40ish - Gossip, Gratitude and Sneakerinas

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Today on 40ish: It’s Lauren’s birthday and she’s apparently a fortune teller now. Nicole is feeling grateful for all her ‘get well soon’ gifts and lighting the candle whilst wearing crystals in her bra. We solve a listener dilemma involving overhearing two women casually tearing apart a friend at a party. Do you tell her? Confront them? Pretend you never heard it? Or carry the resentment like a weight around your neck? Plus: where are we with trainers? Specifically sneakerinas. Are they chic? Are they confusing? Are we too old to understand what’s happening to footwear? A listener meltdown finds a midlifer deeply distressed about Asda discontinuing her seeded loaf. Midlife: it’s petty, profound and occasionally 49p more expensive than it used to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's just works now. So lucky. Anyway, so lucky to have a brain that functions. It's so special. What's I like? Tell everybody. I can remember stuff.

You know how they say it's good for the midlife brain? It's just really good for me. There's an off-mushroom coffee. I'm back full on the caffeine. I think it's helping. I do. I do. I'm activated.

Hello everybody. Welcome to 40ish. I'm Nicole Goodman. And I'm Lauren Mishkorn. This is the podcast where we talk about 40-something life, diving into midlife news, midlife stories, midlife dilemmas and our own beautiful moments of madness. You're staring at my headscarf again. She's staring at my neckerchief last time and today she's staring at my headscarf. I love it. I'm all about the scarves this early spring. I love it. It's like a little scarf, festival. Festival.

Yeah. I might go with an Irme's silky one next week. You've got an Urme's silkie scarf? It's not really an Irme's one. What is it then? That's a knockoff at Hermes one. Right. Yeah.

I might have one somewhere. I don't know. I have actually got quite a little silky scarf knocking around my house. Why? I don't know. I don't think you need those. Maybe I do need them Because you know

You can also tie them on your handbag You can But that is a very dated thing to do Lauren Lauren It's that fat That's like an abou A laboo

I don't have a liboo No no but what I'm saying is That it's like it's a trend It's gone Get over it Like go of it Move away from it Don't do that

Don't do that I haven't done it It's okay No but you were about to I've got a little like never mind it doesn't matter okay anyway how are you this week oh no let's finish your housekeeping

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Good. You've just shown me some crystals that are in your bra. My friend, my love. lovely friend bought me some healing crystals because I am post-off. Yeah. And I thought it was a gorgeous gift. So I wanted to show you. Yeah, but I said put them in your knickers. I can't put anything in my knickers for obvious reasons. Okay. Put them in a pocket adjacent. Still very delicate. Put them in a pocket adjacent to the hatch. Have now. Okay. Have so he'll heal my thigh. Great. It's like closer to the area. I'm, listen, I'm all here for the healing crystals. Exactly. Exactly. I love that shit. I love that

up. Hello. Yeah. I mean now that you've got self-care club for six years, now that you've got your fortune teller look on. Now I've been my whole crystal ball era. You really are. Tell me my fortune, Lauren. I have to rub the crystals. Certainly. You want to rub the crystals? Tell me my fortune. Yeah, I, so I've been post-op. I've been recovering. I'm, listen, we're recording this straight after last weeks, but it's going to, it's going to present as if we're recording. recording a week later, but we're not. Shh, don't spoil the magic.

Anyway. So I'm still post-op. Yeah. Because it was only 10 minutes. Well, you will be for quite a while. It was only 10 minutes ago since we recorded the other one. I got bought so many gorgeous, gorgeous gifts. I have been so spoiled by my friends and I feel very, very touch about it.

Plants and flowers. And I got bought a fruit basket. I mean, it was absolutely beautiful. Honestly, it's been amazing. And one of my friends sent me this gorgeous candle from like, better, well, they do a lavender spray as well. It's a really lovely range. This works?

Yes. Very good. I'm telling you, the brain is like on fire. Braining. Yeah. How come? I don't know. I couldn't tell you why.

Not even on the mushroom coffee. It's just what? just works now. It's so lucky. I know. Anyway, I'm so lucky to have a brain that functions. It's so special. What's that like? Tell everybody. I can remember stuff. I remember everything. Yeah, it's great. Is it nice? I don't walk into rooms and not know why I'm there. It's cool. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. It must be so satisfying to have a brain that works. It's good. Yeah. It's fun. Anyway, so this works, the candle. is it smells like a spa.

