Why Midlife Friendship Breakups Hurt So Much & The Mental Load
This week on 40ish: Nicole and Lauren find themselves nominated alongside fellow 40-something Romesh Ranganathan for a comedy award which, considering he’s an actual professional comedian and we mainl...
19 Maj 35min
Midlife Problems: Pelvic Floors, Ex-Husbands & Dorothy Perkins
Today on 40ish: Nicole goes to the women’s physio and discovers that pelvic floor assessments are essentially the medical equivalent of rummaging around in a paper bag full of sweets. Dignity? Gone. M...
14 Maj 42min
More Menopause Symptoms, Tarty Shoes and the Toddler Turd
This week on 40ish: Lauren has put her neck out by sleeping on the wrong pillow, which feels deeply unfair considering that in our twenties we could sleep on a laminate floor and wake up absolutely fi...
12 Maj 41min
Weight Loss in Your 40s, Menopause at Work & Ottolenghi
This week on 40ish Lauren reaches peak midlife as she attends an wholesome Ottolenghi Cooking Club; yet somehow gets embroiled in a conversation about anal s*x within 3 minutes of arrival. Meanwhile N...
7 Maj 43min
Friendship Breakups in Your 40s, Menopause Feedback & Midlife Mean Girls
Today on 40ish Lauren wonders if Nicole is a totally new person post menopause. It kicks off with what may genuinely be the world’s worst lunch and ends as she rolls out of a hospital bed and attends...
5 Maj 44min
Midlife Spring Style Special
Today on 40ish: Lauren ambushes Nicole with a Spring Style Special - a surprise absolutely nobody asked for (least of all Nicole), but like all good midlife crises, we commit and carry on anyway. Toge...
30 Apr 36min
Pesto, Patches & Public Farts: A Podcast of Petty Problems
This week on 40-ish: Nicole is in BAD MOOD and Lauren is not helping by regaling her with her wholesome tale of foraging and pesto making. Of course, it wouldn’t be the podcast without a dilemma that ...
28 Apr 35min
HRT at the Pool, Menopause Questions & The Holiday Food Shop Fail
This week on 40ish, Lauren is feeling self conscious about rocking up to the pool with her HRT patch fully on display and Nicole has zero empathy. She’s too busy wondering what happens post-menopause....
23 Apr 41min
