October 2025 @ Moss Denver Thrive Summit: Perimenopause & Beyond
The Thrive Summit transformed Moss Denver into a gathering place for women ready to redefine midlife through education and connection. Hosted by the Thrive Summit team, the half-day immersive event blended world-class medical expertise with genuine, human-centered storytelling - a combination that came vividly to life through guest moderator Katie Brodnik.
Event Overview
Designed as a space for women navigating perimenopause and the vibrant years beyond, the Summit featured silent disco workshops, an expert medical panel, and an exclusive screening of The [M] Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause.
Speakers included Dr. Kelly Casperson, Dr. Heather Hirsch, Dr. Christine Maren, Kacy Fleming, Lauren Tetenbaum, and Jordan Cahill, each delivering practical, empowering insights into hormonal health, therapy, and thriving through transition.
Katie’s role was to bridge the clinical and the personal, offering humor, heart, and irreverence in equal measure. She created the connective tissue between sessions, turning scientific content into shared humanity.
Community and Connection
Katie brought the audience together in a way that felt both celebratory and deeply grounding. Her ability to find humor in the vulnerable made the conversations not just accessible, but alive. Between expert segments, she invited the audience to laugh, reflect, and feel seen, transforming what can otherwise feel like a lecture into a living dialogue among women.
Her performance was so memorable that one of the event’s featured physicians, Dr. Christine Maren, later shared on social media:
“Katie Brodnik was seriously the BEST MC I’ve ever witnessed at an event (sadly, I don’t think she’s on socials), proven by the short video of her in a vulva costume, giving us education and laughs on how to apply vaginal estrogen cream.”
It was a moment that perfectly captured the spirit of the day: candid, bold, and joyful.
Highlights & Takeaways
Education Meets Experience: Attendees engaged with medical leaders who debunked the myths and explained the science behind menopause through both technical and experiential sessions.
Humor as Medicine: Katie’s irreverent moderation invited laughter into serious conversations — helping women feel less alone and more empowered.
Interactive Learning: Silent disco workshops like Burnout to Breakthrough, Fix My HRT, and What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You brought movement and interactivity to topics often confined to clinics.
Authentic Community: The event closed not with formality, but with connection - women exchanging stories, contact info, and the feeling that midlife doesn’t mark an ending, but a beginning.
By evening’s end, the Thrive Summit audience left energized and affirmed, reminded that thriving through midlife requires not just medical insight, but community, candor, and joy. Katie’s presence was the heartbeat of that connection, proving that humor and honesty can be powerful catalysts for healing.
