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100's of Lessons From A Hundred Episodes

• Julie Clark & Catherine Chapman • Episode 100

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Episode 100

Confetti, cake, and a truth bomb: hitting 100 episodes wasn’t about luck, it was about relentless consistency, a lot of curiosity, and one very chatty stomach. We look back at the conversations that made us rethink everything—from the guest who schooled us on neuroplasticity to the series that turned hormone chaos into everyday sense. If you’ve ever wondered why your focus wobbles, how gut health actually influences mood, or whether midlife is a slide or a springboard, you’ll feel right at home.

We unpack why downloads don’t tell the whole story and why the listener who learns while walking the dog matters more than any leaderboard. You’ll hear how we make chemistry friendly—turning enzymes, neurotransmitters and cortisol into practical tools you can use—and why “no” can be the most powerful wellness strategy. We also revisit sober curiosity, where a single question can shift decades of habit, and explore weight‑loss narratives with nuance, compassion, and science instead of shortcuts. Through it all, we keep returning to one idea: consistency beats perfection. Whether it’s strength training, sleep hygiene, breathwork, or boundary setting, small steps done often change everything.

Pull back the curtain with us on the homemade studio, the inevitable pet cameos, and the laughter we try—and fail—to hold in before the edit. Then look ahead: more expert voices, more practical frameworks, and a bigger community where women trade confusion for agency. Midlife isn’t a crisis; it’s an upgrade, and we’re here for the software refresh. If our kitchen‑table approach has helped you feel stronger, calmer, or a little more you, help us grow this circle—subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a quick review. What was your favourite lightbulb moment? We’d love to hear it.

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to Party Fabulous. Julie and Catherine. Join us on a mission to embrace your fabulousness and redefine wellness. Get ready for some feistiness, inspiration, candy chat, and humour as we journey together towards empowered well-being.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's dive in. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast where we're having a bit of a party, aren't we? Woo!

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, we are!

SPEAKER_01:

Our 100th episode.

SPEAKER_00:

Who would have thought it, eh? Who'd have thought it? Yeah. From from two people sat around your kitchen table having a bit of a rant to hundred podcasts in.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I feel like we haven't ranted enough, actually. Do you know? I think we've been actually quite measured and we've been very informative and educational. And I think we need to actually that should be our goal for next year. Let's rant more. More ranting.

SPEAKER_00:

Let's do it. I love that. I just from when we thought about what we that we wanted to do this, and I mean, I know that we've both been individually thinking about doing a podcast for ages, and so it felt easier to do it together. To then having Donna teach us how to do it, and we did just we stuck to the programmes. We did, we were very good students. We were very good. I mean, yeah, far better than normal. And then to just and we almost almost didn't think about it, just kept rolling through the programme and sending it out. And I looked back at the top four podcasts like ever. And the very, very top one at 240 downloads was from Struggle to Strength, which was our like our first story about us. It was our very first big main podcast. And it was yeah, it seems like a long time ago.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it does and it doesn't in some ways, but the best thing I think is that we've been really consistent.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we have been, and I've this is one of my favourite bits of my Inverted Commas talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, it's it's um, yeah, so we're celebrating, but you know, we're also celebrating you as the listeners um for being here because otherwise there's no point in us chatting, is there?

SPEAKER_00:

No, absolutely, we'd just be well, we'd just be at your table talking to ourselves again, wouldn't we? Yeah, and we so we have had a total download to date, so I mean, you know, in a week's time by the time this comes out to you guys, it might be thousands more, yeah. But at the moment it's six thousand two hundred and twenty one downloads.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And but we get a little irritated with downloads, don't we? Because it's always feel like it's a a figure that actually tells us anything.

