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Turning 30 Podcast

The Turning 30 Podcast is a collection of solo episodes and real-life candid conversations with 30-somethings navigating the ups and downs of adulthood. The podcast is hosted by Turning 30 Life Coach Emma Wilson who is on a mission to help those in their late twenties and thirties to break free from what society says turning 30 should look like, accept where they are and to feel empowered to take positive steps forward at this pivotal time. The podcast explores what it is really like to turn 30, diving deep into topics such as careers, relationships, friendships, mental health, lifestyle and self-development. A chance to learn more about growing-up: the good times, the not so good, and all the lessons we learn in between.
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Episodes

Help! My Friends are at a Different Life Stage to me: Advice on How to Navigate Changing Friendships in your Thirties

At the end of December the Reclaim course: how to build your next chapter in love is opening and if you are already on the waitlist you will get special first access and a discount. Sign up to the waitlist here: https://bit.ly/reclaimcoursewaitlist Have you ever found yourself zoning out of a conversation during dinner with your friends when topics turn to things you can’t relate to? Have you ever felt a distance growing between you and a close friend because you are now at different stages of l...

Dec 06, 202338 min

YOUR THIRTIES: You Never Know What is Waiting For You Just Around the Corner Ft. Nikki Healey

In this special guest episode I have invited my client Nikki back onto the podcast to share with us her life updates and her incredible story of how her life changed drastically over the period of six months, in a way which she could never have predicted before. In her early thirties Nikki experienced a break-up and was unexpectedly single, leading her to mental health lows and fears that she wouldn’t fulfil her dream of becoming a mother. After taking control of her fertility and egg-freezing, ...

Nov 28, 20231 hr 8 min

REAL TALK: Why Our Thirties Can Be Lonely and What We Can Do About It

There’s no denying it, being in your thirties can be a lonely time. Priorities and focuses have shifted from your twenties and your social life has evolved over the past years. Your friends are at different life stages, those around you are busy on their own paths. The result? We feel more lonely than before. In this week’s solo podcast episode, we’re diving into why our thirties can feel lonely and how to combat that loneliness. And the episode may surprise you- as it’s not all about ‘putting y...

Nov 21, 202334 min

Turning 30 and Age Anxiety, Fear of Growing up and How to Overcome it to Enjoy Your Thirties

Today we’re covering something that is central to my mission as a life coach focusing on helping individuals feel better about their age: – age anxiety. This is a topic that so many of us experience as we transition from our twenties into our thirties and we experience the reality of ‘growing older, entering a new phase of life and really facing the societal pressures of becoming an adult and everything that comes along with that. For some of us this feeling is sudden and happens at the turn of ...

Nov 14, 202339 min

Turning 30 and How to Have Less Painful Periods Ft Dinara Mukh

Three years of the turning 30 podcast which is listened to by a predominantly female audience, and only now are we talking about periods- so the question is, why are we so shy to speak about it? Why is this a topic that is so crucial to our everyday lives, but we so often neglect educating ourselves around it. In this episode, period and hormone expert Dinara Mukh joins me to talk about why this topic is so taboo, and also so important. Dinara is a period and hormone expert, who discusses the im...

Nov 07, 202350 min

Turning 30 and Getting a Divorce Ft. Jigna Patel

Our life path is often set out for us before we even decide what we truly want for ourselves. And a lot of the time, that looks like finding the right person, settling down, and getting married. But what happens when you think you have gone down the right path, only to realize in your twenties that it’s actually not the right path for you. I'm so excited to kick off our first guest episode of the new season with a guest who really embodies what it means to take hold of your thirties when things ...

Oct 31, 202346 min

Turning 30 and the Beauty of a Fresh Start

I LOVE the concept that on any given day we can choose to have a fresh start. I also love the idea that our big birthdays (thirty and beyond) can be a signpost for us to create a new future and turn a new page, and this is exactly what this episode is all about: the beauty of a fresh start. In the first solo episode of the brand new season of the podcast, I am diving deep into the theme of fresh starts: why we need them, how to know when a fresh start is just around the corner, and how to naviga...

