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#104 Matrescence and Menopause; An Interview with Nicola Farndell
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- Mums F**king Matter
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- Oct 28, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 4717
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- https://mums-fking-matter.captivate.fm
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Summary
Nicola Farndell supports professional midlife women to know the power of caring for themselves through and beyond menopause. She unwraps what healthy living really means to help women get in control of their health as early as possible so they can power through every season of their lives. A certified health coach, qualified personal trainer and ex-corporate leader, Nicola combines her corporate experience with her own journey of living with mental and physical health challenges to support other women to build their own sustainable healthy habits and thrive. Nicola is a Mum — she says "Mam" — of one daughter and lives in Gateshead, UK. TRIGGER WARNING: At 20 minutes 35 seconds to 21 minutes we speak about early pregnancy loss (miscarriage) and birth trauma. At 33 minutes 10 seconds to 35 minutes I speak about my traumatic birth experience having Matilda. And at 1 hour 2 minutes 20 seconds to 1 hour 8 minutes Nicola talks about her birth experience involving Kielland's forceps. In this episode we speak about: a bit about Nicola and what she does helping women the hobbies she is now pursuing and making time for her background and the WHY behind what Nicola does as a Mum and coach the raw realities of birth and motherhood that are rarely spoken about and why that can be damaging the emotions we can feel, but society is lame at realising and accepting Nicola's journey with nutrition and weight control and the influence (both we and society) has on our girls food, gut health and the minefield that the food industry is, particularly as a parent (as if we needed another challenge!) self-worth, boundaries aka loving limits Nicola's experience of birth trauma, birth injury and her recovery how we so desperately need more information around pregnancy, birth and beyond to be…