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In this episode of Wild, Wise & Curious, we sit down with Jody for a powerful conversation about perimenopause, brain fog, identity and rebuilding your life when everything feels like it’s falling apart. Jody shares how her perimenopause symptoms collided with a difficult chapter - the end of her marriage, caring for three children with additional needs, losing her father and leaving her teach...

ADHD, Perimenopause & Reclaiming Our Own Story This week on Wild, Wise & Curious, we dive into a powerful conversation about ADHD, perimenopause, identity and the emotional weight so many women carry without language for it. Our guest, Claudia, returns to the show and shares her recent ADHD diagnosis and how perimenopause has amplified everything - anxiety, focus, PMS, overwhelm. She talks...

Clare’s story is one of those rare conversations that stays with you long after you’ve heard it. She didn’t know she was in perimenopause - not until a colleague gently suggested she might want to get checked after noticing she was a little 'shouty'. A women’s‑health specialist confirmed she was already well into menopause, and because of her stage, HRT back then - just wasn’t an option. What foll...

The Frequency of Becoming: Perimenopause and the Path Back to Self In this week’s episode, our guest, Diane, joins us to share the extraordinary, unexpected path that began with subtle but unsettling shifts in her body - changes she didn’t yet recognise as perimenopause. What followed was a deep journey into intuition, holistic wellness and the kind of midlife awakening that reshapes everything. D...

This episode is an honest, funny and deeply relatable conversation about navigating perimenopause, ADHD and the big identity shifts that often arrive in midlife. Louisa shares how she discovered she was in perimenopause after months of unexplained symptoms, how hormonal changes intensified her ADHD, and how she’s learning to be kinder to herself as life evolves. We explore alternative lifestyle dr...

Stage Lights & Surgical Menopause: A Musician’s 0-60 Midlife Shift This week we sit down with Tara, a woman who has lived her entire life under stage lights - a guitarist and vocalist who has travelled the world, taken thousands of requests on the fly and kept entire rooms dancing while her brain works at lightning speed. But behind the music is a story of grit and humour - and a body that has...

When Midlife Becomes a reset: A Journey Through HRT, Symptoms & Midlife Wellness   This week’s episode shares Claire’s midlife story - a chapter marked by the unravelling, the pivot and the quiet re-becoming so many women recognise. Claire opens up about the early signs of perimenopause: the heat - the anxiety - the confusion - and the small, steady shifts that helped her find her footing agai...

What happens when your body shifts pace long before you expect it to? At 32, Kerry was working in the makeup industry - long days spent on her feet, standing behind counters, raising three children and trying to keep up with life. But her body began sending signals she couldn’t ignore: brain fog so strong she’d forget why she walked into a room, mood changes that didn’t feel like the anxiety she h...

In this return conversation, Emily steps back into the circle to share the profound shifts that have unfolded since her last visit. Her journey has been one of returning to herself - through creativity, earth‑based practice, bardic study and the unexpected alchemy of perimenopause. She speaks about writing her second novel, The Dandelion Chronicles, a mystical, shamanic musical adventure for child...

For our 50th episode, we’re diving into The Midlife Pivot - the moment so many women hit during perimenopause when symptoms, identity and daily life start shifting in ways that just can’t be ignored. Our guest, Zo, shares how her journey began during lockdown with dry mouth, 3am wake‑ups and hot flushes, and how not being able to take HRT pushed her to explore other forms of support. She talks abo...

In this episode, we sit down with Jennie for an honest, funny and deeply human conversation about perimenopause, menopause and the midlife decisions no one prepares you for. Jennie shares how her journey began with mood swings, hot flashes and brain fog in her 40s - and how those symptoms slowly unravelled parts of her life she thought were set in stone. From medical treatments that didn’t help, t...

In this week’s episode, we explore how the menstrual cycle shapes, guides and ultimately carries us toward the threshold of our elder years. Our guest, Rushna, shares her 25‑year journey with menstruality - beginning with a chance discovery in an astrological journal and unfolding into a lifelong practice of tracking her monthly bleed, honouring her inner seasons and learning to live in rhythm wit...

In this episode of Wild, Wise & Curious, Sue shares her powerful journey through perimenopause and menopause - a journey that reshaped her health, her identity and ultimately… her life. She opens up about the anxiety, cognitive challenges and emotional strain that made it impossible to continue in her corporate engineering role. What followed was a profound shift: Sue discovered sound healing...

