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This week on 40ish: Nicole is worried she’s become boring, (yawn) while Lauren has a new puppy and is, frankly, obsessively unhinged. Nicole suspects that if Lauren could lactate for it, she would - and there’s WhatsApp evidence to back it up.Meanwhile, a listener makes a shocking discovery: 50 shades of grey... down there. And another woman writes in about her struggle with midlife 'flappage' - cue the return of the Bridget Jones pants. Join us for puppy fixation and your most intimate dilemmas served with the usual blend of honesty and inappropriate laughter.
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Today on unfiltered, Lauren falls victim to Nicole’s practical joke at the Podcast Show and spends the day sporting an extremely inappropriate lanyard. The ladies then proceed to cause chaos on a professional Zoom call—because, really, who does want to appear in a pub with a sticky floor? Meanwhile, a listener has a menopausal meltdown in Argos (we’ve all been there), and what is the difference between a gif and a meme? Nicole pretends she knows. Lauren pretends she cares. It’s midlife, it’s messy, it’s mildly inappropriate -just how we like it.
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This week on 40ish Lauren’s mother - Jackie - joins the ladies in the studio and they give her quite the initiation. It’s dirty talk, toilet rolls and all the midlife mayhem you’d expect.
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Today on unfiltered, Nicole's rocking a bionic-level tennis elbow brace (think superhero chic meets medical misery), but Lauren's officially winning the Midlife Meltdown Olympics processing a whole lotta dog shaped grief. We also explore the surprisingly low bar first-period celebrations (trip out to the local Tesco, anyone?) and try to decode why engineering geniuses can't seem to navigate their own kitchens. Tune in for laughs, relatable chaos, and maybe a few tears.
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This week on 40ish Lauren's week is ruff (pun intended), and not in a good way! 🐾 as we're navigating heartbreak of the furry kind, and the memorial bench really comes into it’s own. We are questioning if men and women can really just be friends? (When Harry Met Sally, we're looking at you!), and debating the fine line between "making yourself at home" and crossing the line. Grab your tissues and a sense of humor, because it's about to get real...and maybe a little bit awkward.
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Today on unfiltered: Nicole's perimenopause is her new personal alarm clock, gifting her the joys of 4am wake-up calls. Meanwhile, Lauren's still in deep denial of her own shifting hormones and is rebranding shouting at strangers in the street as just advanced etiquette training. A listener ponders the meaning of life somewhere between 35 and death, and producer James wisely avoids any activity that involves Nicole and a padel racket.
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This week on 40ish a woman asks if it’s sweet or if it’s weird to give her daughter a necklace to celebrate her first period. Lauren is hoping the idea may inspire Nicole’s husband to buy her a very special wedding anniversary gift. Plus, a listener asks what happened to her rock n’roll husband who used to play the guitar but now the only bass he is interested in is Homebase.
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This week on Unfiltered. Lauren is in digital despair as she wrestles with online contracts. Nicole is overwhelmed as her padel hobby has spiralled out of control into addiction and she’s eyeing up a chair at a ‘Padel Addicts Anonymous’ meeting. A disgruntled listener feeds back and we empathise with a woman deep in peri menopause who now has to share her most embarrassing and intimate issues with Clive the pharmacist. Prepare for relatable woes, laughter and maybe a tech tutorial?
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This week on 40ish, Lauren is installing a memorial bench (a bit pre-emptive for someone who is still living) whilst Nicole has a crash course in adulting when a youngster crashes into her car. A listener is fed up being used as a free Uber service by her colleagues and a prawn ring turns into a boxing ring when angry words are exchanged after a nice “picky bits in the garden” afternoon goes horribly wrong. Grab your carrot sticks and hummus and tune in for a serving of midlife meltdowns.
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This week on Unfiltered. Nicole spirals into an existential crisis in Costco when she convinces herself Lauren is about to dump her. Meanwhile Lauren is making a total fool out of herself during a business lunch in a moment so 40ish it could go in a text book. Plus, there is a post Easter meltdown (quite literally) when a chocolate egg hunt goes awry. Tune in for rants, questionable advice, and the usual midlife chaos!
