Midlife & Beyond Conversations

HRT - is it right for you? In this conversation, Dr Ferhat Uddin, NHS General Practitioner and Founder of the private Menopause Clinic, Liberty Health, explains what happens to women's hormones during menopause and answers Jo's questions. If you book a consultation with Dr Uddin , mention The Midlife Movement or Jo Blackwell for 10% off all services. 0:00 Intro 0:33 Doctor education on menopause 2...

Is it time to redefine your career success? Perhaps your career has been put on the back burner while you've supported others and you want to go all out now you've hit midlife? My guest this week, Rachel Power, draws on her own experience and years of Leadership Coaching to help you answer the "what now?" for your work life. Buy Rachel's book, "Redefining Career Success: Taking Charge with the P.O...

Do you want to increase your healthspan and age as healthily and naturally as possible? Join me this week as I talk to Naturopath and Perimenopause specialist, Sara Southgate. 0:00 The Key to a Long and Healthy Life 1:43 The Role of Stomach Acid 4:32 Tips to increase Stomach Acid 7:35 Inflammation 11:35 The Best Type of Exercise for women over 40 13:00 Stress and Aging 16:16 Tips to Switch Quickly...

Laurie Gerber has been advising women and couples for over 20 years - here's what she has to say about the joys of dating after 50 - and how to be successful at it! For more of Laurie's dating resources check out her FREE webinar: "3 Secrets to Finding and Maintaining Healthy Love without Repeated Disappointments" Learn:✓How to be Ready to Date Like You Mean It in 30 Days or Less✓The #1 Ingredient...

Have you ever thought about becoming a creator on YouTube? Or wondered about what drives those who do? At 45, Alexa Saarenoja made a bold transition from a distinguished career in architecture and design to a full-time content creator on YouTube. Through her channel and consulting firm, she combines her passion for teaching with her own transformative experience, guiding midlifers to set and achie...

Why do we over eat? And how do we make peace with food? Join me and Sherry Shaban to talk about how trapped trauma, stress and hormones affect how we eat, exercise and live! Sherry Shaban is an osteopath and an anti-diet health and life coach from Montreal, Quebec. She is the founder of the Fall in Love with Fitness Podcast, the HIIT Decks™ App, and Make Peace with Food™, the leaders in an anti-di...

Find happiness and reignite your life! Join me and Rachel Marie Martin to discover how you can Get your Spark Back - which is the title of Rachel's new book: https://amzn.to/3YX7Xu (Amazon affiliate link) 0:00 The challenges of an empty nest 1:43 Adding a dog to the family 3:25 Letting go when children leave home 6:06 What now? 9:27 Investing in yourself 11:43 Fall 7 times, stand up 8! 13:12 Feeli...

Preparing for peri-menopause can help ameliorate symptoms, helping you to take your health into your own hands. This is what menopause expert, Dr Tayo believes and she has devised a program to help you do just that: https://getyoursassyback.com/ Note: The NHS does prescribe HRT without payment. As so often happens in these conversations, we covered far more than peri-menopause symptoms, talking ab...

Getting your affairs in order with Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney doesn't sound exciting, but there are definitely some unexpected benefits! Join Rosie Wright of Brixworth Wills and I for this short conversation about the subjects most of us avoid. Note: although some of the terms used are UK specific, the general principles apply wherever you are. However, this is a conversation and not int...

Join me and Geriatric Pharmacist and nutrition coach, Amy K Wilson, as we talk about the shocking truth about constant dieting, ozempic and nursing home admissions - Nursing Homes in the US are seeing younger people arriving - in some cases 50-55 years old! 0:00 Seeing the outcome of poor nutrition and poor fitness 4:20 The role of inflammation and over processed food 7:02 the health halo and ingr...

Midlife and Menopause - does it really have to be a crisis? This week, we're flipping the script with Guest, Nathalie Cordell: 0:00 Role Models & Self Leadership 2:00 Confidence in girls 5:58 Finding yourself again in Midlife 10:00 Women's wisdom 15:01 Authenticity 23:01 Craving peace 28:02 An Allegory of reawakening If you've enjoyed this conversation, PLEASE LIKE & SUBSCRIBE. Thank you f...

Have you noticed that maintaining your weight is becoming an uphill battle? According to this week's guest, diets don’t work - the secret to easily losing and maintaining your most comfortable weight lies with your metabolism.  Nagina Abdullah is a weight-loss coach for women in midlife and founder of the top-rated website MasalaBody.com . Nagina has a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC...

