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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback
When filmmaker Anna Broinowski turned 50, she stopped giving any f*cks about what other people thought of her. Stopped prettying herself, being concerned with niceness, and exhaled. Certified badass Gina Chick spent 67 days in the literal wilderness living off the land to win Alone Australia. Jessie Tu refuses to adhere to the male gaze. So, what happens to us women when we stop playing by the Good Girl Guidebook and start living by our own rules? And what does it mean to live dangerously?
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback
Are chick flicks and rom-coms your secret indulgence but you feel too embarrassed to admit it? Caroline O'Donoghue, host of the hit podcast, Sentimental Garbage, says it's time to stop apologising for the culture we love. Under the tongue-in-cheek banner 'Justice for Dumb Women', O'Donoghue celebrates the pop-culture we've long been told we should feel ashamed for loving, from Sex and the City to Taylor Swift (and Twilight).
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback |Ann-Marie deBettencor
KateI don't know how familiar people are with the actual content of Andrew Tait's videos, but he does sometimes talk about choking women and sexually assaulting them in order to regain that kind of dominance over them. AndrewIf you allow her to blatantly disrespect you and you tolerate that, then you're setting a precedent, which means, well, why would I respect this guy in the first place?
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback
Charlotte's sugar daddy took her to the fanciest restaurant in Melbourne. Soraya's gave her a trust fund. Meet the attractive young women dating rich older men as Yumi Stynes peeks into the lives of sugar babies. Find out how the online sugar dating world (the sugar bowl) facilitates the kind of romance you pay for, and what can go wrong when sex mixes with money, wealth and power. Yes, there's a holiday in Thailand that goes terribly awry (think White Lotus, with less guns).
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback |Ann-Marie deBettencor
AlyxI mean, I learned a lot about the smell of 600 people having sex. Oh no! Did you? Yeah. Tell me more about that. I would call it musky and primal and intense. The smell will stay with me forever. YumiThis is writer Alex Gorman. She's the lifestyle editor of The Guardian Australia. And what she's describing is the very human smell of a sex party with a population the size of a small outback town. She was there not to breathe in the heady stench of sex for fun, but as research for her new book.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Katie O'Neill |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback |Ann-Marie deBettencor
If you think perimenopause is reserved for mid-life, think again. When other 20 and 30-somethings are out partying or decorating the nursery, how do you cope with night sweats, hot flashes, brain fog and a tired libido? What's it like to have the body of a young woman, filled with the hormones of someone decades older? Yumi Stynes meets women going through perimenopause far earlier than they expected to learn how they manage their symptoms and cope with the prospect of infertility.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Ann-Marie deBettencor
What happens to your sex life in perimenopause? When Salt-N-Pepa wrote Let's Talk About Sex, they didn't get to that bit. Well, Yumi Stynes is here to update the lyrics! In this no-holds-barred episode she meets women who have experienced changes to their libido and sexual function during this phase of life and finds out what help is at hand.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Katie O'Neill |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback |Ann-Marie deBettencor
Is perimenopause brain fog jamming up your workday? Are you constantly in a bad mood or irrationally angry at your kids who are only as annoying as usual? Is your memory failing you for the simplest words? Riding the hormonal rollercoaster of perimenopause has a huge impact on our brains — from mood to memory, sleep to stress. Come hang with Yumi Stynes as she meets women convinced that they're losing their minds or even going through dementia, but are, in fact, in the depths of perimenopause.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Ann-Marie deBettencor
Hot flashes. Night sweats. Aching joints. Sore boobs. Welcome to your body in perimenopause!In episode one of this four-part series, Yumi Stynes speaks to women in the thick of perimenopause and battling physical symptoms. She also sits down with Dr Susan Davis, endocrinologist and world-leading expert on sex hormones aging to learn the best treatments for bothersome symptoms and how look after yourself in this stage of life.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Yumi Stynes |Elsa Silberstein |Tamar Cranswick |Alex Lollback |Ann-Marie deBettencor
Perimenopause: it's a huge physical, mental and sexual upheaval in a woman's life and yet, there's so much confusion as to how to make it through. Perimenopause is the months and years leading up to the last period, where a woman's hormones get feisty on their way down to retirement.
