What if the secret to navigating midlife, relationships and life's hardest moments isn't waiting for everything to feel okay…

…but choosing to bring the magic anyway?

This week I'm joined by someone I've wanted to have on the podcast for a very long time.

Persia Lawson is one of the UK's leading relationship experts, bestselling author of Love Is Coming, speaker and television relationship coach. But this conversation goes far beyond dating.

Together we talk about grief, resilience, perimenopause, beliefs, intuition, relationships, ageing, self-worth and why life is far too precious to spend waiting for permission to fully live it.

Persia shares, with incredible honesty, the difficult season she and her family are currently navigating, and the mindset that is helping her move through it one day at a time.

It's about remembering how to stay open to life.

It's about choosing possibility over resignation.

And it's about pressing play even when life feels uncertain.

• Why your beliefs shape far more than your relationships.
• The hidden stories we carry about love, ageing and what's possible.
• Why your intuition deserves to be listened to.
• The importance of bringing magic into difficult seasons of life.
• The mindset shift that changes everything: choosing your story.

Named by The Times as one of the UK's most successful love coaches, Persia Lawson is a dating and relationship expert, bestselling author, speaker and television personality. For more than a decade she has helped thousands of women build healthier relationships by changing the beliefs that keep them stuck. Her work has been featured by Vogue, Cosmopolitan, the BBC and HBO Max, and she hosts the chart-topping podcast Love Is Coming.

https://persialawson.com/

Jo Fiddy is a Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist and host of The Pressing Play Podcast. She helps women who feel like they've quietly disappeared during perimenopause understand what's happening in their brain and body, change the beliefs that have been keeping them stuck through her Belief Soundtrack® method, and press play on the next chapter of life with greater confidence, energy and purpose.

If you know something needs to change but can't quite work out what's keeping you stuck, this is where we start.

During this powerful 90-minute one-to-one session, we'll uncover the Pause Button that's keeping you stuck, identify the Belief Soundtrack® running beneath the surface, and help you take your first confident step towards pressing play again.

You'll leave with greater clarity, a calmer nervous system and a clear direction for what comes next.

📩 Email: jo@jofiddy.com

Somewhere along the way, so many women stop choosing themselves.

The Comeback Kit is your invitation to press play again.

Inside you'll find:

• A confidence pep talk
• A guided tapping session
• A practical boundaries guide

It starts with choosing yourself.

Download your free Comeback Kit.

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Last week, for the very first time, I missed an episode of The Pressing Play Podcast.

The reason? I was in London attending two incredible events. I went expecting to learn, but what I wasn't expecting was how I would feel afterwards.

I came home calmer. Lighter. More energised.

It reminded me that sometimes the most powerful thing we can do for our wellbeing isn't adding another supplement, another podcast or another thing to our to-do list. Sometimes, it's simply saying yes to connection.

In this episode, I explore the fascinating science behind why being physically together changes how we think, feel and regulate our nervous systems. We look at why perimenopause can become one of the loneliest seasons of a woman's life, how stress and fluctuating hormones can amplify that feeling, and why gathering with other women may be exactly what our brains and bodies have been designed to do.

• Why connection is more than a nice idea—it's powerful support for your nervous system.
• The science of collective effervescence and why shared experiences leave us feeling more alive.
• Why online communities help us find our people, but real-life connection deepens those relationships.
• How perimenopause can increase feelings of stress, anxiety and isolation.
• What anthropology teaches us about why women have always gathered together.
• Simple ways to create a more connected summer.

Jo Fiddy is a Speaker, Menopause Coaching Specialist and host of The Pressing Play Podcast.

She helps women who feel like they've quietly disappeared during perimenopause understand what's happening in their brain and body, change the beliefs that have been keeping them stuck through her Belief Soundtrack® method, and press play on the next chapter of life with greater confidence, energy and purpose.

If you know something needs to change but can't quite work out what's keeping you stuck, this is where we start. In this powerful 90-minute one-to-one session, we'll uncover the Pause Button that's holding you back, identify the Belief Soundtrack® running beneath the surface, and help you take your first confident step towards pressing play again.

You'll leave with greater clarity, a calmer nervous system and a clear direction for what comes next.

To book your session, email jo@jofiddy.com.

Somewhere along the way, so many women stop choosing themselves.

The Comeback Kit is your invitation to begin again.

Inside you'll find practical tools to help you quiet the mental noise, calm your nervous system and reconnect with yourself.

You'll receive:

• A confidence pep talk.
• A guided tapping session.
• A practical boundaries guide.

Because pressing play doesn't start with changing your whole life.

It starts with choosing yourself.

Download Here.

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If you enjoyed this episode, I'd love it if you subscribed, left a review or shared it with a friend. The more women we reach, the more women we remind that they don't have to navigate midlife alone.

Keep pressing play.

Welcome back to the Pressing Play Podcast.

In this solo episode, Jo dives into one of the topics women ask her about most, body confidence in perimenopause, and why it gets even harder to navigate when summer rolls around.

If you've ever stood in front of the mirror before a holiday and felt your stomach drop, this one is for you.

Jo unpacks why your body is changing, where the beliefs about how it "should" look actually came from, and why the way out isn't about shrinking yourself it's about feeling more and looking less.

In this episode she covers:

• Why body changes in perimenopause are a hormonal reality, not a personal failing
• The science behind water retention, weight shifts, hair and skin changes — and what's actually driving them
• How childhood messages, magazine culture and decades of shifting fashion standards quietly built your belief soundtrack about your body
• The "mirror fallacy" how constant self-checking trains your brain to find fault, not confidence
• Jo's three holiday body rules
• The ripple effect of body confidence — and how it changes the way you experience your whole summer, not just how you look in it

If this episode moved something in you, if you're done not liking your body for the next half of your life get in touch and work with Jo. Email jo@jofiddy.com to find out more.

Jo Fiddy is a Speaker and Menopause Coaching Specialist who has been through menopause twice — once in her thirties and now navigating perimenopause at 45. She helps women go from living in the pause of menopause to Menoplaying™, regaining their confidence along the way.

Using menopause strategies, somatic techniques and her Belief Soundtrack™ method, Jo helps women release the blocks holding them back, understand what's happening in their brain and body, and press play on the life they actually want.

Follow Jo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jofiddy_/

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