Fannying Around

Welcome back to Fannying Around... Season 2 This week we're kicking off with a cracker! Our guest is Sarah. She's 52, works in the NHS, raised her son as a single mum and spent years putting everyone else first before deciding it might finally be time to put herself back out there.   What followed was a journey into the wonderful world of online dating. And by wonderful, we mean being ca...

So for this final episode of Season One, we're opening the case files. The Fanny Files. We're looking back at the biggest themes that kept cropping up again and again. Why so many women struggle to access good information. Why we're all so bloody tired. Why so many of us ignore our bodies until they start shouting. Why women still have to fight to be heard. And how menopause somehow...

Today we’re fannying around with Melissa and Steve Wall. Melissa is a Team GB powerlifter, strength coach and all-round force of nature. Steve spent 42 years serving in the Army and somehow found himself becoming not only Melissa’s biggest supporter, but her coach, teammate and partner through menopause too. What starts as a conversation about hormones quickly becomes something much bigger. We tal...

Midlife, Anorexia and Learning to Listen to Your Body This week on Fannying Around, we are joined by Marina, a 50-year-old mum and businesswoman living in Jávea, Spain. Marina's story explores body image, hormones, burnout, nourishment and what it really means to reconnect with yourself. Marina speaks openly about growing up around restriction, developing anorexia as a teenager, using alcohol...

Jodie is 41, works in a secondary school with teenagers… and is tired. Not just end-of-the-week tired. Not just “I need an early night” tired. The kind of tired that’s been quietly building for years. After heavy periods from her teens, 20 years on the pill, a difficult experience with the copper coil, and managing an underactive thyroid, Jodie has always just got on with it. Because that’s what w...

Michael is an American author now living in Alicante, who left the US during the first Trump administration with her young daughter, built a new life in Spain, and is now figuring out empty nest life while writing books in the mountains surrounded by dogs, which, if we’re honest, sounds pretty bloody perfect. But before that came years of awful periods, relentless bleeding, a brutal struggle to ge...

Is It Perimenopause… or Do I Just Hate Everyone? In this episode of Fannying Around , we chat with Katie — global events boss, mum of three, and a woman juggling a big career, teenagers, school runs and the creeping suspicion that something hormonal might be going on. Katie is almost 42 and loving life… most of the time. But like many women entering perimenopause, she’s started noticing some stran...

Rachel was the woman who didn’t have time for menopause. International marketing director, travelling the world, running a side hustle, and somehow still finding time to compete in ballroom dancing. Life was busy, exciting and very full. So when the early signs of menopause crept in, Rachel did what many high-achieving women do — she powered through it. She was wary of HRT, decided to go the “natu...

Horrendous hormonal headaches everyday since her 20s. Doctors. neurologists and rheumatologists… Finally a gynaecologist. Lisa’s story is what happens when you go in search of HRT….and get a stage 3 cancer diagnosis. Fu*k a 🦆 Lisa’s story is one of clarity and courage and what happens when you don’t take any shit, arm yourself with the right info and ruddy well hope for the best! 🤞🏻 Fanny Aroun...

Our very first episode! This week we’re fannying around with Taz, whose story doesn’t begin with menopause… it begins with puberty. From the very start, Taz felt like something wasn’t quite right. What followed was years of hormone sensitivity, misdiagnosed mental health struggles, PMDD, fertility challenges, and a long, complicated journey with HRT that ultimately led to her making the huge decis...