In this episode I had pleasure of sitting down with Dr Sonu Haikerwal who is the co-owner and founder of the successful Haan Health and the founder and owner of Kiran Wellness. 

Dr. Sonu’s career spans over 20 years and across three continents, having worked as a medical doctor in Australia, the UK and India.

Graduating from the prestigious AIIMS College in New Delhi, India, she completed her Physicians training in London and was a Practice partner in South West England before settling in Australia.

As co-owner and founder of the successful Haan Health clinics, Dr Sonu has spent two decades as a General Practitioner and team leader, and over 15 years teaching medical students and GP Registrars.

During the Covid pandemic, Dr Sonu successfully ran a Federal Government Respiratory Clinic, as team leader on the front line of infection control and vaccination. Her tireless dedication during this time, often seeing hundreds of patients a week, earned her a nomination as Australian of The Year award Gold Coast for 2022.

As a teacher, Dr Sonu has spent over 15 years teaching medical students and GP Registrars. She is on the faculty of Bond University, Griffith University and General Practice Training Queensland.

Dr. Sonu has travelled extensively to over 50 countries and draws on what she has learnt from many different cultures, alternative therapies and healing modalities from yoga to Ayurveda and spirituality. She marries this understanding of ancient healing teachings with thoroughly backed medical science to access the sweet spot at the cross roads of Eastern and Western medicine, to bring her clients true healing and long lasting change in their health and life.

Websites

Visit https://drsonu.com.au to explore Kiran Wellness programs and to enquire about individualised support on your health and healing journey.

https://drsonu.com.au/about/

Your Life Script by Dr Sonu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHz7jFp1X8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCKyMAxbOqc

https://www.haanhealth.com.au/

https://drsonu.com.au/podcast/the-lifescript-podcast-1-food-philosophy-keeping-it-simple-and-whole/

Australasian Menopause Society

https://www.menopause.org.au/

Dr Michael Greger

https://nutritionfacts.org/

The True Meaning of Ikigai: Definitions, Diagrams & Myths about the Japanese Life Purpose

https://www.sloww.co/ikigai/

How to Cultivate Equanimity and Become Emotionally Strong

https://declutterthemind.com/blog/equanimity/

Ester Perel- The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives.

https://www.estherperel.com/

Rushing Woman’s Syndrome by Dr Libby Weaver

https://shop.drlibby.com/product/rushing-womans-syndrome?v=13b249c5dfa9

The Summer Day- Mary Oliver

http://www.wordslikethis.com.au/the-summer-day/

Contact Lorena Connor at [email protected]

Follow Midlife Ladies on:

 https://www.instagram.com/midlife_ladies/

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I had pleasure of sitting down with Dr Sonu Haikerwal who is the co-owner and founder of the successful Haan Health and the founder and owner of Kiran Wellness.

Dr. Sonu’s career spans over 20 years and across three continents, having worked as a medical doctor in Australia, the UK and India.

Dr Sonu has always been very active in the primary medicine community, using her experience and insight to give back to industry professionals. She has served on the Board of the Gold Coast Hospital Foundation and was past President of the Gold Coast Medical Association and General Practice Gold Coast.

Recognised by her peers as a guiding, leading and inspiring clinician, Dr Sonu was also recently ranked 5th in the top 30 influential women on the Gold Coast, and in the top 10 most influential medical professionals.

She is well known as a media spokesperson with regular talk back radio shows on 4BC every fortnight, and during the Covid pandemic she was frequently on news for channels 7, 9 and the ABC.

Dr. Sonu has travelled extensively to over 50 countries and draws on what she has learnt from many different cultures, alternative therapies and healing modalities from yoga to Ayurveda and spirituality. She marries this understanding of ancient healing teachings with thoroughly backed medical science to access the sweet spot at the cross roads of Eastern and Western medicine, to bring her clients true healing and long lasting change in their health and life.

Dr. Sonu believes that your overall health is affected by your emotional, mental, spiritual and environmental wellness. She believes that by targeting each of these areas with specific healing, not only can your health begin to thrive, but also your life.

