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Today’s guest is bestselling author and health journalist Penny Parkes. Penny has topped both the Audible and Kindle charts, written for The Telegraph, and appeared at literary festivals across the country.

But her seventh book, How To Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen, is the one she’s been waiting a lifetime to write.

Living with multiple invisible and chronic conditions for decades, she had no choice but to learn, through trial and error, hard-fought diagnoses and heart-breaking emergencies, how to navigate a healthcare system that so often leaves patients feeling unheard.

She’s also a fierce advocate for patients with Mast Cell disorders and a champion for inclusivity in publishing.

In this episode, we chat to Penny about:

🌸How she’s navigated the healthcare system with chronic and rare conditions

🌸What are the most important things someone can do before a ten-minute appointment?

🌸What can we do when things don’t go to plan at your GP appointment and you leave feeling dismissed or unheard?

🌸Will there be a time when we won’t need to fight for our health, and if so, what needs to change?

And much more....

We also have a great tip to help keep yourself warm this winter and help with the cost of living crisis that includes body hair.

Stick around as we revisit some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.

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Penny Parkes:

Book: How To Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen: Helping Your Doctor To Help You. Penny Parkes. Short Books. 2026

Website: https://pennyparkes.com/meet-penny/

Instagram: @how2talktoyourdoctor

Substack: https://pennyparkes.substack.com/

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Women’s Health Made Easy: The GPs Closing the Gaps in Medical Training and Women’s Healthcare

Today we’re joined by two incredible guests who between them bring decades of experience as GPs, menopause specialists and sexologists.

They’ve written the book that probably should have existed in medical training for the last fifty years.

Dr Angela Sharma is a Notting Hill GP who leads her own NHS menopause service and supports women with everything from heart disease to sexual health.

Dr Carys Sonnenberg, who some of you will remember from her episode on metabolic syndrome in menopause, is a BMS-registered menopause specialist, NHS GP and founder of Rowena Health.

Together with Dr Angela Wright, they’ve written Women’s Health Made Easy, a practical clinical guide for GPs and primary care teams that every woman should probably read too.

Today we spill the tea on what happens when the gaps in medical training meet the gaps in women’s healthcare, and what these three did about it.

We ask the questions about the book and why it needed to exist:

• Women’s health has been made complex by decades of under-research, under-teaching and historical bias. When did each of you first realise something was missing?

• What was mandatory in women’s health during your training, and where were the biggest gaps?

• What does it look like in a consultation when you’re managing high-impact, intimate care with limited formal training?

• Is it getting better? Are medical schools doing more?

• Has social media changed how patients and doctors interact, with more information, and sometimes misinformation?

• After the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy in April, we spoke to Wes Streeting about misogyny in healthcare. Do you see clinicians denying it exists in practice? They’re the doctors who need this book most.

• On the patients behind the book, whose stories stayed with you?

There’s a celebration as we have news on the 2nd anniversary of the Devon NHS Menopause service. We also spill the tea about our week and there’s never a dull moment. Stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.

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Further Information:

Book: Women’s Health Made Easy. Carys Sonnenberg, Angela Wright & Angela Sharma. Scion Publishing Ltd. 2026

Dr Carys Sonnenberg:

Web: www.rowenahealth.co.uk

Insta: @drcaryssonnenberg

Dr Angela Sharma:

Web: www.spicedpearhealth.co.uk

Insta: @spicedpeardrsharma

Dr Angela Wright:

Web: www.drangelawright.com

Insta: @spicedpeardrwright

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Strength Training, Protein & Collagen: Menopause Myths Busted with Jane Wake

With so much life-hacking, quick fixes and outright lies flying around on social media and in marketing, it’s hard to know what to believe, so we needed an expert to help us cut through it.

Our guest has 35 years in sports science, is one of the most respected names in UK fitness, and has spent her career backing everything she says with evidence, most recently training doctors on what they should actually be telling midlife women about exercise.

Today we spill the tea with Jane Wake on the truth about strength training, protein, collagen, and separating what’s real from what’s just noise.

Whether you’re in perimenopause, menopause or beyond, this one is for you.

