The Pressing Play Podcast

This week on The Pressing Play Podcast, I’m joined by the brilliant Charlotte Body, founder of The Health Assembly and the woman behind Pause Live — the UK’s largest women’s health event.And this conversation has ENERGY.Charlotte is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years’ experience building, scaling and selling businesses across healthcare, media and events. But it was her own experience of perimenopause and the struggle to get the answers she needed that helped set her on a completely new path.We talk about what happened next.From why women are still struggling to access the information and support they need, to the power of community, better conversations around women’s health and Charlotte’s mission to make sure the next generation does things differently.We also go behind the scenes of Pause Live 2026, the UK’s largest women’s health event, and talk about what happens when you bring thousands of women together in one room and, because this is Pressing Play, we get onto dancing, day raving and why midlife absolutely does NOT mean the party is over.Charlotte is funny, refreshingly honest and completely passionate about changing the conversation around women’s health.This episode is about women having better information, better support and a much bigger conversation about what life can look like in midlife and beyond.In this episode, we talk about:Charlotte’s own experience of perimenopause and what led her into the women’s health spaceWhy accessing the right information and support can still be so difficultThe power of bringing women together and having honest conversations about women’s healthThe story behind The Health Assembly and Pause LiveWhat to expect from Pause Live 2026Why community mattersMidlife, dancing, day raving and refusing to disappearWhat pressing play looks like for Charlotte nowPause Live 2026I’m so excited to also be joining Pause Live in London on Saturday 10th October, where I’ll be delivering The Healing Power of Tapping in the Experience Hub!!!If you’re coming along, please come and say hello and come and tap with me!Get your tickets at www.pauselive.com and use the discount code PAUSE10.About Jo Fiddy.I’m Jo Fiddy, Menopause Coaching Specialist, EFT Practitioner, speaker and host of The Pressing Play Podcast.I work with women navigating perimenopause using evidence-based EFT tapping, nervous system support and menopause coaching to help with issues including brain fog, anxiety, overwhelm and stress.You can find out more and work with me at JoFiddy.com.Follow me on Instagram: @jofiddy_And if you enjoyed this episode, please follow The Pressing Play Podcast, share it with a woman who needs to hear it and leave a review. It makes such a difference in helping more women find these conversations.Perimenopause isn’t a pause. It’s a pivot.

Welcome back to The Pressing Play Podcast Season Two 🎧We’re back, my loves. And Season Two feels different.This season, I want us to go deeper. I’ll be bringing you extraordinary guests, honest conversations, science, tapping, perimenopause and plenty of Press Play energy all with one purpose: helping more women stop putting themselves on pause.In this first episode back, I’m talking about something that has been on my mind all summer:The Invisible Pause.It’s that place you can find yourself in during perimenopause where, from the outside, life is still happening. You’re working. Parenting. Showing up. Getting things done.But underneath?You’re exhausted. You’re snapping over things that never used to bother you. You’re crying in the car and then putting your sunglasses on and carrying on. You walk into a room and forget why you’re there. Your confidence has taken a knock. You start questioning yourself.And sometimes, almost without noticing it, you begin making yourself smaller.You stop going for things.You think, Should I even bother?That’s The Invisible Pause.In this episode, I’m exploring why I believe perimenopause can turn the volume up on the beliefs, patterns and stories we’ve been carrying for years, including what we’ve been taught about women, ageing, worth and what this chapter of life is supposed to look like. We’re experiencing it inside a culture that has spent generations telling women what ageing should mean.And I want us to challenge that.I also share why HRT can be life-changing , it has been for me, but why supporting our minds, beliefs and nervous systems matters too.Also in this episode…I’m sharing a little of what happened at Latitude Festival this summer (the energy was OFF THE SCALE), plus a huge pinch-me moment: I’ll be taking to the stage at Pause Live in London on 10th October, bringing the Healing Power of Tapping to the UK’s largest women’s health event.And I have two pairs of Pause Live tickets to give away!Head over to my Instagram to find the competition and enter:Instagram: @jofiddy_Feeling your own Invisible Pause?If something in this episode made you think, Oh God, that’s me, I’m opening up my 90-minute 1:1 perimenopause coaching sessions.Bring me the one thing that’s keeping you awake, the decision you keep circling, the anger, overwhelm or loss of confidence you can’t seem to shift.Together, we’ll calm the noise, explore what’s really running underneath and start moving you from The Invisible Pause → Pressing Play.Work with me: jofiddy.com/perimenopausecoachingRemember, my love:You are not declining. You are just getting started.Keep Pressing Play. ❤️Jo x

