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Not feeling your old self? Hypothyroidism could be to blame

Are you feeling like you’ve lost your spark lately? You’re always a bit sluggish, despite getting plenty of rest. You’re gaining weight that you can’t seem t...

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How going booze-free has transformed my life and my business.

From the outside, my business looked like a huge success. I was making the big bucks, selling out courses, writing books and travelling the world as a well-p...

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She's the Boss Podcast with Sandy

https://youtu.be/lYKcW0MmChI Sandy Lowres, Founder of WB40 magazine (Women Beyond 40) and The Good Girl Confessional podcast is a woman who has found her gro...

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The low down Podcast

We are going to continue to recognize and acknowledge birth trauma awareness week. Even though it's a designated one week out of the year, we feel that it's ...

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Artificial Intelligence is here to stay but does it really mix with Menopause?!

This week I introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Menopause; I wasn’t happy with the result. AI art yielded the same negative stereotype I discovered wi...

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#100 Kayte Murphy | Pioneer Blogger - From rehab to artistic reinvention

I'm Sandy Lowres, the host of The Good Girl Confessional Podcast and I am so excited to bring you the 100th Episode today with our special guest Kayte Murphy...

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Map It Marketing with Rachel Klaver - Podcast with Sandy - Marketing to 40+ year old women

https://omny.fm/shows/map-it-marketing/marketing-to-40-year-old-women-with-sandy-lowres Episode Eighty Three Marketers used to ignore anyone over forty . And...

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Sandy on the - Not Just about Copy with Emma Podcast

Today’s guest on the Not Just About Copy podcast is Sandy Lowres. Sandy is a pro-ageing advocate and the founder & Creative Director of the award-winning...

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The Good Girl a Guest on the 'Don't Give a Fifty' Podcast

Sandy was a guest on the Don't give a Fifty Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZtOANb44HIQiYKm7L5gzz?si=b76cd71faea644eb

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Women who Podcast Mag - Alex the Seal Podcast featured

In the current issue of the Women who Podcast Mag - the Podcast, 'Alex the Seal' is featured with our founder Sandy, check it out below. https://issuu.com/wo...

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The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever – When Altruism Meets Opportunity

It would be nigh impossible to not know that singer/songwriter Kate Bush is back in the charts, thanks to the 80s-themed Netflix mega-series ‘Stranger Things...

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Her Canberra - Article - Kate Bush Running up that Hill

https://hercanberra.com.au/life/kate-bush-still-running-up-that-hill/

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Kate Bush – Still Running Up That Hill

By Sandy Lowres Ahead of  The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever  Sandy Lowres explores the eternal power of Kate Bush–and how she keeps running up th...

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Rochelle Courtenay

Rochelle Courtenay is the Founder & Managing Director of Australian Charity Share the Dignity. This is her story. I am passionate about being a voice for...

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Jenn Donovan

Jenn Donovan is passionate about helping small business owners be seen. She is the Founder of online community Buy From a Bush Business, and the host of the ...

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Sandy Davies

Sandy Davies is an innovative Entrepreneur and the Founder of HappyPause Menopause Balm - This is her story In remote regional areas, it can take weeks to ge...

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Stephanie Thompson (she/her)

Stephanie Thompson is the founder of the Bravemumma community, Podcaster and Birth Trauma Advocate - this is her story . Just like my cancer diagnosis, my ex...

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Liliana Bravo Quiroz (she/her)

From Columbia to Melbourne - Liliana Bravo Quiroz is the Founder of The Casa Bonita Shop and Women’s Empowerment Hub - This is her story. Creating this busin...

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Contributor | Lisa Beckett

Dr Lisa. is the the founder of Candor. She is a registered General Practitioner and a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She ho...

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Fiona Holmstrom (She/Her)

Fiona Holmstrom, the Founder of Stem Punks, is passionate about STEM for girls - Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths - This is her story When I was 8 ...

Healer of a devastated coastal community That commitment grew over time and as the ability to recruit GPs to rural Australia has became more and more difficu...

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Super Consumers - Why brands ignoring women over 50 are missing the mark!

