WomenKind Collective

Christmas Party Just as we are hurtling toward the end of 2021, we are coming to the end of Series 2 of the Womenkind collective Podcast. And we are celebrating this with a Christmas Party and you are all invited-So get your party poppers, your Christmas hats, your favourite tipple, or tea, and have no HOGO worries because for this party we are staying In-In, so slippers are not only welcome- they...

Welcome to the weekly podcast of Womenkind Collective, in this week’s podcast we talk about how to achieve a stress free Christmas. Do you stress about presents, family and cooking the perfect Christmas dinner? Well, you can worry no more, we have the top 25 tips to help you achieve a stress free Christmas. In the Book Collective we conclude Bella Mackie’s How To Kill Your Family and there’s a per...

Growing up with Type 1 Diabetes In this week’s podcast we talk to a woman who has grown up with Type 1 Diabetes, Daisy Hockings-Thompson, Lou’s daughter. Daisy talks to us about her diagnosis, the teenage years and how even before getting out of bed in the morning it affects her every-day life. We look at how hormones affect insulin when menstruating and during menopause.  In the Book Collective w...

In this weeks Womenkind Collective podcast we talk to the fabulous Sunita Passi about her new book, The Dr Won’t See You Now, she explains why there was a need for a book about the Ayurvedic healing system now from the impact of Covid-19. There’s a great foodie for stir-it-up Sunday, but it does go a bit haywire! We find out the Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year is, and it’s a good one. We f...

There are over 2 million people suffering from Long Covid in the UK and 118 million people worldwide. We are still living within a pandemic, it is still claiming countless lives around the World, this week a report in the medical journal, The Lancet, states that Covid-19 has bought health inequalities into sharp focus on an international scale. In this week’s podcast we speak to a Covid survivor w...

At Womenkind Collective we love to talk to our listeners about their stories of inspiration and this week is no exception. We meet Kelly Barnes, an award winning business woman who has built a life she does not need to take a holiday from, she lets us know how she has achieved a work/life balance - what a lot of us yearn for. We also meet someone who is building a business after the death of her f...

Liz Ayre & her two daughters are making sure that their loving Father & husband, Mike, is more than a memory by campaigning & raising awareness for the disease that took Mike from them at the young age of 51. This week we speak to Liz, a phenomenal women, who cared for her husband when he was diagnosed at 46 with young onset Alzheimer’s, whilst living abroad and bringing up two teenage daughters....

In this week’s podcast Jinty and Lou talk to life coach and woman empowering expert Sophie Cleere about how we can embrace our midlife and love ourselves for who we are. The Book Collective finish the last chapters of Tarana Burke’s Unbound and there are tears but a deeper understanding of why the Me Too movement is one of the most important movements of our time. Jinty and Lou discuss what gives...

As it was World Menopause Day on October 18th, we talk about how the generations of women before us had to suffer, the hideous medicines they were told to take and the Doctors believing that a clitoridectomy would solve the hysteria issues surrounding women of a certain age. One woman as we find out was not going to be silenced, she had a voice and through desperate times she continued to use it....

This week’s guest is the wonderful Jane Simpson, author of The Pelvic Floor Bible. Jane is starting a pelvic floor revolution & we love it, she talks to us about Pelvic Floor dysfunction which can lead to varying types of incontinence, prolapse, constipation &more, particularly in menopause. Breaking news- You don’t have to put up with it! Jane Simpson is a continence nurse specialist and has had...

In a week where the man who murdered Sarah Everard was sentenced and Sabina Nessa’s killer was arrested, we look at how safe women are, in all aspects of their lives. We speak to Kat from Women’s Aid about the work they are doing to ensure women have a safe place to live, how the money raised from the 1.6 Women’s Aid Challenge will go to help countless women and their children living with abuse. W...

As we are approaching Menopause Month during October, our guest is a migraine specialist, Dr Katy Munro, if you are a headache or migraine sufferer this podcast will give you so many tips and remedies and you’ll be signposted to where you can access help and advice. Did you know 1 in 7 people will suffer with migraines which may become more frequent in menopause? Our Book Collective discuss the ne...

In this week’s podcast we meet up with the amazing Petra Coveney, founder of Menopause Yoga, who wants to help folks re write the menopause by writing our own Menopause stories. Petra herself is 55 and loving life in her Post Menopause and we are delighted she could join us on this week’s podcast to give us some tips and talk about how stories of our middle age have, throughout History, been stole...

