Not Your Mother’s Midlife
Not Your Mother’s Midlife
Welcome to Not Your Mother’s Midlife, the podcast where we dive into the vibrant, sometimes messy, and always real journey of thriving in midlife as a woman. I’m your host, sharing my own experiences—from navigating hormonal shifts to tackling fatigue and keeping the spark alive in relationships—with honesty and humour. Each episode is packed with practical tips on women’s health, fitness routines to boost energy and strength, and beauty advice to help you feel confident and radiant at any age. Whether it’s finding the perfect workout to combat midlife sluggishness, mastering skincare that works for you, or opening up tough conversations with your partner, we’ve got you covered. Join me for stories, expert insights, and actionable ideas to embrace midlife with vitality. Subscribe, share, and let’s redefine what midlife means—because it’s definitely not your mother’s midlife!
Episodes
48 episodes
Why I Stopped Drinking Coffee — And What's In My Echidna Mug Now
Johanna shares why she made the switch from regular coffee to Ryze mushroom coffee — specifically the Bright and Smooth blend — and why her body is significantly happier for it — the stomach issues, the heart palpitations, the afternoon crash, ...
The Midlife Mental Load
Johanna is sharing an episode from The Chalene Show where Chalene Johnson breaks down the seven overlapping forces quietly dismantling the mental health of women over 40 right now. It is not just hormones. It is not a character flaw. And it is ...
What Your Gynaecologist Was Never Taught About Your Body
— Dr. Kelly Casperson sitting down with Dr. Andrew Goldstein, one of the world's leading specialists in vulvovaginal disorders and female sexual medicine. They cover vulvodynia, lichen sclerosis, cervical health, arousal disorders, and the emer...
What Your Nervous System Stores That No Blood Test Can Find
Johanna is sharing a conversation from the Everyday Wellness podcast — Cynthia Thurlow sitting down with Dr. Julia Haffner, a European-trained medical doctor who spent years watching patients come in with real, debilitating symptoms that no tes...
Breast Cancer And GLP1
You've probably seen the headlines — GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may reduce breast cancer risk. But what did the study actually find, and what can't it tell us? Johanna breaks down the research, the biology connecting fat tissue a...
The Silent Habit That's Making You Feel More Alone
Johanna is sharing a conversation from The Model Health Show — Shawn Stevenson sitting down with Harvard Business School professor Dr. Leslie John, whose new book Revealing makes the case that most of us are holding back far more than we should...
Testosterone: Overregulated, Undertreated, and Misunderstood
Johanna is sharing a conversation from the You Are Not Broken podcast — Dr. Kelly Casperson sitting down with urologist and hormone health advocate Dr. Helen Bernie. They cover why testosterone remains one of the most misunderstood, over-regula...
The Most Stigmatised Sex Act in History — Even the Kama Sutra Said No
Johanna is sharing an episode from Betwixt the Sheets — sex historian Dr. Kate Lister taking a deep dive into why cunnilingus has been stigmatised, feared, and condemned across cultures and centuries. It's history, it's fascinating, and it tell...
Lasers, Red Light and RF Microneedling — What Actually Works
Johanna is sharing another conversation from the unPAUSED podcast — Dr. Mary Claire Haver with Dr. Tony Youn, board certified plastic surgeon and bestselling author of Younger for Life. This one moves from the science of skin into the practical...
Frailty Starts Earlier Than You Think — And Here's What to Do About It
Johanna is sharing an episode from Dr. Tyna Moore's podcast where she talks how frailty is something most people don’t think about until it’s too late, but it’s one of the biggest predictors of whether you survive illness, recover from injury, ...
Feel Like Your Face Aged Overnight? You're Not Imagining It
Johanna is sharing a conversation from the unPAUSED podcast where Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Tony Youn — board certified plastic surgeon, bestselling author of Younger for Life, and the most followed plastic surgeon on social medi...
Why Belly Fat in Perimenopause Is Different — And What Actually Works
Belly fat in perimenopause and menopause isn't a willpower problem. It's a hormone problem. And a lot of the advice we've been following for years is quietly making it worse. Johanna breaks down what's actually driving visceral fat in midlife, ...
Is Porn Cheating? A Couples Therapist Answers
Johanna is sharing an episode of Consider Before Consuming featuring Dr. Nicholas Lawless — clinical psychologist and couples therapist — on how pornography affects relationships. Not in a preachy way. In a 'here's what's actually happening, he...
The Orgasm Gap
Johanna is sharing an episode of unPAUSED where Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Kelly Casperson — urologist, author of You Are Not Broken and The Menopause Moment, and host of a podcast that should frankly be required listening for eve...
Is It ADHD or Is It Perimenopause? The Answer, It Could Be Both
Johanna shares an episode from Dr. Tyna Moore and UK women’s health practitioner Adele Wimsett break down why perimenopause makes every coping strategy you’ve ever had stop working — the hormonal perfect storm, ADHD medication across the cycle ...
Your ADHD Might Be Affecting Your Sex Life
Johanna shares a two-part Dr. Daniel Amen episode on ADHD and intimacy. The conflict-seeking, the forgotten commitments, the rejection spirals and the medications that can making everything worse. If your relationship has ever felt harder...
Is It ADHD? What Women’s Brains Have to Do With It
Johanna shares a Dr. Daniel Amen episode on ADHD in women — Chronically overwhelmed , anxiety, relationships that keep falling apart, working twice as hard for half the result. If any of that sounds familiar, this one’s for you....
Hormones after Breast Cancer, Can you take them?
Johanna breaks down one of the most misunderstood conversations in women's health — hormones after breast cancer. Johanna unpacks what the research actually says about HRT, why so many women are told "no" without explanation, and why suff...
The Yahoo Boys
Johanna breaks down one of the most dangerous threats targeting teenagers right now — and most parents have never heard of it. The Yahoo Boys are organised cybercriminal networks running sophisticated sextortion scams on the exact apps your kid...
Is AI Your New Therapist?
Johanna explores one of the most talked-about shifts in mental health right now — people turning to AI when they can't sleep, can't cope, and can't get an appointment. She covers the apps people are actually using, what the research says, and t...
The Alzheimer's Warning Nobody Gave Us
Johanna breaks down a conversation from the unPaused podcast that every woman in midlife needs to hear. Dr. Louisa Nicola — neurophysiologist and Alzheimer's researcher — explains why almost two thirds of Alzheimer's patients are women, why the...
Is He Okay? Seven Subtle Signs of Low Testosterone — And Why You Need to Know This Too
Johanna breaks down seven subtle signs of low testosterone that have nothing to do with libido — and why every woman and man in midlife needs to know them. Drawing on an episode of The Dr. Tyna Show, she walks through the quiet symptoms doctors...
Minoxidil & Me: Will It Actually Work?
Johanna has always had toddler-fine hair and it's been thinning around her hairline for a while now. In this episode of Not Your Mother's Midlife, she's trying minoxidil to see if it will help thicken things up. She'll be documenting her progre...
Lets Talk About Sex Baby
Johanna talks about her recent discovery of Dr. James Simon, a sexual medicine physician who has spent his career treating couples together and getting to the truth of what’s really happening to sex and desire in midlife. If you’ve noticed chan...