Magnificent Midlife: Recent Episodes
Rachel Lankester
Midlife isn’t the end of meaningful life, just the end of the first half rehearsal. Listen, laugh and be inspired as Rachel Lankester, author, mentor and founder of Magnificent Midlife, interviews women in midlife and beyond living authentic, empowered lives, not disappearing into obscurity. From round the world yachtswomen to 60 year old pole dancers, from palliative care doctors to sustainable food evangelists, this podcast explores the myriad things older women get up to and the issues we face. We challenge the status quo and bash those negative stereotypes about being an older woman. Need some inspiration about what’s possible for you when you're over 40, over 50 or beyond? These women will show you anything is. Need help overcoming your own limiting beliefs about getting older or struggles with menopause? Learn from women who’ve experienced the same but found ways to thrive and become who they were always meant to be. Learn their life-hacks and how they do what they do. This podcast is all about celebrating women in midlife and beyond. We’re not over the hill or on a downward slope. We get better with age not worse. We talk all things midlife, about issues that matter, and share fabulous stories of magnificent women doing very cool stuff. Now's our time! Find out more at magnificentmidlife.com.
Body image, self-worth and ageing are all key midlife topics and many women struggle deeply with their bodies at midlife, often in silence.
Dr Ellen Albertson is passionate about changing that. She's a psychologist, registered dietitian, board-certified health and wellness coach and author of Rock Your Midlife. She's known as The Midlife Whisperer and it's easy to understand why. She's been in my midlife orbit since I started this adventure and it's great to finally get to talk to her.
If you've ever felt at odds with your body, unsure who you're becoming or simply tired of being told that midlife is something to "get through", this conversation is both reassuring and quietly radical.
We talk about:
-Why so many women feel betrayed by their bodies at midlife
-How media and beauty culture profit from women's self-doubt
-The difference between caring for your body and controlling it
-Why self-compassion is the foundation for lasting change
-Ellen's experience of breast cancer, near-blindness and what those moments taught her
-Menopause as a neurological and emotional shift, not just a physical one
-Letting go of old identities and creating something new
-Finding love, intimacy and connection later in life
-Why curiosity is one of the most powerful tools we have
-The seven steps Ellen outlines in Rock Your Midlife
-Rebuilding relationships as we grow and change
-Why midlife is about expansion, not disappearance
And lots more.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times. FeedSpot #5 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts FeedSpot #7 in 100 Best Midlife Women Podcasts FeedSpot #2 in 10 Best UK Life Hacks Podcasts You'll find lots of strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Lucy Standing is the co-founder of Brave Starts, a not-for-profit supporting people in midlife and beyond to rethink work, purpose and what comes next. She's the author of Age Against the Machine, a chartered psychologist with a background in recruitment and a passionate voice on ageism, work and the realities of longer working lives. Brave Starts supports more than 900 members navigating career change, redundancy, freelance and portfolio work or simply asking better questions about how they want to spend the years ahead. This is a fascinating conversation about working in an ageist world.
We talk about:
-Why retirement is a relatively modern invention and why it no longer fits the reality of longer, healthier lives
-The myths surrounding older workers, productivity and motivation
-How ageism operates "through the back door" in recruitment systems
-Why CVs are one of the least effective tools for predicting job success
-The concept of predictive validity and what actually works better than interviews and CVs
-How AI could reduce age bias rather than reinforce it (if used differently)
-Why community and shared action are essential when navigating career change later in life
-The real reasons people over 50 struggle to get hired and what does make a difference
-Why this is not a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) issue, but a structural economic one
-What governments, employers and individuals could do right now to create change
-How organisations like Brave Starts are combining individual support with policy advocacy
And lots more.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times. FeedSpot #5 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts FeedSpot #7 in 100 Best Midlife Women Podcasts FeedSpot #2 in 10 Best UK Life Hacks Podcasts You'll find lots of strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
I'm delighted to be introducing a brand-new topic to the podcast: modern grandparenting. It's not a life stage I'm personally entering just yet - but as Magnificent Midlife continues to evolve, it's one that feels increasingly important to talk about.
My guest is Dee Dee Moore, founder of More Than Grand, an online hub dedicated to helping new grandparents make the very best of their role.
Dee Dee brings a sharp understanding of family dynamics, communication and boundaries - and a refreshing honesty about how easy it is to get grandparenting wrong, even with the best intentions.
We talk about:
-Why grandparenting has become more complicated and more emotionally loaded than ever before
-The growing trend of parents limiting or cutting off contact with grandparents (and why it happens)
-How modern parenting culture, social media and constant advice have increased anxiety for new parents
-Why supporting the parents - not indulging the grandchild - is the most important grandparent role
-Common missteps grandparents make
-How mindful grandparenting begins with intention, self-reflection and honest conversations
-What parents actually want from grandparents and what grandchildren remember most
-Navigating tricky in-law relationships with curiosity, respect and emotional maturity
-Why maintaining a relationship with a daughter- or son-in-law matters more than many grandparents realise
-How technology - including AI - can help grandparents stay connected, especially across distance
-The importance of embracing your grandchildren's world rather than expecting them to adapt to yours
-Why grandparenting is a role worth preparing for, not something to "wing"
And more.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times. FeedSpot #5 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts FeedSpot #7 in 100 Best Midlife Women Podcasts FeedSpot #2 in 10 Best UK Life Hacks Podcasts You'll find lots of strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Vijay Bassi Reed is a former communications specialist who retrained in midlife as a personal trainer and nutrition coach. She is also a competitive HYROX and fitness racer.
Her midlife transition emerged from burnout and hormonal change, leading to a deliberate reassessment of health, work and identity - and a stronger, more sustainable way of living.
We talk about:
-Vijay's journey from senior corporate communications roles to midlife personal trainer and nutrition coach
-How anxiety, burnout and perimenopause quietly derailed confidence (long before menopause was named)
-Why so many women are offered antidepressants
-Menopause as an opportunity to reassess identity, values and how we want to live
-The role of structured movement in rebuilding trust in the body
-Discovering strength training, HIIT - and unexpectedly falling in love with running
-What HYROX is and why it's resonating with women in their 40s, 50s and beyond
-Completing a first marathon in midlife
-Cultural attitudes to food, alcohol and achievement
-Why alcohol and menopause often don't mix (and why opting out is allowed)
-Letting go of "shoulds" and lowering tolerance for bullsh*t in midlife
-Why starting before you feel "ready" matters more than perfect timing
And more.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times. FeedSpot #5 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts FeedSpot #7 in 100 Best Midlife Women Podcasts FeedSpot #2 in 10 Best UK Life Hacks Podcasts You'll find lots of strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Susan Dabbar is the founder and editor-in-chief of PROVOKEDmagazine – a bold, unapologetic digital magazine for women 50+, challenging and redefining how older women are seen, heard and represented.
Susan's career has been shaped by fearless pivots. She began as a naval architect designing nuclear submarines, went on to shape brand strategy at companies including Disney and Nestlé, played professional poker, worked as an international education consultant – and then, in her 60s, launched a media platform because she couldn't find content that truly respected women's intelligence and lived experience.
We talk about:
-Why Susan launched Provoked after retiring – and why she wasn't finished yet The cultural gap in media for women over 50 (and why "Good Housekeeping" still exists)
-Designing nuclear submarines – and knowing when it's time to walk away
-What poker taught Susan about patience, power and underestimation
-The myth of "passion" and why it can hold women back
-How women learn to stop performing and start making space for themselves
-The rise of the "I don't give a f***" woman – and why it matters
-Female friendship as an underestimated source of power
-The coming wealth transfer – and what it could mean when money lands in women's hands
-Why AI risks reinforcing ageism and sexism if women don't shape it
-Building something meaningful in your 60s – and aiming high without apology
And more.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times. FeedSpot #5 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts FeedSpot #7 in 100 Best Midlife Women Podcasts FeedSpot #2 in 10 Best UK Life Hacks Podcasts You'll find lots of strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
I was deeply moved by my guest Lisa Boehm. Lisa's life changed forever when her daughter, Katie, was killed in a car accident – an experience no parent should ever have to endure. In the years since, she's found remarkable strength and purpose, transforming her grief into a force for healing and connection. This is probably the most difficult interview I've ever done. I hope you find it as powerful as I did.
Lisa is a certified grief educator, author of Journey to Healing: A Mother's Guide to Navigating Child Loss, and founder of the Angel Moms Community, where she supports other parents walking this most difficult path.
We talk about:
-Navigating grief as a parent
-Understanding grief and its complexities
-Misconceptions about grief
-Communicating with grievers and what to say
-The healing process as an active journey
-Honoring loved ones
-The impact of grief on identity and relationships
-The transformative power of gratitude
-Grief and family dynamics
-Navigating grief in relationships
-The role of therapy and medication
-Honoring a loved one's legacy
-Coping with guilt and reminders of loss
And more.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times. FeedSpot #5 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts FeedSpot #7 in 100 Best Midlife Women Podcasts FeedSpot #2 in 10 Best UK Life Hacks Podcasts You'll find lots of strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Caron Grossman is a registered nurse, breathwork facilitator, author and heart attack survivor. Her memoir, Listen to Your Heart Song: Navigating the Unexpected, weaves together her experiences of adolescent grief, addiction, recovery and a near-fatal heart attack, offering hope, honesty and practical insight for anyone navigating their own unexpected life events.
We talk about:
-How Caron's heart attack actually began
-Why the classic male symptoms of heart attack still dominate emergency call scripts and training
-How many women are told they're having an anxiety attack or indigestion when they're actually having a cardiac event
-The legacy of her mother's early death from a misdiagnosed heart attack, and how that shaped Caron's life and choices
-The emotional impact of "doing everything right" and still having a heart attack
-Practical tools for women worried about heart disease risk
-The importance of tuning into unusual symptoms in women
-How grief in adolescence led Caron into addiction, binge eating and numbing
-The role of 12-step recovery, spiritual connection and community in her healing
-Conscious connected breathwork as a powerful modality for regulating the nervous system
-How writing – including daily journaling and "two-way prayer" – helped Caron process grief, shame and fear
-Why women need to advocate for themselves in medical settings
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers: UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/ You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast. Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times. FeedSpot #5 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts FeedSpot #7 in 100 Best Midlife Women Podcasts FeedSpot #2 in 10 Best UK Life Hacks Podcasts You'll find lots of strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com. Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Tami Stackelhouse is an award-winning author, founder of the International Fibromyalgia Coaching Institute and executive producer of the documentary Invisible. She's dedicated to helping people with fibromyalgia reclaim control of their bodies and their lives, so they no longer feel trapped by pain, exhaustion or uncertainty.
Fibromyalgia is so often misunderstood, minimised or brushed aside – and yet it affects many women in midlife. I've been wanting to explore this topic for ages and I'm delighted to finally do so with someone who brings both deep expertise and lived experience.
If you're navigating unexplained pain, relentless fatigue, brain fog or simply want to understand this condition better, this conversation is one you won't want to miss.
We also talk about:
-The impact of age and gender on fibromyalgia
-Common misconceptions and stigmas
-Daily life and management strategies
-Tami's personal journey in overcoming fibromyalgia
-The need for more research and awareness
-The historical context of fibromyalgia research
-The gender bias in fibromyalgia treatment
-The complexity of fibromyalgia diagnosis
-Holistic approaches to treatment
-Recent advancements in fibromyalgia research
-Understanding flare-ups and management strategies
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening.
You can read a blog about this podcast episode here.
Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
I'm delighted to welcome back Keren Etkin to the podcast! Keren is a gerontologist, entrepreneur, and author of The AgeTech Revolution – a fascinating book about the intersection of technology and ageing.
I love that she describes herself as an AgeTech evangelist – it captures her passion perfectly. Keren is also the founder of The Gerontechnologist and The AgeTech Academy, both dedicated to helping us understand and shape the future of ageing through innovation.
We talk about how technology is reshaping the way we age, the opportunities and challenges ahead, and what it all means for those of us in midlife and beyond.
We also talk about:
-Tech adoption by older adults
-Motivation and digital literacy
-Challenges in healthcare technology
-Making technology accessible
-Addressing scams and digital literacy
-Robotics and caregiving
-Age-inclusive societies and technologies
-The future of technology and personal reflections
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening.
You can read a blog about this podcast episode here.
Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Alison Larkin is a bestselling author, comedian, producer, and narrator of over 250 audiobooks. Her acclaimed autobiographical novel The English American tells the story of an adopted English woman who finds her birth parents in America. She's also the creator of the hit one-woman show Grief… a Comedy and author of the book of the same name.
Rachel first saw Alison perform at London's Soho Theatre and knew she'd be a perfect podcast guest. This conversation is funny, heartfelt, and full of insight about identity, creativity, and finding humour in life's toughest moments.
We talk about:
-The journey of love and loss
-Finding joy after grief
-Exploring love beyond death
-Embracing clarity in midlife
-The power of storytelling
-The life of a comedian
-Alison's journey of comedy and fundraising
-Multiple voices and identities
-Fiction vs. memoir
-The craft of writing
-Grief and connection
-Intuition and spirituality in life's journey
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening.
You can read a blog about this podcast episode here.
Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Want to rethink everything you thought you knew about menopause? I'm thrilled to welcome back Tania Elfersy, someone I really admire and a woman with a truly refreshing take on this stage of life. This is a conversation between two women who care deeply about the state of the menoverse today!
I first came across Tania while writing my book and was immediately struck by her wisdom and insight. The last time she joined me on the podcast, our conversation about menopause was very feisty – and this one is just as spirited.
Tania brings such clarity, compassion and common sense to the menopause conversation. I can't wait for you to hear this episode – it's sure to challenge, inspire and maybe even transform how you think about current menopause narratives.
We talk about:
-How fear-based menopause marketing took root in the UK and spread globally
-Why so much hormone therapy research is being misunderstood, misrepresented, and selectively used
-The real impact of celebrity endorsements and influencer-led "menopause awareness" campaigns
-How the pharmaceutical and wellness industries are profiting from women's insecurities
-What's missing from the current menopause conversation – and why context matters
-How women are being encouraged to medicalize a natural transition
-The dangers of cherry-picked data and the confusion between relative and absolute risk
-The quiet manipulation happening behind so-called "menopause revolutions"
-Why women deserve full, unbiased information before making health decisions
-How to separate fact from marketing spin in an age of social media misinformation
-Why questioning, staying curious, and trusting your intuition are radical acts of self-care
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening.
You can read a blog about this podcast episode here.
Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
We’re bringing back another powerful episode for our special Menopause Matters Season - this time with the fabulous Karen Newby.
Karen is a nutritionist who’s been practising nutritional therapy for over a decade, specialising in women’s hormonal health - particularly menopause. She’s the author of The Natural Menopause Method, a brilliant nutritional guide to perimenopause and beyond, and her brand-new book The Natural Menopause Method Cookbook is out now.
In her new book, Karen has compiled 60 simple, flavour-packed recipes designed to help combat and minimise the most common menopause symptoms. These are meals made for time-poor menopausal women who still want to eat well — full of nutrition and bursting with taste. From Salmon Traybake with Tarragon Pesto to ‘Stop Feeling 100’ Joint Rejuvenation Smoothie, these recipes tackle issues like fatigue, hot flushes, brain fog, irritability, and sleeplessness — showing how food can truly be medicine for this stage of life.
In our conversation, Karen brings a wealth of knowledge about how nutrition can support our hormones and overall wellbeing through this transition.
Here’s what we cover:
-How we can best prepare ourselves for perimenopause
-The first signs of perimenopause and what can be done about them
-Good and bad estrogens
-What we can learn from other cultures in terms of food and hormones
-The importance of phytoestrogens
-Food as medicine
-How to stop sugar cravings and why they happen
-Why modern life can make menopause worse
-Why women may get heavier periods as they move into perimenopause
-The importance of maintaining blood sugar levels
-The role of the adrenal glands
-Why we need to get better at managing stress
-Why there’s no quick fix when it comes to menopause
-Six simple nutritional shifts to support perimenopause
-Why we need to start putting ourselves first
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
We’re bringing back another great episode for our special Menopause Matters Season — this time with the fabulous Tania Dalton.
Tania is a healthy aging coach and fitness trainer, known for her inspiring approach to redefining what’s possible as we age. She’s passionate about showing that menopause isn’t an ending, but the beginning of a whole new chapter.
Since we first recorded this episode, Tania has continued her mission, working as an online health coach helping women over 50 regain their energy so they can thrive in their careers and their lives. She’s also launched an exciting new venture — the Midlife Women’s Clinic, an online service for Australian women navigating perimenopause. The clinic provides education and connects women with GPs, Nurse Practitioners, Naturopaths, Psychologists, Nutritionists, and other experts who specialise in perimenopause.
Tania brings such inspiration and practical wisdom to this conversation, sharing how lifestyle choices can transform how we age and how midlife can be the most empowering time of all.
Here’s what we cover:
-Why Tania became so interested in how lifestyle impacts aging
-Why she’s determined to show women menopause isn’t the end so much as a whole new beginning
-Simple and effective ways to transform life
-Staying active despite osteoarthritis
-Training for an ironman challenge (she since completed this!)
-Being willing to try things while accepting you may not be able to complete them
-Why Tania feels menopause has been the best thing to happen to her
-The importance of prioritizing sleep
-How Tania manages stress
-The importance of getting outside a lot, especially first thing in the morning
-How living more simply can help with health
-How Tania has accepted her aging self
-Optimal nutrition in midlife and beyond
-Increasing variety in your diet to assist your microbiome
-The importance of strength training and getting clear on what we need to do
-Incorporating HIIT sessions where possible
-Incidental exercise – staying mobile throughout the day
-The impact of stress on increasing belly fat in midlife
-How to simply incorporate meditation
-Not letting perfectionism stop her from going for things
-What Tania most wants women to know
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
We’re bringing back another ground-breaking episode for our special Menopause Matters Season — this time with the inspiring Karen Arthur.
Karen is an educator, fashion designer, dancer, podcaster, broadcaster, author and artist. She’s the host of the Menopause Whilst Black podcast, which she created to amplify the voices of Black women going through menopause. Karen brings such honesty, creativity, and joy to this conversation. She reminds us that menopause isn’t one size fits all and that midlife can be a time to set boundaries, honour ourselves, and open up to what’s possible. And that representation matters.
Here’s what we cover:
-How the Black Lives Matter movement inspired Karen to create her podcast
-Why menopause isn’t one size fits all
-The importance of workplace support through menopause
-The different menopause experience of Black women
-How to actually make a difference around racial injustice
-Karen’s personal journey with depression
-Her realization she was going through menopause and how it changed her life
-Experiences with therapy and the importance of doing it when you’re ready
-Knowing when to seek help and when to say no
-Establishing boundaries with yourself and your body
-Honouring the ageing process and embracing midlife
-What menopause can truly give us
And so much more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
We’re bringing back another great episode for our special Menopause Matters Season – this time with the brilliant Angela Counsel.
Angela is a naturopath, kinesiologist, and mindset coach working with women in midlife. Like me, she’s on a mission to spread the word that menopause doesn’t have to be a struggle. It can be a time of stepping into your wisdom and falling in love with yourself and your life.
This conversation was recorded at a time when Covid-19 was very much part of our everyday lives, so we talk a lot about how to support both our hormonal balance and our immune systems in that context. Angela shares deep knowledge and practical tips, all grounded in her belief that midlife is a time of empowerment, not decline. This conversation is very much grounded in Lifestyle Medicine.
Here’s what we cover:
-How our jobs can impact our health
-How a miscarriage led Angela to study naturopathy
-The impact of stress on women’s bodies and how it can cause early menopause
-The importance of hormonal balance at all stages of our lives
-How it’s not normal to experience lots of symptoms around the time of menopause, if we do that means there are issues that need to be dealt with
-The many unnatural products in our lives that can impact our health
-The impact of stress on our immune systems and immune -related health issues
-If you struggle to get over a minor illness such as a cold then your immune system isn’t working properly
-Never getting sick is not necessarily a good thing either
-The body’s natural response to viral illness and how we can get in the way of that
-Our over reliance on taking a pill to get better
-Eating better, cleaner food to avoid pesticides
-Vinegar can help to remove waxy coatings on fruit and pesticides
-Eating organic if you can, especially if soft like broccoli and berries
-Stress, fear and toilet paper
-Alcohol, stress and the impact on menopause
-The impact of vitamin D levels on people’s Covid response
-Why Australia has coped comparatively well with the pandemic
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
We’re bringing back another episode for our special Menopause Matters Season — this time with the wonderful Clarissa Kristjansson. She’s a Mindfulness and Menopause expert, author of The Mindful Menopause, and host of the Thriving Thru Menopause podcast. Clarissa is passionate about changing the way women think about menopause and aging. She brings such warmth and wisdom to this conversation, showing how mindfulness and a truly holistic approach can transform our experience of midlife. Her work continues to challenge unhelpful narratives and empower women to take charge of their own journey.
Here’s what we cover:
- Why Clarissa became so passionate about menopause
- The power of mindfulness and a truly holistic approach
- Busting myths and unhelpful menopause narratives
- How women can take charge of their own experience
- Menopause, ageism, and the challenges of the workplace
- The potential impact of toxins in our lives
- Clarissa’s best tips for thriving through midlife and beyond
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
We’re revisiting another brilliant conversation for our special Menopause Matters Season — this time with the inspiring Breeda Bermingham. She’s a social entrepreneur, founder of the Midlife Women Rock Project, and author of Midlife Women Rock: A Menopause Story for a New Generation. A former midwife and nurse, Breeda went back to full-time education at 49, completing both a psychology degree and a master’s in sociology. Impressive doesn’t even begin to cover it!
This was such a moving conversation — Breeda’s wisdom and passion continue to have a profound impact on me. With more and more fear around menopause conversations, Breeda’s call to action on menopause is just as timely as ever.
Here’s what we cover:
-Why she wrote her book and the urgency of changing menopause narratives
-Breaking taboos and giving women’s voices space to be heard
-The legacy of Feminine Forever and the medicalization of menopause
-Her Menopause Cafés in Ireland and the power of shared stories
-What it was like returning to full-time study at 49
-Practical ways women can take more control of their experience
-Why sleep is so critical for long-term health
-Celebrating how amazing women are before, during, and after menopause
And so much more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
This is a re-release episode with the brilliant Jackie Lynch, Registered Nutritional Therapist and author of The Happy Menopause. I just love that title! Jackie’s work is all about how nutrition can help us flourish in midlife and beyond.
✨ Book news! Jackie’s latest book The Happy Menopause Guide to Energy: Nutrition to Rejuvenate Your Brain & Body is now out. While her original book The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish is a symptom-by-symptom guide you can dip in and out of, this new sister copy takes a different approach. It’s essentially a journey through one of her clinical programmes in book form.
So many of the women Jackie sees in her clinic struggle with physical and/or mental energy in midlife, so she decided to take a deep dive into the subject. In this new book, she guides readers through a step-by-step process to regain mental clarity, physical stamina, and overall vitality. It helps you pinpoint what’s draining your energy and create a tailored action plan to rejuvenate brain and body. Available now in book, ebook, and audio form, in all the usual places.
If you’d rather read a summary transcription of this podcast episode, you can do that here.
We talk about:
-Why Jackie believes menopause is a transformational time in a woman’s life (in a good way)
-Estrogen as the biddable, nurturing hormone
-Why some women suffer badly in menopause and others don’t
-The massive importance of diet and lifestyle in midlife and beyond
-How the manner in which we lived when younger can impact our menopause experience
-The impact of stress and the myth of having it all
-How I got my periods back after a diagnosis of early menopause
-The importance of maintaining stable blood sugar levels
-How the body produces stress hormones when blood sugar levels are not stable
-How menopause may not be to blame for what’s happening to us
-How our thoughts and beliefs can impact our experience of menopause
-The importance of eating more protein with every meal and snack
-Getting magnesium, calcium and iron from leafy green vegetables
-How phytoestrogens mimic the actions of estrogen in the body
-The wonder food that is flaxseed
-The physiological stress we can put on our bodies through diet and lifestyle
-Understanding whether HRT is right for you and how to balance that with diet and lifestyle
-Why HRT is not a quick solution and still needs a good diet for the best support
-How I weaned myself off HRT at 51
-How just small nutritional changes can make a huge difference
-Jackie’s own midlife reinvention
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Maryon Stewart is known as the pioneer of the natural menopause movement. She created a non-drug but scientifically based program to overcome issues associated with menopause and has helped thousands of women. She’s written 28 books and is also a campaigner for education around drugs. She’s made it her mission to ensure women have all the information they need to manage menopause effectively without the need for medication in most instances.
We talk about:
-What it means to manage your menopause naturally
-Why HRT isn’t the magic solution to hormonal issues
-The need for a midlife refuel
-The biggest nutritional deficiencies seen in midlife women
-The most common issues women present with who come to consult with Maryon
-The most embarrassing issues women are coping with
-Maryon’s advice for low libido and vaginal dryness
-How we can improve our diet and what it helps
-Bloating in midlife and how to fix it
-Why we can get more urinary tract infections and what to do about that
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
In this solo episode, host Rachel Lankester introduces a brand-new special season of the Magnificent Midlife Podcast: Menopause Matters.
With World Menopause Day around the corner, Rachel is shining a spotlight on some of the inspiring menopause conversations from the Magnificent Midlife archives. She shares her own early menopause diagnosis story, why lifestyle (as) medicine (the theme of this year's World Menopause Day) is so powerful, and what listeners can expect from this empowering rerun series.
She talks about:
-Why she has created a dedicated menopause season
-Her own early menopause diagnosis at 41
-The theme of lifestyle as medicine for World Menopause Day
-Nutrition, fitness, culture, stress, and relationships etc. during menopause
-Revisiting expert voices including Maryon Stewart, Karen Newby, Jackie Lynch, Karen Arthur, and Breeda Bermingham and more!
-How these timeless conversations support hormonal health through perimenopause and beyond
-Why menopause isn’t an end point, but an ongoing journey
-Her passion for the Women’s Rugby World Cup and the fantastic influence this is having on female body positivity – a bit random!
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re listening.
Order Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Podcast recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Want to add something fabulous to your life? Meet Melissa Talago, a serial entrepreneur and portfolio careerist with a single minded passion: to live a life less ordinary. She runs Hoomin, providing content marketing and communications leadership to tech companies. She's also the founder of Glamoraks, a global community for women who hike. She wrote a book on how to divorce amicably and in her spare time, works for adventure travel company Water by Nature, taking guests on sailing trips. This is Melissa's second appearance on the podcast, as I wanted to catch up on all the exciting things she does to make her life less ordinary.
We talk about:
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Melissa’s inspiring journey and career transformation
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Balancing her career and personal life
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Her insights from Glamoraks
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Her backpacking adventures
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How to live a life less ordinary
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Overcoming challenges and embracing change
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The power of travel and human connections
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Encouraging all of us to take action
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Living a life with purpose
And much more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Dr. Sarah McKay is a neuroscientist, author, and science communicator passionate about making brain science accessible and practical. With a PhD in neuroscience, she specializes in exploring the female brain and its transformations across life stages. Her books, The Women's Brain Book and Baby Brain, delve into the neuroscience of health, hormones, and motherhood. She’s also the director of The Neuroscience Academy, bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and everyday life.
We talk about:
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Dr McKay's passion for science communication
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Her inspiration for writing her books
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Understanding the brain and menopause
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Advancements in menopause research
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Challenges in menopause research and communication
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The impact of menopause on cognition and mood
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Menopause in the workplace
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The need for reliable data and room for nuance
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Lifestyle and menopause management
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The need for humor in menopause
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Future directions in menopause research
And lots more! If you want to understand what happens to our brains in midlife, this podcast is a must listen.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Lara Briden is a naturopathic doctor and women's health advocate with over 25 years of clinical experience. Lara has written Period Repair Manual and Hormone Repair Manual. Her latest book, Metabolism Repair For Women, a compassionate, science based guide to balancing insulin, losing weight and improving health, empowers women to understand and heal their metabolism for lasting health. Lara is also one of my co-founders at MenoClarity.
