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Because we don’t become invisible when we reach a certain age! In fact, many of us begin to question our lives and the way things are. This is the women-centred post-menopausal podcast where where women share their stories, experts and specialists share information and knowledge about health, wellbeing, finances, style, diets, and relationships, and where we also look into the unique challenges that older women face in society, because we don’t just disappear when you get to midlife! We’ll be discussing things like the demonisation of older women, the feeling of being invisible, redefining yourself, creating a life that makes you want to leap out of bed in the morning, and the stigma of ageing. I’m so excited to share this with you all, thanks for being part of this journey with me. Don’t forget to like, subscribe and share the podcast. 💕 www.lifeaftermenopause.net
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Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Hot Topic: Racism In Australia Today with Pamela Anderson, CEO of EMILYs List Australia
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Have you ever tried to explain to someone what sexism is but they just can't see what you're saying? The sexism is so ingrained that it's invisible? What if racism is the same? That it's so deeply ingrained in our culture that we can't see it?
Yorta Yorta and Gunnai-Kurnai woman, Pamela Anderson, CEO of EMILY's List Australia, explains to us the history of First Nations people after colonisation, how trauma is passed down through the generations and talks about the systemic racism that most white people don't realise is present.
Timestamps:
- 02:06 - Introduction into Pamela's heritage & experiences as a First Nations person
- 05:26 - The impact & implications of "Terra Nullius"
- 14:47 - Issues with Australian Policy regarding First Nations people
- 16:35 - The Australian Constitution
- 20:09 - Why should our constitution specifically include First Nations people?
- 23:03 - Why would any First Nations people vote No?
- 23:57 - What is systemic racism?
- 33:13 - Why stolen generation is still happening
- 39:32 - Assimilation, trauma & substance abuse in First Nations communities
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Carbon Footprints: Why It’s Not All About Planting More Trees with Richie Mulder
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
And minimising or negating our carbon footprint goes way beyond planting a few trees.
You don't have to be an "eco-warrior" or live off the grid to reduce the impact that your life or business has on the planet or even to support the planet positively. There are a few easy things that we can all do as businesses and individuals that can make a big difference.
Accredited carbon specialist, Richie Mulder from Carbonhalo, talks to us about how we can all make a huge difference to our community as well as the planet.
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Women In Conversation: Why Doctors Don’t Know About Menopause with Julia Browne
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
A group of women have launched a petition to send to the government to request that keeping up to date with the latest research on menopause becomes compulsory for all GPs
You work in a scientific or high tech environment which involves technical terms that you've been familiar with for your entire life but suddenly you can't remember the terms or what they mean.
You're picking your kids up from school and you go over to one of your child's friend's mothers, but you can't remember the child's name even though they've been to your house on multiple occasions.
Sound familiar? When that happens to us, our first thought is probably "I've got early onset dementia!" So we get stressed out and anxious and we start noticing how many times this happens to us and it begins to happen more and more frequently until we feel like we're unable to function properly, so we quit our jobs because we don't feel like we're capable of holding that position any more.
We go to our GP and they probably give us sleeping tablets and SSRI's. They might say to us, "It's probably menopause, you'll be okay in a few years". Years! What do we do in the meantime? We don't feel that we can function, so we get onto social media and, if we feel confident enough, join a few groups and discover that so many other women are experiencing this yet our doctors told us nothing about it.
Join me in conversation with Julia Browne, co-founder of Peri-Pausers, a group determined to bring this lack of support and information to the attention of the government.
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Preserving Your Well-being: The Value of Professional Support During Separation
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
How much easier would the process be if we could map the whole thing out and really think about all the possible variations of who gets what, who does what and when, how we're going to respond when our partner does why, what are our triggers?
While it's important to have supportive friends and family around us, we also need experts and professionals on our team too, people who can be relied upon to give objective, honest advice and feedback because while friends and family are great, they may not be the most detached people in this whole thing!
After experiencing her own traumatic separation and divorce, making a lot of mistakes and finishing with a lot of regrets, Bridgette Jackson now supports other people going through the same experience to hopefully come out the other end in the best frame of mind and feeling as good about everything as they possibly can.
