Second Act with Ateh Jewel

This week, Motherland actress Tanya Moodie opens up about her career, fertility issues and dealing with relationship break-ups in midlife. Talking for the first time about her recent heartbreak, Tanya - who has also starred in Star Wars - revealed she dramatically split from her partner of eight years on Christmas Day. Discover how she coped with her PCOS diagnosis, which Motherland star helped he...

Second Act is proud to partner with Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair collection to present The Night Shift - a podcast mini series created for those who are experiencing challenges in their nightly rest routine. We’re talking to some of the UK’s leading sleep experts, giving real insight into how to combat the effects of midlife changes that hold us back from achieving meaningful rest and reju...

Actress and singer Patsy Kensit opens up about her career and family life in this week's episode. From a child star and Hollywood actress to marrying not one but two world famous frontmen, Patsy Kensit has lived the majority of her life under the spotlight. But it is her relationships behind closed doors with sons James, who she shares with his father Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr and Lennon with e...

Restaurant critic and new face of MasterChef Grace Dent joins Ateh on Second Act this week. She opens up about her approach to dating and finances in midlife, her experience with the menopause and how her mother's death forced her to 'take charge' and come into her own. This episode is brought to you by Estée Lauder. Grace Dent has partnered with Zopa on the Biscuit bank account. The content is no...

This week, host Ateh Jewel meets author Adele Parks. On the publication week of her 25th novel Our Beautiful Mess, Adele Parks MBE, who has sold more than six million books and received an MBE for services to literature, opens up about the plot twists that have shaped her own life. Hear about how Adele juggled the demands of a career alongside her 10-month-old son Conrad after splitting from her h...

Comedienne, podcast host and author Cally Beaton joins Ateh on the podcast this week to discuss empty nest syndrome, how to have an amicable divorce and why letting go of control has worked for her. Cally left her job as a high-flying corporate TV executive at 50 and completely changed careers thanks to advice from the late Joan Rivers. Despite being a single mum and breadwinner, Cally took the le...

Comedienne and social media sensation Deborah Frances-White joins Ateh Jewel this episode to discuss her upbringing in Australia, including her teenage years spent in what she describes as a "religious cult", and how leaving the cult led her to re-evaluate everything. Deborah shares her best lessons from a decade of studying feminism, how to have difficult conversations and how to be more confiden...

West End legend Mazz Murray joins Ateh Jewel on the Second Act podcast to discuss her role as Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia!, her life as a performer and a mother raising two boys, as well as the changes she's made to her life since starting her second act. Mazz also opens up about the devastating death of her best friend, Casualty star Rebekah Gibbs, from breast cancer when Rebekah was just 41. Sec...

Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh joins Ateh Jewel on this week's episode of Second Act, sharing her best advice for maintaining a long-term relationship, how she found joy in her 50s, the lessons she's learnt from her grandson and which of her Briderton co-stars she'd most like more scenes with. Second Act is the podcast and community for women in midlife who refuse to fade into the background. Join ho...

At 70-years-of-age former Crossroads actress turned Instagram sensation Jo Good aka Middle Aged Minx believes she knows the secret to happiness in your Second Act. Having been married, divorced and suffered the loss of her long-term partner BBC London host George Webley, Jo tells Ateh Jewel in this week’s Second Act podcast, being single and selfish is the best way to spend her golden years. Secon...

Women’s rights campaigner, menopause specialist, author and broadcasting icon Mariella Frostrup joins Ateh to discuss her experience of ageism and the menopause, her days as an It Girl about town in the 80s and 90s, to the lessons she has learned as a wife and mother of two later in life. Mariella opened up about her early years living in London, how her father's death informed her career choices,...

Record-breaking, Olympic gold medal-winning athlete Sally Gunnell knows a thing or two about what it takes to be mentally strong to succeed in life. But she had to find another level of inner strength when she reached the starting line of the peri-menopause in her 40s. Now a broadcaster, motivational speaker and personal trainer, Sally shared the changes menopause had on her body, her secret to a...

Model and entrepreneur-turned-author Jo Wood bares all in this open and honest chat about moving on and reconnecting to yourself after a divorce. Jo shared the moment she almost died after being misdiagnosed with Crohn's Disease, what it was like to be on tour with the Rolling Stones during her marriage to ex-husband Ronnie Wood, and the lessons she's taking into her second act. Second Act is the...

Former fashion journalist turned transformation coach Jo Glynn-Smith opens up about how her transient childhood moving around army bases gave her resilience, how she navigated a  Second Act career pivot after redundancy from her lucrative job at global jewellery brand Pandora,  and her career advice for anyone looking to become an entrepreneur in their 40s and upwards. Second Act is the podcast an...

Former British Olympic athlete Michelle Griffith-Robinson opened up about how her Olympic mindset has helped her cope with life's challenges, her tips to maintaining a happy 20 year marriage to former Welsh international rugby union player Matthew Robinson, the motivational advice she passes on to her children, surviving through abusive relationships and why women need to take responsibility for t...

The BBC presenter opens up about her struggle with the painful gynaecological condition adenomyosis, her decision to remain child-free and the difficulties of scrutiny and trolling when her job is in the public eye. Naga exclusively talks about how the impact of her background and upbringing on her approach to her career, the racism she has experienced during that time, and how she discovered a lo...

Beloved EastEnders actress Tamzin Outhwaite leaves no holds barred in this searingly honest conversation for the first episode of Second Act with Ateh Jewel. The actress, who founded the We Free Women charity to support burnt out women, talks exclusively about her ‘grown up’ split from her boyfriend who was 20 years younger than her, why she refuses to use dating apps, the pressures of being in th...

This is Second Act, the podcast and community for women in midlife who refuse to fade into the background. Join host, midlifer, mum-of-two and divorcee Ateh Jewel as she navigates her own second act by speaking to celebrity guests about what age means to them, and how they're approaching this new phase of life. If you've got a question or dilemma you'd like Ateh, her celebrity guests and experts t...