In this week’s podcast Jinty and Lou meet Alison Jordan, the founder of Pete’s Dragons a charity that helps families through suicide bereavement, we hear her inspiring story of how family tragedy turned into a charity. Jinty has a question on hair loss and the Women’s Aid 1.6 challenge is underway we hear how the Collective are getting on. The Book Collective are reading Fern Riddell’s Sex Lessons...

In this week’s podcast Jinty and Lou talk breathing. An involuntary action which we do without much consideration of how each breath we take can affect our bodies and our mental state. We talk to a breathing expert, Johanna McWeeney, a trained breathing instructor. Jinty gives us some breathing exercises to try that will aid sleep and calm anxiety.  The Book Collective hots up with this week’s 3 c...

In this week’s podcast Jinty and Lou talk Periods and endometriosis and dispel the stigma that both men and women have around this topic. Emma Barnett has written a go to book on the topic, It’s about bloody time Period and we hear period stories from the Collective. We meet Jess Jairath a woman with endometriosis who tells her story and how she has dealt with this debilitating illness through her...

Jinty and Lou are back after a summer break for the second series of Womenkind Collective and they open with a very special guest, Fern Riddell, historian and author of the best-selling Sex Lessons From History. They have a wonderful conversation with Fern and not just about her new book! There’s plenty of Collective chat and we announce a new foodie, a new book and we conclude A Year of Marvellou...

In the final episode of Series 1 of Womenkind Collective Jinty and Lou celebrate the amazing guests and topics that we have met throughout our first Series. We also delve into boob talk, would you #frretheboob as Gillian Anderson has? We talk about the original girl gang, The Pink Ladies as Paramount announce this week they are making a prequel to Grease centered on the Pink Ladies. Why did male p...

This week the Collective talk Cake and Heroes and Cake heroes. We asked who are your heroes? And you delivered some amazing responses. We meet a real life hero who used her super power of brownie making and moved her family and business during a pandemic to re-locate in beautiful Devon, Katie Cross founder of Cake or Death. Discover what Jinty & Lou have been up to this week involving Menopause an...

This week we have a very special guest on the Collective, Tonya Keane founder of The Women’s Brain Project, who is a nutritionist, chef and functional medicine practitioner that specialised in the menopausal brain. What is brain fog? Do you feel you are loosing your mind? What can we do to help our brains function as they should? All these questions answered and many more with the lovely Tonya. Th...

This week we have a special edition of the Womenkind Collective podcast it’s all about Menopause! Jinty and Lou talk to the amazing Dr Sarah Ball who answers all your questions on menopause, symptoms, HRT, and everything else we could fit into our hour with her. Do you know where your oestrogen receptors are in your body and why we need oestrogen? You will find all the answers in this podcast, Dr...

In this weeks podcast Jinty and Lou discuss the Ofsted report about sexual harassment in primary and secondary schools that came from Everyone’s Invited, a website and Instagram page dedicated to reporting over 50,000 testimonies from survivors of the rape culture centered within schools. We speak to 3 women who learned first hand that sexualisation came directly from their schools. A new `book fo...

In this weeks podcast Jinty and Lou meet the amazing Sunita Passi an Ayurvedic practitioner and founder of ethical conscious-based skin care brand Tri-Dosha, she is a leading voice in the world of Ayurveda and has the most amazing story to tell us and advises us about how we can improve our everyday life. The Book Collective completes the final few chapters of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women with some m...

In this weeks podcast Jinty and Lou were moved by the story of three black slave women, the Mothers of Modern Gynaecology, Anarcha, Betsy and Lucy. They were three enslaved women with Vesticovaginal Fistulas that were ‘gifted’ to Dr James Marion Simms, the man credited with inventing the field of Gynaecology. We look into what their lives may have been like. The great sacrifice of the Mother’s of...

In this weeks podcast Jinty and Lou chat to Lou Thomalla-Davey about her personal journey through infertility. We discover the great imbalance of the NHS postcode lottery when you are a stepparent. The Book Collective is well underway with Three Women. Jinty is so frustrated with what guest Lou tells us she has researched with some shocking results. We start our new foodie month with the topic of...