In this episode, Jo is joined by Dr. Helen Wall  GP, menopause specialist, Resident GP on BBC Breakfast and author of Menopause and ADHD: How to Navigate Hormone Flux and Neurodivergence.

If you've ever found yourself asking "is it ADHD or is it perimenopause?" this one is for you.

Dr. Helen Wall has spent years watching women be missed, mislabelled and dismissed. This book which hit number one bestseller in Menopause on Amazon in its first two weeks, is her answer to that.

In this episode they cover:

• Why perimenopause brings ADHD to the surface  often for the very first time
• The hidden cost of masking and why there is always a price paid
• How to tell the difference between perimenopause and ADHD
• How oestrogen and progesterone impact dopamine, GABA and the brain's chemical messengers
• Why HRT alone is not the full answer  and what else needs to be in the mix
• The role of gut health, nervous system regulation and diet
• Dr. Helen's three practical things you can do right now
• Why this is not just a book  it is a movement

Find Dr. Helen Wall: 📖 Menopause and ADHD: How to Navigate Hormone Flux and Neurodivergence by Dr. Helen Wall available on Amazon now wherever books are sold

Instagram: @doctorhelenwall

Facebook: Dr Helen Wall

 Community: Finally Seen — join via Dr. Helen's website https://tvhealthdoctor.com/

Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who has been through menopause twice, once in her thirties and now navigating perimenopause at 45. She helps women go from living in the pause of menopause to Menoplaying™  and regaining their confidence along the way.

Using menopause strategies, somatic techniques and her Belief Soundtrack™ method, Jo helps women release the blocks holding them back, understand what's happening in their brain and body, and press play on the life they actually want.

90-Minute Pressing Play Session — not sure where to start? This is it. One powerful hour and a half where you tap through what's blocking you, get clear on where you are, and leave knowing your next step. Book yours and find out more jo@jofiddy.com

The Comeback Kit — free — Reset all your passwords and now it's time to reset you. Includes a pep talk, an EFT tapping session and a boundaries guide. Grab it free here

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Welcome back to Pressing Play, I am so glad you’re here.

What if the thing that could ease your brain fog, lift your mood and help you sleep better was something you already loved doing?

In this episode, I’m joined by the extraordinary Yula Andrews founder of Pop Chorus, the UK’s friendliest choir, and the woman behind a groundbreaking research programme into singing and menopause symptoms with the University of Essex.

This one genuinely blew my mind. Yula isn’t just talking about the feel-good factor of singing, she’s proving it. And the results from her Singing for Menopause programme are nothing short of transformative.

If you’ve ever thought “I can’t sing” this episode is especially for you.

What we cover

• How Yula built Pop Chorus from scratch on maternity leave and turned it into seven choirs and the UK’s friendliest community

• Why singing in a group reduces cortisol, boosts serotonin and happy hormones in your Menopause brain

• The Singing for Menopause research programme Yula ran with the University of Essex and what the women who took part actually experienced

• How singing targets the specific symptoms that make perimenopause so hard: brain fog, low mood, sleeplessness, anxiety

• Yula’s brand new singing retreats part wellbeing holiday, part choir experience, all joy

Find out more about Yula Andrews

• Pop Chorus — www.popchorus.co.uk

• Singing for Menopause research www.popchorus.co.uk/community

• We Are Unique Singing Holidays — www.uniquesingingholidays.co.uk

Work with Jo

I help women release the blocks and beliefs holding them back in perimenopause, support with their symptoms, and help them press play on the life they actually want. 1:1 online with me 90 minute energy boosting session. Find out more at jofiddy.com

Connect with Jo

• Instagram: @jofiddy

• LinkedIn: Jo Fiddy

• Website: jofiddy.com

• Email: jo@jofiddy.com

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Jo and Wizz talk about dropping the p word (perimenopause), starting a hormone health business and Wizz's personal experience of Perimenopause.

About Valerie

Valerie is an unflinchingly real women’s health brand.

Something starts to feel off. Not dramatic. Not a meltdown. Just irritating. Your energy dips, your mood goes rogue, and your tolerance for bullshit drops through the floor. There’s no neat explanation, just the sense that something’s changed. And it deserves better than Googling at 3am. 24/7 formulations to support energy, focus, and emotional balance - including that tired-but-wired feeling - with up to 5x better absorption than pills or powders, powered by liposomal technology.

Less “what did I come in here for?”, more “I’ve got this.”
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Expert-developed. Real-woman tested.

Most pills and powders break down before your body can absorb them. Valerie’s don’t.

The liposomal nano-technology protects nutrients through digestion, delivering them into your bloodstream faster - for up to 5x better absorption and stronger results.

