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Calm Christmas by Beth Kempton

Regular Kintsugi columnist Beth Kempton returns for a second year with her beautifully evocative podcast, ‘Calm Christmas’. A gentle entreaty to go more slowly, spend less, spend better, and focus on what really matters, Kempton’s podcast walk you through the holiday season with grace. Essential seasonal listening for a more mindful Christmas.

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Reinvention Rebels

We all need to find a new way forward sometimes, and this brilliant podcast offers interviews with women between the ages of 50 and 90 who have unapologetically created new possibilities for themselves. Totally inspiring.

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Postcards from Mid-Life – Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Editors Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin speak to a series of experts about everything from menopause to reinvention, as well as parenting teenagers and the changes they’re facing in their mid-lives. Warm, engaging and very real.

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The Purpose Show (Allie Casazza)

 Busy mum Allie Casazza hosts a series of thoughtful and inspiring conversations on changing your life to live more simply. With plenty of brilliant business and life hacks to motivate you to live a better life, with less, this is the perfect roadmap to balance and calm.

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Simplify by Blinkist

 Rounding up some of the best thought leaders on habits, happiness, relationships and health in powerful 45-minute segments, Simplify covers topics such as creating joy, changing behaviours and mastering your body language. A diverse collection of inspiring philosophies for modern life.

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The Balance Podcast

Covering topics such as fostering healthy habits, the connection between breath and posture, coping with paralysing anxiety and measuring progress beyond scale, this smart podcast offers short, snappy episodes jam-packed with advice for living a more balanced life.

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Elegant Balance – Kaylee Hackney

It is possible to find a balance in life that feels elegant and intentional, and it doesn’t have to take hours of research. Kaylee Hackney’s ten-minute snippets of wisdom, feature advice on friendships, making decisions, planning ahead and parenting.

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The Simplicity Sessions by Jenn Pike

With a focus on wellbeing and health, Jenn Pike offers simple, but in-depth, tips and tools on anything from hormones, libido and gut health to resilience, mindset and relationships.

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EmpowerHer – Kacia Fitzgerald

A straight-talking, honest podcast covering life, business and relationships, and offering real tangible tools, tips & tricks for living a simple, balanced, joyful life.

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Live Happy Now – Live Happy Magazine

Focusing on the science of happiness, this brilliantly engaging podcast features a host of diverse guests, from Shawn Achor and Gretchen Rubin to Deepak Chopra and Kristin Neff talking about wellness, gratitude, well-being and mindfulness.

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Clean. Simple. Free by Ashley Fox

With short episodes, lasting only 15-minutes, this podcast makes simplifying your life, actually simple. Promoting the benefits of sustainable and minimalist living, presenter Ashley Fox provides a comprehensive go-to guide on decluttering, intentional living and finding peace in both body and mind.

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Sustainable Minimalists by Stephanie Seferian

 Showing how minimalism, eco-friendliness and being non-toxic go hand in hand, this podcast covers topics such as conscious consumerism, sustainability, and environmentally-friendly parenting, while inspiring you to find your own ways to live more simple lives.

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With Intention by Desirae Andres

Aimed at realistic advice for aspiring minimalists, this lovely podcast is about celebrating the beauty that can be found in the ordinary. Covering everything from living in balance and intentional spending, to self-care and curating a sustainable closet, join Andres as she takes a unique approach to every facet of our lives.

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Adulting by Oenone

A surprisingly varied podcast whose subject matter involves ‘trying to figure out all of the things that weren’t taught in school’. Recent topics have included the philosophy of yoga, healing with nature, body confidence, media ethics, following your intuition and doing your taxes.

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Last First Date – Sandy Weiner

A really important podcast that empowers women to attract and sustain healthy relationships in midlife. Weiner talks passionately and empathetically about cultivating intimacy, dating after divorce, healing from toxic relationships, dating authentically and rediscovering your sexual self.

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Millennial Love – The Independent

A refreshing look at our relationships, this podcast asks important questions about internalised misogyny, believing in fairy tales, cheating, diversity in romantic fiction, religion and sex, unrequited love and having children. It’s both insightful and refreshing, and host Olivia Petter brings a thoughtful and questioning tone to each topic.

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Kind World – WUBR

Focusing on how a single act of kindness can change someone’s life, in each episode, hosts Yasmin Amer and Andrea Asuaje search the world for amazing and heart-warming good news stories that will not only restore your faith in humanity, but remind you of the rich and vibrant tapestry of human relationships.