Ashton Applewhite, the celebrated NY based author and the self-described “pro-aging radical” has defined ageism as something that “occurs when a dominant gro...

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Love(ing) a (Broken) Woman

i am gone here but not there but not in out out in floating, gone again i am dissociation i am pelt of shame a foreign heart i am come apart i am And then hi...

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Emily Milligan (Silbery)

At 93, Emily Milligan (Silbery) is a beacon for women in midlife and beyond. Proving age is not a barrier, Emily is a star of the Reality TV show Gogglebox, ...

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Jules Brooke

Jules Brooke is an Entrepreneur, Public Relations Guru and Founder of Handle Your Own PR, and She's The Boss. She is passionate about women being seen in the...

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Michelle Roger

Michelle Roger is an older Disabled Model, Advocate & Fashionaista - This is her story I want to see people like myself, over 40 and Disabled in fashion ...

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Welcome

Welcome to the debut edition of Wb40 In Business Magazine, the sister magazine to Wb40 – Women Beyond Forty. We would love you to join us in congratulating t...

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Always leave them laughing

My Nan used to roll out the saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ when I would ask her to do something new with me or help me with my homework. As a...

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Over-sharing: crime or community service?

“ Not only did I butt-in but proceeded to wave my hands about with the pageantry of a peacock train-rattling his plumage.”

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How to be a Rockstar at work

 I remember seeing a shift in how others saw me as I moved from my thirties into my forties. I was noticed less, passed over more, leap-frogged in the q...

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Perimenopause: buckle up girls!

“I console myself with the knowledge that turtles can breathe out of their butts, wisdom imparted from the trivia printed on the strip of an overnight maxi-p...

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Contributor | Jane Caro

Jane Caro AM is a Walkley Award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator. She spent 35...

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Always leave them laughing

My Nan used to roll out the saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ when I would ask her to do something new with me or help me with my homework. As a...

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Empty Nesting - Finding the 'real' you after decades of motherhood

Your youngest child has left to begin their independent life, you close the door behind them & turn around to an empty home of deafening silence. Now wha...

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Contributor | Pia Antico

Pia Antico is the Founder of Essential Awakening Mentoring, a Crone Life Joy Reboot Mentor/Coach/Trainer, International Public Speaker & Best-Selling Aut...

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Peri Menopause Power Podcast

Sandy was a guest on the Peri MenoPause Podcast. See it here. https://ownyourhealthco.com.au/peri-menopause-power-podcast-own-your-health-collective/ https:/...

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Contributor | Vanessa Muradian

Vanessa (she/they) is a sexologist, yoga teacher, speaker, community facilitator and pleasure activist of Armenian and Anglo-Australian descent living, lovin...

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Should I stay or should I go

How to know when it's time to change your job Are you feeling stuck in your job or career? Perhaps you’ve been striving and working towards something, and no...

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Contributor | Natalie Moore and Lisa Saunders | Founders | Own Your Health Collective

They are Natalie and Lisa. They help women achieve holistic health and wellbeing for work and life. They have been those same ambitious women who have spent ...

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Alex The Seal: A new podcast about music, nostalgia and the 80s

Alex The Seal is the new Podcast co-hosted by Jo Pybus (Columnist and Late Onset Feminist) and Sandy Lowres (Creative Director of Award-winning platform Wb40...

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Podcast - Sexy Ageing with Tracy Minnoch - Nuku

Sandy joined Tracey on her Podcast. You can find it here. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/mind-the-good-girl-confesses-sandy-lowres/id1553709670?i=1000...

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Contributor | Therese Tarlinton

After partnering with Jeep, United Colors of Benetton, and Sesame Street, she built a global manufacturing company in her twenties. Collaborating locally to ...

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Contributor | Jewels

She is a woman who has lived two lives in one lifetime. The first part was a life of childhood abuse and trauma which grew into the full-blown disease of alc...

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Contributor | Lise Carlaw & Sarah Wills

After worlds collided in their mid-30s, Lise and Sarah became a duo with a difference and blasted onto the Australian media scene in 2017. Their genuine frie...