Anyway, so I opened it and I was so delighted that I got this candle. And do you know what I did? I did something so controversial when I opened to this candle. You lit the candle. I lit the candle. I lit it. I lit it. Good.

I did not put it back in the box and shove it in the back of a cupboard waiting for the perfect opportunity to light the fucking thing. Or worst case, re-gift it. Yeah. No. No. My friend went out of her way to buy me a gorgeous candle because she wants me to have some healing and something smelling good in front of me. And that candle has sat right by me when I've sat on the couch all day, every day. I mean, you have been doing a lot of couch sitting. So it's nice to have something nice on around you to look at and smell, right? That's the point of it. I can't tell you how much happiness that candle has born me. Good. That's the point. I know. Lauren and I, we have a new pact for our birthdays. We buy each other. Well, we're not meant to. but we do. We buy each other a little something and then we go on a lovely theatre

trip together because our birthdays are quite close together although I keep forgetting to book those theatre tickets. It's in my diary so can you book it? Oh I think that ship has sailed. I actually think you did book them. I didn't pay for them. Oh great, perfect. So my gift this year is this candle, can you see it? I don't know if you'll be able to see the label.

It says, smells like Jacob Allaudy's bathwater. So it's a double joke. It's a Gwyneth joke and it's a saltburn joke and it's a Jacob-Baludi joke and I won't be explaining it at home to anyone in my family and thankfully it doesn't smell of semen. It's not a great scent.

It's been my birthday. You spoke about this last week. We didn't actually. A.K.A. 20 minutes ago. Yes we did. No, we didn't. Yes, we did. What did we discuss? We discussed that you turned 48. Oh, that was it. I turned 48. Right.

It was all right. into two segments. No. Come on him. I don't normally like birthdays. I'm normally a bit like, uh, about my birthday.

But I actually was quite enjoying my birthday this year. I actually had a really nice birthday. I'm so pleased. Yeah. I actually embraced the birthday. And it was nice. Had lunches, dinner,

breakfast. It was like a three-day event. I don't know why. Because your husband is so good with your birthday. He's really good with birthdays. Yeah. He's planned the whole day. He's very, very, very sweet.

He always, he does it every year. Yeah, the whole day down to a tea. And there was even room in the evening to be in a track suit with Bridgeton. He even left space for that. I'm really struggling to get past the headscarf. Maybe I'm just wearing more clothes. Maybe I'm just going Amish because I'm reacting to the fact that no one's wearing clothes in my house. It's definitely giving Fortune Teller vibes on Brighton Pier.

I actually saw a Fortune Teller on Brighton Pier once. Did you? Yeah. You know, we could be like, um, Tom Hanks, what was that film? Big. Big! You are. Zoltan.

Yeah. Yeah! It's giving Zoltan vibes. He had a moustache, so that's not my life. Just before we dive into your dilemmas, a quick disclaimer, we are not doctors or healthcare professionals. So if there is an issue you are seriously struggling with, please contact a qualified expert. This is from Anon. Anon says, I was at a party on the weekend.

When I went into the kitchen, I heard. two women talking about my friend. I honestly didn't mean to eavesdrop. My ears just locked in when I heard her name. They were casually tearing her apart, calling her dramatic and exhausting and a lot. Part of me wanted to spin around and say, excuse me, or record it or disappear,

but I didn't do anything. I just walked out into the other room, but I've been replaying it ever since. Now I don't know what to do. Do I tell my friend? It feels disloyal not to, but telling her would hurt her. Do I confront the person?

But it wasn't said to me and I wasn't meant to hear it. I just feel weirdly complicit for knowing. And now every time I see either of them, I feel a bit resentful because they're still nice to her face. What would you do? Thank you, Anon. Have you ever been in that situation? I don't think so. I'm trying to think.

I don't think so. I think you have to ask yourself, what impact would it have by telling her? Is it there to help her? Is it there? Would it hurt her? Would it help her? Like, I don't think there any good can come from her knowing about this conversation.

