Friday I'm in Bed

Gemma Seager and Kate Beavis
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Friday, I’m In Bed is a weekly culture and current affairs podcast for midlife women living their best life, but in bed by 10. Pop culture, news, menopause, feminism, and the cultural moments everyone’s talking about, plus the ones we probably should be, taken on with the warmth and dry humour of your group chat. Hosted by Gemma Seager (40-something, childfree, personal trainer, cocktail lover, two spoiled pugs) and Kate Beavis (50-something menopause coach, anti-ageism campaigner, mum navigating grown-up family life), it’s where the news cycle, the trend cycle and the menopause discourse get talked about the way you’d talk about them with friends. Honest, warm, irreverent, unfiltered. A podcast for elder millenial, xennial and Gen X women and beyond who want cultural commentary, not coaching. Not advice. Not wellness. Just the chat you wish you were already in. New episodes every Friday.

  1. 2d ago

    It's Friday I'm Being Spied On:Meta glasses, voyeurism and The Odyssey's missing women

    Meta glasses look like an ordinary pair of Ray-Bans, which is exactly the problem. This week we're talking about voyeurism and what happens when being filmed becomes the default. Meta pushed an update stopping people tampering with the recording light, then two days later the FT reported they've prototyped glasses that record constantly with no light at all. We get into spy cameras hidden in air fresheners, the new guidance on how female athletes are photographed, and why Disney songs have more protection than women do. Then The Odyssey, and what Christopher Nolan did with the best cast of actresses in years. Follow us @FridayImInBed @GemmaSeager @FearlessAt50

  2. Jul 24 ·  Bonus

    It's Friday I Miss Her

    No episode this week. Gem lost her pug this week, and she's not in a place to record 45 minutes of chat and nonsense right now. Normal service resumes next Friday. Here's Peppa's audition for podcast co-host, demonstrating her sassiness. Back soon. Thanks for understanding. 🖤

  3. Jul 17

    It's Friday I'm Talking Green Flags: Erling Haaland, Love Island & Modern Masculinity

    This week we're asking why women who speak up always seem to end up under more scrutiny than the behaviour they're challenging. Inspired by Love Island's Jasmine, we unpack the idea of the "bad feminist", why women are expected to get feminism exactly right, and whether we've created impossible standards for ourselves. Then we swap the villa for the football pitch as we ask why Erling Haaland has suddenly become the internet's favourite example of positive masculinity. Is he really the anti-Manosphere? Or are we all just desperately relieved to see a successful man who seems comfortable being kind, affectionate and completely himself? Along the way there are the usual moans (AI chatbots and tall people at gigs), a little bit of football despite neither of us really being football people, and plenty of Friday I'm in Bed-style overthinking. Grab a cuppa, get comfortable, and join us. Follow Us: @FridayImInBed, @GemmaSeager, @FearlessAt50 Topics covered: Love Island, Jasmine, pink pill, good feminist bad feminist, choice feminism, Erling Haaland, golden retriever boyfriend, positive masculinity, manosphere, Jude Bellingham

  4. Jul 10

    It's Friday I'm in Medical Menopause: Medical gaslighting, cancer treatment and how to find people who get it

    Kate's on holiday, so Gemma welcomes a special guest Georgie Swallow. Most women are left in the dark about the true impact of medical menopause; by the time they realise the symptoms, they've already experienced years of chaos. Gemma and Georgie uncover how treatment for blood cancer and other conditions can push women into early menopause without warning, leaving them feeling lost, misunderstood, and unprepared for the rollercoaster ahead. In this eye-opening episode, they share their personal journeys through medical menopause and reveal the often-overlooked symptoms, from temperature regulation chaos to brain fog and memory lapses. They discuss how the healthcare system regularly fails to signpost women to the right support, and why menopause, even when triggered by cancer treatments. deserves more attention and understanding. Follow us The show: ⁠@FridayImInBed⁠Gemma: ⁠@GemmaSeager⁠Kate: ⁠@FearlessAt50⁠This week's guest: Georgie Swallow @georgieeswallow

  5. Jul 3

    It's Friday I'm Reading With My Cat: The Pressure on Childfree Women to Be Impressively Productive

    Kate's off sunning herself in Spain, so this week Gemma's joined by Laurie from the Female Childfree Collective for a one-topic special. We're talking about a very modern pressure: the idea that if you're childfree, you should be visibly, impressively productive about it. Five businesses, six holidays a year, a new hobby every fortnight. When did freedom stop meaning you get to choose and start meaning you have to optimise? We make the case for lying on the sofa with a book and a pug instead. Follow us The show: @FridayImInBedGemma: @GemmaSeagerKate: @FearlessAt50This week's guest: the Female Childfree Collective, @femalechildfreecollective (events in London and Manchester via Instagram and Meetup)Topics coveredChildfree by choice, childfree women, midlife, pronatalism, falling fertility rates, hustle culture, the pressure to optimise, workplace bias, representation, building community.