We talk about:
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The inspiration for and differences in Lara's books
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The importance of understanding metabolic dysfunction
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The role of hormones like insulin, estrogen, and testosterone in metabolic health and how they interact during different life stages
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The impact of our modern lifestyle
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Challenges in balancing blood sugar
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Defining metabolic dysfunction and its manifestations
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The impact of insulin resistance on women's health
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Strategies to restore metabolic balance
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The role of circadian rhythm
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Practical tips for improving metabolic health
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Tracey Yarad is an Australian singer-songwriter and pianist who transformed personal heartbreak into powerful storytelling. After a devastating betrayal in midlife, she channelled her pain into her one-woman musical show All The Pretty Things, now touring in Australia and the UK. Through raw honesty, humour, and music, she’s helping others heal while reclaiming her own voice. So powerful and inspiring!
We talk about:
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Tracey's journey and the birth of her show
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The betrayal and its impact
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The aftermath and healing process
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The evolution of her show and its emotional depth
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The role of meditation and celibacy
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Her move to New York and new beginnings
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The creation of her book and its impact
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The power of forgiveness and letting go
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Broader lessons and connections
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Rebekah Rotstein is the creator of the medically endorsed Buff Bones® system, providing bone health, education and exercise to manage and prevent bone and joint issues for people of all ages. She’s an industry leader in Pilates, bone health and movement education. Rebekah was diagnosed with osteoporosis at the age of 28 and has been helping people improve their bone health ever since.
She talks about:
- Her osteoporosis diagnosis
- The impact of exercise and diet on bone health
- Midlife prevention and bone health awareness
- Understanding osteoporosis and misconceptions
- Primary and secondary osteoporosis
- Bone health beyond density
- The Buff Bones® program and movement education
- The importance of strength training and impact exercises
- Cultural differences in bone health awareness
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
A solo midlife update from Rachel, with a difference, sharing her recent solo trip to Albania, and what’s been going on in life.
She talks about:
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Initial nervousness and changing travel plans
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Conquering driving fears while navigating Albania’s challenging roads
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Initial hotel challenges
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Exploring Gjirokastër and its extraordinary architecture
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Finding local heroes to help when she got rather stuck
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Exploring the haunting history of communist Albania through bunkers and surveillance centres
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Albanian blood feuds and the impact they continue to have
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The archeological wonder of Butrint
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The Albanian coast including Ksamil and Himare
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Staying in the stunning ancient multi-layered town of Berat
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Navigating Tirana and reflections on history
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Personal life changes and future plans
And more!
Book mentioned in the podcast: Broken April by Ismail Kadare
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the former editor of Teen Vogue and Feministing and the editorial director at The Meteor. She’s the author of The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning, which explores the contradictions and inequities of success in the modern workplace, particularly for women and marginalized groups. She’s also written Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life and was the co-editor of the anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America. She wrote her master’s thesis on The Politics of the Feminist Blogosphere and is passionate about examining power, gender, and cultural narratives through a feminist lens.
We talk about:
- Why Samhita wrote her book
- The systemic challenges in the workplace for women
- The impact of gendered expectations
- The American ethos of work and success
- What it means for Samhita to be a feminist at work
- Redefining success and prioritizing self-care
- What it means for Samhita to be in the realm of being an older woman
- Burnout as a systemic problem
- Samhita’s vision for the book (and society)
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Lesley Jane Seymour is a media entrepreneur and the former editor of More magazine. She founded Covey Club, an online community for women over 40, which grew out of a survey that More magazine readers took after the iconic magazine closed. She's been a leading light in the media industry for many years, and she was the editor of Marie Claire magazine before taking over More. She's passionate about helping women 40+ create fabulous change in their lives.
We talk about:
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The closure of More magazine
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The creation and mission of Covey Club
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The power of midlife women
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Older women saving the world
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The fight for gender equality
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Networking and support for entrepreneurs
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Lesley's transition to entrepreneurship
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The power of women supporting women
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Lesley's work with Michelle Obama
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Lesley’s decision to leave publishing
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Embracing lifelong learning and new experiences
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
I always love chatting to this returning guest! Kate Codrington is the author of The New York Times recommended book, Second Spring: The Self-Care Guide To Menopause, and her second book is The Perimenopause Journal: Unlock Your Power, Own Your Wellbeing, Find Your Path. This is a beautiful journal full of love and wisdom to help women process the momentous changes that perimenopause brings. This is a super fun conversation with lots of wisdom and inspiration to help you thrive through the perimenopause transition.
If you haven’t already, make sure to listen to Kate’s first interview on the podcast too!
We talk about:
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Kate’s new book and its purpose
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The role of positivity in perimenopause
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Spiritual and emotional aspects of perimenopause
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Leadership and the role of postmenopausal women
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The importance of authentic leadership, whether it involves standing on a stage or being a compassionate presence in small moments
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The seasons of perimenopause
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The importance of space and self-care
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The gifts of perimenopause
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The impact of deficiency narratives
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The importance of age respect and voice
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Dr Anisha Patel is a GP specializing in women's health whose world was turned upside down with a diagnosis of stage three bowel cancer. She's the author of the brilliant book Everything You'd Hoped You'd Never Need To Know About Bowel Cancer. I found this such a powerful book, with lessons for all of us whether or not we have cancer. This is a very inspiring conversation about women's health and how we can all take better care if ourselves.
We talk about:
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Anisha's cancer journey
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How she found the strength to write her book
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Vulnerability and the emotional aspects of cancer
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Openness about one's health with children and family
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The long-term effects and life after cancer
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Surviving the survival
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Psychosocial impacts and support
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Anisha’s work with charities to set up a life after cancer clinic to provide specialized support
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Histamine intolerance and menopause
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Balancing hormone therapy and histamine intolerance
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Empowering women with knowledge
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Dr. Sarah White is the CEO of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving women’s health across Australia through every life stage. She is part of the National Women’s Health Advisory Council and the Women’s Health Products Working Group at Australia’s Medicines Regulator. She’s an honorary research fellow at Melbourne University and still an active researcher. We had an impassioned conversation about how menopause narratives are being manipulated, the likely reasons for that, and how women can get the reliable information they need.
We talk about:
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Sarah’s career journey
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The importance of accurate and accessible health information
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Who Dr Jean Hailes was
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The first rigorous survey on how menopause affects Australian women
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How menopause data is being manipulated and why
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The impact of industry influence on women’s health
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Reframing menopause from a strengths-based approach
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Combating gendered ageism
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The influence of marketing and misinformation
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The pressure to maintain a youthful appearance
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The commercial drivers behind the promotion of HRT
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Questioning what’s being said, by whom and why
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Considering lifestyle changes in the menopause toolbox
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Research on public health priorities and health inequities
And more!
This is such an important conversation for anyone interested in menopause!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Shelle Luscombe is an entertainer, a singer, a presenter, a voiceover artist. She turned 50 in 2021 and she set out to have 50 memorable experiences. She also wanted to raise money for a cause very close to her heart, having two copies of the Alzheimer's risk gene and having lost both parents to dementia. Three years on, she's raised over £12,000 pounds.
She's been on daytime TV and came close to winning a national award for her creative fundraising efforts. She's determined to live life to the full and continue campaigning for a cure for dementia.
We talk about:
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The inspiration behind the 50 challenges
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Shelle’s TV appearance and the power of PR
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Wacky challenges: unicycles, stand-up comedy, hair cutting and more
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The tragedy of dementia and personal risk
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Shelle’s musical journey and album release
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Living life to the fullest and Shelle’s determination
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The challenges of dementia care
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Seeking a new future and navigating midlife challenges
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Good days and bad days
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Supporting others through similar experiences
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Being willing to pivot
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Being willing to challenge ourselves
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Understanding dementia, Alzheimer’s and other related illnesses
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Rachel’s cat’s first appearance on the podcast
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The wonder of cats
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Lucifer as a name for a cat
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Difficulties of accessing support
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Hope for the future
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
This is such a fascinating podcast! Maria Leonard Olsen is a lawyer, an author, a TEDx speaker, and a mentor to women in recovery. She wrote 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life and is host of the Becoming Your Best Version podcast. She’s had a very full and fascinating life – so far. She has so many enthralling stories to share.
We talk about:
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Maria’s background and passion for travel
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Exploring other cultures and overcoming historical prejudices
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The power of continuous growth and trying new things
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Racial prejudice and mixed heritage identity
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Unveiling family secrets: Maria’s DNA test surprise
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Navigating the legal and emotional implications of misattributed parentage
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Connecting with a previously unknown biological parent
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Grappling with changed heritage and identity
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Maria’s difficult journey to sobriety
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Breaking the silence on sexual assault
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The importance of self-care in midlife
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What somatic healing means to Maria
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Lifelong learning
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Sue Mbaya is the founder and director of Menopause Solutions Africa and host of the Pause for Menopause podcast. She’s leading menopause awareness in Africa and seeking to normalize the change while empowering women. She has over 20 years of policy advocacy, advisory and development experience at national, regional and global levels with a focus on African States and the African Union. Sue’s work and influence in the area of menopause have been recognized globally and I was delighted to be able to entice her onto the podcast!
We talk about:
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How Sue became so involved and passionate about menopause
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The impact of stress and other life events on menopause symptoms
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The psychological impact of menopause and the decision to use HRT
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The challenges of getting access to healthcare in Africa
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How menopause is not prioritized in Africa
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The differences in terms of appreciation, knowledge, sentiment towards menopause as well as women getting older in general
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Gendered ageism
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The disparity in access to help and healthcare across the continent
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1 gynecologist for every 100,000 women in Kenya
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Progress and initiatives in menopause awareness in Africa
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Changing narratives so women don’t have to just power through menopause
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Lynne Golodner is a novelist writing about strong Jewish women and Jewish culture. She shares her background and journey as a writer, her focus on writing about Orthodox Jewish life, and the challenges and research involved. Lynne recently set up her own independent publishing house for women over 40 with strong voices that need to be heard. Her first novel, Woman of Valor, joins two poetry collections and six nonfiction books, including Hide and Seek: Jewish Women and Hair Covering and The Flavors of Faith: Holy Breads. This is a fascinating dive into an often hidden culture.
We talk about:
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How Lynne became a writer
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Writing about compelling Jewish characters
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Educating others about Jewish culture
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The role of food in Jewish culture
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The significance of hair covering in Jewish culture
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Becoming religious and then leaving Orthodoxy
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Career pivots and founding a publishing house
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Differences in perceptions of older women across cultures
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Benefits of self-publishing and challenges in the publishing industry
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Lessons learned in midlife
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
A midlife update from Rachel on what’s been happening lately and what’s coming up for her as we move towards summer.
She talks about:
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Cherishing loved ones and coping with grief
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Recent podcast episodes
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- Being a veteran
- Black menopause and staying curious
- Staying strong and healing
- Embodied experience of postmenopause
- Discovering the joy of volunteering
- Finding what works in midlife
- The power of herbs
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Questioning big claims about hormone therapy and future health
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The Mind Body Spirit Festival (London) and Everywoman Festival (Cardiff)
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Poverty in later life being a gendered issue
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The growing concern of digital exclusion
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Hannah Charman has been a medical herbalist since 1999, having first become interested in alternative medicine when she used it to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome in her early teens. She specialises now in helping women who prefer or need a natural route through menopause, combining herbal medicine with health coaching.
We talk about:
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What a medical herbalist is
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Hannah’s journey to becoming a medical herbalist
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Holistic approaches to menopause and health in general
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The gifts of menopause
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The role of trauma in menopause
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How herbal medicines work and especially for menopause
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The misconceptions and benefits of herbal medicine
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Embracing the discomfort of menopause
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Empowering menopausal women
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The environmental impact of hormones
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Navigating menopause based on individual experience
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The power of herbs and Hannah’s passion for herbal medicine
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Dr. Maria Luque is a menopause fitness expert, a health science professor, and an Air Force veteran. She’s passionate about helping menopausal women become healthier, stronger, and happier. Her PhD dissertation was all about enhancing quality of life in menopause.
We talk about:
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What quality of life in menopause means to Maria
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Maria’s research on menopause
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Misinformation and fear surrounding menopause
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Embracing menopause and aging
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Challenging menopause narratives
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The influence of marketing and misinformation
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Overcoming analysis paralysis
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Trusting your own knowledge and instincts
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The impact of polarizing menopause narratives
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The need for nuanced conversations women’s health
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The complexity of hormone therapy
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The power of polarization in marketing
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The importance of doing the work
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Body image issues in menopause
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Finding balance
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Ann Marie Jackson is the co-founder of microlending organization Mano Amiga and works with Casita Linda, which builds homes for families living in poverty in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She’s lived as an expat in Mexico for a decade, is a columnist for Mexico Daily News and recently wrote a novel inspired by her life called the Broken Hummingbird.
We talk about:
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Why Ann Marie moved her family to Mexico
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The joys of living in San Miguel de Allende
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Ann Marie’s passion for volunteering
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Her experience working on human rights in China
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The dangers of white saviourism and how to navigate that
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The migration of Mexicans and other people to the US
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Issues at the Mexico-US border
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Casita Linda and how it helps families in poverty
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Microlending organisations
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The Healing Words Project
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Writing a novel
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How we can all give back more
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer of 17 novels, over 70 short stories and 15 plays who’s also worked in theatre for 35 years as an actor, director and facilitator. She’s a psychotherapist and a yoga teacher. She recently completed her doctorate in existential psychotherapy and her research was in the embodied experience of post-menopause. She’s been post-menopausal since chemotherapy for breast cancer in her mid-30s. Stella has been active in equalities and diversity work in the arts and LGBTQ+ communities for many decades.
We talk about:
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Stella’s experience of menopause coinciding with six months of chemotherapy
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Menopause as a global issue
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Challenging existing narratives
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Societal factors and the impact of money
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Cultural differences in menopause
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The UK’s influence on menopause narratives
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Alternative perspectives on menopause
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The importance of lifestyle factors
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Societal perceptions of post-menopausal women in a patriarchal culture
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Dismantling misogynistic stereotypes
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Being inclusive about societal expectations and challenges related to aging
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The societal pressure on women regarding fertility and how it contributes to defining their value.
And more! This is such a rich and empowering conversation.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Dr Kristie Ennis is a physical therapist, nutritionist, and strength and conditioning specialist. She wants to empower people to do more than they think they can and realize they are stronger than they think they are. She has a fantastic YouTube channel, which is where podcast host Rachel found her when she injured her knee.
We talk about:
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The importance of letting the body heal itself
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Fascia and its importance in body movement
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The importance of drinking enough fluid
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The dangers of sitting too long
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Hormone related aches and pains in women
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The importance of considering the whole body when addressing pain
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How hormonal changes in menopause can contribute to weight gain and fat distribution
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Exercise and injury prevention for older adults
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Common injuries in older adults
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Strengthening the glutes
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Pelvic floor exercises and common mistakes in women’s fitness
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Fitness and nutrition for a healthy lifestyle
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Cardio exercise guidelines and options
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Pamela Windle joins the podcast to talk about menopause, at work, for Black women, diversity of experience, the importance of representation and staying curious about big statements about women’s health, especially when those relate to race. Pamela is a women’s health coach and menstruation and menopause consultant for the workplace. She trained with the Integrated Women’s Health Institute and the International Menopause Society. She’s an adviser to the British Standards Institute for the new standard on menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace.
We talk about:
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Menopause and perimenopause in the workplace
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The new BSI standard on menstruation and menopause in the workplace
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Pamela’s personal experiences with perimenopause, challenging societal shame and embarrassment around menstruation and aging
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Emphasizing the diversity of women’s experiences and the importance of self-care
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Scepticism about research on menopause for Black women
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The lack of representation of Black women in medical research
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The importance of including diverse perspectives in medical research
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Still being perimenopausal at 57
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The spread of misinformation about menopause
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Menopause and HRT stigmatization in the UK
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Black women and risk of cancer
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Menopause and hormone imbalance for Black women
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Cat Corchado is a US Air Force veteran turned founder of the Small Space Pilates Community. She’s made it her mission to help women veterans transition from the military, and is the host of the Sisters in Service podcast.
We talk about:
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Why Cat is still very active in the military community
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Women veterans’ transition challenges and successes
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The Sisters in Service podcast
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The importance of identifying oneself beyond military service (as the transition to civilian life can be challenging)
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What first took Cat into the military and where she served
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Cat’s transition from the military and feeling a sense of loss and uncertainty after leaving
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The importance of acknowledging and embracing ones veteran status
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Recognizing and supporting veterans in the UK and US
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Cat’s experience of being a single parent in the military
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Cat’s journey of leaving the corporate world for fitness full-time
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The importance of weightlifting for women especially as they age
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The negative impact of ageism on women’s fitness and the importance of challenging these stereotypes
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Why women need to do Pilates
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The importance of finding a qualified Pilates instructor who can tailor the workout to your needs and goals
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The danger of burnout and getting stuck in busyness
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Mag Mid podcast host Rachel is flying solo this week, talking about what’s been happening in her world. There's a trip to the UK Houses of Parliament and a book recommendation in the New York Times in the mix! Check out what’s been catching her attention lately.
She talks about:
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The success of the MenoClarity live event and how you can still access the recordings
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Going to the heart of Government to talk about menopause
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Menopause narratives and how they seem to keep getting worse
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Her book, Magnificent Midlife, being recommended in the New York Times
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The podcast season to date featuring: avoiding burnout, the crisis of care, staying fit as we age, healing through memoir, getting back on stage, digital publishing and traveling the world
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Gendered ageism
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Digital exclusion
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How the Masters is going
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Elaine Reynolds is a master personal trainer and yoga teacher. She teaches women over 50 to not give up or give in with the crazy things happening to our bodies. She had an epiphany at 50 and bought a one way ticket to Bali, where she lives now.
We talk about:
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What’s it like being an expat in Bali and what she loves most about it
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Elaine’s passion of helping older women stay fit
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Issues that older women are grappling with in midlife
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Menopause, aging and fitness
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The importance of strengthening and stabilising muscles around joints to support aging bodies and improve recovery from injuries
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Incorporating dynamic movements like yoga, barre, pilates, functional strength training, and low-impact cardio into workouts to lengthen the body and improve overall fitness
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The importance of changing exercise habits after 50 to prioritize how one feels
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Pain management and exercise for women in their 50s and beyond
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The importance of glute strength
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Knee problems and fascial release
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The importance of holistic healing, including mental well-being, and how it can help alleviate physical ailments
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Incorporating meditation in your daily routine
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Sherry Sidoti is an author and a yogi. She recently published her first book, a memoir about her own healing journey, A Smoke and a Song. This is such a powerful and moving story highlighting how we can heal ourselves by exploring and accepting our experiences, and coming to terms with the past.
We talk about:
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What inspired Sherry to write her book
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Sherry’s journey to writing a memoir
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Sherry’s experience as a yoga teacher and how it has helped her learn to use language sparingly and effectively
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Writing a memoir with a focus on self-expression and ethical considerations
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How Sherry was able to write about trauma without triggering trauma
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Motherhood and healing generational trauma
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Using meditation and sensory awareness (five sense awareness) to access memories
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What it means to be living in the layers
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What it’s like living on Martha’s Vineyard
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Dr Sola Togun-Butler is a psychotherapist and transformative life coach. She’s the founder of Butterfly Counseling Services and speaks regularly on the importance of mental health and wellness, while offering solutions to minimize stress, prevent burnout and achieve balance.
We talk about:
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The importance of addressing societal expectations that lead to burnout in women, particularly in midlife
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The guilt that arises from cultural and gender expectations that women should prioritize their children and family over their own needs
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How changing thought patterns through cognitive restructuring and reframing can help reduce feelings of guilt
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How Dr Sola’s Nigerian cultural background influenced her upbringing
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Polarization in the menopause discourse
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Finding it easier to listen to different perspectives as you get older
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The importance of curiosity and seeking diverse viewpoints in midlife
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How Dr Sola helps midlife women come to terms with or move on from trauma
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Why women fear embracing their authentic selves due to fear of rejection from others
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How women can make changes despite potential conflict with loved ones
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The power of butterflies as a symbol of transformation
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Some effective strategies for preventing burnout
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How Dr Sola helps women practice self compassion
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Differences between US and Nigerian culture in regards to the status of women as they get older
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Ageism and self-love in UK and Nigerian cultures
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Emily Kenway is the author of the groundbreaking book, “Who Cares: the Hidden Crisis of Caregiving and How We Solve It”, written after the painful experience of caring for her cancer stricken mother. Who Cares is an intimate and deeply researched account of the experiences of unpaid carers, and a call for us all to put care at the center of our lives. Emily researches, writes and speaks about thought-provoking social issues, shedding light on the crucial forces shaping our lives and communities.
We talk about:
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How Emily found the strength to write such a book out of her own deep grief
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Emily’s personal experience with caregiving
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The importance of recognizing care as a continuous condition of life
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The need for more practical support for carers
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Reducing the stigma surrounding care work
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How older people can refuse outside help due to vulnerability concerns
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How women are often expected to prioritize care work over paid work
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Disparities in labor rights and opportunities between men and women
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Gender roles in caregiving for elderly relatives
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Age, vulnerability, and acceptance of care
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How practising reciprocal support can help create a culture that values vulnerability and mutual aid
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The care commons idea – sharing care responsibilities in a community
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The need for government action on workplace regulations to enable care
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Reducing working hours to improve productivity and work-life balance
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Josephine Pembroke is a performer and founder of Radio Gorgeous. She trained at Drama Studio and has been in many bands, cabaret and theatre productions. She decided to get back on stage in her 60s and is currently starring in her own show, The Working Girls of Soho, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival. Josephine is a hoot! Prepare to giggle and be inspired that anything is possible!
We talk about:
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Why Josephine is back on the stage after all these years
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What the show, The Working Girls of Soho, is all about
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The history and culture of Soho
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Life in London in the 80s and 90s
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Josephine’s experience in the London’s club scene
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What’s it like for Josephine to actually be doing cabaret on the stage
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The all-girl band, Pussies Galore and their performances in London and abroad
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Josephine’s struggle with needing attention
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The importance of discipline and creativity in Josephine’s life
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What Josephine has learned about herself by going back on the stage
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How baby steps are all we need to make big change
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Amanda O’ Brien became a full-time digital publisher in midlife, with four successful websites focusing on travel, pets and information. She’s a former marketing director at big corporations and an Australian who’s made London her home. She’s a boutique adventurer, and she’s visited over 70 countries on her travels.
We talk about:
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What it was like for Amanda to switch from marketing director to digital publisher in midlife
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How advertising network Mediavine works and its impact on website traffic and SEO
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Transitioning from marketing to digital publishing
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Amanda’s solo travel experiences and her advice for women
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Amanda’s experience of climbing Kilimanjaro
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The experience of feeling uncomfortable in traveling solo, but finding comfort in realizing that nobody notices or cares.
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What Amanda likes about being an Aussie in London
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Cultural difference between Australia and the UK
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Bhutan culture, tourism, and aging society
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Travel blogging, social media, and influencer marketing
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Midlife transitions, online presence, and networking
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Celebrating episode 150 of the podcast with a very special guest. Ann Marie McQueen is a journalist on the world stage, focused on menopause and on a mission to cut through misleading narratives and dodgy data. She founded HotFlash Inc in 2020 to cover the latest clinical studies, treatments, products, guidance and more via a weekly research letter, podcast and across social media. She’s also one of the founder members of MenoClarity.
We talk about:
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Why and how menopause became Ann Marie’s focus
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Living in the Middle East as a Canadian expat
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Cultural differences around menopause narratives
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What annoys and concerns her about how menopause is portrayed
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Issues around the impact of social media on menopause narratives
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The oversimplification of menopause messages
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Ann Marie’s struggles with ill health and separating that out from hormonal change
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The impact of belief systems and trauma on menopause
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How her view of menopause has changed
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Understanding research and what it’s really saying
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Being sceptical about big promises that make people money
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Menopause narratives that don’t empower women
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Menopause as a hero’s journey
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Carolyn Parry is the founder of Career Alchemy, helping early-stage and established professionals escape from a job they hate and create a career they love, on purpose.
She’s an award-winning career coach, a TEDx speaker and host of the Change Your Story podcast. She is the President of the Career Development Institute and based in Wales.
We talk about:
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Carolyn’s own career crisis
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Knowing what you don’t want is as important as knowing what you want.
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The emotional labor that women do in the office
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How technology has changed the workplace
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Why women have an advantage over men
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The importance of investing in yourself
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The three types of people you find at work
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The choice of what story to write
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How to reconnect with what really matters
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The impact of imposter syndrome
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Maintaining a sense of purpose is important for mental health
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Finding the courage to change track
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How to pivot into a new industry
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Exploring ways to do life differently
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How to get involved in your community
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Something very different for this podcast – five guests on one show! Five of my fellow founders of MenoClarity, the knowledge hub for menopause set up in 2023. I’m talking to Pat Duckworth, Prof Joyce Harper, Clarissa Kristjansson, Kate Codrington and Ann Marie McQueen about why we’ve come together and what we hope to achieve with MenoClarity. This is a wild and at times hilarious conversation!
We talk about:
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The menopause myths we’re hoping to bust
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Bringing some positivity to menopause without being Pollyannaish about it
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Establishing a middle reliable ground in the currently very polarized menopause world
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Bringing clarity to what symptoms are really due to menopause and what might not be
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Cherry picking research findings to suit certain narratives
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The dangers of getting information from social media
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Providing trusted sources of information
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The three stages of womanhood – none should be the default, they all matter
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How we’re not broken in midlife and we don’t need fixing
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Our inaugural online summit on Friday 29 September – MenoClarity Live: Menopause Without The Hype
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Dr. Cathleen Brown is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist who has spent much of her career caring for female soldiers and their dependents. She was honorably discharged from the US Army after 12 years of meritorious service. She now provides gynecology services specifically for women at midlife during the menopause transition.
We talk about:
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What was it like being an army doctor
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How service women manage their periods when they're on active service
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The transition from military to civilian life
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The difference between the medical system in America and the UK
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How the US healthcare system needs an overhaul
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What Cathleen likes about helping women in midlife and experiencing menopause
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How women can help themselves in menopause
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How women can access better food in America
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How menopause can impact women’s health
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Optimizing sleep and brain health
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Julia Brewer Daily wrote her first novel, No Names To Be Given, when she was over 50. This book was inspired by her own experience as an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She’s also the host of the Authors Over 50 podcast. Her mission is to encourage those in mid-life and beyond to live their best lives in what she calls Life’s Sweetest Third. This is a fascinating conversation about what happened when Julia went looking for and started writing her story.
We talk about:
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The personal story behind Julia’s first book
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Julia experience of being adopted
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Why it took so long for Julia to write her book
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What it was like finding her birth family
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Learning about and beginning to understand her birth mother’s experience
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Julia’s writing process and her second book
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Julia’s podcast and mission
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How new writers can best get going
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What helps writers fulfil their dreams
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
A solo podcast from Rachel with more midlife musing on life, the universe and everything in between! Let’s lean into midlife and our wisdom years!
She talks about:
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The new BSI Menstruation and Menopause in the Workplace Guide launch with Mariella Fostrup
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How we need a revolution in how women especially older ones are viewed in the world
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The inaugural MenoClarity Live summit in September
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Out and about talking about midlife and menopause
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The podcast season so far
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One year off the booze!
