WomenKind Collective

Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 She was 16 years old, newly separated from her home country, when she received a diagnosis that would reshape everything she thoug...

Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 In this episode, we are joined by Fay Peace, a woman whose experience of navigating the healthcare system is both deeply personal...

Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810   This week on Spill The Tea, Lou and Jinty are joined by Sarah West, a nurse, ADHD coach, and passionate advocate for women...

Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810   Description: Internalised Misogyny in Healthcare Have you ever been told you're too much? Too emotional, too sensitive or n...

Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810   This week on WKC Spill The Tea we sit down with Jen, a Menopause Awareness trainer, cancer charity volunteer, and mental health adv...

This week, Jinty and Lou sit down with Rosie Taylor , award-winning investigative journalist, broadcaster, media consultant, and host of the Mother Bodies podcast. Rosie has spent a decade reporting on women's health and family life for some of the UK's biggest publications. But what sets her apart is this: she hasn't just reported on the crisis in maternity care, she's lived it. Her own experienc...

Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 Our guest today is Neelam Heera-Shergill, founder and CEO of Cysters, a community-led charity with national reach working at the i...

This week on Spill The Tea ,  we're having the conversation the NHS seems reluctant to. We sit down with Jocelyn, who at 36 went into premature menopause, and years later underwent a hysteroscopy a procedure she was wholly unprepared for. What followed was agonising pain, zero adequate warning, and a long road to discovering she was far from alone. Jocelyn found her way to  Hysteros...

Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:  https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810   Welcome back! Series 16 is here, and we're spending the whole series investigating gender bias and misogyny in healthcare,...

BBC South West journalist Emily Wood first joined us, a few moons ago, to talk perimenopause. Today, she returns in an entirely different capacity, to share one of the most personal and compelling investigations we've ever heard. Emily has created  True Crime Tuesday  currently airing on BBC Radio Devon Daytimes and it’s a deeply personal reinvestigation into the murder of her...

Today we’re spilling the tea on Imposter Syndrome, or Imposter feelings,  with someone whose work we think so many of you are going to connect with instantly. Dr Lee David is a GP, CBT therapist and author with over 20 years of experience supporting people with their mental health. She is the founder of 10 Minute CBT, bringing brief, practical mental health tools into real-life sett...

This week on Spill The Tea with WKC, we’re joined by chemotherapy nurse Gemma Reeves, who has witnessed first-hand the heart-breaking rise of breast cancer in younger women. Gemma recently launched a petition calling for routine mammograms in the UK to begin at age 40 instead of 50 a campaign focused on earlier detection and saving lives. In a major step forward,...

This week on WKC Spill The Tea, we’re joined by psychotherapist, feminist thinker and author  Jennifer Cox  to discuss Anger and her ground-breaking book,  Women Are Angry , named The Times Self-Help Book of the Year 2024. For generations, women have been conditioned to stay quiet, be agreeable and not make a fuss. But suppressed anger doesn’t disappear it manifests as bur...

This week on Spill The Tea, we’re joined by  Jacynth Bassett , founder of  Ageism Is Never In Style , a global platform working to change how age is understood, represented and valued. Jacynth approaches age through a feminist, intergenerational lens, challenging how women are judged, marketed to, and treated as they get older — and exploring what becomes possible when we shift the narra...

Birth is often treated as timeless and unchanging but the way we give birth has always reflected power, politics, and gender. In this episode of Womenkind Collective: Spill The Tea, we’re joined by cultural historian and novelist  Lucy Inglis , author of Born: The Untold History of Childbirth, to explore how childbirth has been shaped and controlled across history. From Ne...

This week on  Spill The Tea by Womenkind Collective , we’re joined by the brilliant  Siobhan O’Donovan, physiotherapist, biomechanics expert, and founder of  Posture Fitting , a science-led approach helping women understand the real impact of breast weight, posture, and movement on everyday health. We first met Siobhan, at the Hands on Hub & STA Conference, w...

This week on WKC Spill The Tea, we’re spilling the tea with Mandy Hickson, former Royal Air Force fast jet pilot and the first woman to fly the Tornado GR4 on frontline operations. Across a remarkable 25-year military career, Mandy flew 45 missions over Iraq while navigating the intense pressure of a male-dominated environment all alongside raising a young family. In this power...

We’re delighted to be back for Series 15 of WKC Spill The Tea, and we’re kicking things off with our brilliant friend Karen Newby, registered nutritionist, author, and menopause champion. With over 15 years of clinical experience in women’s health, Karen is passionate about helping women understand how food can be a powerful ally during perimenopause and menopause. In this...

We’re wrapping up  Series 14  with a phenomenal guest, the one and only  Leslie Horton , Canadian broadcaster, feminist powerhouse, and the woman who went  internationally viral  after responding on live TV to a body-shaming email with pure  grace, humour, honesty and unapologetic power . Leslie has been keeping Calgary moving for decades, but in December 20...

This week on  WKC Spill The Tea , we sit down with  Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett , Guardian columnist, author of  The Vagenda  and her latest book, the acclaimed  The Republic of Parenthood . Known for her sharp wit and fearless feminist insight, Rhiannon joins us for an honest conversation about motherhood, identity, care, politics, and the chaos and tendern...

This week, the  Womenkind Collective Spill The Tea Podcast  tackles one of the most urgent issues in modern medicine: the systemic gender bias that has shaped women’s healthcare for centuries.  We dive deep into the systemic gender bias baked into healthcare and we’re beyond excited to introduce a guest who is fighting for change. After hearing countless sto...

This week on  WKC’s Spill The Tea , we’re joined by the fabulous  Nicky Hambleton-Jones - the fearless stylist from  10 Years Younger  and  Drop A Decade , now author of  Bolder Not Older:   Dull to Dazzling in 12 Weeks. We dive deep into  midlife confidence, menopause, and rediscovering your style identity . Nicky shares her own experiences of body changes,...

This week on the  Womenkind Collective Podcast , we’re spilling the tea (again!) with  Caro Giles  — writer, teacher, and mum of four. We first met Caro in  Series 7, Episode 3 , where she shared the story behind her book  12 Moons . She’s back to tell us about her powerful new memoir  Unschooled  — a moving and deeply honest look at the cracks in our education s...

Today on Spill The Tea, we chat with Anna Cofone, the award-winning session hairstylist behind iconic looks for Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, and countless fashion campaigns. Beyond her artistry, Anna is the founder of  Hair & Care , a ground-breaking initiative making the beauty industry inclusive for people who are blind or have low vision. Inspired by...

In this empowering episode of Spill The Tea from the Womenkind Collective, we’re joined by Sarah Newman, founder of Get Me Back, Cancer & Exercise Specialist, and Breast Cancer Rehab Coach. After her cervical cancer diagnosis in 2018, Sarah was thrust into surgical menopause and discovered how transformative exercise could be for recovery both physically...