In this episode, we ask Jane:

• What’s the worst myth about strength training you keep hearing, even from so-called experts?
• Where is most of this misinformation coming from?
• How do you tell the difference between solid evidence and a wellness trend?
• What does the evidence actually say about strength training and menopause, bones, muscle and hormones?
• How much do we really need to do, and how often, to make a difference?
• Is there such a thing as “too late to start”?
• Are there any risks people should be aware of?
• Protein is a buzzword right now. What’s the truth about protein needs for women in midlife, and are most of us eating enough?
• Collagen: worth the hype, or just another wellness trend?
• Which other supplements or claims would you like to bust?
• If someone has never picked up a weight, where should they start?
• Can strength training be worked into things we’re already doing, rather than being “one more thing” on the list?
• What’s one thing you wish every midlife woman knew about her body right now?

We also catch up on our busy week, including Jinty going to the Frida Kahlo exhibition.

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Jane Wake

Web: https://www.janewake.com/

Instagram: @janewakeuk

Facebook: @Jane Wake

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Midlife pivots, HRT patch glue and building Nudi spray, with Amy Simpson

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This week we spill the tea with Amy Simpson, a midlife entrepreneur and co-founder of Nudi Spray. She wasn't looking to start a business. She was just sick of scrubbing glue marks off her skin every time she peeled off an HRT patch.

A dancer turned florist turned entrepreneur, Amy shares what it actually takes to pivot in midlife, and why you don't need to feel "business-shaped" to build something that works.

In this episode we ask Amy:

• How did your dancing career start, and what was touring life like? Any favourite celeb stories?
• Was stepping back from dancing to raise your family a difficult decision?
• How did your eye for design develop through the florist and visual merchandising chapters?
• What was your own experience of menopause, and what was the moment the HRT patch glue became "there has to be a better way"?
• What did the learning curve look like when you're not a "business-shaped person", and what's been the hardest part of building a business from scratch?
• What did the Davina McCall call mean for you?
• What's it been like watching Nudi spread through word of mouth and social, and what's next?

We are still on a high from our book launch, we talk a bit more about that and Jinty has found some interesting research on placenta’s and an erection after prostate cancer…!

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Keywords: menopause, perimenopause, HRT, midlife entrepreneur, women's health, Nudi spray

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Nudi Spray:

Web: https://nudispray.com

Instagram: @nudispray

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Today we are Spilling the Tea with Dr. Ravi Gill, a health psychologist who has spent over 15 years helping people navigate anxiety, depression and the mental load of physical health conditions, from early intervention services to older adult NHS care. She also trains organisations on mental health awareness and crisis management, and volunteers supporting people in emotional distress.

Today we're talking anxiety: what it is, what it feels like, and why perimenopause can turn the volume up.

In this episode:

1. What anxiety actually is: generalised anxiety vs "normal" worry, and the line between everyday stress and something that needs support.

2. What anxiety feels like in the body and where people notice it first. Many women are thought to have cardiac or gut issues when it's anxiety (or vice versa), so how can we tell the difference?

3. What’s happening in the brain when we're anxious, and why anxiety latches onto specific worries like health, money and relationships even when it's really about something broader.

4. Perimenopause and anxiety: why anxiety can appear for the first time, or come back with a vengeance.

5. What to do in the moment when anxiety spikes, plus the go-to grounding techniques Ravi actually recommends.

6. What does real progress looks like, whether anxiety can be managed long term, and when to see your GP rather than self-manage.

We are still buzzing from our book launch and chat about the night and the incredible people who joined us.

Jinty's found an interesting article on what palliative care Drs and death doulas can tell us about 'Living well'!

Stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.

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This episode is for information and support, not a substitute for medical advice. If you're struggling, please speak to your GP.

Dr Ravi Gill

Web: http://www.smartmindhealth.co.uk/

https://www.buckinghamshirepsychology.co.uk/dr-ravi-gill/

Instagram: @dr.ravi_gill

LinkedIn: @Dr. Ravi Gill CPsychol, AFBPsS

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Today we're spilling the tea on how AI is affecting women, work, and happiness. Our guest is Giselle Goodwin, a self-help author, former business owner, and the woman behind Can Women Really Have It All? A Happiness Handbook for Working Mothers.

But don't let the "self-help" label fool you, Giselle's approach isn't about "finding your inner goddess." It's honest, it's grounded in research, and it's backed by a PhD in women, work and wellbeing that she went back to university to complete after twenty years of running her own businesses. She's spent years asking one deceptively simple question: how can life actually be better for women?