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The Owl & The Pussy Cat. A Sanctuary of love

The Byron Bay region of Australia is picturesque and has long been synonymous with alternative lifestyles, down to earth people, and more recently a string o...

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Welcome to WB40 for Business

This is the first Post for WB40 for Business.

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Contributor | Mia Northrop

Mia Northrop is a trained coach, cohost of the Life Admin Life Hacks podcast and coauthor of the book  Life Admin Hacks . After a diverse and dynamic ca...

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Contributor | Melissa Griffiths

Melissa Griffiths is a transgender authority and advocate who lives in Melbourne. She is a diversity and inclusion consultant who has managed to get a gender...

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Contributor | Gillian Moody & Carolyn Tate - The Champagne Cartel

They are Gillian and Carolyn, and started this blog seven (!) years ago as a way to encourage women to take time out for themselves, and to be a part of a su...

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Contributor | Annette Densham

With a gypsy as a mother, Annette sought refuge in stories. By the time she was 17 she’d lived in 96 houses.  The books in the library became her best f...

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Contributor | Shannah Kennedy

With over 15 years experience to her name, Shannah Kennedy is one of Australia’s foremost strategic life coaches. Her proven expertise enables clients to gai...

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The Art of Surrender and the Getting of Intimacy

It’s not a coincidence that I broke free when I did: found my partner when I did; took that first terrified, courageous breath; tentatively blew the dust fro...

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Unpacking Menopause and weight gain

Menopause should be a reason to bust out the bubbly and celebrate the end of periods, period pain, leaking, mood swings and for any women living with daughte...

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Why you need to become a half arsed parent

When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, kids were free-range, like the underarm hair. Back then, we knew less, we cared less, we did less. We didn’t have p...

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Contributor | Susie O'Brien

Susie O'Brien is a columnist and journalist, writing on family, social, political and lifestyle issues. She also writes about parenting, or 'sharenting' as i...

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Contributor | Jane Vandermeer

Jane Vandermeer is a highly intuitive, gentle & innovative thought leader . She has always had a love of high-end fashion …..you could say that it is her...

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Top 10 women to watch 2022

We're searching for the top 10 amazing women we should all be following in 2022. Could this be you?! Do you know an amazing woman aged 40, 50, 60 or bey...

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Easy Orange & Cranberry Mimosa (Makes a jug)

Ingredients 2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries 3 cups orange juice, divided 2 tablespoons lemon juice 3 bottles (750 milliliters each) champagne, chilled Fre...

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Contributor | Stephanie Thompson

Stephanie, the author of The Day My Vagina Broke and chief of Bravemumma . In 2015, she suffered a traumatic childbirth injury that changed her body and her ...

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Contributor | Gill Holden

Director and Founder of Clover Lane , Gill is an industry professional, with a clear and exciting vision for disrupting traditional recruitment methods and p...

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Contributor | Sally Hepworth

Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, most recently The Younger Wife (October 2021 Australia / April 2022 U.S. U.K). &nbsp...

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To ignore it is to condone it – why we all need to back Kate Jenkins' report

“The statistics quoted were so overwhelming they left me with no doubt, no wriggle room to find anything redeemable.” “So be gone you grubby creatures that ‘...

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Episode 168 of the Small Business Made Simple Podcast.

So, this week I'm more than a little chuffed to bring you an interview with Sandy Lowes who has launched a magazine, digital and print, called WB40 – Women B...

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The Good Girl Confessional Podcast - 10,000 Downloads!!!

THANK YOU so much for your incredible support of the podcast but also for your support of the incredible and kick ass women who have been guests in the Confe...

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Why women’s health is suffering and what we can do about it

The unwritten Gender Code means, women take on as much as 77% of unpaid labour, in-line with the belief that women should be the carers, and should be puttin...

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PAVLOVA WREATH

Yes, you want a non-traditional meal. But try and host a party without a pavlova as the central feature of a dessert spread and see how quickly someone notic...