Oct 24, 202340 min

Turning 30 and becoming a Solo Mother by Choice Ft. Ebony Hibbert

In this week’s guest episode I sit down with Ebony Hibbert, Single Mother By Choice and mindset coach who empowers women in their 30's and 40's to reclaim control over their fertility journey, regardless of whether they have a partner or not. During our insightful conversation, Ebony shares with us her journey to becoming a solo mother and all of the twists and turns it took for her to reach the decision as she turned 40. However this conversation is about so much more than becoming a mother, as...

Aug 02, 202354 min

When Your Thirties Look Nothing Like You Planned in Your Twenties Ft. Jelena Holodkova

Themes: break-ups, self-love, fresh starts, career changes, solo-travel, friendships, burnout, expectations, timelines, relationships, resilience, strength. To celebrate the final two week’s before we embark on the magical adventure that is The Align Retreat, we are re-releasing the most listened to Turning 30 Podcast EVER with retreat co-host Jelena Holodkova. The reason this podcast episode is the most downloaded is because it has it all. An incredible story of a woman whose life took a sudden...

Jul 20, 202359 min

Turning 30 and 30 Things I Love About Myself Ft Radhika Sanghani

Themes: self-love, self-worth, friendships, growing up, family, expectations, thirties, identity, failure, self-exploration In this guest episode of the podcast, we are discussing the often tumultuous journey of self-discovery and self-love with Radhika Sanghani, author of the empowering book, "30 Things I Love About Myself". In this candid discussion, Radhika shares her personal journey of navigating her thirties, dealing with societal pressures, and discovering the critical role of self-love. ...

Jul 13, 202342 min

GIRL TALK: The realities of dating in your thirties and how to get your dating mojo back ft Caitlin Smith

Themes: dating, single life, dating apps, relationships, beliefs, mindset, self-love, confidence. On this week’s podcast episode I have invited back Caitlin Smith, better known as The Compatibility Coach, for an honest girl talk all about dating in your thirties. Let’s be real, dating can be tough and the online dating space today can cause many people to decide to throw the towel in altogether and to focus on other areas of life. But what does that mean for those who still want to meet somebody...

Jul 05, 20231 hr 4 min

Turning 30 and Changing Your Relationship With Alcohol ft Gabriela Flax

Did you know that 1 in 4 Gen Z-ers have decided to give up alcohol altogether and the global sales of non-alcoholic beverages is on the rise? Now we may not be Gen Z-ers, but more and more people are starting to consider their relationship with alcohol in their thirties, and this special guest episode shines a spotlight on this hot topic. I am joined by my inspiring client Gabriela Flax, an alcohol-free life coach and Thoughtleader, who shares her personal journey of quitting alcohol two years a...

Jun 29, 20231 hr 7 min

Turning 30 and the Truth About Starting a Relationship in your Thirties Ft Louise Rumball from OpenHouse Podcast

There’s loads of information in the personal development world about being single and dating, or how to have a healthy relationship. But no one is talking about what it’s really like to start a new relationship in your thirties. Is meeting someone in your thirties a positive or negative thing? Is it the same as meeting someone in your teens or twenties, or does it feel different? Do people having more baggage and more exes effect how the relationship works? Is having a biological clock and unden...

Jun 21, 202356 min

Turning 30 and An Important Message if you are Looking for Love in Your Thirties

Have you ever reached the point where you feel that you are doing ‘all the right things’, but you still aren’t getting what you want? This is how so many of us feel when we are looking for love. We are on the apps, going on dates, working on ourselves, putting ourselves out there, but still love isn’t coming. It is tiring, frustrating and to be honest, a little bit hopeless. If you resonate with this, then I have an important message for you! One year ago, I was in this place. I couldn’t underst...