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This week on 40ish, Buckle up, buttercups as Nicole declares herself the 'best hostess in the universe”' while Lauren is preoccupied with rhubarb. Plus, we've got a listener who's seeing red after her daughter is subjected to an awkward encounter, and a mum who's bemoaning the decline of basic manners. It's chaos, it's commentary, and it's definitely mid life.
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This week on unfiltered hold onto your decorative cushions, folks! We've got a celebrity dropping (mildly paranoid) truth bombs about the great cushion debate, and let's just say, he’s not holding back. Meanwhile, Nicole fears her co-host may be on the turn after Lauren's sudden transformation into a bra-displaying, crazy dog-buggy lady during their walk. Plus, we're diving deep into the existential crisis of laundry that... just doesn't smell right. Tune in for chaos, cushions and the scent of regret.
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Today on 40ish: Nicole is amazed when Lauren casually reveals she has been immortalised as a Snapchat meme (whatever that is…they’re still figuring it out, but apparently it's cool) Plus we tackle the big stuff as a listener has a huge midlife career decision to make and one woman asks the age -old question: is it ok to settle for the nice guy? Tune in for the laughs, leave with questionable life advice.
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This week on unfiltered, Nicole has sustained a middle aged accident whilst playing the most middle aged of sports. Lauren obtains short lived retail glory after obtaining the “it” pair of loafers at M&S only to realise that she hates them and a listener questions if she is in perimenopause after an accidental bike sale. (Spoiler alert, yes)
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This week on 40ish Lauren and Nicole have been nominated for THREE podcast awards! You could be fooled into thinking they actually know what they’re doing. One listener asks how to politely navigate being invited over to dinner at friends who serve the most awful food and a mother is struggling to deal with the emotional fallout from a sleepover that went horribly wrong. Join them, as they tackle life’s little (and big) midlife messes. To share your feedback, dilemmas, rants, funny stories or general complaints about midlife please be in touch at:
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This week on the podcast, Nicole is grappling with a truly horrifying problem—people who call instead of texting like civilized humans. Meanwhile, Lauren is furious at her culinary failure - damn that air fryer. We’ve got plenty of listener feedback, and, in a plot twist we never saw coming, a listener needs help deciding if an adopted zebra is a thoughtful Mother’s Day gift. We have opinions. Tune in for rants, questionable advice, and the usual midlife chaos!
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This week on 40ish Lauren has a truly revealing experience at her GP’s surgery - dignity left at the door. Meanwhile, Nicole embraces the most 40-something fad of 2025: padel. Will she become a racket- wielding pro or have a deeply relatable mid life injury? A listener has an unnerving encounter with Alexa Chung at the bus stop and a bewildered man seeks the answer to one of life’s greatest mysteries : Why are middle aged women obsessed with decorative cushions? Tune in for laughs, life lessons, and probably far too much information.
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This is the companion show to 40ish where we dish all the feedback from the week's episode diving into your comments, emails, DMs, and the social media buzz about the latest 40ish dilemmas.
This week on the podcast, Lauren's waging war on anyone daring to bring a steaming lasagna onto the Tube, while Nicole's feeling left out of the podcast studio 'throuple.' Plus, we tackle the age-old mystery: why do men treat football stats like sacred texts? And brace yourselves for some TikTok comments that will make you question humanity's future.
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This week on 40ish Nicole is bored with her hair and toying with the idea of going full Kim K platinum blonde. Lauren has gone back to school to receive an award - and apologises to her geography teacher for the infamous ‘ordering pizzas to the classroom situation of 1993. A listener is in a wardrobe crisis - can you wear a mini skirt at 48? Meanwhile a brave husband asks - when your wife tells you she’s fine, is she really fine?
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This is the sidekick show to 40ish where we dish all the feedback from the week's episode diving into your comments, emails, DMs, and the social media buzz about the latest 40ish dilemmas.
This week on the podcast, Lauren’s Lauren tech incompetence strikes again in a hilarious attempt to cancel a subscription, taking half a workday to achieve the impossible! Nicole has wardrobe woes that cause her to purchase a dress that resembles a Christmas cracker. One woman is shocked to discover that her old school chum is on OnlyFans and another gives the DHL delivery man more than he bargained for. Don't miss this week's episode – it's full of laughter and unexpected surprises!
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