The Queenager with Eleanor Mills

By: Eleanor Mills
  • Summary

  • The Queenager is a podcast with award-winning editor and interviewer Eleanor Mills that explores all aspects of midlife and this ‘age of becoming’, with guests drawn from a contacts book spanning 25 years at the top of UK journalism. Eleanor is founder of NOON.org.uk, home of the Queenager (the term she coined to positively rebrand women in midlife). The podcast talks to distinguished Queenagers and explores everything from AI to bodies, sex and why women over 45 are being purged from the workforce. This podcast is all about reinvention, starting your next chapter, with the Queenager motto: ‘You are never too old and it is never too late’. Eleanor creates a more optimistic narrative around the later stages of women’s lives with this podcast and her book Much More to Come, published by HarperCollins. She speaks from experience, having been made redundant from the job that defined her for 25 years before reinventing herself. She now feels happier in her 50s and more purposeful and energised. NOON’s world-first research shows this is true for many other women too. These are stories the world needs to hear. The first series of the podcast features interviews with Baroness Martha Lane Fox, entrepreneur and technology expert; Dr Nighat Arif taboo-busting expert on midlife health; Dr Lucy Ryan, author of Revolting Women, Why Midlife Women Are Leaving The Workforce And What We Can Do To Stop Them; Dr Sharon Blackie, author of Hagitude and If Women Rose-Rooted; and Liz Earle, bestselling author of A better Second Half; and Laura Tenison MBE, founder of JoJo Maman Bebe and pioneering businesswoman. Expect quality, amusing discussions around ALL aspects of the Queenager experience.
    Copyright 2024 Eleanor Mills
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Episodes
  • Carol Vorderman: Her new book 'Now What?' & why she's outraged
    Sep 27 2024

    Eleanor Mills and Carol Vorderman, the broadcaster turned political firebrand, talk about her new book 'Now What?' They delve into snobbery, what's wrong with politics, how her background influences her opinions – plus where power lies now.

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    56 mins
  • Dr Lucy Ryan: The Queenager braindrain and what's really happening in our careers
    Sep 13 2024

    "No one wants to read about old women," an advisor told Dr. Lucy Ryan, which spurred her to write her book Revolting Women: Why Midlife Women are Walking Out and What to Do About It. It proved him wrong.

    The Sunday Times praised the coach and positive psychologist's searing analysis of the Queenager Braindrain.

    Why it is that 30 years after men and women entered the workforce in equal numbers, women still make up less than 20 percent of managers? Lucy's 3-part diagnosis:

    1. Midlife Collision (backed up by Eleanor Mills's research at noon.org.uk, which found that over half of women have been through at least five massive life events – divorce, bereavement, redundancy, caring for elderly parents, abuse, empty nest, or young offspring with mental health difficulties, their own health challenges, menopause... which often hit altogether).
    2. This causes women to leave, and then ...
    3. ... Gendered ageism in employers makes it hard for women to get another job.

    And that's before we start talking about 'the revolt' – that sense of 'I just can't be fxxxxed to be pleasing anymore'. The Revolt is about redefining career success in new ways — ways that nourish every aspect of life.

    Join Lucy and Eleanor for a masterclass in midlife women and work – and how to kick-start your career again.

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    46 mins
  • Dr Nighat Arif: Menopause, midlife & loads of medical things you never knew
    Aug 29 2024

    Dr Nighat Arif is an amazing women's health specialist who has revolutionised women's medical coverage in the UK. She regularly on This Morning and BBC Breakfast as their expert doctor and is the author of The Knowledge, an essential guide to everything women might be too embarrassed to ask their GP.

    Dr Nighat came to the UK from Pakistan aged 9 speaking no English, failed her eleven plus but still made it to medical school. Her Tiktoks and Instagram reels in her native languages became an online sensation – she brings practical advice on intimate matters to women who would never otherwise get it. Now her English-language audience has mushroomed as well, on Instagram (@drnighatarif) and TikTok (@drnighatarif).

    Dr Nighat was one of Eleanor's first recruits to the board of NOON.org.uk and together they have campaigned for the recognition of menopause and the intersectionality of women's treatment: BAME women and women in the poorest parts of the UK are only HALF as likely to receive HRT as women in the richest areas.

    Tune in to a fascinating conversation about busting midlife taboos, menopause in Asian communities, medical insights you never realised you needed and the real reason we gain weight in midlife.

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    54 mins

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