Whether you're in a happy relationship yourself or not, this kind of information is important to know because we all know someone who needs this support.
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Don’t Do Separating Alone: How To Get The Support We Need
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Many of us hide just how unhappy we are with our lives behind facades, to ourselves as well as to everyone else, so even just making enquiries as to the process of separating from our partner can be something that we don't want to discuss with anyone. Should we stay or should we go? What's the process? What's the answer?
The two friends set out to create a resource where women could go to get all the information they needed to help them through this time in their life. They enrolled the support of solicitors, counsellors, psychologists and other experts and they created groups where women could go to share what was happening in their lives in a safe space without judgement.
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Dating After 50: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
We all hear the horror stories of the current dating scene, particularly online dating, and we're already battle scarred from the breakup of our long term relationship so why would we get back into the dating scene and how do we make sure we end up with the relationship that we want and not a repeat of the relationship that we've just come out of?
With a host of qualifications around relationships, including Internationally Accredited Dating & Relationship coach, NLP Master Coach, Certified Master mBIT Coach and an Authorised Gottman Seven Principles Leader, Debbie Rivers helps and supports people to get the life and the relationships that they've always dreamed of.
Key points:
- 01:22 - If you need to ask how to be happy, there's a big problem
- 01:35 - Why leaving a marriage in never the easy option
- 02:30 - How the fears around dating can get in the way
- 03:46 - Why we believe it's okay to be "just a bit unhappy" in a relationship
- 08:45 - Why staying in a relationship because you have children may not be the best thing to do
- 13:08 - Why many people end up with the same relationship over and over again
- 19:04 - What to do when you don't know what it is you want from a relationship (or life)
- 20:50 - How to find the joy in life
- 26:32 - How to spot your repeat patterns in relationships
- 28:33 - How to figure out if a relationship will work
- 32:44 - How Married At First Sight sets couples up to fail
- 36:42 - The problems with dating as you grow older
- 40:50 - Why dating apps can cause so many problems... and how to overcome that
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
All good relationships are built on some kind of trust and when that's broken by one or both of the parties, it can be almost impossible to overcome. Almost impossible...
The difference between Dee and other relationship guidance counsellors is that she has a 90%+ success rate in rebuilding relationships and one of the reasons for that is that she doesn't just sit the couples down together and have them talk through things, she speaks to them individually.
Key points:
- 00:48 - How Dee's counselling differs from 'normal' relationship counselling
- 06:10 - Creating an Operating System for yourself and your relationship
- 09:57 - The problem with most relationship counselling
- 13:09 - Why there's no 'truth' and why we shouldn't change
- 17:01 - Why people cheat
- 21:55 - The seven different kinds of couples
- 30:35 - The habit of reacting rather than responding
- 33:00 - The problem with trying to sort out your relationship while you're sitting next to each other in the counsellor's office
- 35:50 - Why "the glass on the sink" thing is more than just a comment about putting your dishes in the dishwasher
- 40:55 - Is the saying "once a cheater, always a cheater" true?
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
In a business situation, the ability to read people will win or lose you sales. In a personal relationship, poor connection, not listening to the other person will put an enormous strain on the relationship.
Alan Stevens is an expert in profiling and reading people and he talks to us about what he does, why this is so important and how we can use it in our daily lives all our relationships, familial, personal and business.
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Self-awareness and understanding one's emotional relationship with food play a pivotal role. Recognising triggers, such as stress, boredom, or emotional eating patterns, allows us to develop healthier coping mechanisms.
But how do we recognise those behaviours?
This is not your average podcast talking about body image or eating disorders. This is a deep dive into the why's, into how we begin to recognise our behaviours, understand them and how we put new behaviours in place, ones that are more beneficial to us and our goals in life.
Join us now...
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
The Hidden Price of Settling: Understanding the Impact of an Okay Relationship
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
This can be one of the biggest problems: if there's not much wrong, how do you do something about it? If you're not happy but you're also not unhappy, how do you have that conversation with your partner?
It's easy to look at an abusive relationship and say, "You need to leave" but when the relationship is okay, it can be very difficult to explain why it's not working for you to yourself. And it can be even more difficult explaining how we feel to other people.