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The Weird Years

The Weird Years is the podcast for anyone Googling "How to make life decisions" at 2AM. We thought we had time but life moved fast, the rulebook disappeared, and the next step feels like a big fat ? Each week, Lydia (@lydsie) and a guest dive into the big, weird, and messy realities of career, relationships, health, identity and more. There"s no sugarcoating, no perfect answers, but a lot of laughs—just real talk about figuring it out together. 🎧 New episodes every Tuesday. Follow on IG now &

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1:20:51

Rethinking Alcohol in Your 30s with Emily Syphas

The Weird Years ·

2025/12/23

What happens when you remove the most popular social lubricant and fully meet yourself in your thirties?In this episode, I’m joined by Emily Syphas, founder of Sober & Social and one of the UK’s leading voices on sober curiosity, hangover-free living and rethinking alcohol in your 30s.Emily shares her personal journey from heavy drinking in hospitality, to years of full sobriety, to finding a hangover-free relationship with alcohol. Together, we explore what actually changes when you question

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1:00:27

Navigating the Minefield of Wellness with Emilie Lavinia

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2025/12/09

What if trying to be our best, healthiest, most beautiful selves is actually… stressing us out?In this episode, I’m joined by Emilie Lavinia, Fitness and Wellbeing Editor at The Independent, to make sense of the ever-expanding world of health, wellbeing and beauty in our thirties.This is not yet another podcast episode with a list of everything you need to be doing — it's Emilie's stripped-back, honest perspective shaped by years inside the beauty industry.We get into:✨ How to spot products with

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50:00

Weirdly Personal: The Arguments That Actually Improve...

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2025/12/02

What if the arguments you’re avoiding/repeating/stuck in… are the exact ones that could make your life better?In this week’s Weirdly Personal, I’m getting into the fights we should be having in our thirties — and the ones we can finally stop wasting energy on.After spending way too much time arguing with men on the internet (productive? questionable), I realised just how much of our energy goes into the wrong conflicts - and how powerful the right arguments can be.Arguments aren’t about winning;

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57:53

Outgrowing the Career You Built with Chloë Downes

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2025/11/18

What if you built your career through your own sucessful business… only to realise you’d quietly outgrown it?That’s exactly what Chloë Downes found herself facing and right at the peak of her success.Chloë is the recently exited founder of the multi-million-pound talent agency SHFT, a Forbes 30 Under 30 alum, and one of the few women of colour in her industry. From the outside she was thriving, but inside she knew this wasn’t her dream.We talk about:✨ How success doesn’t always feel like success✨

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35:28

Weirdly Personal: Why Do We Keep Chasing Validation...

The Weird Years ·

2025/11/11

What if your self-worth has quietly been outsourced?In this Weirdly Personal episode, I’m unpacking the validation loop - that exhausting cycle of chasing approval, likes, or praise even when we know it’s making us miserable.I get into how our need for validation isn’t a personality flaw, but a learned pattern shaped by our childhood and reinforced by a culture that rewards traditional progress at one of the stickiest times of our lives. From the dopamine hit of social media to the performance of

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56:00

What Losing Both Parents by 23 Taught Me About Grief...

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2025/11/04

We know that losing people we love is inevitable - but why does grief still feel so awkward?Freddie lost both of his parents by the age of 23, an experience he didn’t face head-on. The first time, he buried it in childhood distractions; the second, he numbed it through socialising and alcohol.Now in his thirties, he’s learned that grief doesn’t end — it evolves. And at some point, it has to be faced.Through running, reflection, and opening up about loss online, Freddie has found peace in the power

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59:07

Inside the hormone rollercoaster of PMDD with...

The Weird Years ·

2025/10/28

What if your hormones had ruled your life for as long as you could remember?After years of emotional crashes and misdiagnoses, Kristina finally discovered she was living with PMDD — premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a hormone condition that debilitates her for two weeks of every month.In this raw and brave conversation, Kristina opens up about:🌀 What living with PMDD is really like🌀 How it impacts her dating, career, and big life decisions🌀 Her decision to choose a hysterectomy in her early

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47:56

Weirdly Personal: Who Am I Now? The Identity Shifts...

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2025/10/21

What if identity shifts aren’t breakdowns but breakthroughs?This week, we’re getting weirdly personal about identity - that quiet, disorienting shift that creeps in when who you were stops fitting, but who you’re becoming isn’t clear yet. Suddenly, the things that once defined you, your job, your habits, your goals, might not feel like you anymore.From grieving old versions of ourselves to realising how much of our “personality” was performance, we’re getting into it all.I'm riffing on... 🌀 Why our

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43:14

Weirdly Personal: Why Is Friendship Harder in Your...

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2025/10/14

Remember when friendship just… happened?This week, we’re getting weirdly personal about the friendship gap — that strange, silent drift that happens as life scatters us into different jobs, cities, and stages. Suddenly, maintaining friendships feels like a full-time job.From friendship “breakups” that still sting years later to the awkward reality of trying to make new friends as a grown adult, we’re diving into why staying close feels harder than ever — and what we can actually do about it.We’ll

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55:55

Burnout Isn’t the End — It’s the Turning Point with...

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2025/10/07

What happens when your body breaks down before your mind admits you’re burnt out?This week I’m joined by David Vioque — a recovering investment banker who had every marker of success on paper, but inside was facing what he calls “spiritual burnout.” When his health started to collapse — caffeine stopped working, exercise gave immediate exhaustion — he did what most of us only dream of: he walked away. David trekked the Camino de Santiago, sat in silence with monks in Nepal, and built a toolkit for

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57:46

Reclaiming Desire & Redefining Sex in Your 30s with...

