Metabolism | Energy | Sleep: The Midlife Trifecta with Lisa Walker

Welcome to an insightful episode of "Wild + (Finally F**king) Free": The P.I.E.S. Approach to Perimenopause with Sally Bartlett. Sally Bartlett is a speaker, workplace menopause educator, behaviour change & mental health coach,  and an award-winning author. She's here to walk beside you and empower you to discover who this new woman is, and what works for you in this exciting new chapter of life.

Sally chronicled her own ageing journey because she has always known that someday she would share it with other women so that they too could cultivate their own plan to embrace their change and flourish, just like she has.

In this enlightening and empowering show, Sally shares her own personal journey of aging and discovery, offering invaluable insights and practical strategies to help women navigate this exciting yet often challenging chapter of life. With warmth and wisdom, Sally walks beside her audience, empowering them to embrace the changes happening within themselves and discover the keys to flourishing in this new phase.

Through candid conversations, expert interviews, and evidence-based advice, Sally equips her listeners with the tools they need to cultivate their own customized plan for embracing perimenopause with grace and confidence. Whether you're experiencing hormonal fluctuations, mood swings, or simply seeking guidance on how to thrive during this transition, Sally Bartlett is here to support you every step of the way.

Find Sally online at https://www.sallybartlett.com

or dive into her Meno Feelings Quiz here https://bit.ly/MenoFeelingsQuiz

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Welcome to another brilliant episode of "Wild + (Finally F**king) Free": Stop Suffering and Come Back to Peace with Maria Felipe. Inspired, lively, and fun, Maria Felipe's real-world approach to living based on A Course in Miracles will guide you toward a life released from fear and doubt, and filled with joy and power. In nine crystal-clear chapters, Maria shows you how to banish the "cuckoo voice of the ego" and connect with your internal teacher, accessing unlimited love and strength. Her stories, shared from her own life and from her students' experiences, demonstrate that with a willing attitude and an open heart, true happiness isn't just possible - it's inevitable!

Maria offers a refreshing and practical approach to living that transcends fear and doubt, leading listeners towards a life filled with boundless joy and empowerment.

Maria guides us on a path to silence the disruptive "cuckoo voice of the ego" and embrace their internal teacher, accessing a wellspring of love and strength that knows no bounds. With her signature blend of warmth, humour, and real-world wisdom, Maria empowers you to release suffering and reclaim your inherent peace. Let Maria's guidance lead you to a life of authenticity, fulfilment, and unshakeable joy, where the echoes of doubt are replaced by the resounding certainty of love.

Find Maria online at https://mariafelipe.org/  

And her 9 week ACIM program here (https://mariafelipe.teachable.com/p/acim-9week-program).

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Welcome to an insightful episode of "Wild + (Finally F**king) Free": Befriending Your Hormones, Befriending Yourself with Giulietta Durante, Giulietta, a menstrual cycle nutritionist, is dedicated to revealing how understanding your menstrual cycle can unlock your true potential. Through her approach of hormone-healing nutrition, she empowers you to embrace your cycle's influence and strengthen your self-awareness, paving the way for a harmonious relationship with your hormones.

Giulietta's unique fusion of rigorous scientific knowledge and spiritual affinity has earned her the moniker of 'Hormone Whisperer.' She seamlessly integrates her profound understanding of biochemistry with intuitive healing methods, guiding you toward a balanced hormonal existence.

By acknowledging the intricate interplay between hormones and holistic well-being, Giulietta invites you to embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. Through her guidance, you'll learn to harness the innate wisdom of your body's rhythms, cultivating a deeper connection with yourself and your menstrual cycle.

As you explore Giulietta's teachings, you'll uncover the transformative potential of aligning with your hormonal fluctuations. Rather than viewing your cycle as a burden, Giulietta encourages you to embrace it as a source of insight and vitality.

Find Giulietta online at https://www.hormonesinharmony.co.uk

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Welcome to an insightful episode of "Wild + (Finally F**king) Free": Enhancing Emotional Resilience with Dr Jane Foster, Dr. Jane Foster, is a leading researcher and educator with a PhD in health and education. Jane is also trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shiatsu, and Yoga. Combining these skills with neuroscience and positive psychology, Jane equips people with proactive strategies to help manage their daily stresses, successfully changing perspective and creating new neural pathways.

Formerly a teacher specializing in outdoor education, Dr. Foster shares her transition into advocating for emotional resilience, emphasizing the importance of teaching life skills alongside academics. She challenges the conventional focus on academic achievement, advocating for tools to navigate internal struggles effectively.

The conversation explores reframing judgment and blame as resilience-building tools and introduces concepts like "TEPs" (Trigger Extra Proportions) and "PETs" (Personal Emotional Tools) to manage emotional triggers.

Dr. Foster's personal journey, including a profound experience with transient global amnesia, underscores the importance of valuing physical well-being and embracing emotional challenges with resilience. The episode concludes with a message of self-care, resilience, and navigating life's challenges while prioritizing emotional well-being and personal growth.

