What we've learned so far - from relationship tips to avoiding sextortion scams!

how that information may have changed our lives. Has it changed our lives for the better, and what do we still have to work on? So it's the moment of truth. Louise, would you like to start? Did you have a favorite We shouldn't have favorites, but did you have a favorite episode or guests from last season? Well? I think because we're quite intentional about what we want to achieve with this,

I do love them all. But there's always something that surprised me and I thought Ester Perium, I thought talking about how to care for the older people in our lives, was it was particularly relevant for me at the time with a neighbor, but also just so I don't know, heartfelt and beautiful. I really enjoyed her. Joe Cribb I loved about women in the workforce. Brad Leeper was crat on the hair episode, and obviously, you know, I'm sure we both would have picked Stacy Simms as one of

our favorites too for nutrition and exercise. Oh yeah, you know, I've been a huge fan of Stacy's for a long time, so it was great to have her on the show. I thought Jeremy Cribs was really interesting talking about ozm PEC, and it's something I still think about actually quite a lot.

I think about that conversation we had, and I think about how amazing it could be for our health industry and how it could change people's lives, and how it could also just be abused by people that don't necessarily need it anyway, since there's going to be a lot more of those compass yeah no. And he was just so great at explaining it all to us and things,

so I enjoyed that too. I also loved our chat with Esther about how we approached conversations with elderly family and friends about you know, how to look after them later on in life. I think it's one of those episodes you don't know until you need it. You didn't know you needed it. Yeah, right, And then I think a lot of us were going okay, there's quite a

lot there to take on board. I also loved talking to Joe robertson I always leave a podcast after listening to her going okay, there's some very simple ways I could go home and have a better relationship with everybody in my household. So I really loved that as well. Look, I love them all. Yeah. Was there a piece of advice that you would that you would take away well that resonated with you on any of them? Yeah, I think Well, going back to Joe, she spoke about the

bidden bite, which I thought was fascinating. And that's such a simple thing. I know a lot of people are familiar with that term. You know, if someone asks a question or they throw something out there, and we might be tired and not particularly interested, and it's really easy just to kind of grunt and response instead of sort of saying, oh, no, tell me about that or what

was that about? And actually, you know, biting and getting and having a conversation and communicating, And that was really interesting and it wasn't just with my partner, but I

did with my kids as well. You know, there'd be times when, you know, specially when you have a daughter with ADHD who likes to deep dive into topics which you don't really need to know all about, but you know, I'd say to myself, actually, you know, tut, let's bite, and then we'd end up having this really interesting conversation and she would feel like, you know, she was listening to Well, it was that whole lessen scenelessen her, doesn't it.

Actually that's right. That was great advice. So that, and also I just love the way Joe said that it's okay we can get intimacy from lots of different people. Doesn't have to be your partner. It can be good good friends, close friends, things like that. I thought that was really interesting. I really loved Aaron and the episode that we did with her on just creating good habits. It was so practical and it was all about being

really simple and picking one thing and habit stacking. I am habit stacking things people, I'm habit stacking everyone else in my house. Now I'm saying, well, when you do this, just do this. When you do that we just do this, and I thought that was that was a really great

tip that resonate with me. Oh, she was great. Her tip when you say simple, really really simple, right, Like you know, she noted with all the clients that they make an effort to make really lovely dinners and if that's the only meal you've got time to make and eff it with, make more of it and then you've got a really great lunch the next day. Just little little life hacks that are not crazy. Like it's not like eat all the cotd of cheese in the world.

It's a really simple, easy thing to do to acrease of joy in your day. I think I liked Joe crib talking about value when you're worse and telling us to put our big girl pants on. And that's stumondous for me. Actually, I feel more valued in my workplace just from having articulated what I need. And I really liked Matt Heath and Doogle Southerlands or they were great? Would they so good? And I just that whole thing.

I could just literally go home and say, I've heard it from two men who've done all the research that being grumpy in midlife is just a little lazy, So not advice from me, per se, but vice I was happy to pass on. Well, I think you ended that podcast by saying you they just to get on with it. Does that I did home? Did you go home and do that? But I'm not sure. I suppose the question is like we always find every podcast fascinating that there's lots of things within them that we go, oh, that's

a nugget, that's a bit of a nugget. Actually, what have you taken on board and implemented? Like I mean, we had this conversation every season. You're such a good student. You go away and you try things out and you trial them, and then I'm always sort of the one going you know, I'm meaning to give that a go. So you're quite good at implementing things. This reason I wanted this reason I wanted to do this. I need

to talk to the source. I need to go to the source to get the information, and once I have it,