SPEAKER_01:

No, and I'm really disappointed that you can't get the listens. Yeah. You know, Radio 2 are always banging on banging on about their listener numbers, so it must be possible, right? Yeah, exactly. Why can't they do it for podcasts? It's it's annoying, isn't it? Because yeah, how I don't download a podcast, I never download it. Yeah, just listen to it, yeah. So it's the fact that we've had over 7,000 downloads is is an achievement, I think.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. So we thought that we would have a little bit of a think back over the hundred episodes about like what our favourite bits were or what was most impactful for us. So I think my favourite guest moment was when Helen started speaking, and the pair of us totally shut up. We have never been so quiet in our entire lives, and I remember just just like staring at that screen, sucking in all that information, and just yeah, and just not really having anything intelligent to say to add to what Helen was was giving us. It was just amazing.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, do you know what it's so funny because that's also my favourite guest moment. Oh, I'm gonna say exactly the same, and we've had some really amazing guests, and that's not to say that you know, any of the other guests, it's just that, yeah, for that reason, the Helen Lauer, who spoke to us about neuroplasticity, was just so great, and yeah, we we just we just sat there and let her do the job, didn't we?

SPEAKER_00:

Really? Yeah, yeah. I think that's when we realised that uh guests were the way to go. It was much easier.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, guests are the way to go. And it's and it's nice because it's nice to have those different conversations with different people, their perspective, and we've had such a range of guests. I think it's been really, really cool.

SPEAKER_00:

We have had some incredible women. I was just thinking, have we had any men? We had the guy from the gut. Yeah, the gut test, yeah. And he was really informative. That was that was great. Actually, so the the gut, kind of all the gut information that and the one that we did about the pre and what's the word? Probiotics. Oh, pre- and probiotics, yeah. Those for me were the most I was gonna say the most informative, but I'd I with very close second to the whole uh hormone series.

SPEAKER_01:

Do you sometimes listen back to episodes just to remind yourself of what you know and also just to reinforce things back like reflect back to yourself because I do.

SPEAKER_00:

I well, there's and there's often if I I often get refer people to them, and then I will go back and I'll find them. Maybe I'll send them the link or something, and I'll be so I'll have a quick whiz through, and you know, it was it was at this point that we said this, and it's and yeah, and then I listen back and learn something like, Oh yeah, I know. I mean, probably often stuff that I've said on the podcast totally forgotten I knew, and then learned it again.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, but it's this is what happens, isn't it? It's really funny. Like sometimes when I listen back, I think to myself, Wow, do you know what we know a lot of stuff? It's incredible, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's so funny, yeah. And you'll get that like imposter syndrome. It was that was a good one. That was a really good one that we had with Ruth Cooper Dixon. That was a brilliant, brilliant one. And that's what we suffer from, isn't it? When we think that we don't know this stuff, and then you get it played back to you in saying in black and white, but in in our ears, and it's there.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and I did I remember some of those episodes where we were talking about um the power of no and just the fact that we had I think three guests in close proximity that spoke about the that no is a complete sentence. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And actually, I can I say this, I might be giving something away. So a guest that you guys don't know about yet, but we've already we've already got in the bag. When I was looking at questions for her, that came up again about about no being a complete sentence. Yeah. And I mean that's it's simple but absolutely profound, isn't it? I love it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. There was an episode that had such an impact, it it kind of changed me. Well, it was a couple of episodes. I don't want to lose that. So when we were talking to Sarah about well, the fact that she's a sober coach and like that penny was dropping as we were having that conversation. That was I've thought about that conversation so many times. It hasn't led me to give up alcohol yet, but it definitely is going to, and that's the interesting thing. And then the other one was where my brain was connecting the dots with the weight loss stuff, and even though I knew it, it was like I was hearing it as I was verbalising it, and my brain was just going, What the hell are we doing? Just it was so interesting.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, those I remember it was your face, you could literally see like the cogs turning, everything fitting into place, and it was when Sarah said something about like taking in those toxins, like we do so much work with with not eating toxins and not putting toxins on our face and our hair and all that stuff. Yeah, why would we drink it? Merrily throw it down our necks. Yeah, and it was you were just like the light dawned, like and it was and the same with that episode about uh the injections. You as you were talking, and that was you went quiet, you got quieter and quieter, and that's you know in the you know when the kids are real, don't you? When they go quiet. And I'm like, she's got quieter, she's not getting louder and like more and more ragey, she's getting quieter, and that's even I can't, I don't know what to do with quiet Julie, quite frankly.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that those episodes were really, really interesting.

