The Pressing Play Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In episode 3, Selina Barker Coach, Speaker and Author of Burnt Out: The Exhausted Person’s Guide to Thriving in a Fast Paced World and Goodbye Hello Journals.

Selina’s work is all about helping us rethink how we live and work, moving away from constant pressure and overwhelm and towards a way of life that actually supports our energy, our wellbeing and who we are becoming.

Selina is also the creator of Time to Thrive - a toolkit and audio guide that shows you how to reclaim your energy through her unique 5 Energy Zone framework, where she explores the idea that we’re not in a time crises but an energy crisis.

In the show we talked about your Burnout Archetypes and you can take the quiz here. https://projectyoushop.com/pages/burnout-archetype-quiz

You can follow Selina Barker on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selinathecoach/and  https://www.instagram.com/projectyouprojectyou/

And her own podcast Another Way - hosted over on Substack: https://anotherwaywithselinabarker.substack.com/s/another-way 

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Are you ready to press play? Here is the trailer for the Pressing Play Podcast hosted by Jo Fiddy. Out soon!

Press Play!

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In this episode, Jo Fiddy discusses the power of play and its impact on the midlife female brain particularly during perimenopause. In this episode Jo explores the role of dopamine, the different play personalities, and the importance of reintroducing play into one's life as a way to boost creativity and reconnect with oneself.

Imagine how powerful the world would be if women in midlife started pressing play!

Shownotes:

Jo Fiddy is a Motivational Speaker and Menopause Mentor empowering women to press on their life in midlife through the Pressing Play Movement.

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The first episode of the Pressing Play podcast is an empowering and motivational conversation aimed at women in midlife. Host Jo Fiddy encourages women to press play on their lives and challenges the perception of midlife as a pause or post phase. She shares insights on language, beliefs, and the power of embracing the menopausal journey as a pivot into power years.

Takeaways

• Empowerment in midlife
• Challenging age bias and perception

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome to Pressing Play Podcast
• 08:29 Learning to Pause
• 15:05 Pressing Play on Life

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In this episode, Jo Fiddy reframes the midlife narrative completely because what you’re experiencing isn’t a breakdown, it’s a biological and identity upgrade that’s been centuries in the making.

Welcome to your Queenager era.

Let’s be honest. The stories we’ve been told about midlife are awful. Brain fog. Hormonal chaos. Losing your edge. The cultural script says you’re on the way down. This episode is your permission to throw that script out entirely.

In today’s solo episode, I’m talking about why midlife isn’t a crisis it’s a coronation. Why everything that feels like it’s falling apart is actually falling into place.

In this episode I cover:

• The Queenager concept by Eleanor Mills — and why this decade is your most powerful yet

• The 100-year life lens: how to think about midlife when you’re only halfway through

• Why the women who thrive in this chapter aren’t the ones who push through they’re the ones who Press Play

Resources + links mentioned:

• The Comeback Kit — the 90s made a comeback and now it's your turn. Your free 3-day micro-moments guide: https://jofiddy.myflodesk.com/comeback

• Work with Jo: includes a 90 minute Reset Session 1:1 to help you start pressing play. https://jofiddy.com/coaching

Connect with Jo

Instagram: @jofiddy_

Website: www.jofiddy.com

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This week on the Pressing Play Podcast, Jo is joined by the remarkable Queen of the Cotswolds, Roanna Stromberg Smith Founder of the RSS bespoke Cotswold experienced, and a woman whose life is a masterclass in what it means to keep the pilot light on.

This episode is a conversation about authentic transition the chosen ones and the ones that choose us. About what it takes to keep pressing play when the chapters of your life don’t arrive in the order you imagined. About running a business, grief, grit, reinvention and keeping your pilot light on.

Roanna is living proof that it’s never too late. That midlife is not a closing door. That you can hold devastation and possibility in the same hands and still build something that matters.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 5 with Roanna Stromberg Smith 

Connect with Roanna:

Join Roanna in the Cotswolds or sign up to her exclusive suppers curated for interesting and interested women.

www.the-rss-brand.co.uk

Instagram: @therssbrand

This episode inspired and deeply moved me and a reminder to keep pressing play. I want to thank Roanna for sharing her story, providing beautiful gems of advice for women who are running or want to start their own business and coming on the Pressing Play podcast.

with love 

Jo xx 

About Jo Fiddy 

I work with women who’ve hit an invisible pause button in perimenopause and are questioning whether their best years are behind them. Through my Menoplaying® approach, I help them regulate their energy, rebuild their confidence, and step into a powerful next chapter.

Read to press play? The Comeback Kit is your free guide. Download Here.

Podcast: Pressing Play — available on Apple & Spotify out every Thursday

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Welcome back to episode 10 of the Pressing Play Podcast and this week's guest is the co-founder of Valerie Wizz Selvey.

Jo and Wizz talk about dropping the p word (perimenopause), starting a hormone health business and Wizz's personal experience of Perimenopause.

About Valerie

Valerie is an unflinchingly real women’s health brand.

Something starts to feel off. Not dramatic. Not a meltdown. Just irritating. Your energy dips, your mood goes rogue, and your tolerance for bullshit drops through the floor. There’s no neat explanation, just the sense that something’s changed. And it deserves better than Googling at 3am. 24/7 formulations to support energy, focus, and emotional balance - including that tired-but-wired feeling - with up to 5x better absorption than pills or powders, powered by liposomal technology.

Less “what did I come in here for?”, more “I’ve got this.”
Clarity, calm, and a fighting chance of finding your keys.
Expert-developed. Real-woman tested.

Most pills and powders break down before your body can absorb them. Valerie’s don’t.

The liposomal nano-technology protects nutrients through digestion, delivering them into your bloodstream faster - for up to 5x better absorption and stronger results.

For women 35+ who want to feel good now and live big later. Get 30% off with code Joanne58840

https://wearevalerie.com/

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https://www.facebook.com/people/Valerie/61553752936091/

About Wizz Selvey, Co-founder

Wizz Selvey is the Co-founder of Valerie, an unflinchingly real women’s health brand redefining how women feel day to day. After years of being told everything was “normal” despite feeling anything but, Wizz took matters into her own hands - rebuilding her energy, focus, and emotional balance through smarter, more effective solutions. That experience shaped Valerie: expert-developed, real-woman tested formulations designed to actually work.

With over 20 years in retail, consumer trends, and strategic retail expertise across beauty and wellness, Wizz brings sharp commercial thinking and lived experience to a category that’s crying out for disruption.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wizz-selvey-14915552/

https://www.instagram.com/wizzbangwizzy/

About Jo Fiddy

Jo is a Menopause Coaching specialist and the host of the Pressing Play Podcast who empowers & coaches women to go from living in the pause and unravelling in Perimenopause to pressing play and start Menoplaying® and regain their confidence and purpose.

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Are you snapping at the people you love and then spending an hour in a shame spiral wondering what is wrong with you? You’re not alone, and nothing is wrong with you.

Peri-rage is one of the most under discussed symptoms of perimenopause, and the one women tell Jo they feel most ashamed of. In this episode, host Jo Fiddy goes deep on the anger that feels like it comes from nowhere: why it happens, what’s going on in your brain and body, and how to stop it from unravelling your sense of who you are.

Jo has been featured in Top Santé on this topic and runs workshops on peri-rage. This episode is the honest, science-led conversation she wishes every woman in perimenopause could hear.

•       Why peri-rage feels like it arrives from nowhere and where it actually comes from

•       The hormonal science: what Estrogen and progesterone have to do with your fuse getting shorter

•       The shame spiral that follows the rage and why it keeps women stuck

•       How your Belief Soundtrack™ gets amplified in perimenopause and turns up the volume on the anger

•       Why the unravelling is not the end of you it’s part of the pivot

•       What to do when you feel yourself losing control practical first steps

 Key takeaway

“Your rage is not a character flaw. It’s a chemistry shift and a signal that something inside you needs to be heard.”

Work with Jo

If peri-rage, the anger, or the unravelling is part of your story right now, Jo would love to have a conversation with you.

The Perimenopausal Pivot is Jo’s 1:1 work for women who are ready to stop white-knuckling their way through perimenopause and start feeling genuinely alive again.

Visit jofiddy.com to find out more.

•       Instagram: @jofiddy

•       LinkedIn: Jo Fiddy

•       Website: jofiddy.com

•       Email: jo@jofiddy.com

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Until next time, press play.

In this solo episode host Jo Fiddy explores Witchtok, how women in their 40s and 50s gathering and reclaiming the words we were taught to fear. 

This episode became a conversation about aging, power, conditioning, sisterhood, perimenopause, and the stories women inherit about themselves without even realising it.

Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who helps women regain their confidence in Perimenopause.

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Jo Fiddy is joined by Mala Moonbeam — beauty influencer, motivational speaker for a conversation about midlife beauty, confidence, and what it actually takes to enjoy your face in your forties and fifties and beyond.

Mala's philosophy is Makeup Your Face, Makeup Your Mind™. In this episode, she shares her Mirror Time Method™ — a gorgeous daily practice that changes how women in midlife see themselves. The conversation moves from skincare myths and ingredients to confidence, reinvention, and the inner work that midlife beauty really begins with.

• The Mirror Time Method™ — Mala's daily ritual for confidence
• Why youth culture is failing midlife women
• Skincare myths, ingredient transparency, and the instant-results trap
• Botox, fillers and tweakments — the honest conversation
• Rapid Tapping® for confidence and self-image in perimenopause
• Reinvention without losing yourself
• The non-negotiables — Mala's beauty essentials for midlife

1. Look in the mirror differently. The way you talk to yourself while getting ready becomes the way you walk into the day.
2. Read the label. If you don't understand what's in your skincare, it's probably not doing what it claims.
3. Confidence is built from the inside out. Tapping, mindset, and small daily choices compound.

• Website: verymakeupmad.com
• Read about the Mirror Time Method™: verymakeupmad.com/blog/makeup-your-face-makeup-your-mind
• Instagram: @verymakeupmad
• Book a free 30-min discovery call: calendly.com/hello-verymakeupmad/30min

• Studio10 Beauty — SPF 30 Soft Blurring Priming Skin Tint
• Elle Sera — Liposomal Collagen (use code MALA50414 for £10 off)
• CurrentBody — LED Face Mask (shop here, code MALACB)
• Rosalique — 3-in-1 Balm (code MALA15)
• Prime Prometics — Foundation, Lash Serum, Eyeliner (code VERYMAKEUPMAD)

Jo's free Comeback Kit includes an EFT tap-along to help you reset and reconnect with yourself in midlife. 👉 Download here

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