WomenKind Collective

Irene Lowry is an absolute powerhouse of a woman who in 2010 founded Nurture, a unique charity offering immediate mental health counselling to women and their partners through, conception, pregnancy, postnatal depression, miscarriage, IVF, peri menopause and menopause. Irene is a humanistic counsellor, who has grown Nurture Health into a service that can be accessed by anyone. Nurture Health has a...

We have a fantastic guest this week that will make you re-think the way your body behaves in menopause. Jessica Vassallo is an award-winning Master NLP Practitioner and Hypnotherapist, Coach, Mentor, Speaker and Writer. Jessica uses Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy and Positive Psychology techniques to help people break free from anxiety, trauma, emotional eating and unhealthy habi...

In this week’s podcast we discuss the links between our first ‘Spring’, adolescence, and our ‘Second Spring’, menopause with the incredible Kim McCabe the founder of Rites For Girls whose mission is to change the world – one girl at a time. Rites for Girls mentors girls right through their adolescence and train women to facilitate girls’ groups. Rites For Girls also run Girls Journeying Together g...

And just like that we’re back for series 5! In this week’s educational and fun podcast Jinty and Lou chat to the wonderful Kate Codrington, author of the menopause self-care book Second Spring, there’s a lot of laughter and some tears in this open and honest chat, we discuss why rest doesn’t necessarily mean lying down and sleeping but can involve doing something that is restful to you. We have so...

The beginners guide to MenopauseIf you want any information about menopause from symptoms, HRT, hormones and what is happening to your body then this is the podcast episode for you it is jam-packed with relevant and up to date research and information. We de-bunk the myths and give you facts and signpost you to where you can find out more so you have all the tools you need to make an informed choi...

In this week’s episode we talk to Caroline Gaskin, a homeopath, flower essence prescriber and a menopause specialist. We learn the difference between homeopathy and herbal remedies and how homeopathy can help in menopause either as a natural solution or alongside prescribed HRT.In the Book Collective we begin the wonderful Kate Codrington’s book Second Spring, there’s a new Funky salad from Jinty...

This week we meet the very lovely Lisa Woodcock who was diagnosed with an incurable auto immune disease PBC (Primary Biliary Cholangitis). 2 years later at 38yrs old years old she received a liver transplant. Lisa tells her transplant story and busts the myths surrounding liver disease, organ donation and transplants. In the Book Collective we conclude the brilliant Red Tent by Anita Diamant and i...

In this week’s Episode we talk about how you can get the most out of your appointment with your GP or Menopause Clinic, and get what you want. Dr Lucy Craven, a Devon based Doctor gives us her advice from a GP’s point of view. We are on the penultimate read of our Book Collective read for this series, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. We have a new Foodie Collective and it’s Funky Salads! We will fin...

With all the news coming out of America this week and the trauma and anxiety this will cause millions of women; we talk to Clare Green a wellbeing/trauma recovery and women’s health coach about coping mechanisms during times of anxiety and stress. Lou and Jinty talk Roe V Wade and the impact on the women not just in the U.S but what’s happening around the world with abortion rights for women, ther...

In this week’s podcast we get to talk to the Queen of Menopause Support & the person behind the #makemenopausematter Campaign, Diane Danzebrink. Diane discusses HRT shortages, and what the pre-menopausal Diane would think about the grassroots campaigner she is today. Lou & Jinty find out what age you are your most sexual as a woman, and it’s not what you think, there’s some filthy beauty news and...

In today’s podcast we talk Histamine with Amantha King and why as our oestrogen levels rise with HRT so does our histamine. There’s talk of why Emma Thompson regrets the demise of the full bush and we find out why pubic hair is actually a natural dry lubricant. There’s fashion news on how to wear a party top and also why more women orgasm when masturbating than through penetrative sex. We have the...

In this week’s episode we meet Mitty James a broadcaster and musician who was diagnosed with ADHD at 13 years old.20yr old Mitty blows away the myths of what it’s like to live with ADHD as a woman, from her diagnosis to coming out of the closet at the age of 14.We have the Book Collective where we continue with Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, there’s a British Foodie from Lou that is almost impossib...

