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How To Run Away (& Other Handy Hints for Your Next Bit)
Formerly A Grown Up's Gap Year.
How To Run Away (& Other Handy Hints for Your Next Bit) is a podcast about the next bit of life: health, long marriages, ageing parents, young adult children (kidults), friendship, community, travel, purpose, and how midlife women stay properly engaged with it all.
Hosted by bestselling Australian author, clinical nutritionist and wellbeing coach Monique van Tulder, the show explores the emotional logistics of adult life: mental load, caregiving, solo travel, brain health, longevity, healthspan, perimenopause and menopause, financial wellbeing, long-term relationships, healthy ageing, empty nest, reinvigoration, and what the next decades might actually look like.
Through expert interviews, storytelling, cultural observation, and useful conversations, Monique asks:
What kind of woman do we want to become, how would we like her to age, and how do we start designing her life now?
The 90-year-old version of you? She is watching.
Part conversation. Part perspective shift. Part useful nudge.
There will occasionally be hotels (Monique loves a hotel stay), golf (happy place for her and The Bloke), emotional admin, hearing aids, resentment, cold-water swims, and discussions about wearing the good dress on a Tuesday.
Nothing is off the table if it means our epitaph will never read, "F**k, I forgot to live my life."
New episodes weekly. For midlife women, sandwich generation carers, and anyone asking what comes next.
How To Run Away (& Other Handy Hints for Your Next Bit)
Solo Travel Over 50: How To Take Guilt-Free Time Out
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This episode was recorded before the current fuel crisis. Please check current travel advisories and official government advice before booking or travelling.
You’ve simplified. Planned. Acted. Connected.
Now — what if you actually went somewhere?
Did something?
Said yes to the thing that’s been quietly calling you?
In this episode, Monique explores why solo travel over 50 can be so much more than a holiday. Research suggests novelty changes how we experience time, which means the antidote to feeling life rush past may not be a mid-life crisis. It might just be a Tuesday afternoon somewhere you’ve never been.
Less Eat Pray Love. More Shirley Valentine. Minus the Greek love affair.
Reader stories, the 52 Yeses concept, running away lite, why a tiny trip counts just as much as a plane ticket, and why the U-curve of life satisfaction suggests many of us are already climbing the good side.
For women who have done everything for everyone else and are starting to wonder, very reasonably:
What about my life?
Season Four is coming.
But first — go explore something. Anything.
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Additional Resources:
- Your SPACE Prescription - Anti Guilt Calculator
- Free Weekly Newsletter
- Dear Blokes Downloadable
- Setting Boundaries That Stick - checklist
- 52 Ideas for YOUR Version of A Grown Up's Gap Year
📚 Get your copy of A Grown Up’s Gap Year the book, from Amazon, moniquevantulder.com, bookshops and libraries, subscribe to the podcast, and take the first step toward your own A Grown Up’s Gap Year.