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Five years of watching the conversation around menopause change
In 2019 I had an idea for a book about perimenopause and midlife – (almost all) publishers told me no one was interested in middle-aged women. This week…
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Is it a podcast? Is it a newsletter? Is it a community?
It’s all of the above! And more…
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Come and say hi, I'd love to know a bit more about you
Hello, I’m Sam, I’m a recovering magazine editor who stumbled into making podcasts and discovered I LOVED it.
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The picture that prompted a life change
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All* of my friends are ending their marriages
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Do you need to reinvent – or should you just cut yourself some slack?
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Childless cat ladies (stepmothers or not) of the world unite!
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The illicit joy of bunking off
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“Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them”
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Sam's posts

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Five years of watching the conversation around menopause change
In 2019 I had an idea for a book about perimenopause and midlife – (almost all) publishers told me no one was interested in middle-aged women. This week…
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The unexpected power of the #OOO
Turns out the digital emperor has no clothes. And other things I learnt in seven days off-line
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“Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them”
A personal story. (I guess I should add a content warning here. But that would mean putting one on many women’s lives)
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What's got my attention this week #69
Links and recs to get you through the weekend
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What's got my attention this week #68
Links and recs to get you through the weekend
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What's got my attention this week #67
Links and recs to get you through the weekend
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Conversations with women (over 40)

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Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)
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