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Why Aren't We Talking About It?
Conversations about the messy, uncomfortable and very human bits of life.

Topics

The subjects that keep coming back, connecting episodes and writing.

Sex

Desire, mismatch, boredom, curiosity and the enormous gap between what people do and what people admit to.

2 pieces

Pleasure

What feels good, what we're allowed to want, and why the conversation so often skips straight to performance.

2 pieces

Relationships

The unspoken contracts, quiet disappointments and small brave moments that hold people together or pull them apart.

5 pieces

Communication

What we say, what we don't, and the gap between the words we use and the thing we actually mean.

2 pieces

Money

Shame, security, class and the last real taboo at dinner.

2 pieces

Work

What we do, what it costs us, and how easily a job can become an identity.

4 pieces

Ambition

Wanting, winning, stalling and what happens when the thing you chased arrives.

6 pieces

Success

The version we were sold, the version we secretly want, and the space between the two.

1 piece

Burnout

The moment the body says no after the mind has been saying yes for too long.

1 piece

Health

What we know, what we're told, and how it feels to live inside a body the system keeps misunderstanding.

2 pieces

Expectations

The invisible rules we inherit, enforce and quietly resent.

3 pieces

Women's health

Conditions that affect millions and the silence that still surrounds them.

4 pieces

UTIs

A common, miserable condition and the embarrassment that keeps too many people from getting proper help.

1 piece

Ageing

Bodies, relevance, freedom and the strange relief of caring less.

1 piece

Healthcare

What the system provides, what it misses, and how to advocate for yourself inside it.

2 pieces

Change

The decisions that reroute a life and the resistance that comes before them.

3 pieces

Identity

Who we say we are, who we actually are, and the distance in between.

8 pieces

Life

The big, unanswerable questions underneath the daily routine.

2 pieces

Endometriosis

A painful, misunderstood condition and what changes when people start talking while they're still going through it.

1 piece

Vulnerability

The risk of being seen and the relief of not carrying something alone.

1 piece

Connection

Friendship, loneliness, intimacy and the quiet drift of adult life.

3 pieces

Parenting

The choices we make for children before they can make them for themselves.

1 piece

Technology

What the feed is doing to attention, desire, memory and self-worth.

1 piece

Privacy

What we share, what we surrender, and who profits from the confusion.

1 piece

Children

The people we raise and the digital footprints we create for them.

1 piece

Grief

The losses that get a funeral and the ones that don't.

4 pieces

Loss

The absence that stays, in whatever form it takes.

2 pieces

Fertility

Bodies, expectations, medicine and the stories we don't tell about trying to conceive.

1 piece

Masculinity

The rules men are taught, the cost of following them, and what happens when they break.

1 piece

Nutrition

Food beyond the protocols, hacks and optimisation culture.

1 piece

Wellbeing

Health as a relationship rather than another performance.

1 piece

Optimisation

The promise that if we just do enough, we'll finally feel better.

1 piece

Midlife

The point where the life you built meets the life you might still want.

1 piece

Career

Titles, security, identity and the slow realisation that none of them are the point.

1 piece

Reinvention

Starting again when the old story no longer fits.

1 piece

Death

The one thing we all share and the conversation we still avoid.

1 piece

Funerals

Rituals, grief and the gap between who someone was and how we say goodbye.

1 piece

Decisions

The questions that don't have right answers, only honest ones.

2 pieces

Christmas

Tradition, family, joy and the grief the season can make louder.

1 piece

Sobriety

Choosing not to drink in a world that treats alcohol as the default.

1 piece

Alcohol

The social lubricant, the coping mechanism and the identity we wrap around it.

1 piece

Friendship

The relationships that don't come with scripts and the ones that survive anyway.

3 pieces

Breast health

Screening, risk and the information women aren't routinely given about their own bodies.

1 piece

Screening

The tests we trust, the gaps they contain, and what to do with the uncertainty.

1 piece

GLP-1s

The drugs changing how people eat, look and feel, and the questions they can't answer.

1 piece

Food

Nourishment, control, identity and the culture that keeps turning eating into a moral test.

1 piece

Body image

The picture we carry of ourselves and what happens when medicine, culture and desire collide.

1 piece

Redundancy

Losing a job and the identity that came with it.

1 piece

Intuition

The knowing that arrives before the explanation.

1 piece

Self-trust

Learning to believe the signals your own body and mind have been sending.

1 piece

Women

The unspoken expectations, pressures and quiet strengths of moving through the world as a woman.

1 piece

Divorce

Endings, unravellings and what happens to a life when the story changes.

1 piece

Motherhood

Ambivalence, love, invisibility and the versions of it nobody prints on a card.

0 pieces

Our bodies

What they do without permission, and what we're taught not to mention.

1 piece

Wanting more

The restlessness people hide because it looks like ingratitude.

2 pieces

Jealousy

The feeling we hide behind a smile when someone else gets the thing we wanted.

2 pieces

Comparison

The quiet measuring stick that turns other people's lives into a verdict on our own.

2 pieces