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How we only make change when we decide to
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Niamh Daly is the founder of Yinstinct Yoga and focuses on creating yoga practices to help especially with menopause, training teachers around the world in this. She also runs courses in Menopause Awareness and Strategies for fitness professionals, nutrition and health coaches as well as accredited courses for Psychotherapists and Counsellors.
We talk about:
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Why Niamh is so passionate about yoga and especially for menopause
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How to adapt our practice through menopause and as we age
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The stages of menopause
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The importance of pleasure
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Connecting with our nervous systems
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What we can learn by listening to our bodies
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The importance of movement throughout the day
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Being cautious of people making big promises about menopause
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Looking out for misleading narratives
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Learning to trust ourselves
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Liz O’Donnell is the founder of Working Daughter, a global community for women balancing eldercare and career. She’s the award-winning author of Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Earning A Living, which is a brilliant book. She’s a longtime marketing executive who’s become a recognized expert on caregiving and in 2020, she created National Working Daughter’s Day.
We talk about:
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Why Liz wrote the book, Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Earning A Living
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The importance of moving from resentment to acceptance
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The power of unconditional love and showing up
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Why Liz focused on daughters in her book
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Why it’s helpful to look forward to the time when you’re no longer caring (even though that means your parents are not there anymore)
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Flexibility and the cost of being flexible
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How the Covid-19 pandemic put everything in perspective
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Living through the caregiving
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How workplaces can help carers
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The expectation that it will always be the daughter
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Judging your actions not your thoughts
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Finding alternative solutions to a difficult situation
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Meet Mia Maugé, a 57 year old model championing broader representation in the modelling industry. She burst onto the scene in 2020 in the midst of the global pandemic when she was picked up by a modelling agency, allowing her to leave her career in digital marketing and PR . She’s passionate about occupying spaces previously reserved for those who look nothing like her, be that her hair texture and colour, age, skin tone or body type.
We talk about:
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Mia’s experiences of Black Power as a mixed race child of the Windrush Generation growing up in the 70s
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How she discovered her passion for writing
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Working at Notting Hill carnival
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How Mia became a model
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Going public with her Instagram page in 2020
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Facing the fear of aging
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Dyeing her hair and finally stopping
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How Mia connected with the community of silver sisters
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The low point in Mia’s life
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Elderhood as the youth of old age
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Practicing gratitude and being grateful
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How the language around aging has got to change
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Aging and how society views older women
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Being comfortable in one’s skin and knowing one’s worth
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The importance of supporting women at any age
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Jessica Kupferman is the CEO and co-founder of She Podcasts, the largest women’s podcasting community and organiser of She Podcasts LIVE. The She Podcasts brand currently supports over 20,000 female podcasters. She Podcasts Live Virtual is happening 20-22 June 2023. I’ve been a member of this brilliant community for years so it was great to sit down with Jess.
We talk about:
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How Jess got started in the podcast world
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Why podcasting is so important especially for women
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The She Podcasts live event and community
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The challenges of organising such an event
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Having ADHD and what that means for Jess
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Being both a young mom and an old one
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Life before She Podcasts
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Her ChatGPT obsession
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Top AI tips to make life zing!
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Why podcasting is great for midlife women
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What Jess has learnt along the way
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #14 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Dr Sharon Blackie is an award winning writer, psychologist and mythologist. She's the author of the best selling, If Women Rose Rooted and more recently, Hagitude: Reimagining The Second Half Of Life. I love both books. They completely re-envision how women fit in the world. Hagitude is a wonderful analysis of how women used to be in later life, before the modern era, and the inspiration we can take from that. Sharon is focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of myth, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal, cultural and environmental problems that we face today.
We talk about:
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Why she wrote Hagitude
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What is it about the hags and mythology that delights Sharon
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Sharon’s favorite character, the Cailleach
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What mythic imagination is
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The things Sharon hates about how old women are currently presented
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How the second half of life is about turning inwards
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The importance of listening to your body
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How if you don't stop, you don't make space for a new story to grow
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What women can do to change the narratives of older women
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The nature of an elder woman’s wisdom
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Baba Yaga
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The intersection of sexism and ageism in patriarchal religions
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What Sharon discovered about herself by writing Hagitude
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Rebecca Wrigley is one of the founders of Rewilding Britain, and now its chief executive. She has worked in the voluntary and public sectors for 23 years, and is passionate about engaging local communities in decision-making about their land and resources. There is so much we can all contribute to protecting the environment, starting with rewilding, often on our doorstep.
We talk about:
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How Rewilding Britain got started
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The unique contribution it makes
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The highlights of Rewilding Britain since it started
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How people can show support for the initiative and make a difference
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Why rewilding is so important to the environment and climate change
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Beavers as an example of an ecosystem engineer
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How a peat bog can hold carbon
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Understanding the keystone species
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Species Rebecca would like to see reintroduced to Britain
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How we all benefit from prioritising nature
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Diversification of jobs and livelihoods
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Frustrations about the work Rebecca does
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Top lessons we can learn about rewilding
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Dr Kathryn Mannix has devoted her life to the palliative care of the dying. In this episode, she talked about death, the process of it and how we can all prepare better for it. She also wrote a remarkable book called With The End In Mind which everyone should read! It was such a pleasure to talk to her about death! This is a much longer interview than usual but I thought the topic deserved it. Kathryn came back on the podcast to talk about her second book, Listen and you can listen to that episode here.
We talk about:
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Why Kathryn was inspired to write her book, With The End In Mind
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Opening up conversations about death
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How our experience of death is much improved by honest communication
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Denial is one way of coping which works for some people but isn’t ideal
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Thinking about accommodating immobile older relatives
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Sometimes being practical is better than sacrifice when it comes to caring
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What normal dying actually looks and feels like – it is very gentle
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Why it’s important for people to understand the stages of death
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What the ‘death rattle’ really is
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Asking for more pain control if death is not progressing normally
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The importance of discomfort management as people approach death – otherwise the process of death itself is prolonged
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The opioid crisis – how Western addiction concerns stop pain relief availability in poorer areas of the world
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Morphine used properly for pain relief is safe
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Dan’s death plan and how he went on TV to talk about it
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The impact of faith on death
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How many of us start a process of reckoning as we get closer to death
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The importance of some form of belief (not necessarily religious) when it comes to evaluating our lives
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The importance of being clear about what you want for your own death
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Tania Elfersy is a transformative coach, speaker and award-winning author, specializing in midlife women’s health. She’s spent years researching what causes and what can relieve symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause and became free of her own physical and emotional symptoms naturally and simply. Rachel quoted her extensively in her own book. Tania set up The Wiser Woman project in 2015 to help women transform their experience of midlife change. She’s the author of a brilliant new book, The Wiser Woman’s Guide To Perimenopause and Menopause.
We talk about:
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What lead Tania to the work she does
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How the body doesn’t malfunction suddenly in midlife
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The innate brilliance of the body and what that means for menopause symptoms
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The difference between how we respond to issues in pregnancy and menopause
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The importance of focusing on the emotional and spiritual side of the midlife journey
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The insight that allowed Tania to free herself from her own menopause symptoms
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The interplay between Mind, Thought and Consciousness
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Tania’s concerns about the narrative in the UK
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Difference between the UK menopause narrative and North America
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How women can best help themselves during midlife change
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Tania’s thoughts on the Davina McCall documentary Sex, Mind and the Menopause
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Rachel’s back with a solo update on what’s been happening in her world and the exciting launch of MenoClarity.
She talks about:
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An update on her mum post breaking her hip
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Adapting to a new way of living
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The fluctuation of mental capacity
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Digital exclusion and Internet upgrade issues
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Levels of customer service for older people and how those need to change
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The wonders of the Amazon Alexa Show
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Her trip to the Philippines
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Working remotely and more wonders of technology
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Setting up MenoClarity – who the team is and their aims
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Creating unbiased balance when it comes to menopause
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Stopping the climate of fear and creating better narratives for all women especially young ones
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Questioning the over promotion of hormone therapy and especially as a preventative medicine
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How the Blue Zones do not owe their long healthful lives to hormone therapy
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Use of the phrase medical gaslighting to shut down discussion
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International Women’s Day and what older women need to thrive
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Equity versus equality
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Sam Walker started her Sam Walker’s Desert Diaries podcast to document her move from Manchester, UK to Phoenix, Arizona. Sam is a master storyteller, an award-winning radio and TV broadcaster, a multiple podcast producer and presenter, a writer, and a woman who encountered coyotes, snakes and scorpions in the desert. This is such an inspirational gem of a podcast, I just had to re-release it!
We talk about:
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Why Sam decided to up sticks and move from Manchester to the desert
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How she pushed through the fear both before making the move and after, given all the issues she has faced
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Having support when making a big life change
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Trusting the universe when there are signs along the way
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The importance of trying to live our dreams no matter how big or small those might be
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The difficulties and highlights of her life in Arizona
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The many quirky things about adapting to US life
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Trying to function in the US without a credit history
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The delights of the US medical system
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The beauty and history of US landscapes
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Whatever brings you joy is what is right for you
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The importance of following your dreams whatever they are
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Getting rid of the word should
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How Sam stays upbeat despite the many setbacks she’s encountered
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Coping with being away from sick loved ones
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Coming to terms with gun culture
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Realising her white privilege when things got really tough
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Being grateful for the basics
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
My guest, Professor Martha Hickey, is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University. She is in active clinical practice with a research expertise in menstrual disorders and menopause. This is such an important conversation about normalizing menopause. It may be difficult for some women but it is a completely natural transition in a woman’s life. Martha is a leader in developing national guidelines for menopause management in Australia and New Zealand and also in developing a new model of care for managing menopausal symptoms after breast cancer. She was the lead author on an article about normalizing menopause in the British Medical Journal which ruffled a few feathers last summer.
We talk about:
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Why her BMJ article proved so contentious
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Misinformation about menopause that she’d like to correct
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The ‘official’ symptoms of menopause
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Martha’s view on HRT and what it can be used for
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Narratives around menopause and HRT in the UK and elsewhere
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Working out what’s fact in a sea of information
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HRT and breast cancer
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Martha’s Flesh After Fifty exhibition
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How older women are viewed in society
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Older women in aboriginal art
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Martha’s hopes for menopause and older women
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Another gem from the podcast archives. Julie Owen Moylan is the author of That Green Eyed Girl and 73 Dove Street, and currently working on her third novel. But when we recorded this interview, she had yet to get her first book deal! Her interview is a master class in believing in yourself and staying the course in pursuit of your dream. It was a real joy interviewing Julie about life, writing, ageing, authenticity and lots more! We had such a giggle! Enjoy and be inspired.
We talk about:
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How Julie came to be writing her first novel at nearly 60
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Following her dream of becoming a writer
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Her midlife excavation process
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How she got started writing seriously
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Finding the motivation to keep going
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The excitement of being spotted by a literary agent
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Making the most of our precious heartbeats
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Becoming more creative as we age
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How Julie writes and developed the story for the book
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The magic on days when the story just flows
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Julie’s belief that somewhere in the ether the book exists and her job is to transmit it
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The importance of just turning up to write and getting in the right mood
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Finding ways to take the pressure to perform off oneself
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Julie’s huge Twitter following and how that came about
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How Julie deals with anyone nasty on Twitter
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Getting better at straight-talking as we age
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Channelling Julie’s inner Nessa
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Flying the Twitter flag for older women and setting the record straight on ageing
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Unravelling negative age-related narratives that have taken up residence in your head
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How great life can be after 40 and how it can keep getting better
And lots more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Clare Fuller talks about the importance of later life planning and what that can look like. Clare is a Registered Nurse with 30 years’ experience in End-of-Life Care for which she is a Care Quality Commission Specialist Advisor. She campaigns for proactive Advance Care Planning and is the host of the Conversations about Advance Care Planning podcast. Most of us leave these tricky issues until it’s too late, whereas actually it’s never too early to start. None of us knows what tomorrow may bring. This is a powerful and inspiring podcast about the benefits of planning ahead.
We talk about:
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What inspired Clare to set up a new business at 50
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What a Lasting Power of Attorney is and why it matters
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What can happen if you don’t have a Lasting Power of Attorney in place
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How to make a Lasting Power of Attorney
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The binary attitude of living versus dying
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What Advance Care Planning is and the triggers for it
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Advice on starting important conversations about later life planning
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The difference between a Lasting Power of Attorney and an Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT)
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What to do when people just don’t want to have the conversation
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Advice for families where there is conflict
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
I interview Makeda Smith, celebrity publicist, pole and exotic dancer. She began her pole and aerial training at the age of 50 and created her own exotic dance brand called FlyingOver50. She’s over 60 now and still pole-dancing!
We talk about: - How Makeda came to start pole dancing at age 50 - How pole dancing changed her life - Why sexy never gets old - The Everybody Visible movement on social media - How women in midlife and beyond can stay feeling sexy - How to get over the fear of injury when staying active as we age - Taking the fear out of the pole aspect of what Makeda does - Cultural differences in responses to older women being sexy - Balancing PR and pole dancing - Those very high shoes Makeda wears - Adapting to classes in a Covid world - Awakening the sleeping goddess in all of us
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Dr Amanda Hanson is on a mission to revolutionize how women age and how society feels about older women. She believes midlife should be a time of power and joy, rather than crisis. She's a clinical psychologist and coach. She's the high profile Midlife Muse on social media.
We talk about:
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Recognizing and fighting the narratives about women and age
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The role of misogyny
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Breaking free of society's expectations for older women
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Lessons from going grey as a woman
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The work of Mama Gema
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How we can be all the things as we age - we don't trade sensuality for wisdom, for example
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Stepping out of fear when it comes to ageing
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Going viral on TikTok
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How perceptions shape our reality
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Moving to a sense of abundance about ourselves
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Choosing to age differently to what we see as the norm
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A radical approach to changing the narrative about women's reproductive rights
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Women taking care of their own sexual needs
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Refusing to be a victim even though it's easy to do that
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Taking radical responsibility
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Building a plan for the menopause transition
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Staying curious and proactive about menopause
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The power of the feminine
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Finding your tribe of women and opening up conversations
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #12 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Karen Newby is a nutritionist who’s been practicing nutritional therapy for over 10 years. Her area of specialism is women’s hormonal health, especially menopause. She's the author of The Natural Menopause Method, a nutritional guide to perimenopause and beyond. This woman knows so much about nutrition and women’s hormones. This is a brilliant and empowering conversation.
We talk about:
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How we can best prepare ourselves for perimenopause
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The first signs of perimenopause that Karen sees and what can be done about those
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Good and bad estrogens
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What we can learn from other cultures in terms of food and hormones
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The importance of phytoestrogens
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Food as medicine
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How to stop sugar cravings and why they happen
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Why modern life can make menopause worse
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Why women may get heavier periods as they move into perimenopause
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The importance of maintaining blood sugar levels
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The role of the adrenal glands
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Why we need to get better at managing stress
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Why there is no easy fix when it comes to menopause
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The six easy shifts to make to support us in perimenopause
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Why we need to start putting ourselves first
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #12 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Maryjane Fahey is a creative director, writer, storyteller, published author, and founder of Glorious Broads. Her mission is to inspire older women to live full authentic lives with no limitations. And younger women to live free of fear of getting older. This is a funny and inspiring conversation about how to be a glorious broad!
We talk about:
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Ageism and how it impacts healthcare
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The insidious intersection of sexism and ageism
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Giving women great examples of older women
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Finding glorious broads around New York
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Reducing the fear around ageing
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Deciding to go grey
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The power of acceptance
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Reinventing ourselves multiple times
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Doing the work to enable an authentic, limitless life
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Enjoying great sex as we age
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The other great things that come with age
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #12 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
I’ve talked about death on the podcast but not yet grief, so I was delighted to welcome Silke Herwald to talk about this important topic. Silke is an experienced grief specialist and hypnotherapist, working especially with subconscious processes. She’s assisted hundreds of clients with grief and anxiety often drawing on her personal experience. Grief is often a big part of midlife. The more we love and the older we get, the more we will grieve. Knowing there are resourceful ways to grieve gives people relief and hope.
This is a beautiful and empowering conversation about a difficult topic.
We talk about:
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Why we're so bad at dealing with grief
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The things to not say when someone dies
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How other cultures do grief and Rachel's experience of a Chinese funeral
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How Silke helps people who are paralyzed by grief
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The five stages of grief and why they’re not for everyone
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How Silke helps a person who doesn’t want to stop grieving
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How we can help a grieving person as a friend
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How to deal with the loss of a loved one
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Rituals that can help
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Differences in the response to grief in Australia and Germany
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Going through grief as the only way to 'do' grief
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #12 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
A solo episode with Rachel, musing about midlife and what's been happening in her world.
She talks about:
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How difficult it can be when we have to pivot in how we interact with our older loved ones
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The beginning of her journey into studying Gerontology
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What successful aging really means/ looks like
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Finding strategies to cope with loss as we age
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The importance of thinking creatively about how people age
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Enabling people to age as they want to age
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Dodgy menopause data
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Challenging narratives
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Recent podcasts
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Learning from adversity
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How to create magnificence in midlife and beyond
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What you can access at magnificentmidlife.com
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #12 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Carolyn Birrell is the author of Walking with Fay, a moving book about her mother’s uncharted path into dementia. Carolyn’s writing began as a way to help her make sense of what was happening and quickly turned into the book she herself had needed, to provide relatable caregiving help. It’s a beautiful, empowering book and I really loved it.
We talk about:
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What led Carolyn to write such a personal and difficult book
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Why it took so long to realize how bad things had got with her mother
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The process of learning her mother had dementia and the early signs
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Working out what level of interference in her mother’s affairs was appropriate
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Coming to terms with realizing more help with caregiving was required
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The kind of support that was needed and how Carolyn found that both for her mother and herself
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Coping with a lack of recognition from her mother
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The impact of the global pandemic on her mother’s care
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What readers can expect from the book
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Carolyn’s advice for people who fear they are starting to see signs of a parent’s dementia
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Learning what to say and what not to say to a person with dementia
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What makes the book different from other memoirs
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What Carolyn hopes readers will get from the book
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Carolyn’s advice for anyone just beginning on this path with their loved one
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Dawn-Maria France is an award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of Yorkshire Women’s Life magazine. She’s a travel writer, children's author and broadcaster, and is passionate about women’s rights, equality and diversity.
We talk about:
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How Dawn-Maria came to be the editor of Yorkshire Women’s Life magazine
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Why Dawn-Maria is so passionate about equality and diversity
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Being genuine in photographs and fighting back against retouching
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Issues around mental health especially in the black and brown community
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The impact of racism on mental health
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Healthcare and women of colour
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Finding a voice distinct from her community
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The challenge and delight of writing empowering stories for children
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The challenges of writing a children’s book
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Being childless by choice but still choosing to write for children
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Dawn-Maria’s thoughts on the current UK economic difficulties
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The power that comes to women in midlife
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Dawn-Maria France is an award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of Yorkshire Women’s Life magazine. She’s a travel writer, children's author and broadcaster, and is passionate about women’s rights, equality and diversity.
We talk about:
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How Dawn-Maria came to be the editor of Yorkshire Women’s Life magazine
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Why Dawn-Maria is so passionate about equality and diversity
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Being genuine in photographs and fighting back against retouching
-
Issues around mental health especially in the black and brown community
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The impact of racism on mental health
-
Healthcare and women of colour
-
Finding a voice distinct from her community
-
The challenge and delight of writing empowering stories for children
-
The challenges of writing a children’s book
-
Being childless by choice but still choosing to write for children
-
Dawn-Maria’s thoughts on the current UK economic difficulties
-
The power that comes to women in midlife
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Do you dream of finding your soul mate? Do you think it will be just too difficult in midlife? Listen in to Katie Philips to find out how to call in your person. Katie is the founder of The School of Self Love.
She's a Women’s Empowerment Coach, Love & Dating Mentor and author of ‘The Self Love Affair - A Woman’s Guide To A Daring & Mighty Life’. Her passion and expertise is inspiring midlifers that they can create a life they love and call in the love of their life without burn-out or guilt!
We talk about:
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What inspired Katie to help women call in their soul mate
-
What life experience led Katie to what she does
-
Why self-love is important when it comes to dating
-
The secrets to calling in a soul mate
-
The blocks women put in front of themselves
-
How women can get better at finding their soul mate
-
The self-sabotaging beliefs women have
-
How to make a success of online dating
-
How to stay motivated when it comes to finding your soul mate
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Do you dream of finding your soul mate? Do you think it will be just too difficult in midlife? Listen in to Katie Philips to find out how to call in your person. Katie is the founder of The School of Self Love.
She's a Women’s Empowerment Coach, Love & Dating Mentor and author of ‘The Self Love Affair - A Woman’s Guide To A Daring & Mighty Life’. Her passion and expertise is inspiring midlifers that they can create a life they love and call in the love of their life without burn-out or guilt!
We talk about:
-
What inspired Katie to help women call in their soul mate
-
What life experience led Katie to what she does
-
Why self-love is important when it comes to dating
-
The secrets to calling in a soul mate
-
The blocks women put in front of themselves
-
How women can get better at finding their soul mate
-
The self-sabotaging beliefs women have
-
How to make a success of online dating
-
How to stay motivated when it comes to finding your soul mate
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Laura Galloway is the author of Dalvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra. She’s a writer and communications strategist who began her career at the Los Angeles Times and holds a Master of Arts in Indigenous Journalism from the Sámi University in Kautokeino, Norway. I read about her in a magazine and just knew I had to invite her onto the podcast. Her book is gorgeous.
We talk about:
-
The many and varied places Laura has lived and how different life is now
-
What the word DALVI means and why Laura wrote the book
-
The impetus for moving to the Arctic
-
The pain of Laura’s childhood
-
Why Laura stayed in the north after her relationship with the reindeer herder ended
-
How Laura assimilated into Arctic living
-
What Laura misses about the frozen north
-
What touched Laura so deeply about this part of the world
-
Living in endless day and endless night
-
How we can live more simply and why that matters
-
The deep friendships Laura made
-
Getting vulnerable about sharing one’s story and healing from that
-
How best to start an exciting new venture
-
The wonders of Sapmi – formerly known as Lapland
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Laura Galloway is the author of Dalvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra. She’s a writer and communications strategist who began her career at the Los Angeles Times and holds a Master of Arts in Indigenous Journalism from the Sámi University in Kautokeino, Norway. I read about her in a magazine and just knew I had to invite her onto the podcast. Her book is gorgeous.
We talk about:
-
The many and varied places Laura has lived and how different life is now
-
What the word DALVI means and why Laura wrote the book
-
The impetus for moving to the Arctic
-
The pain of Laura’s childhood
-
Why Laura stayed in the north after her relationship with the reindeer herder ended
-
How Laura assimilated into Arctic living
-
What Laura misses about the frozen north
-
What touched Laura so deeply about this part of the world
-
Living in endless day and endless night
-
How we can live more simply and why that matters
-
The deep friendships Laura made
-
Getting vulnerable about sharing one’s story and healing from that
-
How best to start an exciting new venture
-
The wonders of Sapmi – formerly known as Lapland
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Dr Liz O’Riordan is an international speaker, broadcaster and award-winning co-author of ‘The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer’. In 2015 (aged 40) she was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer whilst working as a Consultant Breast Surgeon. Her life changed dramatically. She’s passionate about helping people and especially breast cancer patients.
We talk about:
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Why women often feel it’s their fault when they get a diagnosis of breast cancer
-
Liz’s concerns about HRT being positioned in the media as safe for women who’ve had breast cancer.
-
Why it’s important to stay curious about where information is coming from
-
Challenging existing narratives and what’s being said by whom
-
How Liz coped with having to give up her beloved career
-
What drove Liz to write her blog and why she stopped
-
Her new book and her podcast
-
The importance of exercise when it comes to breast cancer
-
Having fun with hedgehogs
-
The importance of crafting and sewing
-
Coping with her mum’s recent cancer diagnosis
-
What Liz most wants women to know
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Dr Liz O’Riordan is an international speaker, broadcaster and award-winning co-author of ‘The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer’. In 2015 (aged 40) she was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer whilst working as a Consultant Breast Surgeon. Her life changed dramatically. She’s passionate about helping people and especially breast cancer patients.
We talk about:
-
Why women often feel it’s their fault when they get a diagnosis of breast cancer
-
Liz’s concerns about HRT being positioned in the media as safe for women who’ve had breast cancer.
-
Why it’s important to stay curious about where information is coming from
-
Challenging existing narratives and what’s being said by whom
-
How Liz coped with having to give up her beloved career
-
What drove Liz to write her blog and why she stopped
-
Her new book and her podcast
-
The importance of exercise when it comes to breast cancer
-
Having fun with hedgehogs
-
The importance of crafting and sewing
-
Coping with her mum’s recent cancer diagnosis
-
What Liz most wants women to know
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Hattie Voelcker went from being a barrister to retraining as a performance coach, working particularly with singers. She's so wise and inspiring! And great fun too.
We talk about:
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Why Hattie made the change from barrister to performance coach
-
The similarities between the two professions
-
The beauty of transferable skills
-
The power of understanding people's wants, needs and vulnerabilities
-
How being a family law barrister helps her coaching practice now
-
Moving from a very high-powered career to a new and different role
-
How people of all levels suffer from impostor syndrome
-
How the real fear we feel when stepping forward is looking stupid, both for men and women
-
How our desire for perfection can hold us back
-
Vulnerability and courage as two sides of the same coin
-
Empathy starts with ourselves
-
How it's OK, in fact, normal, to be nervous when stepping forward
-
It's fine to be just OK and to be you, and in that is perfection
-
Life is an infinite series of nows
-
How fun is vital to life
-
The importance of pausing in midlife
-
SMOG, WELL and WISE words
-
Getting rid of the word should from our vocabulary!
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Meet Louise Carr who healed her own midlife trauma through retraining as a nutrition consultant. She has a fascinating story to tell about how to improve our health through nutrition, but also how health issues can be changed by eliminating trauma from our lives. All driven by her own experience. Listen in for so much value about how to accept our issues, deal with them and thrive beyond them.
We talk about:
-
How Louise retrained in nutrition in midlife to cope with her own health issues
-
Not accepting the doctor's narrative that health issues were age-related (at 46!)
-
How learning about nutrition can transform our lives
-
The importance of supporting our adrenal glands with nutrition
-
Replenishing our bodies and minds with downtime and self-care
-
Mixing with other age groups when retraining in midlife
-
How one big change can lead to many others - the domino effect
-
Learning to trust your gut
-
Coping with overwhelm and depression
-
Recognizing the true sources of one's stress
-
Realizing when one's relationship is no longer viable
-
The power of food and nutrition in transforming our lives
-
The damaging effect stress has on our health
-
How walking away from the wrong relationship can be very good for our health
-
Breaking free of abusive behavior
-
How IBS is a tell for trauma in our lives
-
How midlife is the perfect time to re-evaluate how we nurture ourselves
-
How inflammation and fighting our menopausal experience will make our experience of menopause worse
-
The empowering effect of stepping out of the victim mindset
-
Not accepting what we're told if our gut tells us otherwise
-
The importance of a holistic approach to health especially in midlife
-
Dealing with PTSD as a midlife woman
-
Re-engaging with your body after trauma
-
How trauma effects short term memory - it may not be menopause!
-
Stress and hormonal health
-
Is it a mood swing or a food swing?
-
Keeping blood sugar levels stable
-
Weight-gain around the middle in midlife and its connection to stress and metabolism
-
Cortisol driving weight to the center of our bodies in midlife
-
Mineral dense foods
-
Calories don't count - nutrition does
-
Learning to value ourselves more especially with food
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Meet Louise Carr who healed her own midlife trauma through retraining as a nutrition consultant. She has a fascinating story to tell about how to improve our health through nutrition, but also how health issues can be changed by eliminating trauma from our lives. All driven by her own experience. Listen in for so much value about how to accept our issues, deal with them and thrive beyond them.
