Walking This Way

Rather than being Out and About, Lise is In and About this week..in her kitchen to be precise, waiting for lunch to cook! 

What starts as a casual chat about HRT becomes something much deeper, as Lise shares the story she's never fully told before about a car crash she was involved in aged seven, and how trauma shaped decades of her relationship with food and weight.

Trigger Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of a serious car accident, hospital trauma and childhood PTSD. Please listen with care.

So join Lise in her kitchen and...

• Hear the full story of the car crash in Denmark when she was seven
• Understand how childhood trauma connects to weight and eating patterns decades later
• Learn why Lise's just restarted HRT

Quote of the episode:

"At the age of 49, I can no longer blame an accident at seven or boarding school at eight. But I do believe it's where the root very firmly set in about eating and weight."

Here's how to get in touch...

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Lise sits down with Claire Hattrick, executive menopause coach, workplace educator and author, whose story is as jaw-dropping as it is important. Claire lost over a decade of her life to undiagnosed menopausal joint pain, seeing more than 15 specialists, undergoing 2,500+ blood tests, and spending two and a half years sleeping upright against a doorframe because lying down triggered panic attacks. All without a single correct diagnosis.

When Claire finally got her answers - thanks to a male physiotherapist who'd simply noticed that every woman in his clinic that day had joint problems - she didn't just rebuild her life, she dedicated it to making sure no other woman goes through what she did.

This episode is raw, honest and at times genuinely shocking. Claire shares the full story: the misdiagnoses, the loneliness, the dark moments at the top of a car park, and the extraordinary journey from beauty therapist in calipers to sell-out theatre shows and boardroom presentations. If you've ever been told there's nothing wrong with you when you know there is, this one is for you.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How Claire lost ten years of her life to joint pain that every consultant missed and what finally unlocked the answer
• Why perimenopause is so much more than hot flushes: anxiety, panic attacks, joint pain and the 70+ symptoms nobody talks about
• Why suicide rates for women peak between the ages of 45 and 49 (and why that's no coincidence)
• How to build your menopause toolkit: HRT, green space, blue space, movement, supplements and community
• What Claire wishes every employer, male or female, understood about menopause in the workplace

Quote of the Episode: "My motto is suffering should not be an option." Clare Hattrick

Follow Claire:

• Website: https://www.theexecutivemenopausecoach.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theexecutivemenopausecoach/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-hattrick-020809159/
• Buy Claire's Book here: https://www.theexecutivemenopausecoach.com/product/menopause-help-before-during-and-after-book-copy/

Be a part of the show: Here's how to get in touch...

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Out and About Returns!

This week, Lise's back in Richmond Park with furry guinea pig microphones (thanks, Tim) and special guest Lyndsey Gymer. Lyndsey isn't just any guest, she's a former firefighter, a health and fitness coach, and one of the incredible women from the Naked Photoshoot project who went from stranger to best buddy. Now she's staying with Lise for a couple of days with one mission: accountability.

This is an unscripted, real-time walk with Sam the black Labrador, green parakeets and two midlife women having an honest conversation about weight loss, energy, and what it really takes to make a change that sticks.

So join Lise and Lyndsey on their walk and...

• Discover why "Free the Knee" is Lise's year-long mission
• Hear why the goal isn't your weight, it's how you feel
• Find out about Lise's olive oil revelation (5 litres a month!)
• Understand why more food, not less, is the answer

Quote of the episode:

"If the scale says 10 stone but you look and feel the same, are you happy? No? Then the goal isn't a weight." - Lyndsey Gymer

About Lyndsey Gymer:

Lyndsey  is a personal trainer and weight loss coach based in Maldon, Essex.

Connect with Lyndsey:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lyndseygymer
• LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndsey-gymer-76863a87/

Here's how to get in touch...

• Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
• Email us: [email protected]
• Use the get in touch form HERE - https://tr.ee/r-ePylKE8H
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Lise sits down with Lara Milward - leadership and performance coach to, amongst others, the Branson family; endurance athlete, CrossFit champion and someone who's cycled 1,000+ kilometres under human power to summit the Matterhorn. No big deal.

Lara doesn't just talk about confidence, resilience and high performance from theory. She's studied the neuroscience behind it, lived it through extreme physical challenges and now teaches leaders how to build mental muscle the same way you build physical muscle - through challenge, repetition and rest.

This episode is packed with practical, brain-based tools for midlife women who are tired of feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like they're "just a mum." Lara breaks down the science of confidence, explains why movement is non-negotiable for mental health, and shares why you absolutely can rewire your brain, even in midlife.

Fair warning: This conversation will make you want to go for a walk or sign up for something that scares you!

