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Happier Grey Podcast
I'm pro-ageing and love my grey hair, but I know it can be quite intimidating to take the plunge, so each week, on the Happier Grey Podcast, I'll be chatting to other women who've chosen to embrace the grey in the hope of inspiring and supporting you, whether you already have silver hair, are in the process of going grey, or just considering ditching the dye.
Episodes
96 episodes
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 96 - With Julie Kneafsey
In this episode, I'm chatting to Julie Kneafsey, AKA the Fiftyist, about her grey hair journey. And how the transition led to a new career, and a completely different attitude towards ageing.Julie's had breast cancer twice, and when gene...
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Episode 96
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 95 - With Emma Blaker
In this episode I'm chatting to Emma Blaker who chose to go grey in Lockdown, and lightened her hair first to avoid a strong demarcation line during the grow out.Emma works as a mobile barber, and one of the things we chatted about was h...
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Episode 95
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23:46
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 94 - With Alison Monteith
In this week's podcast I'm chatting to Alison Monteith, who loves creating some drama with her silver hair, which is short at the sides and long on top. When she styles it up, she always get lots of compliments when she's out and about.A...
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Episode 94
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21:21
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 93 - With Janet Stevens
In this episode I'm chatting to Janet Stevens, who chose to ditch the day 8 years ago, when her husband and hairdresser both asked why she was having it highlighted a pale ash blonde, which was very similar to her natural silvering shade.
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Episode 93
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23:01
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 92 - With Niki Rubin
In this episode I'm chatting to Niki Rubin who is 20 months into her grow out. Like most of us, Niki has had days when she's tempted to start dyeing again, but each time she comes back to the reasons she chose to ditch the dye each time she has...
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Episode 92
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28:36
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 91 - With Amanda Gillespie
In this week's episode I'm chatting to Amanda Gillespie, who started to go grey in her 20s, and found that children are the most likely to comment and assume that you must be old if you have grey hair.Amanda's the only guest I've had who...
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Episode 91
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21:42
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 90 - With Susan Ritchie
In this episode, I'm chatting to Susan Ritchie, who went grey during Lockdown, having dyed her hair for donkey's years before hand. Dyeing was such a habit, that growing the colour out wasn't something she'd ever considered. She'd a...
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Episode 90
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23:36
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 89 - With Rachel Peru
In this episode I'm chatting the Rachel Peru, who ditched the dye at 45, and started a new career as a silver haired, curve model a year later. She's a body confidence activist and host of the Liberte free to be Podcast.We chat about how...
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Episode 89
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19:58
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 88 - With Jo Renshaw Thomlinson
In this episode I'm chatting with Jo Renshaw Thomlinson, who is coach, based in Brighton.Jo had a change of career direction when she was 44, moving from being a freelance photographer to starting to build her coaching business. Her deci...
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Episode 88
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18:45
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 87 - With Hulya Erbeyli
In this episode I'm chatting to Hulya Erbeyli, who is 11 months into her grow out. Like many of us, Hulya spent many years colouring her hair on autopilot, never questioning why she was doing it.But all that changed when she was rushing ...
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Episode 87
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24:16
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 86 - With Sandra Bird
This week I'm chatting to Sandra Bird, a holistic practitioner from Suffolk, who first embraced her natural greys in her forties. But she found they made her look and feel dull.Over the years, she's flitted between first natural looking ...
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Episode 86
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18:19
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 85 - With Tina Boden
In this week's episode I'm chatting with Tina Boden, who went grey in Lockdown, and feels very at home with the grey hair.Tina is all about making midlife matter. And has done everything from entering Mrs Galaxy UK (and posting about it ...
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Episode 85
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22:49
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 84 - With Michelle Smith
In this week's episode I'm chatting to Michelle Smith, who coloured her hair for 40 years, before growing the colour out Lockdown. She'd always had long hair, but ended up with it very short as part of her grow out. And it was the c...
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Episode 84
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17:07
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 83 - With Clare Downham
In this week's episode I'm chatting to Clare Downham, who's decision to ditch the dye was driven by a desire to reduce the harmful chemicals she was putting in and on her body.She feels more comfortable in her own skin now, than she has ...
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Episode 83
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20:31
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 82 - With Lizzie George
In this week's episode I'm catching to Lizzie George, who chose to go grey during the Pandemic, when she moved into a motor home full time.Lizzie loves her short grey hair, both for how it looks, and for how easy it is to look after. Per...
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Episode 82
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21:41
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 81 - With Juno Quaintrell
In this episode I'm chatting to Juno Quaintrell. Having dyeing her hair into her 50s in the belief that looking younger was important if she wanted to forge a new career post-divorce, she in now comfortable with her natural silver highlights.
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Episode 81
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18:53
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 80 - With Rachel Eglinton
In this episode I'm chatting to Rachel Eglinton who chose to go grey while she was living in Romania. She had a short Bob at the start of her grow out, a route that she highly recommends.Rachel lives full time on a narrow boat, so low ma...
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Episode 80
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22:28
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 79 - With Jenny Wall
This week's episode is a little different, because I dropped my daughter at university this week, which got me thinking about mums. And I realised that I've never invited my own silvering mother onto the show, I decided to invite her as my gues...
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Episode 79
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 78 - With Aishah Iqbal
In this episode I'm chatting to Aishah Iqbal, who chose to go grey during the Pandemic as the result of an International Women's Day Challenge from the company she was working for.Aishah has come a long way since that decision, creating ...
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Episode 78
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33:57
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 77 - With Leah Dalby
In this episode I'm chatting to Leah Dalby, who experimented with having her hair highlighted for a while. But stopped following a terrible experience at the hairdressers.She had her hair permed for 39 years, before deciding to stop 10 y...
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Episode 77
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15:12
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 76 - With Rachel Jammeh
In this week's episode I'm chatting to Rachel Jammeh, who only tried to have her hair dyed once... and ended up in hospital following a severe allergic reaction to the dye.As a result covering her greys has never been an option for Rache...
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Episode 76
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17:41
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 75 - With Kim McClaran
This week I'm chatting to Kim McClaran, who is based in the States.She originally had pale red hair, which faded to blonde, rather than having obvious white hairs. She has only ever used temporary dyes on her hair, which she started colo...
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Episode 75
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22:00
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 74 - With Helen Davis
In this episode I'm chatting the Helen Davis, who's decision to stop dyeing her hair coincided with major life changes in 2015.Helen first started dyeing her hair as a result of a comment her sister made ahead of her getting married. So,...
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Episode 74
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18:10
Happier Grey Podcast Episode 73 - With Emma Finn
In this episode I'm chatting to Irish artist Emma Finn, who is almost a year into her grow out.Emma's enjoyed experimenting with her hair, since she first dyed it when she was 12. At the moment, she's having fun with the effects she can ...
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Episode 73
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Happier Grey Podcast Episode 72 - With Franca Cumbo
In this episode I'm chatting to Franca Cumbo who is 18 months into her grow out, and feels like to amount of grey she's seeing is plateauing. Like many of us she's seeing less grey than she expected.Franca experimented with highlights in...
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Episode 72
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19:47
