(unRipe) is for and about childless and childfree women who are anything but unripe! We’re a juicy community.
Welcome to Season 2 of the unRipe podcast. In season 2, I’m changing up the format a bit, and I’ll be bringing you rich, diverse stories from both women and men, same sex couples, married, single, defacto, psychologists and natural therapists, alternative practitioners, authors, bloggers, travellers, politicians, musicians and the full gamut of childless and …
Recently, Lena Dunham wrote a follow up article for Harpers Magazine about the two years since her hysterectomy after an endometriosis diagnosis. Mina and I discuss about the importance of talking about endo and normalising the conversation. We learn that period pain may be common, but it’s not normal. We also speak to Naturopath and …
Christmas can be exhausting, both physically and emotionally. Today, along with co-host Mina, I’m also bringing you a series of tips to get you through the big days over the holidays. These tips will help all of us without kids to navigate the Christmas landscape when there might be a tonne of happy families …
Within the next couple of decades, the number of households without children is set to outnumber the number with children, through the idea of the “traditional family” on it head. In my latest episode, I speak to Sharon Green, writer, editor and co-founder of She Defined, an Australian publication that tackles the challenges that face …
Known as the Patron Saint of the childless community, Jody Day is a force to be reckoned with. With one book under her belt, a massive, global community of childless women in Gateway Women, a TED Talk, and a nature that is both energising and soothing, Jody is entering, as she calls it, her elderhood. …
What is the point of having a period when you can’t or don’t intend to have children? In this episode, Jo and her guest host go deep and get super personal all about periods. They speak to members of the community to find out what periods mean to them. From 67-year-old guest Heather on who …
When your Plan A doesn’t go as planned, what’s your Plan B? What does our future hold without children? Can we Google the answer? What about Jeeves? We speak to Anne Barratt from Empowering Health about her story after IVF and a hysterectomy. Anne is a healer who employs kinesiology, EFT, counselling, hypnotherapy and a …
Did you decide or were you a fence sitter? Or maybe you didn’t decide, but there was a point when you just knew. My special guests are Dr Bronwyn Harman who is currently finalising her phD about childfree women. I also speak to friend of the podcast, Lovisa, who talks about her journey as a …
In this episode we share our experience of all the friendships that have been lost to motherhood over the years. If you are a mum and you’re listening we’d love to hear your thoughts on your friendships with childless women and if they fell to the wayside or how you maintained them. In Shit that …
Let’s talk about our families. We’re going to talk about families and the relationships we have with them as childless adults. What are those family occasions that hurt because we’re childless at events that focus on families and children? (Please excuse the sound in parts of this episode. We had a few tech issues!) Statistics: …