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why strong women are seen as intimidating (and what Lara said that gave Lise an "aha moment")
• The neuroscience of confidence: You can't "un-wire" your brain, but you CAN create new, louder wires
• Limbic friction: The emotional resistance that stops you trying new things
• Why no one is confident all the time, not Taylor Swift, not Beyoncé, not royalty Lara's met
• From London to the Matterhorn: 1,000km under human power in one month

Quote of the Episode:

"If every child in this world had one person behind them that said 'I stand by you, I believe in you, yes you can' - half the world's problems would be solved." - Lara Milward

Follow Lara

• Website: https://laramilward.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laramilward/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-milward/

Be a part of the show: Here's how to get in touch...

• Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
• Email us: [email protected]
• Use the get in touch form HERE - https://tr.ee/r-ePylKE8H
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NEW FORMAT ALERT: Welcome to Out and About!

This week, Lise's trying something completely new and slightly terrifying. Instead of a normal challenge episode, she's taking you on a real-time dog walk through a local graveyard - raw, unfiltered, unscripted and with her trio of canine companions.

Producer Tim - #LetsKeepTimHappy - challenged Lise to take her dogs and her phone on a walk and just talk. No script. No prep. No editing out the messy bits. Just Lise, her dogs and whatever thoughts come up on the walk.

This is Walking This Way at its most real, because midlife is messy, our thoughts are scattered and sometimes the best conversations happen when we're moving our bodies and letting our minds wander.

So join Lise on her walk and...

• discover why she likes nothing more than a walk in a graveyard
• meet her three rescue dogs: Sam (5, excited male Lab), Dolly (12.5, cautious and needy), and Evie (princess Maltese cross)
• share your thoughts!

We need your feedback!

This is our first Out and About episode. Do you prefer:

• The traditional scripted challenge format?
• OR Lise's off the cuff ramblings on a dog walk?

Send us a voice message and let us know! You could even record one while you're out on your own walk.

Here's how to get in touch...

• Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
• Email us: [email protected]
• Use the get in touch form HERE - https://tr.ee/r-ePylKE8H
• Send us a voice message HERE- https://www.speakpipe.com/WalkingThisWay

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Lise catches up with her dear friend from boarding school, Clare Capper, whose transformation story can't fail to leave you feeling inspired. 

In 2018, at 41, Claire hit rock bottom - drinking too much, smoking, avoiding the life she knew she needed to face. Then, in early 2019, on a hungover morning in Queenstown, New Zealand, Lise planted a seed that would change her life: "Do a triathlon."

What happened next was extraordinary.

Since then Clare's lost four stone, completed multiple triathlons, fallen in love with cycling and endurance adventures and pushed herself to extraordinary limits. She has:

• Cycled Land's End to John O'Groats (930 miles in 9 days)
• Bikepacked 400 miles through the Alps on a mountain bike
• Completed the North Coast 500 in Scotland
• Raced gravel bikes across Europe
• And in May 2026, she's taking on a 500-mile ultra-distance cycling event

But here's what makes Clare's story so powerful for midlife women: she started all of this at 41. She couldn't swim. She was unfit. She was lost. And she transformed her entire life through movement, one step at a time.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• The moment Clare made the promise that changed everything
• How she learned to swim at 41
• Swimming on a bungee cord in a wild Dartmoor pool during lockdown (yes, really)
• The dinner that was just peanuts and jelly babies after cycling 90 miles
• Why Clare is motivated by fear
• How cycling brings freedom, swimming brings meditation, and walking brings therapy

Follow Clare:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clare_cycles/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clare.capper/
• Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/3500234

Be a part of the show: Here's how to get in touch...

• Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
• Email us: [email protected]
• Use the get in touch form HERE - https://tr.ee/r-ePylKE8H
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Welcome to Challenge 7! This fortnight's challenge is all about reclaiming movement in midlife through ten focused minutes of mobility work every single day for seven days. It's not about burning calories or heroics - it's about waking up your body, loosening what's stiff, and building a practice that keeps you moving, independent, and confident.

This Week's Challenge: The Daily Mobility Discipline

Your mission: Ten minutes of deliberate movement every day for the next seven days.

What this means:

• Ten focused minutes - no distractions, no scrolling, no multi-tasking
• Just you, your body and intentional attention to how it moves
• Target key areas that stiffen in midlife: hips, ankles, thoracic spine, shoulders
• Move slowly, deliberately, and pay attention to what your body is telling you

Why Mobility Matters

In midlife, our bodies change. Hips tighten, backs stiffen, shoulders shorten, and we lose subtle ranges of movement without noticing. Once it's gone, it's much harder to get back. Mobility isn't fluffit's what keeps us lifting things, keeping up with our kids, and yes, even getting out of bed without groaning.

