40ish

Welcome to 40ish! Brought to you by the hosts of the award winning podcast Self care Club, Lauren Mishcon and Nicole Goodman -two 40ish women who went searching for a podcast that truly spoke to their age group - Where was the show that captured the sheer, hilarious chaos of midlife? The one that understood the juggling act of teens, aging parents, career pivots, and hormones that have a mind of their own? When they couldn’t find it, they made it. 40ish is the podcast that midlifers deserve. A space where they tackle real dilemmas, rant about the absurdities of aging, and share every embarrassing moment—because if they're living through it, they are damn well laughing at it. And honestly, at this stage of life, comedy isn’t just entertainment. It’s survival. Get ready for candid conversations and a lot of laughter as this funny duo explore middle aged angst and (attempt) to solve all your dilemmas. Follow us on Instagram @40ish.podcast

Episodes

Nip Slips Bowel Pics and Jacket Potatoes

July 16, 2025 • 35 mins

This week on 40ish, things get a little… exposed. Literally. A listener shares a pool party nip slip in Ibiza that was witnessed by her ex, a teenager with a phone, and an 81-year-old with very good eyesight. Meanwhile, Nicole is wrestling with her Glastonbury FOMO (or is it actually JOMO?), and Lauren can only recall one thing from her own Glasto days - a jacket potato she ate in 1997. Iconic. A listener wants to know the rules on...

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Unfiltered - Padel Rackets, The Golden Girls and Getting Jiggy With It.

July 14, 2025 • 36 mins

On today’s unfiltered: Nicole is devastated to discover she’s been sold a “special needs” padel racket. Could it be that she’s not the epic padel demon of her dreams on court? Meanwhile, Lauren’s hanging with her spiritual friends The Golden Girls. Why can we remember every lyric from 1998 but not the one crucial thing we were supposed to do this morning? Her solution? Writing reminders directly on her arms. It's giving desperate. ...

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BBQ, Birdwatching and Bedroom Antics

July 9, 2025 • 42 mins

This week on 40ish: Lauren has a keen interest in birdspotting, because nothing screams midlife like getting excited about tits… the feathered kind. Meanwhile, Nicole is experiencing a full-blown sandal crisis—too strappy, too orthopedic, not enough ankle support, why is summer footwear so emotionally taxing? One listener is sweltering through a heatwave, but her husband’s libido is showing no signs of cooling down. She’s hot, both...

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Unfiltered- Dropped Pins, Disappointed friends and Desperation

July 7, 2025 • 39 mins

On today's unfiltered: Nicole is in need of directions - literally and Lauren’s attempt to rescue her using a dropped pin goes just about as well as you’d expect. Spoiler: it makes everything worse, mostly because she is too busy being chatted up by a stranger to assist. Elsewhere, Lauren is in full-on meltdown mode after trying (and, let’s be honest, failing) to install an automated watering system—aka a classic Blue Job gone rogu...

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Botox, Bras and Bunions

July 2, 2025 • 40 mins

This week on 40ish: Nicole fears that she has aged out of Botox. What is a woman to do if you can't afford the full Kris Jenner facelift? Meanwhile, Lauren is freeing the nipple for comfort, feminism and because it’s too damn hot. Over in listener land, one of you has questions about feet (we’re cautiously intrigued), while another is dealing with a passive aggressive friend - and we all know the first rule of Passive Aggressive C...

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Unfiltered - Baristas, George Clooney and The Bubonic Plague

June 30, 2025 • 39 mins

Today on Unfiltered we are serving hormones, humiliation, Hollywood heartthrobs, and 14th-century pandemics. Lauren has forgotten where she parked the car and Nicole is speechless after hearing someone under 23 declare themselves “Old!” A doctor gets ambushed by a surprise period while wearing a white dress (because thank you perimenopause) and the ladies ponder how they'd react if George Clooney handed them a cappuccino (spoiler: ...

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Beachwear, Baggage and Mummy’s Boys

June 26, 2025 • 40 mins

This week on 40ish: Nicole is on a bikini rampage. Will she find the perfect two-piece, or is it time to just set the girls free and go full Euro-topless? Meanwhile, Lauren is locked in mortal combat with a new TV setup, and frankly, the HDMI cable might win. A listener wonders: is it weird to take your own pillow on holiday? And another writes in about a full-grown mummy’s boy. We say: Oedipus, schmeedipus — as long as he’s not s...

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Unfiltered - Jeans, Genes, and Generational dread

June 24, 2025 • 37 mins

Today on Unfiltered: Nicole’s midlife meltdown is simply this: teens. Full stop. Lauren’s in a crisis over a swimsuit return - but the real issue? She’s turning into her mother. (Love you, Jackie). A listener is lost in a denim dilemma and meanwhile, ex supermodel Linda Evangelista tells an interviewer that she won’t date as she doesn’t want to hear anyone breathing, and honestly? We get it. To buy tickets to our live show clic...

