In this episode I'm chatting to Susannah Simmons who chose to ditch the dye in her early 40s. Like most of us, she had good and bad days during the grow out. Having experiments with lots of grow outs from long and short styles over the years helped give her some perspective this grow too.

Susannah had her colours done over 20 years ago, and has found some changes in what suits her best now that she's chosen to embrace her natural salt and pepper tones.

In this episode I'm chatting with grey blending expert Karla Osborne, who is in the process of growing out her greys. She's in her early 40s and thinks it easier (and cheaper) to start the transition when you don't have too many greys, which is why she's doing her grow out now.

Grey blending in a relatively new concept, that's rapidly gained in popularity over the last few years, as it allows you to transition without the skunk stripe. In this episode Karla talks about how the process works, why it's so expensive, and who it's a good fit for.

In this episode I'm chatting to Victoria Wright, who didn't have any noticeable white hairs at the point where she decided to stop dyeing. For her the decision was driven by concerns about the impact of hair dye ingredients on women's hormones.

Like many women, her greys started coming in round the front, and she now has noticeable streaks. She's loving this stage of her life, seeing embracing her greys as part of embracing her natural self, and who she is.

In this episode I'm chatting to Sarah Faulkner, unlike most of my guests, her grow out was a lighter to darker transformation, as she had been dyeing her hair platinum blonde before her grow out.

Sarah chose to ditch the dye, because she wanted to move away from her long, bleached blonde hair to a natural look that she would feel more comfortable with. It took a bit of adjusting to, but she now loves the colour of her hair.

In this episode I'm chatting to Julie Kelly who chose to ditch the dye 10 years ago. Initially, her hair was still darker at the back, which she didn't love. Over time the back has lightened, to the more even shade she has today. She's also chosen to grow her hair, and embrace it's natural curls.

Julie has to be one of the most active guests I've ever interviewed, having completed a London to Paris cycle ride, and a coast-to-coast paddle board trip, in the last few years raising money for cancer charities.

In this episode I'm chatting to Sally Wilson, who decided to embrace her greys at 44. She started the process with grey blending, which gave her a much softer demarcation line for the rest of the two year grow out.

Since going grey, she's started posting hair tips and hairstyling tutorials on Instagram. And she loves the sense of community she's found there, with others who are in the grow out phase, as well as those who have totally transitioned. You can find her at @silverbysally

In this episode I'm chatting with Helen Hirsh Spence, who ditched the dye during Lockdown. She'd started to challenge her inner ageist before she started the grow out, and saw the transformation as a visible demonstration of her new mindset.

Helen has done lots of things in her life, and in keen to continue to do so. In the past decade she became an age provocateur, advancing a new stage of life, elderhood. Her TeDEX talk "Embrace Age with a Longevity Mindset" had more than 100,000 views in the first week, and she's also written a book "Reset: Making the Most of the Rest of you Life".

In this episode I'm chatting to Meg McKeen, who ditched dye at 40. She'd previously been dyeing it jet black, so she had the full skunk stripe during her grow out.

Her grey hair transition coincided with a major period of change in her life, with a relationship break-up, her grandmother dying, the early stages her own business, and choosing to sell up and travel full time all happening around the same time.

Now at 47, Meg loves her silver hair, and the life she's created.