Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton. Penny Ashton
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- Health & Fitness
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Comedian Penny Ashton is on a voyage of discovery into the hormonal hocus pocus of menopause. So what better way to learn about her moisture moving from inside her body to perspiring out her face, than by talking to a series of wondrous women and owners of ovaries about their own lives and their menopause journeys. A series of frank and funny interviews all about what to expect, when expecting the change. Warning: salty language, and not just from the night sweats. Season Three and beyond is opening up wider to include women and trans individuals of all ages and bodily functionings.
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HRT & Poetry
With a husband catching the FLiRT variant and subsequent laying low, Penny decided to bust out an ovum with her WOMAD poem all about her Showy Ovaries epiphany. Listen in as hubby shouts up the stairs from his isolation den for sandwiches, and Penny chats about what happened with HRT, what's coming up in her world and screeching about tampons in a petrol station. As you do. Buy Sense and Sensibility tickets here: www.circa.co.nz/package/sense-and-sensibility/And for The Tempestuou...
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Brainy Niki Bezzant
To coincide with the launch of her new book today; The Everything Guide: Hormones, health and happiness in menopause, midlife and beyond, Niki Bezzant dropped in to Penny's house with almond croissants to talk life, hormones and her prodigious brain.In her third visit to Showy Ovary Town, Niki told Penny of her mission to educate women about how to feel good in the skin they're in, to be kind to themselves and to look after our bodies like the well oiled machines they can be. She also attempt...
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Full Noise Angela Barnett
Writer, journalist, redhead advocate and PR specialist; Angela Barnett swung by Penny's house to discuss inter generational bodily shizzle in all its complicated glory. From her mother's traumatic birth, to her own struggles with bulimia, to making sure her daughter navigates the world aware of the ridiculous standards placed on women by the patriarchy and the diet industrial complex, they cover it all. Angela is a committed body shame banisher and advocate for women and girls. She's int...
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Magical Amanda Kennedy
Waaaay back in August 2023 Penny dropped in on Amanda Kennedy's house in West Auckland to discuss her body, her dewy complexion and her adult onset epilepsy. One half of the comedy duo The Fan Brigade, the librettist couple behind NZ Opera's The Unruly Tourists, Amanda was dealing with her recent diagnoses of ADHD, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome AND epilepsy. But was still smiling, particularly about her magical pussy. She regaled Penny with tales of getting nude in Japan, breaking her nose on ...
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Penelope Patchstart
The time has come, the research is in, the arse is too sore, the foot annoying, the new upper belly is sticking out too far... it is time for the HRT! Two days after her epic 50th birthday party Penelope Patchstart is slapping on some Estradot in the low dose of 25 somethings and seeing if it is the golden elixir of her dreams. Dreams can flounder on the rocks of reality of course, but how will you know if you don't try? In her very first unboxing podcast ovum Penelope describes the expe...
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Brightest Amy Spark
After her ballet teacher wouldn't let a very young Amy dance purely on on foot, she readjusted her life ambitions to being a pathologist. Inspired by forensic stories from her parents and from novels by Kathy Reichs, (the inspiration for the TV series Bones) she set her sights on dead people and being the last voice for those who can no longer speak. Penny dropped in on her Palmerston North Dr's office to discuss her journey with her own "meat suit" and how her day job of performing ove...
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This show is such a funny, informative, funny, inspiring, and did I mention funny? take on women's experience with their bodies. An experience that NOBODY talks about it. Because there is so much stigma about being an older woman.
My sister and I (both menopausal) are listening to this podcast together. She's six years older than me and tried to tell me about perimenopause long before I was interested. When it finally caught up with me, I asked myself, "WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY TALK ABOUT THIS?!"
Well, now, somebody—and not just anybody, but a really funny, clever, vivacious, irreverent woman and her equally entertaining and open guests—is/are talking about it. So if you don't have an older sister or mother around to talk about their experience, check out this wide-ranging show about loving your body as yourself. (And if you’re a man who spends any time with women, listen to understand their experience on a profoundly new level.)