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Stop worrying about the crumbs in the icing

So when it comes to deciding to make the birthday cake, it can feel like there are only two choices. One, have a go myself, fail, let my child down and look ...

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Contributor | Lou Duggan founder Cakes 2 the rescue, Entrepreneur

A Brit, who at 21 fell in love with a yummy Queenslander while here on holiday in 1996. She has been living on this beautiful island ever since. Lou started ...

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Contributor | Rosa Carrafa - Publisher and writer

At the age of fifty, Rosa has created her publishing press as a legacy to her family. At first, she thought that this is an idea that was farfetched as inste...

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Grief - From the mouth of an adult orphan

‘I am an orphan.  I survived my change of environment throughout adolescence. I battled my way through the confusion of romantic relationships in my 20’...

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Eliza Hull Owning her musical space

Australian indie folk artist Eliza Hull is known for her stirring lyrics and haunting vocals and it’s not hard to understand why she has a huge loyal followi...

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Sandra Reynolds |Lemony Lamb Shoulder with Mint Labne and Broad Beans

Sandra Reynolds I have a list of things I want to do when lockdown is over. No doubt you do too. Now in the midst of Lockdown 6.0 here in Melbourne, my to-do...

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How to choose the right vibrator

I was 35 when I bought my first vibrator and I wish that I had had one from a much younger age! If you have never used or owned a pleasure device and you are...

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GIRLS CAN DO Anything

What being an extra on the set of teen drama Dive Club reminded 2 menopausal besties! Sandy Davies and Eileen Burchill as extras on the set of dive club Grow...

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Hearten up - must know facts about heart attacks and menopause

Our hearts and heart attack symptoms may be different to those of men, but our risk factors of heart disease are not.

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Contributor | Colleen Callander

An award-winning CEO, Colleen Callander has wealth of knowledge and a proven track record in building brands, establishing winning cultures and creating envi...

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Contributor | Jo Stanley

Since being discovered performing stand-up in a dingy Collingwood pub sometime in the early 2000’s, the warm and vibrant Jo Stanley has risen to become a hou...

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The Colours of Music Rachel Walker Mason

While chatting with Rachel Mason Walker, who had just dropped her child at school, it’s almost impossible not to smile, such is her infectious laughter and h...

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Contributor | Rachel Walker Mason

Ever since she can remember she's been able to see music as colours when listening to music or composing a song. She has since learned that this condition is...

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Contributor | Michelle Bowditch

Michelle Bowditch is the founder of Door20a , a tech consulting agency supporting Women in Business and Executive Assistants to accelerate their careers to t...

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#50 Jenn Donovan | Social media and marketing speaker, mentor and coach

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Jenn Donovan a marketing thought leader, change maker, Social entrepreneur and coach and mentor for small busines...

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Contributor | Jenn Donovan

Jenn Donovan, marketing thought leader, change maker, coach and mentor for small businesses, keynote speaker and podcaster ( Small Business Made Simple - 148...

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Kylie Sahb | Behind the lens

Kylie Sahb is an award-winning photographer who has combined her love of music with her passion for photography. She is the Founder and owner of The Rocker R...

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Holding Space

Isn’t it time men held the space? If my 6 year old daughter can do it, dudes can too I’ve been told many times I’m great at holding the space. It’s an evocat...

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Contributor | Donna Cameron

For over a decade, Donna advised people on presentation and style, for both their personal and professional needs. Donna worked in creative, community and co...

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Contributor | Jo Pybus

Jo is a Columnist for Her Canberra. who shares observations from her life in the middle-ages through another late onset pursuit; writing. Having been a late ...

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Contributor | Shirley Billson

Shirley Billson, based in the UK, is the Menopause Anxiety Coach, helping women to change the rules of menopause, to overcome crippling anxiety and take back...

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Have a Seat Conversations Podcast with Sandy

Meet Sandy Lowres, Founder and Creative Director of the independent platform WB40 - Women Beyond Forty, a digital + print magazine and host of The Good Girl ...

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Contributor | Justine Martin

Justine Martin’s successful corporate life was turned upside down in 2011 when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Since then, she has battled three c...