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Father’s Day Fail, Ozempic and the Tupperware Fairy

June 19, 2025 • 37 mins

This week on 40ish: Lauren takes on Moonpig and somehow sends a blank Father’s Day card (nailed it). Nicole’s makeup has mysteriously vanished, and she needs to cover her newly grey eyebrows. Meanwhile, one listener is fed up being lied to by her friend about being on Ozempic (We all know green tea does not make you lose two stone!) and another woman is in a Tupperware stand-off with her mother-in-law. She knows it’s petty - but sh...

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Unfiltered - Printers, Posing Nude and Psycho spritzing

June 17, 2025 • 35 mins

Today on unfiltered, Lauren flirts with the idea of posing nude for a painting in Paris (but only if it’s giving “airbrushed Kate Winslet on the Titanic” vibes.) Nicole wonders what she could have achieved in life if she weren’t professionally chained to her kitchen like a countertop spritzing psycho. A listener nominates herself for the weekly Midlife Meltdown Award after a printer breakdown nearly pushes her over the edge - and...

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Jesus, Foreplay and Flirting in the banana aisle

June 11, 2025 • 39 mins

This week on 40ish: Lauren finds her kindred spirit in the banana aisle of the supermarket and has worried herself into a hole about where on earth Nicole will park when they go to Mel Robbins live show. Nicole is feeling super smug after securing a parking space right next to the venue and proving her wrong. One listener wants to know after 22 years of marriage if an elbow nudge to the ribs counts as acceptable sex initiation from...

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Lightbulbs, Chickpeas and The Everything Rant

June 11, 2025 • 40 mins

Today on unfiltered, Nicole's is in the grip of a midlife meltdown encompassing everything that perimenopause has thrown at her and the list is long - very long (and it includes chickpeas.) Lauren’s is raging over a pair of trousers that refuse to move. Elsewhere, one woman breaks down in B&Q over the emotional minefield that is buying a lightbulb, and another returns from a weekend away to find her husband has absolutely annihilat...

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Face Age, Neck Rage and Bladder Fails

June 4, 2025 • 38 mins

This week on 40ish: Nicole discovers the scientifically calculated age of her face - and she's not thrilled. Meanwhile, Lauren sustains the most 40ish injury possible: she hurts her neck... in her sleep. A listener asks whether dating a man on two wheels is a red flag or just midlife logistics, and a 48-year-old gym-goer is left mortified (and damp) after an unfortunate incident in front of her trainer. It’s midlife and it ain't g...

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Unfiltered - Cuddles, Control Freaks & Competitive Chat

June 2, 2025 • 26 mins

Today on unfiltered, Lauren is riding so high on the puppy cuddling oxytocin she can’t even muster up a midlife moan. Meanwhile, Nicole is... not quite as chipper. A listener poses the ultimate dilemma: who would make the better lunch date—Lauren or Nicole? Surely that’s like choosing between Ant or Dec? The competition is on as the ladies argue their case for who brings the most razzle dazzle to a social gathering. Plus, we hear f...

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Puppies, Pubes and Flappage

May 28, 2025 • 44 mins

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 ...

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Unfiltered - Bill Sykes, Sticky Floors and The Professional Numpty

May 26, 2025 • 38 mins

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 pret...

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Lauren's Mum, Nicole's Menopause and The Nice Willy

May 21, 2025 • 42 mins

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. We love to hear from you! To share your feedback, dilemmas, rants, funny stories or general complaints about midlife please be in touch at: Email hello@40ish.co.uk Instagram https://www.instagram.com/40ish.podcast TikTok https://www.tiktok...

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Unfiltered - Bionic Arms and Broken Hearts

May 19, 2025 • 32 mins

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, r...

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Furry four legged heartbreak and the over familiar friend

May 14, 2025 • 35 mins

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 abo...

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Unfiltered - Insomnia, Old Ladies and Sondheim

May 12, 2025 • 35 mins

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 rack...

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Episodes

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.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}Unfiltered - Padel Rackets, The Golden Girls and Getting Jiggy With It.

BBQ, Birdwatching and Bedroom Antics

Unfiltered- Dropped Pins, Disappointed friends and Desperation

Botox, Bras and Bunions

Unfiltered - Baristas, George Clooney and The Bubonic Plague

Beachwear, Baggage and Mummy’s Boys

Unfiltered - Jeans, Genes, and Generational dread

Father’s Day Fail, Ozempic and the Tupperware Fairy

Unfiltered - Printers, Posing Nude and Psycho spritzing

Jesus, Foreplay and Flirting in the banana aisle

Lightbulbs, Chickpeas and The Everything Rant

Face Age, Neck Rage and Bladder Fails

Unfiltered - Cuddles, Control Freaks & Competitive Chat

Puppies, Pubes and Flappage

Unfiltered - Bill Sykes, Sticky Floors and The Professional Numpty

Lauren's Mum, Nicole's Menopause and The Nice Willy

Unfiltered - Bionic Arms and Broken Hearts

Furry four legged heartbreak and the over familiar friend

Unfiltered - Insomnia, Old Ladies and Sondheim

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