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Good Life Project – Wondery

With insight from Brené Brown, Matthew McConaughey, Austin Channing Brown and Glennon Doyle, Good Life Project offers a varied and diverse range of voices on some of the most important topics of our lives. Every episode asks what it means to live a ‘good life’ and considers that role work, love, purpose, kindness, friendship, status, circumstance, gender, privilege and race that work plays in our happy endings.

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Dear Sugars by Cheryl Strayed

Life advice from the inspirational Cheryl Strayed, this long-running podcast takes a real problem/issue every week and shares radically empathic advice on everything from consent, sexuality and break-ups to financial independence, careers and family dynamics.

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Respectful Parenting by Janet Lansbury

Janet Lansbury is renowned for her advice on gentle and respectful parenting and has spent over a decade encouraging parents to have better relationships with their children. Each episode, Lansbury addresses a reader’s parenting issue through the lens of her respectful parenting philosophy.

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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

One of the most thoughtful and insightful voices in the crowded field of health and wellness,  Dr Charterjee is a font of knowledge, compassion and, most importantly, practical steps to getting healthier and happier. A GP with over 20 years experience, Dr Charterjee’s advice is hard won and often deceptively simple. In this podcast, we hear stories from leading health experts and exciting personalities who offer easy health life-hacks, expert advice and debunk common health myths giving you the tools to revolutionise how you eat, sleep, move and relax. In the words of this brilliant host, ‘health has become overcomplicated. I aim to simplify it”.

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We Can Do Hard Things by Glennon Doyle

A wonderful companion to her ground-breaking book, Glennon’s Doyle’s podcast is predictably inspiring, thought-provoking and inspiring. Leaning on her day to day life experiences, as well as major themes from her writing Doyle works her way through topics such as boundaries, infidelity, anxiety and the lost art of having fun.

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Love Stories by Dolly Alderton

Although this series finished in 2019, some of its best episodes still bear listening to. Speaking to people about their most defining relationships, Alderton’s interviews include Matt Haig, Jessie Cave, Stanley Tucci, Emma Freud and Bryony Gordon. Expect a beautiful mix of passion, heartbreak, longing, familiarity and fondness.

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Less Alone by Amy Moore, Anna Newell Jones, Erin Linehan 

Like sitting down with a group of friends for a long and winding natter, this lovely podcast brings together three friends who have taken their coffee shop chats to the podcast studio. In a world where we are more in touch than ever but meaningful connections are lacking, this is a much-needed dose of real female connection.

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Strangers by Lea Thau 

 Strangers features true stories about the people we meet, the connections we make, the heartbreaks we suffer, the kindnesses we encounter, and those frightful moments when we discover that we aren’t even who we thought we were.

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Modern Love by The New York Times 

The Modern Love column in The New York Times is renowned for sharing an incredible breadth of relationships, across the sphere of love, intimacy and heartbreak. In this audio version, favourite stories from the column’s vast archive are shared alongside conversations with the authors. Insightful and surprising.

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The Nordic Mum by Susanna Heiskanen 

Much more than a Scandi design podcast, The Nordic Mum encapsulates the idea of living your life with a hint of Nordic simplicity and a less-is-more approach. In it, Heiskanen delves into topics as wide-ranging as trust, gender, work-life balance and happiness.

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The Power Hour with Adrienne Herbert

A brilliant weekly podcast design to inspire big change and self-improvement, with a focus on morning routines and time out. Adrienne Herbert speaks to life coaches, creatives, change-makers and innovators to find out about their morning routines, daily habits and rules to live by. Something to motivate you to pursue your passion and to achieve success.

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Past Imperfect by Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson

A great podcast for anyone wanting to work through bigger life issues, Past Imperfect asks important questions about the impact that early trauma can have on our future success. Times’ columnists, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson speak to an incredible range of people about the traumatic events in their early lives, and the effect this has had on their identities, careers and their drive to succeed.

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The Therapy Edit – Anna Mathur

We love this short set of ten-minute episodes,  presented by the brilliant psychotherapist, Anna Mathur. Mathur’s direct and honest approach gets straight to heart of the topic and she has useful tips, insights and reflections on everything from uncertainty, anxiety and guilt, to self-worth, being good enough and thriving through change.

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The Kindness Economy – Mary Portas

A podcast very much needed for our times, The Kindness Economy is about highlighting businesses and entrepreneurs who see people and planet as more important than profit. Portas talks to inspiring entrepreneurs – from fashion to architecture – about how the business world can be kinder.

