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| S2 E4 Pressing Play on Perimenopause and finding your strength again with Corry Matthews | 21 oct. 2026 | 00:44:14 | |
What happens when everything you thought you knew about your body suddenly stops working? This week on The Pressing Play Podcast, I'm joined all the way from Los Angeles by Corry Matthews, former professional bodybuilder, fitness and nutrition expert and women's health coach with nearly 30 years of experience. Corry spent decades helping others get stronger and healthier. But when perimenopause arrived in her 40s, the strategies she'd relied on for years suddenly stopped working for her own body. This conversation goes far beyond exercise and weight. We talk about changing bodies, confidence, the frustration of feeling that you're doing everything right but getting nowhere. We explore strength training, nutrition, sugar, insulin, cortisol and why finding an approach that works for you matters. Corry's story takes another extraordinary turn. After perimenopause, she faced osteoporosis, a serious spinal injury and major surgery. Her determination to seek answers and rebuild her strength moved me deeply. We also talk about looking beyond the symptoms and thinking about the decades still ahead of us. As Corry brilliantly puts it: "I'm not training for a stage. I'm training for my next 50 years." What would change if you thought about your future that way? Press play and join us. In this episode:
In this episode, we also discuss anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts during perimenopause. If you're experiencing similar feelings or need support, please visit https://findahelpline.com to find free, confidential support in your country. About Corry Matthews Corry has nearly 30 years' experience in fitness, nutrition and sports medicine, including competing as a professional bodybuilder. Her own perimenopause experience changed how she supports women over 40. Following an osteoporosis diagnosis and spinal surgery in May 2026, she's sharing her journey back to strength and encouraging women to invest in the decades ahead. Find Corry: Website: https://www.corrymatthews.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corrymatthews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/corry.matthews/ The Pressing Play Podcast The Pressing Play Podcast is a different conversation about perimenopause, midlife and what comes next. Hosted by Jo Fiddy, it brings together honest stories and expert insights to empower women to press play on life. About Jo Fiddy Jo Fiddy (MIBCC) is a Motivational Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist, EFT Practitioner and host of The Pressing Play Podcast. Jo explores the Invisible Pause: the stress, emotions, beliefs that can hold women back. Through EFT, Rapid Tapping® and menopause coaching, she helps women navigate the emotional side of perimenopause and feel more confident. Her Specialist Perimenopause Tapping Sessions offer 1:1 support for anxiety, overwhelm, anger, sleep-related stress, brain fog and emotional eating. Work with Jo: Website: https://www.jofiddy.com Instagram: @jofiddy_ | |||
| S2 E3 Pressing Play on How to Have a Magnificent Menopause with Alison Bladh | 07 oct. 2026 | 00:44:59 | |
Pressing Play on a Magnificent Menopause with Alison Bladh What if menopause could be more than something we simply survive? This week on The Pressing Play Podcast, I’m joined by Alison Bladh, award-winning Registered Nutritional Therapist, qualified Beauty Therapist, women’s health expert and author of the #1 international bestseller Have a Magnificent Menopause. With more than three decades working with women, Alison brings a fascinating perspective to what happens as we move through our 40s, perimenopause and menopause. And this conversation goes far beyond hot flushes. We talk about the changes women can suddenly notice in their bodies, skin, weight, energy and confidence, and the overwhelm of trying to work out what we should be doing about all of it. We get into menopause nutrition, protein, blood sugar and metabolic health, as well as GLP-1 medications, weight loss, nourishment and maintaining muscle. And because Alison began her career in beauty, we talk about something women can almost feel embarrassed about admitting: We still want to look good. What happens to our skin as our hormones change? And when did caring about how we look become something we were supposed to grow out of? We also explore Alison’s MenoMassage Method, bringing together menopause support, therapeutic touch and nervous-system regulation with a lovely EFT connection too. What could a magnificent menopause actually look like for you? Press play and join us. In this episode: • Perimenopause and the changing female body About Alison Bladh Alison is an award-winning Registered Nutritional Therapist, qualified Beauty Therapist and women’s health expert specialising in women over 40. She is the author of the #1 international bestseller Have a Magnificent Menopause. Find Alison: The Pressing Play Podcast The Pressing Play Podcast is a different conversation about perimenopause, midlife and what comes next. Hosted by Jo Fiddy, it goes beyond managing menopause symptoms to explore what’s happening in our brains and bodies — alongside the beliefs and experiences that can quietly put our lives on pause. Because perimenopause isn’t a pause. It’s time to Press Play. About Jo Fiddy Jo Fiddy (MIBCC) is a Motivational Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist, EFT Practitioner and host of The Pressing Play Podcast. Having been through the menopause journey twice herself, and with nine years’ experience working with the female nervous system, Jo combines lived experience, menopause coaching, EFT/tapping and nervous-system support to help women navigate perimenopause and press play on what comes next. Jo’s Specialist Perimenopause Tapping Sessions offer focused 1:1 support for brain fog, anxiety and overwhelm, anger and rage, sleep and emotional eating. Work with Jo: | |||
| S2 E2 Pressing Play with Charlotte Body founder of Pause Live! and the Health Assembly | 23 sept. 2026 | 00:31:23 | |
This week on The Pressing Play Podcast, I’m joined by the brilliant Charlotte Body, founder of The Health Assembly and the woman behind Pause Live — the UK’s largest women’s health event. And this conversation has ENERGY. Charlotte is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years’ experience building, scaling and selling businesses across healthcare, media and events. But it was her own experience of perimenopause and the struggle to get the answers she needed that helped set her on a completely new path. We talk about what happened next. From why women are still struggling to access the information and support they need, to the power of community, better conversations around women’s health and Charlotte’s mission to make sure the next generation does things differently. We also go behind the scenes of Pause Live 2026, the UK’s largest women’s health event, and talk about what happens when you bring thousands of women together in one room and, because this is Pressing Play, we get onto dancing, day raving and why midlife absolutely does NOT mean the party is over. Charlotte is funny, refreshingly honest and completely passionate about changing the conversation around women’s health. This episode is about women having better information, better support and a much bigger conversation about what life can look like in midlife and beyond. In this episode, we talk about:
I’m so excited to also be joining Pause Live in London on Saturday 10th October, where I’ll be delivering The Healing Power of Tapping in the Experience Hub!!! If you’re coming along, please come and say hello and come and tap with me! Get your tickets at www.pauselive.com and use the discount code PAUSE10. About Jo Fiddy.I’m Jo Fiddy, Menopause Coaching Specialist, EFT Practitioner, speaker and host of The Pressing Play Podcast. I work with women navigating perimenopause using evidence-based EFT tapping, nervous system support and menopause coaching to help with issues including brain fog, anxiety, overwhelm and stress. You can find out more and work with me at JoFiddy.com. Follow me on Instagram: @jofiddy_ And if you enjoyed this episode, please follow The Pressing Play Podcast, share it with a woman who needs to hear it and leave a review. It makes such a difference in helping more women find these conversations. Perimenopause isn’t a pause. It’s a pivot. | |||
| S2 E1 Pressing Play on the Invisible Pause | 09 sept. 2026 | 00:10:46 | |
Welcome back to The Pressing Play Podcast Season Two 🎧 We’re back, my loves. And Season Two feels different. This season, I want us to go deeper. I’ll be bringing you extraordinary guests, honest conversations, science, tapping, perimenopause and plenty of Press Play energy all with one purpose: helping more women stop putting themselves on pause. In this first episode back, I’m talking about something that has been on my mind all summer: The Invisible Pause. It’s that place you can find yourself in during perimenopause where, from the outside, life is still happening. You’re working. Parenting. Showing up. Getting things done. But underneath? You’re exhausted. You’re snapping over things that never used to bother you. You’re crying in the car and then putting your sunglasses on and carrying on. You walk into a room and forget why you’re there. Your confidence has taken a knock. You start questioning yourself. And sometimes, almost without noticing it, you begin making yourself smaller. You stop going for things. You think, Should I even bother? That’s The Invisible Pause. In this episode, I’m exploring why I believe perimenopause can turn the volume up on the beliefs, patterns and stories we’ve been carrying for years, including what we’ve been taught about women, ageing, worth and what this chapter of life is supposed to look like. We’re experiencing it inside a culture that has spent generations telling women what ageing should mean. And I want us to challenge that. I also share why HRT can be life-changing , it has been for me, but why supporting our minds, beliefs and nervous systems matters too. Also in this episode…I’m sharing a little of what happened at Latitude Festival this summer (the energy was OFF THE SCALE), plus a huge pinch-me moment: I’ll be taking to the stage at Pause Live in London on 10th October, bringing the Healing Power of Tapping to the UK’s largest women’s health event. And I have two pairs of Pause Live tickets to give away! Head over to my Instagram to find the competition and enter: Instagram: @jofiddy_ Feeling your own Invisible Pause?If something in this episode made you think, Oh God, that’s me, I’m opening up my 90-minute 1:1 perimenopause coaching sessions. Bring me the one thing that’s keeping you awake, the decision you keep circling, the anger, overwhelm or loss of confidence you can’t seem to shift. Together, we’ll calm the noise, explore what’s really running underneath and start moving you from The Invisible Pause → Pressing Play. Work with me: jofiddy.com/perimenopausecoaching Remember, my love: You are not declining. You are just getting started. Keep Pressing Play. ❤️ Jo x | |||
| Ep16 Pressing Play with Persia Lawson -Finding Love, Choosing Joy & Bringing the Magic | 16 juil. 2026 | 00:52:36 | |
Pressing Play with Persia Lawson What if the secret to navigating midlife, relationships and life's hardest moments isn't waiting for everything to feel okay… …but choosing to bring the magic anyway? This week I'm joined by someone I've wanted to have on the podcast for a very long time. Persia Lawson is one of the UK's leading relationship experts, bestselling author of Love Is Coming, speaker and television relationship coach. But this conversation goes far beyond dating. Together we talk about grief, resilience, perimenopause, beliefs, intuition, relationships, ageing, self-worth and why life is far too precious to spend waiting for permission to fully live it. Persia shares, with incredible honesty, the difficult season she and her family are currently navigating, and the mindset that is helping her move through it one day at a time. It's about remembering how to stay open to life. It's about choosing possibility over resignation. And it's about pressing play even when life feels uncertain. In this episode
Named by The Times as one of the UK's most successful love coaches, Persia Lawson is a dating and relationship expert, bestselling author, speaker and television personality. For more than a decade she has helped thousands of women build healthier relationships by changing the beliefs that keep them stuck. Her work has been featured by Vogue, Cosmopolitan, the BBC and HBO Max, and she hosts the chart-topping podcast Love Is Coming. About JoJo Fiddy is a Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist and host of The Pressing Play Podcast. She helps women who feel like they've quietly disappeared during perimenopause understand what's happening in their brain and body, change the beliefs that have been keeping them stuck through her Belief Soundtrack® method, and press play on the next chapter of life with greater confidence, energy and purpose. Work with JoThe Press Play SessionIf you know something needs to change but can't quite work out what's keeping you stuck, this is where we start. During this powerful 90-minute one-to-one session, we'll uncover the Pause Button that's keeping you stuck, identify the Belief Soundtrack® running beneath the surface, and help you take your first confident step towards pressing play again. You'll leave with greater clarity, a calmer nervous system and a clear direction for what comes next. 📩 Email: jo@jofiddy.com The Comeback Kit (Free)Somewhere along the way, so many women stop choosing themselves. The Comeback Kit is your invitation to press play again. Inside you'll find:
It starts with choosing yourself. Download your free Comeback Kit. https://jofiddy.myflodesk.com/comeback Connect with JoInstagram: @jofiddy_ Website: jofiddy.com | |||
| Ep15 Pressing Play on We Weren't Meant to do Midlife Alone | 09 juil. 2026 | 00:12:17 | |
We Weren't Meant to Do Midlife Alone Last week, for the very first time, I missed an episode of The Pressing Play Podcast. The reason? I was in London attending two incredible events. I went expecting to learn, but what I wasn't expecting was how I would feel afterwards. I came home calmer. Lighter. More energised. It reminded me that sometimes the most powerful thing we can do for our wellbeing isn't adding another supplement, another podcast or another thing to our to-do list. Sometimes, it's simply saying yes to connection. In this episode, I explore the fascinating science behind why being physically together changes how we think, feel and regulate our nervous systems. We look at why perimenopause can become one of the loneliest seasons of a woman's life, how stress and fluctuating hormones can amplify that feeling, and why gathering with other women may be exactly what our brains and bodies have been designed to do. In this episode
Jo Fiddy is a Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist and host of The Pressing Play Podcast. She helps women who feel like they've quietly disappeared during perimenopause understand what's happening in their brain and body, change the beliefs that have been keeping them stuck through her Belief Soundtrack® method, and press play on the next chapter of life with greater confidence, energy and purpose. Work with JoThe Press Play SessionIf you know something needs to change but can't quite work out what's keeping you stuck, this is where we start. In this powerful 90-minute one-to-one session, we'll uncover the Pause Button that's holding you back, identify the Belief Soundtrack® running beneath the surface, and help you take your first confident step towards pressing play again. You'll leave with greater clarity, a calmer nervous system and a clear direction for what comes next. To book your session, email jo@jofiddy.com. The Comeback Kit (Free)Somewhere along the way, so many women stop choosing themselves. The Comeback Kit is your invitation to begin again. Inside you'll find practical tools to help you quiet the mental noise, calm your nervous system and reconnect with yourself. You'll receive:
Because pressing play doesn't start with changing your whole life. It starts with choosing yourself. Connect with JoInstagram: @jofiddy_ Website: jofiddy.com If you enjoyed this episode, I'd love it if you subscribed, left a review or shared it with a friend. The more women we reach, the more women we remind that they don't have to navigate midlife alone. Keep pressing play. | |||
| Ep14 Pressing Play on Body Confidence in Perimenopause This Summer | 25 juin 2026 | 00:20:33 | |
Welcome back to the Pressing Play Podcast. In this solo episode, Jo dives into one of the topics women ask her about most, body confidence in perimenopause, and why it gets even harder to navigate when summer rolls around. If you've ever stood in front of the mirror before a holiday and felt your stomach drop, this one is for you. Jo unpacks why your body is changing, where the beliefs about how it "should" look actually came from, and why the way out isn't about shrinking yourself it's about feeling more and looking less. In this episode she covers:
If this episode moved something in you, if you're done not liking your body for the next half of your life get in touch and work with Jo. Email jo@jofiddy.com to find out more. Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who has been through menopause twice — once in her thirties and now navigating perimenopause at 45. She helps women go from living in the pause of menopause to Menoplaying™, regaining their confidence along the way. Using menopause strategies, somatic techniques and her Belief Soundtrack™ method, Jo helps women release the blocks holding them back, understand what's happening in their brain and body, and press play on the life they actually want. Follow Jo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jofiddy_/ Subscribe to the Pressing Play Podcast so you never miss an episode. | |||
| Ep13 Pressing Play on Yourself: Permission was yours all along | 18 juin 2026 | 00:08:14 | |
Welcome back to The Pressing Play Podcast. What happens when you finally give yourself permission to pause and actually feel alive because of it? In this solo episode, I’m recording from a balcony overlooking the mountains and lake in Bavaria, on my first ever solo getaway in eight years of living there. And the questions it's brought up are ones, I suspect you might be sitting with too.
This one is for every woman who has quietly learned to put herself at the bottom of the list. Who has been responsible, available, accommodating and is now wondering why she feels so flat, disconnected, and stuck. Especially when perimenopause arrives and makes all of that even more exhausting.
Pressing play doesn't have to be a huge reinvention. Sometimes it's a night away. A slow coffee. A walk. Listening to your own thoughts. This episode is an invitation to do exactly that. In this episode, I explore: • Why so many women learn to pause themselves and why perimenopause is the wake-up call that starts to change that • The people-pleaser neurons that perimenopause begins to dissolve and why that's actually brilliant • What happens in your brain and body when you do press play • Why we wait for permission that was ours to give all along • Five journal questions to help you press play right now About Jo Fiddy Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who has been through menopause twice once in her thirties and now navigating perimenopause. She helps women go from living in the pause of menopause to Menoplaying™ and regaining their confidence along the way.
Using menopause strategies, somatic techniques and her Belief Soundtrack™ method, Jo helps women release the blocks holding them back, understand what's happening in their brain and body, and press play on the life they actually want. Work with Jo 90-Minute Pressing Play Session Not sure where to start? This is it. One powerful hour and a half where you tap through what's blocking you, get clear on where you are, and leave knowing your next step. Book yours email jo@jofiddy.com
The Comeback Kit — Free Reset all your passwords and now it's time to reset you. Includes a pep talk, an EFT tapping session and a boundaries guide. Grab it free here Follow Jo Instagram: @jofiddy_ Website: jofiddy.com Podcast: Pressing Play on Apple Podcasts
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| Ep12 Pressing Play on ADHD and Perimenopause with Dr Helen Wall | 11 juin 2026 | 00:36:01 | |
Welcome back to the Pressing Play Podcast. In this episode, Jo is joined by Dr. Helen Wall GP, menopause specialist, Resident GP on BBC Breakfast and author of Menopause and ADHD: How to Navigate Hormone Flux and Neurodivergence. If you've ever found yourself asking "is it ADHD or is it perimenopause?" this one is for you. Dr. Helen Wall has spent years watching women be missed, mislabelled and dismissed. This book which hit number one bestseller in Menopause on Amazon in its first two weeks, is her answer to that. In this episode they cover:
Find Dr. Helen Wall: 📖 Menopause and ADHD: How to Navigate Hormone Flux and Neurodivergence by Dr. Helen Wall available on Amazon now wherever books are sold Instagram: @doctorhelenwall Facebook: Dr Helen Wall Community: Finally Seen — join via Dr. Helen's website https://tvhealthdoctor.com/ Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who has been through menopause twice, once in her thirties and now navigating perimenopause at 45. She helps women go from living in the pause of menopause to Menoplaying™ and regaining their confidence along the way. Using menopause strategies, somatic techniques and her Belief Soundtrack™ method, Jo helps women release the blocks holding them back, understand what's happening in their brain and body, and press play on the life they actually want. 90-Minute Pressing Play Session — not sure where to start? This is it. One powerful hour and a half where you tap through what's blocking you, get clear on where you are, and leave knowing your next step. Book yours and find out more jo@jofiddy.com The Comeback Kit — free — Reset all your passwords and now it's time to reset you. Includes a pep talk, an EFT tapping session and a boundaries guide. Grab it free here Follow Jo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jofiddy_/ Subscribe to the Pressing Play Podcast so you never miss an episode. | |||
| Ep11 Pressing Play with Yula Andrews and the power of singing in Menopause | 04 juin 2026 | 00:31:04 | |
Welcome back to Pressing Play, I am so glad you’re here. What if the thing that could ease your brain fog, lift your mood and help you sleep better was something you already loved doing? In this episode, I’m joined by the extraordinary Yula Andrews founder of Pop Chorus, the UK’s friendliest choir, and the woman behind a groundbreaking research programme into singing and menopause symptoms with the University of Essex. This one genuinely blew my mind. Yula isn’t just talking about the feel-good factor of singing, she’s proving it. And the results from her Singing for Menopause programme are nothing short of transformative. If you’ve ever thought “I can’t sing” this episode is especially for you. What we cover • How Yula built Pop Chorus from scratch on maternity leave and turned it into seven choirs and the UK’s friendliest community • Why singing in a group reduces cortisol, boosts serotonin and happy hormones in your Menopause brain • The Singing for Menopause research programme Yula ran with the University of Essex and what the women who took part actually experienced • How singing targets the specific symptoms that make perimenopause so hard: brain fog, low mood, sleeplessness, anxiety • Yula’s brand new singing retreats part wellbeing holiday, part choir experience, all joy Find out more about Yula Andrews • Pop Chorus — www.popchorus.co.uk • Singing for Menopause research www.popchorus.co.uk/community • We Are Unique Singing Holidays — www.uniquesingingholidays.co.uk Work with Jo I help women release the blocks and beliefs holding them back in perimenopause, support with their symptoms, and help them press play on the life they actually want. 1:1 online with me 90 minute energy boosting session. Find out more at jofiddy.com Connect with Jo • Instagram: @jofiddy • LinkedIn: Jo Fiddy • Website: jofiddy.com • Email: jo@jofiddy.com Enjoyed this episode? • Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify • Leave a review — it helps more women find the show • Share this with one woman who needs to hear it • Screenshot and tag Jo on Instagram she reads every one | |||
| Ep10 Pressing Play on Women's Health with Wizz Selvey Co-Founder of Valerie | 28 mai 2026 | 00:25:59 | |
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
https://instagram.com/weare.valerie https://tiktok.com/@weare.valerie 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. | |||
| Ep9 Pressing Play on Peri Rage and The Anger Nobody Warned You About | 20 mai 2026 | 00:19:03 | |
About this episode 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. What is included • 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. Connect with Jo • Instagram: @jofiddy • LinkedIn: Jo Fiddy • Website: jofiddy.com • Email: jo@jofiddy.com Enjoyed this episode? It would mean the world if you could: • Subscribe to Pressing Play on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode • Leave a review — it helps more women find the show • Share this episode with one woman who needs to hear it today • Screenshot and tag Jo on Instagram she reads every one
Until next time, press play. | |||
| Ep8 Pressing Play on Witchtok, Sisterhood and taking our words back | 14 mai 2026 | 00:08:17 | |
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. | |||
| Ep7 Pressing Play on Midlife Beauty with Mala Moonbeam | 07 mai 2026 | 00:43:20 | |
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. In this episode
Jo's free Comeback Kit includes an EFT tap-along to help you reset and reconnect with yourself in midlife. 👉 Download here Follow Jo Fiddy for more ways on Pressing Play Instagram jofiddy_ | |||
| Ep6 Pressing Play on The Stress Trap in Perimenopause (and 5 ways to get out) | 30 avr. 2026 | 00:16:26 | |
In this Stress Awareness Month edition of Pressing Play, host Jo Fiddy unpacks the stress trap of perimenopause: the part no one warned you about. The shrinking tolerance. The thinning sleep. The cortisol that lands harder than it used to. The anxiety that seems to come from nowhere. Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you. Your brain is literally rewiring. Jo walks you through what’s actually happening in the hippocampus and amygdala as Estrogen fluctuates, why cortisol hits differently in midlife, and how to work with the renovation instead of fighting it. Then she gives you 5 ways to support yourself including Tapping (as seen by Emily in the Devil Wears Prada 2) — practical, doable, and rooted in both science and soul. This is perimenopause support for midlife women who are done being told it’s “just stress” or “just ageing.” It’s neither. It’s a hormonal transition that deserves real understanding. In this episode: • Why perimenopause anxiety is a brain event, not just a hormone event • Why cortisol lands harder in midlife (and what that means for stress, sleep, and mood swings) • 5 evidence-informed ways to support yourself: sleep, exercise, nutrition, community, and play • Why dopamine through play isn’t optional — it’s neurological maintenance for women over 40 • Embracing the Power Years on the other side of the renovation About Jo Fiddy A Menopause Coaching Specialist who blends science with soul, anf works with women who’ve hit an invisible pause button in perimenopause and are questioning whether their best years are behind them. Through her Menoplaying® approach, Jo helps them regulate their energy, rebuild their confidence, and step into a powerful next chapter. The 90s have made a comeback and now it's your turn. Get your FREE Comeback Kit - download here. Work with Jo - find out more about working with Jo and how you can start pressing play on our life - find out more here. Podcast: Pressing Play — available on Apple & Spotify & Amazon out every Thursday | |||
| Ep5 Pressing Play on transitions with Roanna Stromberg Smith | 23 avr. 2026 | 00:36:29 | |
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
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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.
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| Ep4 Pressing Play on this is not a Midlife Crisis. It's a Coronation | 16 avr. 2026 | 00:11:40 | |
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
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| Ep3 Pressing Play on your Energy without Burning Out with Special Guest Selina Barker | 09 avr. 2026 | 00:48:04 | |
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 Ready to press play? Join my newsletter and find out how to press play on your life. | |||
| Ep2 Pressing Play on the Power Of Play and the Perimenopausal Brain | 26 mars 2026 | 00:12:55 | |
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. Find out more Follow | |||
| Ep1 Pressing Play on Who told women to pause in midlife? | 26 mars 2026 | 00:15:06 | |
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
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| The Trailer | 25 mars 2026 | 00:00:38 | |
Are you ready to press play? Here is the trailer for the Pressing Play Podcast hosted by Jo Fiddy. Out soon! Press Play! | |||