In this week’s episode of Wild Wise and Curious, we are joined by Laura, calling in from Spain, for a beautifully honest conversation about navigating perimenopause while parenting teenagers and managing the realities of single‑parent life. Laura shares how she first recognised she was entering perimenopause when her period became increasingly irregular over eleven months, followed by brain fog an...

Perimenopause often arrives quietly, disguised as something ordinary - a restless night, a stressful week, a sudden wave of heat you put down to a new deodorant. In this episode, Angie shares her personal journey into recognising those early signs for what they truly were: the beginning of a profound hormonal transition. We talk about the moment of realisation, the overlap between perimenopause an...

This week, Kerstin shares a story that began with a body in distress and a mind trying to make sense of it. She experienced heart palpitations, shortness of breath, adrenaline‑rush reactions to food and almost fainted at work. She also had an electrical sensation in her chest that eventually led to a small cardiac procedure. When she finally saw a cardiologist, he told her, ‘Women can get this in...

Dani’s midlife turning point didn’t arrive with the classic symptoms - it arrived through tension at home. What she jokingly calls 'teenage 1.0 versus teenage 2.0' became the moment she realised something deeper was shifting inside her. That moment opened the door to understanding perimenopause and sparked a deeper journey into holistic healing and self‑reconnection. In this beautifully honest con...

At 52, everything Rowena thought she knew about her body suddenly changed. Her period due date wasn’t her period due date anymore, her sleep vanished for three relentless months, her mental health crashed and even mindfulness - the thing she teaches - wasn’t touching the sides. We talk about the shock of perimenopause simply arriving, the frustration of being told ‘this coil will stop your periods...

In this episode of Wild, Wise & Curious, we explore what it feels like to experience a permission shift in midlife - the moment you start choosing differently, listening inward and treating your body with the care it’s been asking for all along. Our guest, Nix, talks about being in a deeply curious place: noticing how her body responds, how it communicates and how rest becomes something to val...

In this episode of Wild, Wise & Curious, we meet Sarah and explore how life’s experiences can quietly - and sometimes radically - alter the trajectory of our lives. Sarah shares what it was like becoming a mum again at 40, the joy and euphoria of welcoming her youngest child and the shock of perimenopause arriving soon after. What followed was a profound crash: a body that suddenly felt like i...

In this episode of Wild, Wise & Curious, our guest, Tina, does something we absolutely LOVE - she makes sense of perimenopause by categorising her experiences into six very memorable themes. Meet: Miss Trunchbull Sweats Peanut Butter Brain Fog Tom Selleck Facial Hair Hey Macarena Skin Itching Pilates' Nails Volcano Spots (Yes. Really.) What unfolds is part confessional, part comedy, part deep...

In this episode of Wild, Wise & Curious, we’re joined by the lovely Sara Joyner - a former midwife and now a British Menopause Society and Newson Health trained HRT clinician - for an honest, funny and all round great conversation. Sara shares what it was like moving through perimenopause in her early 40s, at a time when awareness was extremely limited. She reflects on feeling 'too young' to b...

What happens when perimenopause doesn’t arrive with a bang… but arrives in a whisper? In this episode of Wild, Wise & Curious, we’re chatting with Ruth, a woman in her early 40s whose perimenopause journey began quietly - so quietly she barely noticed at first. A changing cycle. A period tracker suddenly asking about pregnancy tests. Forgetting words mid-sentence.  And then there were the symp...

Cate returns to Wild, Wise & Curious for Episode 2, and once again brings her grounded, goddess-like presence to the conversation. We first met Cate at Barefoot Festival in the summer of 2025 and were immediately drawn to her way of being - deeply embodied, unapologetically herself and rooted in wisdom. Still in the midst of her own perimenopause (day 43 of no period… maybe today, maybe next w...

We joined the glorious Sarah and Charlotte on Northants1 for a big, bold, joy-filled conversation about perimenopause, midlife, and why we created Wild, Wise & Curious. Expect laughter, honesty, brilliant questions, a little bit of chaos (thank you, music edits!), and a whole lot of heart. Together we explore what it really means to navigate perimenopause and life beyond - with humour, curiosi...