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https://wearevalerie.com/

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About Wizz Selvey, Co-founder

Wizz Selvey is the Co-founder of Valerie, an unflinchingly real women’s health brand redefining how women feel day to day. After years of being told everything was “normal” despite feeling anything but, Wizz took matters into her own hands - rebuilding her energy, focus, and emotional balance through smarter, more effective solutions. That experience shaped Valerie: expert-developed, real-woman tested formulations designed to actually work.

With over 20 years in retail, consumer trends, and strategic retail expertise across beauty and wellness, Wizz brings sharp commercial thinking and lived experience to a category that’s crying out for disruption.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wizz-selvey-14915552/

https://www.instagram.com/wizzbangwizzy/

About Jo Fiddy

Jo is a Menopause Coaching specialist and the host of the Pressing Play Podcast who empowers & coaches women to go from living in the pause and unravelling in Perimenopause to pressing play and start Menoplaying® and regain their confidence and purpose.

https://jofiddy.com/

Are you snapping at the people you love and then spending an hour in a shame spiral wondering what is wrong with you? You’re not alone, and nothing is wrong with you.

Peri-rage is one of the most under discussed symptoms of perimenopause, and the one women tell Jo they feel most ashamed of. In this episode, host Jo Fiddy goes deep on the anger that feels like it comes from nowhere: why it happens, what’s going on in your brain and body, and how to stop it from unravelling your sense of who you are.

Jo has been featured in Top Santé on this topic and runs workshops on peri-rage. This episode is the honest, science-led conversation she wishes every woman in perimenopause could hear.

What is included

•       Why peri-rage feels like it arrives from nowhere and where it actually comes from

•       The hormonal science: what Estrogen and progesterone have to do with your fuse getting shorter

•       The shame spiral that follows the rage and why it keeps women stuck

•       How your Belief Soundtrack™ gets amplified in perimenopause and turns up the volume on the anger

•       Why the unravelling is not the end of you it’s part of the pivot

•       What to do when you feel yourself losing control practical first steps

 Key takeaway

“Your rage is not a character flaw. It’s a chemistry shift and a signal that something inside you needs to be heard.”

Work with Jo

If peri-rage, the anger, or the unravelling is part of your story right now, Jo would love to have a conversation with you.

The Perimenopausal Pivot is Jo’s 1:1 work for women who are ready to stop white-knuckling their way through perimenopause and start feeling genuinely alive again.

Visit jofiddy.com to find out more.

Connect with Jo

•       Instagram: @jofiddy

•       LinkedIn: Jo Fiddy

•       Website: jofiddy.com

•       Email: jo@jofiddy.com

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Until next time, press play.

This episode became a conversation about aging, power, conditioning, sisterhood, perimenopause, and the stories women inherit about themselves without even realising it.

Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who helps women regain their confidence in Perimenopause.

www.jofiddy.com

Mala's philosophy is Makeup Your Face, Makeup Your Mind™. In this episode, she shares her Mirror Time Method™ — a gorgeous daily practice that changes how women in midlife see themselves. The conversation moves from skincare myths and ingredients to confidence, reinvention, and the inner work that midlife beauty really begins with.

In this episode

• The Mirror Time Method™ — Mala's daily ritual for confidence
• Why youth culture is failing midlife women
• Skincare myths, ingredient transparency, and the instant-results trap
• Botox, fillers and tweakments — the honest conversation
• Rapid Tapping® for confidence and self-image in perimenopause
• Reinvention without losing yourself
• The non-negotiables — Mala's beauty essentials for midlife

Three takeaways

1. Look in the mirror differently. The way you talk to yourself while getting ready becomes the way you walk into the day.
2. Read the label. If you don't understand what's in your skincare, it's probably not doing what it claims.
3. Confidence is built from the inside out. Tapping, mindset, and small daily choices compound.

Find Mala

• Website: verymakeupmad.com
• Read about the Mirror Time Method™: verymakeupmad.com/blog/makeup-your-face-makeup-your-mind
• Instagram: @verymakeupmad
• Book a free 30-min discovery call: calendly.com/hello-verymakeupmad/30min

Products mentioned

• Studio10 Beauty — SPF 30 Soft Blurring Priming Skin Tint
• Elle Sera — Liposomal Collagen (use code MALA50414 for £10 off)
• CurrentBody — LED Face Mask (shop here, code MALACB)
• Rosalique — 3-in-1 Balm (code MALA15)
• Prime Prometics — Foundation, Lash Serum, Eyeliner (code VERYMAKEUPMAD)

Free gift: The Comeback Kit

Jo's free Comeback Kit includes an EFT tap-along to help you reset and reconnect with yourself in midlife. 👉 Download here

Follow Jo Fiddy for more ways on Pressing Play

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Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you. Your brain is literally rewiring.

Jo walks you through what’s actually happening in the hippocampus and amygdala as Estrogen fluctuates, why cortisol hits differently in midlife, and how to work with the renovation instead of fighting it.

