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Stronger Bolder Wiser

No one really prepares you for this stage of life. One day you wake up and realise… You’re exhausted. Your body feels different. Your sleep is off. Your tolerance for things you used to accept has disappeared. And you start quietly asking yourself: “Surely life is meant to feel better than this?” If you’ve ever had that thought… this podcast is for you. Stronger Bolder Wiser is a space for honest and science backed conversations We’re talking about the things women are actually

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01:09:59

Should I Stay or Should I Go? How to Know If Your...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/10/05

5 Foods to Swap The five foods stealing your energy and adding visceral fat in midlife, plus what to eat instead. Five simple swaps, big difference in how you feel.Get your free guide → https://programs.sarahrusbatch.com/free-guide-5-foodPrefer Instagram? DM me the word FOODS and I'll send it straight to you.👉 https://www.instagram.com/sarahrusbatch/Nobody walks into a marriage planning to leave it, yet so many midlife women are quietly asking whether to stay or go. Your body often knows the

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00:08:55

6 Reasons Why Successful Women Are Quietly Quitting...

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2026/10/01

Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwThe women quitting alcohol are not at rock bottom and they do not call themselves alcoholics. They are running businesses and raising teenagers, and they have simply reached the point where drinking no longer works for them.In this

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01:07:49

What Women Need to Know About Perimenopause, Hormones...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/09/28

Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwPerimenopause is not a medical condition and you are not broken. Dr Lara Briden explains what is really happening to your hormones after 40, and why alcohol makes all of it harder.In this episode I sit down with Dr Lara Briden,

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00:09:54

Why Alcohol Hits Women Harder After 40 + 3 Ways to...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/09/24

Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwIf you cannot bounce back from two glasses of wine the way you did in your twenties, you are not imagining it. There are three biological reasons women process alcohol less effectively than men, and all three get stronger as we age.In

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01:07:54

Is Alcohol Keeping You Stuck? The Questions Every...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/09/21

Feeling like alcohol has quietly become your default way to unwind, reward yourself, or take the edge off?Join my October Reset Challenge, a supportive, guided reset to help you break the daily drinking habit, reconnect with yourself, and prove you can feel good without the glass of wine.Join the October Reset → https://bit.ly/4gJyKSYWhat does it really take to walk out of the "sober closet" and let go of the shame we carry around drinking? In this episode of Stronger, Bolder, Wiser, I sit

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00:11:16

Am I Drinking Too Much? The 7 Signs of Grey Area...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/09/17

Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwMost women who recognize themselves in this episode do not identify as alcoholics, and that is exactly why the term grey area drinking exists. It is the space between the every now and then drinker and physical dependency, and it is

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01:05:56

How to Protect Your Brain After 40: A Brain...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/09/14

Struggling to know what to do when stress, boredom or big emotions hit?Download my free guide "100 Things to Do Instead of Drinking", a toolkit for sitting with those feelings instead of reaching for a glass of wine.Get your free guide → https://bit.ly/4qOiGUwYour brain is knackered by 5pm because you've been stuck in middle gear all day, and that exhaustion is exactly why the wine starts calling.In this episode I sit down with Dr. Tommy Wood, neuroscientist and author of The

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01:18:19

Do You Have a Sweet Tooth or a Sugar Addiction? The 6...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/09/07

Feeling like alcohol has quietly become your default way to unwind, reward yourself, or take the edge off?Join my October Reset Challenge, a supportive, guided reset to help you break the daily drinking habit, reconnect with yourself, and prove you can feel good without the glass of wine.Join the October Reset → https://bit.ly/4gJyKSYIs sugar addiction real, and why do so many women swap alcohol for sugar the moment they stop drinking? In this episode of Stronger, Bolder, Wiser, I sit down with

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00:56:16

7 Ways to Handle Stress Without Wine (When Everything...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/08/31

By 5pm the kids are screaming, you've had 77,000 tabs open in your brain all day, and a voice says you deserve a glass of wine. That voice isn't weakness, it's your brain reaching for the fastest exit it knows. I take you deep into what's actually happening in your body when stress hits, and why alcohol keeps showing up as the solution even when you know it isn't serving you. I walk you through nervous system 101, the fight or flight trap so many of us are living in, and the

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01:15:07

Want to Live Longer? A Female Longevity Expert Says...

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2026/08/25

Ageing isn't decline, it's the beginning of something incredible, and the choices you make today are quietly building the woman you'll be at 80.I sat down with gerontologist and biohacker Zora Benhamou, host of the Hack My Age podcast, who has interviewed more than 200 women across 50 countries about how they experience menopause. We got into why so many of us reach for alcohol in perimenopause without realising it's a short-lived fix for a real hormonal shift, and why removing it

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01:08:12

The Mum Wine Lie: Why Alcohol Never Made Motherhood...

