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Michelle and Liz are joined in this episode by Marianne Jones, to discuss why so many women burn out during midlife, which is exactly what happened to Marianne. She is an award-winning editor, writer, podcaster, and brand & content director who works with the nation's biggest newspapers and magazines. About 18 months ago, Marianne ended up in A&E and was told she needed to take a significant period off work to recover from burnout. It was tough to do, but the change resulted in a more balanced and positive way of living and has created new opportunities. Midlife burnout is becoming increasingly common, particularly for women. To the point where the World Health Organization (WHO) has now recognised the issue. Marianne talks about what happened to her, and how working from home and letting work define who she was contributed to the situation. She also shares the steps she has taken to recover and build a more balanced life. KEY TAKEAWAYS The lines between work and home have become increasingly blurred, making it harder to switch off. Being constantly stretched and frenetically busy takes a huge toll on your physical health. Being tired but so wired you can´t fall asleep is a big warning sign. If people around you notice changes in your behaviour or worry you are too stressed, listen to them. It is OK to stop and take a break. In fact, it is essential. Throughout the day decompress, Marianne shares several ways to do that. Midlife is a good time to pause, take stock, and start to do things differently. Don´t miss out on the chance to take some of the pressure off and enjoy life more. BEST MOMENTS “Covid has blurred the lines a lot between home and work life.” “Your body just cannot cope, at this stage of life, with what your mind is going through.” “It just felt like I had woken up one day having been flung off a fairground ride onto a sofa with hypertension and the Cockapoo.” “You're still using your skills and abilities, but just not doing so much.” If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, and review it on your podcast platform. We read every email sent to us at twowomenchatting@gmail.com so please get in touch! Check out our supporting blogs on this topic at www.twowomenchatting.com. EPISODE RESOURCES Been There, Done That, Got the Podcast - with Kat Farmer Sunday Times article by Marianne Jones about Midlife Burnout Rushing Women Syndrome ABOUT THE GUEST Marianne Jones is a multi-award-winning editor, writer, podcast host, and brand consultant, with 30-plus years of experience in women's lifestyle media. Currently, she is the Brand & content director for LookUp Lifestyle and the co-host of the weekly podcast: Been There, Done That, Got the Podcast, with Kat Farmer. Before that, she was the deputy editor of UK Grazia. She writes regularly for national newspapers. including The Times, Marie Claire, and the Daily Mirror. Marianne has won the prestigious editor of the year award for two years running. In 2019, for the Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine and in 2020 for the Daily Telegraph Saturday magazine. Winning it for a 3rd time in 2021 for TelegraphMag. An award that she had to accept from home because she was recovering from burnout. A common problem that Marianne is raising awareness of. ABOUT THE HOSTS Liz Copping is a networking pro & event consultant, leaping out of her comfort zone to co-host this podcast. Lizcopping@outlook.com. insta @lizcoppingtwc Michelle Ford is a professional voice actor and empty nester pressing reset, enjoying a new career in podcasting! michelleford1000@gmail.com. insta @michellefordtwc CONTACT METHOD https://www.instagram.com/twowomenchatting/ https://twitter.com/ChattingTwo https://www.facebook.com/twowomenchatting PODCAST DESCRIPTION Join hosts Liz and Michelle redefining life over 50 as empty nesters, embracing the highs and lows of midlife with celebrity guests and experts, sharing a laugh on their podcast sofa. We talk about real concerns, issues, and fun topics that affect us, our friends, and our family. Midlife is not just about the menopause (although we'd be the first to admit it's right up there!) but it is a time of adventure, change and reset - with plenty of opportunities and challenges along the way. Whether we're chatting about ‘boomerang kids,' diet failures (and occasional successes!), pro-ageing, travel, changing relationships, or inspiration for new jobs or activities, there's always room for one more on our sofa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Over the Christmas period and into January I'm going to be replaying some of my quiet favourite episodes of 2022. This week, let stylist and Instagrammer Kat Farmer motivate your wardrobe overhaul. This episode first aired in March.