Are you ridiculously busy and overwhelmed? Are you always thinking about what you haven't done? Do you over commit and find it hard to say no? Yes to all of those? Then Zena Everett's book is for you! The Crazy Busy Cure is all about cutting time-wasting things out of your day so you can get the important things done. Listen to Zena's no-nonsense a…

Kitty Tait makes amazing bread. However this wasn't always the case... Kitty dropped out of school due to severe depression, her parents tried lots of different things to help her but it was watching her Dad make a loaf of bread that sparked her interest in baking and gave her a reason to get up in the morning. Kitty, who was just 15 when we record…

Shailina Parti has worked in the fashion industry for more than 30 years, working at top British brands such as Jaeger and Jigsaw. She's also a mum of twins. Here she talks about balancing her career with bringing up her children, what life is like now they've left home for university and how she has been (successfully!) dealing with the menopause.…

The Eve Appeal needs your help this May to spread awareness about gynae health and raise much needed cash to support its brilliant nurse service Ask Eve. Athena and Karen explain the difficulties of running a charity during the coronavirus outbreak. They would love you to join their Get Lippy campaign by buying a product from one of their commercia…

By Josella Waldron

Verity Geere was so sick of the dating scene she gave it up for a month and took stock of her life. She was 39 and while the majority of her friends had settled down and started their families, she was still on the look out for Mr Right. In an attempt to make sense of it all she started blogging about her dating life, from first boyfriends to navig…

How long is your to do list? Have you done that thing you’ve been meaning to do all day, or maybe you haven’t got round to it for weeks? Whether it’s finding a plumber, booking the dentist or getting your car fixed. All these never-ending tasks can suck the joy out of life. Academic and Mum, Elizabeth Emens became so fascinated with the subject she…

When journalist Hero Brown left London for life in the countryside as a new Mum she found herself missing all the fun stuff she used to enjoy. So she made it her mission to find out what was going on around her and started blogging about it. Now her website Muddy Stilettos: The Urban Guide to the Countryside covers 21 counties and has reviews of al…

We all have the same number of hours in the day. So how come some people seem to get so much more done without rushing? Author Catherine Blyth has been examining this for her book "Enjoy Time: How to stop rushing and get more done. It seems the constant interruption from texts and email isn't helping with everybody's new addiction to busyness. We w…

When Sarah Brown moved into 10 Downing Street when her husband Gordon became Prime Minister she didn’t think her life would change that much. Afterall, she’d already been living next door at number 11 for the previous ten years. But her life did change in ways she didn’t expect. Sarah talks about what living behind the big black door, was like both…

When Nancy Zeffman and Eileen Willett hit their fifties they weren’t prepared to put up with the hot flushes and sweats that accompany the menopause. So they set to work creating Cucumber Clothing, a range of stylish womenswear which cleverly wicks the sweat away, to leave you feeling comfortable and cool. (It’s also ideal if you’ve just had a baby…

When Sarah Brown was in her twenties she began suffering from chronic outbreaks of hives, or to give it its proper name 'urticaria'. When she couldn’t find any skin creams to soothe her inflamed and irritated skin she decided to have a go at making one herself and her success led to the launch of Pai: an organic skincare range aimed at people with …

30% of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer go on to develop secondary breast cancer. Fiona Leslie is one of them. Sadly there is no cure, but with a positive outlook and by taking the life-extending drug Kadcyla, Fiona is living her life to the full. Since her diagnosis, the former journalist and now PR professional used her skills to succes…

What’s it like to find out you have a very high risk of cancer? This is Lindsay King’s honest account of what happened seven years ago when she found out she had the faulty BRCA 2 gene and the decisions she has made about her body since then. Lindsay is married to Tom, has three children and runs her own business as a beautician. Here she speaks op…

Join me and The Eve Appeal trekkers as we walk across the beautiful Derbyshire Hills raising funds and promoting awareness of the five gynaecological cancers: cervical, ovarian, vaginal, vulval and womb. Tackling taboos, whilst straddling stiles and dodging cowpats! Donate: eveappeal.org.uk Follow Team Eve: instagram.com/eveappeal twitter.com/eveap…

This one’s about work. Whether you’re a working mum or dad looking for the right work-life balance, a mum returning to the workplace after maternity leave or you’re someone who wants to move up the career ladder but isn’t quite sure how. Zena Everett has the answers. Zena used to be a recruiter so she knows how companies think. She also knows how t…

Jane Milton loves food. So much so she’s made a career out of it. She is a renowned food industry expert who works with Deborah Meaden behind the scenes on Dragons Den. Jane is equally passionate about feeding those who can’t afford to eat properly by encouraging the food industry to support food banks….she even ate from one for a week to see what …

Vasiliki Petrou has got it sussed. She’s 50 but she feels like a millennial, and all without invasive beauty treatments. She reckons we should all stop worrying about our age. Vasiliki is responsible for some beauty brands you may have heard of...Dermalogica, REN and Kate Somerville, plus some others that you may have not…Living Proof, Hourglass an…

From Formula One to the fashion pages, Rae Feather’s career has been anything but traditional! She began by cooking for racing drivers, this lead to working with F1 brands and on to one of the most famous hotels in the world. Now her creativity has led her to produce a hit in the fashion world: the Rae Feather basket. The distinctive monogrammed de…

Chanelle McCoy is well known as the wife of the now retired champion jockey Sir AP McCoy but until recently many people were unaware of her own success in the business world. It was only when she appeared on Dragon's Den on Irish television that people realised she actually had a job! Chanelle talks about her career, what it was like watching her h…

This is the inspirational story of a woman who started life with very little but got to the top through pure hard graft. Tracey Woodward had a difficult childhood and hardly ever went to school. At 14 she couldn't read or write but that never held her back. At 18 an amazing opportunity came along which was the start of an exciting career in the bea…

What’s it like getting up well before the crack of dawn every day to present on breakfast TV and then go home and do all the mad rushing around that’s part of being a mum? Jacquie Beltrao knows this routine very well. The former Olympic gymnast has been working for Sky News for the last 25 years and for the last 20, she’s been a mum of three. It ha…

"It's bad enough going for your own smear test, let alone someone else's!" said a friend of mine when I told her I'd been invited to record a smear test for this podcast. But going for your smear is never a bad thing as Athena Lamnisos explains in this episode after she'd kindly invited me along to hers. Athena is CEO of The Eve Appeal, the UK's Gy…