Reflect on Your Experience

Once you've completed the seven days, take a moment to reflect:

• How did your body feel before you started?
• How does it feel now after the movement?
• What did you notice about tension, stiffness, or surprise flexibility?

Write it down or record a voice note to share how you got on.

Share your success: Here's how to get in touch...

• Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
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This week on Walking This Way, we’re talking about something that can feel uncomfortable and overwhelming for many of us in midlife: money.

Lise is joined by returning guest Adrienne D’Souza (co-pilot of The Money Conversation) for an honest, down-to-earth discussion about:

• Why so many midlife women lack confidence around money
• The investing fear that keeps us stuck
• The story we tell ourselves about being “bad at maths”
• And how even £10 can change how you see yourself

Together, Lise and Adrienne talk about how financial confidence isn’t about being wealthy or clever. It’s about understanding a few key ideas, asking questions without shame and taking small steps that build over time.

In this episode, they explore:

•  How early money messages shape our confidence (often without us realising)
•  Why so many midlife women feel they’ve missed their chance
•  The difference between saving and investing - in simple terms
•  What “purchasing power” really means (with a loaf of bread to explain it)
•  How to cope when markets fall and fear creeps in
•  Why starting with £10 can completely shift your mindset
•  Where to find hidden money through simple spending audits
•  How fees quietly eat into long-term returns
•  Listener questions on ISAs, premium bonds and investing in your 60s
•  Why financial clarity is really about self-worth

And because this is Walking This Way, Lise also reflects on winter moods, hormones, long marriages, teenagers behind bedroom doors and that strange in-between space of still being needed… but differently.

About The Money Conversation

• Website: https://www.themoneyconversation.co.uk/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.moneyconversation/ 

Important Disclaimer:

Lise and Adrienne are not financial advisors - they provide financial education and coaching. All content is for educational purposes only. Always do your own research and consider seeking professional advice for your individual circumstances.

Be a part of the show: Here's how to get in touch...

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Welcome to your next Walking This Way Challenge - your fortnightly invitation to try something small, simple and quietly restorative.

These challenges are designed to fit into real life. No pressure. No perfection. No special equipment. Just a moment to pause, notice, and perhaps see the world a little differently, together.

This fortnight’s challenge: Notice the nature around you

It’s February. The days are short, life can feel busy and full, and energy can be low. This challenge invites you to take small, intentional moments to notice the nature that already exists around you — right where you are.

Not a countryside escape. Not a grand gesture. Just what’s quietly happening alongside you every day.

Inspired by the RSPB Great British Birdwatch, this challenge is a reminder that gardens, streets and local parks are alive with activity — if we slow down enough to see it.

How to try it

Choose one or two simple ways to tune in:

• Stand outside for a minute and really listen to non-human sounds
• Watch the birds in your garden, on your street or in the park
• Put seed out for birds or visiting wildlife
• Listen to the rain
• Take one walk this week with no headphones — let nature be your soundtrack
• Pause on a dog walk instead of rushing to tick it off the list

You don’t need to know what the birds are called. You don’t need to do anything with what you notice. Just notice.

Share your success: Here's how to get in touch...

• Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
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In this episode of Walking This Way, Lise is joined by Tallulah Bamford (nee O'Hea), founder of The Body Conversation, for an open, thoughtful and deeply compassionate discussion about body image, body awareness and how our relationship with our bodies evolves across a lifetime.

This conversation moves beyond surface-level body confidence and into something much richer: how early messages about bodies shape us, how those messages linger into midlife, and how awareness - rather than judgement - can be a powerful place to begin healing.

Tallulah brings insight from her work with people of all ages, from school settings through to coaching midlife women, offering a rare intergenerational perspective on how body image is formed, challenged and reshaped.

In this episode, Lise and Tallulah explore:

• How body image conversations often begin far earlier than we realise
• The long-term impact of language, messaging and comparison
• Why midlife can resurface old beliefs about bodies, and why that matters
• The difference between body image and body awareness
• How to reconnect with your body in a way that feels safe and supportive
• Why neutrality and curiosity can be more powerful than forced positivity
• How we can model healthier body conversations for the next generation

This is a gentle but important reminder that our bodies are not projects to be fixed, they are places we live, experience joy, navigate change and carry wisdom.

About Tallulah

Tallulah Bamford is the founder of The Body Conversation, working across generations to open up honest, supportive conversations about body image and body awareness. She works in schools as well as with adults and midlife women, helping people reconnect with their bodies in healthier, more compassionate ways.

Be a part of the show: Here's how to get in touch...

• Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
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Produced by The Good Studio - thegoodstudio.co.uk