Meredith's client tried to kill her, but how did she move on from that place to reinvent her life, master the fear of the everyday and end up in a place where she now mentors midlife women? Listen in to what I think is one of the most interesting interviews I've done, with a woman who tells us what the midlife crisis is really about

Finnish-born international skincare expert, makeup artist, and beauty director Riku Campo has worked as a makeup artist since 1988 and has lived in the United States since 2003.

His work has been featured in major fashion and beauty magazines and ad campaigns for L’Oreal, Neiman Marcus, Saks, Smashbox, Guess, and others, and he has worked with some of Hollywood’s most renowned actresses. Riku is passionate about showing the beauty of many different women by highlighting their own personal style.

Instead of following strict rules, he believes in using makeup to bring out joy and confidence and in this podcast he tells us exactly what to use, how to create a great lip look, why skincare is so important and how all women over forty can look amazing with just a few products.

This amazing woman is Michele Paradise.

Michele Paradise is an international speaker and personal development coach on Deepak Chopra's digital wellness platform Jiyo. She has 20 years experience working with people from all walks of life who want to make changes in their lives but are still stuck after trying every other option. She works quickly and thoroughly to get the results you want and need so that you can move forward with your life.

Before she began helping people to make profound and lasting changes in their lives she was an international runway model and you may be wondering how she made such an extreme life change.

When Michele was a model she suffered from anorexia nervosa and there were very few people around who knew how to help her and many of her colleagues were also suffering, so she embarked on a journey to figure out what she could do to free herself from the 'monkey on her back'. She was always interested in human behavior and at that moment realized that she wanted to help others get the 'monkey off their back'. After years of studying several methodologies such as NLP, Hypnotherapy and Havening Techniques, she had the tools to make a difference in people's lives with issues around weight, anxiety, trauma and most importantly their relationships with themselves because that's where it all begins.

In this show we talk about the menopause, our relationship with ourselves and how we can use this to create better relationships with those around us. It's a fantastic show (if I say so myself) so listen in HERE

Contact Michele at:

[email protected]

www.micheleparadise.com

YouTube: michpara

In this podcast I talk to Amy Schmidt. Amy is also a podcaster, author, public speaker, blogger, Founder and CEO of Fearlessly Facing Fifty. Her mission is to empower and encourage women over forty to go all in and not lose their identity or become invisible.

Her family has moved many times over the years for her husband’s career and she was the CEO of home and family. Now it’s her time, and she’s written her book Cannonball, available on Amazon, which came out in June this year. In this programme we talk about why we both want to help women in midlife embrace the next two decades of their life fully, our own experiences of midlife and Amy's key mission to help midlife women let go of fear and fulfil their dreams now.

Amy can be found at www.fearlesslyfacingfifty.com and her book Cannonball, is out on Amazon now.

Judy Schoenberg and Linda Lautenberg are co founders of EvolveMe, a company that helps midlife women transform and reinvent their careers.

Linda returned to work after an eighteen year break and Judy pivoted her career in midlife so they brought two different stories to their work. Both found the process isolating and so created EvolveMe to ensure that the help was there for other women wanting to do the same.

This show explores the challenges that face midlife women either changing career during these years or returning to work but also the solution that these two amazing ladies have found. I love their work and hope you do too.

www.evolveme.work

Severine Menem is a registered Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach for women over 40 struggling with weight loss and menopause symptoms. She is also a Menopause Trainer for Financial Services organisations looking to establish menopause initiatives designed to support their female talents going through the menopause.

In this podcast we talk about how miraculous food can be in helping defeat the symptoms of menopause, how it sets women up for later life and exactly what makes the perfect menopause diet.

www.severinemenem.com

Our October box is packed with products from one of my favourite brands, Code Beautiful.

In this podcast co-founder Sarah Cross talks us through each product in the box, how she created it and why it is the ultimate in class. Sarah talks about finding recyclable components, ultimate colours and perfect products for you and me to get our make up done fast and still look fantastic!

David Lieber has been involved in health, beauty and wellbeing his whole life. This passion led him to own and run health clubs, gyms and spas where he was at the forefront of creating wholly holistic experiences for his clients.

David transformed the French aromatherapy skincare brand Decléor and helped build it into the global brand it is today but it is the distillation of this integrity, dedication and knowledge, which is poured into every drop of Slow Ageing Essentials.

In this podcast we talk about his career in beauty, his beliefs on living well and self care plus creams for “celluleeet”, as they call it in France!

Tina Malhamé has journeyed far and wide in her career as a clothes designer.

Tina was named by the high street guru, George Davies, as the most prolific designer on the High Street. A career spanning many years she has designed collections for well-known stores, Next, Monsoon, Laura Ashley, Anokhi, Daniel Hechter in Paris, Per Una and more. This success brought countless awards for design, including the Christian Lacroix Award for International Linen Design.

In this programme we talk about how she got started, how she juggles life, her work with Terence Conran and George Davis before setting up her own business www.nologo-chic.co.uk. These days, Tina creates beautiful designs that are perfect for midlife women, but she's also fascinating and I think you'll love her.

In the final part of my series on Age Gap Friendships Carol and I talk about her time abroad as a teenager, her training as a nurse at Barts and reconciling with an estranged daughter in her hospice.

I hope you find her testimony as moving as I did and I hope that this encourages you to explore your own age gap friendships - they are one of the most rewarding types you can have.