This conversation is about self love in action, and how to find the love you deserve at any age! International relationship coach, Junie Moon is passionate about empowering women by helping them recognize their inherent worth and guiding them through the process of healing their hearts. Utilizing techniques like Shadow Work®, her mission is to create a positive ripple effect. By supporting people...

Human Design practitioner and coach, Jacqueline Kent, talks to me this week about how we lose our power, how we can reclaim it, and how Human Design can help! Find out more about Human Design on Jacqueline’s website Buy her book, Onward and Upward, here: https://amzn.to/3VsprMk #amazonad  If you've enjoyed this conversation, PLEASE LIKE & SUBSCRIBE . Thank you for your support! About the Midli...

Did you know that the proportion of people going self employed over 50 is growing year on year, both here in the UK and in the US? This week, I'm talking to Colleen Kochannek, who teaches midlife women how to launch an online business. Find out more about Colleen and how she helps women 50 plus start an online business on her website . Sign up for the free “Gumption Gazette” and find out more abou...

How is your relationship with your mother? This week, I’m talking to psychologist, Vanessa Wallace about her program, “Healing the Mother line.” Vanessa explains how growing up in a dysfunctional relationship with our mothers can cause us to adopt behaviours such as people pleasing and “good girl” syndrome, or carry deep seated anger and resentment which we then pass on to the next generation. We...

We all deal with anxiety in different ways - for this week’s guest, Mindfulness was a life saver.   Billy Lahr is an intentional living and mindfulness coach, certified personal trainer, former educator, and serial overthinker.  Billy is also the host of The Mindful Midlife Crisis , a podcast for people navigating the complexities and possibilities of life’s second half.  Billy spent 21 years as a...

Imagine suddenly losing everything you’ve built up in the first half of your life - marriage, friendship, mother role, home - at one fell swoop. That’s what happened to the protagonist in novelist, Tracy Bloom’s latest romantic comedy, “The Time of her Life.” This week, I’m talking to Tracy about infidelity, empty nests and some more of life’s fickle twists and turns. Having time in midlife to thi...

Dementia affects most of us one way or another, whether caring for parents or worrying about our own health and future. Today’s guest, neuropsychologist, Dr Mitchell Clionsky, talks to Jo about the latest research, reasons for hope and what we can do to decrease our risk. Key takeaways: Surprising facts about dementia: 50% of dementias are preventable and less than 5% of dementias are genetically...

Melina Abbott says that wild swimming, especially in the cold of winter, gives you so much more than a momentary thrill: “In menopause, you do start to feel more anxious. You start to feel more afraid, but by doing something crazy, like plunging yourself in freezing cold water, it gives you confidence because you think, wow, I did something really hard. So when I come out, especially if I've not w...

Have you ever wondered what would happen to your digital life should you die unexpectedly? Would your grieving loved ones know what utility companies you use, for example, so they can close accounts? Do you have strong beliefs or feelings about end of life care, funerals etc? This conversation, with Jane McCourt of The McCourt Method - themccourtmethod.com - has us breaking one of the last taboos...

April believes that having a healthy money mindset comes from feeling you deserve to be taken care of and trusting that things will work out. She feels her early experiences being around very wealthy people in college, even though she had little money herself then, shaped her belief that large amounts of money are possible and normal. April says she has leaned on her spiritual beliefs during diffi...

Did you know that the methods you used when you felt the need to lose a few pounds in your twenties and thirties just stop working when you reach perimenopause? Why? Hormones. This week I’m talking to weight loss expert, Dr Heather Awad about the fact that, as she puts it, “calories are not math at midlife.” We talk about the difference between adipose and and the more insidious visceral fat, and...

Did you know that it’s now believed that 80% of chronic disease in later life can be prevented by what we do now in midlife? Me neither! That is an astonishing figure, one that prompted Dr Ferhat Uddin to add metabolic health assessment and improvement to her services at Liberty Health Clinic.   As she explains, midlife health isn’t just about hormones and she advocates that every woman should hav...

Award-winning British actress, director, producer and entrepreneur, Sharon Maughan developed health problems in 2009 due to a reaction to salicylates, known as salicylic overload. Suffering from symptoms including breathing problems, nasal polyps, eczema and incredibly sensitive skin, she had major surgery and was warned to make significant lifestyle changes, and drastically limit her salicylate i...