Jun 15, 202331 min

Turning 30 and Owning Your Timelines Ft Laura Behnke

This week's podcast episode is a replay of one of the most popular Turning 30 episodes from 2022. +++++++ When we are growing up, many of us are told that we are capable of achieving anything in life that we want. A good career? You go and get it! Move to a new city? Go for it! A great social life? All yours. A committed, long-term relationship? Of course it will happen for you! But what happens when you get to 35 and you haven’t ticked off everything on the list? What happens when a relationshi...

Jun 02, 202359 min

Turning 30 and Creating Financial Freedom by Learning How to Invest ft Dr Anna Emily

In this week’s guest episode I sit down with Dr Anna Emily to talk all about investing and how to get started in creating wealth and building financial freedom. Anna is the founder of She’s So Money, a financial literacy and investing education company for women. She helps women learn how to keep, manage and grow their money and reach financial freedom more quickly and without the overwhelm. This is a topic that so many women shy away from learning about, and in our conversation Anna shares the ...

May 18, 20231 hr 7 min

Turning 30 and a Wake Up Call To Your Dreams ft Jamie Varon

WORK WITH ME Last call for enrollment to The Next Chapter Group Program: An immersive 8-week group course where we will build your next chapter together. EPISODE Do you ever feel like you have something that you really wanted to achieve by a certain age, yet it still hasn’t happened yet? Are you sitting on a deep desire to create something in the world, yet you’re not actually taking any action? This is what happened to this week’s guest is the author and my personal thirties role model, Jamie V...

May 11, 20231 hr

Turning 30 and lessons learnt from over 1000 hours of Turning 30 Coaching Sessions

To celebrate the 80th episode of the Turning 30 Podcast I have recorded a special episode sharing some of the findings and interesting things I have learnt from my thousands of hours spent in coaching session with thirty-something women. As well as being a coach, I feel as though I am also running a social experiment. I get front row seats to my client’s lives, their thoughts, their emotions and their behaviour. Day in, day out, we talk about all of the topics that are relevant to our age group....

May 04, 202354 min

Turning 30 and 3 steps to get more clarity and start taking action Ft. Jelena Holdkova

Grab a pen and paper (or your phone notes) as in this second episode of our two-part special series, my guest Jelena Holodkova and I are outlining our three step process to take you from feeling ‘off’ and confused, to getting more clarity and kickstarting into action. This episode is for you if you have been feeling that something isn’t quite right, have been stuck and procrastinating making changes or you have a decision that you want clarity with. This three-step process is going to be the bas...

Apr 27, 202346 min

Turning 30 and How To Build Your Next Chapter

On the verge of some big changes happening in my personal life, I decided to record a special solo episode reflecting on next chapters: how to create them and how seeing your life as a series of ‘next chapters’ can help you to build an intentional life that you love. Contrary to popular belief, something I have learnt is that creating a life that looks totally different to what you currently have doesn’t take time, it takes intention. Whilst my clients provide so much evidence of how big changes...

Apr 20, 202333 min

Turning 30 and Realizing that Something Feels ’Off’ ft Jelena Holodkova

This episode is the first in a two-part special series with my previous podcast guest, friend, colleague and retreat co-host, Jelena Holodkova, and we are diving into a topic that I know so many of you struggle with: that feeling that you get that something isn’t quite right. You could say that you feel that something is ‘off’. This is what we call not being in Alignment. In this episode we dive into how to spot when something feels off and we share all of the different ‘symptoms’ and ways this ...

Apr 13, 20231 hr

Turning 30 and let’s talk about Relationship Anxiety ft. Sarah Yudkin

We’ve all heard those familiar phrases when it comes to starting a new relationship: ‘when you know you know’, but what if you start a new relationship or you’re already in a partnership and you don’t instantly know that this person is ‘the one’? For some reason, we’ve been tricked into believing that once we meet someone and get into a relationship, that we will live ‘happily ever after’ and things will just nicely slot into place. Add to this the fact we are bombarded with an array of differen...