Websites

Visit https://drsonu.com.au to explore Kiran Wellness programs and to enquire about individualised support on your health and healing journey.

https://drsonu.com.au/about/

https://drsonu.com.au/about/

Your Life Script by Dr Sonu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHz7jFp1X8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCKyMAxbOqc

https://www.haanhealth.com.au/

Australasian Menopause Society

https://www.menopause.org.au/

The Summer Day- Mary Oliver

http://www.wordslikethis.com.au/the-summer-day/

Contact: Lorena Connor - [email protected]

Please find midlife ladies on Facebook & Instagram

In this episode ‘Small Steps, Big Gains’ I had the pleasure of speaking with Nat Evans. Nat is a women’s health and fitness coach who specialises in menopausal health and fitness.

Nat has helped hundreds women change the way they do things and to thrive during menopause – her passion is to help women to feel & look amazing again & move better than they ever have!

Nat is what they call in the industry -a habit change specialist and she definitely gets results.

I absolutely loved listening to the lived, researched, and expert information and advice Nat had. Nat hit peri-menopause at 39. Nat knew how she felt wasn’t right, but no-one was talking to 39-year-olds about MENOPAUSE or women’s very specific Health & Fitness needs!

So, she started researching her symptoms and searched for the right practitioner.

Nat found her guide to living the fullest life imaginable beyond 40 and she had also found her calling as a Women’s Health & Fitness Coach.

For 15 years Nat Evans has helped hundreds women change the way they do things in a specific way, because as Nat says- A COOKIE-CUTTER EXERCISE & DIET PLAN DOES NOT CUT THE MUSTARD ONCE YOU ARE OVER 40!

Websites:

Midlife Ladies

https://www.instagram.com/midlife_ladies/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/700526111453857

Menopause Health & Fitness

https://www.menopausehealthandfitness.com.au/

Nat Evans contact details

M: 0422 047 864  

E: [email protected]

Authors of books Nat recommended: -

Lara Briden

https://www.larabriden.com/

Dr Peter Attia

https://peterattiamd.com/

Dr Christiane Northrup- Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

https://www.drnorthrup.com/

Today I’m talking with Judy Graham. She’s the founder of WomenHood, where she provides specialist support for women who are childless not by choice.

20% of Australian women do not have children when they reach midlife, or the end of their reproductive years. For many women, not having children involves deep sadness, and can really rock their sense of identity and belonging. When society has such a strong emphasis on motherhood, women without children often say that their friendships and relationships are also impacted by their situation; that friends and family often don't really understand, and so they grieve their losses silently.

If you’re like me, and you’re shocked to hear that 20% of women - our friends, colleagues and family members - don’t have children and may be feeling isolated with their experience, then please listen in, because this is a conversation about women supporting women and making the invisible, visible.

 Please leave a review or direct message me with comments or suggestions. I would love to hear from you. 

Websites:

Midlife Ladies

https://www.instagram.com/midlife_ladies/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/700526111453857

 Judy Graham- WomenHood Counselling

https://www.instagram.com/womenhood_counselling/

https://www.facebook.com/WomenHoodCounselling

www.womenhood.com.au

www.gateway-women.com/event-directory

www.worldchildlessweek.net

Gina Mitchell is a best-selling author, menopause expert, coach, NLP and Matrix master practitioner and hypnotherapist.

She personally knows what it’s like to go through a hideous menopause.

Gina went from a burnt out, hot flushing, exhausted high school teacher to starting her own business- Gina Mitchell Midlife Coaching for Women.

What she found was that even though half the population goes through menopause, it wasn’t easy to find help. And… not many people were talking about it! Leaving her so frustrated!

Gina found the solution and now she wants to help other women in the same situation. She doesn’t want to see any woman suffer unnecessarily.

She started coaching in 2011 at the ripe old age of 53. Since 2018, she has mainly focused on midlife women due to her own crazy journey and what she had learnt.

Gina finds it incredibly rewarding to see how lives can change and she loves it!.

Her passion and mission is to ensure that women are supported and backed during this crazy stage of life. It’s about healing and creating a life you LOVE and taking midlife and menopause and using it as a springboard to taking back control, putting you back in the driver’s seat of your life and putting our own needs first.

‘Not just surviving menopause and midlife …..but thriving’ - Gina Mitchell

Please leave a review and direct message me if you have any comments or suggestions.

