Matriarch

In this week's episode, Alicia is joined by Matriarch team member Tilly. The two discuss their own experiences with disability and take on a few questions from our Matriarch community. Head over to our Instagram to follow our disability campaign - @mtrrch Useful resources Disability Rights UK: https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/ The Brain Tumour Charity: https://www.thebraintumourcharity.org/ Disability Justice: https://www.disabilityjustice.org.uk/

The Matriarch podcast is back, along with a beautiful campaign highlighting the beauty of sisterhood in all its various forms. Tune in as Shanice and Alicia discuss their own experiences with Sisterhood, and most importantly answer questions sent in by the lovely Matriarch community, where they give out advice like any big sister would. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram account to check out our Stories of Sisterhood Campaign- @mtrrch

Relationships what are they, and how do we navigate them? In this week's episode, Alicia and Shanice discuss relationships, and what they mean to them, and others. They also talk about polyamory and ideas of non-traditional relationships, and how there seems to be a lot more pressure on women to enter into a relationship. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch

In this week's episode, Alicia and Shanice discuss the sexualization of women, and how women are often ridiculed when they own their sexuality. They also take a deep dive into Euphoria and how the show depicts female sexuality through a male lens and so much more. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch

In this week's episode Alicia and Shanice discuss The Girl With The List, a TikTok video outlining the effects of pregnancy, and why a person may not want to have a child, this leads them to further look at their feelings towards pregnancy, and their own experiences as women when it comes to seeking medical care from a health professional. As always, it is a deep and honest conversation. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch

Welcome back to the pod. In today's episode, Alicia and Shanice tackle the subject of age-gap relationships and the power dynamics that are at play in these types of relationships. The two also discuss how sometimes there tends to be less outrage when an older woman is dating a younger man, and how celebrity culture seems to have normalised age-gap relationships. Shanice also shares her story of dating an older person when she was just twenty-five and the impact that had on her. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch

Welcome back to another episode. Across two weeks Matriarch will be tackling conversations around money, in the current cost of living crisis we are experiencing. In today's episode, Alicia and Shanice look at how the cost of living crisis is affecting us and talk about their own experiences with money and just how hard things are for many people at the moment, They also highlight how budgeting may not be easy, especially if it is something you haven't done before, and just like everyone else they are just as shocked by the rising prices of vegetables. In true Matriarch fashion, there's so much too unpack. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for more content surrounding conversations around money - @mtrrch

Welcome back to the Matriarch Podcast. In today's episode, Alicia and Shanice look at what an inner child is and where they first heard the term. They also further discuss how your inner child impacts you as and adult and the importance of what it means to heal your inner child. In Matriarch fashion, we get deep and honest. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch

The Matriarch Podcast Is back baby!!! Tune in as Alicia, and Shanice (one of Matriarch's newest members) discuss how problematic greeting cards can be, which became a topic for discussion when Alicia was searching for a card for her mum. The two highlight how gender roles and stereotypes are at play when it comes to some of these cards, and how some of the humour behind the cards are riddled with misogyny. In true Matriarch fashion, there's plenty of banter and really good conversation. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch

Merry Christmas everyone!! We thought we would bring you a little Christmas treat. In this bonus episode, Jana and Ria shine a light on eating disorders at Christmas as they touch on the social pressures of eating out, food anxiety and owning your eating. Highlighting the importance of acceptance at a time where eating a little (or even a lot) more than usual can be quite daunting for some. Have a listen, look out for each other and enjoy! --- Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch --- TW: eating disorders/binge eating/overeating

Hello and welcome to the final week of the first season of Matriarch's podcast: Let's Talk About Sex. This week, the gorgeous trio of Alicia, Jana and Chloe talk about what they know (or perhaps, don't know) about menopause, how it affected their mum's and their hopes for the discussion about menopause in the future. Have an amazing Christmas, and we'll see you in the New Year. Lots of love, the Matriarch Team x Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch ----- Welcome back to Matriarch's very own podcast. Matriarch is now a team of six incredible women and lucky for you, we love to talk. So what better for our first podcast season than sex. From wanking to menopause, we've got you covered with weekly episodes over the next month

Welcome back to the Matriarch podcast. This week, on episode 5 of Let's Talk About Sex, Jana and Alicia talk about fertility. As is the beauty of the Matriarch podcast, enjoy listening to a mixture of personal experience and worldly musings about all things pregnancy, children (or rather lack of) and fertility. Lots of love. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch --- Welcome back to Matriarch's very own podcast. Matriarch is now a team of six incredible women and lucky for you, we love to talk. So what better for our first podcast season than sex. From wanking to menopause, we've got you covered with weekly episodes over the next month.

Welcome back to the Matriarch podcast. This week, on episode 4 of Let's Talk About Sex, Lulu and Alicia are back again! (Who else loves this dynamic duo?!) Bit more of an emotional one this week, as we navigate the broad topic of bodily autonomy. Touching on everything from sex, consent, disability, transness, sex work and even just getting ready for a night out, we basically just have a really good chat. So pretend you're on FaceTime with your best pal, and enjoy. Much love.  Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch --- Welcome back to Matriarch's very own podcast. Matriarch is now a team of six incredible women and lucky for you, we love to talk. So what better for our first podcast season than sex. From wanking to menopause, we've got you covered with weekly episodes over the next month.

Welcome back to the Matriarch podcast. This week, on episode 3 of Let's Talk About Sex, Lulu and Alicia get down and dirty talking about the ins and outs of contraception. Speaking from their personal experiences, the girls cover issues surrounding hormonal contraception (i.e. the pill and the IUS), as well as male attitudes to protection and how contraception conversations manifest themselves in hook up culture and relationships. Hope you enjoy! Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch --- Welcome back to Matriarch's very own podcast. Matriarch is now a team of six incredible women and lucky for you, we love to talk. So what better for our first podcast season than sex. From wanking to menopause, we've got you covered with weekly episodes over the next month.

