WomenKind Collective

Today we're spilling the tea on how AI is affecting women, work, and happiness. Our guest is Giselle Goodwin, a self-help author, former business owner, and the woman behind Can Women Really Have It All? A Happiness Handbook for Working Mothers.
But don't let the "self-help" label fool you, Giselle's approach isn't about "finding your inner goddess." It's honest, it's grounded in research, and it's backed by a PhD in women, work and wellbeing that she went back to university to complete after twenty years of running her own businesses. She's spent years asking one deceptively simple question: how can life actually be better for women?
In this episode we talk about:
• The "having it all" myth, the promise the 1980s sold women, and whether it ever delivered
• How flexibility, hybrid working and micro-shifting can quietly become a trap for women at work
• The basics of how AI is already affecting women's jobs, and which sectors are most at risk
• Why AI's gender bias matters from AI safety and regulation to non-consensual AI-generated images of women and girls
• Why Giselle calls the impact of AI on women the next "she-demic," and how worried we should be
• The domestic gap nobody talks about and the research showing that when men do more at home, women are less depressed, arguments drop, and divorce risk halves
• The three things Giselle would change tomorrow in policy, culture and technology to make work genuinely work for women

Plus, we catch up on our week (we've been gadding off to the cinema), and this week's book club pick is a shameless plug, t's our very own book, Tackling Gender Bias in the Healthcare System: What Patients' Stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change, out 21 September 2026!
And stick around to the end for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.
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Giselle Goodwin
Website: https://gisellegoodwin.com/
Book: Can Women Really Have It All? A Happiness Handbook for Working Mothers. Giselle Goodwin. AGG Associates Ltd. 2024
Instagram: @gisellegoodwinwrites
Substack: @Giselle Goodwin
LinkedIn: @Dr Giselle Goodwin
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Today we spill the tea with Julie Lee and Polly Chadwick, a perinatal trauma counsellor and a maternity specialist who, between them, hold space for the things antenatal care often doesn't have room for. Rainbow pregnancies. Matrescence. The silence around loss.
Julie explains what a rainbow pregnancy actually is for anyone who hasn't heard the term, and Polly talks us through her more hands-on work, pregnancy massage, hypnobirthing and the benefits for birthing people.
We ask why miscarriage and baby loss are still so hard to talk about openly even now, whether that's shifted since Julie and Polly started this work, and what women most often wish someone had told them before pregnancy and birth.
We also talk about what it's like supporting women through a period of birth trauma inquiries and maternity investigations, what the disorientation of early motherhood is actually made of hormonal, social, or both and what Julie and Polly would say to anyone listening right now who's feeling that guilt or disconnection.
For our listeners supporting adult daughters, friends and family through loss or the fourth trimester, we ask what's most helpful, and what well-meaning people often get wrong when trying to help.
We also discuss free or low-cost help and support.

We also chat about our weeks, the importance of saying yes and going out, and Jinty talks about hypermobility, how it might affect your vision, and prism lenses in glasses could help.

Stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.

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Julie Lee:
Instagram: @julie_lee_therapy
LinkedIn: @Julie Lee MBACP
Web: https://julieleetherapy.org/
Polly Chadwick:
Instagram: @bumpbirthbabyuk
@themulberryrooms
LinkedIn: @Polly Chadwick
Web: https://www.themulberryrooms.com/practitioners/

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We are back for series 17, and our guest today is a dear friend of ours, Elle Mace.
Elle is an ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor, a Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and body dysmorphia, a nutrition and weight management therapist, and a life and positive psychology coach.
Elle says she's "always been passionate about health and fitness,” but for years, that passion sat alongside an unhealthy relationship with food that started when she was just ten years old. She's spent the years since learning to free herself from what she calls her "food demons," and falling back in love with her body.
That journey is now a book, Food Freedom: How to Find Peace from Food Anxiety and Reclaim Your Body Confidence, an empowering guide for women rebuilding their relationship with food, body image and self-worth. Grounded in positive psychology and Elle's own experience as a qualified Eating Disorders Practitioner, it looks at how diet culture harms all of us, the different faces of disordered eating, and how to trade self-criticism for self-compassion. The book is brilliant, we went along to her book launch, where Elle spoke about her own journey and the power of positive psychology, and we knew you would want to hear this conversation.
We chat about how Food Freedom actually came about, and what it was like for Elle writing it, digging back into her own story, including the book's subtitle, How to Find Peace from Food Anxiety and Reclaim Your Body Confidence.
Elle takes us into her chapter on Body Dysmorphia and seeing yourself clearly, timed with the first ever Body Dysmorphia Disorder Awareness Day, unpacking what BDD actually is and what it isn't. We talk about diet culture and where "healthy eating" tips into disordered thinking, including whether something like fasting can become disordered when taken too seriously, especially with so many conflicting expert opinions out there. Elle also opens up about swapping self-criticism for self-compassion, including how she came to name her own inner critic, and shares tips for anyone struggling with theirs. We can't ignore what's happening right now with GLP-1s either, so we ask Elle, someone who has spent years untangling this stuff, what she makes of a moment where women are shrinking and even Hollywood stars are starting to look frail rather than "healthy." She tells us the one thing she wishes someone had said to ten-year-old her, and shares the smallest first step she'd want anyone to take today if they recognise themselves in her story.