Find out more about Dr. Jane and her work at www.emotionalresiliencetraining.com.au, including her book and audio course mentioned in this episode

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Welcome to an insightful episode of "Wild + (Finally F**king) Free": The Inner Wise Woman with Tania Elfersy. Tania is an educator, certified transformative coach, author of a new book on perimenopause and menopause, and co-author of an award-winning book on motherhood.

She created The Wiser Woman project to support women as they journey through midlife change. She is passionate about raising awareness about midlife women's health and shining a light on the brilliance of our bodies. She believes our bodies aren't stupid, and they don't become stupid when our estrogen drops either!

Tania shares her personal experience with perimenopause and menopause, initially feeling overwhelmed by symptoms like mood swings and migraines. However, a transformative healing experience led her to recognize her body's innate wisdom. She challenges societal narratives around menopause, promoting self-acceptance and emphasizing menopause as a natural phase of personal growth.

Throughout the conversation, we explore reframing menopause as a positive rite of passage, urging women to trust their bodies and embrace this transformative journey. Tania's insights offer practical guidance and encourage women to approach menopause with a mindset of empowerment and self-discovery.

Find Tania online at https://www.thewiserwoman.com/ and her books at https://www.thewiserwoman.com/books

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Welcome to a profound new episode of "Wild + (Finally F**king) Free": Menopause as a Quest with Claudia Davidson. This is the first guest episode of 2024's season three, and it promises to be as transformative as menopause itself.

🤲 **A PhD in Menopause**: Discover Claudia's audacious journey into journey into “her early life dream” of academia and her mission at age 67 to reshape the narrative of menopause as a positive, life-altering experience.

📚 **Redefining The Narrative**: Claudia challenges the dominant, sombre stories of menopause with empowering alternatives, asserting the need to change societal attitudes and embrace menopause as a powerful life chapter.

🔥 **Sacred Rage and Wisdom**: Reflect on 'sacred rage'—the untapped anger arising from a lifetime of societal conditioning. Menopause is depicted as an invitation to reclaim autonomy and reshape one’s life.

🍂 **From Chaos to Quest**: The episode navigates through the 'chaos narrative' of facing menopause symptoms, moving towards the 'restorative narrative' of managing them, and finally embracing the 'quest narrative' of discovering profound life meanings during and post-menopause.

🌱 **Postmenopausal Zest**: Claudia speaks to the 'zest' that awaits on the other side of menopause—a season of life ripe with growth, creativity, and ample opportunity to fulfill longstanding dreams.

🧘‍♀️ **Mindful Menopause, Meaningful Midlife**: The conversation delves into the idea that menopause is less about 'pausing' and more an invitation to mindful recalibration and self-actualisation.

Dive into this heart-to-heart session where the past confluences with the present to unlock a future filled with possibilities. It's not only about enduring menopause but transforming it into a pivotal quest for wisdom, identity, and creative power.

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Welcome to the sizzling season premiere of "Wild + (Finally F**king) Free" – your beacon of inspiration in the mess and magic of midlife and beyond. Host Kylie Patchett is here, on her 49th birthday, to reignite your spirit and answer the Wild Woman's call.

🎂 **Celebrating Growth**: Kylie steps into another season with exciting changes to the podcast, revisiting its roots with the original name that embodies the essence of a free spirit.

📖 **The Journal Entry that Changed Everything**: Kylie opens up about a pivotal moment by the water in Sydney – a journal, a coffee, and an epiphany about feeling trapped, stressed, and the intense desire to be wild and unrestricted.

🔊 **Sharing Transformative Tales**: Hear about her passion for storytelling, sharing raw, authentic experiences of midlife metamorphosis and empowerment.

🔄 **Rebranding & Authenticity**: Learn why the podcast is shedding its 'menopause-centric' title to return to a name that truly captures the adventures and freedom of midlife and beyond.

👂 **Listening to Your Inner Voice**: Kylie reflects on the lessons learned from seeking expert advice without tuning into her own intuition.

✨ **Potent Midlife Lessons**: Unwrap the gifts of hardship as Kylie shares her journey of overcoming personal trauma, embracing neurodiversity, and shattering old patterns between her 48th birthday and her 49th (today!)

🎁 **Invitation to Self-Reflection**: Answering the wild woman’s call, and answering the big Qs questions about what you truly want in life and how to move towards reclaiming your power.

🗣️ **Up Next**: Our upcoming interview with a post-menopause PhD candidate breaking down the narrative of menopause and powerfully reframing it as a heroine's journey.

This is more than just a podcast; it's a clarion call to every woman marching through midlife. Let's embrace the invitation to be wild, be free, and, most importantly, be unapologetically yourself.

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Deb Benfield has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies in her 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specialising in preventing and treating disordered eating.

She bring her wisdom, passion, and lived experience to the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation, and her work is rooted in helping her clients shift their body relationship from their life’s project to their life’s partner, recognise internalised ageism and end it, and untangle from the diet/wellness culture mess.

