Perimenopause can be bad for your health. It’s not just the physical symptoms like weight gain, insomnia, exhaustion and loss of sex drive that can knock women sideways, the mental health impacts can be immense as well. 

Hormone fluctuations during this period can lead to mood swings, anxiety, brain fog and depression. To make matters worse, these symptoms are often misdiagnosed and mistreated.  

Help is at hand though! Yumi Stynes becomes an honourary member of the club and gets the 411 on all things perimenopause and mental health.  

Featured in this episode: 

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, director of Monash University’s Health Education Research Centre 

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Have you ever had a sexual dry spell? And when we say dry, we mean years and years. Getting naked and doing the bedroom rodeo with another person can be daunting at the best of times, but especially if it’s been such a long time you’re worried you may have forgotten how to ride the horse.  

Anxieties begin to take over...Will everything work like it used to? What if they don’t like my body? And what if the dog walks in?  

So, how can you break the dry spell and get back in the saddle? Yumi Stynes and Jess McGuire strip bare and give no-holds-barred advice on how to reclaim your sexual power after a long absence.  

In life, there are a lot of random rules women stick to. One of them is not telling loved ones about a pregnancy until after the first trimester. But why???

The answer is more often than not, miscarriage.  

Being in love feels so damn good, right? But what if you fall so deeply into your relationship, you start to forget who you are?  

Swipe left, swipe right, match, meet, hook up, repeat. We all know the dating dance, but is it really serving us as women?

Enter Hannah Ferguson, the 25-year-old media queen who isn’t afraid to tell us how it is.  

When Hannah was in her late teens and dating for the first time, Tinder ruled the scene and sex was available at the swipe of a finger. But a string of sub-par experiences left her wondering if hookup culture is selling women a lie. Have we come to expect scraps because that's all that's on offer? And how can we push back and have the sex and relationships we deserve? 

Featured in this episode: 

Hannah Ferguson, CEO of Cheek Media Co. and author of Bite Back

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Women bear the load of most of the invisible (thankless) work in a household. And that shit gets heavy.  

School lunches, laundry, dentist appointments, shopping, snot-wiping, cleaning, care-giving – and don’t forget to get those 10k steps in while you’re at it! 

We're exhausted just thinking about it.  

Yumi dishes out advice on how to even out the mental load and take the weight off your shoulders.  

If you’ve got a snag in your life that you just can’t figure out, let us take on the burden! Send an audio note to [email protected]

What if your appetite for sex was insatiable? Would you love to be boning every day, multiple times a day?  

There's this idea that it's men that are always lusting after sex. But guess what? Women can be horn dogs too! But that horniness often comes with the label "slutty". 

Yumi Stynes chats to women who are relishing their pleasure and enjoying plenty of orgasms while they’re at it.  

When you’re stuck in the daily grind of working-mum life, sometimes it can be hard not to feel like a shitty mum.  

School lunches, getting them dressed (FFS), raising good humans, endless meetings – it's exhausting and soul-destroying. 

Yumi has some advice to ease the mum-guilt, when your heart is being yanked in opposite directions and backing away from work isn’t an option.  

If you’ve got a problem that not even your girl gang can help you solve, let us take on the burden! Send an audio note to [email protected] 

Yumi has been cheeky and stolen the keys to the ABC archive to bring out one of our favourite episodes. Life is tiring. The cozzi livs, the constant merry-go-round of caring and work and chronic stress can be overwhelming. For some, this relentless pace can lead to burnout.

The "other woman" has been demonised in pop culture, but is it time we learnt to understand her choices rather than judge her for them?