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Libby Moore | Life Coach | Former Chief Of Staff to Oprah Winfrey

Libby Moore is a Certified Life Coach, speaker/story teller, adventurer, and creative connector, who loves inspiring people to reconnect to Possibility in th...

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Sandra Reynolds | Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

Sandra Reynolds I'm a sucker for a romcom, even though it rarely mirrors real life. In the midst of a grey Melbourne winter made extra cold by lockdown 4.0, ...

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Felicity Abell | To the Bush with Love

After the birth of her second child, Felicity Abell picked up a life coaching book and stared at the questions about where she hoped to be three years from t...

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Contributor | Kwavi Agbeyegbe | Author | Life Coach

Kwavi, ais an author of a book called: 50 Questions to Answer When You Reach 50 – A guide to help women thrive and shine in their 50s and beyond. She is on a...

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WB40 on TikTok

@women_beyondfortymag ##duet with @arianaandtherose You are never too old! Dream big!! ##dream ##wb40 ##womenbeyondforty ##magazine ##publisher ##thegoodgirl...

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Contributor | Adalita

Adalita, lead singer of seminal band Magic Dirt, has been one of Australia’s most respected and influential artists for nearly two decades. You may well have...

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'Her Canberra' includes the Good Girl Confessional Podcast

We are so proud to be listed amongst these magnificent Podcasts, like Dolly Parton's America , Broadtalk from Virginia Haussegger’s , Julia Gillard's podcast...

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Cheree Stokes

Coming back to country Cheree Stokes is by her own admission spiritual with a belief that the universe will guide you to where you should be. Hearing her sto...

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A post-bushfire quest for Joie de Vivre

Looking back now, I feel again that sense of foreboding in late December when ash from far away fires started to sprinkle down on me, my family, neighbours a...

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A Brand New Chapter

Forging a business with passion When Western Australian Kerry Ridley suddenly found herself on the end of a work place redundancy from her admin role, she wa...

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Broad Agenda includes the Good Girl Confessional Podcast

Must listen podcasts for the late onset feminist. We made the list :-) ... Who hoo! Link to Broadsheet article https://www.broadagenda.com.au/2021/must-liste...

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Sisterhood in the time of Pandemic

Recently, during the binge watching of so many streamed shows due to lock downs and restrictions brought on by the Pandemic, it was heartening to see so many...

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The Future of Fashion

'What fashion week shows us about how we approach inclusion in Australian fashion, by Jasmine Wallis Disabled Creator and Activist”

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Contributor | Amani Haydar

Amani Haydar’s father murdered her mother, the re-telling of her life’s story started. As a child, her recollections, her ideals, her thoughts about her pare...

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Skate - Mates

I kept seeing videos of women rollerskating. Black women; fat women; queer women; women wearing hijabs, a woman using a mobility aid. Skating seemed to be fo...

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Sheree Rubenstein - Gathering women under One Roof

Sheree Rubinstein has a burning passion to bring women together to network and raise each other up. A former corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur, she is the...

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Contributor | Sandy Davies

Sandy, the creator of HappyPause.  Bringing HappyPause Menopause Balm to you brings Sandy immense joy.  HappyPause is not about making menopause di...

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Contributor | Susan Jarvis

Susan Jarvis is a positive sex and body positivity advocate and is the owner of The Spicy Boudoir, an online sexual health and wellness store to celebrate th...

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A time for Healing, Life beyond HSV2

Saying goodbye to 2013 was one of the happiest moments of my life. I had finally extricated myself from a long-term relationship with a beautiful Bogan-man. ...

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The Mavens Private Diaries Podcast | Sandy

Episode Description 'Women Beyond Forty is more than a magazine, more than a Podcast, more than a website.  It is a philosophy that all women beyond for...

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Sisters in Steel Caps

How does one write about sisterhood when referring to the masculine and male-dominated world of construction, mining, building, and the associated industries...

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Contributor | Sue Brabender

Sue is the Founder at Me Time. Just For Me. She started Me Time after years (too many to count!) of working 60+ hours a week in the corporate world. She was ...

