MENO POSSE, the new book from Houston author and salon owner Janelle Alexis, hit #1 on Amazon after its October 1, 2026 release. Janelle didn’t set out to write a bestseller. She set out to write the book she kept wishing she could hand the women in her salon chair, and judging by the response, a lot of women had been waiting for it.
It started in the salon chair
Janelle has been doing hair in Houston for more than twenty years, and a salon chair may be the most honest place in America. Somewhere in her forties she noticed a pattern. Client after client sat down and quietly confessed the same things: she couldn’t sleep, she was furious for no reason, she’d found a chin hair that seemed to grow an inch overnight, and she was sure she was the only one.
She wasn’t. None of us were. We just weren’t talking to each other.
What MENO POSSE is (and isn’t)
MENO POSSE is a girlfriend’s guide to perimenopause, menopause and midlife. It’s part memoir, part salon-chair confessional and part permission slip to laugh through the whole unhinged transition instead of white-knuckling it alone. Inside you’ll find the hormone pellet conversation nobody prepares you for, the mammogram that presses you like a panini, the salon-chair diagnosis for a marriage quietly falling apart, and why one woman popped champagne after her hysterectomy.
What it isn’t: a medical textbook. Janelle is a hairstylist and a woman who has lived it, not a doctor. That’s why the book includes a starter kit for finding a menopause-literate provider, because you deserve better than a pamphlet and a pat on the head.
Why you need a posse
Here’s the thing nobody tells you: the hardest part of menopause usually isn’t the hot flashes. It’s the isolation. The feeling that your body filed for divorce and nobody told you where to send the paperwork. The fix isn’t a product. It’s your people.
- Name it out loud. Half the power of a symptom disappears when your best friend says “me too.”
- Share your doctor wins. When one friend finds a provider who actually listens, the whole posse benefits.
- Laugh on purpose. Humor isn’t denial. It’s how women have survived everything.
- Make it a ritual. A standing girls’ night, a group text, a book club. Put your posse on the calendar.
Thank you for making it #1
To every woman who bought a copy, gifted one to her sister, read it in the bath with a glass of something cold, or left a review: thank you. As the book puts it, “We saved you a seat, and honestly, we’ve been waiting for you.”
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