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S3E4 Overwhelmed and Over It: How to Simplify One Part of Your Life This Week
Overwhelmed and Over It: How to Simplify One Part of Your Life This Week ...so there’s more time for what you actually want to do.In this solo episode of *A Grown Up’s Gap Year – The Podcast, author…
S3E3 Life After Menopause: Strong, Supported & Informed with Dr Joanna Bruce Womens Health Expert
Today we’re talking about something that doesn’t get nearly enough airtime: life after menopause. Not the hot flush headlines, not the “is this peri?” panic – but what comes once the immediate…
S3E2 The Anti-Guilt Calculator: From Mental Load to Real Time-Out and Space for You
If you’re the one who remembers everyone’s everything – the logistics, the appointments, the emotions – but can’t remember the last time you had proper time-out, this episode is for you. In this…
S3E1 A Grown Up’s Gap Year, From “I Can’t” to “Of Course I Can": My Year of Choosing Yes
Hello, for the first episode of season three, I'm going to replay one of our most downloaded, most messaged about episodes to ease you into the year and ask, what about me and what about right…
S2E12 Ask Why Not You: How Values Become Your North Star
Hello and Happy New Year. During January, I'm replaying four of our most downloaded, most messaged about episodes. Think of them as a short series to ease you into the year and ask, what about me and…
S2E11 Emptier Nest And Everyday Resets That Work: with Prue Francis
Hello and Happy New Year. During January, I'm replaying four of our most downloaded, most messaged about episodes. Think of them as a short series to ease you into the year and ask, what about me and…
S2E10 Why More Women Over 50 Are Travelling Solo: And Loving It
Hello and Happy New Year. During January, I'm replaying four of our most downloaded, most messaged about episodes. Think of them as a short series to ease you into the year and ask, what about me and…
S2E9 Treat Yourself Like a Project: How Small Actions Lead to Big Clarity
Hello and Happy New Year. During January, I'm replaying four of our most downloaded, most messaged about episodes. Think of them as a short series to ease you into the year and ask, what about me and…
S2E8 A Grown Up’s Gap Year, From “I Can’t” to “Of Course I Can": My Year of Choosing Yes
If you’ve ever looked around your life and thought, “Is this it?” while simultaneously being needed by everyone, this one’s for you.In the final episode of Season Two, author and nutritionist Monique…
S2E7 Ditch the “New Year, New You” Resolutions: Pick Up a Notebook, Not a 75-Day Challenge
If “New Year, New You” makes you want to throw your phone in the sea, this one’s for you. In this episode, Monique van Tulder – author of A Grown Up’s Gap Year – calls time on the standard New Year…
S2E6 Mid-Life Maintenance Mojo: Just Wear the Bikini & Other Handy Hints
In this episode of A Grown Up’s Gap Year – The Podcast, Monique unpacks mid-life maintenance mojo – from mammograms and strength training to swimsuits, perimenopause, and why you should just wear the…
S2E5 Happyish Holidays: Festive Season Boundaries & What Feels Like Home
Design a festive season that actually fits: clear, kind boundaries and small rituals that help you feel at home when “utterly joyful” feels like a stretch. In this short episode of A Grown Up’s Gap…
S2E4 Dreaming of Your Own Greek Island House? A Chic Local Shares Her Mid-Life Reset on Hydra
Ever caught yourself scrolling Greek property listings, wondering what it would be like to trade your commute for cobblestones, donkeys and Aegean light? In this episode of A Grown Up’s Gap Year –…
S2E3 Mid-life Mental Load and Guilt: Your SPACE Prescription for Better Boundaries
If you’re a mid-life woman who’s somehow ended up at the top of everyone else’s “people we need” pyramid and the bottom of your own, this one’s for you. In this episode, Monique talks about what…
S2E2 Streamline Your Lifestyle: Declutter, Create SPACE, and Feel Better Now
Feeling better starts with space — physical first, mental next. In this candid, useful episode, Monique reads from her book, A Grown Up's Gap Year, on the beauty of simplicity, then gets real about…
S2E1 Your Two Minute Travel Prescription Reset: Find Space in Mid-life
Feeling stretched thin and a little invisible? This episode gives you a simple, two-minute Travel Prescription Certificate to start reclaiming space—without dismantling your life. We talk the hot…
S1E15 Reinvention With Monique van Tulder and Michelle Cox on One Question Podcast
This episode is part of a ‘series’ on the podcast One Question with host Michelle Cox - where she is talking to all guests about the same topic, and that topic is REINVENTION!It is a topic she is…
S1E14 From Shirley Valentine to Solo Adventure: Lessons from a Grown Up's Gap Year
A replay of an Episode where the mic is turned and I am a guest, chatting with Gillian Whitney of Easy Peasy Books podcast."Monique, author of "A Grown Up's Gap Year: Put YOU in the picture", shares…
S1E13 Breaking the Midlife Mold: Secrets of Australia’s Most Relentless PR Student
Another replay of an Episode where the mic is turned and I am a guest. This week chatting with Liz Nable, host of Media Magnet podcast (and Chief all round Media and PR wizz Media Masters Academy).…
S1E12 I Did a Shirley Valentine: Took a Gap Year and Found Myself
A replay of an Episode where the mic is turned and I am a guest of Your 2nd Act host Michelle Parsonage: Imagine reaching midlife and deciding to take a gap year, on your own, without your family,…
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A Grown Up's Gap Year has published 32 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Society & Culture.
A Grown Up's Gap Year is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 28m.