Pressing Play with Persia LawsonWhat if the secret to navigating midlife, relationships and life's hardest moments isn't waiting for everything to feel okay……but choosing to bring the magic anyway?This week I'm joined by someone I've wanted to have on the podcast for a very long time.Persia Lawson is one of the UK's leading relationship experts, bestselling author of Love Is Coming, speaker and television relationship coach. But this conversation goes far beyond dating.Together we talk about grief, resilience, perimenopause, beliefs, intuition, relationships, ageing, self-worth and why life is far too precious to spend waiting for permission to fully live it.Persia shares, with incredible honesty, the difficult season she and her family are currently navigating, and the mindset that is helping her move through it one day at a time.It's about remembering how to stay open to life.It's about choosing possibility over resignation.And it's about pressing play even when life feels uncertain.In this episodeWhy your beliefs shape far more than your relationships.The hidden stories we carry about love, ageing and what's possible.Why your intuition deserves to be listened to.The importance of bringing magic into difficult seasons of life.The mindset shift that changes everything: choosing your story.About Persia LawsonNamed by The Times as one of the UK's most successful love coaches, Persia Lawson is a dating and relationship expert, bestselling author, speaker and television personality. For more than a decade she has helped thousands of women build healthier relationships by changing the beliefs that keep them stuck. Her work has been featured by Vogue, Cosmopolitan, the BBC and HBO Max, and she hosts the chart-topping podcast Love Is Coming.https://persialawson.com/About JoJo Fiddy is a Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist and host of The Pressing Play Podcast. She helps women who feel like they've quietly disappeared during perimenopause understand what's happening in their brain and body, change the beliefs that have been keeping them stuck through her Belief Soundtrack® method, and press play on the next chapter of life with greater confidence, energy and purpose.Work with JoThe Press Play SessionIf you know something needs to change but can't quite work out what's keeping you stuck, this is where we start.During this powerful 90-minute one-to-one session, we'll uncover the Pause Button that's keeping you stuck, identify the Belief Soundtrack® running beneath the surface, and help you take your first confident step towards pressing play again.You'll leave with greater clarity, a calmer nervous system and a clear direction for what comes next.📩 Email: [email protected] Comeback Kit (Free)Somewhere along the way, so many women stop choosing themselves.The Comeback Kit is your invitation to press play again.Inside you'll find:A confidence pep talkA guided tapping sessionA practical boundaries guideIt starts with choosing yourself.Download your free Comeback Kit.https://jofiddy.myflodesk.com/comebackConnect with JoInstagram: @jofiddy_Website: jofiddy.com

We Weren't Meant to Do Midlife AloneLast week, for the very first time, I missed an episode of The Pressing Play Podcast.The reason? I was in London attending two incredible events. I went expecting to learn, but what I wasn't expecting was how I would feel afterwards.I came home calmer. Lighter. More energised.It reminded me that sometimes the most powerful thing we can do for our wellbeing isn't adding another supplement, another podcast or another thing to our to-do list. Sometimes, it's simply saying yes to connection.In this episode, I explore the fascinating science behind why being physically together changes how we think, feel and regulate our nervous systems. We look at why perimenopause can become one of the loneliest seasons of a woman's life, how stress and fluctuating hormones can amplify that feeling, and why gathering with other women may be exactly what our brains and bodies have been designed to do.In this episodeWhy connection is more than a nice idea—it's powerful support for your nervous system.The science of collective effervescence and why shared experiences leave us feeling more alive.Why online communities help us find our people, but real-life connection deepens those relationships.How perimenopause can increase feelings of stress, anxiety and isolation.What anthropology teaches us about why women have always gathered together.Simple ways to create a more connected summer.About JoJo Fiddy is a Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist and host of The Pressing Play Podcast.She helps women who feel like they've quietly disappeared during perimenopause understand what's happening in their brain and body, change the beliefs that have been keeping them stuck through her Belief Soundtrack® method, and press play on the next chapter of life with greater confidence, energy and purpose.Work with JoThe Press Play SessionIf you know something needs to change but can't quite work out what's keeping you stuck, this is where we start. In this powerful 90-minute one-to-one session, we'll uncover the Pause Button that's holding you back, identify the Belief Soundtrack® running beneath the surface, and help you take your first confident step towards pressing play again.You'll leave with greater clarity, a calmer nervous system and a clear direction for what comes next.To book your session, email [email protected] Comeback Kit (Free)Somewhere along the way, so many women stop choosing themselves.The Comeback Kit is your invitation to begin again.Inside you'll find practical tools to help you quiet the mental noise, calm your nervous system and reconnect with yourself.You'll receive:A confidence pep talk.A guided tapping session.A practical boundaries guide.Because pressing play doesn't start with changing your whole life.It starts with choosing yourself.Download Here. Connect with JoInstagram: @jofiddy_Website: jofiddy.comIf you enjoyed this episode, I'd love it if you subscribed, left a review or shared it with a friend. The more women we reach, the more women we remind that they don't have to navigate midlife alone.Keep pressing play.

Welcome back to the Pressing Play Podcast.In this solo episode, Jo dives into one of the topics women ask her about most, body confidence in perimenopause, and why it gets even harder to navigate when summer rolls around.If you've ever stood in front of the mirror before a holiday and felt your stomach drop, this one is for you.Jo unpacks why your body is changing, where the beliefs about how it "should" look actually came from, and why the way out isn't about shrinking yourself it's about feeling more and looking less.In this episode she covers:Why body changes in perimenopause are a hormonal reality, not a personal failingThe science behind water retention, weight shifts, hair and skin changes — and what's actually driving themHow childhood messages, magazine culture and decades of shifting fashion standards quietly built your belief soundtrack about your bodyThe "mirror fallacy" how constant self-checking trains your brain to find fault, not confidenceJo's three holiday body rulesThe ripple effect of body confidence — and how it changes the way you experience your whole summer, not just how you look in itIf this episode moved something in you, if you're done not liking your body for the next half of your life get in touch and work with Jo. Email [email protected] to find out more.Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who has been through menopause twice — once in her thirties and now navigating perimenopause at 45. She helps women go from living in the pause of menopause to Menoplaying™, regaining their confidence along the way.Using menopause strategies, somatic techniques and her Belief Soundtrack™ method, Jo helps women release the blocks holding them back, understand what's happening in their brain and body, and press play on the life they actually want.Follow Jo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jofiddy_/Subscribe to the Pressing Play Podcast so you never miss an episode.