Can the right foods really ease your menopause journey?

In this episode of Owning Your Menopause, I’m joined by Emma Bardwell – registered nutritionist, bestselling author, and one of the UK’s leading voices in women’s health. Emma shares a refreshingly practical, evidence-based approach to eating well during perimenopause and menopause.

From gut health to weight management, Emma explains how small, sustainable dietary changes can make a big difference to energy, mood, and long-term wellbeing. With her trademark clarity and no-nonsense style, she offers tools you can start using right away to feel more in control of your health.

What You’ll Learn:

- Gut Health Matters – Why upping your protein, fibre and plant-based foods can ease symptoms and boost resilience.

- Keep It Simple – The power of sustainable, personalised habits over restrictive diets.

- Test and Tweak – How Emma’s 8–12 week experiment approach helps you discover what really works for your body.

Emma Bardwell is a registered nutritionist, health writer and author of The Perimenopause Solution and The 30g Plan.

As well as her one-to-one clinic, Emma runs Menopause In The Workplace sessions that are open to all. Marrying the latest research with a decade of expertise and experience, she help organisations break down barriers to build a culture of understanding and inclusiveness.

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.

What if transforming your relationship with food could lead to a healthier, more confident you during menopause?

In this episode of Owning Your Menopause, I sit down with Sarah Wrigglesworth, a psychotherapist with over two decades of experience helping women navigate weight management. Sarah shares her compassionate, evidence-based approach to overcoming emotional eating, improving body image, and fostering sustainable change, offering practical strategies for lasting wellness during menopause.

What You’ll Learn

- Master Emotional Triggers: Learn to identify and reframe emotional patterns that drive overeating, building healthier habits for life.

- Embrace Self-Compassion: Discover why nurturing a kinder relationship with your body is key to boosting confidence and resilience.

- Harness the Power of Therapy: Understand how professional support can uncover root causes of challenges and support long-term weight management goals.

Sarah’s empathetic and insightful guidance empowers you to embrace your body with kindness, paving the way for a vibrant, confident menopause journey.

Sarah Wrigglesworth, MBACP
Sarah is a qualified and experienced psychotherapist who has supported thousands of women through the complex challenges of weight, wellness, and life transitions such as menopause. A popular public speaker, she also leads a wide range of courses and support groups. With a calm, insightful presence, Sarah helps clients uncover their own answers, empowering them to create a more sustainable, compassionate relationship with their bodies.

Passionate about helping women find peace with their past, shift unhelpful patterns, and reconnect with their inner strength, Sarah offers a space for healing that goes beyond quick fixes. Her work supports clients in moving forward with clarity, confidence, and self-trust.

You can follow Sarah on Instagram here

Sarah is a guest speaker at Kate’s upcoming weight management focused day retreat The Shift.

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.

What if menopause could spark a new wave of strength and confidence?

In this episode of Owning Your Menopause, I sit down with Gemma Atkinson, a beloved TV and radio presenter turned fitness inspiration. Now in her early 40s, Gemma shares her vibrant journey through menopause, discussing how she balances motherhood, fitness, and her exciting new venture, Gem & Tonic.

Key Moments

- Fitness for Balance: Gemma shares how workouts keep energy high and menopause symptoms at bay.

- Mindset Shift: We explore how by reframing menopause as a fresh chapter boosts confidence and joy.

- Community Support: We share the importance of connecting with others and how ithelps navigate this life stage with ease.

Gemma’s infectious energy inspires us to tackle menopause with strength, laughter, and a sense of adventure.

Host of weekdays on Hits Radio Drive Time, Gemma's a firm favourite on the airwaves and now hosts her own podcast 'The Overshare with Gemma Atkinson', the first series reaching number 1 in the Apple Podcast charts with over 500k downloads and over 11 million impressions on the podcast's social accounts. Series 2 is already out! In 2023/24 Gemma and her partner Gorka Marquez filmed two hugely popular Docuseries for W Channel UKTV with their family, 'Life Behind the Lens' packed with honest, relatable, unfiltered family moments.

With over 2 million followers online she regularly works with brands that align with her ethos and passions including Symprove, All Plants, Holland & Barrett as well as household names such as eBay, Vodafone, Purina, Hamleys, SKY, Reebok to name but a few. Gemma's also written 4 books, 'The Ultimate Body Plan', 'The Ultimate Body Plan for New Mums' and children's books 'Dogs Don't Dance' & 'Let's Get Ready'.

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.

What if menopause could ignite your joy and purpose? In this episode of Owning Your Menopause, Claire Kaye, a former GP turned career and confidence coach, shares her journey from burnout to reinvention. She offers practical tools to help women navigate menopause with clarity, reclaim confidence, and thrive through journaling, career shifts, and self-compassion.

What You’ll Learn
- Confidence Boosters: Practical tools to overcome midlife self-doubt.
- Career Reinvention: Navigating menopause-driven career shifts with purpose.
- Community Power: Building support networks for a vibrant menopause journey.

With practical advice rooted in her coaching framework, Claire offers tools to rethink workplace dynamics and find calm through exercise and self-compassion.

Claire’s story is a beacon for embracing midlife with courage and authenticity.

About Claire

Dr Claire Kaye helps women cut through the noise, rediscover confidence, define career clarity, and take back control.

A former award-winning GP turned Career & Confidence Coach, Claire knows firsthand how powerful the right support can be.

She offers everything from self-coaching tools through to one-to-one personalised support, including one-to-one coaching, group coaching, seminars and workshops, all designed to create real, lasting change. Claire’s practical insights are the catalyst for transformation, helping women overcome obstacles, redefine success and build fulfilling careers and lives that truly work for them.
This autumn, Claire is launching her brand new RISE Approach course for women who feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure of what’s next. This two week online self-coaching programme, based on her proven RISE framework — Recognise, Investigate, Strengthen, Empower — helps women figure out what they really want, rebuild confidence, and get clear on their next steps without the stress and noise getting in the way. Sign up to her newsletter here to join the early course access list. She is also working on her upcoming book.

Alongside this, Claire shares her popular #careerinspiration live series on Instagram and her free newsletter, packed with VIP discounts, freebies, motivation and practical tips.

Follow Claire on Instagram and LinkedIn for motivation, inspiration and FREE self-coaching tools.
You can also visit her website at drclairekaye.com to find out more

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.

Imagine swapping a big career for marathons and comedy in midlife. I’m with Gaby Huddart, former Good Housekeeping editor-in-chief and a voice for women over 40. In this episode, we dive into her shift from journalism to chasing passions—running, facing fears, and redefining midlife. Gaby’s stories of interviewing stars like Judi Dench and Michelle Obama show how storytelling fuels purpose.

We chat about the shift from print to digital media and how women are living bolder, for longer. Gaby’s opens up about her confidence, finding joy in exercise and music, and why journaling and self-kindness spark clarity.

Gaby Huddart is an award-winning journalist, speaker, event host and celebrity interviewer. Previously Editor-in-Chief of Good Housekeeping, the nation's biggest selling women's magazine, and Editorial Director of the entire Hearst UK lifestyle portfolio, also including Red and Prima magazines, she is one of the UK's leading experts on women over 40. She writes regular articles on pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in midlife, including for The Times and Daily Telegraph. Gaby is current holder of the British Society of Magazine Editors prestigious Mark Boxer Award, which recognises an outstanding contribution to magazine journalism.

You can follow Gaby on Instagram

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.

What if menopause could be a time of awakening, not isolation? In this episode of Owning Your Menopause, Emma Neville, founder of This is Me, shares her journey with premature ovarian insufficiency at 40. She talks brain fog, low moods, and the emotional hit of early menopause during lockdown as a mom, finding strength through hormone replacement therapy and a community that shows no woman should face this alone.

Emma gets real about perimenopause’s guilt and loneliness but inspires by embracing her “wise woman years.” She’s turned her experience into a mission with her PAUSE framework, workplace tips, and lifestyle tweaks like Pilates and magnesium, encouraging women to learn, connect, and rediscover their strength at this life stage.

Emma Neville is a mum to two teenage girls, a person-centred counsellor, a philanthropist who volunteers for numerous charities and a qualified menopause coach.

Emma experienced an early menopause aged 40 after being diagnosed with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI). The average age of menopause in the UK is 51.

Receiving this diagnosis encouraged Emma to research the topic to gain an understanding of the phases of menopause. Emma then studied to become a menopause coach.

Emma started an online community 'This is Me’ to share her story and to encourage everyone to talk about menopause to change the rhetoric!

Let’s be the generation to make menopause matter.

Emma's Instagram.

Emma's LinkedIn.

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.

Debbie Wosskow OBE is a multi-exit entrepreneur, investor, and leading advocate for women in business. Best known as the founder of Love Home Swap, inspired by the film The Holiday, she scaled the platform to over 100,000 properties worldwide before selling it for $53 million in 2017.

A passionate supporter of female entrepreneurship, she co-founded AllBright, a global career network for women, and now co-chairs the Invest in Women Taskforce, a government-backed initiative unlocking £250m in funding for female-led businesses.

After a burn-out related health scare revealed she was in perimenopause, she launched The Better Menopause, a science-led supplements brand developed with doctors, to support and empower women through hormonal transition. Its gut-health focused approach and award-winning probiotic has won high-profile fans and a growing following.

She hosts the Grit & Grace podcast, sits on the board of Channel 4, advises McKinsey & Company, and chairs the Development Board of The Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.

In this deeply personal episode, I sit down with my mother, Anna, and my daughter, Sophie, to trace the evolving landscape of women’s health through three generations. Anna opens up about her perimenopause journey in an era when such topics were shrouded in silence. Sophie, in contrast, shares her generation’s open dialogue about periods, mental health, and body image, free from the stigma that once weighed heavily.

From Anna’s 1970s fitness craze, driven by the pursuit of thinness, to Sophie’s advocacy for menopause awareness and holistic well-being, we uncover how perspectives on health have transformed. Through honest stories and heartfelt reflections, this conversation is a tribute to the women who’ve shaped me, bridging past and present to pave the way for a healthier, more empowered future.

Owning Your Menopause is produced by Urban Podcasts.