From breadline to best-seller: midlife success with Amanda Prowse
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Trish and Lorraine discuss reaching a midlife career crossroads and talk to best-selling author Amanda Prowse about how at 42, she went from living on the breadline to becoming a multi-millionaire. Amanda also talks candidly and movingly about her son’s suicide attempt and mental health struggles and offers great advice for parents.
Plus: why good gut health can help during menopause and a nostalgia noodle about 80s soap star heartthrobs
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| 0:00.0 | So Lorraine? Yes, Trish. I got a message this week from a listener and it was about you. |
| 0:06.4 | Oh, was it, is that I won a prize? Well, no, it did make me laugh. It was very nice, but it kind of made me |
| 0:12.2 | laugh. So shall I tell you what she said? Yes, I'm fragile, don't make me upset. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm fragile, other than I look, basically. Oh, well, she was asking me about |
| 0:21.6 | jeans that we'd recommended in a previous episode. And she said that if it had been your recommendation, |
| 0:27.3 | there was no point getting the brand because she was only five foot two inches tall and she'd |
| 0:31.6 | always thought that you had the statue of a model. What? I had to tell her that you were like five |
| 0:39.7 | foot three inches tall. Not even five foot three, that's why I say I am. That's my hike for my |
| 0:46.4 | CV. Oh, she was super surprised. So you obviously give tall. Don't you give it tall? I like that. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm going to carry on with that. Hello, welcome to postcards from midlife. I'm Lorraine Candy. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm Trish Halpin and we're on a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent midlife. |
| 1:06.5 | We'll be tackling everything from mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive. Lorraine and I |
| 1:12.1 | here to help you have a stylish second act and answer all your midlife questions on fashion, |
| 1:16.8 | beauty, careers, relationships, family and as always the challenges and joys of parenting teams. |
| 1:23.5 | Welcome to postcards from midlife and before we go any further, we want to thank you for all your |
| 1:30.3 | lovely messages and wonderful words of support. We really do read them all and we really appreciate |
| 1:35.3 | you taking the time to contact us. Yes, that's because we do everything ourselves. All of it, |
| 1:40.3 | the social media, the email replies that Facebook group, we do have our lovely producer Amanda who |
| 1:45.4 | helps us to make the podcast but everything else is just you and me Lorraine, isn't it? Yes, |
| 1:50.0 | there are no little elves helping us. Are there Trish? No, no. Now, in today's episode, we are going |
| 1:56.5 | to be tackling your work worries. We're going to be looking at tummy troubles and we will be chatting |
| 2:01.6 | to an inspirational guest whose life story reads like the plot of a dramatic novel. First up, |
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