I will use it. Yes, as I say, Joe, I updated my sea being shocked myself with the new skills and experience I've had thinking I was sort of stagnating in a place for ten years, and then actually reflected on it I really recommend people do this, and AI is actually really useful for doing it to get the layout sorted and then adding skills, and I was really gosmacked at what I had learned and I'm not stagnating at all. And then that led to a renegotiation of

my salary, which has been great. And also as we talked about protein, protein protein, with Stacey adding that has definitely helped with my satiety and not eating between meals and things like that. I don't know, you know, I'm not lean and mean yet or anything, but yeah, just actually just accepting it. I think you are getting leaner and miner and fitter and stronger, all those things. I think the last three seasons have oh yeah, you know,

working towards that well consistently. Yeah yeah, So what about you? What have you implemented? Well? I am very excited to say that I took some of the information out of some of the information that we received in a podcast was hugely beneficial to me when I got six storted. Oh lord, yes, I don't know if I've really told you about this. So we did that particular, we did an episode on sixtortion and especially how it is impacting young adults and men in particular a lot overseas, not

just not just young girls. And it's not about sex, and it's not about shaming you about sex. It's about money. So I received I hadn't really noticed, but I was in my junk box one day and I was like, there's a title subject this is You've been hacked, And so I went what And the A in the hacked was like an ad like it wasn't sort of spout correctly or anything. So I opened the email and basically it said, we've hacked your computer. We've been following you

for about three months now. We have noticed that you watch porn. We have recorded you watching porn and masturbating. Apologies the conversation here, that the lowering of the time of the conversation, and we have this on video, and if you don't give us two thousand dollars now, we're going to release that. You can click here for proof. So I immediately thank you so much to Netscape and the information we got out in our sex tution episode.

I immediately went, I don't think so well, actually, okay, truth, I panicked. I felt sick. Even though watching I felt sick. I felt you know how everything stops and the adrenaline just bursts through the body and you're sitting there going, oh my godness, what's going on here? And then I went, Francesca, you are so boring. You're not that interesting. You don't watch porn, so watching when you watch porn because you don't watch porn, so you're bored. So then I went, okay, okay, okay.

And the email there was sort of gaps in the in the in the paragraphs, and it was really badly put together, and I went, this is a fishing exercise. This has been sent to Goodness knows how many emails from that have been retrieved from some hack somewhere, and I'm not and I just went, I know what to do. Thank you to the episode. I blocked them, I deleted them,

and I didn't think about it again. But Lou I did think how an eighteen year old boy may be when that comes through, would have that same feeling of sick feeling, and then they're going to click on that show me the proof. God knows where that gets you. But you've shown some interest and you're probably locked in and it's so easy to do. So that was hugely beneficial.

To me, who would have thought? And then I got that excited that someone had tried to well, I know, that is really really good, real life example of how awful these things are and how easy it is to get sucked in. And as you say, as an adult female not watching porn, you can safely say, but I do love that you said, but I don't watch porn, and then but it wasn't that was it also spelled badly and the paragraphs went right, you don't watch one.

You could have clicked out at any point. Never mind, well, but you're not thinking clearly, no emails like that. You just don't think it's followed by the police. I think that was very beneficial. Have there been any fails on your well, anything you wanted to achieve that you haven't. The funny thing is that in six stortion episode I went home and talked to my kids immediately, and they were just so blase about it and like, oh, yeah, mum,

we know when well you don't. And I actually, thinking back on it, I do need to talk to them again about and maybe do my own research a little bit more about literally every type of thing, because you're saying that gives me the Willies. You know, it's like that could happen to any one of my kids. And I don't know what they do when they're, you know, not downtime, but I can imagine it'd be pretty easy to convince them that they've done something naughty or something

that they were ashamed of. The Other thing is, yeah, the Joe Robinson stuff. I mean, you know, there's a big, big list of things on our plates, isn't there, Francis scat And perhaps I could just keep making sure that I am biting on those bids and also just showing some more physical touch as well, because it's all too easy to leave the house and just yell from the dork front door that you're leaving and not actually say goodbye. We can have a hug after this, you'll get your go.

We could do that, Yeah, we could, What about you? I loved our conversation with Stacy Simms, and I've definitely increased a lot more protein into my diet and that is definitely helping with me not wanting to have a nap at two o'clock every day. But I'm still not great at getting the protein in before exercising. I'll grab a banana and eat a little bit, but I'm just sort of working on being a bit more. I've got to work still on being a bit more strategic about

when I eat around my exercise. Yeah, it's that thought of if you're already exercising early, that thought of having to get another fifteen minutes earlier again to eat something. But there are lots of quick fixes to that, protein balls, protein cookies, stuff that you know, you don't already thinking about it. You just stuff and any god and getting on with your day. So yeah, I'm sure lots of us would find that a bit of a challenge, but it's worth doing. What are you looking forward to with

the season four? Well, you know, like I say, we've done what we've done Skinky, and we've done here, and I've gotten a lot out of both of those, and we're going to be doing makeup, so I'm quite excited about that surprise. You've literally got a shopping list, just sort of a pen and paper, really what I need to get. We're going to talk about midlife metabolism and insulent resistance and stuff like that. That's definitely something that's

been on my radar for a while. What about you, We're also going to talk about being active in menopause, yes, and perimenopause and middle age and things. We're going to talk a bit about gut health and both of those sort of come back to me talking about you know, I've got to still working out how to improve on both of those things. And we're going to have a conversation about grief as well, and also being an empty nester, because at this time of the year there's a lot

of kids leaving home heading off to university. Might be your first, your second, or your last child leaving and that can be quite a full on time for parents, and it can kind of creep up on them and take them by surprise at how emotional and sort of unsettling, or how it can be, or even how easy it how exciting it's been. Anyways, again, lots of that. So we're going to be back with season four and a whole new range of experts on Saturday, March eighth, and

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