Okay. I agree. But then, let's say, just for example, one of those women had had an operation. And your friend, who they'd been bitching about behind her back, was like, oh, do you know what? She had an operation and I'm going to go around, and I'm doing this for her and that for her and the other phone. Wouldn't you want to say, she is not your friend? stop bothering. You know if you saw her like going out of her way or like, oh, it's her birthday, I'm going to

make a dinner for her. That's a bit that would bother me. Well, because you don't want her to be taken advantage of and she basically is. Yeah. That's the bit that would annoy me. Or I would always feel like if her name came up or, oh, I don't know, and I have to invite her because she's such a good friend of mine. I would find it really hard to say, actually, she doesn't.

She's not. I would let it go until such a point when when your friend was going over and above to be her friend and to invest in the friendship. Yes. Yeah, I think that's a very good point actually. I do. Because that's an important line

because she shouldn't be putting herself out for this person because she's not loyal to her, she's not respectful of her by any means. If it gets to that, if it doesn't and things just sort of carry on in a normal vein, I would actually leave that alone. And I'm not always one to say, leave it.

I'm very of the school of thought that you should have your say and you should always sort of stand in your truth and be honest about who you are and how you feel because I think it relieves you of a lot of angst. And also it's just honest. There's nothing wrong with being honest.

Not to hurt somebody's feelings. But this would be very painful to her. And I wouldn't want to be the one to hurt my friend. No, and also no one wants to hear that about themselves. If it was, I think that's a really good point though that you've just made. If it was becoming problematic and I could see that she was bending over backwards to help this person or to be there for this person, I think that's when I might intervene. But then what do you say without telling her what happened?

But you can't. You'd have to tell her what happened. You'd have to be honest. At that point, you have to be willing to be honest. But then if it's like six months later, it's so uncomfortable, because then she might say to you, well, why didn't you tell me six months ago? I've been on holiday with her. You say, well, because I didn't want to hurt you. And I didn't think that it was appropriate. And I wanted it to go away. But now that I see that you are giving so much of yourself in this friendship, I just want you to know what it really is. It is an awkward one.

It's an awkward one. And I don't know how good a friend they allegedly are. You know how much time do they spend together. How much time are they hanging out? It's a bit tricky. Like if someone overheard, like if you heard someone slagging me off. Yeah. What would you do?

Who is it? It's an old friend but not a close friend. Of yours. Yeah. It would depend what they were saying about you. Well, they're saying I'm dramatic and I'm a lot and I'm exhausting. Like what they've said here. But you're not.

of those. No, I know, but okay. If it wasn't, if it was something like that that I knew kind of wasn't true and also you would just be able to say, well, I'm not. So fuck her. I feel I would kind of want to tell you. I would feel quite like I wanted to tell you. If it was something that I felt that would really upset you or that you would feel like.

If it was one of my best friends. Yeah. Also, if it was something about you that you knew about yourself already but didn't, don't like about yourself, something like that, something that felt a bit truer, you know. then I would really have to think about it. But also, if you came to me to tell me that, I would know that A, it was true. B, I would completely trust that you, your intentions are good

and you've got my best intentions at heart. Because it depends on the messenger. Yeah, but no, I want to hear it. No, but what I'm saying is, like, some people can just be around and they just want to cause drama and they just want chaos and they thrive off of it. So it does also depend who's bringing you that message. Yeah, are they a mixer?

Some people do love a mix. Yes. That is true. Yes. They thrive off of it. I always find that's so weird. I really don't like mixers. Oh, and it was very, very childish.

Or like, you know, they'll play both sides. I really don't appreciate that. No. No. Well, you just want someone to be upfront and honest. Yeah, I mean, I would really struggle with it. And I also think in the moment I would like to think, I would have the courage to say

actually I think it's really inappropriate what you're saying about her. Like if I heard someone saying that about one of my best friends, I would really struggle not to say something. That would really, if I heard someone saying that about you, I don't think I could idly,

you know I wouldn't. I wouldn't idly stand by. I would say something. But you're not like, you know, then they would say, well, you know, you're not invited into the conversation.

I'm having a conversation here with my friend. But don't have it here because I can hear you. and just be a bit more discreet. It's not okay. And now I know something that I don't need to know. You put me in a terrible position. Yeah.

