Ladies, We Need To Talk

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Episodes: 153

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Sex, health and relationships – Yumi Stynes delves into the issues women face but often find hard to talk about.   Episodes are conversational and relatable: we talk to real women about real stuff, from sexuality, mental health, pregnancy, parenting, erotic fantasies and everything in between. Hear from experts about the wonders of our bodies, who answer the question "Am I normal?". Women share their deeply personal stories to help you feel understood and part of a community.   Whether it be the appearance of our vaginas, the orgasm gap or questions about our hormones, we all need reassurance sometimes and Ladies We Need to Talk has your back. The messages we're bombarded with as women can be overwhelming and confusing. Get 8-hours of sleep. Kick goals at work. Be sexy. Look after yourself, look after your kids, your parents, your partner, your dog. Date. Try self-pleasure and masturbation. Experiment with sex toys. Be everything but don't burn out. It can be a lot. The podcast supports women, no matter where they're at in life.   Ladies We Need to Talk brings you stories from women experiencing pelvic pain as well experts in treatment in the field. We cover conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, IBS, period pain, persistent pelvic pain and urinary tract infections.   The symptoms experienced by women during perimenopause, the 10–15-year period before menopause are often underplayed or misdiagnosed by doctors, leaving women feeling confused and unheard. The podcast looks at some of the common symptoms connected with perimenopause, including disturbed sleep, night sweats, hot flushes, dry vagina, mood changes, brain fog and depression.   You'll hear advice about how to cope with metal health issues. Women share their tips on sobriety and exploring being sober curious when alcohol starts to have an unhealthy impact. You'll also hear from psychologists and case studies on how to cope with anxiety. Get practical advice on what to do when life feels overwhelming and worry takes over.   Coercive control, a pattern of manipulative and intimidating behaviours within a relationship is also discussed on the podcast.   Different ways of having romantic and sexual relationships are talked about openly. You'll meet swingers who go to sex parties and polyamorous couples negotiating bringing up children as well as monogamous couples dealing with sharing the mental load.   As caregivers, women often bear the brunt of caring responsibility within the home and the wider family. You'll hear women from the "sandwich generation" who are raising their kids while looking after aging parents.    

