NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast

We are stretching - this time into our 40's.

So let’s drop our shoulders and take a breath – it’s time to meet my last guest of 2024, Emily O’Donoghue @Fashionablyfortyish 

If you haven’t discovered Emily yet she is a mother of 2 girls who started her instagram 5 years ago to share her love of fashion which has grown into this really engaged community of women sharing and supporting each others growth, passions and health. 

She is 45, midway through her 40’s and gives us glorious nuggets of truth and wisdom in this conversation. 

We talk about how our 40’s is such a pivotal decade for women.

How moments in early motherhood with premature births and dangerously high blood pressure continue to leave their mark on her, and how she supports her mental health with anti depressants, movement, nutrition and great friends. 

As women in our 40’s we need to gather and connect - whether through social, on this pod or I hope in real life.

And this is that. It’s a beautiful celebration of connection. 

And the last episode to close out the year. 

Supported by Key For Her - Their two-step supplement includes two unique blends to support your daily wellness and help naturally alleviate the symptoms associated with menstruation, perimenopause and menopause.

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"The 40's Stretch" is a Stretch Marks Production,

Hosted by Sinéad O'Moore, produced by The Brand Story and sound edited by Alan Breslin.

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NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast

We are stretching - this time into our 40's.

There comes a point for many of us where we slide into this “sandwich” generation of caring for young and caring for old.

And somewhere between the weight, worry and love for them all, we can ignore our bodies whispers - but as my guest today Kellie Billings explains, you can only ignore them for so long. 

Kellie is in her early 40’s, she's the Beauty Editor with Social and Personal Magazine, co-host of the Skin in the Game podcast, a mum of 3 girls and daughter of an incredible mother with alzheimers. 

And in August her body said no more and she needed urgent surgery for a perforated stomach ulcer while in Portugal on holiday. 

We talk about caring for her mam with Alzheimers, signs her body was not ok, and the lessons learned from her emergency health scare.

Supported by Key For Her - Their two-step supplement includes two unique blends to support your daily wellness and help naturally alleviate the symptoms associated with menstruation, perimenopause and menopause.

Use the discount code STRETCH for 20% off your first order across all products on keyforher.com

"The 40's Stretch" is a Stretch Marks Production,

Hosted by Sinéad O'Moore, produced by The Brand Story and sound edited by Alan Breslin.

Contact: [email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/stretchmarkspodcast/

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NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast

We are stretching - this time into our 40's.

Please welcome women's pelvic health physio specialist Aoife Harvey - from @womenhealthdublin to the pod. 

Aoife has her own physio practice plus she is co founder of  mocohealth an app that shares birth recovery support. 

Like me she turned 40 earlier this year and like me she felt the stirrings of perimenopause - the brain fog, fatigue, and pms kicked in. 

We talk about her decision to get HRT, her love of the coil; and how as women she witnesses her clients suffer in silence with common pelvic symptoms, thinking this is our new normal.

And she is currently on a mission to make vaginal oestrogen an over the counter treatment in Ireland to minimise bladder issues, leaking, urinary tract infections, dryness and pain caused by the decreasing levels of oestrogen in the body. 

SIGN HER PETITION HERE

Supported by Key For Her - Their two-step supplement includes two unique blends to support your daily wellness and help naturally alleviate the symptoms associated with menstruation, perimenopause and menopause.

Use the discount code STRETCH for 20% off your first order across all products on keyforher.com

"The 40's Stretch" is a Stretch Marks Production,

Hosted by Sinéad O'Moore, produced by The Brand Story and sound edited by Alan Breslin.

Contact: [email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/stretchmarkspodcast/

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NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast

We are stretching - this time into our 40's.

It’s ALL TOO MUCH - written by Psychologist Allison Keating who has worked in her private practice for over 20 years. 

And she has never seen anything like the levels of anxiety, panic and overwhelm that women are experiencing today. 

She is warm and fun, honest and fair. And a balm for my nervous system because she gets it - she knows life right now, and her book is an essential resource for us all. 

Supported by Key For Her - Their two-step supplement includes two unique blends to support your daily wellness and help naturally alleviate the symptoms associated with menstruation, perimenopause and menopause.

Use the discount code STRETCH for 20% off your first order across all products on keyforher.com

"The 40's Stretch" is a Stretch Marks Production,

Hosted by Sinéad O'Moore, produced by The Brand Story and sound edited by Alan Breslin.

Contact: [email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/stretchmarkspodcast/

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NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast

We are stretching - this time into our 40's.

Meet Áine O'Donnell - one of my closest friends and favourite humans.

At 27 she was diagnosed with MS, Multiple Sclerosis, an incurable neurological condition that interrupts communication between the brain and the rest of the body. Eventually, the disease can cause permanent damage and loss of power.

At 40, she lost her dad, got married and learned that her hero drugs have failed her.

And this week, as this goes out, she begins the process of a Stem Cell Transplant in the UK - her last chance to hold back her advancing MS.

But it's not all tears. We laugh. We reminisce.

We talk about the grief of losing her dad. And marrying the love of her life Tara.

And in this one hour - she will teach you more about life than anyone could.

DONATE xx

To help with the financial burden of this fight, friends have set up a GOFUNDME page for Áine.

To donate to this page and support my wonderful friend, you can follow the link here.

Áine - we love you, fight like hell. 

Supported by Key For Her - Their two-step supplement includes two unique blends to support your daily wellness and help naturally alleviate the symptoms associated with menstruation, perimenopause and menopause.

Use the discount code STRETCH for 20% off your first order across all products on keyforher.com

"The 40's Stretch" is a Stretch Marks Production,

Hosted by Sinéad O'Moore, produced by The Brand Story and sound edited by Alan Breslin.

Contact: [email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/stretchmarkspodcast/

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NEW! The 40's Stretch - Stretch Marks with Sinéad O'Moore

Please welcome my second guest, Laura Nolan Horgan, founder of LNH Edit, mother of 3 and BRCA gene warrior who in her early 30's said no thanks to Ovarian and Breast cancer and underwent a Salpingo Double Ooverectomy, full hysterectomy which removed her ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix, womb and double mastectomy - and while this saved her life, it also plunged her straight into surgical menopause.

Laura shared her story on Georgie's Good Glow podcast 4 years ago which gives a really good insight into her BRCA Gene story and well worth a listen - but here, with the grace of time and distance from this traumatic life grenade, Laura shares the hormonal impact thereafter.

We talk about HRT, how Menopause and Women's Health specialist, Dr. Deirdre Lundy brought her back to life, reclaiming her sense of womanhood and the lessons every woman should know from someone who had to learn the hard way, far far too young.

Supported by Key For Her - Their two-step supplement includes two unique blends to support your daily wellness and help naturally alleviate the symptoms associated with menstruation, perimenopause and menopause.

Use the discount code STRETCH for 20% off your first order across all products on keyforher.com

"The 40's Stretch" is a Stretch Marks Production,

Hosted by Sinéad O'Moore, produced by The Brand Story and sound edited by Alan Breslin.

Contact: [email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/stretchmarkspodcast/

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NEW! The 40's Stretch with Sinéad O'Moore

This season is a deep dive into the 40's stretch.

Physically/mentally/emotionally/hormonally/professionally/ this is a profound decade and one that I hope to live well. 

And just like in early motherhood - there is so much left unsaid, so much to learn and so much to gain from connecting with and sharing the real experiences of women. 

Supported by Key For Her

Use the discount code STRETCH for 20% off your first order across all products on keyforher.com

Meet my first guest, Sophie Morris. 

Sophie is currently breaking the internet with her food label awareness and supermarket swap reels, highlighting the ultra processed foods which could be having an impact on our wellbeing supported by her Diploma in General Nutrition and a Diploma in Advanced Nutrition for Fitness. She is 41, a mother of two young boys and she is stretched.

We talk about her experience of entering this new decade, what she wishes every woman in her 40's knew and how she's fuelling herself.

**If you are worried about your own health, hormones, nutrition or wellbeing - always speak with your GP as this conversation should not replace advice from a qualified medical practitioner.**

The 40's Stretch is part of Stretch Marks Podcast,

Hosted by Sinéad O'Moore, produced by The Brand Story and sound edited by Alan Breslin.

Contact: [email protected]

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NEW SEASON

We are stretching - this time into our 40's.

I’m Sinead O’Moore host of Stretch Marks podcast and If you're a fan of that podcast, you'll know it started in motherhood but over the years has grown to discuss all the ways life continues to stretch us. 

And this season is a deep dive into the 40's stretch! 

I really believe that our 40’s is a powerful decade where we can grow into the women we are here to be. There can be a bit of liberation, reclamation. we could take over the world – if the world and our hormones would stop knocking us back down again.

I turned 40 in July, perimenopause is hovering over my shoulders, I am getting more anxious, more stressed, sleeping less even though my kids are sleeping more and I know countless women in my tribe who know the game has changed but have no idea how to win anymore. 

And just like in early motherhood - there is so much left unsaid, so much to learn and so much to gain from connecting with and sharing the real experiences of women. 

So together with my amazing new sponsor Key For Her, the Irish female owned two-step supplement brand that includes two unique blends to support your daily health and help naturally alleviate the symptoms associated with your menstrual cycle, peri and menopause, - I'll be having deep conversations with inspirational women, experts and friends about how to embrace, conquer and thrive throughout our 40’s stretch. 

This new 12 episode season kicks off on Wednesday 6th of November. 

I’ll be joined by inspiring, educated, courageous women, experts and friends and I will be taking notes. 

Ok, together lets figure out The 40’s Stretch. 

See you wednesday. 

Created by Sinead O'Moore

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Final Episode - with Comedian & now Author, Emma Doran.

It’s the final episode of the summer and the season.

So to cheer us up I’m joined by one of the most successful irish comedians Emma Doran - who as it happens I booked 6 years ago for a brand launch I was leading so hang on to the end for all the reminiscing of a great night had. 

Emma has a new book “Mad isn’t it” available on presale - a memoir in fact.

At 18 just before 6th year Emma got pregnant on a trip to Courtown.

What began as her sliding down the wall in complete fear at the sight of a pregnancy test has been a life of complete strength, hustle and courage.

We talk about the promises she made to herself at 18, always working, always providing, always saving.

And that moment 10 years on when she felt brave enough to do something for her, an open mic stand up night in temple bar.

And now look at her - Mad isn’t it. 

If there was a stretch marks episode to finish on - this is it. 

It’s a life time of stretching into new versions of yourself, never staying limited by what life dealt you and as she wrote the book, acknowledging that even 21 years on from courttown, that there was still a lot of marks to heal. 

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Ok this one is either incredibly relevant to where you are at now - or trust me, it will be sooner than you realise. 

Suzanne Kane is a 98Fm presenter, a very busy mam of 3 kids and a great friend of mine.

For Suzanne her postpartum at 40 just blurred right in with perimenopause and now she’s here to say the things that we do not hear enough about and won’t have a clue about when it’s our turn.

And it will be every women’s turn. 

We need to know more about the mental, emotional and physical symptoms of our early perimenopause because too many women lose too many years to feeling so low and anxious long before a period is missed. 

You can connect with and Suzanne and her work at @suzanne.fm on instagram 

And we deserve better. We deserve to live with joy.   

Choose your joy! And book a date with your GP or with one of the specialist clinics supporting women through these hormonal years. 

Thank you to my NEW sponsor Dove Advanced Care Body Wash for bringing their support and for creating a body wash with 24 hour moisture straight from the shower. #ad

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Emma Flynn created thismamadoodles while expressing her own personal maternal mental, physical, emotional stretches and her craft, her illustrations, soulful words connected with thousands of woman online. 

But after a break, a chance to go inwards and reassess, realign, she joins me to share how her life has changed and her mental health never ever better. 

We talk about moving her family to the wilds of west cork, how giving herself what she needs has been a radical act of self love and she inspires anyone who listens to this to refuse to cling on to a version of themselves they have outgrown. 

Change is good. 

Change is possible. 

So ask yourself, what do you need to give yourself permission to change? 

And then do it.

Thank you to my NEW sponsor Dove Advanced Care Body Wash for bringing their support and for creating a body wash with 24 hour moisture straight from the shower. #ad

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Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

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