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The Happiness Lab – Dr Laurie Santos

Based on the renowned psychology course she teaches at Yale, Dr Laurie Santos explodes our understanding of happiness and blends science and psychology to change the way we think about our lives. With expert guests and her own considerable insight, Santos shows us how many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better.

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The Lazy Genius – Kendra Adachi

Offering a unique new viewpoint, The Lazy Genius podcast suggests that there is a simpler way to live our lives. Aiming to cut down on life admin and help you work through the inevitable challenges of life, from doing laundry to making new friends, Adachi is a refreshingly honest host, with a wealth of clever ideas to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don’t.

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It’s About Time – Memory AI

A quick listen, at only five episodes, this fascinating series looks into our complex relationship with time – from how we think and talk about it, to how we experience it. Focusing on both scientific truth as well as social construct, About Time helps us to understand how our own humanity is linked to our understanding of time. Deeply thought-provoking.

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HERself – Abby & Amy

Featuring expert guests, covering topics as wide-ranging as women’s finances, gentle parenting and shifting a mindset, this is a great podcast for tackling all the different areas of your life, one at a time. Each week, hosts Abby and Amy remind us that being our best selves means standing firm in our decisions, taking bold steps forward and always being willing to grow.

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Listen & Breathe – Rebecca Dennis

Brilliantly focused on the power of the breath, this unique podcast features interviews on a wide range of topics, from working through trauma to discovering yoga. Each episode includes an exclusive breathing exercise, linked to that week’s theme.

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It’s About Time by Anna Dearmon Kornick

Asking eternal questions about work, life and balance, host Anna Dearmon Kornick looks deeper into our daily lives, covering everything from time management tips and productivity strategies to goal setting and self-care. A great listen for anyone wanting to move past overwhelm into spending time on what matters most.

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Saturn Returns with Caggie

A Saturn return is the astrological moment when the planet Saturn returns to the same place in the sky that it occupied at the moment of a person’s birth. Using this idea of full circle as her inspiration, Caggie Dunlop and her guests explore the idea of living with authenticity, and how to overcome the challenges that come with radical change.

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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes is a personal development podcast focused on exploring the day-to-day behaviours we all engage in that determine the results we gain in our lives. Hosted by Gregg Clunis, the show shares simple strategies you can implement into your life to start moving the needle towards your biggest goals.

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The Psychology Sisters

From trauma and anxiety to relationships and loss, Kat, a registered psychologist and Aimee, a registered psychotherapist and counsellor, take an in-depth look at the world of psychology, unpicking the way our minds work and normalising the dialogue around mental health.

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The Space – Amy Molloy

For a different kind of mindfulness podcast, look no further. Written by wellness expert, Amy Molloy, presenter Casey Donovan takes listeners on a mini escape each morning and evening with short and beautiful meditations, motivations and tips on how to improve your day. Perfect for adding to your daily routines.

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Where Should We Begin – Esther Perel

A truly illuminating podcast, Where Should We Begin features incomparable therapist Esther Perel counselling real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of the conflicts that have brought them to her door.

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The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison

Nature writer and novelist Melissa Harrison takes listeners on walks around the beautiful English countryside, while sharing her thoughts on topics as broad as finding meaning, faltering, healing and the weather. It’s a wonderful listen to take you through the seasons.

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Hey Girl by Alex Elle

Created to embrace sisterhood, promote self-care and tell stories, Hey Girl features interviews with women who are ready to have intimate conversations about everything from sexual health to civil rights, with input from Ayurvedic chefs, Olympic athletes and even the presenter’s own grandmother.

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The Michelle Obama Podcast

On her self-titled podcast, the inspirational Michelle Obama shines a light on connection and doesn’t hold back when selecting her interviewees, which include her mother, her brother and her husband. With witty honesty and a real depth, these are conversation dive into, and explore the relationships and connections that define us.

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WANTcast by Katie Horwitch

The Women Against Talk Podcast offers life lessons in moving forward fearlessly. Each episode unpacks tips, tools, motivation and inspiration to help you shift negative self-talk and the internal narrative that sets you up to fail. The goal isn’t to change who you are – it’s to become who you know you’re meant to be. Inspirational stuff.

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The Calm Christmas Podcast by Beth Kempton

Kintsugi favourite Beth Kempton shares a beautiful weekly podcast to take you through the festive season and into the New Year. Covering topics such as mindful gifting, loneliness at Christmas, new year’s ‘revolutions’ and savouring the silence, this is a thoughtful, heartwarming listen for the season.