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Emotional Labour - why are women still carrying the load?

“My husband is a good man, and a good feminist ally. I could tell, as I walked him through it, that he was trying to grasp what I was getting at. But he didn...

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Donna Stolzenberg A force for Good

Donna Stolzenberg has just been awarded the honor of Victorian Australian of the Year 2021, and with good reason.  She hasn’t had a single day off in 20...

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Cover Artist - Cathy Frank - WB40 Edition 1

Cathy Frank is an Australian, Coogee-based  artist who works in digital and analogue media.  Using surrealist techniques, colour and contrast, she ...

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Gayle Kennedy: On writing and Growing up Disabled in Australia

Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, is  a long way from the country town of Ivanhoe, NSW, where Gayle Kennedy was born, and the country town of Hay where she w...

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Contributor | Tana Douglas

Throughout the music industry, Tana Douglas is acknowledged as rock’n’roll’s first female roadie. Her journey started in 1973 in Australia within a year she ...

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Contributor | Sam White

Sam White is the multi-award winning CEO of Freedom Services, a UK based group of companies including Action 365, Pukka Insure and Freedom Brokers, and Stell...

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Contributor | Sarah Rubatch

Sarah Rusbatch is a certified Health and Wellness Coach, accredited ‘Grey Area Drinking’ coach, host of two thriving online communities for women in sobriety...

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She's the Boss Podcast with Sandy

https://youtu.be/lYKcW0MmChI Sandy Lowres, Founder of WB40 magazine (Women Beyond 40) and The Good Girl Confessional podcast is a woman who has found her gro...

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Contributor | Ailsa Wild

I grew up reading everything I could lay my hands on. I loved Jo March writing stories and Nancy Blackett captaining her sailing ship. I loved Frodo as much ...

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Empire State of mind

I’m a city girl. It’s in the city, most any city, where I’m me. Some people love to be in nature and crave time at the beach or bushwalking, the country life...

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Who is there to help the families of men who use and make child exploitation material?

  Image Credit Pexels | Kat Jayne Trigger Warning* - Child online sexual abuse, trauma It was just after dinner about a year ago and the family was star...

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Contributor | Kathy Barron

Kathy Barron is the host and producer of the successful California-based podcast Women Who Sarcast, and as the Editor-in-Chief of Women Who Podcast Magazine,...

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5 Great ways to feel more relaxed

2020 was the mother of all years. It’s fair to say that as the global pandemic extends into 2021 it has shaken so many of us, as we've stayed away from frien...

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The Job Market - Are you feeling lucky?

With rising unemployment, underemployment and a recession, although potentially a short-lived one, a strong and consistent sentiment for many is “I’m lucky t...

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Contributor - Tracey Spicer AM

Tracey Spicer AM BBus(Comm) MAICD is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster. During her 30 year career, she has anchored nationa...

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Sandy on the cover of US based Magazine | Women who Podcast

Sandy is now a cover girl... 👧 very humbled 😀 If you are a podcaster or just love listening to women who podcast head on over to.. https://www.womenwhopodc...

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Fresh blood Podcast -

Sandy talks about the importance of believing in yourself, supporting other women, overcoming a great storm of difficulties and how it feels as life finally ...

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The healing of Alex, A mother’s dream for her son

“When I explained that the abuse he suffered was not his fault and why, I did not need to tell him twice,” Leceta explains, “His eyes became bright! The heal...

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Mother Earth is Feeling the Change

The next time you lament the private summers brought about by changing hormones, spare a thought for Mother Earth. Instead of hormones, greenhouse gases (or ...

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Catherine Moran | Contributor

Catherine Moran has a PhD in conservation ecology and has a passion for facilitating the development and use of knowledge to manage resilient landscapes and ...

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Your Place of Work - Does it work for you?

You might not appreciate the impact the built environment or a particular place has on you, until you no longer work there. You might not be aware of what ty...

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Fashion - What on Earth are you wearing?

The UN recently declared that the fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the world; hot on the heels of the oil industry. It currently consumes m...