We talk about:
-
How Louise retrained in nutrition in midlife to cope with her own health issues
-
Not accepting the doctor's narrative that health issues were age-related (at 46!)
-
How learning about nutrition can transform our lives
-
The importance of supporting our adrenal glands with nutrition
-
Replenishing our bodies and minds with downtime and self-care
-
Mixing with other age groups when retraining in midlife
-
How one big change can lead to many others - the domino effect
-
Learning to trust your gut
-
Coping with overwhelm and depression
-
Recognizing the true sources of one's stress
-
Realizing when one's relationship is no longer viable
-
The power of food and nutrition in transforming our lives
-
The damaging effect stress has on our health
-
How walking away from the wrong relationship can be very good for our health
-
Breaking free of abusive behavior
-
How IBS is a tell for trauma in our lives
-
How midlife is the perfect time to re-evaluate how we nurture ourselves
-
How inflammation and fighting our menopausal experience will make our experience of menopause worse
-
The empowering effect of stepping out of the victim mindset
-
Not accepting what we're told if our gut tells us otherwise
-
The importance of a holistic approach to health especially in midlife
-
Dealing with PTSD as a midlife woman
-
Re-engaging with your body after trauma
-
How trauma effects short term memory - it may not be menopause!
-
Stress and hormonal health
-
Is it a mood swing or a food swing?
-
Keeping blood sugar levels stable
-
Weight-gain around the middle in midlife and its connection to stress and metabolism
-
Cortisol driving weight to the center of our bodies in midlife
-
Mineral dense foods
-
Calories don't count - nutrition does
-
Learning to value ourselves more especially with food
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
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Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
This interview was transformational for me! I was so excited to interview Darcey Steinke, author of Flash Count Diary. I loved her book and so many of her thoughts about menopause are similar to mine. It was wonderful to find a kindred spirit whose overall impression of menopause is so positive. Darcey was the first guest to make me cry!
We talk about:
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Darcey's fascination with her hot flashes
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How the book is about so many different things about midlife and menopause
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How menopause can be a struggle but there is lots of richness to gain
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Darcey's startling realizations about the menopausal transition
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How Darcey managed her own menopause symptoms and what helped most
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How we may be more like our pre-pubescent selves post menopause
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How we may live more of our lives being infertile than fertile
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The tyranny of estrogen and what it's like to finally be free of it
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Fertility, menopause and the patriarchy
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Appearance, visibility and the power of female friends
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Calling out ageism especially at work
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Anger and the lifting of the complicity veil
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The marvels of whales and menopause
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The evolutionary reason for menopause
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How misogyny has lots to answer for on how we view menopause
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How rethinking menopause and ageing can re-frame our experience of both
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
We're dipping into the archives again and here's another cracker of a podcast. Elaine Miller is a pelvic health physiotherapist and stand-up comedian. She's on a mission to end incontinence through raising awareness, and laughing a lot along the way. As this podcast goes live, Elaine is staring again in her one woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
We talk about:
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How 1 in 3 women will suffer from stress incontinence
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How 84% can be cured with just 6 treatments with a pelvic health physio
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Funny stories from Elaine's long career talking about pelvic floors
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Elaine's journey from physio to stand-up comedian
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What it's like doing a show about incontinence on the Edinburgh Fringe
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What we can all do to help ourselves with incontinence
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How incontinence may be common but it is NOT normal
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
US & Canada: https://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
Facebook: facebook.com/magnificentmidlife
Instagram: instagram.com/magnificentmidlife
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/rachellankester
Twitter: twitter.com/MagnifMidlife
Pinterest: pinterest.co.uk/MagnificentMidlife1
Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCEteu6Z2mW1z1wnHiVB08uw
Tiktok: tiktok.com/@magnificent_midlife
Meet Dr Sonia Wright, the Midlife Sex Coach. She's also a medical doctor, radiologist and life coach, and tremendous fun. This is a brilliant interview all about midlife sex. If you have any issues at all, even tiny ones, in this department, or just want to make your sex life even better, this interview will get you feeling inspired and empowered to take excellent care of yourself and your partner. Let’s all have more fun!
We talk about:
- How Sonia went from being a radiologist to becoming a sex coach.
- Understanding the pleasure gap between men and women
- Moving beyond penis in vagina (PIV) sex
- The importance of clitoral stimulation
- How our libido changes as we age
- Thinking about the many factors that may impact our libido
- Our biggest sexual organ is the brain
- Staying curious and exploring different ways to be sexual
- Self-pleasure to maintain the blood supply to the vulval area
- Feeling comfortable using lubricants
- Your best sexual partner is yourself
- The wonders of the clitoris and how much of is not visible
- Why Sonia worked in a sex toy shop
- The fun and pleasure you can get with sex toys
- Sonia’s toy recommendations
- Taking the pressure off men by bringing toys into the bedroom
- Bringing sexual intimacy back when it’s completely slipped off the agenda
- You can’t have great sex if there are relationship issues
- A man can still have good sex and an orgasm without an erection
- How society’s narratives impact our own concept of what is sexy
- The importance of body image as we age
And more!
Click here to read a summary transcription of this podcast.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK
US & Canada
Australia
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
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A solo episode from Rachel talking about menopause and gendered ageism.
Rachel talks about:
- Why she still hasn't moved on from talking about menopause yet
- The importance of balance around narratives around menopause
- The impact of gendered ageism on menopause
- The hormone deficiency narrative and why it drives Rachel nuts
- Connecting menopause advice and money
- The importance of staying curious about the message and the messenger
- New voices in the media talking about menopause
- The role of HRT and how it's being promoted
- HRT and breast cancer
- Why HRT for life for most women is unnecessary
- The whales and the Blue Zones
- How data has been manipulated around menopause
- Menopause and suicide
- How some information in the public domain about menopause is plain wrong
- The $600 billion business opportunity of menopause
And more!
Rachel's blog - Menopause And Alcohol - What's Helpful To Know.
Rachel's research about the 900,000 women have left work figure.
Rachel's research on the correlation between menopause and suicide.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK
US & Canada
Australia
You can listen to all the other episodes and get the show notes at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
Recommended by the Sunday Times.
Feedspot #3 in best midlife podcasts and #15 in best women over 50 podcasts worldwide.
You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or 1-1 Midlife Mentoring.
Follow Rachel on:
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Another platinum gem from the podcast archives. Meet the very lovely Rachel Peru who went from nursery school teacher to successful curve and silver-haired model in her 40s. Rachel's waving the flag for older, more diverse women in the media. She's going from strength to strength since embracing her authentic self and stepping forward to shine.
We talk about:
- How the decision to go grey kick-started Rachel's modelling career
- The stigma that still remains about older women going grey
- How she never would have had the confidence to do what she does now when younger
- The importance of being body positive as we age
- The pressures on younger women in terms of looks
- How things are changing when it comes to talking about menopause
- How Rachel controls the anxiety that has come on especially when travelling to modelling jobs
- The importance of getting exercise outside
- How words are powerful and what we say to ourselves matters
- Rachel's first front cover for Goldie magazine
- How beauty is about confidence
- Rachel's own Out of the bubble podcast
- How to not feel invisible
- How reinvention can help bring energy in midlife and beyond
- How Rachel nearly had a breast reduction because of lack of confidence
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK
US & Canada
Australia
You can listen to other episodes and get the show notes to every podcast at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
The podcast is recommended by the Sunday Times and we're #3 in best midlife podcasts worldwide on Feedspot.
You'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or find out about 1-1 Midlife Mentoring on your schedule.
You can also join our monthly online Membership which is packed full of courses and workshops to help you get the messy stuff sorted, so you can thrive not just survive in midlife and beyond.
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Here's another gem from the podcast archives in our summer season. Ashton Applewhite is an author, speaker and anti-ageism activist. I discovered her work about six years ago and have been quoting her daily ever since. Ashton got a standing ovation when she did a main stage Ted talk called Let’s end ageism. She was invited to speak at the UN. Her book is amazing: This Chair Rocks, A Manifesto Against Ageism. She's my ultimate mentor when it comes to everything I now believe about ageing and gendered ageism.
In this amazing interview we talk about:
- How Ashton never had a life plan or knew what she wanted to be
- Why we worship youth in Anglo-Saxon cultures
- The lack of products and services for older people
- How we often don’t like to identify as being in midlife or older
- How facing the ageing monsters is useful
- How fears about ageing are totally out of proportion to reality
- Our attitudes towards ageing affect how we age
- The U-Curve of Happiness
- How midlife is a time of reckoning
- How ageism starts between our ears
- How we need to be more generous towards each other and ourselves
- When we compete to stay young we reinforce ageism, sexism and the patriarchy
- How raising consciousness about ageing and ageism is key
- Why we should be able to compete for 100% of the seats at any table
- How to stop reinforcing the shame associated with ageing
- Being aware of intersectionality when considering prejudice
- The importance of language relating to age
- Ashton’s knees and not blaming non-age-related issues on age
- Continuing the movement
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK
US & Canada
Australia
You can listen to other episodes and get the show notes to every podcast at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
The podcast is recommended by the Sunday Times and we're #3 in best midlife podcasts worldwide on Feedspot.
You'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or find out about 1-1 Midlife Mentoring on your schedule.
You can also join our monthly online Membership which is packed full of courses and workshops to help you get the messy stuff sorted, so you can thrive not just survive in midlife and beyond.
Follow Rachel on:
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Dipping into the archives again for another gem of an interview with Deborah Ives, the solo traveler behind the travel blog, Solo in Style, who's passionate about helping women, particularly in midlife and beyond, travel solo. She's determined to show women there's no need to be scared of solo travel and she has loads of great tips to share. Since we recorded this, Deborah has grown her wonderful Facebook group for women over 50 who like to or dream of travelling solo to over 100k women!
We talk about:
- How Deborah first started travelling solo and why
- How to travel solo without going on a tour
- How great things can come out of bad stuff
- The importance of a bit of courage and also having a plan
- That there's no shame in travelling solo - it's all about confidence and doing what you want
- How there's no need to abandon your adventurous spirit just because you're a little older
- That it's easier to be adventurous when you're away from home
- Moving beyond couple pricing
- Eating alone when on holiday
- Forcing yourself to keep getting out there to limit isolation
- The importance of friendship
- Why we can benefit from slowing down and not rushing around too much
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK
US & Canada
Australia
You can listen to other episodes and get the show notes to every podcast at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
The podcast is recommended by the Sunday Times and we're #3 in best midlife podcasts worldwide on Feedspot.
You'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or find out about 1-1 Midlife Mentoring on your schedule.
You can also join our monthly online Membership which is packed full of courses and workshops to help you get the messy stuff sorted, so you can thrive not just survive in midlife and beyond.
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Welcome to our summer season where I’m dipping into the archives to share some of the gems from the vault. We start by going all the way back to the beginning, to my very first guest, the wonderful Suzi Grant, author of Alternative Ageing, blogger at alternativeageing.net, YouTube and Instagram star. If anyone can inspire you to age like a badass, this woman can. Suzi is the very best example of an older woman determined to squeeze the very last drop out of life, on her own terms.
We talk about:
- How Suzi came to set up Alternative Ageing and became an Instagram star
- How she was featured in the New York Times Style Section
- How she got 700,000 likes on Instagram
- The importance of staying authentic
- How blogging (and learning in general) helps to exercise your brain
- The wonders of being creative
- Being proactive about ageing
- Fasting and why it’s so good for us
- How chronic diseases can be helped by lifestyle change
- Being outrageous
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK
US & Canada
Australia
You can listen to other episodes and get the show notes to every podcast at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
The podcast is recommended by the Sunday Times and we're #3 in best midlife podcasts worldwide on Feedspot.
You'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or find out about 1-1 Midlife Mentoring on your schedule.
You can also join our monthly online Membership which is packed full of courses and workshops to help you get the messy stuff sorted, so you can thrive not just survive in midlife and beyond.
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My guest Alice Morrison is an adventurer. She's the Indiana Jones for girls. She's done so many things that would test anyone's endurance. The Marathon des Sables, the Tour d’Afrique, she was the first woman to walk the full length of the Draa River in Morocco where she lives. She's trekked through the Sahara and completed the Everest Trail Race. She's written several books, and the most recent is Walking With Nomads. If you’ve ever wanted to go on a big adventure, this interview is for you!
We talk about:
- Where Alice’s love of Africa and the Middle East came from
- Alice’s childhood and how it went from great freedom to rigid structure
- Alice’s latest book and her love of expeditions
- What it’s like traveling as a woman in the places Alice visits
- How English speakers can make friends better when traveling
- Why Alice practices Ramadan even though she’s not Muslim
- What it’s like living in a rural community in Morocco
- Coping with fear and the problems of Covid when it comes to traveling
- What it’s like for Alice now traveling as an older woman
- How other cultures approach aging, especially for women
- How Alice has become a star on TikTok
- How to be adventurous in midlife
And more!
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave us a 5* review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening.
Order the ebook or audiobook (narrated by Rachel) versions of Rachel’s book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond at magnificentmidlife.com/book
The paperback can be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:
UK
US & Canada
Australia
You can listen to other episodes and get the show notes to every podcast at magnificentmidlife.com/podcast.
The podcast is recommended by the Sunday Times and we're #3 in best midlife podcasts worldwide on Feedspot.
You'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.
Check out Rachel's online Revitalize Experience, a 6-week intensive small group mentoring experience or find out about 1-1 Midlife Mentoring on your schedule.
You can also join our monthly online Membership which is packed full of courses and workshops to help you get the messy stuff sorted, so you can thrive not just survive in midlife and beyond.
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This is such an inspiring conversation! Dion Johnson, known as the Womanologist, works with women leaders so they can fulfil their potential. She inspires all women to step up and lead, and is the author of Influential Woman: A fresh approach to tackling inequality and leading change at work. Dion is a no nonsense tour de force. She changed my life and I hope she may do the same to yours!
We talk about:
- What it felt like when Dion discovered Hay House was going to publish her book
- Why she wrote this book
- How the book became about inequality
- How Dion has taken off her many masks throughout life
- The importance of taking off our masks and how Dion helps women do that
- Dion’s life before becoming the Womanologist
- What Dion means by womanity in the book
- How women can step up to lead
- The 7 habits to cultivate to be Queen Influencer
- The importance of faith to Dion (and lack of it to Rachel!)
- The prejudice often given to people of faith
- How Dion wants to change the world
And more!
Find out more about Dion:
Dion’s website: thewomanologist.com
Dion’s book: Influential Woman: A fresh approach to tackling inequality and leading change at work
Facebook | Linkedin | Instagram | Twitter
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening. Find out how to leave a review here: bit.ly/leavepodcastreview
You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That’s also where you’ll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There’s a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?
Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
In this episode, I welcome back Dr Kathryn Mannix to the podcast. Kathryn’s first interview was titled Talking About Death because that’s exactly what we did. Kathryn spent many years as a palliative care doctor and wrote the best-selling book With The End In Mind. Here we’re talking about her latest book Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations. This is a powerful and moving conversation which I hope you will love as much as I did.
We talk about:
- The experience of recording Kathryn’s own audiobook
- Why Kathryn felt this book needed to be written after her first one
- What it means to have a tender conversation
- Why listening is so important when it comes to having these conversations
- How we can get better at listening
- The power of silence
- Some of the wonderful stories in the book
- How to have tender conversations in a professional context
- Moving away from trying to fix someone’s problems
- Some of the ways we can encourage others to open up
- The devastating impact of Covid on communication in a healthcare setting
- Kathryn’s advice for how to manage tender conversations at the very end of life
And more!
Find more about Kathryn:
Kathryn's latest book: Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations
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If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening. Find out how to leave a review here: bit.ly/leavepodcastreview
You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That’s also where you’ll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There’s a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?
Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Jennifer Arthurton is the creator and founder of Old Chicks Know Sh*t, a community and podcast (of the same name) designed to inspire and support midlife women in chasing their dreams and creating a kick-ass next chapter. Having made her midlife course corrections, she’s a passionate advocate of the inherent power and knowledge that women possess, at a time when they often feel overlooked and doubt themselves most.
We talk about:
- How Jennifer got so passionate about changing midlife narratives
- Jennifer’s own menopause and midlife experience
- How she reinvented herself after reaching rock bottom
- How so much of what we believe about midlife, menopause and aging is wrong
- What makes Jennifer angry about what women are told/believe about getting older
- How women can get very stuck in midlife and how to get unstuck
- How women can step up to lead more
- What Jennifer has learnt from doing her own podcast
- How Jennifer has changed the perception of midlife for her own daughter
- What Jennifer most wants women to know about midlife and beyond
And more!
Find more about Jennifer:
Jennifer's website: oldchicksknowshit.com
Listen to her podcast: Old Chicks Know Sh*T Podcast
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening. Find out how to leave a review here: bit.ly/leavepodcastreview
You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That’s also where you’ll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There’s a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?
Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Kate Codrington is the author of Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause, which is a rather lovely and revolutionary new book. She’s a menstrual and menopause mentor, speaker, workshop facilitator, writer, podcaster and a therapist for nearly 30 years. She’s passionate about bringing a more holistic approach to the menopause transition and to enabling women to embrace fully this powerful stage of life.
We talk about:
- Where Kate is in her menopause journey
- How the book is very different to other books on menopause
- How Kate sees menopause as something very positive
- How cyclicality is core to the book and how this impacts women throughout life
- The earthiness of the book and the power that comes from that
- Yoga Nidra and its role in the book and in our menopause transition
- The importance of going inward in menopause
- Embracing the change rather than fighting it
- Menopause as a spiritual journey
- Things that annoy us both about the prevailing menopause narratives
- What Kate learnt from her own menopause transition
And more!
Kate kindly shared this diagram from her book. She talks about it in the podcast and suggests printing it out so your entire family can keep track of which season they’re in week to week and year to year!
Find more about Kate:
Kate's website: katecodrington.co.uk
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Kate's book: Second Spring: the self-care guide to menopause
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening. Find out how to leave a review here: bit.ly/leavepodcastreview
You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That’s also where you’ll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There’s a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?
Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
My guest today is Keren Etkin, the Gerontechnologist. She’s a gerontologist who’s written a fascinating book called The Agetech Revolution: A book about the intersection of aging and technology. We dig into the fascinating area of technology designed especially for older people.
We talk about:
- How Keren got so passionate about agetech
- What agetech is and why we need it
- Why we’ll still need agetech when the digital natives are older
- The impact of Covid on the agetech industry
- Digital exclusion and touch screens
- How best to develop technology for older people
- The importance of aging in place
- Cultural differences towards aging
- What needs to be considered when building technology for older people
- Keren’s agetech predictions or the next 5, 10 and 20 years
- How we can all get better at embracing technology in general
And more!
Find more about Keren:
Keren's website: thegerontechnologist.com
Linkedin | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify
Keren's book: The AgeTech Revolution
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening. Find out how to leave a review here: bit.ly/leavepodcastreview
You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That’s also where you’ll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There’s a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?
Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Elizabeth Joseph describes herself as a social media menopause guinea pig. She’s on a journey of perimenopausal transformation. We dig into exactly what that means. Elizabeth is so much fun and I know you're going to be entertained by her perimenopausal antics!
We talk about:
- What Elizabeth means by being a social media menopause guinea pig
- How her Instagram feed has grown and what it’s about
- Why she does what she does
- Ending the taboo about menopause
- The funny remedies she’s tried in her perimenopausal journey
- The importance of being prepared and talking about menopause
- Going back to her dramatic, entertainment roots
- Building a community on social media
- Getting kids involved in menopause conversations
- What Elizabeth has learnt through her menopause journey
- What she wants other midlife women to know
And more!
Find out more about Elizabeth Joseph:
Elizabeth's Instagram
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Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
A fun and inspiring conversation with the very wise and straight-talking Lori Saitz about how to move from just feeling fine to feeling truly fantastic. It may seem scary but getting beyond the fear is where the magic happens. And who wants to just stay at fine?
Lori Saitz is a writer, speaker, and broadcaster with a passion for using meditation and gratitude to change lives and help women achieve their goals. She's also the host of the Fine is a 4-Letter Word Podcast.
We talk about:
- What happened to Lori to make her change direction and do what she does now
- How Lori found the strength to move on and to create something different
- How to trust that what we're building now will keep us excited and unhappy long enough?
- Why it's scary to get quiet and listen to our inner voice
- Lori's trilogy for success
- What Lori’s meditation practice looks like on a daily basis
- What meditation enables Lori to do in her life
- Why we should all be thinking about gratitude
- Cultural differences when it comes to gratitude and positivity
- What it means to have a gratitude practice
- Lori’s favorite episode and guest on her own podcast
And more!
Find out more about Lori:
Lori's website: zenrabbit.com
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Listen to Lori's podcast: Fine is a 4-Letter Word Podcast
Book mentioned: The Science of Getting Rich
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Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Anne Michaud is a veteran political journalist who reported for the Wall Street Journal and Newsday. She was named columnist of the year by the New York News Publishers Association. She recently published a new edition of her book Why They Stay: Sex scandals, deals, and hidden agendas of eight political wives. It’s a riveting read! It's fascinating to explore the similarities and differences between how political wives behave and the rest of us!
We talk about:
- Why Anne chose to update her book
- The common traits of women who stay in marriages after husbands have cheated
- Why Elizabeth Woodville is the perfect embodiment of these common traits
- The British couple Anne included in the book and why she specifically included them
- How the behaviors of these wives have changed over the years
- How the Trumps are different to everybody that Anne had previously researched
- Who most surprised Anne amongst the couples she researched
- What motivated Anne to write this book
- The parallels and differences between political and non-political wives
And more!
Find more about Anne:
Anne’s website: annemichaud.com
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Anne’s latest book: Why They Stay
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Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Dr Louann Brizendine is the best-selling author of The Female Brain and is here to talk to me about her latest book, The Upgrade: How the female brain gets stronger and better in midlife and beyond. The Upgrade amounts to a celebration of how women can step into their power and an entirely new—and radically positive—understanding of aging.
We talk about:
- Why Louann wrote The Upgrade
- How our brains get stronger and better as we age and especially after menopause
- How menopause impacts our brains
- What the post menopause (upgrade) brain changes enable us to do
- How women can sometimes sabotage the upgrade
- How life gets better for women with each passing decade
- What we need to make the most of the upgrade
- The impact of stress on older women
- How to upgrade the gut brain team
- The importance of social connection
- Embracing the wisdom and power of the upgrade
And more!
Find more about Louann:
Louann's website: louannbrizendine.com
Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Linkedin
Louann's book: The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond
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Named #17 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
A very special 100th episode of the podcast as I welcome the first man on to the podcast, my husband Mark Estdale, who has shared my Magnificent Midlife journey over the last sixteen years.
We talk about:
- Our support animal
- How I managed to persuade Mark to come on my podcast
- How Ashton Applewhite’s words on ageism impacted us both
- The importance of learning and being open as we move through midlife
- Getting men to embrace this period, especially for the women in their lives
- The rollercoaster of Rachel’s early menopause diagnosis and how it happened
- Reversing the early menopause diagnosis for a time
- The pain of secondary infertility
- How we both became aware of the negative narratives around women, menopause and aging
- Learning to appreciate the cyclicality of women and the power that can come from that
- Society’s attitudes towards menstruation, menopause and lack of awareness
- How and why heterosexual relationships can break down in midlife
- The evolution of our relationship including our sexual one
- The misrepresentation of data when it comes to menopause
- The still waters after menopause
- Current narratives around HRT and the importance of a holistic approach
- The importance of curiosity, exploring ideas and challenging dogma
- Fear driven narratives around menopause and HRT
- How Mark thinks Rachel has changed
- Trusting that the dots will connect when you look back in the future
- The book baby
- Ground flaxseed, yoga, exercise in general and cutting down on alcohol
- Barefoot shoes
- Mark’s advice to other men with menopausal partners
And more!
Bogey, the baby substitute
"You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."
STEVE JOBS
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Clarissa Kristjansson is a Mindfulness and Menopause expert, author of The Mindful Menopause, and host of the brilliant Thriving Thru Menopause podcast. She’s on a mission to change the way women approach menopause and aging. The last time we got together, we had such a brilliant conversation, on her podcast, I just had to share her with you. We both get quite hot under the collar about a lot of the same issues.
We talk about:
- How Clarissa got so passionate about menopause
- Why it’s so important to take a holistic approach to menopause
- The importance of mindfulness when it comes to a good menopause experience
- What annoys Clarissa about the prevailing narratives surrounding menopause
- The myths around menopause
- How women can be proactive and not just reactive about their menopause experience
- The use of data when it comes to menopause
- Understanding and contextualizing data presented
- Menopause at work
- Sexism and ageism and their insidious intersection
- The female brain drain in midlife
- Making work work better for women, especially older ones
- Clarissa’s top tips for thriving through menopause
And more!
Find more about Clarissa:
Clarissa's website: clarissakristjansson.com
Instagram | Twitter
Clarissa's book: The Mindful Menopause: The Secret to Balance, Vitality and Clarity Through The Change
Listen to her podcast: Thriving Thru Menopause
Organizations which have lists of produce most susceptible to hazardous pesticides mentioned on the podcast:
Environmental Working Group
Pesticide Action Network UK
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Dr Christine Li is the Procrastination Coach. She’s a clinical psychologist who helps people find their creativity, confidence and calm. She has a wonderful podcast called Make Time For Success.
Why do we so easily get in our own way? Why is it easier to procrastinate and what can we do about that? Listen in to find out how we can realize our personal power. This is a very fun and empowering episode.
We talk about:
- Why Christine has focused in on procrastination
- Why we procrastinate, especially women
- Ways in which we procrastinate
- How we can stop procrastinating
- The role of anxiety in procrastination
- What Christine has learnt from doing a podcast
- The intimacy and authenticity of podcasting
- What she has learnt from her podcast guests
- What I have learnt from my podcast guests – Christine turns the tables on Rachel
And more!
Find more about Christine:
Christine's website: www.procrastinationcoach.com
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Listen to her podcast: www.maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
I interview Person Irresponsible, the incognito author of Everything You Ever Taught Me, about her solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada and her experience of being an alcoholic. This is a hilarious and very inspiring interview, with incredible vulnerability, wit and wisdom from PI. This amazing woman walked 2,650 miles, carried everything she needed on her back and did 70% of the trek alone.
We talk about:
- Why PI is incognito
- What it means to be a recovering alcoholic
- How alcohol consumption and dependence has increased exponentially during the pandemic
- When drinking becomes alcoholism
- Why she decided to do this crazy trek
- What it means to be a thru-hiker
- The people PI met on the hike
- Walking together versus walking alone
- Being a solo female on the trail
- Being a thru-hiker during the Covid pandemic
- What PI learnt about herself from the trek
- Why she’s thinking of doing another long trek
- The impact of coming home after something this huge
- The pain of walking 2,650 miles
- What she learnt about herself doing this challenge
And more!
PI's website: www.mlconaquad.com
PI's book: Everything You Ever Taught Me: If you've got a lot on your mind, go for a walk...
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Dr. Alyssa Kuhn is a physical therapist and osteoarthritis specialist, and founder of Keep the Adventure Alive. She specializes in osteoarthritis treatment because she found people were getting premature surgeries and ending up with life-changing pain in their 40s and 50s because of this condition. She says this can be prevented when you know what options you have and other ways you can find pain relief, aside from surgery.
We talk about:
- Why pain and weakness are not inevitable with age
- How Alyssa got so passionate about this topic
- What we can do to protect ourselves from pain as we age
- Why osteoarthritis is a big issue, especially for women
- How women can best cope if we get a diagnosis of osteoarthritis
- How osteoarthritis differs from regular arthritis
- How we can reduce the likelihood of developing osteoarthritis
- What we can do to limit the impact of osteoarthritis
- How to master arthritis naturally
- What it means to still be able to adventure with osteoarthritis
- What we can do about knee, ankle and hip pain
And more!
