Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women

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Louise Minchin is a TV presenter, journalist, author and athlete. She presented the UK’s most watched morning television programme BBC Breakfast for two decades. Throughout her career, Louise has used her profile to champion women’s stories and raise awareness of menopause, mental health, women’s safety and more. She is the host of the top-rated podcasts, Push Your Peak and Her Spirit. Incredibly moving and inspiring' Gabby Logan'Prepare to be blown away... the most incredible examples of girl power' Judy Murray OBE'It's brilliant - I loved it' Lorraine Kelly'Brilliant ... impressive and vividly told' The Times 'Louise is such a positive and uplifting presence. Louise takes you on an exhilarating adventure across the globe to tell extraordinary women's stories and to test herself.”— Top Sante Menopause, it’s always been around, as long as they’re been women on this earth and they’ve lived long enough, there’s been the menopause. Yet we still have an outdated mindset and too little awareness, education and support. In the course of this book she tries out all manner of often terrifying and usually uncomfortable activities including climbing, caving and freediving under a metre of ice in the dark, along with less immediately dangerous but also challenging activities like walking across Dartmoor and playing rugby. Oh, and cycling across Argentina with legendary endurance athlete Mimi Anderson.

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To get to the heart of who these women are... I decided to do it the way that I know best, by taking part, spending time right beside them to experience the things they love.' Louise Minchin has gathered 18 amazing, fearless women into this book. All women who haven’t taken no for an answer, and have followed their dreams to achieve amazing things. There are 18 women all doing amazing, inspirational things and Louise tells their stories as she interviews them doing their own things along side them and participating whether it is swimming, running, diving, hiking.What we eat can make a difference to how we feel and our symptoms during the menopause transition, Fiona Staunton is from Fiona’s Food for Life and she has some great recipe ideas and foods that will help you in the perimenopause as well as the menopause. She freedives under the ice in the dark in Finland with Cath, the first woman to swim a mile in the Antarctic Circle; she cycles across Argentina with Mimi, one of the world's most famous female endurance runners; and she swims from Alcatraz with Anaya and Mitali, two young sisters who have braved the shark-infested waters over 70 times. Support this Podcast by subscribing/following its FREE and really helps us produce more content just like this episode. If you enjoy this Podcast why not leave a 5 star review or rating.

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Louise is such a positive and uplifting presence. Her fearlessness should inspire us all.” - Susanna Reid Out of the 18 women she interviewed (whilst completing a physical challenge), I had only heard of the para-cyclist Kadeena Cox. I was able to live vicariously through Louise as she completed triathlons, free-diving under ice in Finland, and went caving to name just a few of the challenges alongside interviewing these ladies. A special book… a beautiful exploration of what it means to be fearless... Fabulous outdoor adventures to inspire us all to get outside and have fun… Keep this book to hand when you need a dose of inspiring female courage and resilience.”— Julia Bradbury Menopause, it’s always been around, as long as they’re been women on this earth and they’ve lived long enough, there’s been the menopause. Yet we still have outdated mindset and too little awareness, education and support. Some of those taking progesterone as part of their HRT may experience symptoms due to progesterone intolerance. But what is it? How do you know if have In this episode we are joined by Dr Abbie Laing of My Menopause Centre, rated ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, to find out more and what can you do?In this episode we discussed what everyone needs to know and what you can do with Nigel Denby from Harley Street at Home