---Totally lost sight of your personal style? Feel like your clothes hate you? Whether it's the result of two years in and out of lockdown, emerging from the motherhood tunnel or the advent of menopause, many of us no longer have a clue how to get dressed.Enter this week's guest: Kat Farmer, better known by her instagram handle @doesmybumlook40 - best friend to every woman with nothing to wear for who they want to be today.But scroll back a decade and Kat wasn't a style savvy influencer with hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers, she was a mum of three small children, in her late thirties, who had completely lost her way.Kat's now written a book - Get Changed, finding the new you through fashion - a typically friendly and low-key guide to just that.TBH I was hoping that when I spoke to Kat I'd also get a free wardrobe detox - bloody covid! Instead, we ended up on zoom talking everything from reinventing your career to why clothes are the key to our identity, how the fashion industry is finally wising up to older women and why her rule of three will put an end to all your shopping mistakes.You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including Get Changed by Kat Farmer and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me!And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter, please join The Shift community. Find out more at https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week mates and neighbours Kat Farmer and Marianne Jones dine out on the correct dinner party etiquette, weigh up the contents of our beauty advent calendars & disagree over astrology (Aquarian vs Leo - who gets your vote?) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week mates and neighbours Kat Farmer and Marianne Jones are in a pickle over the new food trends, have gone early on their favourite Christmas tipple and are cracking open the sequins for a big Abba night out. Having the time of their lives! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week mates and neighbours Kat Farmer and Marianne Jones disagree about when to put up the stuff Christmas tree, round up the TV programmes keeping them stuck to the sofa & debate whether party outfits have had their day… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week mates and neighbours Kat Farmer and Marianne Jones discuss the truth about burnout, debate why fashion editors are yet again telling us to avoid wearing black, and reveal their secret midlife lust list. Gird your loins, people… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week mates and neighbours Kat Farmer and Marianne Jones get in a fury over forgotten passwords, celebrate being too old for ‘fashion imposter syndrome' and ask whether you'd pay extra to fly child-free… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week mates and neighbours Kat Farmer and Marianne Jones debate the downsides of leaving the house bare-faced, why Live, Laugh, Love mantras should be banned and Kat's strange relationship with socks… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week mates & neighbours Kat Farmer & Marianne Jones are chatting new knickers, reminiscing about favourite showbiz moments and debating whether politicians should ever wear trainers? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week mates & neighbours Kat Farmer & Marianne Jones are in a sweat about the menopause, debating air fryers and getting misty-eyed over high-street shops we miss… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week friends & neighbours, influencer Kat Farmer and editor Marianne Jones are chewing over Christmas crisps in September, inappropriate hairdresser chat & the trials of a turkey neck… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Are you past the point of giving a toss about what people think? Then my friends, you are officially one of us! Join neighbours & mates, tall stylist Kat Farmer & short journalist Marianne Jones, as they wang on about misbehaving hormones, tucking their boobs into their waistband & why teachers suddenly look about 12. All while attempting to walk in mid-heels over the banana skins of life. Tune into Been There, Done That, Got the Podcast…every Thursday…@gotthepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kat Farmer, AKA @doesmybumlook40, is loved on social media for her honest but upbeat posts, whether that's laughing at herself in an unflattering outfit in a high street changing room, or getting raw and emotional sharing the challenges of parenting a teenager with autism. Now, with her new book Get Changed: Finding The New You Through Fashion already a Sunday Times bestseller, she talks to Gemma about how what we wear is linked with our sense of personal identity and how so many of us lose track of who we are - especially as we get older and find our time and energy taken up with work and family. She shares some practical tips about finding your fashion tribe, talks about her own experiences of menopause and getting older (and why you should wear what you want at any age) and her guilt at not realising her daughter was coeliac. This is a hugely positive listen for anyone who wears clothes. Ultimately, Kat's message is that at the end of the day, we all deserve to like the person we see looking back at us in the mirror - and she wants to help get us there. ResourcesThe Wellness Edit/ Holland & BarrettFollow us here https://www.instagram.com/hollandandbarrett/?hl=enhttps://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/podcast/Dr Gemma Newmanhttps://www.instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor/?hl=enhttps://gemmanewman.com/ Find Kat on Instagram@doesmybumlook40https://katfarmer.komi.io/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Changed-Finding-through-fashion/dp/1784727784/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kat+farmer+get+changed&qid=1619601775&s=books&sr=1-1 H&B menopause range:https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/vitamins-supplements/condition/women-s-health/menopause/ CQA - FREE Women's Health & Menopause wellness consultation from the comfort of your homehttps://www.hollandandbarrett.com/info/video-chat/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
