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Conversations with women (over 40)

NEW EPISODE: Jo Hamilton – the Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life
"We have to look after each other, because they won't. It's shameful."
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NEW EPISODE: Olia Hercules – my periods stopped the day Russia invaded Ukraine
"A gynaecologist told me I had the egg follicles of a 40-year-old woman. I was 25."
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NEW EPISODE: Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy
"People pleasing is people using. I think I've just been manipulating people this whole time, thinking I was being good."
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Melissa Febos
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NEW EPISODE: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
"I don't want to still be sitting in the newsroom at 70"
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"We've turned burnout into a neat, momentary drama, but it was a slow dismantling"
Talking cognitive dissonance, finding your way back to yourself and building a whole new life after a breakdown, with Kathy Slack
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NEW EPISODE: Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy
"The friendships I developed during that time were forged in fire. These are women I will never be without."
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1:43
NEW EPISODE: Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing – and growing some boundaries!
"It's not our job to go quietly. It's our job to make a lot of noise and to say, this is wrong and this is doing harm."
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood
"I'm feeling a power and a strength that I find really incredible."
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Clover Stroud
0:39
ARCHIVE EPISODE: Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world & going statement grey
"We've all had our hormones used against us."
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0:52
ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, giving voice to women's stories and not being "the marrying kind"
"We know almost nothing at all about [Shakespeare's wife].. .and yet it doesn't stop historians and scholars and writers rushing forward to fill this…
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0:45
"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"
Talking life, love, your mother lying about your age and learning to give yourself permission, with Elissa Altman
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act
"We think of what happens in midlife as a crisis, but I think it's the opposite, more of a recovery or a return... It's like a reappearing act."
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