It's not nice. I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for this woman because she's in an awkward situation now. Yeah. I would just see how this all plays out. Yes, I agree. In the near future.

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Can we edit that slightly? I have every pair of Adidas Sambas available to man. I have six pairs. Do you know what I got bought for my birthday? They're not all Sambas. They're not all Sambas. They're Adidas Sambas. Do you know what I got bought for my birthday?

Adidas Sambas? A pair of silver added Sambas. Oh! Don't roll your eyes. They're horrible. I don't like them. You were talking about getting them. But I really don't like them because I have the gold ones already.

But you said to. you've gone off those. I don't like them. They're really uncomfortable. They don't look good on. The gold do look good on. I don't agree. And I don't like them.

And then Josh was like, which one of these trainers do you want? He sends me on WhatsApp. I said, neither. I don't like either of them. Why didn't you get you the new balance? I said, are you,

are you doing this for Dad? His dad asked you. He's like, don't, don't ask questions. Just help me out. Which pair do you want? I said, I'd be really honest with you. I want the new balance.

I don't want either of those trainers. Anyway, I've got one of them. Why didn't you send a link of what you did want? I don't, because then I was like, do I really want the new balance? I have so many trainers that don't really need trainers. I said, you know what? There's nothing I really want. Go rogue.

Ollie was like, I'm going rogue. I was like, cool. You see. But then I got the trainers and I want them. They've already gone back. I took them back to the shop yesterday. Same day I got them. Bloody hell.

That was swift, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. What are you going to get? Well, I don't know, but I don't know if I'm even going to get trainers because where are we with trainers? Well, it seems to be very Adidas heavy. And it's weird how it goes like everyone, everything you get is Nike. Yeah.

And then suddenly now everyone's gone over to Adidas. How does that happen, just marketing? Yeah. Also, this is what I wanted to ask you. This was the main point of this. What do you think about sneak arenas? I don't know what they are. They are cross between ballerinas and sneakers.

So they're like a very light pair of trainers, almost a ballet pump, but a trainer. Everyone makes them Puma, Adidas, Nike, and they sometimes have a ballet strap across. Oh, the Puma ones are gorgeous. Show me the Puma ones. They're very, they are very, very, very on trend. They also do a cow print one. Yeah. Like, how do you feel about a sneak arena?

Yeah, I like those. But also, are they the sort of thing you wear when you're in your mid-60s? Do you know what I mean? You're not in your mid-60s. Oh, exactly. Yeah. M&S do one. Of course they do.

everyone's doing a sneak arena. It's the shoe of the spring. I'm so pleased you brought this to my attention because I haven't seen it. Well, now, it's all you'll see. Sorry, it'll hit your algorithm now. Like last week. Oh, the Adidas ones are cool,

but they're very similar to what you've got on now. Exactly. I like them. Okay. My only thing is they're a little bit like bowling shoe. I actually don't mind a bowling shoe. No one wears bowling shoes anymore. You wear your own shoes now if you go bowling.

Yeah. You do, don't you? What happened there? That's a weird thing. Yeah. And no one's disgusted. No one's ever discussed it. No one's ever discussed it.

No. What's that about? COVID. COVID. Yes. Okay. I've asked chat GPT. What does it say?

According to chat GPT, it's gone back to you must wear bowling shoes. No. That's just not the truth. That's not the truth. Okay. Okay. I love how you always have to disagree with AI. I love it.

It doesn't know everything. Sometimes it hallucinates. It's not factual. It's not always factual. No, it's not. Yeah. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't.

Like, for example, I made an orange chocolate cheesecake on Friday, and I have to tell you, it did me no favors because it was overcooked. What's it got to do with chat GPT? It overcooked my cake. What? Hold on. I had to check the cooking dime. Right.

It said between 70 and 90 minutes. It was definitely raw at 70 minutes. It was. Definitely much too wobbly at 80 and then at 90 it was overcooked. So, did me no favours. I'm speechless. I'm also, I'm speechless. You use chat GPT for cooking times.