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2026/08/17

You woke up on the bedroom floor swearing this was the last time, and by Friday you were hovering over that party invite knowing exactly how the night would end. This is the episode about the moment you finally step off the merry-go-round.I sit down with my dear friend Victoria Vanstone, host of the award-winning Sober Awkward podcast. Vic shares the raw truth of her journey from binge-drinking party girl to eight years alcohol-free, including the "one hangover too far" that changed

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01:11:44

Why Your Coping Strategies Stopped Working in...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/08/10

If you've spent your whole life feeling like you're failing at things everyone else finds easy, your ADHD may only be surfacing now because perimenopause has pulled back the curtain on it. This episode shows you why, and exactly what you can do about it.Faye Lawrence, a counsellor, psychologist and ADHD coach who also specialises in grey area drinking, unpacks why so many women are only discovering they have ADHD in their 40s and 50s. She shares the lifestyle tools and supplements her

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01:09:44

What's Really Keeping You Stuck? (And How to Create a...

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2026/08/03

Change doesn't happen because you finally feel ready. It happens because you decide, then follow through, whether you feel ready or not.I'm sitting down with behavior change expert and exercise physiologist Craig Harper, host of The You Project podcast, for a conversation I've wanted to have with him for a long time. We dig into why we keep repeating the habits we know aren't serving us, from grey area drinking to self-sabotage, and why willpower alone was never going to fix it. Craig shares how he

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00:51:44

6 Things Happy Women do Differently | How to Create...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/07/27

Women today have more freedom, choice, and opportunity than any generation before them, yet happiness has been declining since the 1970s.I'm sharing six principles that have genuinely changed how I experience my own life, and I believe they can change yours too. I unpack why women's happiness has been declining since the 1970s despite having more freedom and opportunity than ever.This episode is packed with practical, science backed ways to feel more alive in this next chapter of life.What

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01:15:37

Discovering Who You REALLY Are Without Booze with...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/07/20

Sober Dave quit drinking after 40 years and discovered that stopping was the easy part - the real work was figuring out who he was without it. In this conversation with Sarah, he and Sarah unpack the identity void that follows sobriety, why moderation almost never works, how to grieve the "relationship" you had with alcohol, and what to say to a partner who won't admit their drinking is a problem.What We Cover:Why the hardest part of quitting drinking isn't the quitting, it's

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01:11:39

The Menopause Weight Gain Nobody Explains, and the...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/07/13

Your body isn't failing you. It's running out of the hormones it needs, and no doctor told you that was coming.I sit down with Karen Martel, certified hormone specialist and transformational nutrition coach, to pull back the curtain on what perimenopause and menopause are actually doing to women's bodies and minds. Karen shares her own journey through hormonal collapse in her early 30s, early menopause at 42, and how she rebuilt her health from the inside out. Together, we walk through

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01:05:40

The Best Sex of Your Life Could Still Be Ahead of...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/07/06

What if the "lost libido" you've been blaming on age, hormones or your relationship was never actually about desire at all? In this episode I sit down with renowned sex and relationship therapist Jacqueline Hellyer to talk about one of the most common things I hear from women in my community: "I just don't want sex anymore." Jacqueline breaks down the myth of spontaneous desire, why so many of us have only ever known unsatisfying sex, and how real intimacy starts long

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01:05:15

Why Are You Waking Up at 3AM? The Real Reasons Women...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/06/29

If you're waking up at 3am every single night feeling wired, anxious and exhausted, this episode is about to change the way you think about sleep forever. In this episode I'm joined by Annika Carroll, women's sleep and health coach and CEO of Sleep Like a Boss, to unpack one of the most under-discussed topics in women's health: sleep. We dive into why so many of us start struggling with sleep in our 40s, what's really going on during those dreaded 3am wake ups, and how hormones,

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00:56:20

"Am I Drinking Too Much?" If You've Ever Asked...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/06/22

Have you ever quietly asked yourself, "Am I drinking too much?" If that question has ever crossed your mind, even for a second, this episode is for you.In this solo episode, I'm walking you through the 11 diagnostic criteria clinicians use to identify mild, moderate and severe alcohol use disorder, and I promise this isn't about slapping a label on yourself.What We Cover:- The 11 diagnostic criteria I use to help women recognize alcohol use disorder- Why grey area drinking has no

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01:00:59

Is Your Marriage Over or Does It Just Need Work? with...

Stronger Bolder Wiser ·

2026/06/15

Staying isn't always fine. And leaving isn't always the answer. But staying stuck in the middle? That's what this episode is here to help with.Lisa Miller is a relationship and divorce coach, and in this episode we talk about what the silent divorce actually looks like, how alcohol can mask just how unhappy you really are, and what it finally takes to get honest with yourself about what you want.What We Cover:- The warning signs your marriage is struggling beneath the surface- Why

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