Reset with Beth

You have a 100% success rate of managing life so far. That's worth something. Nobody told us about this bit. The hot sweats, the hormones, the chin hair, the feeling of slipping into invisibility. But nobody told us about the other side either. And in this season finale, that's exactly where Beth goes. Because this chapter, with everything you now know about yourself, what you will and won...

Beth found out her brain tumour had grown back on a dog walk. Here's how she stayed positive. Not a motivational speech. Not toxic positivity. Just a very honest conversation about what it actually takes to keep your head straight when life keeps throwing things at you that you didn't ask for. In this episode of Reset with Beth, Beth answers the question she gets asked most. How do you sta...

The words you say about yourself, you say so many more times inside your own head. Are they kind ones? Beth has made "I'm terrible with tech" her personal truth for years. She said it so often, to so many people, that it became a narrative everyone believed, including her. And it kept a podcast kit in a box for four years. In this episode she talks about the language we use towards o...

You don't have to be isolated to feel lonely. Sometimes it hits hardest when everyone else seems to be getting on just fine without you. Beth is an extrovert with a great support network and a lot of people around her. She never expected to feel lonely. And then she found herself eating a Sunday roast alone in her kitchen, her girls watching telly in the other room, and it hit her like a wall....

What Not To Say To Someone With A Brain Tumour (And What To Say Instead) "At least it's not cancer." "Could be worse." "You'll be fine." Please. Stop. When someone is going through something really difficult, most people mean well. They really do. But meaning well and saying the right thing are two very different things. In this episode Beth shares the things...

You don't need to control everything. You just need to control your bubble. Uncertainty is uncomfortable. Not knowing what's coming, not being able to plan, not having the answers. For women who are used to holding it all together, that feeling can be completely destabilising. In this episode Beth talks openly about living with uncertainty, including what it's actually like to be on wa...

"It'll be fine." Sounds kind. Isn't. Beth is irritatingly positive. She'll own that. But there's a world of difference between genuine optimism and toxic positivity, and in this episode she's drawing a very clear line between the two. Toxic positivity isn't kindness. It's a shutdown. It tells the person sharing something difficult that their feelings are too m...

Isn't everyone a little bit ADHD? No. And if you think that, Beth has some thoughts. At 47, Beth got her ADHD diagnosis. Not from a formal assessment she'd booked. From an educational psychologist she happened to be talking to, who took one look and said, you're off the charts, aren't you? And suddenly a lot of things made sense. In this episode Beth talks honestly about what a lat...

Nobody is exempt. Not you, not Beth, not anyone. When Beth was diagnosed with a brain tumour, people kept saying the same thing. "Why you? That's so unfair. You're so kind, so positive." And Beth kept thinking the same thing back. Why not me? In this episode, she reads another unedited blog post written in the hospital, before her craniotomy. A gloriously honest, funny, surprisin...

Ask ten people. Get ten different answers. And still no closer to what you actually want. Opinions are everywhere. And most of them are noise. In this episode Beth talks about the white noise that quietly erodes your ability to make confident decisions. The pinging phones, the well-meaning friends, the expectations of people who aren't living your life and never will be. She's made some of...

In 2019, sitting in a hospital bed waiting for a craniotomy, Beth started writing. Not notes for her surgeon. A blog post about the people in her life who was fuelling her and who was draining her and what she was going to do about it. In this episode of Reset with Beth, she reads that post out loud for the first time since she wrote it. Unedited. Unpolished. Completely real. Because a brain tumou...

When life falls apart, people rally. The lasagnas arrive. The messages flood in. Everyone wants to help. And then slowly, quietly they go back to their own lives. Because you look fine. And if you look fine, you must be fine. But that's exactly when it gets hard. In this episode Beth talks honestly about what happens after the crisis the invisible recovery, the unseen weight, the stuff nobody...

Beth Hammond didn't plan to start a podcast by talking about brain surgery. But here we are. At 41, Beth was told she had a large brain tumour. A month later - divorced. Two neurodiverse daughters, no driving licence, and a life that needed rebuilding from the ground up. In this first episode of Reset with Beth, she shares the unfiltered story of how she tested everything she'd spent 20+ y...

Still telling yourself you're just "a bit busy"? Beth's calling it out. If your calendar is rammed, your resentment is quietly building, and everyone around you thinks you're absolutely fine you're not busy. You're maxed out. And it didn't happen by accident. In this episode of Reset with Beth, Beth tackles one of the biggest things she sees in the women she works...

Joy is everywhere. But somewhere along the way, most women stopped looking for it. Life can get heavy. The decisions, the responsibilities, the relentless doing. The belly laughs with girlfriends get fewer. Things start to feel flat. And it's easy to think, especially on the really hard days, that there's just nothing joyful left. Beth disagrees. Loudly. In this episode of Reset with Beth,...

You're not being judged. You're being self-conscious. There's a difference and it's costing you. How many decisions have you held back on because of what someone might think? How many times have you stayed in your comfort zone, kept up appearances, or quietly shelved what you actually wanted just to avoid imagined judgement from people who aren't even thinking about you? In thi...

You already know. You've known for a while. So what's stopping you from acting on it? Most women don't have a clarity problem. They have a trust problem. They've been so busy, so overloaded, and so often told that everything is fine, that they've stopped listening to the one voice that actually matters. Their own. In this episode of Reset with Beth, Beth talks about how to reconnect with your gut...

You already know. You've known for a while. So what's stopping you from acting on it? Most women don't have a clarity problem. They have a trust problem. They've been so busy, so overloaded, and so often told that everything is fine, that they've stopped listening to the one voice that actually matters. Their own. In this episode of Reset with Beth, Beth talks about how to reco...