In this episode we talk about:

• The "having it all" myth, the promise the 1980s sold women, and whether it ever delivered

• How flexibility, hybrid working and micro-shifting can quietly become a trap for women at work

• The basics of how AI is already affecting women's jobs, and which sectors are most at risk

• Why AI's gender bias matters from AI safety and regulation to non-consensual AI-generated images of women and girls

• Why Giselle calls the impact of AI on women the next "she-demic," and how worried we should be

• The domestic gap nobody talks about and the research showing that when men do more at home, women are less depressed, arguments drop, and divorce risk halves

• The three things Giselle would change tomorrow in policy, culture and technology to make work genuinely work for women

Plus, we catch up on our week (we've been gadding off to the cinema), and this week's book club pick is a shameless plug, t's our very own book, Tackling Gender Bias in the Healthcare System: What Patients' Stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change, out 21 September 2026!

And stick around to the end for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.

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Giselle Goodwin

Website: https://gisellegoodwin.com/

Book: Can Women Really Have It All? A Happiness Handbook for Working Mothers. Giselle Goodwin. AGG Associates Ltd. 2024

Instagram: @gisellegoodwinwrites

Substack: @Giselle Goodwin

LinkedIn: @Dr Giselle Goodwin

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Today we spill the tea with Julie Lee and Polly Chadwick, a perinatal trauma counsellor and a maternity specialist who, between them, hold space for the things antenatal care often doesn't have room for. Rainbow pregnancies. Matrescence. The silence around loss.

Julie explains what a rainbow pregnancy actually is for anyone who hasn't heard the term, and Polly talks us through her more hands-on work, pregnancy massage, hypnobirthing and the benefits for birthing people.

We ask why miscarriage and baby loss are still so hard to talk about openly even now, whether that's shifted since Julie and Polly started this work, and what women most often wish someone had told them before pregnancy and birth.

We also talk about what it's like supporting women through a period of birth trauma inquiries and maternity investigations, what the disorientation of early motherhood is actually made of hormonal, social, or both and what Julie and Polly would say to anyone listening right now who's feeling that guilt or disconnection.

For our listeners supporting adult daughters, friends and family through loss or the fourth trimester, we ask what's most helpful, and what well-meaning people often get wrong when trying to help.

We also discuss free or low-cost help and support.

We also chat about our weeks, the importance of saying yes and going out, and Jinty talks about hypermobility, how it might affect your vision, and prism lenses in glasses could help.

Stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.

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Julie Lee: 

Instagram: @julie_lee_therapy

LinkedIn: @Julie Lee MBACP

Web: https://julieleetherapy.org/

Polly Chadwick:

Instagram: @bumpbirthbabyuk 

@themulberryrooms

LinkedIn: @Polly Chadwick

Web: https://www.themulberryrooms.com/practitioners/

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We are back for series 17, and our guest today is a dear friend of ours, Elle Mace.

Elle is an ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor, a Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and body dysmorphia, a nutrition and weight management therapist, and a life and positive psychology coach.

Elle says she's "always been passionate about health and fitness,” but for years, that passion sat alongside an unhealthy relationship with food that started when she was just ten years old. She's spent the years since learning to free herself from what she calls her "food demons," and falling back in love with her body.

That journey is now a book, Food Freedom: How to Find Peace from Food Anxiety and Reclaim Your Body Confidence, an empowering guide for women rebuilding their relationship with food, body image and self-worth. Grounded in positive psychology and Elle's own experience as a qualified Eating Disorders Practitioner, it looks at how diet culture harms all of us, the different faces of disordered eating, and how to trade self-criticism for self-compassion. The book is brilliant, we went along to her book launch, where Elle spoke about her own journey and the power of positive psychology, and we knew you would want to hear this conversation.

We chat about how Food Freedom actually came about, and what it was like for Elle writing it, digging back into her own story, including the book's subtitle, How to Find Peace from Food Anxiety and Reclaim Your Body Confidence. 

Elle takes us into her chapter on Body Dysmorphia and seeing yourself clearly, timed with the first ever Body Dysmorphia Disorder Awareness Day, unpacking what BDD actually is and what it isn't. We talk about diet culture and where "healthy eating" tips into disordered thinking, including whether something like fasting can become disordered when taken too seriously, especially with so many conflicting expert opinions out there. Elle also opens up about swapping self-criticism for self-compassion, including how she came to name her own inner critic, and shares tips for anyone struggling with theirs. We can't ignore what's happening right now with GLP-1s either, so we ask Elle, someone who has spent years untangling this stuff, what she makes of a moment where women are shrinking and even Hollywood stars are starting to look frail rather than "healthy." She tells us the one thing she wishes someone had said to ten-year-old her, and shares the smallest first step she'd want anyone to take today if they recognise themselves in her story.