I had to because I never made this cake before and do you know what? Never making it again. Where was the recipe from? I definitely ripped it out of magazine, but now I can't remember which magazine because I ripped it out. It wasn't Waitrose magazine. But it didn't have cooking time, on there? It did, but it was so vague. It was like until the edges are set and the middle,

is wobbly, but how wobbly is too wobbly? Well, basically I overcooked it. And I was so annoyed because it was so many ingredients and it was expensive to buy all the ingredients and it was a fucking faf to make with a whole ganache and the Oreo base and the middle. It was like a three-layered cake. And then it had Terry's chocolate orange on the top

and it should have been unreal. It was not unreal. It was very mid, as the kids would say. Sounds amazing. It wasn't. They all loved it. And they were like, mine, the mom, so delicious. It's so yummy.

I'm like, it isn't that yummy. So don't glaze me about how yummy the cake is because it's not I amy. You have just used so many cool terms. I think it's the headband. I do. Drink it's osmosis. I don't know what it is, but you are like, you are like. You are like.

Do you know, for someone with zero estrogen testosterone and progesterone in my entire body, I'm functioning on all cylinders. I don't know what I'm running on, but it's not hormones. No. I did have a very strong coffee this morning Do you think that's done it? No. You know how they say it's good for the midlife brain?

Maybe it's just really good for me because I'm off the mushroom coffee I'm back full on the caffeine. I think it's helping. I do. I do. I'm activated. I'm really, really pleased one of us are.

Can we talk about HRT for a minute? Sure. This could be my meltdown. Okay. Are we all meltdowns? Yeah. Yeah, we are. We're here, yeah.

We went from... Well, mine would sneak arenas, but apparently that's not a meltdown. Apparently it's just giving you loads of inspiration for spring trainers. I'm going to get those. Okay, great. You're welcome. Oh, yeah, we are on meltdowns. Yeah, we are.

I'm getting night sweats. Are you? Yeah. That's annoying. Like proper night sweats. Oh, I'm sorry. I know. You are in menopause now.

I am in menopause. But my gynaecologist who did the operation, he said that my HRT shouldn't be disrupted because I have it. injected, and I had it done in January. But I am literally being woken up. When I tell you, I am soaked. That's awful. I know. And also I'm getting very, very hot. So I'm saying things like, I'm noticing myself saying things like, oh, is it very hot in here? And yesterday we had to pop, because I had an appointment with him, so we had to pop back to the hospital. And I just threw on a jumper and whatever. And I didn't put a t-shirt on. And so I was like opening the windows and Adam sat there freezing and I'm like, I can't leave the house that a t-shirt now.

Right. Okay. My temperature has changed. Okay. Overnight. Yeah, well, it did happen overnight. Yeah, well, sort of. Because I've been dealing with it for three years. No, I know, but you've gone from dealing with it to like, now it's here. Well, no, now it's...

In a day. No, it's not here. It's done. Done. In a day. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Interesting. Okay. I think it will pass, though.

It will pass. I'm not here for that. No, it will pass. No, I would not be here for it either. Can get like menopause sheets and menopause pajamas, like cooling things? You can. So you'd have to change your sheets every morning. So that must be annoying.

I'm just airing the bed out. But, I mean, it's fucking annoying. I'm going to sleep on a towel tonight. That's not nice. I know. Hmm. My husband is so disinterested. Can I tell you?

He is so disinterested in my ever-changing. hormones. My husband was really interested in your operation and I was like, no. How's Nicole? I was like, she's, you know, post-operative. She's in pain and she's on tramadol and she's at home and she looks a bit sad. What did she have done?

I wasn't, let me tell you something. I was not sad on that tramadale. The tramadile was stoned as fuck. You were quite vague. You were quite vague. Yeah, vague out of it. Quite of it. He was like, what did she have done? She had a history. Why? I'm like, do you know how many people have asked me why, Lauren? Do you know how many people have asked me what? I have found that utterly fascinating.

I said, to be honest with you, it's not really your business. He's like, no, but why? I was like, Nicole's private medical information is neither your business nor your concern, nor do I need. I'm like, if I had a hysterectomy, do you think that she would be telling Adam all about the why and the who and this and how it worked and this and the other? I'm like, why does it matter to you? Like, she's had one. But he's just curious. I know, but I find it really interesting.