Midlife Ladies Social Media Links

https://www.instagram.com/midlife_ladies/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/700526111453857

Gina Mitchell website:

https://www.midlifecoachingforwomen.com.au

Social media links

https://www.facebook.com/gina.mitchell.5205

https://www.facebook.com/groups/confusiontomojo

https://www.facebook.com/ginamitchell1958/

https://www.instagram.com/ginamitchell1958/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-mitchell1958/

Gins's book: Ignite The Spark : 7 Strategies For Mature Women For Reinventing Your Relationship and Reigniting Your Passion 

 Link to book into a complimentary 45 min soulful connection session (all sessions done remotely via Zoom)

https://calendly.com/gcmitchell58/soulful-session

In this episode ‘Outfitting Your Authentic Self’ I have the pleasure of talking with the fabulous twin sisters Sal & Jane, the founders of styling and personal shopping business, How Two Style -Midlife. The sister’s mission is to help midlife women by encouraging them to embrace this stage of their lives and step out of the shadows and into their own light with confidence!! These empathic sisters have combined their love and knowledge of fashion & styling, with their passion for empowering midlife women. They love seeing their clients smile at their own reflections especially when they are dressed in a style that embodies the amazing women they are no matter what shape or size!

Enjoy listening to Sal and Jane and their inspirational journey of starting a new business later in life, in the hope of helping midlife women find their confidence and live their best life.

With our generation of women there are no rules! Forget the rules! Bring that fun back into your wardrobe! - Sal & Jane

Please connect with Sal & Jane at:

 https://www.instagram.com/howtwostyle_midlife/

https://linktr.ee/howtwostyle

Sal at https://www.pacificfair.com.au/centre-info/personal-styling

#lookgoodfeelgood #confidencetobeyou #embraceyourbody #womensupportingwomen

In this episode I have the pleasure of chatting to Prue Howard, the founder of Savvy Style and Training which provide programs and courses, that combine the power of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with practical tools and strategies to help women build self-esteem, develop leadership skills, enhance their employability and improve their mental fitness.

Get ready to be inspired, as we delve into the world of Savvy Style and Training and hear from Prue about her journey and her mission to help women transform their lives.

‘External success is a direct reflection of our internal state of being and skills. Armed with the right internal tools we can achieve anything’ Prue Howard- Savvy Style & Training.

 #toolboxforsuccess

https://www.savvystyleandtraining.com.au/about

[email protected]

Information on episode concepts.

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/cognitive-behavioral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6aAQgXauQw

 How Does Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdyOwZ4_RnI

 Drama Triangles

How To Escape the Dreaded Drama Triangle

https://www.forbes.com/sites/remyblumenfeld/2018/12/07/how-to-transform-your-relationships-by-getting-creative/?sh=670781e87565

The Drama Triangle | Transactional Analysis Games | Lauren Kress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_XSeUYa0-8

Generational Legacy Trauma

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/Understanding_Intergenerational_Trauma

Menopause, by definition, is one point in a continuum of life stages for a woman and marks the end of their reproductive years and most women experience menopause between the ages of 45 and 55 years of age (World Health Organisation).

As midlife women, we know that the lived definition of menopause is a constant state of confusion about the peri-menopause stage and how long that lasts, the change in our bodies both internally and externally as well as the many debilitating symptoms that bombard us all at once.

‘Let’s Talk About Menopause’ is the first of our Round Table Conversation episodes.

So please join me, Lorena Connor, in my conversation with four wonderful midlife ladies who provide you with an insight to what their thoughts and experience have been so far on midlife and menopause.

Welcome to midlife ladies podcast Episode 0!

Yes I am building up to Episode 1, but for now hello! I'm Lorena Connor and I am so excited to be here.

This episode is to provide you with a small insight to who I am, my life philosophy and why I created midlife ladies podcast. You will gain an understanding on how I am able to relate to you, and what you may be dealing with. This episode is to motivate you to embrace your midlife, because it is only the beginning of what is still possible! 

The midlife ladies podcast is for women who may be struggling through perimenopause or menopause and confused about exactly what it all means. Perhaps your hormones are going crazy, you feel sad for no reason, your suffering major brain fog and your body is betraying you. Maybe you’re facing midlife alone. Or possibly the last of your children has moved out of home and with them - a part of your identity.

But it’s also for women who want to embrace this special stage of our lives and for women who want to break the stereotype of what midlife looks like and feels like.

We want society to know that midlife women should be seen, heard and celebrated because we are women with wisdom, resilience and tenacity.

This podcast is to support, be inspired and connect with other women who know exactly what you are going through.