Wild, Wise & Curious…
Wild, Wise & Curious...
Podcast Description
Are you peri or postmenopausal? Do you sometimes feel like you’re losing the plot? Would you love to talk about what’s going on with your mental & physical well-being? Or hear from other women who lost the plot and found it again or went on to rewrite themselves a new story? If so, we’ve got just the podcast.
Wild, Wise & Curious... lets you do the talking. We’re your hosts, Michelle & Lou! We’re not doctors or psychiatrists, but we are perimenopausal women with other skills and we believe there’s a wisdom in sharing all our stories. Back in the old days, it’s how we all learned! It was our own perimenopausal ‘losing the plot’ stories that led us to create this podcast.
In this podcast, we’ll be chatting with women, just like you, who want to share their stories and importantly, the gems they’ve learned along the way. Interested in joining us, please give us a follow and share with your peri meno mates!
* We cover many topics related to perimenopause and beyond, including anxiety, panic attacks and other symptoms associated with this stage in a woman’s life, so please bear this in mind if these topics could be triggering.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
Explores topics related to perimenopause such as anxiety, weight loss, HRT, and personal growth, with episodes featuring individual stories like Philippa's weight journey and Maria's experience with anxiety and health remedies.
Welcome to Wild, Wise & Curious – the podcast where midlife, perimenopause and post‑menopause become a wild awakening rather than a slow unravelling. If you’ve ever felt like you’re losing the plot, rewriting it or stepping into a new chapter, you’re in the right place.
We’re Michelle & Lou – not experts, just two midlife women with lived experience, curiosity and a deep belief in the wisdom of shared stories. Michelle, a scriptwriter, has always been drawn to the power of narrative – how stories shape us, heal us and bring us together. Lou, with a background in psychology, is fascinated by the human experience and the ways we make sense of our lives.
Naturally curious and happily chatty, we love listening to women’s stories and helping others feel seen, heard and valued. Wild, Wise & Curious was born from that shared love of conversation, curiosity and community. What began as two women talking honestly about our own midlife experiences has blossomed into rich, meaningful conversations with guests from all walks of life… and we LOVE it!
Each episode, we sit with real women navigating anxiety, panic, hormonal chaos, identity shifts, grief, joy, rage, rebirth and everything in between. Their honesty is medicine. Their laughter is grounding. Their wisdom rises from the lives they’ve lived and the truths they’ve reclaimed.
Wild, Wise & Curious is a community, a conversation and a reminder that you’re not going mad – you’re unbecoming what you were taught so you can remember who you are.
Follow, subscribe and share with your midlife mates. Trigger note: we discuss anxiety, panic and emotional wellbeing, so please take care while listening.
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It’s been 19 months since Holly last joined us, and at 50 she’s still in perimenopause, still waiting for menopause to arrive.
Holly was told she was perimenopausal at 42, quite flippantly, in an appointment, and in the years since she’s lived with cyclical symptoms: brain fog, joint pain, and on occasion, the feeling of wandering around in the body of an 80-year-old.
We catch up on the strange goings-on in June, when some women reported two periods and others had none at all, and Holly shares that she had the worst period of her life.
Holly knows her astrology, and she takes us up into the sky to talk about the goddesses, the moon, and the links between the heavens and women’s cycles and the cycles of a woman’s life. She shares how she works with the moon to make sense of her own cycle, and the idea that women’s cycles once synced with the lunar cycle. She also tells us about Venus, and how over eight years the planet’s journey across the sky traces the shape of a pentagram.
We also get into the harder side. Holly describes a condition similar to endometriosis, where tissue contracts like the womb does during a period, with a pain like elastic bands snapping. When she went to the GP, she was initially told it was just perimenopause – and thankfully she knows more now. She’s done with the BS: done swallowing her feelings, and done not advocating for herself.
To find out more about Holly’s offerings, visit:
Instagram and Facebook: @witcharcanauk
And to join her Wild Women, Witches & She Wolves group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildwomenwitches
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