How to stop life admin causing you overwhelm
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Brought to you by Standard Life to raise awareness of Power of Attorney Day
Trish & Lorraine tackle the never-ending midlife to do list & the biggest causes of the 3am wake up & worry. Joined by Alison Harvie of Carers UK, they discuss why having Power of Attorney in place for you & your loved ones can ensure peace of mind for so many of life’s potential curve balls. Find out who needs one (that’ll be all of us, even if you are married, have a next of kin or are 18 & over & especially if you are a carer), the practicalities of getting one, how to talk to an elderly relative or dependent about why it’s in their best interest to have one, as well as the emotional & financial costs of not having one. A fascinating 30 minute must listen.
(PS: Can you guess which of your hosts does & doesn’t have a Power of Attorney?!!)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Standard Life to raise awareness of Power of Attorney Day. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello everyone and hello to you, my pod pal, Lorraine. |
| 0:19.0 | Are you having a busy week? |
| 0:38.9 | How's your to-do list looking? Because we like to share our to-do lists, only, what we've got on them. I mean, I'm very organised and I like to make sure that you are too. We've just set up the family calendar, which we didn't have before. Okay. Which I don't know why we didn't have it before, so that has revolutionised my life. but my work to-do list is fine. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.5 | My actual family to-do list is fine. |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.4 | My actual family to-do list is a lot, graduation, travel, GCSE mocks, all the kind of things that happen when you have too many children, Trish. |
| 0:49.1 | I mean, these are niggly tasks. |
| 0:51.5 | And, of course, the thing with the Midlife woman to-do list is it never gets |
| 0:55.8 | to done. I like that to-done. Nothing's ever to done. It is magically refilled every time that you |
| 1:02.0 | think you're making progress with it. And it made me think about one of the guests we had, Elizabeth |
| 1:05.7 | Gilbert, because she said she talked to us about the work of being alive and the amount of tasks you need just to get |
| 1:12.6 | through the day looking after yourself and I've got to look after five other people at the same time. |
| 1:17.4 | Never mind, everyone. Everything else we have to look out for all the time. We have to sort, |
| 1:22.9 | don't we? We do, yeah. It's a heck of a lot. It's a lot. It's too much sometimes. It's no wonder we hit overwhelm at this life stage. |
| 1:29.6 | As there is always the list of stuff that we know we're not going to get around to doing. And that's the kind of stuff that when you wake up at 3 a.m in the morning, it's in the back of your mind. You're like, we still haven't done that. It's quite important. I know. But it's like really, sometimes it's often the big things. |
| 1:43.5 | And actually a recent survey |
| 1:44.8 | that I saw showed that we have up to four hours of outstanding admin tasks to complete at any one time. |
| 1:51.9 | I mean, that just makes me shudder. I know what one of yours is as we had a chat about it when I finally |
| 1:59.2 | got around ticking, it's a big one off my to-do list last year. |
| 2:03.2 | I know, I know, and I can feel the weight of the pressure on me with your spreadsheets on this. |
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