Blood Tests, Sexy Exes and Husbands Hiding in the Loo
Episode Date: July 24, 2025This week on 40ish, Lauren and Nicole ponder how many more blood tests they can possibly endure before qualifying as human pin cushions (answer: It’s...
Welcome to 40ish! The brand new podcast that dives into the challenges and absurdities of forty-something life. Brought to you by hosts of the hit show Self Care Club Lauren and Nicole. Join them each week as they tackle everything from, dealing with teenagers, husbands and hormones, dating in midlife, mother-in-laws and meltdowns. Get ready for candid conversations and a lot of laughter as this funny duo explore middle aged angst and (attempt) to solve all your dilemmas. Is it a midlife crisis or just another Monday morning? Find out on 40ish. Follow us on Instagram @40ish.podcast
73 episodes transcribedThis week on 40ish, Lauren and Nicole ponder how many more blood tests they can possibly endure before qualifying as human pin cushions (answer: It’s...
Today on Unfiltered: Paul Hollywood confesses to being in a permanent midlife crisis, and honestly bitch? Same. Lauren admits she'd kill for a Hollywo...
This week on 40ish, things get a little… exposed. Literally. A listener shares a pool party nip slip in Ibiza that was witnessed by her ex, a teenager...
On today’s unfiltered: Nicole is devastated to discover she’s been sold a “special needs” padel racket. Could it be that she’s not the epic padel demo...
This week on 40ish: Lauren has a keen interest in birdspotting, because nothing screams midlife like getting excited about tits… the feathered kind. M...
On today's unfiltered: Nicole is in need of directions - literally and Lauren’s attempt to rescue her using a dropped pin goes just about as well as y...
This week on 40ish: Nicole fears that she has aged out of Botox. What is a woman to do if you can't afford the full Kris Jenner facelift? Meanwhile, L...
Today on Unfiltered we are serving hormones, humiliation, Hollywood heartthrobs, and 14th-century pandemics. Lauren has forgotten where she parked the...
This week on 40ish: Nicole is on a bikini rampage. Will she find the perfect two-piece, or is it time to just set the girls free and go full Euro-topl...
Today on Unfiltered: Nicole’s midlife meltdown is simply this: teens. Full stop. Lauren’s in a crisis over a swimsuit return - but the real issue? S...
This week on 40ish: Lauren takes on Moonpig and somehow sends a blank Father’s Day card (nailed it). Nicole’s makeup has mysteriously vanished, and sh...
Today on unfiltered, Lauren flirts with the idea of posing nude for a painting in Paris (but only if it’s giving “airbrushed Kate Winslet on the Tita...
This week on 40ish: Lauren finds her kindred spirit in the banana aisle of the supermarket and has worried herself into a hole about where on earth Ni...
Today on unfiltered, Nicole's is in the grip of a midlife meltdown encompassing everything that perimenopause has thrown at her and the list is long -...
This week on 40ish: Nicole discovers the scientifically calculated age of her face - and she's not thrilled. Meanwhile, Lauren sustains the most 40ish...
Today on unfiltered, Lauren is riding so high on the puppy cuddling oxytocin she can’t even muster up a midlife moan. Meanwhile, Nicole is... not quit...
This week on 40ish: Nicole is worried she’s become boring, (yawn) while Lauren has a new puppy and is, frankly, obsessively unhinged. Nicole suspects...
Today on unfiltered, Lauren falls victim to Nicole’s practical joke at the Podcast Show and spends the day sporting an extremely inappropriate lanyard...
This week on 40ish Lauren’s mother - Jackie - joins the ladies in the studio and they give her quite the initiation. It’s dirty talk, toilet rolls and...
Today on unfiltered, Nicole's rocking a bionic-level tennis elbow brace (think superhero chic meets medical misery), but Lauren's officially winning t...