health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Apr 2026
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
28 episodes in the feed.
14 Oct 2026
She Picked Up Her First Dumbbell at 69
Picture a college president in full academic regalia, covered from chin to wrists. Now picture that same woman at 71, on a bodybuilding stage in a crop top. That's Dr. Maria Cristina Sheehan. After 20 years running a college, she was watching colleagues slow down, gain weight, and develop heart problems, and a couple of them died at their desks. Her family has longevity, and she realized that a long life without health was the last thing she wanted. It was her financial advisor, of all people, who sent her to his trainer. She showed up bundled to her fingertips and worried about getting bulky. Eleven years later, she pulls 120 pounds on a cable machine where she started at 20. She also learned you can't out-train a bad diet, so she trained as a health coach and became her own first client, adopting a high-protein way of eating that finally took the weight off the table. We talk about why so many doctors aren't trained to guide women through strength and aging, and how resistance training supports muscle and bone at any age. Her Stability Solution program starts with two minutes a day, because nobody can fail at two minutes. These days she's upside down on gymnastics rings and learning a balance beam routine, and she wants to be on that beam at 90. Her line about the fear that comes with it made me grab a pen: don't let your fear interfere. As always, check with your own doctor before starting a new exercise program, especially if you have a heart condition, osteoporosis, or a history of falls. - - - - - About the Guest: Dr. Maria Cristina Sheehan, Ed.D., spent more than 40 years in higher education, 20 of them as a college president, before she picked up her first dumbbell at 69. At 71, she won gold on a bodybuilding stage, and she went on to compete in the sports, figure, swimsuit, and bikini divisions until she was 76. Now 80, she is a certified health and fitness coach with Sheehan Health & Wellness. She helps women build strength, stability, and independence through her Stability Solution program and her book, You’re Not Too Old, and It’s Not Too Late to Begin, which is coming out soon in a second edition. She is profoundly deaf, trains on gymnastics rings, and is learning her first balance beam routine. - - - - - A Birthday Gift for Hotness Listeners! Dr. Maria Cristina’s Stability Solution gives you easy-to-follow videos, printable worksheets, and practical tips to build strength and balance, starting with two minutes a day, and you keep access for life. It’s normally $597. For a limited time, she’s giving Hotness listeners the same $80 price she offered for her 80th birthday. Get The Stability Solution for $80 with code DRLIZ at checkout: https://www.drmariacristina.com/drliz (https://www.drmariacristina.com/drliz/) - - - - - Want to Feel Like Yourself Again? Grab my free guide, Dr. Liz's Guide to Midlife: https://drlizmd.com/hotness (https://drlizmd.com/hotness) - - - - - Hotness with Dr. Liz Lyster, MD Website: https://drlizmd.com/ (https://drlizmd.com/) (https://drlizmd.com/hotness) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlizlyster/ (https://www.instagram.com/drlizlyster/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrLizLyster (https://www.facebook.com/DrLizLyster) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlizmd/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlizmd/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLizLyster (https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLizLyster) Subscribe to Hotness on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3JkxiIkt5vnZmNBig5XcoS?si=705495389fe346e9), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/ar/podcast/hotness/id1895038848?l=en-GB), or iHeart Radio (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-hotness-331052205/) to get the tools you need to thrive in midlife. - - - - - PODCAST Thank you for listening. Please subscribe and share. This podcast is produced by DrTalks.com https://drtalks.com/channel-growth/ (https://drtalks.com/channel-growth/)
9 Oct 2026
What is "Hotness"? Confidence - Dating in the Wild #3
Solo travel was never on my list. I've traveled my whole life, almost always with family or to visit family, so landing in Las Vegas on my own for a business meeting has been an eye-opener. You make every call yourself, right down to what's for dinner and when. That turns out to be a quick way to build confidence, and confidence is what this third round of Dating in the Wild is about. Ask people what they find attractive in a partner, and self-confidence comes up again and again. I think the reason is wholeness. When you feel whole and complete exactly as you are, and exactly as you are not, you stop looking for someone else to fill a gap inside you. It's the tango idea I keep coming back to: you dance with a partner, and you stay on your own axis. Most of us spent our 20s and 30s running on outside approval, and there is nothing wrong with us for that. It is how humans learn. When my son was little, and thunder rolled, he would look at my face to find out whether to be scared. I told him it was God farting, and that settled it. Growing up gives us the chance to ask ourselves what we're feeling first, and that choice gets stronger the more we make it. I also share the overgiving lesson I learned early on when I went back into