One year ago this was just an idea on a plane. Now it's part of your weekly routine: on your walks, your drives, your Sunday resets.

And as a girl who loves to celebrate birthdays - we’re marking it properly.

This episode is a full behind the scenes of what it actually took to build this show: the lessons, the sacrifices, the things nobody tells you about podcasting, and where In Her Era is going next.

The lessons from this year go way beyond podcasting. T
hey're about building anything you love with excellence, consistency and a really clear why.

Don’t forget the exclusive First birthday giveaway below.

This isn't my birthday to celebrate. It's ours.

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Have ever caught up with a friend you've known for years and thought... you had to only share "parts of you". That maybe that don't know the whole you? That you don't even know how to answer the simple question of "how are you" without giving them the highlight reel.

I've been sitting with this for weeks. Because I realised I've been giving different friends different slices of me, my business friends get the business version, my school friends get the older version, and somewhere along the way I lost the room where someone gets ALL of me (other than my boyfriend)

Turns out there's actual science behind why we do this. And it's not because we're fake friends. It's because our brains are literally wired for it.

This episode is the research, the receipts, and the real strategies for closing the gap: for the women who have a full life, a full circle, and still quietly feel like nobody actually knows them.

You don't need everyone to know everything. But you deserve at least one room that holds all of you.

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Most bloating advice goes straight to food -cut gluten, try low FODMAP, eliminate dairy. But if your gut health isn't right, it's not the food that's the problem. It's your body's ability to break it down.

This Health Download breaks down the five real root causes of bloating - from your nervous system to your stomach acid to your hormones - even when you're doing everything "right."
Plus five practical, no-supplement-required strategies to start reducing bloating this week.

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We've been told for years that women just aren't built for casual sex. That we get too attached. That the oxytocin makes us catch feelings for men we don't even like.
And yes, the biology is accurate. But it’s not the full story.

This episode breaks down what's actually happening in your body during casual sex/situationships - the oxytocin, the bonding window, the orgasm gap - to answer the question: women too emotional for one night stands…

Whether you love casual sex, have done it in the past and are reflecting back with great humour (like me), new into a relationship and just genuinely curious - this one's for you.

In this episode we cover:

• Do women regret casual sex more than men?

• What's actually happening biologically for men and women after sex and why it feels so different
• Do men and women experience different amounts of satisfaction during one night stands?
• The post-sex bonding window - what it is, why it matters, and how to use it intentionally
• Five practical things you can actually do before, during and after casual sex to feel good about it

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🧾 LINKS & RECEIPTS

1. "The Morning After the Night Before" — Campbell, A. (2008) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-008-9036-2

2. Hookup Culture & Emotional Reactions — Owen et al. (2010), cited by APA The 832 college student study on positive vs. negative emotional reactions after hookups.
Full APA review: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/02/ce-corner

3. Sexual Regret in Norway — Kennair, Bendixen & Buss (2016/2017) https://partner.sciencenorway.no/forskningno-norway-ntnu/why-some-of-us-regret-one-night-stands/1442619
4. "The Gender Gap in One-Night Stand Regret: Evidence from Heterosexual and Same-Sex Encounters" — Sagioglou & Dick (2026) The study of 1,044 participants across 40+ nationalities:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13048962/

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This episode is the biology, the winter wellness rituals, and exactly how to use winter to your advantage. This is for the women who love big goals, who love a “lock in” moment but also want to enjoy ALL the things winter has to offer (instead of turning it into another productivity-maxxing season).

This is the Winter Build.

It's having the winter wellness routines AND the red wine.The motivation to your goals AND the giant fluffy blanket.The deep focus work AND the long dinners with people you actually love.

Not surviving winter. Not grinding through it. Not hibernating until September and hoping your goals are still there when you wake up. Building -while actually enjoying it.

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The Little Book of Hygee

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There are women who are brilliant at what they do and completely invisible because of how they communicate. And then there are women who walk into a room and own it before they say a single word.

The difference isn't talent. It's not qualifications. It's not even confidence.