SPEAKER_00:

Have you got any other episodes that um so yeah, the the episodes that I did really enjoyed, like I said earlier on, were the hormone series. I enjoyed doing them, I enjoyed doing a series like a linked load, and I enjoyed what we were learning kind of all the way through. I was learning from you, but also we were doing research and kind of connecting all these things together, and I I really enjoyed that from my point of view, and it's such a resource for women because we don't know the ins and outs of these things, and to be able to have it literally in your ears, I think is just really is really incredible. And the fact that we are you know we're talking about it and we're getting all that information out there. I yeah, I really, I really enjoyed, I really enjoyed doing those series. That and it's made us look more into things like um like Dr. Stacy Sims or Dr. Vonda Wright or those right? Yeah, I think that's right. And and their work, and to then being able to kind of translate it into what everybody can do with it through both of our eyes, because I think that that's really important. You need and the the power, I think, of this podcast is that we're not just going through exercise, we're not just going through nutrition, we've got all the mindset stuff, all the breathwork stuff, and we brought it all together, so you don't have to go and listen to one podcast that's got a nutritional therapist, and one podcast that's got a like a fitness trainer or something. It's I mean it's all here, people.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, it is, it is, it's all here, absolutely. Many times we've tried to record and we've had the dog barking or the chickens. Do you remember the chickens one time when they started making so much noise? And like I think most of the time you you probably wouldn't notice it on the recording, but we know it's there. We know it's there, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Although Donna has messaged me before and said that she's heard the seagulls.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, the seagulls, yeah. Do you know what? Do you tune out the seagulls? I think because try to. Yeah, but do you know what I mean? Like, because we're used to it, yeah. If they're making a noise while we're recording, I don't even hear it. I definitely hear the dog because he's very loud, isn't he? He's very loud. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So oh, I love that. My funniest moments, I mean, other than our intros, which are just so funny. It when we have guests now, we warn them that we're not looking at like we're just looking up or down, we're not looking at each other, we're not looking at our guests. For there's a there's a space that we have to leave at the beginning for editing, and we're just like, no, no, no, no, no. Just because we're gonna we're just gonna burst out laughing before we've actually said anything you're telling you.

SPEAKER_01:

A couple of kids, aren't we?

SPEAKER_00:

We can't make icon, I can't look at you. It's so funny, and the more that you shouldn't laugh, the funnier it is. Yeah, so that's one of my favourites. The other funniest thing is your stomach. Yes, your stomach rumbling is it's so loud, I do not know how it hasn't been picked up on the microphone.

SPEAKER_01:

I know because I'm sitting quite close, aren't I? And it is, it does get very loud.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's very chatty. Yeah, your digestive system, super healthy, very vibrant. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like, right, where's the food coming? When is it coming? It's like we're talking about this all the time. It's gonna start again soon.

unknown:

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I'd forgotten about I've forgotten about that, and it does make me laugh to think about when you do your solo episodes and you're under your blanket and everything. Because you we we always record in my bedroom because it's got the most soft furnishings, and it seems to work quite well for the sound, doesn't it? But I know when you do your solo ones, it's you've got no soft furnishings. No, so my office, no. So you're talking under a blanket, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It looks, yeah, it looks very funny. I know you I try and get all snuggly underneath it, and then it gets really hot.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's it's uh well, these are the things that you have to do that people don't necessarily realise when you're podcasting, right?

SPEAKER_00:

No, you you think we look super glamorous in our in our podcast studio, which we will do one day. There's a reason why we do audio only and not video. I know. Yeah, well, we need to get Julie to brush her hair and we'll perhaps we'll start a YouTube channel. Although I'll never brush my hair. No, well, so this is I had my hair cut yesterday and the hairdresser curled it for me, and then this morning I literally got out of bed. I I obviously I got dressed and did my teeth and all that sort of stuff, but I didn't just it with your finger. I just judged it. Yeah, that's what I do if I walked easy. I was like, I mean, this is just a revolution. Revelation, not a revolution. I mean, I did a little twirl in the in the garden as well. That's a revolution, but yeah, I was like, I think I'm gonna have to get my hair permed because it was just so easy. I just just judged and went. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Back in the day, I used to straighten my hair all the time, like most people with curly hair do, yeah, because we don't want our curly hair. And then the people who've got straight hair having all the perms because they want the curly hair, we just we always want what we haven't got, don't we? Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I think I get get my hair permed, get my eyelashes stuck back on, and then I can just I literally roll out of bed. Here I am.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, let's talk about some lessons that we've well, there's been a lot of lessons over the 100 episodes. 100 episodes? 100 100 episodes. If you've listened to everyone, a massive, massive thank you to you, by the way. Absolutely. And if you haven't, well, then you better explain why. Yeah. How have you been? Yeah. So I think we've picked out some themes, consistency. Yeah. I mean, you can't get where you want to without consistency. No, absolutely. And we've been super consistent with the podcast.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and I think even when you are looking at people like Die over CEO and those big, big podcasts, they were still going for a lot longer before anybody knew about them. Like they were podcasting in their I don't know if Stephen Bartley was podcasting his bedroom, but they were they were putting out this information as if people were listening by their thousands and and then just kept doing it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And that is exactly what we and can I just tell you people how bloody hard it is sometimes to we have crowbared this hour in today, haven't we? We are insanely busy women, and that's why we keep fit and healthy, so we can continue to do all of these wonderful things that we do and run our businesses to to serve you guys. However, we do make time for this.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, we do.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And I like the fact that most of the time we just we haven't got any plans as such as what we're gonna do, and we just see where the conversation goes. That's where the best conversations happen, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. So consistency is key and it and it beats perfection every time. Oh, absolutely. But how many times do people feel like they've got to have everything ready before they can start?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Or if they mess up one time, it's like that's it, I've ruined it now. That's it.

SPEAKER_00:

Through the toys at the pram, that's it. I'm not never doing that again. Yeah, I mean, there are there are plenty of episodes where the sound has messed up and we could quite easily have just binned them or you know, just say, Oh, I've you know, forget that one or we'll record it again. And we have just put it out there, and you know, and occasionally you will have to forgive some shoddy sound quality until we have a uh a whole company that sort it all out for us.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I mean we're not sound technicians, are we? And we've got fairly basic equipment here, and I think we do a pretty good job, so I think we should pat ourselves on the back for that.

SPEAKER_00:

We have I I have, and I'm I think I've dragged you along with me in this. I have visions of us sat comfy on the couch with our own microphones.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, I want to do that because I've I've just started watching that new series, it's so good, isn't it? And yeah, every time I see them with their microphones, I think, yeah, we want to do that.

SPEAKER_00:

And Angela Scallon and um who does she podcast with? I can't remember, but I follow them both on uh Vicky Patterson, I think. She, I think Angela is on the dancing, the dancing programme strictly. Yes, that one. I'm waving my arms around, not that you can hear, not that you can see that. And yes, and again they sit on the sofa with their with their individual microphones, and it looks very cool and very comfy. So I have I'm gonna hold that as a vision for let's be doing that by the ne by episode 200.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that would be good because how we've got this set up, just so that you know, is that we've got my laundry basket with a pile of books, and then we've got the microphone on top, and then we're both sitting on well, you're sitting on the stool from my daughter's room, a dressing table stall. I'm sitting on my child's piano stool, and we have to kind of move in close to the microphone because we've only got one.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. So that's that's how we're so it really is like consistency well over perfection. And I think maybe when we started this, we did think that that something something would change by a hundred episodes, but we've just kept rolling with it. It's working, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It doesn't matter. Yeah, if it if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Um talking about fixing, yeah, women don't need fixing, we need understanding, and that's that was the whole point of doing this podcast, wasn't it? Was to empower women and support women, and I think having an understanding around what's happening is really important.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, absolutely. Giving you all the information that you need for you to then make an informed choice. I mean, that from my from my nursing background, that's exactly I was an advocate for my patients and make sure that they had all of the information so that they made the decision for themselves. We're not here to tell you what to do, we're here to give you the information, and also we're all we are so different, all of us. We've got you know so many different elements going on that it's never a one size fits all. No, and so being able to give you all this all this information so that you can make a choice about your about your well being and just help you prioritize it is I mean, uh for me it's quite a privilege.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm really Yeah, yeah, it absolutely is, and I think you can't change anything until you're aware. And we've been really talking about awareness. We did right at the beginning, we just suddenly realised we said. That's a lot. Yeah, we did because it is so important, and it's important across everything. Yeah. So we've been aware about what we've been eating or not eating or how we're managing our sleep or our movement or our relationships, our boundaries.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Loads of things that we've spoken about within.

