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Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Trish & Lorraine turn agony aunts to offer advice and resources on relationship, family and career dilemmas. Is it OK to call out a friend's bad behaviour? Should you always put your teens' needs before your own & where to start when you wake up one day and decide you want to live a different life?
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a message from Alzheimer's Society. Did you know, Trish, they offer a free will writing service? |
| 0:06.2 | Really, that's so great because I actually need to update my will and it's been on my to-do list forever |
| 0:11.2 | and it just feels like such a big task. Well, totally. But Alzheimer's Society makes it so simple. |
| 0:17.4 | You can do it in person with a partnering solicitor online or even over the phone. |
| 0:22.8 | Plus, it's not just about ticking a box. It's about reflecting on what matters to you most. |
| 0:27.3 | And they make it easy to include a gift in your will, which can really make a difference. |
| 0:31.9 | Gifts in wills help Alzheimer's society support people living with dementia, the UK's biggest killer. They bring help and |
| 0:39.2 | hope to families during some of the toughest times of their lives. It's heartbreaking. Nobody asks for a |
| 0:44.6 | lifetime of memories to be slowly erased or to feel lonely and confused. By including a gift in your |
| 0:50.2 | will, you can help make sure dementia no longer devastates lives. That's such a powerful way to make an impact. Writing your will, you can help make sure dementia no longer devastates lives. That's such a powerful way |
| 0:56.1 | to make an impact. Writing your will really is peace of mind and it's a chance to leave a legacy |
| 1:01.3 | that matters. To get started today, search Alzheimer's Society, Wills, online, to register and |
| 1:07.5 | write your will for free. Availability varies by location and TNCs apply. |
| 1:13.2 | Time for a commercial message from Paiver's shoes. Now, Trish, we're both veterans of the fashion |
| 1:18.8 | industry, aren't we? And we do like a bit of a chit chat about what to wear here on the show. |
| 1:23.4 | So I thought that today I'd bring you an interesting fact from recent research on midlife women and clothes and shoes. |
| 1:30.7 | Yes, because we're both former glossy magazine editors. |
| 1:33.8 | So we've always followed the fashion news over decades and like to know what's what, |
| 1:37.6 | especially when it comes to women our age now. |
| 1:40.5 | Well, yes, indeed. |
| 1:41.9 | Research by UGov and pavers has revealed that 87% of women over 50 |
| 1:47.7 | believe the fashion industry still doesn't understand women of their age. I mean, I think that's |
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