MVP’s, NMN and Eminem

This week on 40ish: Lauren demos the new celebrity power pose. Victoria Beckham, Myleene Klass, Amanda Holden and Kate Beckinsale are among the women showing off their flexibility by raising one leg ridiculously high in photographs. Is it a demonstration of strength, fitness and fabulous legs, or just another way of reminding the rest of us that we really should be doing more stretching? And why does it look a bit like a cat licking its own bottom? Then we're looking at the growing trend of women in their 50s, 60s and beyond planning to live together rather than spend their later years alone. Inspired by the Golden Girls, women are exploring communal living after divorce or widowhood, sharing homes, companionship and potentially the cost of living. Could moving in with your girlfriends be the retirement plan we never knew we needed? In this week's dilemma, a listener has received some unexpected attention from her school friend's husband. After a friendly Instagram message, he's called her three times and announced that he'd like to have a catch-up without his wife. Is this completely innocent or is something a little off? (short answer: errr yes)  Our midlife meltdown comes from Emma, who has been invited to an actual nightclub for a friend's 50th birthday. Having not set foot in one for 25 years, she's now facing the terrifying prospect of finding something to wear. FInally, a brilliant rant about Instagram influencers and their increasingly ridiculous vocabulary. Why is ironing school uniforms and tidying the kitchen suddenly called a Sunday night reset? And since when did a perfectly ordinary jumper become a 'piece'? It's a jumper, Sue. Just call it a jumper. As always, we're sharing the funny, frustrating and occasionally baffling realities of being a woman in midlife. Got a midlife dilemma or a meltdown you'd like to share? We want to hear from you. Because if there's one thing we've learnt, it's that there's always something to get annoyed about when you're 40ish. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Ad⏐AG1's best ever deal currently at under £50 per month when you take a quarterly subscription. Try AG1 for 90 days and see how it can help support your energy, mood and focus at: https://drinkag1.com/selfcare All orders include a Welcome Kit with scoop, shaker, canister, 5 travel packs and a bottle of VitaminD3K2. You can find all the details on the health benefits via the link. Study results are held by AG1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish: Nicole discovers that misogyny is alive and well in the sauna, while Lauren discovers that even a night at the Graham Norton Show can be too much in your 40’s. In this week's dilemma, a woman recently married for the second time discovers that her new husband has been secretly taking Mounjaro for months and lying about it.I In our listener meltdown, there are perimenopause periods that refuse to follow any rules. How are you supposed to track a cycle that has apparently given up tracking itself?  As always, we're talking midlife, relationships, hormones, the things that wind us up and the ridiculous situations we find ourselves in along the way. Because being 40ish is not for the faint-hearted. If you've got a midlife dilemma, a meltdown or a story that makes you wonder whether it's just you, we want to hear it. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Ad⏐AG1's best ever deal currently at under £50 per month when you take a quarterly subscription. Try AG1 for 90 days and see how it can help support your energy, mood and focus at: https://drinkag1.com/selfcare All orders include a Welcome Kit with scoop, shaker, canister, 5 travel packs and a bottle of VitaminD3K2. You can find all the details on the health benefits via the link. Study results are held by AG1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish: we kick off with a Most 40ish Moment that perfectly sums up our working lives: an unsolicited pitch from a doctor-turned-founder offering us colostrum to try, with no strings attached. Because apparently, talking about midlife for a living means being approached about whatever wellness trend has just landed in our inbox.Nicole is raging at DJ X telling her what music to clean her house to and Lauren still has a gripe with U2 from 2014.  In your feedback, one listener gets disproportionately excited about an airer she ordered, promptly forgot about and then rediscovered when she got home from work. Honestly, the small joys of being in your forties deserve their own appreciation society.  Then it's time for this week's big dilemma: would you ever date a friend's ex? A woman in her mid-forties has found herself attracted to someone who was once in a serious relationship with one of her friends. The relationship has ended, everyone has supposedly moved on, and the chemistry is undeniable. But does she owe her friend a conversation before taking things further? Is dating a friend's ex an absolute betrayal, or does friendship come with a little more flexibility once we're adults? Join Lauren & Nicole for another funny, honest and gloriously relatable episode about midlife relationships, dating after 40, friendship dilemmas, parenting adult children, perimenopause, menopause symptoms and all the absurdities that come with getting older. Follow 40ish for weekly conversations about women in midlife, relationships, family, friendship, wellbeing and the things nobody warned us about in our forties. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Ad⏐AG1's best ever deal currently at under £50 per month when you take a quarterly subscription. Try AG1 for 90 days and see how it can help support your energy, mood and focus at: https://drinkag1.com/selfcare All orders include a Welcome Kit with scoop, shaker, canister, 5 travel packs and a bottle of VitaminD3K2. You can find all the details on the health benefits via the link. Study results are held by AG1, 2023. If you’re ready to launch your business before Black Friday, go to Shopify.com to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish it’s all about the acronyms as Lauren has to google what an MVP is, whilst Nicole is obsessed with NMN because Tony Robbins says so. (Quite what Eminem & Dido have to do with it all is another story.)  Your feedback, includes a very important discussion about colour-coded glass Tupperware (yes, apparently they do exist) In Midlife News, we get stuck into the growing menopause industry and ask whether women are being genuinely helped or simply persuaded to spend a fortune on anything with a menopause label and lilac packaging.  Then comes this week's dilemma: a mum of teenagers who has spent years telling her children they can talk to her about absolutely anything. Now they're 16 and 19, she's discovering that being a safe space can sometimes mean hearing information she would really rather not know. How do you encourage honesty and keep the lines of communication open without becoming the unwilling recipient of every intimate detail of your children's lives? in this week's meltdown, we bring you Lauren’s eyebrow dye incident. Sometimes midlife is about personal growth. Sometimes it's about returning to Boots with emerald green brows and demanding a refund.  Follow 40ish for weekly conversations about midlife, relationships, family, friendship, beauty, menopause, wellbeing and everything else we're apparently supposed to have figured out by now. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Ad⏐AG1's best ever deal currently at under £50 per month when you take a quarterly subscription. Try AG1 for 90 days and see how it can help support your energy, mood and focus at: https://drinkag1.com/selfcare All orders include a Welcome Kit with scoop, shaker, canister, 5 travel packs and a bottle of VitaminD3K2. You can find all the details on the health benefits via the link. Study results are held by AG1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish, Nicole has discovered eyemaxxing and naturally wants to know whether we should all be doing it and whether our faces have somehow acquired another department that needs managing.  Meanwhile, Alison Hammond is hitting back at critics of her age-gap relationship, raising the question of why women still seem to face a completely different set of rules when it comes to love, age and who they're allowed to date. In todays big relationship dilemma: is it ever OK to discuss your marriage with your best friend? Where does healthy venting end and marital treason begin? And should your partner be worried about what your friends know about them?  Plus, we investigate one of midlife’s greatest financial mysteries: how do you walk into Boots for one thing, emerge £67 poorer, and still not have the thing you went in for? Whatever it is, we need answers. Just another week of trying to navigate midlife without buying unnecessary eye products or accidentally bankrupting ourselves in Boots. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected] 📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lauren’s so peri-peri she forgot to change her HRT patch AND how to board a plane. Plus: why are women thirsting over the Wicker Husband from Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård’s new film Wicker? This week on 40ish, Nicole has been locked out of LinkedIn… again. In Midlife News, we dig into the Wicker Husband craze. Could a tall, handsome man woven from rattan fix modern dating fatigue? Searches for personalised wicker baskets are reportedly soaring. Then it’s your dilemmas. A listener has met a charming man in his 50s. Is he a gentleman taking it slow, or just a bit uptight? Should she make the first move? We talk dating after divorce, reading the signs and taking a chance on romance. Plus airport dads, and proof that midlife is anything but boring. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected] 📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast #Perimenopause #DatingAfterDivorce #MidlifeWomen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today's 40ish, Nicole is celebrating a personal best at the gym as she gears up for turning 50ish. Lauren is staying up far too late watching The Substance (again). One of us is getting stronger. The other is getting sleepier. Both are entirely committed to their choices. In Midlife News, the underwire bra is making a comeback. Designers including Prada and Tom Ford are embracing lingerie-inspired looks, while celebrities are wearing bras as outerwear. But after years of wireless bras, stretchy fabrics and finally being able to breathe, are women in their forties and beyond really ready to return to something that feels like scaffolding around the ribcage? Our listener dilemma is all about celebrating her mum’s 80th birthday when the birthday girl hates a fuss. With a mum who doesn't want a big party, how do you make such a milestone special without making her miserable? We're talking about aging parents, family expectations and learning to celebrate people in the way that actually makes them happy. In this week's midlife meltdowns. Cutlery is causing disproportionate levels of irritation, and we're exploring the complicated business of angry gratitude. Because sometimes even the smallest inconvenience is enough to push us over the edge. Join us for honest, funny and gloriously relatable conversation about life in your forties and beyond, getting older, family dilemmas, midlife fitness and all the little things that somehow become very big things. Follow 40ish for more midlife news, relatable dilemmas, funny meltdowns and the things nobody warned us about in our forties. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Try AG1 now at https://drinkag1.com/selfcare and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30- day money-back guarantee.  Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. 40ish,midlife podcast,midlife women,women in their 40s,midlife comedy,midlife news,underwire bra,underwire bra trend,fashion trends 2026,comfortable bras,midlife fashion,80th birthday ideas,80th birthday celebration,ageing parents,elderly parents,family dilemmas,milestone birthdays,midlife meltdowns,angry gratitude,women's lifestyle podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish: Lauren wonders if it’s too early to put the heating on and Nicole has a tupperware invention that could transform the world of reusable plastic storage. We're also tackling a parenting dilemma that will resonate with anyone whose teenager is thinking about university. One listener is concerned about student debt, future job opportunities and whether university will live up to expectations. But how do you balance wanting to protect your children from an expensive mistake with giving them the freedom to make their own decisions? Plus, we're sharing the meltdowns that come with travelling light, having a cold and resolving what to do about grey eyebrow hair. It’s another dose of midlife honesty, ridiculous everyday frustrations and the reassurance that we're probably all losing the plot just a little bit. If you're navigating midlife, parenting teenagers, perimenopause or simply wondering why your eyebrows are turning grey while your patience disappears, you're in the right place. 40ish,midlife,midlife podcast,women in their 40s,midlife comedy, parenting teenagers,university choices,student debt,university vs apprenticeship,parenting adult children,perimenopause,perimenopause anxiety,midlife meltdowns,ageing,grey eyebrows,midlife motherhood,empty nest,women's health 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast Try AG1 now at https://drinkag1.com/selfcare and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30- day money-back guarantee.  Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. #Menopause #HRT #Perimenopause #Midlife #WomenOver40 #40ish Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brain fog, anxiety, weight gain, poor sleep: is it always perimenopause? This week on 40ish we ask whether we're blaming everything on our hormones, and whether that means other health issues get missed. A recent article questioned whether every symptom in a woman in her 40s should be put down to perimenopause. After decades of women's symptoms being dismissed as stress or "getting older", recognising the impact of oestrogen and hormonal change is vital. But not everything is menopause, and persistent or unusual symptoms deserve proper investigation. Plus: a listener from the sweaty-underboob contingent refuses to join the no-bra movement, and this week's 40ish dilemma asks whether it's rude to leave someone on WhatsApp blue ticks for days. One listener now matches everyone's reply time exactly. Fair play, or WhatsApp weirdo? 40ish is the podcast about the funny, messy and ridiculous reality of life in your 40s. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected] 📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast & Substack @The Midlife Club Try AG1 now at https://drinkag1.com/selfcare and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on 40ish: Nicole is wondering if her post menopause personality is here to stay - and if so how worrying is that (answer: very) Whilst Lauren has finally found somewhere to wear the white shoes. Then we revisit the subject that has divided the nation: pillow protectors. The 40ish listeners have spoken… and Lauren is feeling VERY smug. The listener dilemma is about sex and libido in midlife. What happens when you’re 47, your husband is 51, and your sex drive is absolutely fine… but his has disappeared? We talk about long-term relationships, changing libidos, testosterone, attraction, communication and the awkwardness of being the woman who wants more sex. Finally, one listener is in meltdown when she discovers that her husband has somehow reached his 50s without knowing what HRT is. As ever, 40ish is the podcast about the funny, messy, ridiculous reality of life in your 40s: relationships, sex, hormones, health, ageing, family, marriage and all the things nobody quite warned us about. 💌 Send us your dilemmas and rants: [email protected]📱 Follow: @40ish.podcast & Substack @ The Midlife Club If you’re ready to launch your business before Black Friday, go to shopify.com to start your free trial Try AG1 now at https://drinkag1.com/selfcare and get £20 off your first order + 5 AG1 Travel Packs for on the go, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, and the Welcome Kit for FREE. No risk with the 30- day money-back guarantee.  Find all details about the health benefits in the link. Study results are on file with AG1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices