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WomenKind Collective
by Jinty Sheerin and Lou Hockings-Thompson
Womankind Collective: Spill The Tea Podcast Women’s health, gender bias, extraordinary stories, and the menopause conversation, served with honesty, humour, and heart by authors and lifelong friends Jinty and Lou. Every Sunday we spill the tea on the stuff society shies away from: hormones, health, relationships, equity, midlife pivoting, and finding your confidence again, plus menopause, because it keeps coming up for good reason. No topic’s off-limits and no conversation is too awkward. With expert guests including Menopause specialists, GPs, Gynaecologists, Nutritionists, Sleep Therapists, Advocates, and Comedians, we mix evidence-based facts with real talk, real laughs, and the occasional faux pas. Beyond the podcast, we’re authors of Tackling Gender Bias in the Healthcare System: What Patients Stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change, and our #WheresMyClinic campaign helped bring the NHS Devon Menopause Service
Episodes
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Strength Training Myth Busting, with Jane Wake
Link to Order Our Best Selling Book: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tackling-Gender-Bias-Healthcare-System/dp/1805018817 Strength Training, Protein & Collagen: Menopause Myths Busted with…
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Midlife Pivot: HRT Patch Glue and Being Your Own Boss with Amy Simpson.
Midlife pivots, HRT patch glue and building Nudi spray, with Amy Simpson Link to Order Our Best Selling Book: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:...
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Menopause Anxiety: The Symptoms, The Science & The Solutions, with Dr Ravi Gill
Link to Order Our Best Selling Book: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tackling-Gender-Bias-Healthcare-System/dp/1805018817 Today we are Spilling the Tea with Dr. Ravi Gill, a health…
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AI , Women, & work, with Giselle Goodwin
Today we're spilling the tea on how AI is affecting women, work, and happiness. Our guest is Giselle Goodwin, a self-help author, former business owner, and the woman behind Can Women Really Have It All? A Happiness Handbook for Working Mothers. But don't let the "self-help" label fool you,...
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Postpartum support, and the cost of going without it, with Julie Lee & Polly Chadwick
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://uk.jkp.com/products/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system Discount Code: THOMSHEER15 Today we spill the tea with Julie Lee and Polly Chadwick, a...
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Diet Culture & Food anxiety with Elle Mace
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://uk.jkp.com/products/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system Discount Code: THOMSHEER15 We are back for series 17, and our guest today is a dear friend…
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The Carrier: What if you could pay someone else to feel your grief, with author Ruth Newton
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tackling-Gender-Bias-Healthcare-System/dp/1805018817 Series 16 Finale: Book Club Special with Ruth Newton, author of The Carrier For our...
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Do we need to replace the word 'Hysterectomy' with Nicky Denson-Elliot
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tackling-Gender-Bias-Healthcare-System/dp/1805018817 This week we are Spilling The Tea with Nicky Denson-Elliott, a professional feminist,...
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Censorsing Women's Health, with CenHership co-founder Clio Wood
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 The history of women's bodies is,...
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MRKH: The Rare Condition That No One Talks About, with Natalia Shvarts
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 She was 16 years old, newly...
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Womb Cancer Symptoms Doctors miss, with campaigner & advocate, Fay Peace
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 In this episode, we are joined by...
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ADHD & Gender Bias in Healthcare with Sarah West
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 This week on Spill The Tea, Lou…
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Internalised Misogyny in Healthcare with Sophie Lee, author & founder of Electric Peach
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 Description: Internalised…
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The Gender Credibility Gap in Healthcare with Jen O'Doherty
Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 This week on WKC Spill The Tea we sit…
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"Stop Making a Fuss": Birth Trauma with Rosie Taylor
This week, Jinty and Lou sit down with Rosie Taylor, award-winning investigative journalist, broadcaster, media consultant, and host of the Mother Bodies podcast. Rosie has spent a decade reporting on women's health and family life for some of the UK's biggest publications. But what sets her…
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Challenging systemic inequity in Healthcare with Neelam Heera-Shergill
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 Our guest today is Neelam...
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The Gender Pain Gap with Jocelyn from Hysteroscopy Action UK
This week on Spill The Tea, we're having the conversation the NHS seems reluctant to. We sit down with Jocelyn, who at 36 went into premature menopause, and years later underwent a hysteroscopy a procedure she was wholly unprepared for. What followed was agonising pain, zero adequate warning, and…
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Misogyny in Healthcare with Health Secretary Wes Streeting & Minister for Women's Health Baroness Gillian Merron
Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810 Welcome back! Series 16 is here,...
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Killing Eva, True Crime, with BBC journalist Emily Wood
BBC South West journalist Emily Wood first joined us, a few moons ago, to talk perimenopause. Today, she returns in an entirely different capacity, to share one of the most personal and compelling investigations we've ever heard. Emily has created True Crime Tuesday currently airing on BBC Radio...
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Imposter Syndrome, People Pleasing & Perfectionism with Dr Lee David
Today we’re spilling the tea on Imposter Syndrome, or Imposter feelings, with someone whose work we think so many of you are going to connect with instantly. Dr Lee David is a GP, CBT therapist and author with over 20 years of experience supporting people with their mental health. She is the...
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Should Mammograms Start at 40? With Chemo Nurse Gemma Reeves
This week on Spill The Tea with WKC, we’re joined by chemotherapy nurse Gemma Reeves, who has witnessed first-hand the heart-breaking rise of breast cancer in younger women. Gemma recently launched a petition calling for routine mammograms in the UK to begin at age 40 instead of 50 a campaign...
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Unapologetically Angry with psychotherapist Jennifer Cox
This week on WKC Spill The Tea, we’re joined by psychotherapist, feminist thinker and author Jennifer Cox to discuss Anger and her ground-breaking book, Women Are Angry, named The Times Self-Help Book of the Year 2024. For generations, women have been conditioned to stay quiet, be agreeable and…
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Ageism, Power & Visibility with Jacynth Bassett, founder of Ageism Is Never In Style
This week on Spill The Tea, we’re joined by Jacynth Bassett, founder of Ageism Is Never In Style, a global platform working to change how age is understood, represented and valued. Jacynth approaches age through a feminist, intergenerational lens, challenging how women are judged, marketed to…
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The History of Childbirth with historian & author Lucy Inglis
Birth is often treated as timeless and unchanging but the way we give birth has always reflected power, politics, and gender. In this episode of Womenkind Collective: Spill The Tea, we’re joined by cultural historian and novelist Lucy Inglis, author of Born: The Untold History of Childbirth, to...
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Neck pain, Back pain & Breast Support: The Posture Connection with Siobhan O'Donavan
This week on Spill The Tea by Womenkind Collective, we’re joined by the brilliant Siobhan O’Donovan, physiotherapist, biomechanics expert, and founder of Posture Fitting, a science-led approach helping women understand the real impact of breast weight, posture, and movement on everyday health. We...
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Breaking Barriers at 30,000 Feet, with RAF Fast Jet Pilot Mandy Hickson
This week on WKC Spill The Tea, we’re spilling the tea with Mandy Hickson, former Royal Air Force fast jet pilot and the first woman to fly the Tornado GR4 on frontline operations. Across a remarkable 25-year military career, Mandy flew 45 missions over Iraq while navigating the intense pressure…
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The Menopause Recipe with Karen Newby
We’re delighted to be back for Series 15 of WKC Spill The Tea, and we’re kicking things off with our brilliant friend Karen Newby, registered nutritionist, author, and menopause champion. With over 15 years of clinical experience in women’s health, Karen is passionate about helping women…
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Leslie Horton on Going Viral, Calling Out Body-Shaming, and Championing Women in Midlife
We’re wrapping up Series 14 with a phenomenal guest, the one and only Leslie Horton, Canadian broadcaster, feminist powerhouse, and the woman who went internationally viral after responding on live TV to a body-shaming email with pure grace, humour, honesty and unapologetic power. Leslie has been...
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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett on Parenting, Feminism & Modern Womanhood
This week on WKC Spill The Tea, we sit down with Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Guardian columnist, author of The Vagenda and her latest book, the acclaimed The Republic of Parenthood. Known for her sharp wit and fearless feminist insight, Rhiannon joins us for an honest conversation about motherhood,...
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Tackling Gender Bias with Mystery guest
This week, the Womenkind Collective Spill The Tea Podcast tackles one of the most urgent issues in modern medicine: the systemic gender bias that has shaped women’s healthcare for centuries. We dive deep into the systemic gender bias baked into healthcare and we’re beyond excited to introduce a...
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Bolder Not Older, with Nicky Hambleton-Jones
This week on WKC’s Spill The Tea, we’re joined by the fabulous Nicky Hambleton-Jones - the fearless stylist from 10 Years Younger and Drop A Decade, now author of Bolder Not Older: Dull to Dazzling in 12 Weeks. We dive deep into midlife confidence, menopause, and rediscovering your style…
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Unschooled Motherhood, with Caro Giles
This week on the Womenkind Collective Podcast, we’re spilling the tea (again!) with Caro Giles — writer, teacher, and mum of four. We first met Caro in Series 7, Episode 3, where she shared the story behind her book 12 Moons. She’s back to tell us about her powerful new memoir Unschooled — a…
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Beauty without Barriers: Anna Cofone & the Hair & Care Movement
Today on Spill The Tea, we chat with Anna Cofone, the award-winning session hairstylist behind iconic looks for Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, and countless fashion campaigns. Beyond her artistry, Anna is the founder of Hair & Care, a ground-breaking initiative making the beauty industry inclusive for...
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Menopause, Cancer & Confidence After Surgery, with Sarah Newman of 'Get Me Back'
In this empowering episode of Spill The Tea from the Womenkind Collective, we’re joined by Sarah Newman, founder of Get Me Back, Cancer & Exercise Specialist, and Breast Cancer Rehab Coach. After her cervical cancer diagnosis in 2018, Sarah was thrust into surgical menopause and discovered how...
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MenoWars & The Menopause Industry with Fiona Clark
In this WKC Spill The Tea episode, we’re joined by the extraordinary Fiona Clark, award-winning journalist, women’s health advocate, and author of MenoWars. Fiona brings fire, humour and expertise to the menopause landscape which has become muddied with commercialism and mis-information. Fiona’s...
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The Essential Guide to HRT (or MHT): Risks, Benefits & Beyond with Dr Juliet Balfour
In this Menopause Month episode of Spill The Tea, we’re joined by the remarkable Dr Juliet Balfour — GP, menopause specialist, and advocate for improving women’s health across the UK. With over three decades of NHS experience, Juliet has played a pivotal role in shaping menopause care, from…
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Menopause Support Beyond HRT with Menopause Specialist Hazel Hayden
Not everyone can, or wants to take HRT for menopause symptoms. And even for those who do, it doesn’t always fix everything. So, what else can help with hot flushes, brain fog, insomnia, joint pain, or the emotional rollercoaster? This week we’re joined by the brilliant Hazel Hayden from Bristol...
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Intergenerational Trauma with Dr Manpreet Dhuffar Pottiwal
This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Dr. Manpreet Dhuffar-Pottiwal - psychologist, TEDx speaker, and unapologetic mental health disruptor. With over 15 years’ experience, she brings a feminist, anti-oppressive lens to her work on intergenerational trauma, multigenerational families, and...
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Comedy, Bias and Breaking Stereotypes with Comedian Julie Kim
If you’ve scrolled Instagram or TikTok lately, chances are you’ve seen one of Julie Kim’s viral sketches. Julie Kim is one of Canada’s top comedians, with a career spanning continents and formats. She’s toured North America, opened for Ronny Chieng, written for Kim’s Convenience, and even crafted...
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Midlife, Unfiltered with Cally Beaton
This week we’re Spilling the Tea on midlife rebranding — and joining us is the amazing Cally Beaton! She’s a former TV executive turned stand-up comedian, writer, speaker, podcaster (you may know her from Namaste Motherfckers*), and now author of the brilliant new book of the same name. In this...
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The Witches of Scotland - Part 2: Could it happen again? With Claire Mitchelle and Zoe Venditozzi
Claire & Zoe—creators of the Witches of Scotland campaign—are back for Part 2 of this raw, revealing episode of Womenkind Collective. We dig into the truth behind the witch trials, we talk with the authors about balancing humour and horror in telling stories of injustice, and how their work led…
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Poems, Menopause & Midlife mayhem with poet Jan Brierton
Jan Brierton: Accidental Poet, Menopause & Midlife Mayhem In this episode of Spill the Tea with Womenkind Collective, we sit down with the sharp, funny, and all-round good human — poet Jan Brierton. From accidentally going viral to performing at The Palladium, Jan talks about her journey from...
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Women are Mad & Womenkind Collective Podcast with Jennifer Cox & Salima Saxton
🔥 In this episode of Spill The Tea with the Womenkind Collective, we’re joined by Jennifer Cox (psychotherapist, author, global mental health advocate) and Salima Saxton (coach, writer & performer) — the bold voices behind the Women Are Mad podcast and the WAMWay. 🎙️ We dive into: Why women are...
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The Power Years with Professor Joyce Harper
Welcome to our podcast, Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective! We’re diving deep into the conversations that matter, exploring the often overlooked topics affecting our health and well-being. Each week, we sit down with inspiring people who are breaking barriers and championing positive change,...
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Debunking diet & food myths with Nutritional Therapist Emma Ellice-Flint
Welcome to Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective! Where we’re diving deep into the conversations that matter and this week we wanted to talk about the confusing and often dangerous nutrition advice that is flooding social media, so who better to tackle the unhealthy mis-information than our…
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Menopause & Hair with Paul Windle
Welcome to Episode 5, Series 13 of Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective! We’re diving deep into the conversations that matter—exploring the real, raw, and often overlooked topics affecting our health and well-being. This week we are talking about how our hair changes during menopause and...
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Spilling the Tea on Internalised Misogyny with Lauren Currie OBE
This week on Spill the tea with Womenkind Collective we’re diving deep into the conversations that matter and we wanted to talk about internalised misogyny and why so many women judge another woman, is this a deep patriarchal conditioning to keep women divided? Who better to help us unpack this...
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Witches, Tartan & Truth with The Witches of Scotland, Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi
Welcome to our new series of Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective! This week is our Book Club special and our book for series 13 is a huge part of feminine history, How To Kill A Witch. A Guide For The Patriarchy, by Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi. The book is a powerful, poignant and razor...
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For the love of Nipples with Tattoo artist Lucy Thompson
Welcome to our new series of Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective! We’re diving deep into the conversations that matter—exploring the real, raw, and often overlooked topics affecting our health and well-being. Each week, we sit down with inspiring people who are breaking barriers and…
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Spilling The Tea on Health Screening with Dominique Kent
Welcome to Series 13 of Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective! We’re diving deep into the conversations that matter—exploring the real, raw, and often overlooked topics affecting our health and well-being. Each week, we sit down with inspiring people who are breaking barriers and championing...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Womankind Collective: Spill The Tea Podcast
Women’s health, gender bias, extraordinary stories, and the menopause conversation, served with honesty, humour, and heart by authors and lifelong friends Jinty and Lou.
Every Sunday we spill the tea on the stuff society shies away from: hormones, health, relationships, equity, midlife pivoting, and finding your confidence again, plus menopause, because it keeps coming up for good reason. No topic’s off-limits and no conversation is too awkward. With expert guests including Menopause specialists, GPs, Gynaecologists, Nutritionists, Sleep Therapists, Advocates, and Comedians, we mix evidence-based facts with real talk, real laughs, and the occasional faux pas.
Beyond the podcast, we’re authors of Tackling Gender Bias in the Healthcare System: What Patients Stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change, and our #WheresMyClinic campaign helped bring the NHS Devon Menopause Service
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Womankind Collective: Spill The Tea Podcast Women’s health, gender bias, extraordinary stories, and the menopause conversation, served with honesty, humour, and heart by authors and lifelong friends Jinty and Lou. Every Sunday we spill the tea on the stuff society shies away from: hormones, health,...
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