  6. Jun 26

    It's Friday I'm Reading Smut on the Train: Romantasy, Female Rage & the Broadsheet Pearl-Clutching

    This week we ask why new research has named UK women the angriest, saddest and most worried in Europe, and whether medical misogyny, the pay gap and invisible labour might have something to do with it. Then we get into romantasy and the moral panic over Bad Girl Books, Britain's first romantasy bookshop. Why is fantasy treated as high art when men write it and trash when women do? Expect dragons, smut, the 250-year panic about women reading, and the question of whether everything really has to be Proust. Topics covered: female rage, women's anger, medical misogyny, NHS waiting lists, gender pay gap, invisible labour, romantasy, Sarah J Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing, Bad Girl Books, BookTok, moral panic, midlife women

  7. Jun 19

    It's Friday I'm Not Gucci: Hannah Spencer's Charity Shop Shirt, Leftover Women and Childless Cat Ladies

    This week, the Hannah Spencer "Gucci" shirt that wasn't. A patterned blouse in Parliament got branded a £2,000 designer piece online, when it was really a £15 charity-shop find, so we get into why women's clothes draw scrutiny men's never do, and how one post hardens into "fact". Then to China's so-called "leftover women", the label the state coined for educated, single women in their late twenties, and the brilliant way women have flipped it from leftover to victorious. From Christmas cakes to pickles to childless cat ladies, we ask why a single woman keeps getting branded as food past its date. Follow us @FridayImInBed@GemmaSeager@FearlessAt50Topics covered: Hannah Spencer, Gucci shirt, charity shop, women in politics, misinformation, leftover women, sheng nu, China leftover women, reclaiming language, childless cat ladies, JD Vance, birth rate, pronatalism, spinster, midlife women, feminism

  8. Jun 12

    It's Friday I'm Invisible: Women Over 60 in Film & Cosmeticorexia in Tweenagers

    New research says films are more likely to star a talking animal, or a leading man called Chris, than a woman over 60. This week we get into ageism in film and TV and the midlife women who vanish from our screens around 40, only to reappear as somebody's grandmother or a witchy old hag. Why do older women keep disappearing? Do reboots like Practical Magic and And Just Like That count as progress, or just nostalgia? We talk about what The Substance and Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl get right, who's missing from the writers' room, and whether things are finally starting to shift. Then: cosmeticorexia, the unhealthy skincare obsession gripping girls as young as eight. We unpack tween skincare routines, glass skin, retinol burn and anti-ageing products being marketed to children, the Sephora kids pipeline and the brands behind it, the parents footing the bill, and why a child influencer earning 50,000 a year should give everyone pause. Whose fault is it, the brands, TikTok, or us? Topics covered: women over 60 in film, ageism in Hollywood, midlife women on screen, representation of older women, cosmeticorexia, tween and kids skincare, glass skin, anti-ageing, Sephora kids, social media and parenting. Follow us: 🎙 Podcast: ⁠@FridayImInBed⁠ 💋 Gemma: ⁠@GemmaSeager⁠ ✨ Kate: ⁠@FearlessAt50⁠ 💌 Subscribe to The Zine for bonus content and Friday extras: ⁠https://mailchi.mp/a0c1ccf41dd8/ifww96xyhc

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Friday, I’m In Bed is a weekly culture and current affairs podcast for midlife women living their best life, but in bed by 10. Pop culture, news, menopause, feminism, and the cultural moments everyone’s talking about, plus the ones we probably should be, taken on with the warmth and dry humour of your group chat. Hosted by Gemma Seager (40-something, childfree, personal trainer, cocktail lover, two spoiled pugs) and Kate Beavis (50-something menopause coach, anti-ageism campaigner, mum navigating grown-up family life), it’s where the news cycle, the trend cycle and the menopause discourse get talked about the way you’d talk about them with friends. Honest, warm, irreverent, unfiltered. A podcast for elder millenial, xennial and Gen X women and beyond who want cultural commentary, not coaching. Not advice. Not wellness. Just the chat you wish you were already in. New episodes every Friday.

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  • Creator
    Gemma Seager and Kate Beavis
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Gemma Seager and Kate Beavis
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    Friday I'm in Bed