Interviews

In this space, I sit down with inspiring voices, experts, thought leaders, and everyday women who are shaping the conversation around midlife and menopause. These interviews are honest, insightful, and practical, offering fresh perspectives on health, well-being, relationships, purpose, and intentional living. Think of it as pulling up a chair to join a conversation that matters. Do also check out the #85WeeksToFifty and the ‘5-minutes with…‘ interview series.

Interview with Sif Orellana on Summer, Living Between Two Countries, Two Seasons, and Two Versions of Herself

Interview with Sif Orellana on Summer, Living Between Two Countries, Two Seasons, and Two Versions of Herself

There are women who talk about freedom, and then there are women who build it, quietly, deliberately, one brave decision at a time. Sif Orellana is the latter. A writer, creative entrepreneur, and founder of Letters from Maison Violette, Sif lives between a 300-year-old French READ MORE…

Interview with Julie Cornish, Founder of Everywoman Festival

Interview with Julie Cornish, Founder of Everywoman Festival

There’s a question I’ve been sitting with lately. Why is it that so many women arrive at midlife carrying health questions they’ve never once said out loud? Questions they’ve been too embarrassed to ask, or were told didn’t matter, or quietly assumed were just part READ MORE…

Interview with Cynthia Thurlow

Interview with Cynthia Thurlow

We talk a lot about hormones in midlife, but far less about the gut, even though so many women feel the shift there first. The bloating that seems to appear from nowhere. The constipation. The new food sensitivities. The sluggish digestion. The sense that your READ MORE…

Interview with Terry Tateossian, founder of THOR: The House of Rose

Interview with Terry Tateossian, founder of THOR: The House of Rose

There comes a point in midlife where the old rules stop working. The diets that once “worked.” The pushing through. The shrinking. The self-neglect dressed up as discipline. And for many women, that moment can feel deeply unsettling, because it’s not just the body that’s READ MORE…

Interview with Annie Coleman, Founder of RealiseLongevity

Interview with Annie Coleman, Founder of RealiseLongevity

Midlife has a way of telling the truth. Not in a dramatic, blow-up-your-life kind of way, but in that quiet, unmistakable moment where you realise the old way of doing things is no longer sustainable. You can feel it in your body. In your energy. READ MORE…

The IWD Midlife Renaissance: Influential Midlife Women Defining the Next Era

The IWD Midlife Renaissance: Influential Midlife Women Defining the Next Era

International Women’s Day always makes me pause, not in a performative, hashtag kind of way, but in the quiet way. The kind where you look at your life and realise how many versions of you have existed just to get you here. Midlife has a READ MORE…

Interview with Donna Power, Founder of Meno-Pause

Interview with Donna Power, Founder of Meno-Pause

Donna Power has spent years at the intersection of clinical menopause care, workplace policy, and lived reality. Having worked alongside some of the world’s leading menopause clinicians, including helping to establish the Marion Gluck Training Academy to train doctors internationally, she has a deep understanding READ MORE…

Interview with Kate Codrington, Menopause Facilitator, Author & Speaker

Interview with Kate Codrington, Menopause Facilitator, Author & Speaker

Menopause is so often spoken about in clinical terms, symptoms to manage, hormones to correct, productivity to preserve. But Kate Codrington, menopause facilitator, author, and speaker, has spent years offering women a radically different lens. One rooted in cycles, seasons, and rites of passage. Rather READ MORE…

Interview with Lisa R Triggs, The Menopause Queen

Interview with Lisa R Triggs, The Menopause Queen

Menopause is often discussed in terms of symptoms, protocols, and fixes. What’s spoken about far less is the inner terrain, the thoughts we carry, the stories we absorb, and the relationship we have with ourselves as everything begins to shift. Lisa R Triggs, widely known READ MORE…

Interview with Sarah Bowmar, Certified Personal Trainer

Interview with Sarah Bowmar, Certified Personal Trainer

In a world that still equates health with shrinking bodies and chasing aesthetics, Sarah Bowmar offers a refreshingly honest perspective. As a certified personal trainer, Pilates instructor, and health coach, she works with thousands of women navigating real life, busy schedules, hormonal shifts, changing bodies, READ MORE…