WomenKind Collective

In this podcast series of Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective, we’ll dive into topics impacting our health and well-being, featuring extraordinary women who are raising their voices for positive change, and our guest today is certainly raising her voice for positive change, Spilling the Tea with us this week is, the wonderful, Dr. Liz O’Riordan. As a breast cancer surgeon, author, and three-ti...

Welcome to Series 12 of Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective, where we will dive into topics impacting our health and well-being, featuring extraordinary women who are raising their voices for positive change, and what better way to kick off this series and consider positive change than with Marcelle Rose who is talking to us about her new book, Emotional and Binge Eating, and we’re excited to...

We have snuck in an extra episode of our Spill The Tea podcast for Christmas and it’s full of sparkle, so settle in with a mince pie and a mug of tea. This week we meet Big Lil and the Headscarf revolutionaries, four women who in 1968 changed the face of fishing in the UK proving that when women get together positive change can happen.    There is also a pit...

  This series, we are spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change. Today we are thrilled to be spilling the tea with the incredible Bianca Sprague.  Bianca is a self-identified ‘super lesbian’ and a dedicated mother who is deeply committed to addressing issues such as, queer care, combati...

  This series, we are spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change. Today we are thrilled to be spilling the tea with our guest and Womenkind Collective co-founder Lou Hockings-Thompson.  When a child moves out of home, parents often experience a mix of emotions, rangin...

WKC Spill The Tea on: Unlocking Your Power in Perimenopause   In this series, we are spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change Today we are thrilled to be spilling the tea with our guest and dear friend of the podcast Kate Codrington.  Kate is a writer, facilitator, yoga Nidra guid...

  This series, we will be spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change. This week we spill the tea on romantic relationships in midlife with our very good friend Annie Chung @my_life_in_lipstick, Annie is a midlife fashion and colour expert who also became single in her 50’s.&nbs...

This series we are spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change Today we are thrilled to be spilling the tea with our guest Clara Törnvall an inspiring advocate for neurodiversity. Clara has been a journalist and producer since the early 2000's. Her first book, The Autists, women on the spectrum is...

WKC Spill The Tea on Anxiety and Menopause   In our new series, we will be spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change. This week we spill the tea on what it’s like living with anxiety in menopause, from our personal experiences.  We discus what anxiety disorder is and what...

  In our new series, we will be spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change. This week we have a wonderful guest, Emily Courtney, or as she is better known in her online community, Mothering and the Menopause. Emily is a Mum of three young children, including twins, and had them...

In our new series, we will be spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change. This week we have a very special guest, our very own Jinty Sheerin. Most autistic girls, women and people assigned female at birth, are either, never diagnosed or diagnosed later than boys and men. Some much later in li...

In episode 2 of our new series, we will be spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change.  This week as it is the start of Menopause awareness month we get back together with a dear friend of the podcast Dr Ginni Mansberg , author of the M Word how to Thrive in Menopause...

In our new series we will be spilling the tea on topics that affect our health and well-being from the extra-ordinary women that are raising their voices for positive change. And what better way to kick-off our new look Series than with campaigner Jo Bateman.  Jo is campaigning for cleaner seas and is taking South West Water to court; the water company have repeatedly dumped sewage into the s...

We conclude series 10 with an incredible woman who’s story we were privileged to hear. Earlier this year we attended the launch of the West Country Women Awards in Plymouth where we met todays guest, who blew us away with her determination to help others through sharing her own story of overcoming shame and finding purpose after being released from prison. The inspirational Raina Dunne has been th...

An intentional overriding theme of this series has been Gender Bias in health care, so today in our penultimate episode of series 10, we talk with Jen Moore who has started the project ‘They Said What?’ The medical Me Too movement where she intends to document lived experiences with medical gaslighting, dismissal and misogyny when it comes to women’s health conditions.&nbs...

As you all know we at Womenkind Collective are all about shedding light on taboo subjects and one of the biggest taboos is poo! So, we thought it was about time we started to break the stigma about something that we all do. This week our guest is Julie Cornish, not only is she a colorectal surgeon, a senior lecturer but she is also the founder of the superb Every...

Throughout this series we have been on a journey through the history of women’s health from wandering wombs, witch craft and our uterus’s being held responsible by the patriarchy for all of life’s miseries.  In this weeks fun and educational Episode we meet the fabulous Dr Karen Tang. Her incredible book It's not Hysteria,The Truth About Pelvic Pain, Period Problems, and Your Gynaec...

Today we have a very special guest on the podcast, and a friend of ours, Diane Danzebrink. Diane is back talking to us this time as an author, her book, Making Menopause Matter, is an essential guide to menopause, it’s part memoir and part manifesto and it is brimming with practical help, it really is like having a Diane Danzebrink in your pocket! Diane is the founder of Menopause Support, a purpo...

Very occasionally in life, if you are lucky, you meet people that are so wise that you have to stop in your tracks and listen to them speak, and after listening you come away with your eyes more open and the world looks a little brighter than it did before. Today’s guest is one of those people, Molly Fenton, she is only 22 yet she is changing lives, she is the award winning founder...

We have two fierce and fun guests on the podcast today, Kate Duffy and Gayle Stevens-White, they are grassroot campaigners who have collaborated and founded, Bloody Negligence, a movement that is exposing neglect in women’s healthcare from menstruation to menopause and everything in-between, they want to empower women to have their say and ‘get shit done’! We have met these incredible women many t...

Our guest this week is the wonderful Author and Autism advocate Emily Katy.  Emily’s book, Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life, is a powerful memoir where she shares her personal experiences with autism and mental health. In this chat Emily highlights the challenges she faced in childhood and adulthood, emphasising the importance of understanding and acceptance. We discuss t...

  Now, most people have heard of the body’s Circadian Rhythm but do you know what it means and how it affects our wellbeing and sleep? Well, someone who does is our guest today Dr Kat Lederle, who is a sleep and body clock scientist, a sleep coach and also the author of Sleep Sense.  Dr Kat is passionate about helping individuals sleep well and feel good. She sees sleep as...

This week we welcome back a friend of ours who was one of our very first guests back in 2021, sexual health and pleasure expert Sam Evans, who is the co-founder of Jo Divine, an online sex toy company which she set up with husband Paul in 2007. We have been looking forward to chatting to Sam again and as usual Sam was full of practical and useful information about all things sex, intimacy, and ple...

In this Episode we chat with the multi award winning founder of The Adeno Gang Tanya Simon-Hall about Adenomyosis, we catch up on your comments, discuss our book club book, there's also some Shakespeare and empty nest chat. April is Adenomyosis awareness month so who better to talk to than the fantastic Tanya Simon-Hall, she is the multi-award winning founder of The Adeno Gang. We first met Tanya...

  We kick off series 10 with a fantastic guest, chartered psychologist and founder of The Psychology School, Serena Simmons. We’ve been looking forward to chatting withSerena since we met her at Therapy Expo where she blew us away with her talk. Serena has worked i...