SPEAKER_00:

And what we like, what people have told us year after year after year about fitness, about body image, about how women should behave, those sorts of things that we've just sucked in and just followed for years and years. And it's not until someone says, you know, is that is that your thought? Is that your idea? Is that how you feel? And you go, uh no, actually, it's not. But until you until you stop and think about it, you you don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

No, you don't know what you don't know. It's true. It's it's so true, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02:

It's so true.

SPEAKER_01:

So, yeah, so leading on from that awareness and that empowerment, we really want you to know that midlife isn't a crisis, it's an upgrade.

SPEAKER_00:

Amen. Yes, yeah, because there's I mean, like we were talking about the hormone series that we did and and perimenopause and menopause, and it's the awareness is fantastic, but it's getting a bad rap. And as as much as there are elements that are are not pleasant, and I think women in in in general get a bit of a bad rap with with uh adolescence and then perimenopause and menopause. And then so everything was everything's quite negative around it. However, it is it is an it is a natural process, it has to happen to us all, and I and I think that the reason that we feel like it's a negative thing is because we've like once we're over it, we feel like we're going downhill again. However, I I think that women the other side of it feel very differently. I think they feel freer. We're certainly like free of that that bloody estrogen or progesterone telling us to to people please people and yeah, we're done with that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. I liked that chat we had with Lindsay about that with the cycle and the fact that yeah, it allows you to be, you know, become your true self and and you're not into that people-pleasing. And it was very positive that chat, I thought about the changing in the hormones.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you kind of get to be your your own person, you're not driven by these hormones that just want to kind of you know procreate and and keep the species alive, and and by the time we get to sort of 40 and 50, chances are it thought you were going to be dead anyway, so so you can just do whatever you want now.

SPEAKER_01:

There's definitely something in the fact that there's a high level of divorce around this time, right? I think women, I don't, I don't think it's necessarily a negative thing, I think it can be quite positive for women because I think you do move out of that, you know, you're not willing to tolerate things anymore, and you just decide, well, I want to go and do this or be this, and you just do.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's definitely yeah, liberation, an amount of freedom to it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, absolutely. I love chemistry. Now I have this conversation. In fact, this conversation comes up all the time at the dinner table. So even last night, my daughter said, Um, we eye chemistry today, she hates it, and and that part of my soul is affected by this. It's affected by it. But she said, I had to learn about enzymes. Well, no, why do I need to learn about enzymes? And I was like, right, well, enzymes are in fact incredibly when Rosie slides off a chair onto the floor. She is quite funny with it, but yeah, it's not her thing, and that's fine. No, it isn't fine, it's really annoying. But I love chemistry, and what I hope I've done on the podcast when we've been chatting about things like hormones or whether it's the gallbladder or the digestive system, is to bring the chemistry in in a really easy to understand way. I mean, the way that I talk about various like traffic jams in the body, like genetics and things like that. I think it's quite sneaky actually. I don't think I even realised I was learning chemistry. Yes, you were. Yes, you were. But at the end of the day, the reason why I bring this up is because everything that happens in our body is due to a chemical reaction. So when we've got things going a bit haywire in perimenopause, and we're wondering why our brain's not working properly, it literally is the chemistry. It's not your fault, it's just that the way that your body produces that chemical has been impacted. And I think understanding that is you don't under you don't need to know all about it, you don't need an A-level in chemistry, but just understanding that process, I think, can be quite empowering again if you know, oh my body works in this way, that makes sense. I remember us having a chat about something, and I was explaining, I can't even think what it was now, but you you were like was it an orchestra? Well, I like it might be in the orchestra. I remember you just going, Oh my god, that is so helpful. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, when you've got that orchestra of hormones. I do know what was the one of the most helpful again was going back to the um the the few that we did on the gut when you were talking about the gut being a garden and whether you were fertilizing fertilizing the fertilizer? No. The the ground, the soil, yeah, or you were you were sort of planting things in it. That that really helped me.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, and it's all chemistry. So yeah, hopefully you've learned a bit through through the chemistry with the conversation.