Episode Date
Hey Yumi! I'm sick of doing all the work at Christmas
Dec 16, 2024
BONUS – Inside the world of a dominatrix
Dec 11, 2024
Oh my kink! Pulling back the covers on BDSM
Dec 09, 2024
Ladies, we are winners!
Dec 05, 2024
Esther Perel will change how you think about intimacy
Dec 02, 2024
Hey Yumi! I'm too tired for sex
Nov 25, 2024
Is egg freezing all it's cracked up to be?
Nov 18, 2024
The myth of 'making it' — Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Nov 11, 2024
Hey Yumi! Is sleeping apart the key to staying together?
Nov 04, 2024
We want to hear your perimenopause stories!
Oct 30, 2024
The Ozempic era
Oct 28, 2024
Abbie Chatfield is not going away
Oct 21, 2024
Hey Yumi! My partner's too attached to his mum
Oct 14, 2024
Why are we so afraid of looking old?
Oct 07, 2024
I'm fat, don't hate me—Aubrey Gordon
Sep 30, 2024
Hey Yumi! Help, he's bad in bed!
Sep 23, 2024
The Other Woman
Sep 16, 2024
Alcohol is not your friend with Jill Stark
Sep 09, 2024
Labiaplasty—the rise of the designer vagina
Sep 02, 2024
Hey Yumi! Should I start a family?
Aug 26, 2024
Jamila Rizvi—when life doesn’t go to plan
Aug 19, 2024
Hey Yumi! I feel ugly and it’s holding me back
Aug 12, 2024
The hot truth about perimenopause and mental health
Aug 05, 2024
Hey Yumi! I haven’t had sex for a really long time
Jul 29, 2024
Breaking the silence around miscarriage
Jul 22, 2024
Hey Yumi! I’m in love but losing myself
Jul 15, 2024
The case against hookup sex with Hannah Ferguson
Jul 08, 2024
Hey Yumi! I'm tired of doing it all
Jul 01, 2024
Horny women
Jun 24, 2024
Hey Yumi! My mum-guilt is crushing me
Jun 17, 2024
Beating burnout
Jun 10, 2024
Have you ever been the "other woman"? Email us!
Jun 06, 2024
Hey Yumi! My prolapse is a problem
Jun 03, 2024
Rosie Waterland's mum died. She’s kind of relieved
May 27, 2024
Hey Yumi! How do I introduce a kink?
May 20, 2024
PCOS: Infertility, beards and BS
May 13, 2024
Hey Yumi! My partner's gone full slob
May 06, 2024
Adult Virgins
Apr 29, 2024
INTRODUCING - our most intimate season ever
Apr 22, 2024
Pongy vagina
Nov 27, 2023
Staying for the money
Nov 13, 2023
Clementine Ford on the case against marriage
Oct 30, 2023
BEST OF - Pelvic flaw in all of us
Oct 16, 2023
Falling for a narcissist
Oct 02, 2023
Sober sex
Sep 18, 2023
BEST OF - Love letter to our friends
Sep 04, 2023
Solo mums by choice
Aug 21, 2023
Emily Nagoski on sex in long term relationships
Aug 07, 2023
BEST OF - To pube or not to pube
Jul 24, 2023
Sex in a fat bod
Jul 10, 2023
Female rage – why are we so damn angry?
Jun 26, 2023
Esther Perel on Intimacy
Jun 12, 2023
Choking during sex – can it ever be safe?
May 29, 2023
Heartbreak — why does it feel so bloody awful?
May 15, 2023
INTRODUCING — our most brutally honest season yet
May 08, 2023
Our Fear of farting
Nov 07, 2022
Clean eating
Oct 24, 2022
Update — Discharge, the gooey taboo
Oct 10, 2022
Facing your own death
Sep 26, 2022
Generation gap - Can couples with a large age difference last?
Sep 12, 2022
Burnout
Aug 29, 2022
Being cheated on
Aug 15, 2022
INTRODUCING — New episodes of Ladies, We Need To Talk
Aug 08, 2022
What we need men to know about sex
Aug 01, 2022
When bad sex is your life — update
Jul 18, 2022
Bonus — Your sex and disability stories
Jul 11, 2022
Sex and the D Word – Disability
Jul 04, 2022
Anal sex — update
Jun 20, 2022
Next level sex
Jun 06, 2022
Asexuality — I don't want to have sex, ever
May 23, 2022
LiLL — Later in life lesbians
May 09, 2022
Swinging
Apr 25, 2022
INTRODUCING — Season SEX of Ladies, We Need To Talk
Apr 18, 2022
Sexual pleasure and how to get it
Nov 01, 2021
PRESENTS — Ladies We Need to Talk the book
Oct 25, 2021
Women who have never orgasmed
Oct 18, 2021
Body Image — Update
Oct 04, 2021
Digital dating despair
Sep 20, 2021
Sex detox
Sep 06, 2021
Foreplay — update
Aug 23, 2021
Birth trauma
Aug 09, 2021
A love letter to our friends
Jul 26, 2021
Mum won't come to our wedding
Jul 12, 2021
Young widows
Jun 28, 2021
Last shot pregnancy
Jun 14, 2021
Hair — Why do we care?
May 31, 2021
The rage in my pelvis
May 17, 2021
What the hell happens in old age?
May 03, 2021
Fetish
Apr 19, 2021
Introducing — Season 5 of Ladies, We Need To Talk
Apr 12, 2021
The secret lives of vaginas
Oct 19, 2020
To pube or not to pube
Oct 05, 2020
Escaping monogamy
Sep 21, 2020
How to break up well
Sep 07, 2020
Anal Sex — the biggest taboo
Aug 24, 2020
Solving the mental load — update
Aug 10, 2020
Emotional abuse
Jul 27, 2020
Clitoris 101
Jul 13, 2020
The answer's no
Jun 29, 2020
Propping up your partner
Jun 15, 2020
Coronavirus — Are we panic buying partners?
Jun 08, 2020
The gender beauty gap
Jun 01, 2020
A gender gap of pandemic proportions
May 18, 2020
The secrets we keep
May 04, 2020
50-shades of erotic literature
Apr 20, 2020
Anxious? We got you
Apr 06, 2020
Coronavirus — hot tips on how you can get through
Apr 02, 2020
BONUS — The concrete ceiling
Dec 09, 2019
Ladies, we love your boobs
Nov 04, 2019
Toxic mums
Oct 21, 2019
Sex after sexual assault
Oct 07, 2019
Sexually transmitted isolation
Sep 23, 2019
Walking away from your kids — update
Sep 09, 2019
How to make friends as an adult
Aug 26, 2019
The patriarchy of poo
Aug 12, 2019
Esther Perel — how to have a hard conversation
Jul 29, 2019
Birth control — choose your own adventure
Jul 15, 2019
Stone cold sober — alcohol update
Jul 01, 2019
Footloose and childfree
Jun 17, 2019
Body image — why do we hate our bodies?
Jun 03, 2019
Discharge — the gooey taboo
May 20, 2019
Abortion — beyond the stereotype
May 06, 2019
When bad sex is your life
Apr 22, 2019
INTRODUCING — Series 3 of Ladies, We Need To Talk
Apr 08, 2019
Ladies, we love you
Nov 05, 2018
Anxious much?
Oct 22, 2018
Perimenopause — coming to a uterus near you
Oct 08, 2018
Mean girls — our secret sexism
Sep 24, 2018
The secret life of hormones
Sep 10, 2018
When sex hurts
Aug 27, 2018
Obsession with youth
Aug 13, 2018
Settling for average
Jul 30, 2018
Ladies Live — closing the orgasm gap
Jul 16, 2018
The pelvic flaw in all of us
Jul 03, 2018
Foreplay — getting what you want
Jun 18, 2018
BONUS — ladies who are single and killing it
Jun 15, 2018
Being single and owning it
Jun 04, 2018
Can porn be good for women?
May 21, 2018
BONUS — you tell us - living through pregnancy loss   
May 18, 2018
The 12 week rule
May 07, 2018
Women who cheat
Apr 24, 2018
INTRODUCING — series 2 of Ladies, We Need To Talk
Apr 10, 2018
Bonus: More than pads and tampons
Nov 23, 2017
Bonus: Your vagina questions answered
Nov 09, 2017
Masturbation — the big taboo
Oct 25, 2017
Fat talk
Oct 18, 2017
Has anyone seen my libido?
Oct 11, 2017
Breaking the motherhood contract
Oct 04, 2017
Let's slay menstrual taboos
Sep 27, 2017
Anyone for a drink?
Sep 20, 2017
Time to name (and shame) the mental load
Sep 13, 2017
You say vulva, I say vagina
Sep 06, 2017
INTRODUCING — Ladies, We Need To Talk
Aug 31, 2017