Libido, lust & desire: sexual awakenings with writer Lisa Taddeo
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Best-selling author Lisa Taddeo, whose ground-breaking book Three Women was a profound investigation into female desire, talks to Lorraine and Trish about understanding, acknowledging and giving ourselves permission to act on our desires.
Plus: Hair - Lorraine’s wonder volume discovery & Trish’s verdict on colour shampoos; and what we’ve learned from 50 episodes of Postcards From Midlife that changed our lives
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| 0:00.0 | Lorraine, how is your main character energy today? Do you know what I'm talking about? |
| 0:06.1 | I've got a fair idea. This is the teenagers and their TikTok addiction. What's your understanding |
| 0:12.4 | of it? Apart from being a bit of Gen Z kind of piffle, it's this term that they use to |
| 0:19.4 | positively describe themselves to others and it's all about you have to romanticize your life |
| 0:24.0 | and start thinking of yourself as the main character in your life. Is that what you've heard? |
| 0:30.0 | I've been doing that all my life because as we know I am ridiculous. You are the star of the show. |
| 0:35.6 | I will make an entrance and an exit as if I am the main character in some kind of ridiculous Hollywood |
| 0:41.9 | almost and that's why I love Moira Rose from Shits Creek. I'm basically her. You are. |
| 0:46.8 | Is that a thing you're talking about? Weaning from Black Adder. I often, that's one of my main characters |
| 0:52.2 | energies. Yes. Does that make us suppose I'm one of your supporting characters there? |
| 0:57.4 | Mercy. I don't think you are. No, it's a little rancid one. What's he called? Can you remember him? |
| 1:06.4 | Baldric! Baldric! What's about Lord Flashheart? I wish you were Lord Flashheart. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello! Hello! Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy and we're on |
| 1:21.7 | a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent midlife. We'll be tackling everything from |
| 1:26.5 | mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive. Trish and I are here to help you have a stylish |
| 1:32.4 | second act and answer all your midlife questions on fashion, beauty, careers, relationships, family |
| 1:38.3 | and as always the challenges and joys of parenting teams. |
| 1:43.7 | Today's episode is a bit of a milestone for us because it's the 50th postcards from Midlife. |
| 1:49.2 | Woohoo! Did you make me a cake? Trish, because you're a bit of a star baker on the quiet aren't you? |
| 1:56.2 | Well, I am but I have failed on that one. I did contemplate icing your face onto a hobnop |
| 2:01.8 | as a special treat for you because I know that you're favourites but they are. They |
| 2:05.3 | actually couldn't be bothered in the end. Couldn't be bothered or CBA is this team's saying my |
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