The Midlife Mentors

Send us Fan Mail Money. We all need it, we all want more of it, but how many of us actually have a healthy relationship with it?  And what if the way you spend, save or worry about money has less to do with your bank balance and more to do with your childhood, your beliefs and your emotional baggage? In this episode we're joined by Vicky Reynal, financial psychotherapist, author of Money on Y...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we’re joined by Sandra Parker, founder of Just The Tonic Coaching, who knows first-hand what it’s like to be a high-functioning drinker. After a successful career in finance, Sandra changed her own relationship with alcohol and now helps others take back control. We explore why alcohol is so deeply ingrained in our culture, the emotional patterns that keep us reach...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we’ve got some really exciting news to share with you. After teasing this for what feels like forever, we can finally tell you that we’ve written a book! It’s called Couplepause and it’s coming out this November. We wrote it because we talk so much about menopause, andropause and midlife, but one of the things that often gets overlooked is what happens to our relat...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like you’re in a constant battle with time? Always trying to find more of it and always falling short?  If this sounds familiar, we’d encourage you to keep your mind open as you listen to this episode, and consider that the problem might not be time, but our relationship with it. This week we’re joined by Lissa Figgins, a scaling strategist and podcast host from t...

Send us Fan Mail Sponsored recommendation: Listen to the Empty Nest Girl What can a hostage negotiator teach us about having better conversations? Quite a lot, it turns out. Today we're joined by Nicky Perfect, a former police hostage and crisis negotiator who spent years working with the police and UK government in some incredibly challenging situations -  including kidnappings, terrorist in...

Send us Fan Mail Sponsored recommendation: Listen to the Empty Nest Girl This week we're diving into some of the latest issues affecting our nation - from a new study questioning the booming menopause supplement industry, to whether the term ‘manopause’ is a helpful one.  We’ll also look at what whistleblowers have been saying about the rapid development of AI and of course, those extraordina...

Send us Fan Mail Sponsored recommendation: Listen to the Empty Nest Girl Have you ever wondered why, in your 40s or 50s, you suddenly don't seem to cope with the stress the way you used to? Is it just getting older, is it hormones, or is it something much deeper happening inside your nervous system? In this episode, we're joined by medical biochemist, central nervous system expert, and f...

Send us Fan Mail Sponsored recommendation: Listen to the Empty Nest Girl We've had a few weeks off over August, but while we've been away, the world hasn't exactly stood still. So today we're having a bit of a catch-up - what's happened in the world, what's caught our attention, and what does any of it actually mean for us? From Meta and our relationship with social m...

Send us Fan Mail Sponsored recommendation: Listen to the Empty Nest Girl Let me ask you a question. If nothing changed over the next five years - if you kept living exactly as you are today - how would you honestly feel? It’s all easy to slip into patterns in life, so though we might be successful, busy, doing all the things we thought we were supposed to do… something feels missing. So in today&a...

Send us Fan Mail Relationships can be one of the most rewarding parts of life... but they can also be one of the most confusing, especially in midlife. Many women tell us they feel like the man they love has changed. He's become quieter, more distant, or harder to connect with. At the same time, many men say they don't even recognise themselves anymore. So what's really going on? In...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we’re discussing whether there’s a midlife moment going on? When we launched The Midlife Mentors podcast back in 2019, people told us using the term midlife was a bad idea as no one liked it. Midlife wasn't a fashionable subject. It was something people associated with crisis, decline or simply getting older, not a stage of life people actively wanted to talk...

Send us Fan Mail Money affects almost every area of our lives, yet it's one of the subjects many of us feel least confident talking about.  And yet - in midlife, when we're thinking about retirement, career changes, caring for ageing parents, or simply creating more freedom and security, understanding our finances has never been more important. Today's guest is Alex Theis. After an...

Send us Fan Mail Five years ago, the world looked very different.  We were navigating a global pandemic, rebuilding our business, and trying to make sense of an uncertain future. Like so many people, we had no idea what the next few years would bring. If we could go back and sit down with our younger selves, knowing everything we know now, what would we say? In this episode, we're sharing the...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're discussing How To Thrive In A World We Weren't Made For. We're living in the safest, most technologically advanced time in human history... so why do so many of us feel stressed, anxious and mentally exhausted? According to neuroscientist and author of The Evolving Brain Dr Paul Goldsmith, it's because we're trying to navigate a twenty-first ce...

Send us Fan Mail What if we look back on social media the same way we now look back on smoking? In this thought-provoking episode, we're joined by Lord Bethell, one of the leading voices behind the push for stronger online protections for children and the proposed social media legislation in the UK. We explore why governments are finally stepping in, what age verification could mean for young...

Send us Fan Mail Why is it that one piece of criticism can stay with us for years, yet we quickly forget the things that are going well? The answer lies in our psychology. Human beings are wired to spot threats and problems. It's how we survived. But in today's world, that negativity bias can leave us stressed, anxious and focused on what's wrong. In this episode, James is flying so...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I, Claire - go solo for a beautiful conversation with executive coach Hazel Martin and, honestly, this episode went somewhere completely different from where I expected. We started out talking about career change for midlife women and how our purpose shifts as we enter our menopause years, but what unfolded was a much deeper conversation about the stories we tell oursel...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Midlife Mentors we’re talking about health optimisation.   Today we find ourselves living in a obsessive health optimisation culture where we're tracking our sleep, monitoring our HRV, counting steps, taking supplements, cold plunging, fasting and trying to optimise every aspect of our lives. Twenty years ago most people just wanted to lose a bit of wei...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever looked at your life and thought, "I don't feel like me anymore?" Maybe everything looks fine on the surface. The career, the family, the home, the responsibilities you've spent years building. But underneath, something feels different. You feel restless, disconnected, flat... or perhaps you're questioning things that once seemed certain. If t...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is a really important conversation and honestly, one we don’t hear enough about. Because Claire has spoken about female childlessness on this podcast a few times, but we’ve not discussed male childlessness… particularly the emotional impact of it, the silence around it, and why so many men feel they have to carry that experience alone. Whether it’s through circumst...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re exploring why 'resilience' needs a rebrand.  The old model went out of fashion. It was all about pushing through, staying positive and performing no matter what - especially in the work environment. But in a world of relentless uncertainty and rising pressure, many of us aren’t just tired - we’re chronically dysregulated. True resilience has had to...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Midlife Mentors, we’re diving into one of the most talked-about and misunderstood  areas in health right now: peptides and longevity. We’re joined by Dr. Enayat, a GP and founder of Human Longevity Clinics, who’s working at the cutting edge of personalised, preventative medicine. You’ve probably seen peptides all over social media,  touted as the new shortcut to f...

Send us Fan Mail Today on The Midlife Mentors, we’re joined by Lyndsey Simpson, serial entrepreneur, author of The Age Rebellion - and a powerful voice challenging everything we’ve been told about getting older. Because here’s the truth - we’re living longer than ever before - decades longer, in fact - and yet so many of us are still following an outdated societal script of winding down, playing s...

Send us Fan Mail A recent Age UK study found that nearly a third of adults still feel affected by their school PE experiences… with many put off exercise for life. Not because they’re lazy, but because of how it made them feel. Being picked last. Feeling judged. Not fitting in. And what’s interesting is - those moments didn’t stay in childhood. They shaped the story you might still be telling your...

Send us Fan Mail If you're in the position where you still have a parent, or both parents, alive and well - this episode poses the question - how well do you really know them? Not just as mum or dad - but as people, with their own stories, struggles and choices. After losing his father, our guest on today's episode - Neil Taylor, realised something most of us avoid. He'd run out of...