Find more about Alyssa:
Dr. Alyssa's website: keeptheadventurealive.com
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Tonya Carter is a Relationship Transformation Coach. She's full of wisdom about relationships, coping through divorce and also just about who we are and can become as we go through life. She's the author of “Divorce Your Story: A Woman’s Guide to Heal & Thrive after Divorce” and she runs a 12-week Program called (T.H.R.I.V.E) that stretches women to look within to awaken their voice, evolve relationally, and lead personally and professionally in all areas of life.
We talk about:
- How Tonya came to specialize in relationship transformation
- Ways women can get stuck in certain narratives especially in midlife
- What we can do to stop us getting caught up in regret
- What other things women need to divorce, as well as their partner
- The relationship patterns women tend to repeat
- How women can thrive after divorce
- What having a growth mindset means when it comes to life post divorce
- How we can embrace our singleness and why that’s important
- Creating new narratives around what is possible for us
- The importance of doing the inner work – change won’t come without it
And more!
Find more about Tonya:
Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Tonya's Book: Divorce Your Story: A Woman’s Guide to Heal & Thrive after Divorce
Listen to Tonya's Podcast: The ReInvent U Podcast
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Have you ever wanted to do something completely different to what you actually do? My guest Dr Kristina Dervaitis is an obstetrician and gynecologist who has reinvented herself as a singer/songwriter and released a beautiful new album. Now she does both her passions and has modified her life to make that work. She's battled with imposter syndrome and gone ahead with her dreams, and the result is sublime. We talk about her dramatic midlife reinvention.
We talk about:
- When Kristina first wanted to be a professional singer
- About her musical background
- How she juggles singing with being a gynecologist
- Her contraception advice on YouTube
- The inspiration for her songs and how she comes up with the lyrics
- Learning to dream again and stay open to possibility
- Using writing to process pain and grief
- Deciding not to have children despite working in obstetrics
- What the future holds for her medical and singing careers
- Doing the work to make dreams happen
- Kristina’s advice for women who have unfulfilled dreams
And more!
Kristina's website: kristinadervaitis.com
Facebook | Instagram | Youtube | Spotify
Listen to her latest album: Overdue
Book mentioned in the podcast: The Healing Power of Singing
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse
Laura Davis is the author of 6 non-fiction books which have sold more than 1.8 million copies. She’s talking here mainly about her latest book, her first memoir: The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story. I finished the book the day before recording, and was profoundly moved by it. I was also very tearful. I’m grateful to Laura for sharing her story and giving me the opportunity to read it. I recommend the book for all women as we're all daughters. And many of us have people who we'd like to be closer to.
We talk about:
- Why Laura wrote this particular book
- The challenge of untying the mother-daughter knot
- Digging deep to tell such a vulnerable story
- The impact of life trauma on women’s passion and purpose
- Coming to terms with life trauma
- Helping people heal from trauma and especially sexual abuse
- Coping with family estrangement
- What Laura has learnt about mother-daughter relationships
- How Laura’s feelings towards her mother changed as she got older and sicker
- Laura’s advice for women when they lose their parents and mothers especially
And more!
Find more about Laura:
Laura's website: lauradavis.net
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Laura's latest book: The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story
Other books written by Laura Davis
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Named #18 in the best 40 Women Over 50 podcasts globally by Feedspot
Jo Pybus is a writer, feminist and what she calls late-onset to many things. She’s an Ironman (Ironwoman) and represented Australia in triathlon and cycling in her 40s. She’s latterly become a writer and a champion for raising awareness of menopause. Her mantra is better late than never!
We talk about:
- What inspires Jo and what being late onset means to her
- Why Jo set herself extreme physical challenges
- Running 102km in perimenopause
- How physical activity helped her cope with grief
- Having a low intolerance to regret
- How women can stop settling for the way things are
- How she learnt that her body needed to adapt through perimenopause
- Why we need to talk about menopause more
- What it means to be a late onset feminist
- The Me Too movement and the way we see things differently now
- Menopause and history
- The importance of managing our stress well
- How to set yourself up to take action
- Recognising what no longer serves us
- Accepting that we may need more sleep
- The challenge and joy of dancing
- What Jo wants for women in midlife
And more!
Find more about Jo:
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Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugh Wurlitzer are the founders of Red School and the authors of Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power. These two remarkable women have a book on menopause coming out in 2022 and I can’t wait!
This is such an empowering conversation about the innate power of women. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
We talk about:
- What their book Wild Power is all about
- The importance of Menstrual Cycle Awareness (MCA)
- How menopause prompted Alexandra to change course and focus on menstruality
- How Alexandra and Sjanie met and how Red School came about
- How Red School is preparing for Sjanie’s menopause
- How being in tune with our menstrual cycle can make menopause less of a trial than it’s usually portrayed as being
- The Red School view of menopause
- What women can do to prepare for a good menopause transition
- The awakening that comes with menopause
- Changing the narrative around menopause and making self-care non-negotiable
- The changes that come with menopause
- What Alexandra and Sjanie hope to achieve with their new book
And more!
Find more about Red School:
Red school's website: www.redschool.net
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Vicky Midwood is a health, nutrition, and lifestyle coach who specializes in helping people with disordered eating or drinking. I know this is an issue for many women, especially as a coping mechanism in midlife, so I’m delighted to share Vicky’s wisdom and experience on tackling this.
We talk about:
- The difference between disordered eating and addictive behavior
- The common signs of disordered eating
- Vicky’s own story of disordered eating and addiction
- Why many of us use food and drink to help manage our stress
- The impact of Covid on addictive behavior
- Things that are common to sufferers
- The shame associated with eating disorders and addiction
- How to get off auto pilot when it comes to food and alcohol
- How to self soothe without food and alcohol
- Why balancing blood sugar levels is so important
And more!
Find out more about Vicky:
Vicky’s website: vickymidwood.com
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Nicki Williams is a nutritionist, author, speaker, and women’s health expert. She’s the author of the excellent book, It’s Not You, It’s Your Hormones. We often focus mainly on our sex hormones, but there are lots more to consider, especially in midlife.
We talk about:
- How Nicki first got interested in hormones
- How unprepared she was for the changes of perimenopause
- Why we need to consider more hormones than just our sex hormones in midlife and beyond – we have over 100 hormones!
- The Feisty Four hormones that can cause us most trouble: cortisol, thyroid, insulin and estrogen
- The importance of diet and lifestyle
- How we can take better care of our hormonal balance
- The importance of stress management
- Looking after the gut and liver
- Why HRT may not be the panacea we want it to be in midlife
- Understanding our thyroid
- What to consider when things start to change in midlife
- How we tolerate certain things less well as we age
- Eliminating things like gluten and dairy short term to monitor any impact
- Being open to possibility and curious about how to fix issues
- Nicki’s 4 step happy hormone code
And more!
Find out more about Nicki:
Nicki’s website: happyhormonesforlife.com
Nicki’s book: ‘It’s Not You, It’s Your Hormones’
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Deb Johnstone is a transformational coach, a professional speaker, a mindset coach amongst other things, and recently, a qualified yoga coach. She especially works to help women rediscover themselves in midlife. This podcast is full of wisdom for how we can live our very best lives in midlife and beyond.
We talk about:
- Why and how Deb moved from the UK to Australia
- Coping when the kids leave home
- The events that led to her own personal transformation
- Coping with domestic borders under Covid
- Why midlife is such an opportunity for women
- What holds women back from living their best lives
- How women can rediscover themselves in midlife
- The importance of taking time to reevaluate life in midlife
- Finding creativity in midlife
- Being a grandmother and the transformation that represents
- The three levels of change (be, do, have)
- Starting a new chapter as a Grandma during COVID
- The things you notice as an observer with grandkids
- Asking yourself ‘What else makes me me?”
And more!
Find out more about Deb:
Deb’s website: debjohnstone.com.au
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Breeda Bermingham is a social entrepreneur, founder of the Midlife Women Rock Project and has just published a wonderful book Midlife Women Rock: A Menopause Story for a New Generation. She’s a former midwife and nurse so she knows a lot about women’s health. She also went back to full-time education at 49 and completed a psychology degree and a master's in sociology. Pretty impressive huh!
This is a truly amazing conversation. Breeda moved me to tears with her wisdom and passion!
We talk about:
- Why Breeda wanted to write her book and is passionate about changing the current narrative around menopause.
- Why it’s so important to change the narrative around menopause – puberty and pregnancy may be hard but the overarching narrative is positive – not so menopause.
- The importance of crushing the taboo and opening up conversations.
- How women have been silenced for too long.
- The medicalization of menopause and the impact of the book Feminine Forever.
- Breeda’s Menopause Cafes in Ireland.
- The women interviewed for the book and the power of sharing experiences.
- Going back to full time education at 49 and how Breeda coped with that.
- How women can take more control of their menopause experience.
- The importance of sleep for our long term health.
- How amazing women are before, during and after menopause!
And more!
Find out more about Breeda:
Breeda's website: midlifewomenrockproject.com
Breeda's book: Midlife Women Rock: A Menopause Story for a New Generation
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A solo episode with Rachel talking about her just-published book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause and Beyond!
She talks about:
- The difficulties of writing a book
- Midlife as so much more than just menopause
- How once we get the messy stuff sorted, we can create a magnificent next chapter
- Why she wrote the book and what’s in it
- How her early menopause diagnosis became the catalyst for a whole new life
- A sneak peek at some of the content
- Understanding the hormonal fluctuations of perimenopause
- Coping with secondary infertility
- Learning about the impact of diet and lifestyle on hormonal balance
- How we might go about rebranding menopause
- The experience of women going through menopause in other cultures
- How ageism and the patriarchy effect our experience of menopause
- How ageism towards women is particularly bad in Anglo-Saxon cultures
- The range of things available to help our midlife transition
- The over-medicalization of menopause
- Negative language associated with menopause
- The possibilities menopause opens up for women
- Learning to see menopause as a gift
And more!
You can get your own copy of this life-changing book here.
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Susan Saunders is the co-author of the best-selling book, The Age-Well Project, and author of her latest book, The Age-Well Plan which is a blueprint for how to age well. Susan’s already been on the podcast to tell us all about what we can do to age well. That was Episode 76. This time, we’re going to talk specifically about what we can do to promote our brain health.
We talk about:
- Why brain health is so important and personal to Susan
- How she lives with the knowledge of having the APOE gene
- How inflammation hurts us as we age
- How to reduce the impact of inflammation
- What “zombies” are when it comes to ageing
- How to reduce and prevent zombies in the body as we age
- What fisetin and quercetin are and where we can find them in our everyday diets
- The Mediterranean diet
- Understanding our ancestors’ diets and how it can help us in the modern world
- Intermittent fasting – what it is, why it’s good and why people like Susan do it
- The benefits of taking a cold shower
- Why we need to think about our gut health and why it’s an important part of eating for the brain health
- Foods that can protect our brain health
And more!
Find out more about Susan:
Susan’s website
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Susan’s books: The Age Well Project | The Age Well Plan
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Mariann Aalda is an American actress, a performance artist, a stand-up comedian, and an age-full evangelist. She considers age to be her superpower and is determined we should all age shamelessly.
We talk about:
- Eliminating ageism by being age-full
- Mariann’s career in acting
- What helped Mariann get back into acting
- Clubhouse as an important platform that gives everyone a voice
- Mariann’s views on menopause
- Why saying “No” is so important
- Being diagnosed with cancer and how it changed Mariann’s view on life
- Why it’s important to know your limits
- What Mariann does in terms of fitness
- What we need to change in the world to enable women to age shamelessly
- Mariann’s solo show, “Getting old is a bitch, but I’m gonna wrestle that bitch to the ground”
- Embracing female dominant characteristics
- Learning how to pivot in life
And more!
Find out more about Mariann:
Mariann’s website: mariannaaldainherprime.com
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Karen Skidmore is a marketing consultant and business advisor with a particular interest in helping midlife women scale their small businesses without burning out. She’s also had a lot of reinventions as she has moved through her midlife shifts.
We talk about:
- How Karen successfully made the transition from working in a corporate world to building her own business
- Why Karen was always ahead of the curve
- How Karen managed to balance family life and business in an ongoing basis considering different transitions
- The potential of businesses going virtual in reaching global audience over the coming years
- Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Karen’s Embrace 2.0 event
- What inspired Karen to write her book, “True Profit Business”
- Karen’s journey in figuring out what kind of business really suited her
- How Karen sees business as three energies
- The systems and processes that we can apply to life and at the same time, in our business
- Having a routine to support you
- How we can factor in our cycles
- The different energies we have as we go through a menstrual cycle
- What a moon cycle is
And more!
Find out more about Karen:
Karen’s website: karenskidmore.com
Know more about Karen's Embrace Festival
Karen’s book: True Profit Business: How to play your bigger game without burning out
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Book mentioned in the interview: Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power
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Michelle Weidenbenner is an author, speaker, and podcaster. She’s also the proud mother of a recovering addict. She has made it her mission to help other mothers of addicts.
We talk about:
- Michelle’s story and how she came to do what she does
- How she came to terms with what was happening in her family and how she dealt with it
- How Michelle advises women to cope and deal with their child’s addiction
- The crippling fear that Michelle used to feel
- What faith means to Michelle and how it has helped her
- The advice she’d give to someone who doesn’t have faith, to help with addiction
- What mothers can do if they have concerns about their child becoming addicted
- Why letting go is a key theme of Michelle’s work when working with women
- The steps in letting go
- What Michelle wants moms to know about addiction and looking after their addicted child
And more!
Michelle’s website: michelleweidenbenner.com
Download Michelle’s Guide: Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, 7 Steps to Self-Recovery
Join Michelle’s Facebook Group: Moms Letting Go
For Sisterhood and Support, join: All-Mighty Mom Tribe
Read Michelle’s Books: Amazon Book Page
Listen to Michelle’s podcast: Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up
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Meet Alexandra Boyd, a woman of many talents! She’s an actress, in Mr Holland’s Opus, Titanic, and Coronation Street to name just a very few, a screenwriter and film director, a video games icon, a singer, and a campaigner. She’s also been incredibly brave recently in her personal life for love!
We talk about:
- How she crossed the ocean for love in midlife
- How she made the decision to give up one life for another one
- What it’s like living in a mobile home in the woods
- Moving from being in front of the camera to behind it
- About her feature film Widow’s Walk and how that came to be made
- Basing her film in the county where she grew up – Suffolk
- How she secured Virginia McKenna in one of the lead roles
- Holding the film premiere at Bafta
- Championing other women in the film industry through her new foundation, Artemisia’s Daughters
And more!
Find out more about Alexandra:
Alexandra’s website: www.alexandraboyd.co.uk
Her foundation: www.artemisiasdaughters.org
Her film: Watch the trailer of Widow’s Walk here.
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Maryon Stewart is known as the pioneer of the natural menopause movement. She created a non-drug but scientifically based program to overcome issues associated with menopause and has helped thousands of women. She’s written 28 books and is also a campaigner for education around drugs. She’s made it her mission to ensure women have all the information they need to manage menopause effectively without the need for medication in most instances.
We talk about:
- What it means to manage your menopause naturally
- Why HRT isn’t the magic solution to hormonal issues
- The need for a midlife refuel
- The biggest nutritional deficiencies seen in midlife women
- The most common issues women present with who come to consult with Maryon
- The most embarrassing issues women are coping with
- Maryon’s advice for low libido and vaginal dryness
- How we can improve our diet and what it helps
- Bloating in midlife and how to fix it
- Why we can get more urinary tract infections and what to do about that
And more!
Find out more about Maryon:
Maryon’s website: maryonstewart.com
Maryon’s book: Manage Your Menopause Naturally
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My guest today is Ricki Heller, cookbook author, holistic nutritionist and anti-candida crusader. She’s the ultimate expert, I reckon, on making dietary restrictions work, whether because you have to for health reasons or you just want to. She’s completely plant-based, sugar-free and still eats the most amazing food. This episode covers a wide range of foods you may need or want to restrict in your diet: gluten, sugar, meat, dairy, processed food etc.
We talk about:
- Candida overgrowth, its causes, and symptoms
- Holistic vs allopathic medicine and their approaches to diet
- Nutrition and its lack of inclusion in western medical training
- The mysteries of the gut biome and its effects on the body
- Alternative eating, methods, diets, and how to stick to them
- Sugar alternatives, such as coconut sugar, date sugar, monk fruit, and more
- Baking with alternatives, gluten-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free
- Junk food cravings, how and why they happen
- Emotional eating and its negative effects
- Menopause, dealing with it with a restrictive diet
- Making dietary restrictions such as dairy-free, gluten-free, sugar-free, while still being able to enjoy what you eat
- Halloween and ways that families prevent their children from eating too much junk
And more!
Find out more about Ricki:
Ricki’s website: www.rickiheller.com
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Ricki’s books:
Living Candida-Free, Naturally Sweet and Gluten-Free and Sweet Freedom
You may download Ricki’s freebie here: Three Simple Shifts to Stay on Track Right Now
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Meet Rebecca Robertson, an independent financial advisor who set up her own business, Evolution Financial Planning specifically to empower women financially. She’s passionate about helping women get more financially secure. She’s also convinced the world will be a much better place if more of its wealth is in the hands of women, who are then able to make better decisions with it.
We talk about:
• Why it’s so important for women to focus on their financial security
• Why it’s crucial for women to be financially empowered
• How financial security enables women to make better decisions
• The importance of being proactive about our finances and not abdicating responsibility
• Understanding the "what if" scenarios as you get a bit older
• The need for setting boundaries when it comes to money
• The importance of getting good legal advice when it comes to new relationships and protecting assets
• The mistakes midlife women sometimes make when it comes to money
• Having your own (emergency) funds so you don’t need to ask for money if you need/want it
• Staying up to date with the specifics of your finances and being mindful of what you need
• How women often want to understand and be more involved with investing, asking more questions than men
• How many women assume money and finances is not for them but is actually what everyone needs to be doing
• The importance of your social circle on how you interact with money and finance
• The English approach to money and the cultural stigma around it
• What Rebecca means by financial abundance
• How having enough money allowed Rebecca to buy a horse
• It’s never too late to change your financial position
• Managing your money and making the most of it
• Looking at your values around your spending
• Possibilities for investing money you can afford to lose
• Rebecca’s journey from being special needs at school to successful businesswoman
• The difference to the world if more women have more of the world’s wealth
And more!
Find out more about Rebecca:
Rebecca’s Websites: rebeccarobertson.co.uk
evolutionfinancialplanning.co.uk
Listen to her podcast: Accelerating Your Wealth podcast
Watch her TEDx Talk: If women ruled the world…
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An interview with Elizabeth Solaru, the founder of Elizabeth’s Cake Emporium and maker of luxury wedding cakes. Elizabeth has a fascinating story to tell about multiple reinventions including a new one accelerated by the global pandemic. She’s the mistress of creating opportunity out of challenge.
We talk about:
- Elizabeth’s careers before cake-making
- Being a microbiologist and working for the health service
- The trauma of child loss
- Why Elizabeth went back to college to study for an MBA
- How she started headhunting while still studying
- Making the leap into luxury cake making
- Famous clients and exotic locations
- Coping during Covid when your business is wedding cakes
- Being open to possibility and curious about how to fix issues
- Feeling the fear and doing it anyway
And more!
Find out more about Elizabeth:
Her websites:
Elizabeth’s Cake Emporium | Luxury Wedding Cakes London
Create the Luxury Business of Your Dreams | Luxury Business Emporium
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Meet Susan Saunders, co-author of the best-selling book, The Age-Well Project and author of her latest book The Age-Well Plan, a blueprint for how to age well. The Age-Well Project is the book I wish I’d written so I was thrilled to have Susan talk to us. She will inspire you to see that you have so much impact on how you age.
We talk about:
- How Susan’s family history lead her to want to age well
- How the Age-Well Project started and the research involved
- The six key areas of aging well
- Starting with a purpose: why do you want to age well?
- Getting the right nutrition
- What to include or not include in your diet if you want to age well
- The importance of fibre
- The dirty dozen and the clean fifteen
- The importance of movement
- How to do easy movement throughout the day
- Getting enough of the right kind of sleep
- How to prioritize sleep
- Having a positive attitude towards aging
- Considering the environment in which you live
And more!
Find out more about Susan:
Susan's website
Susan's books: The Age Well Project | The Age Well Plan
Facebook | Instagram
Other resources:
Dirty dozen and clean 15 – UK
Dirty dozen and clean 15 - US
Environmental Working Group
Pesticide Action Network UK
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A solo episode with host Rachel Lankester talking about midlife recently, why she does what she does and the launch of her Revitalize Program.
She talks about:
- Her son’s graduation
- Sending off her book draft
- Getting a second Covid vaccination
- Why she does what she does
- Her early menopause and moving on from secondary infertility
- What women in the Magnificent Midlife community say about how they feel
- Putting ourselves higher up the priority totem pole
- Dealing with a complete lack of energy
- Details on the live round of the Revitalize mentoring program
And more!
To know more about the Revitalize Program, visit: www. magnificentmidlife.com/revitalize/
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Sam Palmer is a menopause fitness expert. She’s passionate about getting women in their best shape so they can thrive through menopause and beyond. She’s a qualified nurse, teacher, fitness instructor and menopause coach.
We talk about:
• Dealing with the anxieties of midlife
• How we all benefit from being open about menopause
• Why taking care of your body is so important
• Why midlife fitness is no longer necessarily about looking good
• Ways to change our everyday life to be more active
• How changing your lifestyle takes discipline
• Why Sam takes comfort in running
• Other ways to be active
• Making sure you don’t overdo it with exercise
• Finding what works for you
• Not carrying your wine
• Changes of lifestyle not needing to be drastic
• Why having an exercise partner can be good
And more!
Find out more about Sam:
Sam's website: www.midlifemakeover.co.uk
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My guest today is Becky Quicke who describes herself as the Menopause Psychologist. She’s dedicated to helping women cope especially with the emotional aspects of menopause. We talk all about managing anxiety but also about the tremendous power of hormonal change for women.
We talk about:
• Becky's personal experience of perimenopause.
• Connecting with and understanding your menstrual cycle and how it affects your body
• Understanding anxiety around menopause
• Helping women live through menopause in the modern world
• How to not fight or deny the anxiety that comes with menopause
• Channelling mid-life feelings into passion
Exploring the extent to which moon cycles can affect women
• How menopause becomes a journey of deep connection with those around us
• Sex isn’t just about reproducing and evolves as we age
• Becky’s 6 step process to help women transition through menopause
• Tuning into your body and facing menopause head-on
And more!
Find out more about Becky:
Becky's website: www.beckyquicke.com
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Kay Newton is the midlife strategist. She’s a speaker and author, and she helps women over 50 get their mojo back. She’s particularly interested in what it takes to create a more simple life at any age but especially as we get a bit older.
We talk about:
• What Kay means by a simple life
• Why it’s important to live a simple life
• Kay’s journey of moving homes and shedding the weight of stuff
• How materialistic and chemical everyday goods can have an effect on our hormones
• How living a more simplistic lifestyle can give you the space to reflect on your day-to-day actions and how those affect the planet
• How having like-minded people around can be important to encourage you to continue to live more simplistically
• Kay’s table strategy for simpler living
• The importance of having a healthy social circle at menopause
• Listening to your body and why it’s important
• Making the decision to change yourself
And more!
Find out more about Kay:
Kay’s website: www.kaynewton.com
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Join Kay’s Facebook group: Midlife Strategies
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Tania Dalton is a healthy aging coach and fitness trainer who’s passionate about redefining age. Tania has a massive following on Instagram, is incredibly inspiring and I knew I just had to share her wonderfulness with you.
We talk about:
- Why Tania became so interested in how lifestyle impacts aging
- Why she’s determined to show women menopause isn’t the end so much as a whole new beginning
- Simple and effective ways to transform life
- Staying active despite osteoarthritis
- Training for an ironman challenge (she has since completed this!)
- Being willing to try things while accepting you may not be able to complete them
- Why Tania feels menopause has been the best thing to happen to her
- The key elements to thriving in midlife and beyond
- The importance of prioritizing sleep
- How Tania manages stress
- The importance of getting outside a lot, especially first thing in the morning
- How living more simply can help with health
- How Tania has accepted her aging self
- Optimal nutrition in midlife and beyond
- Increasing variety in your diet to assist your microbiome
- The importance of strength training and getting clear on what we need to do
- Incorporating HIIT sessions where possible
- Incidental exercise – staying mobile throughout the day
- The impact of stress on increasing belly fat in midlife
- How to simply incorporate meditation
- Not letting perfectionism stop her from going for things
- What Tania most wants women to know
And more!
Find out more about Tania:
Tania’s website
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Other references mentioned:
Insight Timer
Meditation Groups | Insight Timer
Brene Brown’s The Power of Vulnerability and Emotions
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Mari Smith is one of the foremost experts in Facebook marketing and is often referred to as the Queen of Facebook. She’s been named one of 7 women shaping digital marketing by IBM and one of the Top Ten Social Media Power Influencers many years in a row. She’s shared stages with the likes of Eckhart Tolle, Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins and Arianna Huffington to name a few. I’m a bit gob-smacked she's joined me on the podcast! This is a long episode but there is so much goodness here.
We talk about:
• How Mari maintains her positive outlook
• Remembering to stay grateful despite difficulties
• The new ways of connecting that have come about because of Covid
• The differences between the UK and US around positivity and doing your own thing
• The early days of starting to be an entrepreneur
• Mari’s experience of Canada, UK and US culture
• Maris’ very close connection to Scotland
• Her thoughts on Scottish independence and Brexit having lived in the US for so long
• Taking a bigger view on the state of the world
• When sometimes only chocolate muffins will do the trick
• Changing your name or your location if you want to change your destiny
• Trusting astrocartography – locational astrology
• Shaking up every day routines and embracing the pivot
• Blending Mari’s love of people and technology
• No one is immune from sadness and how we deal with it is important
• Mari’s journey to finding her place in the world
• Remaining relevant in a male dominant industry
• ‘The Social Dilemma’ film and how social technology impacts us
• Understanding the ‘perfect’ nature of what we see on social media
• How Facebook has changed
• Experience of ageism and sexism
• Being the token female at events
• The importance of being authentic, consistent, be compassionate and non-judgemental
• How important boundaries are
• The power of video when communicating with your audience
• Mari’s desire to express all of herself as she evolves
• Feeling the fear and going for it anyway
• Letting your life speak
And more!
Find out more about Mari:
Mari’s website
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Additional Resources:
The Great Year
The Next Step (Pam Gregory)
Unlimited (Dr Jo Dispenza)
The Purpose of Your Life (Carol Adrienne)
Maximizing Your Potential (Jack Canfield)
Transformational Leadership Council
The Celestine Prophecy
Let Your Life Speak
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Karen Arthur is an educator, fashion designer, dancer and a podcaster. She’s the host of the Menopause Whilst Black Podcast set up to amplify Black women’s voices.
We talk about:
• How the BLM movement inspired Karen to create her podcast
• Menopause isn’t one size fits all
• Making sure your workplace is taking care of you through menopause
• The different menopause experience of Black women
• How to actually make a difference around racial injustice
• Karen’s experience with her depression
• Karen’s realization she was going through menopause and how it changed her life
• Experiences around therapy and doing it when you’re ready
• Realizing when you need help
• Knowing when to say no and take care of your body
• Establishing boundaries with yourself
• Honoring getting older
• Allowing the wonderful midlife to happen rather than resisting it
• What menopause can give you
And more!
