Women spend HOW MUCH on period products? Mooncups, AI slop, and joining a choir
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
There’s way too much pressure on reaching a definitive state of happiness, and it’s just not realistic, so Fearne’s dropping into your feed every week for some chat about what’s making her feel great, and what’s making her feel completely crap.
This is the cosy corner where there’s no judgement allowed! All of us can explore what’s been on our minds, what’s been getting us down, inspiring us, and making us laugh.
Want to join the chat? Send us a voicenote, DM, or comment on Instagram @happyplaceofficial!
In this chat, Fearne covers:
-Why she’s decided to present some TV again
-How to get back into something you haven’t done in ages
-The importance of seeking out good news when the world gets too heavy
-What singing – karaoke or in a choir, whatever you like – does for your nervous system
-The difference between the hands of town men and countryside men and why this is relevant when you get a flat tyre
-AI slop and how to trust what you see online
-How much women will spend on period products in their lifetime
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| 0:00.0 | Like, okay, I'm gonna be honest about things. |
| 0:03.5 | I tried one of those Moon Cup things. |
| 0:06.2 | I have decided to get back into doing a bit of telling. |
| 0:10.6 | I wanna be thick in my quiet era. |
| 0:12.9 | Townie men normally have quite clean hands |
| 0:16.0 | and they're like well moisturised. |
| 0:17.1 | Countryside men have big ruddy hands. |
| 0:19.9 | So many men with big hands walked towards me and said, |
| 0:23.0 | I can fix that straight away. Can start to be really distrusting of everything and everyone and that's |
| 0:27.7 | not a good place for any of us to be at. Absolute assholes. That's what they are. Hey, how are you? It's |
| 0:34.8 | Fern here. Welcome to Happy Place where today, once again, we're going to |
| 0:39.5 | talk about what is making me and Team Happy Place feel great and feel not so good. Let's kick |
| 0:46.3 | off with things that are making us feel happy. I'll start with me and I'll try to make this |
| 0:52.1 | not so self-indulgent because I think all of us will have either |
| 0:56.1 | experienced something like this or it'll be the sort of twinkling of an idea somewhere in our heads. |
| 1:02.1 | So what's making me really happy this week is the fact that I have decided to get back into |
| 1:08.9 | doing a bit of telly. And that is something that scared the absolute shite |
| 1:13.7 | out of me for a very long time. It didn't feel safe, which might sound a bit dramatic, |
| 1:20.0 | but it just didn't. I think all of us, you know, have a bit of an awareness of the things that |
| 1:24.7 | make us feel like safe and grounded and calm and things that do not. And that for my nervous system was not an idea I could consider at all. But more |
| 1:34.2 | recently, I've started to wonder if I should dare to give it a go. And I'd sort of thought about |
| 1:41.7 | maybe I should start going to meet TV people and float ideas around. |
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