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2025/09/30

Could your sex life be the quiet revolution that reshapes how you see yourself in your thirties?This week I’m joined by Emma-Louise Boynton - journalist, founder of Sex Talks, and unflinching voice on intimacy, body image, and the stories we’re told about desire. After years of struggling with her relationship to her body, Emma-Louise's experience in sex therapy at 28 reshaped how she thought about intimacy altogether and inspired her mission to take conversations about pleasure from taboo and

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1:22:32

Addiction, Recovery and Brain Cancer… All by 36 with...

The Weird Years ·

2025/09/16

What if by 36 you’d already overcome more than you ever thought possible?This week I’m joined by Abi Feltham - content creator, comedian (although she doesn't admit that), and unfiltered storyteller - whose life has been anything but linear. After years of self-destruction through alcohol and drugs, Abi achieved sobriety at 32… only to face an incurable brain cancer diagnosis just four years later.Abi shares it all, from the chaos of teenage angst, to the breakdown that finally led her to therapy,

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40:37

Weirdly Personal: Overthinking the Big What-Ifs and...

The Weird Years ·

2025/09/09

The haunting what-ifs 😱What if you picked the wrong path? the wrong career, the wrong partner, the wrong city? We’ve all been there: lying awake at 2am, spiralling through The Big What-If and wondering if we’ve blown our one shot at the “right” life.In this Weirdly Personal solo episode, we’re unpacking the nagging regret spiral that so many of us get caught in, and why our generation in particular can’t stop asking what if and what's next?Here’s what we get into:The six biggest regrets people

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1:03:59

Solo Mum by Choice: Starting a Family at 25 via IVF...

The Weird Years ·

2025/09/02

What if building the family you dream of didn’t depend on waiting for “the one” to show up first?This week I’m joined by Keira - NHS nurse, aesthetics expert, and unapologetically independent powerhouse - who at just 25 decided she wasn’t going to wait for a partner to start the family she always knew she wanted. Through IVF with a sperm donor, she became mum to her son Noah, rewriting the script on what motherhood can look like.Keira shares the full story - from Googling “how to have a baby on my

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1:01:53

Connection Over Convention: Moving Abroad for a Life...

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2025/08/26

What if you've been putting off what you want, waiting for what's next?This week I’m joined by the magnetic Macki Maconie, a brand curator, creative, and free spirit. After her divorce, she traded London for Portugal and built Casa do Sol - a home, retreat space, and community that reflects everything she values.From manifesting her dream house on a vision board to navigating love and dating in a new country, Macki shows how she’s refusing to wait for the “perfect” timeline. Instead, she’s creating

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1:15:48

Shiny Objects and Superpowers: How a Late ADHD...

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2025/08/19

What if the things you’ve always criticised yourself for weren’t "personality flaws" at all, but ADHD in disguise?This week I’m joined by the brilliant Lauren Talulah, a creator, writer and poet whose late ADHD diagnosis at 31 reframed a lifetime of inconsistency, fidgeting, and endless new ideas. From thriving in freelance chaos, to rejection sensitivity, Lauren opens up about how ADHD has shaped her career, creativity, and dating life.We talk about the double-edged sword of hyperfocus, the fear of

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30:23

Weirdly Personal: I Don't Trust Pregnancy Tests PART TWO

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2025/08/15

I'm back with the BIG NEWS part 2 — no guest, no script, just me processing the fact that I’m four months pregnant… a plot twist to my hot girl summer I was not expecting. This is the unfiltered ramble on being the first in my friendship group to have a baby, the quiet grief for the “other lives” I won’t live, the fear of losing my identity but the excitement of some epic growth), and my attempts to embrace the massive physical and mental rewiring that comes with motherhood. In between, there’s bad

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50:06

Weirdly Personal: I Don't Trust Pregnancy Tests PART ONE

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2025/08/12

I’m back with another Weirdly Personal chat - no guest, no script, just me rambling my way through whatever the weird years have dumped on me this week.This one is a BIG one. It's me out loud processing a plan that decided to fast-forward itself and do a little shock. It starts with us debating if we want children, curves into birth control drama (hello, cystic acne) and ends somewhere I absolutely did not expect to be this be this summer. In between there’s moving house, questionable meatballs, and

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59:01

Dating with a Deadline: From First Date to Pregnancy...

The Weird Years ·

2025/07/29

What if you knew you wanted a family, and just went for it?This week I’m joined by the brilliant Louisa Lau, a Creative Director who was living the East London creative life - navigating career highs, less-than-ideal long-term partners, and artistic exploration - until she found herself 36, single, and certain she wanted a child.We talk about dating with intention, asking the big questions early, and managing the quiet panic that comes with late-stage fertility pressure. From being told she had a

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58:29

Fertility, Forms and Future Families: Inside the...

The Weird Years ·

2025/07/22

What if becoming a parent meant spreadsheets, scans and serious self-reflection?This week I’m joined by the brilliant and big-hearted Calypso Barnum-Bobb, a coach, community builder and breath work facilitator navigating the emotional, financial and bureaucratic maze of queer fertility.We talk about what it really takes to become parents as a same-sex couple - from navigating the IVF post-code lottery, to where find a donor, to flying to the U.S. for reciprocal IVF. Calypso shares the deeply

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