And then the kids were like, why have Nicole had a hysterectomy? Oh, brilliant. Like, what? Just leave it. Like, when my friends ask me, oh, how come? Yeah. Like, that is totally fine. But when people I barely know have asked me, why have you?

Who's asked you who you barely know? Well, not barely know. Barely know is a, barely know is a stretch. Well, I put, I put on Instagram on, like, my personal Instagram about the presence that I'd been bought. So then it does invite questions. Like, I understand that. Like, what's happened.

I said, oh, I've had an, I've had a lot. operation. I've said, oh, it was just a whole host of things. Good. Generic. Also, you want me to go into it? Because some of my friends have obviously, well, you know, because you've said it on the show. It wasn't like you've kept it a big, so you didn't say it. I'm having my reproductive organs removed. So it's fairly obvious to anyone with basis of intelligence what you were having done. But a few people have been like, why? Why did she have tough one? It's like, she just, you know what? She just did. You know what? I think people ask, because women especially, because, I can't speak for all in your sons, but I think women are asking because for their own curiosity.

Yeah, like what would happen where I would need that? Yes. Yeah. At what point do you have to have a history to me? Or what could happen where that would mean that that's something that would be necessary for me? By the way, I didn't have to have it. Yeah. It was a choice.

Yeah. And I, because I was going to be more comfortable after it for having it. You're not sick is what we're saying. No, no, no. Yeah. Absolutely not. It was, it was something that needed to happen and I could have waited a few years, but I decided just to have it done now. Yeah.

Thank you. Bethan sent us her meltdown. Yeah. Dear Lauren and Nicole, my meltdown is that I spent a lot of my young adult life moaning at my parents for being so routine and bothered about small boring stuff. The other day, I found myself having a 10 minute conversation with my teenage kids about how annoyed I was that the seeded loaf I always buy an ASDA every Tuesday has been discontinued and replaced with a sunflower loaf that quite honestly isn't nearly half as good and is also 49p more expensive. A sunflower loaf? Like I guess a sunflower seed. Seed.

Yeah, I don't like a sunflower seed. Afterwards, I had to sit down and have a long think about what happened to the girl who would go out until 4 a.m. And still get to my waitressing job at the local cafe the next morning and I have a twix and a Coke for breakfast. Thank you. Bethan, age 44, but might as well be 84. I understand this. I'm beginning to understand this. So am I. And I don't like it.

I don't care. You don't care? I don't care. I don't want to be. staying out all night and then doing my 9 a.m. client still half cut. Like I'm just not interested in being that person whatsoever anymore. I don't mean that

bit. I mean like when you actually get bothered about when a loaf gets discontinued and it's gone up by 49P, you know? It's classing midlife. I will tell you this is when I start to see my future. So my mum, you'll know where this is going before I even finish my

sentence. My mum had to replace her computer. Okay. She works for mornings a week. She's a medical secretary. So she really needs her computer. It was very old. It needed to be replaced. So all the software, because her software was so old, it wasn't. So she needed all the new software. Poor Jackie. She actually told me on day three that she needed to stop and have a drink, like an alcoholic drink at 530 because of the stress of this new computer. I was like, but mum, like literally a man comes and plugs it in. She's like, you don't understand. No, she's

The downloading of the software. Of course. She's got to get everything. But I can also see in my future how a computer changeover could drive me to drink. To drink. I can see. I can see very easily. In your crystal ball.

In my future. The tech will be the death of me. Yeah. And it's not changing. And it's not going to slow down. No, it's going to like go whizzing past me. I know. I feel like it's starting to whizz past me.

It's very frightening. It is. Like, I really feel jealous of the people who died before the internet. You know, I'm jealous of those people. Old people I'm talking about. Not young people. But, like, if you were 99 when the internet was invented, you were lucky. Because life was so much easier.

You just wrote a letter. I licked a stamp and sent it off. We're going to go now. It's time to go. Okay. Let's go look at sneak arenas. Because I still am a birthday present. You know what?

Let's go out. for lunch for your birthday. What? And then we'll look at sneaker meals. I can't have any more meals out. Yes, you can. I am like eating out for four days. Yes, you can.

We'll be back next week. Please keep your messages coming in. Hello at 40ish.com. And have a lovely weekend, everybody. Bye.