dating. I went too fast and gave too much, and a sweet start slid into little jabs and little resentments. Receiving care well is its own gift to the person giving it. Then I retire the idea of "the one." I still call my late husband the love of my life, which doesn't mean there won't be a next one. A teaching from Kabbalah says everyone who matters in your life is a soulmate with a lesson to teach, and the most important soulmate you will ever have is you. - - - - - About the Host: Dr. Liz Lyster is a board-certified OB/GYN and midlife hormone expert, and the host of Hotness. She helps women in their late 40s, 50s, and 60s feel like themselves again after being dismissed, undertested, or told everything looks normal. She is also back out in the dating world herself, which makes her Dating in the Wild episodes equal parts real talk and field notes. Dr. Liz believes women deserve to feel good in their bodies at every age, and that taking care of yourself is not selfish. Her north star is simple. Feel your best so you can do your best. - - - - - Hotness with Dr. Liz Lyster, MD Website: https://drlizmd.com/ (https://drlizmd.com/) (https://drlizmd.com/hotness) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlizlyster/ (https://www.instagram.com/drlizlyster/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrLizLyster (https://www.facebook.com/DrLizLyster) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlizmd/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlizmd/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLizLyster (https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLizLyster) Subscribe to Hotness on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3JkxiIkt5vnZmNBig5XcoS?si=705495389fe346e9), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/ar/podcast/hotness/id1895038848?l=en-GB), or iHeart Radio (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-hotness-331052205/) to get the tools you need to thrive in midlife. - - - - - PODCAST Thank you for listening. Please subscribe and share. This podcast is produced by DrTalks.com https://drtalks.com/channel-growth/ (https://drtalks.com/channel-growth/)
2 Oct 2026
Sunscreen or Skip Everything Else
I have known Jen Rowell for 12 years, which means she has had her hands on my face for the whole of my own midlife. So when I asked her what she sees happening to women's skin in their forties and fifties, she did not hand me a list of products. She started underneath. Oil production drops and cell turnover slows way down, and her image for the rest of it is that the face starts making its way down while the bone structure stays exactly where it was. Then she named the thing most of us get wrong, which is that we keep buying the newest item on the shelf instead of the two that do the work. We went through her actual routine in order, and it is calmer than the skincare aisle wants you to believe. At night, an oil cleanse, a second cleanse, a growth factor, a retinoid, then something to seal it in. In the morning, a lactic acid cleanser, vitamin C, eye cream and sunscreen. We also got into what happens in the treatment room, from dermaplaning to red and blue light, and why she thinks the most underrated thing about a facial is that somebody makes you lie still for an hour. Self-care is not selfish. And when I asked what makes her feel her hottest, she said gratitude, and the way she said it has stayed with me. - - - - - About the Guest: Jen Rowell is an esthetician with 30 years behind the treatment table and a partner at Glow Skin & Body Care in San Mateo, California, a practice she and three partners have run for twenty-two years. Glow has been voted Best Facial and Waxing Salon in San Mateo more than once. Her work runs from the classic European facial to dermaplaning, peels, hydrodermabrasion, LED light therapy and gua sha lymphatic massage. She is a hands-on practitioner in the most literal sense, and she will tell you her hands do more than any machine in the room. She is candid about what a treatment can and cannot do, and she would rather talk you through the two products you actually need than send you home with twelve. Thirty years in, she works on clients she met before their weddings, then through their pregnancies, and now on their daughters. Book an appointment at glowskinandbody.com (https://glowskinandbody.com) - - - - - Hotness with Dr. Liz Lyster, MD Website: https://drlizmd.com/ (https://drlizmd.com/) (https://drlizmd.com/hotness) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlizlyster/ (https://www.instagram.com/drlizlyster/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrLizLyster (https://www.facebook.com/DrLizLyster) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlizmd/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlizmd/) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLizLyster (https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLizLyster) Subscribe to Hotness on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3JkxiIkt5vnZmNBig5XcoS?si=705495389fe346e9), Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/ar/podcast/hotness/id1895038848?l=en-GB), or iHeart Radio (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-hotness-331052205/) to get the tools you need to thrive in midlife. - - - - - PODCAST Thank you for listening. Please subscribe and share. This podcast is produced by DrTalks.com https://drtalks.com/channel-growth/ (https://drtalks.com/channel-growth/)
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