As the Jubilee celebrations are in full flow we thought in this week’s podcast we would look at women in 1952 and in 2022 and there’s some quite shocking differences. We have a royal quiz, for you to test your knowledge on all things royalty, and ensuring we keep it real we talk dildos whilst travelling, Jodie Comer’s one woman play, Prima Facie and also why we celebrate a Texan mum. There’s high...

In this week’s podcast we talk about getting your sparkle back with Sam Palmer, the founder of the on-line platform Midlife Makeover, through movement and exerciseIn the Book Collective we dig deep into Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, and discover the character traits of the women in the red tent. The Foodie Collective cooks up an energising feast for our lunch and there’s also a bit of biscuit triv...

This week’s podcast is all about the girls with the founder of Rites For Girls, Kim McCabe, an organisation who’s mission is to change the world – one girl at a time, Rites for Girls mentors girls right through their adolescence they also run the Girls Net course a six-week journey for girls equipping them for times of challenge and change. We also talk to a Girl’s Net Mentor, Naomi Scholger and f...

We are back for series 4! Who would have thought it? And we start this series with an incredible guest who answers an important question, how to get our energy back in menopause? Well, who better to answer this HUGE question than Wendy Hill, the owner of Hill Start Nutrition Health and Wellness? Our Foodie Collective theme this month is ENERGY FOOD, and Wendy gave us a delicious pancake recipe tha...

This week we take a look at Natural Solutions for our Menopause Symptoms with Nutritional Therapist Karen Newby. Helpful for anyone on or off Hormone Therapy. We discuss unexpected Covid symptoms and tips. We conclude the fabulous Maddy Anholt’s How To Leave Your Psychopath and meet the Red Wine Angel and Jesus who drives a removal van. We start a new foodie #cookforukraine and Jinty’s been cookin...

Maddy Anholt is a comedian, actor, Women's Aid Ambassador, and the author of How to Leave Your Psychopath and she is our very lovely guest on this week’s podcast where we discuss her book, toxic relationships and identify some of the manipulative traits of a psychopath. There’s a discussion on a phallic Cornish luxury hotel, seagulls that fly over a 100 miles to visit their favourite fish and chip...

In this week’s podcast we meet the extraordinary Dr Zoe Hodson who talks all things testosterone during the menopause and why it’s not just for boys. Did you know that pre menopause women produce 3-4 times as much testosterone than oestrogen, so why is this hormone not on our GP’s radar? Find out as Dr Zoe answers all ours & the Collectives questions. We hear some fashion news that takes us back t...

In this week’s podcast there’s an awful lot of exposing! We’re talking gender bias; we throw light on how the lack of data in healthcare is killing women and it’s all to do with Aristotle (well in a round about way!). Also, in the workplace - why are women marginalised and made to work below their skillset? We dissect the incredible Invisible Women book by Caroline Criado Perez who gender myth bus...

This week we sort out all the worlds problems with our guest Rosie Johnson of Rosie Johnson Illustrates. We are very lucky that Rosie is based here in Devon but her creative talents are an international success, producing Prints, cards, fashion, Jewellery and pins. She also does design work, book illustration and as if that’s not enough she’s invented a great card game for children, Natter Matters...

In this week’s podcast Jinty and Lou get interviewed by their guest Ruby Walsh who is researching for her book. We speak openly and honestly about the menopause through the dark times to now being able to understand what are bodies were going through and how women are not considered valid in society once they can no longer produce children. We look at some of the more unusual menopausal symptoms i...

We continue our relationship with food and mental health month with our guest today who is combining both after having gastric sleeve surgery 6 months ago, we find out how  Tim Barnes has now started the next stage in his life and how the surgery has changed his life, it’s a very vulnerable and frank conversation and we loved talking to him. We conclude our Book Collective book of the month, The F...

In this week’s podcast we carry on our food and health theme for this month with our guest, Marcelle Rose, a registered nutritionist and health coach who specialises in binge eating, bulimia, emotional eating and yo-yo dieting. It’s been a difficult week in the news and we ask why, in the UK now, there is a greater prison sentence for pulling down a statue than there is for rape! We’re furious tha...

Welcome to series 3 and a very happy New-Year to you all! We are starting 2022 off with a fabulous guest, Elizabeth Joseph, a woman navigating menopause and trying out (so that we don’t have to) all the good, bad and the downright ridiculous inventions that will help (or not) you through menopause. We find what you think about New Years resolutions, motivational or are we setting ourselves up to f...