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Sandra Reynolds | Thyme Roasted Pears

If any one mantra rules my eating life, it is surely this: Eat what is in season. The reasons are simple. If it’s in season, it’s bountiful. When there’s ple...

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Contributor - Simonne Michelle

Simonne Michelle is a Melbourne-based writer, philanthropy professional, and feminist. She has just started using Medium as a way of jotting down some of her...

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Will the real men please stand up?

I heard a journalist ask 26-year-old, Australian of the Year, Grace Tame recently - “how do we sidestep shame?”. They were talking about the shame of childho...

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Subscribe to WB40 from 1st June - 31st July and you could win this luxury prize!

inchargebox is the world's first lockable tech charging station here to help you: Create healthy screen time boundaries and keep devices out of the bedrooms ...

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Contributor | Jules Brooke

Jules started her career working on the Herald Sun, Sunday Observer and then the Southern Cross group of local papers, firstly as a Sales Trainer and later a...

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In Ruth we trust...

It’s hard to write only a few words about Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Just the initials RBG have a mythical aura. Icon. Rebel. Hero. Powerhouse. It’s not surprising...

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COVID and the Arts

Artists are often called on to provide support for fundraisers and to build community spirit. But in 2020, the impacts of COVID-19 put the arts sector in cri...

Health

The National Women’s Health Survey 2020

The Australian health system is lauded as one of the best in the developed world, providing safe and affordable healthcare for all.  So, it is surprisin...

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Catherine McKenna | Contributor

Catherine McKenna is the author of Ina’s Story: The Memoir of a Torres Strait Islander Woman, and My Island Homicide.  She is an Accredited Exercise Sci...

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Marcy Neumann | Contributor

Marcy Neumann, Rev., RN, CHT, RMT, known as The HeartShift Coach, is an Intuitive Transformational Life Coach, Spiritualist Minister and Counselor, Certified...

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Contributor Natalie Walker | Founder ParterSPEAK

When Natalie Walker was in her early twenties and not long married, it was revealed that her husband had been accessing images of child sexual abuse on his c...

Food

Sandra Reynolds | Her Love of Food | Edition 1

Growing up in the UK, my childhood Christmases were always – with one glorious snowy exception – spent indoors. With a focus around colour and abundance to w...

Food

Sandra Reynolds | CRISPY-SKINNED DUCK BAO

This recipe for crispy-skinned duck, eaten in fluffy bao, fills the brief. It looks incredibly complex however it can be done ahead and frozen for those tiri...

Fashion

Inclusive Fashion, What is it and why should we care?

Inclusive Fashion. It’s like the fashion world’s version of an over played song on the radio; you can’t help but have heard of it. There’s a huge amount of t...

Careers

How to know when its time to change your job

Are you feeling stuck in your job or career? Perhaps you’ve been striving and working towards something, and now you’ve achieved it, it still seems to be lac...

News

Between divorce and dating, Pause

I’ve written a great deal about dating over years, since hitting the scene shortly after my divorce. I’ve offered all sorts of advice to middle aged singles,...

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The Power of self love

With each article that I write about Self Love I find myself getting more and more radical in my beliefs and convictions about it being the quintessential re...

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The Owl & The Pussy Cat. A Sanctuary of love

The Byron Bay region of Australia is picturesque and has long been synonymous with alternative lifestyles, down to earth people, and more recently a string o...

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Podcast - Rebellation with Sandy

Podcast description: Follow this woman. She's great. Sandy Lowres is the Founder and Creative Director of the independent platform WB40 - Women Beyond Forty,...

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KT Talk Show Podcast

Text from the KT Talk show. Sandy is a writer, creative and podcaster based in Melbourne’s west. She is the proud mother of her three adult children. She has...

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Made Label Free Pattern

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Under the male gaze : Why we still need Feminism

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Good Little Girl Syndrome

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Susan Francis is the author of her memoir, The Love That Remains. After spending over twenty years searching for her biological parents, Susan met the love o...

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Two years after an essay emerged in Harper's Bizarre about the Emotional Labour women carry, has anything really changed? Why are women still carrying the em...

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