TW: consent. Let's talk wanking. For the second episode of our sexy season, Jana, Alicia and Ria talk all things female pleasure. Why do we hide our vibrators? Why is wanking such a masculine practice? and should we really be feeling awkward about talking to our closest friends about it? Take a listen to hear our take... Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch --- Welcome back to Matriarch's very own podcast. Matriarch is now a team of six incredible women and lucky for you, we love to talk. So what better for our first podcast season than sex. From wanking to menopause, we've got you covered with weekly episodes over the next month.

TW: consent, assault. We're back and we're better than ever, baby. Welcome back to Matriarch's very own podcast. We've had some changes since you were last here and it's not just our cover art...  Matriarch is now a team of six incredible women and lucky for you, we love to talk. So what better for our first podcast season than sex. From wanking to menopause, we've got you covered with weekly episodes over the next month.  On our first episode, Jana, Harriet and Ria are talking about consent and the many grey areas hidden within it. So come laugh and feel with us in this episode! Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch

TW: Grief When your life changes and your house becomes a florist. On 17th June 2020, our lovely father, Nab passed away. It was sudden, out the blue and jolted my life forever. Life is now very much pre and post Dad and I can't see it any other way. One day I was 19 years old, the next I was living a life that was way beyond my control, knowledge or what should be expected of any 19 year old - overwhelming to say the least. Over the past year, with the support of incredible friends and family, I've managed to navigate my way through the world as I knew it collapsing in on itself, for who am I or where do I go without my Dad? Grief is still confusing and everchanging but after a year, I feel like I have a handle on it, I can verbalise it and that's what this episode is today. A 40 minute rundown of the most intense experience of my life and where I'm headed. Happiness is out there, despite what grief makes you believe. Feel like you have a voice to be heard? Let us know and send a DM or an email! For more information, head to our website, mtrrch.com. Find us on Instagram: @mtrrch

TW: Grief Sita, Mara and Ria. aka The trio. aka The sisters. aka Flora, Fauna and Merriweather. Please give a warm welcome this week to Sita and Mara Kalsi, Ria's older sisters, and a huge pat on the back for actually managing to co-ordinate the three of them to record an episode! It's totally fitting that Sita and Mara are the first guests on the podcast being 2 of the women who inspire not only Matriarch but Ria, every day. Our sister's club has always been tight knit, weird and private. We almost exclusively communicate in FRIENDS references and from the outside, as we have been made aware, we seem like total idiots. But we're fine with that, and if you are too, we're opening up the club today in our first (hopefully of many) sister's club episodes! Our relationships have been developing exponentially but this past year has been the most intense we might ever have. After losing our father in June 2020 and coming back home to live together for the first time in 10 years, we decided to sit down to discuss our lovely daddy, Nab. Feel like you have a voice to be heard? Let us know and send a DM or an email! For more information, head to our website, mtrrch.com. Find us on Instagram: @mtrrch This one is dedicated to our beautiful Mama, who's merged the roles of Mum and Dad unimaginably.

TW: eating disorders, calorie counting, diets, body image and weight loss/gain. Finding fitness in my life has always been a struggle and a yoyo but now, at the age of 20, I do feel like I'm getting there and changing my lifestyle for my body and mind. But this was hard, it's been 2 years and I'm still going, because ultimately, none of this is linear - it's a consistent effort. Join our creator and founder Ria for another episode where she discusses the past 2 years of incorporating fitness and prioritising health in her life-  the good, the bad and the beautiful! Feel like you have a voice to be heard? Let us know and send a DM or an email! For more information, head to our website, mtrrch.com. Find us on Instagram: @mtrrch

I promise, this isn't me panicking about finishing my degree... But I have in fact finished my 3 year degree at the University of Exeter studying English and I feel like it's run away from me! So today, I take a run down of my journey from sixth form to uni and reflect on my course - strengths, weaknesses and everything in between. Feel like you have a voice to be heard? Let us know and send a DM or an email! For more information, head to our website, mtrrch.com. Find us on Instagram: @mtrrch

Since March 2020, the fight for social justice has seem to become a priority in the culture of all generations. With this, online activism became a way for people to support and stay safe during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nowadays, it seems anyone with access to the internet and and Instagram account can begin making content to inform others and we've seen the rise of infographic culture. But where's the line between help and hinder? Today, I discuss the development of online activism, it's peaks and troughs as well as the importance of focusing on how we can use social media for the better.

Flop, fall, break down, fail. Whatever you want to call it, we all experience it on a regular basis. But is there more to unpack here than just a simple word? What's the effect of that on us over time? What does it really tell us about people? Do we use this to judge people with rather than to help each other? Today I unpack some of my experiences with failure and how that's effected me and where I've found power in failure. Feel like you have a voice to be heard? Let us know and send a DM or an email! For more information, head to our website, mtrrch.com. Find us on Instagram: @mtrrch

Welcome to the podcast! The new facet of the growing platform, Matriarch. Set up by Ria Kalsi in 2019, Matriarch is the platform that strives to create change, empower and build human connection. Starting by blogging about her own thoughts and struggles, Matriarch has grown into a platform that welcomes anyone and everyone's voices whether it's through blog posts, Instagram resources or, now, a podcast! In our first episode, Ria shares the roots of Matriarch - where we've come from, what we're up to, and where we're headed.  Follow us on Instagram: @mtrrch