Deb sees Midlife as a time of Emergence, so I knew she was my kind of people before we met for this interview. In this deep conversation, we cover:

• The hierarchy of bodies, and the system of oppression any “other’d” bodies live in (including anyone who is NOT slim, white, young and beautiful) and the damage this does to our relationship with our bodies as we age
• Deb’d beautiful description of what body liberation feels like to her, and the sense of freedom and expansiveness this has opened for her in midlife
• How to befriend out bodies and truly listen to their needs, needs which naturally change during transition points in life
• The incidence of eating disorder remission in perimenopausal women when normal and natural body changes trigger a need to try to control as a result of feeling more vulnerable and less safe
• The sea of ageism we are living in, the internal ageism inherent in the stories we have about what growing old means and a completely different way of framing age and ageing.
• Fascinating research on our attitude to aging and how this impacts our actual experience of ageing

Find Deb and the work she does in the world here 

Also mentioned in this episode:

Sonya Renee Taylor’s work and her book Your Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love 

Jane Fonda’s interview on Wiser than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfuss 

Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Ageing Determine How Long and Well You Live by Becca Levy 

Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Age Bias and How to End It by Tracey Gendron  

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Samantha Nolan-Smith believes we can reshape the world when more diverse voices and perspectives are shared and heard. She knows that as we break through the silencing influences that have been plaguing women for millennia (hello patriarchy), new ways of living, working, and relating to one another and to the planet, will become apparent. What she also knows is that we cannot do this individually. The the collective voices of women must be expressed. Social, economic and political change is needed to address the challenges of the 21st century. Women's voices are critical to ensuring those changes are equitable, innovative, and sustainable. It's time for us to speak up.

This podcast episode with Samantha, CEO of the School of Visibility was so thoughtful and thought-provoking, it will be reverberating through my mind and soul for years to come. Our rich conversation covers:

- Samantha’s shift from a 20 year old high functioning, type A young woman who battled on the inside with depression and anxiety, and did not feel safe in her body to the 50 year old thought leader full of quiet power and deep self trust, anchored in her own identity and intrinsic value.

- How the patriarchy (which is first evidenced more than 4500 years ago in writings from the Sumerians which speak about a woman being hit in the mouth with a brick for speaking out) influences and shapes both our boys and girls and forms a system of oppression that most of us so familiar with, we cannot see the ocean of conditioning we are living in

- Samantha’s journey through chronic fatigue and how she was forced to feel the emotions from big T and little t traumas in earlier life, her gentle path forward and the way this has informed her quiet, safe, simple environments she has created for herself - including the way in which she does business.

- The important of not only healing our individual stories around not taking up too much space (being too loud, too enthusiastic, too big, too [fill in the blank here]) but also healing the collective stories we have been conditioned to believe - and our favourite starting point which would be blowing up the good girl BS on all levels - the good mum, the good wife/partner, the good worker, the good friend, the good daughter, the good caregiver, ect etc etc!

- My own personal chiropractic adjustment of the soul moment when Samantha says “It is a radical act to centre yourself in your life and then take up space from there”. I don’t know about you, but that will stay with me for a very very long time indeed.

You can find Samantha and the work she does in the world online here

Also mentioned: Carol Gilligan book “Why Does the Patriarchy Persist?”

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Ezzie Spencer’s vision is a world in coherence. She started as a human rights lawyer, and completed her Ph.D in therapeutic jurisprudence for women subjected to abuse. Over the past decade, she has created a body of work in the trilogy of Power, Love and Peace — with a touch of magic - and yes our chat is just as delicious as all of that sounds.

We speak about:

- A huge Universal curveball at the age of 22, and the recovery process which led Ezzie to study many different forms of alternative healing including Vipassana, meditation, cosmology and Kabbalah, and how Ezzie feels tremendously grateful for this first initiation point in her life which sent her on the path to the magical life she has created today

- Ezzie’s background in law, her PhD in Therapeutic Jurisprudence (FYI, that means using the law as a vehicle for healing for those of you who like me had no idea that word means!) and the golden threads which connect her early work with the work around power and love to the deep work she does with her clients now around self love and relationships

- Her early period of burnout during her law career, and the thirst for feminine wisdom and how this, together with an early connection to the lunar cycles, led to Ezzie writing her first book, which was a runaway success

- The second initiation point in Ezzie’s life when her business took off like a fast train, the confronting reality of wanting to be of service to the thousands of people who arrived in her orbit very quickly, and how this led Ezzie to go on a journey to unlock self forgiveness, and ultimately self love, and realise the power of being a true creatrix

- Ezzie’s next level work in the Unconscious Vows, and the emotions which can indicate blocks or unconscious barriers to self power (guilt and shame) and personal power (anger and frustration) and the process of resolving internal discord to come to a place of living from the Authentic Self

- Her delicious feeling of being in fulfilment and contentment, a deep knowing that she has done what she came her to do, and the grounded feeling of being able to both trust herself and trust life.

Oh my stars, this one will land in your hearts and ears and reverberate its wisdom for a very long time indeed.

Enjoy and go find Ezzie and all her magic online here.

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