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Bloom Day ’26

Live Q&A · Oct 18, 2026

Rethinking Midlife: Health, Connection & Emotional Well-Being

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 in front of the stage instead.

The mechanic has a name of its own: The Hot Seat, the anonymous chair this Q&A runs on. Same segment, and it is where your question lands.

Questions are read by the team before they go on the screen, and the screen never shows a name.

Questions are closed

The live Q&A took its last question on October 18. Bloom Day comes back in 2027. Join the list and you will hear the date, the venue and the RSVP before anyone else.

How it works

  1. 01 · The Hot Seat: 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 in front of the stage with nobody’s name on it. You can send yours right now, weeks early.

  2. 02 · The panel answers 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

The voices on stage.

  • Dr. Divya Joshi, MD

    Interim Chief Medical Officer, Eisner Health

  • Dr. Niedha Iota Welch

    Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · Founder, Creating Conversations Liberating Minds

  • Kim Saruwatari, MPH

    Director of Public Health, Riverside County

  • Dr. Shunling Tsang, MD, MPH

    Deputy Public Health Officer, Riverside County

Your questions, sent in anonymously, are what they answer.

Moderated by Shanae Smith. RSVP required · capacity capped at 350. The hot seat is part of the livestreamed block, so a virtual RSVP gets you the same screen.