40ish | The Funny Podcast on Perimenopause, Menopause & Midlife

This week on 40ish: Nicole discovers that misogyny is alive and well in the sauna, while Lauren discovers that even a night at the Graham Norton Show can be too much in your 40’s. In this week's dilemma, a woman recently married for the second time discovers that her new husband has been secretly taking Mounjaro for months and lying about it.I In our listener meltdown, there are perimenopause periods that refuse to follow any rules. How are you supposed to track a cycle that has apparently given up tracking itself?  As always, we're talking midlife, relationships, hormones, the things that wind us up and the ridiculous situations we find ourselves in along the way. Because being 40ish is not for the faint-hearted. If you've got a midlife dilemma, a meltdown or a story that makes you wonder whether it's just you, we want to hear it. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Ad⏐AG1's best ever deal currently at under £50 per month when you take a quarterly subscription. Try AG1 for 90 days and see how it can help support your energy, mood and focus at: https://drinkag1.com/selfcare All orders include a Welcome Kit with scoop, shaker, canister, 5 travel packs and a bottle of VitaminD3K2. You can find all the details on the health benefits via the link. Study results are held by AG1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish: we kick off with a Most 40ish Moment that perfectly sums up our working lives: an unsolicited pitch from a doctor-turned-founder offering us colostrum to try, with no strings attached. Because apparently, talking about midlife for a living means being approached about whatever wellness trend has just landed in our inbox.Nicole is raging at DJ X telling her what music to clean her house to and Lauren still has a gripe with U2 from 2014.  In your feedback, one listener gets disproportionately excited about an airer she ordered, promptly forgot about and then rediscovered when she got home from work. Honestly, the small joys of being in your forties deserve their own appreciation society.  Then it's time for this week's big dilemma: would you ever date a friend's ex? A woman in her mid-forties has found herself attracted to someone who was once in a serious relationship with one of her friends. The relationship has ended, everyone has supposedly moved on, and the chemistry is undeniable. But does she owe her friend a conversation before taking things further? Is dating a friend's ex an absolute betrayal, or does friendship come with a little more flexibility once we're adults? Join Lauren & Nicole for another funny, honest and gloriously relatable episode about midlife relationships, dating after 40, friendship dilemmas, parenting adult children, perimenopause, menopause symptoms and all the absurdities that come with getting older. Follow 40ish for weekly conversations about women in midlife, relationships, family, friendship, wellbeing and the things nobody warned us about in our forties. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Ad⏐AG1's best ever deal currently at under £50 per month when you take a quarterly subscription. Try AG1 for 90 days and see how it can help support your energy, mood and focus at: https://drinkag1.com/selfcare All orders include a Welcome Kit with scoop, shaker, canister, 5 travel packs and a bottle of VitaminD3K2. You can find all the details on the health benefits via the link. Study results are held by AG1, 2023. If you’re ready to launch your business before Black Friday, go to Shopify.com to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish it’s all about the acronyms as Lauren has to google what an MVP is, whilst Nicole is obsessed with NMN because Tony Robbins says so. (Quite what Eminem & Dido have to do with it all is another story.)  Your feedback, includes a very important discussion about colour-coded glass Tupperware (yes, apparently they do exist) In Midlife News, we get stuck into the growing menopause industry and ask whether women are being genuinely helped or simply persuaded to spend a fortune on anything with a menopause label and lilac packaging.  Then comes this week's dilemma: a mum of teenagers who has spent years telling her children they can talk to her about absolutely anything. Now they're 16 and 19, she's discovering that being a safe space can sometimes mean hearing information she would really rather not know. How do you encourage honesty and keep the lines of communication open without becoming the unwilling recipient of every intimate detail of your children's lives? in this week's meltdown, we bring you Lauren’s eyebrow dye incident. Sometimes midlife is about personal growth. Sometimes it's about returning to Boots with emerald green brows and demanding a refund.  Follow 40ish for weekly conversations about midlife, relationships, family, friendship, beauty, menopause, wellbeing and everything else we're apparently supposed to have figured out by now. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Ad⏐AG1's best ever deal currently at under £50 per month when you take a quarterly subscription. Try AG1 for 90 days and see how it can help support your energy, mood and focus at: https://drinkag1.com/selfcare All orders include a Welcome Kit with scoop, shaker, canister, 5 travel packs and a bottle of VitaminD3K2. You can find all the details on the health benefits via the link. Study results are held by AG1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish, Nicole has discovered eyemaxxing and naturally wants to know whether we should all be doing it and whether our faces have somehow acquired another department that needs managing.  Meanwhile, Alison Hammond is hitting back at critics of her age-gap relationship, raising the question of why women still seem to face a completely different set of rules when it comes to love, age and who they're allowed to date. In todays big relationship dilemma: is it ever OK to discuss your marriage with your best friend? Where does healthy venting end and marital treason begin? And should your partner be worried about what your friends know about them?  Plus, we investigate one of midlife’s greatest financial mysteries: how do you walk into Boots for one thing, emerge £67 poorer, and still not have the thing you went in for? Whatever it is, we need answers. Just another week of trying to navigate midlife without buying unnecessary eye products or accidentally bankrupting ourselves in Boots. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected] 📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lauren’s so peri-peri she forgot to change her HRT patch AND how to board a plane. Plus: why are women thirsting over the Wicker Husband from Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård’s new film Wicker? This week on 40ish, Nicole has been locked out of LinkedIn… again. In Midlife News, we dig into the Wicker Husband craze. Could a tall, handsome man woven from rattan fix modern dating fatigue? Searches for personalised wicker baskets are reportedly soaring. Then it’s your dilemmas. A listener has met a charming man in his 50s. Is he a gentleman taking it slow, or just a bit uptight? Should she make the first move? We talk dating after divorce, reading the signs and taking a chance on romance. Plus airport dads, and proof that midlife is anything but boring. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected] 📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast #Perimenopause #DatingAfterDivorce #MidlifeWomen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices