Fannying Around

Welcome back to Fannying Around... Season 2

This week we're kicking off with a cracker! Our guest is Sarah. She's 52, works in the NHS, raised her son as a single mum and spent years putting everyone else first before deciding it might finally be time to put herself back out there.  

What followed was a journey into the wonderful world of online dating.

And by wonderful, we mean being catfished by a man who claimed to be 5ft 11, receiving more unsolicited photos than anyone could possibly need, navigating married men masquerading as single, and pl...

So for this final episode of Season One, we're opening the case files.

The Fanny Files.

We're looking back at the biggest themes that kept cropping up again and again. Why so many women struggle to access good information. Why we're all so bloody tired. Why so many of us ignore our bodies until they start shouting. Why women still have to fight to be heard. And how menopause somehow became a marketing opportunity for every supplement company on the planet.

Most importantly, we're asking what we've learned from the women and men...

Today we’re fannying around with Melissa and Steve Wall.

Melissa is a Team GB powerlifter, strength coach and all-round force of nature. Steve spent 42 years serving in the Army and somehow found himself becoming not only Melissa’s biggest supporter, but her coach, teammate and partner through menopause too.

What starts as a conversation about hormones quickly becomes something much bigger.

We talk about what menopause really looks like inside a relationship. The mood changes, the confusion, the exhaustion, the identity shifts and the moments where both people can end up wondering what...

Midlife, Anorexia and Learning to Listen to Your Body

This week on Fannying Around, we are joined by Marina, a 50-year-old mum and businesswoman living in Jávea, Spain. Marina's story explores body image, hormones, burnout, nourishment and what it really means to reconnect with yourself.

Marina speaks openly about growing up around restriction, developing anorexia as a teenager, using alcohol to cope, becoming a mother, and the long journey back to feeling safe and comfortable in her own body.

The conversation moves through perimenopause, exhaustion, brain fog, stress, weight changes, fasting culture, n...

Jodie is 41, works in a secondary school with teenagers… and is tired.

Not just end-of-the-week tired.
Not just “I need an early night” tired.
The kind of tired that’s been quietly building for years.

After heavy periods from her teens, 20 years on the pill, a difficult experience with the copper coil, and managing an underactive thyroid, Jodie has always just got on with it.

Because that’s what we do, isn’t it?

But recently something shifted.
The overwhelm felt bigger.
The anxiety crept in.
Things that...

Michael is an American author now living in Alicante, who left the US during the first Trump administration with her young daughter, built a new life in Spain, and is now figuring out empty nest life while writing books in the mountains surrounded by dogs, which, if we’re honest, sounds pretty bloody perfect.

But before that came years of awful periods, relentless bleeding, a brutal struggle to get proper healthcare in the US, and eventually a hysterectomy that felt less like a choice and more like the only way out.

We talk about what it...

Is It Perimenopause… or Do I Just Hate Everyone?

In this episode of Fannying Around, we chat with Katie — global events boss, mum of three, and a woman juggling a big career, teenagers, school runs and the creeping suspicion that something hormonal might be going on.

Katie is almost 42 and loving life… most of the time. But like many women entering perimenopause, she’s started noticing some strange shifts. One minute everything feels overwhelming and everyone is annoying. The next minute she’s fine again. Sound familiar?

We talk about the slow cre...