Apr 05, 20231 hr 1 min

Turning 30 and Letting Go of Financial Expectations Ft. Ellie Austin-Williams

What did you think you would have achieved financially by your thirties? Owning your own property? Being able to afford to rent and live alone? Buying designer handbags? Taking as many holidays as you wanted? For most of us, our thirties were a distant time in the future where we would have the pleasure of being able to afford what we wanted, when we wanted. After all, our parents did all of those things in their twenties- why should we expect any different! On this week’s episode, I have invite...

Mar 30, 202349 min

Turning 30 and Thriving in Love + Dating ft Caitlin Bedford the Compatibility Coach

In this week’s special format guest episode I am sitting down with love and dating expert Caitlin aka The Compatibility Coach and we are answering the questions I most get asked by my community. The questions we are answering are: Is there such thing as ‘manifesting love’ - is this even possible and if so, HOW?! How can you stay hopeful in love when you’ve been single and dating for years on end? How can you actually meet people apart from going on the dating apps? How to get back into dating if...

Mar 02, 20231 hr 9 min

Turning 30 and my Egg-Freezing Journey

In the second instalment of my solo podcast series where I am diving into the key topics that have positivity impacted my thirties, I am sharing my personal journey of freezing my eggs at the age of 35. After an unexpected break-up at age 33, I started to explore the option of freezing my eggs as an insurance policy for the future. Six months ago, I went through one round of egg-freezing and in this episode I am answering the most common questions I have received about it. Questions that I answe...

Feb 15, 202358 min

Turning 30 and the Joy of Solo Travel

This episode is the first in my brand new solo podcast series focusing on the topics that I believe are pivotal to enjoying your thirties. Once upon a time, the thought of solo travel was a far away concept that people only did when they couldn’t convince their friends to come along with them (or maybe they didn’t even have friends at all). After getting a small taste of solo travel in my early thirties, once I went through a break up at age 33 I felt a calling to go on an adventure that I could...

Feb 08, 202348 min

Turning 30 and Breaking Free From Family to Live Your Own Path Ft Taylor Amrani

“We can’t control the family that we are born into and the choices our parents make for us, but we can control how we choose to live our own lives”, the wise words of this episode’s podcast guest, spiritual teacher and podcast host Taylor Amrani, who I invited on to talk about how we can live our own truth, even when it is different than the life our parents imagined for us. In this episode we dive into the topic of breaking free from our family’s expectations, and Taylor shares her personal jou...

Jan 17, 202356 min

Turning 30 and How to Turn it All Around ft. Kam Sagoo

This episode is a showcase of one of the most profound client transformations I have had the pleasure to support. My client Kam’s life looked very different two years ago when she first reached out to me for a consultation call. She was officially stuck in a rut. Just about to turn 30 she had a ‘good, stable’ job she didn’t like and had been debating leaving for a while, was in a relationship that she knew had no long-term future, was living at home with her parents and was struggling to see how...

Dec 23, 202259 min

Turning 30 and How to Have Your Best Year Yet Ft Natalie Pollock

This week’s episode is one of my favourites because I have invited a Turning 30 coaching client with such a great story to share. My client Natalie’s story is a special one. She literally used to eye-roll when it came to self-help and personal development, and now she is such an advocate for investing in yourself- as you will hear on the episode. She really stepped up and invested in my Reclaim your Thirties group program and then continued her journey with 1:1 coaching which led her to some rea...

Dec 07, 202253 min

Turning 30 and How to Feel More Secure in your Love Life ft. Carly-Ann

On this week’s guest episode we are diving into a topic that is having a true moment in the personal development space: Attachment styles. Holistic Attachment Coach, Carly-Ann is educating us on what attachment styles are and why they are so important in the way that we form relationships. In this episode, she breaks down the different types of attachment styles and the behaviours and ‘strategies’ associated with each one, and we also dive into how you can heal from these attachment styles in or...

Nov 30, 202256 min
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