She's a mother, a wife, a TV presenter (with 35 years under her belt), radio broadcaster, fellow podcast host, a wellbeing warrior and very good friend of mine - Gaby Roslin joins me for some throwback chat and lots of laughter. We talk about our sewing mothers, manifesting through fashion and our male fashion influencers from John Travolta to our husbands. Listen as she tells me about how her love for movies and enthusiasm for repurposing old buys has played a massive part in her outfit choices and about that awkward moment Liza Minnelli nearly made her cry! You can buy the book that inspired this podcast, Get Changed: Finding The New You Through Fashion by Kat Farmer at Amazon and several other booksellers. Get Changed with Kat Farmer is created and hosted by me Kat Farmer and edited by Joel Grove. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it helps other people find us so we can empower more women through fashion. You can also find me on Instagram @doesmybumlook40 so do get in touch and let me know what you think. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
With a successful TV career spanning three decades from presenting to acting as dozens of characters, Tazmin Outhwaite is a pro when it comes to playing dress up. We throw it back to discuss her Essex girl style and trying to match outfits to her fringe. Moving on, we also share tips on dressing like an organised woman. Tamzin unpacks how recycling your wardrobe can provide the same dopamine as retail therapy – a perspective so relevant to today's times and one I love! Join the conversation… and extra points for whoever knows what a ‘Weenus' is! You can buy the book that inspired this podcast, Get Changed: Finding The New You Through Fashion by Kat Farmer at Amazon and several other booksellers. Get Changed with Kat Farmer is created and hosted by me Kat Farmer and edited by Joel Grove. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it helps other people find us so we can empower more women through fashion. You can also find me on Instagram @doesmybumlook40 so do get in touch and let me know what you think. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode I sit down with TV, Radio & Podcast Presenter Kate Thornton for a candid conversation about the fashion influencers of our childhood from Sade to Queen Elizabeth and the stylist Kate has kept by her side for decades. And with startling honesty, Kate also describes her menopause journey and how it affected the way she felt walking into her wardrobe. Through Kate's blend of warmth and realness about her symptoms, she opens up on her experience with the menopause, how she lost herself in the process and finding herself again.You can buy the book that inspired this podcast, Get Changed: Finding The New You Through Fashion by Kat Farmer at Amazon and several other booksellers.Get Changed with Kat Farmer is created and hosted by me Kat Farmer and edited by Joel Grove. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it helps other people find us so we can empower more women through fashion. You can also find me on Instagram @doesmybumlook40 so do get in touch and let me know what you think. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
All this 'going out' business…well, we are sorely out of practice and in danger of falling at the first hurdle: what to wear. Half of the exhaustion of 'going out' is the bit before. The getting ready. *shudders* So we are delighted that our old friend Kat Farmer has written Get Changed, a book about how to leave the house without leaving your sanity. We talk about bags, belts, budgets and if you are feeling lost, where to begin. Spoiler alert - never start with going shopping…. PS: This episode is bravely brought to you by Doctor Seaweed. Discover the wonder of seaweed with 20% off using the code midult20 at checkout as well as an additional 15% off if you subscribe and save. Cancel and pause anytime free of charge! Doctor Seaweed is so confident you'll notice a difference that there is also a 30-day money back guarantee. www.doctorseaweed.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If there's anyone who isn't afraid of a flamboyant, maximalist style it's the ever so talented Siobhan Murphy aka Interior Curve. You'll know her from BBC2's ‘Interior Design Masters' with her unapologetic approach to home style tearing up the rulebooks and celebrating every colour of the rainbow. This ‘More is More' (also the name of her upcoming book) attitude is quite obviously mirrored in her dress sense from multicoloured wigs to wild clashing prints. There's never a dull piece in sight! In this podcast, she joins me to chat about experimental fashion, being a magpie, the effects of toxic relationships and the dark and dingy corners of plus size clothing. You can buy the book that inspired this podcast, Get Changed: Finding The New You Through Fashion by Kat Farmer at Amazon and several other booksellers. Get Changed with Kat Farmer is created and hosted by me Kat Farmer. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it helps other people find us so we can empower more women through fashion. You can also find me on Instagram @doesmybumlook40 so do get in touch and let me know what you think. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Suzy Klein and Huw Stephens are joined by actor, comedian and entertainer Les Dennis as he hosts a tribute to his friend Barry Cryer. Kat Farmer left a lucrative city job after she had kids and was unsure what to do next. She rediscovered a love of fashion and it's ability to reinvent, and embraced the digital age, starting a blog, "Does my bum look 40 in this?" and becoming an online influencer. She now works as a stylist, for personal clients and on TV. She joins us. Saturday Live listener Martyn Bradley was aged 12 when, at a family party, his great grandfather gave all his great grandchildren a pocket watch, except him, on the grounds that he was adopted. It was the first he had heard about it. He tells us what happened next. We have Comedian Zoe Lyons on going from Survivor into stand up, and alopecia, and the inheritance tracks of Donna Leon, she chooses Carolyn Watkinson singing “Oh thou that telleth good tidings to Zionz' from Handel's Messiah and Joyce DiDonato singing “As with Rosy steps the morn” from Handel's Theodora. Plus, your thank you! Producer: Corinna Jones
Ever got more excited about finding a good pen than you did about sex? Or found more joy in getting changed from your day pyjamas into your night pyjamas? Then you, my friend, understand MIDULTHOOD. Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan (as a pair known as The Midults) are the popular agony aunts who do cutting the c*ap better than most. They look at the inner monologues of women, tracking the panic and the potential; the anxiety and the wisdom; the hunger and the horrors of all our emotional lives. In this episode of Get Changed they join me to talk about decades of fashion sins, unexpected wedding items and relaunching yourself with clothes.You can buy the book that inspired this podcast, Get Changed: Finding The New You Through Fashion by Kat Farmer at Amazon and several other booksellers.Get Changed with Kat Farmer is created and hosted by me Kat Farmer and edited by Joel Grove. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it helps other people find us so we can empower more women through fashion. You can also find me on Instagram @doesmybumlook40 so do get in touch and let me know what you think. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Totally lost sight of your personal style? Feel like your clothes hate you? Whether it's the result of two years in and out of lockdown, emerging from the motherhood tunnel or the advent of menopause, many of us no longer have a clue how to get dressed.Enter this week's guest: Kat Farmer, better known by her instagram handle @doesmybumlook40 - best friend to every woman with nothing to wear for who they want to be today.But scroll back a decade and Kat wasn't a style savvy influencer with hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers, she was a mum of three small children, in her late thirties, who had completely lost her way.Kat's now written a book - Get Changed, finding the new you through fashion - a typically friendly and low-key guide to just that.TBH I was hoping that when I spoke to Kat I'd also get a free wardrobe detox - bloody covid! Instead, we ended up on zoom talking everything from reinventing your career to why clothes are the key to our identity, how the fashion industry is finally wising up to older women and why her rule of three will put an end to all your shopping mistakes.• You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including Get Changed by Kat Farmer and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me!• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Beauty writer and stylist Kat joins Joely to talk haircare tips, self-care advice and her obsession with one key beauty item that she wouldn't be without.
Anyone else forgotten how to get dressed? Having spent a year in elasticated waists, we felt the need to call our friend Kat Farmer, also known as Does My Bum Look 40, an authority on wearable, affordable clothes. We talk about why this is not the time to reinvent ourselves and find that there is a halfway house between troll who hasn’t left the house for a year and fully functioning fashion-aware female. This podcast was bravely sponsored by Meg&Bee - beautiful bags for all the women that you are. The bags are classic, affordable and fantastic quality as well as being designed by an all-women team - and it takes a woman to know how to handle a handbag. You can change up the straps and play with tassels and charms depending on how you’re feeling. Annabel is wearing the navy suede classic with the disco strap, Emilie is wearing the suede classic with the camo strap. Meg & Bee are offering Midults a 15% discount until the end of April using the code MIDULT15
If you haven’t heard of @DoesMyBumLook40 then you’re about to. For years she’s been a badly-kept fashion secret: doling out tips and tricks on Instagram. She combs through the tat and shares the treasures. Now she is leaping from your iPhone screen to your TV screen in BBC1’s Prime Time show You Are What You Wear next Thursday. We are so grateful to you Kat Farmer, for helping us get dressed in the most human way. P.S. This episode was recorded two weeks ago when the world was a little different. Stay safe everyone ❤
What is a buffet dress, and why do we all need one? How can the Power of Three rule transform our wardrobe? Is leopard print over? Answering all these questions are Instagram superstars Kat Farmer and Pascale Banks, aka @doesmybumlook40 and @style_mum! We talk all things fashion, from predictions for what this year’s Zara spotty dress will be to our favourite jogging bottoms. Plus we find out which essential items it’s worth investing in. Then it’s time for mum chat. Pascale talks about parenting twin boys, and Kat shares her experience of dealing with autism and Asperger’s syndrome. We get some tips on coping with the teenage years, and there’s a Heated Debate about how to manage homework. This episode is brought to you in partnership with AE Publications, who give parents the know-how to support their children’s education. Their books are a one-stop shop for kids doing Key Stage 2 English and maths, and 11+ preparation. It’s not about making them sit their for hours - just 20 minutes a day, four times a week can make a massive difference to a child’s confidence. The books start from £8.99, and you can get 10 per cent off until 22 March 2020 - just go to aepublications.co.uk and use the promo code “ScummyMummies”. Thanks, AE Publications! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Finchley, Sutton Coldfield, Barnsley, Manchester, Twickenham, Milton Keynes, Chipping Norton, Bath, Kettering, Worcester, Southampton, Exeter, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. WE ARE RUNNING THE MARATHON! For two excellent charities - Borne, which funds life-saving research to prevent premature births, and Women’s Aid, which helps women and children affected by domestic abuse. Please sponsor us! We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to scummymummiespodcast@gmail.com and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! Thank you for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week Louise welcomes two more incredible mums onto the podcast - Loose Woman Nadia Sawalha and blogger Kat Farmer. Now we've talked a lot about young children in this series, but this episode is all about teens! These two teach Louise a thing or two about what's to come as Kat wonders which version of her daughter she'll get each morning, Louise asks how girls and boys differ, and Nadia offers some wonderful advice for those challenging moments: "Remember what they can do". Nadia Sawalha: https://www.instagram.com/nadiasawalhaandfamily/ Kat Farmer: https://www.instagram.com/doesmybumlook40/ **YOUTUBE** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfAEEhKikW1676DCa_0OWLA **CONNECT WITH ME**
Kate Thornton delves into the world of Instagram celebrities as Kat Farmer (@doesmybumlook40) and Pascale Banks (@style_mum) draw back the curtain on life as an influencer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Kat Farmer, author of the Does My Bum Look 40 In This? blog and Marianne Jones, editor of Stella Magazine join host Charlie Gowans-Eglinton in this guide to the new season. From the man-repelling trends we love to the school-gate politics we hate, the high street coats we're snapping up now to the designer trainers worth saving up for, we're setting our wardrobes to rights in this week's episode. Plus, Kat shares her surprising method for seamlessly taking an outfit from day to night... For more, visit telegraph.co.uk/fashion-unzipped-podcast/, and email your questions and feedback to unzipped@telegraph.co.uk.
This week on the SheerLuxe Highlights podcast, SL's Georgie, Charlotte and Tor are joined by special guest Kat Farmer, better known as blogger 'Does My Bum Look 40 In This?'. The team discuss how to negotiate a pay rise at work, tricks for more productive meetings and how much it really costs to be Instagram famous. Plus, they talk all things fashion and beauty – revealing their current make-up heroes and capsule wardrobe must-haves.Articles discussed:4 Personality Traits That Could Be Preventing You From Earning More Money – https://sheerluxe.com/2018/03/13/4-personality-traits-could-be-preventing-you-earning-more-moneyWant To Improve Office Productivity? Try A Walking Meeting – https://sheerluxe.com/2018/03/09/want-improve-office-productivity-try-walking-meeting Would You Go Into Debt To Become an Instagram Celebrity? – https://sheerluxe.com/2018/03/12/would-you-go-debt-become-instagram-celebrityHow To 'Propose' To Your Bridesmaids – https://sheerluxe.com/2018/03/14/how-propose-your-bridesmaidsThe Truth About Food Intolerances – https://sheerluxe.com/2018/03/15/truth-about-food-intolerances 4 Ways To Tackle Tech Skin – https://sheerluxe.com/2018/03/12/4-ways-tackle-tech-skin7 Tips For Buying Foundation – https://sheerluxe.com/2018/03/13/7-tips-buying-foundation See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Are you looking after yourself properly? June Sarpong, Vicki Pavitt, Selina Barker, Kat Farmer and Abigail James join presenter Viv Groskop to talk love, meditation, connection, sleep and how you can choose to let life break you – or make you. Plus the chance to ask your skincare questions directly to Abigail by tweeting @mintvelvet !