SPEAKER_00:

Chemistry with Julie. Isn't it funny though? Because I mean, like if I'd have known I again, as you don't know, we don't know, but um we can't impart this knowledge that we already have on our kids, they just they repel it, they don't want it. But if we could, if we could make them understand, like physics, I didn't I had no interest in physics at school. And in fact, we did like a combined science. I'm not I wasn't even really sure what I knew what biology was because I knew I wanted to be a nurse, but that was really the only one I took very much notice of. And if I'd have known where it had fitted into just like real life, I think I think I would have taken more notice and it would have been much more interesting.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, it is true because I do this with the kids all the time with chemistry. I will just do random experiments based on on what you know, on say on chemistry quiz just just with things like food, like um you know, what if you've got indigestion, what's happening there and how how you stop that, or you know, just things like that. And then the kids are, oh, that makes more sense, you know. They do go, oh yeah, I wish my teacher would explain it like that.

SPEAKER_02:

So I'm like, Yes, yeah, winning.

SPEAKER_00:

I love that though, but I mean, so things like that as well of the kids. I can I can literally feel their eyes rolling when they look at me and they go, I've got a headache, and they're looking at me to give them a paracetamol, and I'm going, right then, what time did you go to sleep last night? Have you been on your screen all day? Have you drunk any water? Yeah, and they're like eye roll. But you're like, let's fix the problem, let's just not plaster over the cracks, please. And that's with indigestion as well. It's it's good to think through that process because we do get so used. And I mean, again, it's not your fault. Like, you've got adverts on the television all of the time going, Oh, I've got indigestion, glug, glug, glug, with some nasty pink stuff. Oh, look, here I am dancing through the meadow again. And and so we see that all of the time, and we're almost deprogrammed to to not think about it. And I mean, well, maybe if we're going down compar conspiracy theories, then perhaps that's what is happening. But anyway, we won't do that once. Not today, no.

SPEAKER_01:

Should we do some questions that we get asked? Or most of the time these questions come out when we got our amazing Facebook group, but we're I'll bump into someone, you probably get this all the time, and someone will say, Oh, I was listening to such and such an episode, or they just ask us general things about the podcast. So, yeah, someone asked me, What's it like working together? Is it working? Are we working together? Or chatting together? Yeah, working really hard, so hard.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no, it's fun, isn't it? It is so much fun. I love it. And then then Julie makes me lunch and makes me coffees. Yeah, and we have little brainstorming sessions. It's just it is it's so enjoyable. I love it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I love it too. What's one thing about podcasting that no one tells you? Do you think? You've got to keep doing it.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Do you need to keep doing it? I remember someone saying to me, probably a family member, saying, um, are you still doing the podcast? Haven't you run out of things to say? Can you imagine? Did they have they met you?

SPEAKER_00:

Running out of things to say. Yeah. Can you imagine? I think that I think that we put pressure on ourselves to come up with new topics of conversation. And actually, I don't think that we we need to, because I think going over some of the stuff that we have spoken about before, and I mean we do we end up saying the same bloody thing, quite frankly, don't we? Yeah, there might be a different like subject on the front of it, but I think we end up saying the same, the same thing a lot of the time.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I think we do. I think apart from you know that coming up with ideas, which I think most of the time we find it relatively easy because we are just sitting here having a chat, but it's the the stuff that you don't often realise behind the scenes with podcasting, is that you know you do have to have a platform to host the podcast, and there is a cost to that, and then the editing does take time, especially when you first start, it is time consuming, and then all the other things that you see on social media, like all the the little graphics and that it we we're doing that ourselves, we haven't got some team of people that are doing it. So I did try and get Mikey to do it, but no, no, wouldn't do that either. No, and then just the fact that we are sat in my bedroom and we have you've got the laundry basket and the table from downstairs and these stalls and books and yeah, various things like that. And we've had it, and we've had some guests in my bedroom doing this as well, haven't we? Yeah, we have.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's it's lovely though. I mean it's I and I am sure this comes across that it's it's very relaxed, it's very informal, and that's kind of that's what you want, isn't it? Because then we're not gonna if we're barking orders at you, you're not gonna we're not gonna listen, first of all, and you're not gonna take in anything that we're saying.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, exactly. What would be our dream future guest? I actually think we want to be a guest on some podcasts, don't we? And and there are some people that we would like. So, I mean, for me, I would love to be a guest on Dr. Chatterjee's podcast. I was just waiting for you to say it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think he should have us on there. Yeah. And he tends to have people, the only thing that annoys me a bit is that he tends to have people that are doctors, yeah, whether that's PhD doctors or scientific people. I don't think he has enough, I want to say real people, but that's not the right word. But you know, like there are lots of people like us that are doing good work and working in our communities, doing a lot that don't have a DR in front of our names. Yeah, yeah. And I think he should embrace some of that knowledge. But yeah, unless you've written a book, you're a scientist, you've got doctor, you know, you don't always get on that. But let's put it out into the universe.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no, because I mean that's definitely one of our favourite podcasts, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01:

It is a really good podcast, yeah, and it is one that I listen to on a regular basis.

SPEAKER_00:

But how frequently do we do a subject and then weeks later either he'll talk about it or Joe Wicks will talk about it, and we'll be there going, We were talking about that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I know. Do you know what? It's interesting because when you're like we are we're working by you know, by ourselves, and we got our group that we we're dealing with, our our audience, and you just sometimes I don't think we realise how much we do know. And I get like my my family will say, Oh, I listened to Sunso on the radio, like I'm telling you, you know more than them. You know, what makes like Joe Wicks, he's lovely, I've got anything again, he's brilliant, but he doesn't do anything better than you do when it comes to exercise and the things that he's doing, and that's the thing, isn't it? Is that just because somebody's got um a media profile, it doesn't make them any better. Yeah, they've just been better at they've been, you know, whatever he's done, be in the right place at the right time and things have but I mean for him, I actually kept in my mind I hold him up as a bit of a success success story, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

And but and he's been really consistent. Yes, and I kind of think that like so 10-15 years ago, he was at the beginning of his fitness career, like we're at the beginning of our podcast career, and he just like you know, he'd turn out with with few people in the park and those. He did, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01:

He just kept going and going. Yeah, and he's brilliant, and I do like his his message he puts across the positivity, what he did during COVID and everything. So we don't hold anything against him at all. We absolutely love him.

SPEAKER_00:

Although I did start that the week before him, we did exercises every morning, and we actually used to drag the children down. We did them on I think we did them live on Facebook, and then he started the week later.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, always copying me. Yeah, this but this does happen, like you said, we we've listened to Dr. Chatter D on something, we look, and we'd be hang a minute, that was we were literally talking about that on that episode we recorded last week or something.

SPEAKER_00:

So I think Stacy Sims would like on our podcast.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that would be good, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

Wouldn't that be amazing? Yeah, I'd like Walter Longo on as well. I'd like to really pick his brains. That would be I mean, I literally I'm thinking I'll get excited now, that'd be so cool.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you need to come to the uh the um IPM conference with me at some point because it's so good, and it you're your people like that will be there, yeah, and you can just go up and talk to them. And so, yeah, when I've when I've been in that environment and there's been somebody like that, like Dr. Stacy Sims could easily be there this year, yeah. And you can literally go up and talk to her.