We also chat about our summer, there's a new Weekly Invitation, and stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.

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Elle Mace

Book: Food Freedom. How To Find Peace From Food Anxiety and Reclaim Your Body Confidence. Elle Mace. Vermilion. 2026

Website: https://www.ellemace.com/

LinkedIn: @Elle Mace

Instagram: @iamellemace

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Series 16 Finale: Book Club Special with Ruth Newton, author of The Carrier

For our series finale, we're doing something a little different: a book club special. We're joined by Ruth Newton, writer, campaign producer, and author of the best-selling debut novel The Carrier, a dystopian story where women absorb other people's pain as a form of labour.

The Carrier has already picked up serious recognition: longlisted for BPA's First Novel Award, shortlisted for the Hodderscape x The Science Museum Debut Science Fiction Award, and winner of the Jericho Writers' Friday Night Live competition.

In this episode we talk to Ruth about how much of the real world shaped the invented society of Eudaimonia, why she chose to make her protagonist Vivian a true believer rather than a sceptic from the start, and why every carrier in the book is deliberately a woman. We get into the visceral extraction mechanism at the heart of the story, the role men play in the resistance and what it says about allyship, and where The Carrier sits on the spectrum between cautionary tale and reflection of something already happening. We also ask Ruth about Vivian's traumatic awakening, whether her tipping point changed during the writing process, and what she most wants readers, particularly women, to sit with once they've turned the final page.

We also discuss our favourite reads of the year so far, and there’s something in there for everyone!

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The first women only trail race in Switzerland - SWISS WOMEN’S TRAIL, 1st edition on September 12, 2026

Switzerland’s first women-only trail is a 100% women-focused event designed as a gateway to mixed-gender trail races and long-distance formats.

The SWISS WOMEN’S TRAIL aims to address challenges by providing a competitive, demanding, and supportive environment tailored to women’s specific needs.

Two accessible race distances will be offered: 19 km with 750 m elevation gain and 38 km race with 1,400m elevation gain.

Find out more here https://www.swisscanyontrail.com/en/pages/swt?srsltid=AfmBOoq58MrBhc_CT4t7_1-_aXu7MS5hlEIIx6TDPdy5Qj_nZiEUIV80

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Ruth Newton:

Socials:

Instagram: @ruth.e.newton

LinkedIn: @Ruth Newton

Book: The Carrier. Ruth Newton. Transworld Digital. 2026. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carriers-propulsive-page-turning-speculative-Severance-ebook/dp/B0FK346DWV

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This week we are Spilling The Tea with Nicky Denson-Elliott, a professional feminist, community builder, award-winning podcaster, and the woman asking a question that, once you hear it, you can't unhear it.

We're talking about the word hysterectomy, a word one in five people don't even realise means the removal of the uterus. A word rooted in "hysteria," a diagnosis used for centuries to dismiss and pathologise women, only struck from medical record books in 1980.

Nicky had a hysterectomy herself this year, and it crystallised something she'd already been thinking about as a feminist campaigner. She's now petitioning NHS England to retire the word "hysterectomy" in favour of uterectomy, clearer, more accurate, and free of centuries of baggage.

Today we're talking medical misogyny, language, and why the words used for our bodies matter more than we think. 

We ask her about the petition and the moment that made her think "this word has to change"; how living through her own hysterectomy this year sharpened her view on the language; the real history connecting "hysterectomy" and "hysteria," and whether people actually know it; why a procedure that around one in five UK women will have has never had its language challenged before now; how she's finding getting the petition out there given the algorithm's treatment of women's health content (following our chat with the CensHERship Campaign last week); whether she's faced any opposition or the response has been entirely positive; and what NHS England and clinicians have said so far.

We also cover the new terminology for PCOS, now PMOS, and what this name change could hopefully mean for people living with it.

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Nicky Denson Eliot

Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768726

Socials: 

Instagram - @nickydensonelliot. 

Substack: Nicky Denson-Elliot

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