We also chat about our summer, there's a new Weekly Invitation, and stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.
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Elle Mace
Book: Food Freedom. How To Find Peace From Food Anxiety and Reclaim Your Body Confidence. Elle Mace. Vermilion. 2026
Website: https://www.ellemace.com/
LinkedIn: @Elle Mace
Instagram: @iamellemace
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Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:
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Series 16 Finale: Book Club Special with Ruth Newton, author of The Carrier
For our series finale, we're doing something a little different: a book club special. We're joined by Ruth Newton, writer, campaign producer, and author of the best-selling debut novel The Carrier, a dystopian story where women absorb other people's pain as a form of labour.
The Carrier has already picked up serious recognition: longlisted for BPA's First Novel Award, shortlisted for the Hodderscape x The Science Museum Debut Science Fiction Award, and winner of the Jericho Writers' Friday Night Live competition.

In this episode we talk to Ruth about how much of the real world shaped the invented society of Eudaimonia, why she chose to make her protagonist Vivian a true believer rather than a sceptic from the start, and why every carrier in the book is deliberately a woman. We get into the visceral extraction mechanism at the heart of the story, the role men play in the resistance and what it says about allyship, and where The Carrier sits on the spectrum between cautionary tale and reflection of something already happening. We also ask Ruth about Vivian's traumatic awakening, whether her tipping point changed during the writing process, and what she most wants readers, particularly women, to sit with once they've turned the final page.

We also discuss our favourite reads of the year so far, and there’s something in there for everyone!
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The first women only trail race in Switzerland - SWISS WOMEN’S TRAIL, 1st edition on September 12, 2026
Switzerland’s first women-only trail is a 100% women-focused event designed as a gateway to mixed-gender trail races and long-distance formats.
The SWISS WOMEN’S TRAIL aims to address challenges by providing a competitive, demanding, and supportive environment tailored to women’s specific needs.
Two accessible race distances will be offered: 19 km with 750 m elevation gain and 38 km race with 1,400m elevation gain.
Find out more here https://www.swisscanyontrail.com/en/pages/swt?srsltid=AfmBOoq58MrBhc_CT4t7_1-_aXu7MS5hlEIIx6TDPdy5Qj_nZiEUIV80

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Ruth Newton:
Socials:
Instagram: @ruth.e.newton
LinkedIn: @Ruth Newton

Book: The Carrier. Ruth Newton. Transworld Digital. 2026. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carriers-propulsive-page-turning-speculative-Severance-ebook/dp/B0FK346DWV

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This week we are Spilling The Tea with Nicky Denson-Elliott, a professional feminist, community builder, award-winning podcaster, and the woman asking a question that, once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
We're talking about the word hysterectomy, a word one in five people don't even realise means the removal of the uterus. A word rooted in "hysteria," a diagnosis used for centuries to dismiss and pathologise women, only struck from medical record books in 1980.
Nicky had a hysterectomy herself this year, and it crystallised something she'd already been thinking about as a feminist campaigner. She's now petitioning NHS England to retire the word "hysterectomy" in favour of uterectomy, clearer, more accurate, and free of centuries of baggage.
Today we're talking medical misogyny, language, and why the words used for our bodies matter more than we think.
We ask her about the petition and the moment that made her think "this word has to change"; how living through her own hysterectomy this year sharpened her view on the language; the real history connecting "hysterectomy" and "hysteria," and whether people actually know it; why a procedure that around one in five UK women will have has never had its language challenged before now; how she's finding getting the petition out there given the algorithm's treatment of women's health content (following our chat with the CensHERship Campaign last week); whether she's faced any opposition or the response has been entirely positive; and what NHS England and clinicians have said so far.

We also cover the new terminology for PCOS, now PMOS, and what this name change could hopefully mean for people living with it.
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Nicky Denson Eliot
Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768726
Socials:
Instagram - @nickydensonelliot.
Substack: Nicky Denson-Elliot

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