It's your voice. And most of us were never taught how to use it.

Sarah Ruby Leffley is a communication educator, law & politics graduate, and one of the most honest people I've had on this show.

We talk about why women water themselves down, why being "good at communicating" is probably not what you think it is, and the patterns in your voice that are making you less successful than you think you are.

In this episode we cover:

• Why you can be a 10 out of 10 at what you do but speak at a 3, and that’s how people will perceive you.
• The patterns in your voice that signal you don't trust yourself and how to identify yours
• How perfectionism, people pleasing and the fear of being wrong are controlling how you show up in every room.
• Why saying no is a complete sentence in theory but completely falls apart in practice, and what to do instead
• How to have hard conversations without erupting or shutting down, Sarah's two step framework that actually works
• The one question to ask the people closest to you that will give you more self awareness than any personality test ever could

You didn't lose your voice in one moment. You lost it in every small moment you abandoned yourself just to be liked.

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Sarah Ruby Leffley

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You didn't lose your voice in one moment. You lost it in every small moment you abandoned yourself just to be liked.

You're still showing up. Still getting things done. Still performing at a high level.

But something feels quietly off. You're tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix. Your brain feels like it's working harder than it should for the same output. You're snapping at people you love over nothing. And every time you think about addressing it you tell yourself, I'll sort it out when things are less busy.

This episode is about something I call high functioning health decline, the stage of health that happens before burnout, before the dramatic crash, before your body forces you to stop.

It's the stage most high achieving women are living in right now without realising it. I know because this is what I experienced (until my body completely collapsed).

In this episode we cover:

• What high functioning health decline actually is
• The allostatic load: what's actually happening inside your biology when you keep pushing through
• The three reasons high achieving women are dangerously good at ignoring their symptoms
• Why "just regulate your nervous system" is the wellness industry's laziest advice
• Three strategies to integrate into your life now that work with your ambition, not against it

The Podcast

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Let's be honest, nobody taught us this stuff. Not in school, not at the doctor, not anywhere.

I'm joined by Sarah Galloy, founder of Pinc Wellness, and we are going there. All of it. BV, yeast infections, your vaginal microbiome, why antibiotics keep failing you, why your partner might actually be reinfecting you, and why so many women have been quietly suffering and blaming themselves for something that was never their fault to begin with.

I never want any woman to feel embarrased about her body and topics that have been considered “taboo”, so we made this conversational as real, vulnerable and pretty candid as possible- nothig was off the table.

This is the vaginal health conversation your GP never had with you. And the one you absolutely needed.

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Sarah Galloy & Pinc Wellness

Pinc Wellness (Products): https://pincwellness.com/

Pinc Bloom: https://www.pincbloom.com/

Instagram: @pincwellness

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A hundred years of missed diagnoses, dismissed symptoms, and women being told their ultrasound was normal so they don't have it. PMOS, formerly PCOS, just got officially renamed and while the internet is calling it a win, the full story is more complicated than a new acronym.

What We Cover:

• The cost of the original PCOS name
• What PMOS actually is at a root-cause level: and why up to 70% of cases remain undiagnosed
• The cortisol-driven type of PMOS that high-achieving women are most at risk of
• What practitioners are missing when managing PMOS
• The 6 Strategies for women who have PMOS, similar symptoms: Exactly what to test, what to ask for, whatlifestyle strategies really work, and which evidence-backed supplements have the greatest results.

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We all walked out of our early 20s carrying a checklist we never agreed to.

What your body count should be. Your friend group size. Whether you were hitting the timeline. Whether enough people liked you. Whether you were busy enough, cool enough, on track enough.

And we were deciding it all when our brains weren't even finished yet.

In this episode I'm getting into the things women are still quietly measuring themselves against that were never worth the weight in the first place. The friendships we're forcing. The timelines we're white-knuckling. The opinions of people who were never going where we're going.

This isn't a listicle. It's a conversation about the rules we inherited, and why you're allowed to put them down now.

Even if you're already in your 30s. Especially if you're already in your 30s.

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