Find out more about Karen:
Website: reddskin.co.uk
Podcast: Menopause Whilst Black
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Jacqueline Perez is the founder of Kuel Life, an online magazine and shop for women over 45. Her mission is to redefine midlife for the modern woman and to create relevant content and products for older women.
We talk about:
• Jack's journey into entrepreneurship in starting Kuel Life
• How Kuel Life was a huge pivot for Jack in thinking about the world
• Jack's initial struggle in coming to terms with ageing
• How Jack wants to help both younger and midlife women
• Jack's realization that change needed to happen in her life
• Feeling brave to speak out on what you want
• Why menopause should be taught and talked about more with women early on in life
• The problems with how we treat our elders in English-speaking societies
• The differences between cultures and how they view age, and how that reflects on women in particular
• The matriarchs in Jack's Cuban family
• Jack's experience at a Bedouin wedding in Jordan
• Jack's expertise in taekwondo and journey into power-lifting
• How some of the best relationships can form later in life
• How much more important exercise is as you age and it's never too late to start
• Embracing who we are as women
And more!
Find out more about Jack:
Jack’s website
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Gilly Smith is an award-winning food writer, broadcaster, university lecturer, a retreat host and most recently podcaster. She’s written lots of books and presents and produces a number of food related podcasts including the Right 2 Food podcast for the Food Foundation.
We talk about:
• How and why Gilly got started with her latest podcast: ‘Right 2 Food’
• Why Gilly became passionate about food sustainability
• How Covid has brought food sustainability and availability to the fore
• Why knowing where your food comes from and how it gets to you is important
• Who to support with your money when it comes to food
• Things you can do for your local food markets
• Recognizing the simple things right under our noses
• Why culturally linked foods are so important
• Learning about the importance of food sustainability
• Gilly’s experience with her own family recipes
• Helping other find their voice through teaching about podcasting
• Appreciating the foods you’re exposed to
• It’s easier and cheaper to cook with a conscious
• The importance of learning to cook and really savour food
And more!
Find out more about Gilly:
Gilly’s website
Books: Taste and the TV Chef: How Storytelling Can Save the Planet and How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast
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Podcasts: Right2Food, Cooking The Books With Gilly Smith, How to Eat To Save The Planet and The Delicious
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I interview Juju Hook, author of Hot Flashes, Carpools, and Dirty Martinis—The Quintessential Guide for Turning Midlife into PrimeTime. There is so much wisdom in this episode on how to get out of our own way to create a magnificent next chapter. Truth bombs throughout!
We talk about:
• How Juju took her first steps into writing
• How to rediscover yourself at 45 or 60
• The lies we tell ourselves that hold us back
• Breaking out of labels and self-made mental restraints
• Not letting fear stop us trying new things
• Using truth to move past self-loathing
• Recognising our own mastery and making the most of that
• Finding your leadership ability within
• How to move past resistance to visibility
• Leaning into our “essence” of influence
• The joy of course-correction
• Why we cover ourselves up as midlife women
• Easy tools to deal with self-judgement and insecure thinking
• How human attraction really works
• Being true to yourself
• Re-discovering yourself without changing yourself
And more!
Find out more about Juju:
Juju’s website
Juju’s book: Hot Flashes, Carpools, and Dirty Martinis: The Quintessential Guide for Turning Midlife Into PrimeTime
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Others:
Michael Neil’s website
Access Juju’s quiz here.
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A solo catchup episode with Rachel talking about:
- My joy at the US election result
- Not taking democracy for granted.
- Life under lockdown in the UK
- The roadmap out of lockdown
- Being able to finally see my mum – I hope
- How Christmas plans went askew
- Not having time to waste when you’re 86
- Making the best of separation
- Vaccination rollout and accepting the jab
- My amazing recent podcast guests
- Finding resilience from hearing Jessica Buchanan’s desert kidnap nightmare
- Jackie Lynch and how to have a happy menopause
- How we go from what to who in midlife
- The pole dancing queen Makeda Smith
- Making more of a difference in the world with Alisoun Mackenzie
- How I failed to get into the BBC but now have my own podcast
- The importance of self-care and building our resilience
- Radical replenishment so we’re ready for the end of lockdown
And more!
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Meet Alisoun Mackenzie, coach, author, retreat leader, yoga teacher and speaker amongst other things. She’s passionate about enabling all of us to make more of a difference in the world.
We talk about:
• How Alisoun went from finance to building schools
• Why our values get harder to ignore the older we get
• Learning to listen to our inner voice, that niggling feeling
• Making a difference as a white person without being a ‘white saviour’
• Questioning why you want to make a difference and where
• How to channel your passion to give back to the planet
• Having an extra layer of trauma when you’re childless not by choice
• Why Alisoun decided to become a yoga teacher
• How to always question yourself and constantly reinvent yourself
• Camper vans just might be the new trend
• Being strategic with your business’s fundraising
• How fundraising can be a powerful tool for yourself and others
• Making sure to always look after yourself
And more!
This website was mentioned: nowhitesaviors.org
You may also like to read: How To Avoid White Savior Complex and Why That's Important
Find out more about Alisoun:
Alisoun’s website: alisoun.com
Alisoun’s books: Give to Profit, How to Grow Your Business by Supporting Charities and Social Causes and Heartatude, the 9 Principles of Heart-Centered Success
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I interview Makeda Smith, celebrity publicist, and pole and exotic dancer. She began her pole and aerial training at the age of 50 and created her own exotic dance brand called FlyingOver50. A decade later, she's on a mission to enable older women to unleash their inner goddess.
We talk about:
• How Makeda came to start pole dancing at age 50
• How pole dancing changed her life
• Why sexy never gets old
• The Everybody Visible movement on social media
• How women in midlife and beyond can stay feeling sexy
• How to get over the fear of injury when staying active as we age
• Taking the fear out of the pole aspect of what Makeda does
• Cultural differences in responses to older women being sexy
• Balancing PR and pole dancing
• Those very high shoes Makeda wears
• Adapting to classes in a Covid world
• Awakening the sleeping goddess in all of us
And more!
Find out more about Makeda:
Makeda's websites: www.FlyingOver50.com and www.JazzmynePR.com
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Jackie Lynch is a Registered Nutritional Therapist who’s written a very interesting book called The Happy Menopause. It’s specifically about how nutrition can help us flourish and I just love the title Happy Menopause.
We talk about:
- Why Jackie believes menopause is a transformational time in a woman’s life in a good way
- Estrogen as the biddable, nurturing hormone
- Why some women suffer badly in menopause and others don’t
- The importance of diet and lifestyle in midlife and beyond
- How the manner in which we lived when younger can impact our menopause experience
- The impact of stress and the myth of having it all
- How Rachel got her periods back after a diagnosis of early menopause
- The importance of maintaining stable blood sugar levels
- How the body produces stress hormones when blood sugar levels are not stable
- How menopause may not be to blame for what’s happening to us
- How our thoughts and beliefs can impact our experience of menopause
- The importance of eating more protein with every meal and snack
- Getting magnesium, calcium and iron from leafy green vegetables
- How phytoestrogens mimic the actions of estrogen in the body
- The wonder food that is flaxseed
- The physiological stress we can put on our bodies through diet and lifestyle
- Understanding whether HRT is right for you and how to balance that with diet and lifestyle
- HRT is not a quick solution and still needs a good diet for the best support
- How Rachel weaned herself off HRT at 51
- How just small nutritional changes can make a huge difference
- Jackie’s own midlife reinvention
And more!
Find out more about Jackie:
Jackies’s website
Jackie’s books: The Happy Menopause, VaVa Voom, and The Right Bite
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Meet the remarkable Jessica Buchanan, the NYT bestselling co-author of Impossible Odds, a memoir that details her 93 days held in the desert by Somali land pirates, and her dramatic rescue by US Navy SEAL Team VI. I am so inspired by Jess and found this such an empowering story of survival against truly impossible odds that can help all of us cope better under duress.
We talk about:
- How Jess finds the strength to keep telling her survival story to the world.
- How she fell in love with Africa and met her husband.
- Her work as an aid worker in Africa and particularly in Somalia.
- How she kept herself going day to day with nothing in the desert.
- Anger management in the desert when she wasn’t allowed to show any emotion.
- How she survived the ordeal and even found herself in the desert.
- Meeting the Navy seals who rescued her and finally realizing she was the hero of her own story.
- The story of the night she was rescued.
- Jess’s President Obama story.
- The difficulties of surviving survival and trying to rebuild a life.
- Moving on from trauma and in fact, owning it.
- Her Tedx talk – change is your proof of life.
- Learning to collaborate with whatever is coming at us in life rather than fighting it.
- The healing power of nature.
And more!
Find out more about Jessica:
Jessica’s website
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TEDxPearlStreet: Change is Your Proof of Life
Jessica’s book:
Jessica’s podcast:
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An interview with Feyi Raimi-Abraham, founder of a fabulous new company called The Black Dementia Company, set up during lockdown and inspired into creation by caring for her mother who has dementia.
We talk about:
• Why Feyi felt there was a need for this company
• How lockdown accelerated that need
• What she hopes to achieve with the company
• What it’s like caring for her mother
• When she first noticed signs of dementia in her mother
• How the dementia progressed
• How Feyi adapted to being her mother’s full time carer
• Adjusting to her mother as a new person having been a strong, very active and independent woman in her past
• The impact on Feyi’s wider family
• The systems and tools she’s put in place to support her mum
• Advice for people who suspect there may be an issue with their loved one and especially their parent
• How can family best support the person diagnosed with dementia
• Getting rid of the stigma of dementia
• Looking out for signs of dementia
• Simple tests that can be done to check for dementia
• What Feyi has learnt about herself from becoming her mother’s carer
• What Feyi would like listeners to know about dementia
And more!
Find more about Feyi:
The Black Dementia Company
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Trish Beauchamp is a coach who helps women navigate change in relationships due to divorce, death or disconnection. She spent 35 years as a teacher and then experienced her own midlife unravelling facing personal challenges with health, relationships and her change in career. She joins me today to particularly talk about anxiety, cos I thought we could all do with some help in that particular area.
• Why anxiety can be such an issue in midlife for many women
• How midlife can be less of a crisis and more of an unravelling
• Allowing ourselves to feel the feelings not fighting against them
• The vagus nerve and how it can decrease our heighted levels of stress
• Taking the time to create what we need to bring ourselves back into balance
• Depression being about the past and anxiety about the future
• Recognising the impact of sensory overload on our wellbeing
• Recognising when overwhelm is getting to dangerous levels
• Adding in self-care options to ensure we can live well
• Identifying the triggers for anxiety
• Reframing thoughts and changing neural pathways
• Staying curious about what’s going on and ditching any sense of shame
• Not feeling guilty about how we’re responding to Covid
• Controlling what we can and not worrying about the rest
• Looking for the elements that can bring us hope for the future
• Understanding what good pain can hopefully bring us
• Not allowing fear to compromise our immune system
• Being gentle and compassionate towards ourselves
• The three coping Cs – curiosity, compassion, connection
• Remembering we have a choice in how we respond
• Instant ways to shift your mind and emotions to another state when you’re totally overwhelmed by anxiety
And more!
Find out more about Trish:
Trish’s website
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Clare Josa is an author of 8 books, a speaker, an NLP trainer and a leadership mentor. She started out as an engineer and uses a lot of that discipline in her soul-engineered leadership work.
She says that “changing the world isn’t so much about what you do, as about who you allow yourself to become. “
We talk about:
- How Clare moved from engineering to doing what she does now
- Sexism in engineering when she started out
- Moving into market research at Dyson
- Wanting to work with people instead of machines and make a difference
- Bringing the woo into engineering and personal development
- How men are often more open to the woo and energy work than women
- Teaching energy work experientially so that everyone can get it
- Women leaders can sometimes be wearing too much armour to embrace the more feminine aspects of leadership
- The importance of being accepted for all of who we are
- How work still doesn’t work for women who have responsibilities outside work
- How Covid has helped many working women by forcing meetings and training to be online
- Getting used to working and connecting on Zoom
- The law profession as a hotbed for imposter syndrome
- The difference between self-doubt and imposter syndrome
- The 4 Ps of imposter syndrome
- How people-pleasing can be a big issue for women
- Midlife women and imposter syndrome
- Menopause is the peak of imposter syndrome for women
- Being hyper-vigilant to threat when under stress
- Changing the ageist bias against older women
- Why stress impacts hormones and makes menopausal brain fog and hot flushes even worse
- Understanding negative self-talk and learning to stop it
- The midlife identity shift
- The dangers of judging ourselves
- It’s never too late to get started on anything – take action today
And more!
Find out more about Clare:
Clare’s website
Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube
Access Clare's Ditching Imposter Syndrome Training here: http://www.clarejosa.com/magnificentmidlife/
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An empowering discussion with Dr Rhoberta Shaler, the relationship help expert. She helps people to recognize and recover from the toxic relationships that can make us crazy!
We talk about:
• How to define a toxic relationship
• The pressure that gets put on relationships
• What Rhoberta means by a hijackal in a relationship
• How a hijackal looks for power, status and control
• How to identify a hijackal
• All or nothing thinking and how insidious that is
• What to do if you find that’s the kind of relationship you have
• How to recognize and deal with gaslighting in a relationship
• Resisting the temptation to think we can nurture the hijackal out of their behaviour
• Rhoberta’s ABB formula – Always believe the behaviour
• Relationship breakdown in midlife – often the behaviour becomes more evident without other variable in the home
• We deserve to have relationships with equality, reciprocity and mutuality bringing true intimacy
• You don’t need approval from someone you don’t approve of – Rachel’s big aha moment
• Ending the justification of bad behaviour and making different choices
• Taking off the rose coloured glasses and seeing red flags
• Having to cut people out of your life if necessary or at least distance yourself from them
• Strategies for dealing with toxic relationships
• Identifying this behaviour in public life too
And more!
Find out more about Roberta:
Rhoberta’s website
Podcasts/ Videos
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Book mentioned in the podcast: Kaizen for Couples
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Every season I do a solo episode. I'm in contemplative mood again thinking about the challenging world we're living in right now, and how we can build and maintain our resilience.
I talk about:
- Jacinda Ardern’s landslide victory in New Zealand
- Women leading as women not trying to be men or by burning out
- The impact of stress on our health
- Covid making us all depleted and how important it is to replenish
- My son coming home
- Tricky conversations about race
- Being open to being uncomfortable so we can continue to grow
- My hopes for the US election
- Living in a Covid world
- Getting creative about festivals and celebration
- Not being able to go visit my mum again
- Staying positive
Since I recorded this, I became aware that the video I mentioned is not wholly correct. Trump did say there were fine people on both sides after the disturbances in Charlottesville, but in that press conference he went on to say that he was not talking about the white supremacists. I still have no doubt that he has stoked the fires of prejudice but I wanted to point out that the video has taken his words out of context as did Joe Biden. I follow the line on the US situation of Glennon Doyle in terms of not necessarily being happy with either alternatives. But as she says, when the house is burning, you don't wait for the fire brigade to turn up. You just get out of the burning house. More about this in this article.
Here is the video I mentioned in this episode.
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Iffat Shahnaz is a lifelong campaigner committed to social justice and equality. She works with organisations committed to social change and tackling social exclusion and discrimination. She specialises in gender-based violence, community education, facilitation, service development and change management.
We talk about:
- How Iffat became so passionate about social justice
- The legacy of her parents and their story as children of partition
- Being the child of immigrants from the former commonwealth
- The family trauma that lead to Iffat wanting to make the world a better place for everyone
- Going back to her parents’ village in India
- The lack of safe passage when people are facing displacement, at the time of partition and now
- Why her father was so keen that she should learn to swim
- How the family managed to get to England from Pakistan
- Racial abuse growing up in the West Midlands in school and on the street
- Feeling hopeful despite systemic discrimination
- The impact of Covid and the Black Lives Matter movement on global awareness of discrimination
- Getting more aware of what is going on and the importance of speaking up
- Confronting racism wherever we find it
- The importance of being anti-racist instead of just not racist
- Acknowledging that we are different and that being colour-blind just doesn’t work
- Understanding racism in the UK and how it differs to the US
- ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ immigrants
- The more insidious nature of racism in the UK today
- How Covid has highlighted so many social justice-related and inequality issues
- The disproportionate impact of Covid on BAME (Black and minority ethnic) communities
- How Iffat feels about turning 50 this year
- Growing our own wisdom as we age and having more of an impact on society as we get older
And more!
Find out more about Iffat:
Linkedin and Twitter
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An interview with Dr Joanna Martin founder of One of Many, a women’s leadership community which started in the UK and is now global through its online community and trainings. She was a medical doctor and an actor before finding her mission as a coach helping women lead.
We talk about:
- Why Jo is so passionate about helping women step into leadership roles
- The importance of grassroots women’s leadership
- Why women tend to burn out so easily
- The importance of setting boundaries so we can thrive better
- Why women are generally more unhappy now than at the time of the Women’s Liberation Movement
- Why women need to find a new kind of power to be consistently effective
- How midlife women are often drawn to take more of a leadership role but need to find a way to do that without burning out
- Reframing feminine power as soft power – it does not mean weak
- We can bring more femininity to our lives without that being a mark against us
- How Covid has brought out wonderful examples of soft power leadership from women
- The five women’s power types and why they’re so powerful
- How we can access these power types to help us face challenges and access our strength
- The shared vision of women wanting to make a difference in the world
- The power of women coming together to effect positive change such as in the NHS during Covid, detention centres and environmental initiatives
- How Jo’s medical, family and drama background impacted her work today
- The importance of seeing issues from multiple perspectives
- The power of the habit of morning writing (Artist’s Way morning pages) and how that impacted Jo’s life
- How women can become better leaders
- Getting clear on our strengths and what we each can do
And more!
You can find out more about Dr Joanna:
Dr. Joanna’s website
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, and Linkedin
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Meet the co-hosts of the Hot Flashes and Cool Topics podcast, Colleen Rosenblum and Bridgett Biagi Garratt.
We talk about:
- Why they decided to start a podcast and how they came up with the name
- How we are set on a path of life and when we get to midlife, it gets a bit confused!
- How we need more of a sense of fulfilment in midlife.
- The benefits of having a supportive partner despite them not listening to their podcast!
- The importance of spreading the word about menopause and making it less taboo.
- Raising awareness of menopause in the workplace and in doctors’ offices.
- Differences in menopause awareness between the UK and the US.
- Getting menopause on the school curriculum in the UK.
- Trying to get a more positive perspective on menopause.
- Understanding that women’s sexual desire starts in the brain.
- Getting curious about what happens to women in midlife and through menopause.
- Reframing the conversation about midlife to the future rather than the past.
- The importance of looking forward rather than just backwards.
- Moving beyond the overwhelming impression of loss as we go through menopause.
- The huge benefits of being post menopause.
- The lessons they’ve learnt from doing their podcast.
And more!
You can find out more about Hot Flashes and Cool Topics:
Website and Podcast
Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter
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Dr Sonia Wright is a medical doctor, radiologist, life coach and most importantly for us, a midlife sexual counsellor for women. She’s also tremendous fun. This is a brilliant interview all about midlife sex. If you have any issues at all, even tiny ones, in this department, or just want to make your sex life even better, this interview will get you feeling inspired and empowered to take excellent care of yourself and your partner. Let’s all have more fun!
We talk about:
- How Sonia went from being a radiologist to becoming a sex coach.
- Understanding the pleasure gap between men and women
- Moving beyond penis in vagina (PIV) sex
- The importance of clitoral stimulation
- How our libido changes as we age
- Thinking about the many factors that may impact our libido
- Our biggest sexual organ is the brain
- Staying curious and exploring different ways to be sexual
- Self-pleasure to maintain the blood supply to the vulval area
- Feeling comfortable using lubricants
- Your best sexual partner is yourself
- The wonders of the clitoris and how much of is not visible
- Why Sonia worked in a sex toy shop
- The fun and pleasure you can get with sex toys
- Sonia’s toy recommendations
- Taking the pressure off men by bringing toys into the bedroom
- Bringing sexual intimacy back when it’s completely slipped off the agenda
- You can’t have great sex if there are relationship issues
- A man can still have good sex and an orgasm without an erection
- How society’s narratives impact our own concept of what is sexy
- The importance of body image as we age
And more!
You can find out more about Dr Sonia:
Dr Sonia’s websites: www.themidlifesexcoach.com and www.soniawrightmd.com
Instagram, and Linkedin
Resources:
Clitoris diagram here.
Dr Sonia’s Free Intimacy Guide
Book your FREE Consultation with Dr Sonia here.
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Angela Raspass is my mentor and she works with women to find, create and grow their next chapter in business and life. She's as determined as I am to help women find passion, purpose and fulfilment in midlife and beyond. She also knows just how powerful we can be if we just believe in ourselves!
We talk about:
• How Angela moved from corporate to setting up a marketing business and finally becoming a business and life mentor
• Unpicking her sense of self-worth from running her business
• How she learnt that just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should
• Your business needs to serve you as much as your customers
• How women’s ability to contribute just expands as we age
• Self-doubt is the biggest issue for women and we need to dismantle our old stories
• Getting stuck in the conditioning and messages society gives us
• Learning to listen to our intuition and Angela’s next chapter model of change
• Moving through discontent and trying to work out what we want next
• What would you rant about on your soap box and who inspires you
• The inspiration Angela gets from Brené Brown
• Moving towards your desire and taking decisions
• Silencing your inner critic and finding belief buddies – don’t go it alone
• Acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) – actions first, confidence later
• Starting a business isn’t an easy path but can be incredibly rewarding
• Moving from face to face contact to online because of Covid
• Not being scared of technology or using lack of knowledge as an excuse
• No harm in getting help with the stuff that is difficult
• Applying self-compassion and being willing to pivot if we don’t get it right
• GOSCOP – Get off self, get on purpose – a good way to get back on track
• Feel Deal Heal – take time to feel the emotions, deal with them and heal ourselves
• Finding ways to fill the empty nest
• Building next chapters on skinned knees – learning from life experiences
And lots more!
You can find out more about Angela:
Your Next Chapter with Angela Raspass
Angela’s free Journey Board program
Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Linkedin
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Meet Sam Walker, host of the fabulous Sam Walker’s Desert Diaries podcast, which she started to document her move from Manchester, UK to Phoenix, Arizona. Sam is a master storyteller, an award-winning radio and TV broadcaster, a multiple podcast producer and presenter, a writer with a book being published next year and a woman who’s encountered coyotes, snakes and scorpions in the desert. Since we recorded this she won three (yes three) awards at the British Podcast awards!
We talk about:
- Why Sam decided to up sticks and move from Manchester to the desert
- How she pushed through the fear both before making the move and after, given all the issues she has faced
- Having support when making a big life change
- Trusting the universe when there are signs along the way
- The importance of trying to live our dreams no matter how big or small those might be
- The difficulties and highlights of her life in Arizona
- The many quirky things about adapting to US life
- Trying to function in the US without a credit history
- The delights of the US medical system
- The beauty and history of US landscapes
- Whatever brings you joy is what is right for you
- The importance of following your dreams whatever they are
- Getting rid of the word should
- How Sam stays upbeat despite the many setbacks she’s encountered
- How it’s been coping with Covid as a Brit in the US
- Coping with being away from sick loved ones
- Coming to terms with gun culture
- Realising her white privilege when things got really tough
- Being grateful the basics
- What Sam has learnt by making this huge change in her life
And lots more!
You can find out more about Sam:
Sam Walker’s Desert Diaries
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
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An interview with Lisa Weldon, a writer who’s created a fascinating life for herself in her next chapter, by walking cities! This was recorded pre lockdown when travel was still normal but seems super relevant now that walking is a much more comfortable option than public transport!
We talk about:
- How and why Lisa started walking cities
- How she decides where she’s going to walk
- Why she chose to go to Shanghai
- What she does when she first arrives at a destination
- What it’s like travelling alone
- What she loves about walking cities
- Being more confident and outgoing when we’re abroad
- The most interesting things she’s discovered about a city that only walking could make happen
- Lisa’s favourite city to walk and why
- Getting used to eating alone
- Lisa’s narrow escapes. Fortunately, not too many!
- Lisa’s favourite walking footwear
- What this experience has taught her about herself
- Lisa’s advice for a woman in midlife who’s stuck and in need of an adventure
And lots more!
You can find out more about Lisa:
Lisa’s Website
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest
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An interview with Laurie Mucha, the charming founder of the Feminista Film Festival. This interview was recorded as coronavirus was kicking off in the UK, but before lockdown. My, how things changed quickly after that! Laurie shares all about how she came to set up her own film festival and the lessons she has learnt.
We talk about:
- The need to learn on the job
- Creating a vehicle to share great stories about women
- Setting up something from scratch
- Coping with pandemic anxiety (at the beginning)
- Learning on the job how to set up a film festival
- Imposter syndrome and working beyond that
- The value of not knowing what you’re doing because it brings a new perspective
- Not allowing imposter syndrome to be an excuse
- Vocal ticks that we use to put ourselves down
- Stopping the self-sabotage
- How we are all able to do hard things
- Being open to learning new things
- Accepting that it’s OK to not know everything when starting a business
- Feedback is an opportunity to learn
- Being prepared for not everyone to like what you do – otherwise it would be vanilla
- How to prevent overwhelm as a business owner
- Focusing on the things that will have the biggest impact
- Balancing creativity and being emotional
- Coping with popcorn/monkey brain
- The joy of a garden office
- The challenge of working from home especially with other people around
- Don’t wait until you’re ready before getting started on your venture
- Don’t make decisions out of fear
And lots more!
You can find out more about Laurie:
Website: Feminista Film Festival
Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
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An intimate chat with Canadian singer songwriter Linda McLean, opening up about life, music, writing and what makes her tick as an older woman. This interview includes a reading from Linda’s forthcoming book all about making yourself the most important person in your life.
We talk about:
- Learning to prioritize ourselves and speak our truth
- The emotional power of music and words
- Going on new creative journeys as we progress through life
- Thinking about what really matters in life
- Taking up space in our own lives
- Fighting the cultural imperative for women to put others first
- How our life anchors can shift in midlife
- Learning to share our stories and acknowledge the impact those can have on others
- Moving on from a maternal role when children leave home
- Finding the spark in inter-generational sharing
- Rationalizing our many varied roles as women
- Thinking about what we’d do if we were to die tomorrow
- Learning to live in the moment and do what we most want to do
- Finding answers inside ourselves and taking responsibility for our lives
- Moving beyond victim-hood and acknowledging our power
- The importance of yoga and meditation in Linda’s life
- What it’s like being a touring musician
- The impact of Alexander Technique and getting more aware of posture
- How the body wants to fix itself and get us into balance
And lots more!
Be sure to check out Linda's three beautiful albums on Spotify
Find out more about Linda:
Linda’s Website
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify
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A solo catchup episode with Rachel.
I talk about:
- Adapting to a Covid world
- Visiting my mum
- Staying as healthy as possible
- Some of the recent podcast highlights
- The impact of the Black Lives Matter movement
- My BLM podcasts
- What I have learnt about being anti-racist
- Understanding what white privilege is
- Tone policing and white fragility
- How white silence is racism
- Layers of prejudice and how the focus on BLM may also help fight ageism
- Making the most of our heart beats
- Expanding our mental and emotional world despite the restrictions on our physical world
- 2020 – the year to reassess everything
- Looking inside for our inner sense of strength and knowledge
- Morning pages and how powerful that can be
- Taking time to think about what you want going forward
- Making the most of our power and making our voices heard
- Stepping into our feminine power to make a better world
And more!