Then she gives you 5 ways to support yourself including Tapping (as seen by Emily in the Devil Wears Prada 2) — practical, doable, and rooted in both science and soul.

This is perimenopause support for midlife women who are done being told it’s “just stress” or “just ageing.” It’s neither. It’s a hormonal transition that deserves real understanding.

In this episode:

• Why perimenopause anxiety is a brain event, not just a hormone event

• Why cortisol lands harder in midlife (and what that means for stress, sleep, and mood swings)

• 5 evidence-informed ways to support yourself: sleep, exercise, nutrition, community, and play

• Why dopamine through play isn’t optional — it’s neurological maintenance for women over 40

• Embracing the Power Years on the other side of the renovation

About Jo Fiddy 

A Menopause Coaching Specialist who blends science with soul, anf works with women who’ve hit an invisible pause button in perimenopause and are questioning whether their best years are behind them. Through her Menoplaying® approach, Jo helps them regulate their energy, rebuild their confidence, and step into a powerful next chapter.

The 90s have made a comeback and now it's your turn. Get your FREE Comeback Kit - download here.

Work with Jo - find out more about working with Jo and how you can start pressing play on our life - find out more here.

Podcast: Pressing Play — available on Apple & Spotify & Amazon out every Thursday

www.jofiddy.com

This episode is a conversation about authentic transition the chosen ones and the ones that choose us. About what it takes to keep pressing play when the chapters of your life don’t arrive in the order you imagined. About running a business, grief, grit, reinvention and keeping your pilot light on.

Roanna is living proof that it’s never too late. That midlife is not a closing door. That you can hold devastation and possibility in the same hands and still build something that matters.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 5 with Roanna Stromberg Smith 

Connect with Roanna:

Join Roanna in the Cotswolds or sign up to her exclusive suppers curated for interesting and interested women.

www.the-rss-brand.co.uk

Instagram: @therssbrand

This episode inspired and deeply moved me and a reminder to keep pressing play. I want to thank Roanna for sharing her story, providing beautiful gems of advice for women who are running or want to start their own business and coming on the Pressing Play podcast.

with love 

Jo xx 

About Jo Fiddy 

I work with women who’ve hit an invisible pause button in perimenopause and are questioning whether their best years are behind them. Through my Menoplaying® approach, I help them regulate their energy, rebuild their confidence, and step into a powerful next chapter.

Read to press play? The Comeback Kit is your free guide. Download Here.

Podcast: Pressing Play — available on Apple & Spotify out every Thursday

www.jofiddy.com

Welcome to your Queenager era.

Let’s be honest. The stories we’ve been told about midlife are awful. Brain fog. Hormonal chaos. Losing your edge. The cultural script says you’re on the way down. This episode is your permission to throw that script out entirely.

In today’s solo episode, I’m talking about why midlife isn’t a crisis it’s a coronation. Why everything that feels like it’s falling apart is actually falling into place.

In this episode I cover:

• The Queenager concept by Eleanor Mills — and why this decade is your most powerful yet

• The 100-year life lens: how to think about midlife when you’re only halfway through

• Why the women who thrive in this chapter aren’t the ones who push through they’re the ones who Press Play

Resources + links mentioned:

• The Comeback Kit — the 90s made a comeback and now it's your turn. Your free 3-day micro-moments guide: https://jofiddy.myflodesk.com/comeback

• Work with Jo: includes a 90 minute Reset Session 1:1 to help you start pressing play. https://jofiddy.com/coaching

Connect with Jo

Instagram: @jofiddy_

Website: www.jofiddy.com

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Selina’s work is all about helping us rethink how we live and work, moving away from constant pressure and overwhelm and towards a way of life that actually supports our energy, our wellbeing and who we are becoming.

Selina is also the creator of Time to Thrive - a toolkit and audio guide that shows you how to reclaim your energy through her unique 5 Energy Zone framework, where she explores the idea that we’re not in a time crises but an energy crisis.

In the show we talked about your Burnout Archetypes and you can take the quiz here. https://projectyoushop.com/pages/burnout-archetype-quiz

You can follow Selina Barker on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selinathecoach/and  https://www.instagram.com/projectyouprojectyou/

And her own podcast Another Way - hosted over on Substack: https://anotherwaywithselinabarker.substack.com/s/another-way 

Ready to press play? Join my newsletter and find out how to press play on your life.

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Press Play!

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Imagine how powerful the world would be if women in midlife started pressing play!

Shownotes:

Jo Fiddy is a Motivational Speaker and Menopause Mentor empowering women to press on their life in midlife through the Pressing Play Movement.

Find out more

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Takeaways

• Empowerment in midlife
• Challenging age bias and perception

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome to Pressing Play Podcast
• 08:29 Learning to Pause
• 15:05 Pressing Play on Life

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