OFF AIR…EXTRA (with Lisa Snowdon and TENA)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this special bonus episode brought to you by TENA, Jane and Fi sit down with model, author and women’s health advocate Lisa Snowdon.
As part of Menopause awareness month, Lisa joins the ladies to talk about all the ups and downs of being a woman over 40 - and hopefully break down some of the stigma and encourage open conversation around women’s health.
For more information, visit TENA.co.uk to explore expert advice and product solutions tailored for women experiencing bladder sensitivity during menopause.
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| 0:00.0 | This special episode of Offair is brought to you by Tenor. |
| 0:11.9 | We've been talking to model, radio presenter and author Lisa Snowden about the menopause, |
| 0:17.8 | perimenopause and just what it's like to be a woman over the age of 40. |
| 0:22.5 | As some of you might know, it's not always easy. There are ups, there are ups, there are a few downs, |
| 0:28.6 | and it can be quite a challenging period of your life. Now, what we loved about Lisa was that she was |
| 0:33.5 | honest, plain speaking, but still has a proper zest for life. She's well worth listening to. |
| 0:39.1 | Don't forget, you can visit tenor.co.com. UK to explore expert advice and product solutions, |
| 0:44.8 | tailored for women experiencing bladder sensitivity during the menopause. So let's hear our chat with |
| 0:50.5 | Lisa Snowden. Lisa, it used to be the case that nobody talked about the menopause. |
| 0:55.6 | Sometimes I think now everyone's talking about it, but that's a good thing. Are you someone who |
| 1:01.3 | knew a lot about what it might involve or did the whole thing come as a bit of a surprise to |
| 1:07.3 | you and not a very nice one? Yeah, absolutely. It was back in 2014. So this is like over |
| 1:14.0 | 10 years ago when I first started experiencing what I now know to be premenopausal symptoms. |
| 1:19.5 | And I hadn't, I didn't even know that word existed. That's how not on my radar the kind of |
| 1:25.3 | menopause and premenopause was. I obviously had heard about the |
| 1:28.6 | menopause, but for me I thought it was going to happen so much later on in life and not when I was |
| 1:34.5 | in my kind of early 40s, when I was looking and feeling the way I was. So yeah, it was something that I |
| 1:40.8 | identified with being maybe a very frail, older lady with white hair and a zimaphra. |
| 1:47.9 | I mean, that's how ignorant I was to it. So it did come as a big, big surprise. |
| 1:52.0 | What do you think are the pieces of information that would have been really helpful to know when you first started experiencing the menopause? |
| 2:04.5 | Well, I think for me, the menopause was your period stop and you get hot flushes. They were the only two symptoms that I remember |
| 2:10.1 | sort of identifying with the menopause. So I think if I had known that, A, it started earlier |
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