Resources
Books mentioned in this episode:
Me And White Supremacy
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race (Race in the UK)
Listen to the podcasts mentioned in this episode:
Putting on a sell-out show about menopause with Claire Hodgson
Menopause, hormones and immune systems with Angela Counsel
Making the most of your heart beats with Julie Owen Moylan
Confronting anti-Black racism with Kimberly McCormick
Why Black lives matter with Kwavi Agbeyegbe
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Meet Claire Hodgson MBE, one of the stars of the fabulous play Mid Life which had a sell-out run at the Barbican in London. She’s the founder of Diverse City, the Bristol theater company behind this production and the co-founder of Extraordinary Bodies, the UK’s leading professional integrated circus company.
In this inspiring and empowering interview, we talk about:
- Claire’s passion for diversity in the performing arts and theater in particular
- Institutional and systematic racism in our society and hoping that we are at a time of real transformation
- How it’s time for white people to do something about racism because black people are exhausted and broken
- How often big moments of change in social justice come very quickly and white people need to act now
- How it’s important to have everyone’s story told and for everyone to be represented in life to validate our identity and experience
- The good things that can happen for us when we just say yes
- The importance of intersectionality and levels of prejudice dependent on our experience
- The many different stories around menopause and midlife
- How disabled people may be used to having restrictions on them, so lockdown was nothing new for them
- The difficulties of being in the live theater industry under Covid
- How much support the theater industry in particular needs from government and society
- Ways actors and performers are getting creative to continue showing their work
- Drive in theaters over the summer to get around restrictions
- Needing to be creative about how theater is presented may actually result in greater audience diversity and bigger audiences
- Claire’s own experience of menopause and why she wanted to make the play Mid Life
- How we care less and can get clearer about what we do and don’t want as we age
- Unveiling the big secret in the show!
- The power of midlife reflection and transformation
- The powerful role midlife women can have in creating the new normal
And lots more!
Find out more about Claire:
Diverse City (founder)
Extraordinary Bodies (co-founder)
Claire Hodgson Linkein, Claire Hodgson Twitter
Diverse City Facebook, Diverse City Linkedin, Diverse City Twitter
Extraordinary Bodies Facebook, Extraordinary Bodies Twitter, Extraordinary Bodies Instagram
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An interview with Angela Counsel, naturopath, kinesiologist and mindset coach working particularly with women in midlife. Like me, she’s on a mission to spread the word that menopause doesn’t have to be a tough time in life, in fact it can be a time of stepping into your wisdom and falling in love with yourself and your life. Today we’re talking about menopause, hormonal balance and supporting our immune systems particularly in response to Covid-19.
We talk about:
- How our jobs can impact our health
- How a miscarriage led Angela to study naturopathy
- The impact of stress on women’s bodies and how it can cause early menopause
- The importance of hormonal balance at all stages of our lives
- How it’s not normal to experience lots of symptoms around the time of menopause, if we do that means there are issues that need to be dealt with
- The many unnatural products in our lives that can impact our health
- The impact of stress on our immune systems and immune -related health issues
- If you struggle to get over a minor illness such as a cold then your immune system isn’t working properly
- Never getting sick is not necessarily a good thing either
- The body’s natural response to viral illness and how we can get in the way of that
- Our over reliance on taking a pill to get better
- Eating better, cleaner food to avoid pesticides
- Vinegar can help to remove waxy coatings on fruit and pesticides
- Eating organic if you can, especially if soft like broccoli and berries
- Stress, fear and toilet paper
- Alcohol, stress and the impact on menopause
- The impact of vitamin D levels on people’s Covid response
- Why Australia has coped comparatively well with the pandemic
And lots more!
Angela’s Website
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube
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An interview with Julie Owen Moylan, a writer whose short stories and articles have appeared in the Welsh Review, Horizon Literary Review and The Voice of Women in Wales Anthology. She’s also won awards for her films and has a massive following on Twitter!
We talk all things writing, inspiration and finding one’s authentic voice. There’s lots of laughter here.
We talk about:
- How Julie came to be writing her first novel at nearly 60
- Following her dream of becoming a writer
- Her midlife excavation process
- How she got started writing seriously
- Finding the motivation to keep going
- The excitement of being spotted by a literary agent
- Making the most of our precious heartbeats
- Becoming more creative as we age
- How Julie writes and developed the story for the book
- The magic on days when the story just flows
- Julie’s belief that somewhere in the ether the book exists and her job is to transmit it
- The importance of just turning up to write and getting in the right mood
- Finding ways to take the pressure to perform off oneself
- Julie’s huge Twitter following and how that came about
- How Julie deals with anyone nasty on Twitter
- Getting better at straight-talking as we age
- Channelling Julie’s inner Nessa
- Flying the Twitter flag for older women and setting the record straight on ageing
- Unravelling negative age-related narratives that have taken up residence in your head
- How great life can be after 40 and how it can keep getting better
And lots more!
Julie’s Website
Twitter, Instagram
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An incredibly powerful interview with Kimberly McCormick talking about understanding, acknowledging and taking action concerning the Black Lives Matter movement.
Kimberly works at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Georgia, is a singer/songwriter, and runs a growing community supporting diabetics. We met in a marketing group on Facebook where I found her to be an enormously inspiring speaker with a powerful way of getting past white defensiveness about our complicity in anti-black racism. So I asked her to come and talk to me so I could share her clarity, wisdom and powerful message.
We talk about:
The sadness in the Black community and the roller-coaster of emotions at the moment
The impact of 400 years of oppression today
The relief that finally people are paying attention
Trying to understand the weight of the emotion, both sadness and anger within the black community
Being able to accept when Black people don’t want to talk about what’s going on
Moving through White fragility and not getting defensive when confronted about racism
Allowing Black people the time to exhale and work out where they are with the current situation
The importance of listening and learning about the situation
God deciding to take definitive action in 2020 to make humans listen
The impact of Covid-19 on getting the world to wake up and take notice
The impact of 400 years of oppression and stress on the overall health of the black community
Carrying the grief of one’s ancestors
Being brave to ask questions and move on if you get it wrong
Being willing to open yourself up to things you’ve never encountered before
Being willing to get uncomfortable
Changing your circle if everyone in it looks like you
How if you want to break the ice you need to be willing to be the ice breaker
What can white people in particular do now to help change the world, hopefully for good?
And lots more.
Kimberly's Facebook page.
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2020 is turning out to be a momentous year in more ways than half a dozen! The Black Lives Matter movement took off again in a huge way after the murder of George Floyd. I felt it was something I had to discuss on the podcast. So I turned to a magnificent midlife woman, Kwavi Agbeyegbe, who was an early guest in Season 1, to talk to and teach me about it.
We need to discuss this and white people in particular need to get educated and learn. Kwavi has a unique perspective on the situation. My hope is that this episode will in some small way help that education process. If you find it helpful please share this.
We talk about:
Hoping that major change is finally in the works
Kwavi living in three different countries and how that has affected her perceptions of racism
Experiencing racism in church in Boston
The Jim Crow laws of racial segregation in the US
Having to use separate water fountains and toilet facilities
The slave trade and the implications of that
Learning about anti-Black racism in the US
Kwavi embracing her cultural heritage by choosing to use her middle name
Living in Atlanta, the birthplace of Martin Luther King and civil rights
Police brutality day to day
Coping with the situation as it is now
Learning from Black women
The need to speak up if you have a platform
Speaking to others who know so as not to make things worse in your comments
Not discounting color by saying you are color-blind
It’s important to talk about this and cope with being uncomfortable.
It’s too easy to say you are not racist
White privilege and staying comfortable
Using your whiteness for good
Reading and educating yourself
Not knowing your heritage when your ancestors were slaves
Needing to teach your children information to keep them safe because they are Black
The assumption that Black kids are always doing something wrong
White flight when Blacks move into a neighborhood
White people fearing they will lose out if Black people get more
Knowing Kwavi’s boys are perceived differently
Fearing being stopped by the police
Amy Cooper and the Central Park incident
Moving beyond just being seen as Black
The need for protest to make voices heard
The importance of educating yourself if you are White
How Black people always tend to be at the bottom of the racism pile
The need to focus now on Black lives not all lives
The burden of dealing with these issues every day when you are Black
Our obligation to speak up
And lots more.
Resources:
Nicole Walters Video
Rachel Rodgers Video
The Hate U Give Book
The Hate U Give Movie
Me and White Supremacy
Kwavi’s Website
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube
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I was so excited to interview the very inspiring sailor Tracy Edwards MBE, who captained the first all-female yacht crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989, coming second in their class. She’s now also a social activist, running The Maiden Factor Foundation to raise awareness and improve education for girls around the world.
We talk about:
How Tracy has maintained momentum through her life after such a massive achievement when she were still relatively so young
What’s it like being a midlife woman now after so much success in her youth
What it was like sailing round the world
How Tracy’s life has evolved
What lessons she has to pass on about dealing with adversity and starting again
The impact of misogyny when she sailed round the world and what it’s like now
The importance of protecting the environment
All about Tracy's current mission with her boat, Maiden
What Tracy has learnt from doing what she’s done and how she has changed since she sailed round the world
Acceptance of natural hair color as we age
Tracy’s advice for women in midlife and making the most of life in general
And lots more!
See the trailer of her movie: Maiden.
Her Website
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter
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An extremely helpful and empowering interview with Nicola Foster, relationship and intimacy therapist and coach. Nicola has created a Relationship Survival Guide for Lovers in Lockdown. I thought here was a woman I just had to get on the podcast! Even the best of relationships have been under strain in the crazy condition of the pandemic. There is lots of great advice here and you’ll find a link to the guide below. It's also my personal therapy session!
We talk about:
The biggest issues Nicola’s been seeing recently that prompted her to create the guide
The relationship resilience pyramid
The importance of looking after ourselves
The importance of laughter and having fun
The rise of TikTok
The big mistakes we can make in our relationships especially when under stress
How to avoid flash points of irritation when you’re together a lot with little space to escape
How we can all get better at communication
Giving your partner space and not needing to fix their issues
Looking for the positive and appreciating your intimate partner
The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work by Dr John Gottman
The importance of listening for bids for attention
The four relationship horsemen
A useful tool – the daily check-in
How we can reduce conflict if it exists or deal with any underlying issues if conflict is hidden
What Nicola means by ‘clean’ anger
Bringing back intimacy and some exercises to help do that
And lots more..
Resources:
Mating in Captivity: How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work
Passionate Marriage
Pillow Talk - Cards for intimate conversations
You can find out more about Nicola:
Website: nicola-foster.com, Survival Guide for Lovers in Lockdown
Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter
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A moving, thought-provoking interview with Coach Christine, the Empty Nest Coach who helps women adapt and make the very most of their lives when their children leave home. This was recorded before the world went crazy! But there are a lot of universal truths here, especially about finding ourselves in midlife, and dealing with change and difficult emotions. Christine is a whole lot of fun!
We talk about:
Feeling the pain when children are no longer at home
Making the most of an empty nest
Becoming a coach for women in midlife
Being a podcaster and the joy of sharing stories
Getting energy from working through obstacles to move women forward
Being in the simmer working out what to do next
Being willing to pivot when things don’t work out as we hoped
FAIL – first attempt in learning
Peeling back the layers to find out who we really are
Feeling the fear from going through the discovery process
The power that comes from finding our true essence when we strip away everything we’ve built up over the years
Question every thought that comes into your head
Just because you think something doesn’t make it true
The basic stuff about life that we’re not taught in school
Giving yourself time to adjust to a new life when the kids leave
Everyone in the home needs to adjust to the new way of operating not just mom
Planning your future in a different world
Tips for letting go of our adult children
Backing off from trying to fix things for them
Even if you don’t have kids, there are still big changes in midlife to deal with
Doing the analysis work in midlife to get clarity on what will really help going forward
Being nice to yourself in your thoughts – be kind to yourself
And lots more!
You can find out more about Coach Christine:
Website: youremptynestcoach.com
Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter
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An interview with midlife entrepreneur coach Colleen Kochannek on how to start a business in midlife and beyond. Colleen also very bravely opens up about coping with becoming a widow at 50.
We talk about:
Moving on from redundancy
Insidious ageism in the workplace
The difficulty of finding work in midlife and beyond
Starting a business instead of getting a new job
Older women make great entrepreneurs
The skills we have that make us great business creators
Identifying your unique skills – many that have come with age
Not being afraid of technology
Not making those digital dinosaur excuses
Being a digital immigrant
The joy of working out how to do something technical
How working online can actually be reasonably easy nowadays
The many places online where you can find affordable help
Focus on your own zone of genius – hire out the rest
Working out what your business could be when you have no idea
Looking at the things you love, are good at and what people ask you to do
Working out what you do not want to do
Valuing home-maker skills as much as any others
The first steps to building an online business
The importance of validating your idea
Testing out your idea on Facebook
Building an email list of potential customers
Working out what your minimal viable product is
Learning about freebies/optins
Becoming a widow at 50
Coping with losing your husband
Finding a reason to look forward and creating a new life
Taking responsibility for your domestic affairs
How creating her business helped Colleen cope with grief
Adapting to life being single
And lots more!
You can find out more about Colleen:
Website: www.scrappyfrontier.com
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A solo episode with Rachel in contemplative mood pondering the implications of the Covid19 pandemic now, soon and when this nightmare is finally over. She ponders:
Life under lockdown
How adaptable we actually are
The stages of processing the new reality
Grieving for the change to all our lives
Finding purpose and fulfillment through picking up rubbish!
Dog poo bags – a personal rant
Doing Facetime with my mum and virtual Sunday lunch
Appreciating those who look after us
Reversing the racism that has come about from Brexit
Protecting the vulnerable long term
Imagining a new ‘normal’
Weakening the buying muscle
Shifting priorities when big shit happens
How acquiring stuff becomes less important
Working from home now works so it should continue
Getting excited about the possibilities for change
We can take swift action to change the world when we need to
The positive changes that have come from lockdown
We’ve proved that we can live differently
Being aware of how Covid19 will affect poor countries
Seizing the opportunity to create a different world, a new 'normal'
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An interview with Nicole Christina, a psychotherapist and host of the Zestful Aging Podcast which is listened to in more than 85 countries! Nicole is an utter delight and we had such a laugh together. She is also very wise.
We talk about:
The joy of podcasting and why it means so much.
How Nicole’s podcast has provided a balance to the negativity associated with aging.
What zestful aging means to Nicole.
Coping with loss and the negative aspects of ageing while fully appreciating the delightful things.
The magic of technology for learning things and staying in touch
How the pandemic has brought ageism to the fore
How shocking it is to hear leaders dismissing the impact of corona because it ‘only’ affects the old and vulnerable
The way society dismisses the experience and wisdom of older people because of the way they look
Putting a monetary value on people’s lives
The ugliness of the political environment in the US and the UK
Big centres in New York and the UK that are being turned into hospitals
Justifying going out to buy things
The radical change in our day to day decisions
Coping with anxiety at this time – laughter helps!
Finding basic stillness is really helpful for managing stress
Managing eating whether too much or too little under stress
There are no dress rules under a pandemic
Ditching the bra and pantyhose
Needing something more in midlife
How Nicole started her podcast and why
The magic of fly fishing
The magic of sharing stories and changing how people think about ageing
The amazing things older women are doing in the world
Knitting prosthetics for breast cancer survivors in Africa
The nourishing aspect of learning what other women are doing
You don’t get to this age without experiencing tough stuff
Whether or not to allow men on our podcasts
Promoting the voices of older women
The democratisation of broadcasting through podcasting
The dual aims of entertaining and educating on the podcast
Getting the right balance between sharing the hard stuff and still being uplifting
And lots more!
You can find out more about Nicole Christina:
Website: nicolechristina.com
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You can also listen to Nicole's Zestful Aging Podcast
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I was so honoured to interview Dr Kathryn Mannix who has devoted her life to the palliative care of the dying. She has written a remarkable book called With The End In Mind which everyone should read! It was such a pleasure to talk to her about death! This is a much longer interview than usual but I thought the topic deserved it. Coronavirus has made it even more important that we start having conversations about death before it’s too late. This was recorded before the pandemic.
We talk about:
• Why Kathryn was inspired to write her book, With The End In Mind
• Opening up conversations about death
• How our experience of death is much improved by honest communication
• Denial is one way of coping which works for some people but isn’t ideal
• Thinking about to accommodate immobile older relatives
• Sometimes being practical is better than sacrifice when it comes to caring
• What normal dying actually looks and feels like – it is very gentle
• Why it’s important for people to understand the stages of death
• What the ‘death rattle’ really is
• Asking for more pain control if death is not progressing normally
• The importance of discomfort management as people approach death – otherwise the process of death itself is prolonged
• The opioid crisis – how Western addiction concerns stop pain relief availability in poorer areas of the world
• Morphine used properly for pain relief is safe
• Dan’s death plan and how he went on TV to talk about it
• The impact of faith on death
• How many of us start a process of reckoning as we get closer to death
• The importance of some form of belief (not necessarily religious) when it comes to evaluating our lives
• The importance of being clear about what you want for your own death
And lots more!
You can find out more about Dr Kathryn Mannix:
Kathryn's Book: With The End In Mind
Website: With The End In Mind
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I talk to Dr Orlena Kerek, a pediatric doctor turned weight loss and health coach. She lives in Spain with her 4 kids, currently under lockdown. She knows a lot about managing anxiety and healthy nutrition.
- Life under lockdown in Spain
- Coping with children at home
- How best to stay sane under lockdown
- Coping with uncertainty
- Acknowledging our needs as well as everyone else’s
- Letting things go
- Accepting life as it is now
- How oxygen may be all that many people need when they are in hospital with coronavirus
- Working with the information we have on the evolution of the disease
- How children are considered super-spreaders
- Working out what to do in a new relationship under quarantine
- The benefits of a strict lockdown
- Maintaining a healthy diet at this time
- Going easy on yourself if you’re not always eating healthily
- Celebrate the nice things every day
- Try to plan your meals but don’t overdo it – work with what you have
- Managing anxiety in this new normal
- The importance of movement for mental health
- Getting outside if you can and getting enough sleep
- Taking this opportunity to try new things
- All the online learning and connection possibilities with the pandemic happening now
- Staying sociable remotely to stay well
You can find out more about Dr Orlena:
Websites | drorlena.com, snotty-noses.com, happyhealthyeatingforkids.com
Linkedin, Twitter
You can also listen to Orlena’s Fit and Fabulous Podcast
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In this laughter-filled and very inspiring interview with the lovely Christie Glascoe, author, editor, screenwriter, creative coach, and professional life-lesson-learner, we talk and giggle about:
- Life under lockdown
- How people are approaching social distancing
- The speed at which things are changing
- Getting news from all over the world
- Day to day life in Atlanta
- Printing out permits to go outside in Paris
- The need to cooperate to make isolation last less time
- How isolation is easier for folks who usually work from home
- Dressing up from the waist up
- But it’s not so easy to work from home
- Changes that will hopefully become permanent after coronavirus
- The possibilities of this sucky experiment
- How the possibilities of reinventing next chapters are now being thrown at us
- How the environment is improving because we are staying home
- Does Mother Nature have a grand plan to keep us at home?
- How the earth is cleansing and we have the chance to do that to
- Rethinking everything as creativity blooms
- How we can all be creative especially now
- The taboo of therapy in the Black community
- Using writing/journalling as therapy
- How the pandemic is a great social leveller
- Having more time and what to do with it
- No longer having reasons for not having enough time
- The opportunity to tap into the talents we’d forgotten we had
- The forgotten Generation X and how we get lost between millennials and boomers
- How millennials will never survive the zombie apocalypse
- The huge value of old school skills combined with tech knowledge
- What creative adulting means
- Living our best lives within our own capabilities not someone else’s
- Being youlo instead of jlo
- Getting your story out into the world
- Not putting ourselves last on our own list
- How taking care of ourselves is not selfish
- Getting creative about being creative
- Making the most of this time to realize a dream
- Doing something positive in the midst of all this negativity
- Making something that will carry beyond this crisis
You can find out more about Christie:
Website | chatterboxchristie.com
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An inspiring and uplifting interview with Helen Wills, a lifestyle blogger and midlife mum of teenagers. She originally started a blog in the voices of her children but as they grew older she’s found her own voice including just starting a podcast! She’s usually to be found wearing yellow or pink and is a whole lot of fun. We recorded this interview a week before the full coronavirus lockdown in the UK.
We talk about:
- Looking after a child with diabetes under the coronavirus lockdown
- Coping with teenagers at home during lockdown when they want to go out
- Struggling with setting boundaries during lockdown
- Working from home when there are kids around
- Taking it all one day at a time and being gentle
- In time lockdown will just be a blip on the landscape
- How to harness your anxiety as a family to enable coping strategies
- Doing what we need to do to protect the vulnerable including those with invisible vulnerabilities
- Dealing with the uncertainty of diabetes and other diseases
- Tips for working from home
- Our modern day dependence on wifi
- Managing distractions when trying to work from home
- Social distancing and how not to do it
- The lack of social distancing on TV
- Thinking beyond the panic of this unprecedented situation
- Being separated from adult children
- Helping older parents during this time
- Using technology to get through isolation
- How older people can be scared of technology
- Ageing and technology, and not allowing ourselves to become digital dinosaurs
- Having to relearn how to do things
- How everything you need to know, you can learn on the internet
- How learning new skills can be great for maintaining brain health
- Finding nice comfortable shoes not ugly sandals
- How to stop being invisible
- How marketers don’t segment over 50
- How older women are ignored when it comes to advertising
- How we get more diverse as we get older not less
- It’s important to represent our age bracket in a positive light
- Helen’s new podcast called Teenage Kicks
- Providing advice for parents of teens because there wasn’t much available
- Finding hope for dealing with difficult teens, from the experiences of adults who had problems when they were teens
- Feeling reassured that the pandemic will end and life will be fine
Helen's Blog: 10 Ways to Cope with Coronavirus Anxiety
You can find out more about Helen:
Websites | actuallymummy.co.uk spaceinyourcase.com
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A return visit from the amazing Jo Moseley. Since we spoke in Season 1, Jo has completed a North of England coast to coast stand-up paddle board challenge, becoming the only woman ever to have done this at the tender age of 54. I’m so inspired by this woman and I know you’ll love catching up with her adventures.
We talk about:
- How Jo doesn’t consider herself a sporty person but loves to move
- How she set herself the challenge of stand-up paddle-boarding from Liverpool to Goole, 162 miles across the country
- How she ended up paddle-boarding at the Chelsea Flower Show and the fun she had there
- The importance of not taking yourself too seriously
- Being open to possibility
- Feeling the fear and doing it anyway
- Living a simple but brave life
- Envisaging a future version of ourselves and wondering what they would do or say
- How Jo trained for such a big challenge
- How she used visualization and self talk to inspire herself to keep going
- The importance of believing in yourself
- How telling everyone what she was going to do helped her actually do it
- How adrenaline carried her through the atrocious weather
- Picking up litter as she paddle-boarded
- Making friends online
- Finding help in unexpected places
- Inter-generational understanding and friendship- millenials and midlifers
- The gift of learning from younger people
- Moving beyond being fearful of life
- The importance of making the very most of life
- How the death of friends focuses the mind on how short and precious life is
- Being grateful for having the chance to try these big challenges
- Moving on from a time when just getting out of bed was hard
- Being recognized having been on the telly
- Wanting to share her story to help other women feel better
You can find out more about Jo on her website and Instagram at healthyhappy50, and on Twitter as @OneHappyRower and @HealthyHappy50
Part 1 of Jo on the podcast is Episode 3.
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Nadine Kelly was a medical doctor for many years but gave it up to be a yoga instructor. She has a fascinating story to tell about why she did that and how she lives her life now.
In this inspiring and moving interview we talk about:
- Why Nadine moved from being a medical doctor to teaching yoga
- Building a different kind of life after leaving the system when medicine became more of a business
- How Nadine is driven by respect for elders and what they have brought to her life
- Taking a holistic approach to health and wellness rather than just focusing on curing illness
- Why Nadine now focuses her work on older people
- Combining medical knowledge with yoga practice to provide a well-rounded experience
- What Nadine liked about pathology
- Adapting a yoga practice to make it accessible for all bodies
- Slowing things down in all aspects of our lives
- Breaking the myths associated with doing yoga
- No pain no gain is nonsense, but no strain no gain makes sense
- The passion and importance of life-long learning
- Moving beyond limiting beliefs and letting go of perfectionism
- If you're struggling with something, ask yourself what you're trying to prove
- Learning to be enough
- Talking about death and grief with her friend
- How we can learn from everybody
- The power of diet and lifestyle changes in extending life with a cancer diagnosis
- Holding space and being present to enable someone to tell their story
- Wanting to help people and have an impact
- How we both hate small talk
- Ageing is a beautiful natural process and gifts come with time
- We short-change ourselves by not seeing the beauty of ageing
- What Nadine has learnt from podcasting
And lots more!
Find out more about Nadine, her work and her podcast on her website.
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Buckle up for a fabulous interview with Janine Queenin and Nicole Markel, hosts of the Messy Middle Roadtrip Podcast.
In this fascinating and very wide-ranging interview we talk about almost everything under the sun from perimenopause to travel, from toxic products to being a ninja warrior! And all things midlife in between.
We cover
- How Janine and Nicole came up with the concept and the name for their podcast, Messy Middle RoadTrip
Getting beyond the invisibility of getting older and the embarrassment of
menopause
Changing society’s narratives around our worship of youth
How midlife women are a huge untapped sector of society
How we can sometimes make ourselves invisible by our poor self-talk
Fighting against the urge to step back
Starting new businesses in midlife
Disconnecting through travel
Eliminating toxicity from the products we use everyday
Finding inspiration for a business in illness
Defeating psoriatic arthritis and improving psoriasis through eating clean, using clean products and lifestyle changes, rather than medication
How labels can in be incredibly misleading
Regulations on products are woefully inadequate and worse in the US than in Europe
How the term fragrance can be used to hide a multiple of nasty ingredients
In the US only 11 harmful ingredients are banned. In Europe the figure is 1300!
How hormonal changes in midlife can highlight issues that need to be dealt and it’s important to listen to our bodies
How stress can create a perfect storm of factors leading to ill health
How positive natural solutions can be massively transformative
The importance of not letting disease define you
Trial and error in starting a business and not wanting to have a boss any more
The importance of thinking about the environment when it comes to travelling
The prevalence of greenwashing – making environmental claims that cannot be backed up
How product formulations change when the small business sells out to a bigger company
The impact of laundry detergent on skin
The impact of inhaling vapours from synthetic cleaning products especially at home when it’s cold outside
The importance of checking labels on products
The impact of the toxic body buildup of ingredients on fertility and other issues including our experience of menopause
The amazing things midlife women are doing and that they talk about on the Messy Middle Roadtrip podcast
How little we know about teenager’s lives
The spirit of midlife women and their willingness to share
The importance of talking about health issues in particular
The power behind owning your story and being proud of it
And lots more!
Find out more about Janine and Nicole, their work and the fabulous Messy Middle Road Trip podcast on their website.
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This is a special New Year's Day episode solo with Rachel. She's in contemplative mood, after a decade in review exercise and looks back at the last year, sharing three big things from 2019:
- The podcast itself
- A year of not buying any new clothing
- Christmas spent caring for the homeless with charity Crisis at Christmas
She talks about how we may all want to move forward into the new decade, finding our purpose either with a small or a capital P, but certainly feeling more fulfilled.
She encourages us all to dream big!
Marie Forleo's Decade in Review
My Year Not Buying New Clothes
Crisis
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I interview Jennifer Louden, a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first best-selling book The Woman’s Comfort Book.
Brené Brown has this to say about Jennifer: “Jennifer shows you how to live with more courage and greater intention and how to embrace the truth that you are enough right now.”