SPEAKER_00:

You do get you get oh my god, it such though, but they're just normal people, just normal people, yeah. Doing, I mean, doing incredible work. She's just absolutely trailblazing like women's health in the in the fitness industry at the moment, and it's just yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah, it is, it is, it's really fantastic. I'd like to be a guest on um on Diver CEO. Yeah, why not? I think that would be I think we'd I think that would be really good. I like the way that he he is so unassuming and he just he just questions and just draws out the information that he thinks that people need from his guests.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Perhaps we should be on uh Fern's Happy Place. Oh, yeah, as well.

SPEAKER_00:

That would be so good. And Davinas, I'd like to be on Davinas and Mel Robbins as well. Yeah, while we're at it, let's just be really greedy, all of them, please.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's just put them on the list, put it out there in the universe. But talking about guests, what would be really good is if you're listening and you know someone that would be a really great guest, then just let us know.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. If there's a story that we need to share, because I mean we've had some like Louisa McShane's story was just was just brilliant and so real and Jo with her weightlifting, yeah, amazing. Just I mean, like we are literally giving you real life rags to riches, but in you know, in the fitness world, and it's it they're just so inspiring, and they are then I don't like the word normal, but they're normal people. Yeah, they are and it just shows you what what normal people can do and and hopefully gives everybody an example that they can do it too.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I I couldn't agree more. Right, we need to wrap this episode up, really, and then you know, we need to go to our party that we've arranged. Yeah, just me and you, herbal tea and a and a healthy piece of flapjack.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know, I saw the cake downstairs. I'm after a slice of that. This is the good thing, also, as as healthy as Julie is, her daughter is an exceedingly good chef, and she makes brilliant cake.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, she does, really good. Although that one down there, I made that. Oh that's an apple cake. Oh, it's really nice. You can have a pieceme before before you go.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, run out of there. Yeah, no, that would be lovely. Oh, so what are we gonna be doing for episode number 200? Hmm. I don't know, it's a good question. We'll definitely have microphones in our hands, like our very own microphone that goes into a super duper mixer. And I think we'll probably still be editing it ourselves. I don't know if we've all quite have made it to our own studio yet.

SPEAKER_01:

Maybe not. Maybe we will. Who knows?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Perhaps we could convince one of our husbands to build us a podcast studio in the garden.

SPEAKER_01:

I think you've got more chance of your husband doing that than my husband doing that. Okay. All right then. But we'll see. Yeah, maybe it could be a joint thing.

SPEAKER_00:

I've got so many sheds in my garden, I don't know if there's read for another one. Yeah, we could, oh, we could soundproof it, put funky. I've gonna have a little sign up on the wall, the far too fabulous sign. And do you know what? When we called it far too fabulous, I mean, apart from the fact it sounds like far too fabulous, which is a little bit of a oops. I love the name. I still love the name, and we came up with it so quickly, and I and I thought that maybe we would get tired of it, and I'm just not.

SPEAKER_01:

No, me neither. I think I think everyone should be fabulous. Far too fabulous and far too fabulous. Yeah, I did laugh actually when we when we had a very the very first lot of episodes went out, and I hadn't caught the fact that the AI had picked up the description and then I had to go back and edit some because I was multified. I was like, oh my god, it thinks it's far too fabulous. But perhaps that's a more apt um name, you know, given our age and what happens to the digestive system.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that's it, and we're encouraging you to have your fibre.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, indeed. Well, what can we say? We will definitely be producing a hundred more episodes, right? 100% yes, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

So come along for the ride. And if I had if I had one wish, I think, for the next hundred episodes, would be that you guys came and joined the conversation a little bit more. Because you know that we like talking, and I'm a hundred percent sure you like talking about you as well. So come into the Facebook group and join us because I would like to make that a really like an additional supportive community for everybody, because we answer questions and we talk about stuff that we want to know about, like at our age. And some of it we some of it we don't know, and we have to go out and find out about. And so it's useful for you, and and I know that these the more that we have these conversations, the more helpful it will be. So if that's my that's my my Dying wish for the next 100 episodes is that you guys come and talk to us more in the Facebook group. If you can bear to be on Facebook.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, well, that's the downside, isn't it? But you know, there are plenty of people in that group, so I completely agree. So thank you for listening. Thank you for staying with us. And yeah, we'll see you on the next episode. See you then.

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