In this insightful episode we talk about:
- Being a self care pioneer
- Saying yes to everything
- Staying fit and starting to run in midlife
- Moving beyond the fear of falling
- How running is good for maintaining bone density, mood and longevity
- The importance of staying mobile
- The importance of making what we want in life
- Why it can be good to be suspicious of self care
- How self care can help get you more in touch with your values and how you want to live – not the bath salts!
- Taking the time to show up in the world
- Claiming and sharing our voices
- Making commitments to ourselves and sticking to them as we would to those made to others
- The importance of retreat in midlife and the discomfort of slowing down to do that
- How looking deeply inside can be scary
- What stops us from getting our scary sh*t done
- Tips to get your scary sh*t done
And lots more!
Find out more about Jennifer and her work on her website.
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Meet Dr Cecilia Dintino and Hannah Murray Starobin, a psychologist and psychotherapist, who are the hosts of the very fabulous Twisting the Plot podcast.
These two are all about changing the unhelpful narratives we may hold dear and creating new stories for ourselves as we go through midlife and beyond. Anything is possible! We talk about:
- How they went from complaining about midlife to finding the glory in it
- How not having any rules means you can make up your own story
- How they met doing musical theatre
- How you can rewrite your story at any stage of life
- Applying fun, hope, imagination and creativity to our lives
- How we have to fight the cultural messages to see this stage as more positive
- The prevailing negative narrative about getting older
- How there is always more to learn and be right to the end of life
- The importance of remaining curious throughout life
- How you can still grow even if you don’t have your health
- Not being defined by being a mother, grandmother
- Living fully until you don’t
- The importance of questioning your own biases
- How the midlife landscape is really changing
- What Twisting the Plot means
- Sharing stories about the different stages of midlife
- You can invent your future – what you want to be may not even exist yet
- Not going invisible to ourselves
- Giving ourselves cultural permission to reinvent ourselves
- Putting ourselves higher up the priority list
- Coming together to create change
- Not being prescriptive about being an older woman
- Embracing our diversity as we age
- Finding our tribe but not being confined by it
- We don’t have to fight over resources and hierarchy
- We are so much more powerful if we lift each other up rather than compete
- The energy that comes from having a side hustle (when you think you don’t have time for it)
- The Art of Possibility book
- Learning that it’s OK to leave the box to solve the problem
- The importance of staying curious
- How we respond to things, and how we move forward are the invention that we have control over
- You can’t change the story necessarily but you can change the associated feelings and how the story ends!
And lots more!
Find out more about Cecilia and Hannah and listen to their podcast on their website.
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Meet Louise Carr who healed her own midlife trauma through retraining as a nutrition consultant. She has a fascinating story to tell about how to improve our health through nutrition, but also how health issues can be changed by eliminating trauma from our lives. All driven by her own experience. Listen in for so much value about how to accept our issues, deal with them and thrive beyond them.
This is such a powerful interview. We talk about:
- How Louise retrained in nutrition in midlife to cope with her own health issues
- Not accepting the doctor’s narrative that health issues were age-related (at 46!)
- How learning about nutrition can transform our lives
- The importance of supporting our adrenal glands with nutrition
- Replenishing our bodies and minds with down time and self care
- How one big change can lead to many others – the domino effect
- Learning to trust your gut
- Coping with overwhelm and depression
- Recognizing the true sources of one’s stress
- Realizing when one’s relationship is no longer viable
- The power of food and nutrition in transforming our lives
- The damaging effect stress has on our health
- How walking away from the wrong relationship can be very good for our health
- Breaking free of abusive behavior
- How IBS is a tell for trauma in our lives
- How midlife is the perfect time to re-evaluate how we nurture ourselves
- How inflammation and fighting our menopausal experience will make our experience of menopause worse
- The empowering effect of stepping out of the victim mindset
- Not accepting what we’re told if our gut tells us otherwise
- The importance of a holistic approach to health especially in midlife
- Dealing with PTSD as a midlife woman
- Re-engaging with your body after trauma
- How trauma effects short term memory – it may not be menopause!
- Stress and hormonal health
- Is it a mood swing or a food swing?
- Keeping blood sugar levels stable
- Weight-gain around the middle in midlife and its connection to stress and metabolism
- Cortisol driving weight to the center of our bodies in midlife
- Mineral dense foods
- Calories don’t count – nutrition does
- Learning to value ourselves more especially with food
And lots more!
You can find out more about Louise and her work on her website. You can also follow her on Facebook.
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Meet gerontologist, coach and author of The Middlessence Manifesto, Barbara Waxman. She's redefining how we think about midlife and highlighting our incredible potential and the opportunities available for those who remain open to growth.
In this inspiring and uplifting interview we cover:
- What Barbara means by Middlessence
- Getting rid of the competition between women for the benefit of the world!
- The power of women when we come together
- Women as connectors and how good we can be at support and building communities
- How middle-aged men's power is waning in the US and elsewhere
- 60% of divorces after 40 are initiated by women
- How if men can embrace the changes in midlife women, it's better for all of us
- Becoming aware of the many more older woman role models and taking inspiration from them.
- What Barbara means by re-potting
- The importance of engaging with information sources you don't agree with
- Not getting entrenched in our thinking as we get older
- The dangers of living in a bubble
- Why staying uncomfortable is very powerful
- Not getting hung up on the idea of having more purpose
- Making the most of the time we have
- The essential elements to getting midlife working well
- The importance of a holistic approach to health
- The power of coaching
- Making the most of the things that only time can bring us
And lots more!
You can find out more about Barbara on her website.
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Join me as I interview Nancy Zeffman and Eileen Willett the founders of Cucumber Clothing, designed to keep women cool in all circumstances.
In this eye-opening interview we cover:
Starting a business in midlife
The importance of friendship, support and trust in starting Cucumber
What makes Cucumber Clothing special especially for midlife women
Having the confidence to just give it a go
Making the most of your empty nest
Capitalizing on earlier life skills to create something new
The importance of continuing to challenge yourself
Learning new skills in midlife
Coping with not knowing what you don’t know
Different fabrics and how environmentally they are
Applying sustainable principles to a business
Sustainable washing – we wash clothes too much
And lots more!
Listeners to this podcast can also get a discount on Cucumber Clothing. Just use discount code: MAGNIFICENT15 valid till Dec 31st 2019.
Find out more about Cucumber Clothing here.
Meet the very funny Julia Frey and Sarah Auerswald, the co-presenters of Menopodcast. These two first met as children growing up on Maui. They moved to Los Angeles, worked in the film industry, set up businesses and are doing a massive job now raising awareness of menopause on their fabulously popular podcast. I've been a guest on their podcast three times! So it was lovely to turn the tables and find out about their midlife journeys. We had a lot of giggles.
In this fabulous interview we cover:
- what it's like hosting a podcast about menopause
- why they are so keen to raise awareness
- how it's important to hear regular voices talking about menopause
- going through menopause with young children at home
- how the podcast grew out of blogging
- growing up on Maui and getting newspapers when someone flew in with one
- surprising things about menopause
- heart disease as the #1 killer of women
- negative stereotypes around menopause
- the opportunities of menopause
- that Fleabag scene
- giving zero fucks and how great that is
- the importance of getting and staying healthy
And lots more!
Find out more about Sarah and Julia and listen to the wonderful Menopodcast here.
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An interview with Darcey Steinke, author of Flash Count Diary. I loved her revolutionary book and so many of her thoughts about menopause are similar to mine. It was wonderful to find a kindred spirit whose overall impression of menopause is so positive. Listen to this and you'll never think about menopause in the same way again!
In this fascinating and very uplifting interview we talk about:
- Darcey’s fascination with her hot flashes
- How the book is about so many different things about midlife and menopause
- How menopause can be a struggle but there is lots of richness to gain
- Darcey’s startling realizations about the menopausal transition
- How Darcey managed her own menopause symptoms and what helped most
- How we may be more like our pre-pubescent selves post menopause
- How we may live more of our lives being infertile than fertile
- The tyranny of estrogen and what it’s like to finally be free of it
- Fertility, menopause and the patriarchy
- Appearance, visibility and the power of female friends
- Calling out ageism especially at work
- Anger and the lifting of the complicity veil
- The marvels of whales and menopause
- The evolutionary reason for menopause
- How misogyny has lots to answer for on how we view menopause
- How rethinking menopause and ageing can re-frame our experience of both
And lots more!
Darcey’s website.
Flash Count Diary
Hattie Voelcker went from being a barrister in midlife to retraining as a performance coach, working particularly with singers. She’s so wise and inspiring! And great fun too.
In this fabulous interview we cover:
- Why Hattie made the change from barrister to performance coach
- The similarities between the two professions
- The beauty of transferable skills
- The power of understanding people’s wants, needs and vulnerabilities
- How being a family law barrister helps her coaching practice now
- Moving from a very high-powered career to a new and different role
- How people of all levels suffer from impostor syndrome
- How the real fear we feel when stepping forward is looking stupid, both for men and women
- How our desire for perfection can hold us back
- Vulnerability and courage as two sides of the same coin
- Empathy starts with ourselves
- How it’s OK, in fact, normal, to be nervous when stepping forward
- It’s fine to be just OK and to be you, and in that is perfection
- Life is an infinite series of nows
- How fun is vital to life
- The importance of pausing in midlife
- SMOG, WELL and WISE words
- Getting rid of the word should from our vocabulary!
And lots more!
Resources Find out more about Hattie on her website: FindYourTrueVoice.co.uk
Brene Brown
SMOG words – should, must, ought, got (also have to and need to)
WELL words – want, enjoy, like, love
WISE words – wise, important, sensible, effective
Amy Sutter, aka Sutter Girl, achieved her dream of becoming a professional body builder at the tender age of 48! She’s a very inspiring woman who accepts no limitations on herself. We talk about how she achieved her goal, what motivates her now to keep the sport alive and how she stays top of her game.
We talk about:
- The dogged determination that finally lead to professional status after a long journey
- What drives Amy to stay in top physical condition so that she can continue to compete
- The long journey to success and the people who helped her along the way
- How Amy crafted a career out of something she loved swapping her side hustle for the main act
- How she used her background in design to create a jewelry range to inspire herself and other fitness lovers
- Amy’s passion for bodybuilding and keeping the sport alive
- How life is different now she’s pro
- How to eat well when you’re on the go
- How to get yourself motivated when your mojo takes a walk
And lots more!
Find out more about Amy, her coaching programs and jewelry range on her website MoJoTiVation.com. You can also find her on Twitter @SutterGirl11
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Professor Joyce Harper is professor of Reproductive Science at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London. She's also Director of Education at the IfWH, Head of the Department of Reproductive Health and Director of the Centre for Human Reproduction. She's worked in the fields of fertility, genetics, reproductive health and women’s health for over 30 years.
Joyce and I connected on Twitter because we're both concerned about the over-medicalization of menopause and how there seems to increasingly be an over-dependence on HRT. We both know there are many natural ways to help us transition vibrantly through menopause. Not sufficient for some but enough for many.
I was delighted to find a kindred spirit in what can sometimes feel like a lonely wilderness. We're both aware our views on this podcast may prove contentious, but we're passionate about making sure women have all the information they need about menopause.
We talk about:
- The over-medicalization of a natural transition in women’s lives
- The difficulties of expressing opinions on Twitter
- The many natural ways to help ourselves during perimenopause
- Getting the four pillars of long-term health right
- Investing in midlife for our well-being in older age
- The benefits of being post-menopause
- Challenging negative views of menopause and ageing in general
- Changing perceptions about menstruation and womanhood
- Rethinking estrogen dependence
- How we're the guinea pig generation for HRT
- The importance of doing your research on menopause
- How you may know more than your doctor if you do that research
- How we are meant to go through menopause and have a different hormonal profile after it
And lots more!
Find out more about Joyce and her work on her website. You can also find her on Twitter @ProfJoyceHarper but please be nice (to keep the conversation going!)
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Meet the very inspiring Valerie Albarda, founder of Midlife-A-Go-Go and podcast host. She's on a mission to inspire women in midlife to be their very best. She wants us to enjoy the fabulous midlife and skip the crisis.
In this wonderfully upbeat interview we cover:
- Valerie's mission to inspire women in midlife
- The Midlife-A-Go-Go podcast and what it aims to achieve
- The value we have to give the world as vibrant midlife women
- How midlife does not have to mean crisis despite what Google may say!
- Learning to accept the need to pivot, to work with the situation we have
- Racial differences in menopause experience
- The trials of looking for work in midlife
- Pushing back against limiting beliefs - our own and what society may suggest
- Being a stepmom
- The reverse empty nest
And lots more!
Find out more about Valerie and listen to her wonderful podcast on her website https://www.midlifeagogo.com/
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Meet the very lovely and straight-talking Elizabeth Temperley-Shell who went from working in corporate design to retraining as an acupuncturist.
In this fascinating and inspiring interview we cover:
- How early menopause and infertility lead Elizabeth to acupuncture
- Why she embarked on a degree course in midlife
- How this choice means she will be learning forever!
- How changes including acupuncture lead to her being able to have a child
- How friends didn’t really understand her journey
- Why life is too short for plain biscuits – don’t settle for the boring
- How we only have one life and it’s important to do what we want with it
- Why beginning her study later in life actually made it less daunting
- How acupuncture can help with menopause because it’s all about restoring balance in the body
- Why looking after ourselves in midlife is key if we want to enjoy a long healthy life
- The concept of Yangsheng – living well and with balance
- The four elements of Yangsheng and why they are so important
- How Elizabeth doesn’t feel she needs to prove anything to anyone anymore
- 5 element acupuncture
- Tree bathing
And lots more!
Find out more about Elizabeth on her website https://www.temperleyacupuncture.com/
Meet Jacynth Bassett, the founder of fabulous online fashion boutique, the-Bias-Cut, and an avid anti-ageism activist. She's also still in her 20s, but has a better handle on ageism than many women Rachel knows!
In this inspiring interview we talk about:
- Why Jacynth gave up a law career to set up her business
- How she came to be so interested in ageism
- How Jacynth was inspired by her mother
- The Ageism Is Never In Style campaign
- Why it's so important to fight ageism especially in the fashion industry
- Why women of all ages should be able to wear whatever they like
- How damaging it is to judge how anyone chooses to age
- There’s no such thing as age appropriate when it comes to fashion and style
- Not succumbing to ageist narratives or any stereotypes
- Dressing to feel how you want to feel
- The importance of being open to new ideas with clothes as we age
And lots more!
Find out more about Jacynth and browse her wonderful store at the-Bias-Cut.com
Rosetta Magdalen is the Dynamic Divorcée. After her own devastating divorce she's dedicated her life to helping other women move on from divorce and get back to living a fantastic, vibrant life, hopefully far happier than before!
In this inspiring interview we talk about:
- How divorce and any big life change can be seen as a gift
- How we may have at least 4 different 'lifetimes' now that we live so much longer
- The importance of feeling the pain after divorce, but knowing when to move on
- Working out your role in the breakup regardless of what happened
- Working out who you really are as an individual not part of a couple
- Blessings in our lives often turn up looking like dragons - but suspend judgement for a while
- How we often want to have more of an impact as we age
- Finding our superpowers in midlife
- Not adding to our pressure and to do lists with a self-care one!
And lots more!
Find out about more about Rosetta's work on her website The Dynamic Divorcée.
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Elaine Miller is a pelvic health physiotherapist and stand up comedian. She’s on a mission to end incontinence through raising awareness, and laughing a lot along the way.
In this very funny and enlightening interview we talk about:
- How 1 in 3 women will suffer from stress incontinence
- How 84% can be cured with just 6 treatments with a pelvic health physio
- Funny stories from Elaine’s long career talking about pelvic floors
- Elaine’s journey from physio to stand up comedian
- What it’s like doing a show about incontinence on the Edinburgh Fringe
- What we can all do to help ourselves with incontinence
- How incontinence may be common but it is NOT normal
And lots more!
Find out about more about Elaine on her website Gusset Grippers! You can get tickets to her Edinburgh Fringe show here.
Meet Jane Evans, the founder of The Uninvisibility Project which is campaigning to end the invisibility that hits women as we get older.
In this fascinating and thought-provoking interview we talk about:
- How Jane’s own experience of becoming invisible in the workplace lead her to set up The Uninvisibility Project
- What The Uninvisibility Project is all about and the importance of highlighting older women and the great things they are doing
- How we're losing out on a great skill base because of prejudice against older women
- How old norms about ageing and women’s careers need to change in-line with increases in life expectancy
- The jobs available for women 50+ often tend to be menial and professional women are having to do these to make ends meet
- How women’s experience is terribly under-valued
- Older women need to continue the pioneering they began by entering many of the previously exclusively male professions
- The advantages to getting older and changing perceptions
- The silver reservoir of talent that is being wasted
- How the lack of sexual objectification post menopause can change the dynamic in the workplace
- Building a matriarchal model for new businesses
- How to cope with feeling invisible
- Reaching out and talking to other older women
- How female competition does women no favors
- Wrinkle creams don’t work – better to put your money into your pension
- Changing anti-ageing to pro-ageing
- Living longer and how to make the most of that
- Finding the talented women who left work due to a toxic male work environment
And lots more!
Find out about The Uninvisibility Project and get involved!
Find out more and check out our Members Club at Magnificent Midlife.
Ashton Applewhite is an author, speaker and anti-ageism activist. Rachel discovered her work about three years ago and has been quoting her daily ever since. Ashton got a standing ovation when she did a main stage Ted talk called Let’s End Ageism. She was invited to speak at the UN. She’s recently republished her book This Chair Rocks, A Manifesto Against Ageism.
In this amazing interview we talk about:
- How Ashton never had a life plan or knew what she wanted to be
- Why we worship youth in Anglo-Saxon cultures
- The lack of products and services for older people
- How we often don’t like to identify as being in midlife or older
- How facing the ageing monsters is useful
- How fears about ageing are totally out of proportion to reality
- Our attitudes towards ageing affect how we age
- The U-Curve of Happiness
- How midlife is a time of reckoning
- How ageism starts between our ears
- How we need to be more generous towards each other and ourselves
- When we compete to stay young we reinforce ageism, sexism and the patriarchy
- How raising consciousness about ageing and ageism is key
- Why we should be able to compete for 100% of the seats at any table
- How to stop reinforcing the shame associated with ageing
- Being aware of intersectionality when considering prejudice
- The importance of language relating to age
- Ashton’s knees and not blaming non-age related issues on age
- Continuing the movement
And lots more!
Resources Ashton's website where you can find out about her appearances, how to set up a conscious raising group and lots of other great stuff.
You can watch her Ted talk here.
Ashton's Book
Meet the very lovely Rachel Peru who's gone from nursery school teacher to successful curve and silver-haired model in her 40s. Rachel is waving the flag for older, more diverse women in the media.
We talk about:
- How the decision to go grey kick-started Rachel’s modelling career
- The stigma that still remains about older women going grey
- How she never would have had the confidence to do what she does now when younger
- The importance of being body positive as we age
- The pressures on younger women in terms of looks
- How things are changing when it comes to talking about menopause
- How Rachel controls the anxiety that has come on especially when travelling to modelling jobs
- The importance of getting exercise outside
- How words are powerful and what we say to ourselves matters
- Rachel’s first front cover for Goldie magazine
- How beauty is about confidence
- Rachel’s own Out of the bubble podcast
- How to not feel invisible
- How reinvention can help bring energy in midlife and beyond
- How Rachel nearly had a breast reduction because of lack of confidence
And lots more!
You can find out more about Rachel on her website and follow her on Instagram
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An interview with Lisa Swanson, a certified health and nutrition coach, and personal trainer. She’s focused on helping women in midlife and beyond get and stay healthy long term.
In this inspiring and wide-ranging interview we cover:
- Why Lisa is passionate about helping women in midlife and beyond get health and fitness right
- How her business enables her to do her other passion – rescuing dogs!
- How diets don’t work and we should stop doing them
- Why it’s different for women in midlife when it comes to staying fit and healthy
- The other factors at play when it comes to taking care of ourselves
- How the menopause gets a bad rap for some of our midlife issues
- The importance of listening to our bodies
- Getting enough of the right balance of macro-nutrients
- Understanding the importance of muscle failure when doing weight lifting
- How Lisa’s anxiety was most helped by proper nutrition and exercise
- The dangers of a sedentary lifestyle
- The importance of having goals for your health and wellness
- Working out what lifestyle works for you
- Tracking your food and exercise
- How being busy shouldn’t be a badge of honor
- Coping with the current anger in the world
- How we need more yin energy in the world
- Challenging derogatory language such as song lyrics
- Making the most of an empty nest
- Lisa’s morning routine
And lots more!
You can find out more about Lisa on her website and also join her Weightlossafter50 Facebook group.
If you like this episode you might like to check out Lisa's Weight Loss Workshop in our Members Club. It includes a full resistance band workout. The Members Club is where you’ll get the support, strategies and connection you need to really make midlife and beyond magnificent.
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An interview with Deborah Ives, the solo traveler behind the travel blog, Solo in Style, who’s passionate about helping women, particularly in midlife and beyond, travel solo. She shares her own journey of how something wonderful came out of something dreadful! She’s determined to show women there’s no need to be scared of solo travel and she has loads of great tips to share. If you've ever wanted to travel solo, don't miss this!
In this inspiring and highly informative interview we cover:
- How Deborah first started travelling solo and why
- How to travel solo without going on a tour
- How great things can come out of bad stuff
- The importance of a bit of courage and also having a plan
- That there’s no shame in travelling solo – it’s all about confidence and doing what you want
- How there’s no need to abandon your adventurous spirit just because you’re a little older
- That it’s easier to be adventurous when you’re away from home
- Moving beyond couple pricing
- Eating alone when on holiday
- Forcing yourself to keep getting out there to limit isolation
- The importance of friendship
- Why we can benefit from slowing down and not rushing around too much
You can find out more about Deborah on her website and also join her Solo in Style Facebook group.
Meet midlife lifestyle coach, Kwavi Agbeyegbe, who specializes in helping women embrace midlife. She's as passionate about changing negative midlife narratives as Rachel. She also believes now is the time for us to take action, and it's never too late.
In this inspiring and uplifting interview we cover:
- The differences in how midlife and ageing are perceived in Nigeria, the US and the UK
- How Nigeria is best of the three at embracing midlife
- Why Kwavi radically changed her eating habits in her twenties
- How she first got into helping women with nutrition
- Why we need to eat less as we age
- Why it's midlife rather than menopause that causes us to gain weight
- The importance of weight-bearing exercise as we age
- How Kwavi came to be modelling a swimsuit on TV at 50
- The importance of starting and appreciating where you are
- Running your race at your pace
- How midlife is a time full of exciting possibilities
- Why it's useful to categorize food - fuel food and joy food
- How processed food exacerbates menopause symptoms
- How the way you are living now can catch up with you
- How menopause is nature's wake-up call to focus on you
You can find out more about Kwavi on her website.
An interview with Melissa Talago, founder of Glamoraks, a global online community connecting women who love to walk.
Melissa tells us:
- How she set up a new global community from scratch with just a simple website and a Facebook group
- How walking can help with stress, depression and generally make you feel amazing
- Why walking helps you connect with fellow walkers on a deeper level quicker than other activities
- How she got over impostor syndrome and limiting beliefs to push forward with her dream
- How to get going with an idea with small steps rather than letting a bigger vision overwhelm you
- How to deal with disapproval from those around you when making changes
- Why honesty helps when starting something new and progress is better than perfection
- How wonderful our bodies are when they work!
And lots more!
You can find out more about Melissa and Glamoraks, and join the community so you can connect with women who walk worldwide, on her website. You can also follow Glamoraks on Facebook.
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Meet Jody Day, founder of Gateway Women, the global friendship and support network for childless women. She’s passionate about helping women without children rediscover their dreams and get their groove back.
In this inspiring interview Jody tells us about:
- How she came to set up Gateway Women 8 years ago
- Breaking the taboo of talking about one’s own childlessness
- Her mission to help as many childless women as possible
- The importance of recognizing the grief associated with being childless not by choice
- How change may not always be welcome amongst your friends and family
- The importance of finding your sisters when coping with childlessness
- Forging a midlife identity that is not wrapped up in motherhood
- The confidence and focus that can come in midlife
You can find out more about Jody on her website Gateway Women and follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
You may also want to watch Jody’s TEDX Talk.
Jody’s Book: Living The Life Unexpected.
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Meet multi-passionate, active lifestyle enthusiast Jo Moseley who, amongst many other things, is the founder of the blog Healthy Happy 50.
She's passionate about inspiring and empowering women in midlife and beyond to become and stay active, and reap the positive benefits of that.
Jo is a true breath of fresh air. In this highly inspiring interview we cover:
- Sobbing in supermarkets!
- Why Jo is passionate about sharing her love of staying active
- How being active helps with stress and anxiety
- How indoor rowing cured Jo’s insomnia and helped with grief
- How not being sporty at school doesn’t preclude sport in later life
- How she rowed a million metres and a marathon to raise £10,000 for charity and process her grief
- How Jo is now more like herself at 10 than she was at 30
- The importance of doing stuff that makes your heart sing
- Why you shouldn’t worry about what other people think of you
- How a simple yet full life can be very rich
- Plogging and why it’s important to Jo
- How she finally understood running in her 50s
And lots more!
You can find out more about Jo on her website and Instagram at healthyhappy50, and on Twitter as @OneHappyRower and @HealthyHappy50
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An interview with the fabulous Jen Lehner, stay at home mom turned digital marketing strategist and college professor. She’s the founder of The Front Row Facebook Group which was named by Fast Company as one of the 12 Facebook groups to join before quitting your day job.
It’s called The Front Row because Jen’s whole ethos is about being on the front row of life, showing up and really taking part.
Jen’s a bundle of energy and in this wide-ranging interview we talk about:
- What inspired her to set up her online community and why she’s so passionate about it
- How to change one’s self talk to cope with daily insecurity!
- The dangers of comparisonitis
- How following your dream is helped when your partner isn’t a jerk
- Jen’s Vitamix passion
- How there are actually lots of possibilities if you’re passionate about something and want to share it with the world
- How anyone can build a business with a smartphone, laptop and a wifi connection
- How to juggle having a family and starting a business
- Why it’s crucial to not be intimidated by technology
- The importance of support whether that’s at home or virtual
And lots more!
You can find out more about Jen on her website and follow her on Facebook. You can join The Front Row Facebook group or Jen’s membership Front Row VIP.
Jen also has her own fabulous podcast The Front Row Entrepreneur.
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Join the amazing Suzi Grant, author of Alternative Ageing and Instagram star, on a gallop through ageing fabulously and squeezing every last drop out of life!
Oh how I love this woman. I can’t think of a better woman to inspire us all in this first episode of the Magnificent Midlife podcast. Suzi is the very best example of an older woman determined to live life to the max on her own terms.
We talk about:
- How Suzi came to set up Alternative Ageing and became an Instagram star
- How she was featured in the New York Times Style Section
- How she got 700,000 likes on Instagram
- The importance of staying authentic
- How blogging (and learning in general) helps to exercise your brain
- The wonders of being creative
- Being proactive about ageing
- Fasting and why it’s so good for us
- How chronic diseases can be helped by lifestyle change
- Being outrageous
And lots more!
You can find out more about Suzi on her website Alternative Ageing and follow her on Instagram and Facebook.
Here's Suzi in the Independent and in the Daily Mail.
Suzi's Book: Alternative Ageing: How To Stay Looking and Feeling Younger For Longer
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Introducing the Magnificent Midlife podcast and host Rachel Lankester. This is where she'll be challenging the status quo and the negative stereotypes associated with older women. Over the hill? On a downwards slope? Not here! We're just getting started!
We'll be talking all things midlife and how to live well long term. You'll hear from some magnificent, yet regular, women doing fabulous things in midlife and beyond. We hope you’ll feel inspired to rethink how you view midlife and ageing in general, and take back control of YOUR narrative.
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