How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams
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How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams
Turning 60 isn’t about slowing down—it’s about shaking things up. Whether it’s downsizing and embracing a simpler life, starting a new career, moving abroad, or navigating love and relationships in unexpected ways, How To Be 60 proves that this stage of life is anything but predictable.Join Kaye Ada...
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307 episodes
Midweek Catchup: The Influencer, the Endoscopy and the Tablecloth
Kaye's had a nightmare. Cancelled flight, a 6.20am rescue seat, and a live telly show to present on no sleep, softened by a lunchtime pisco sour and a...
Cindy Sheahan: Every Day Is an Adventure - Leaving a 32-Year Marriage and Travelling Alone
How much time is left on your warranty? Cindy Sheahan, 64, left a 32-year marriage, packed a backpack, and turned a two-week hike into a whole new lif...
Midweek Catchup: The Floor Ice Cream Dilemma, Karen's Water Butt Caper, and the Eighteen-Year-Old Mattress
Karen's back from her "sex retreat" in rural Italy (the most relaxing time, she swears, two trips to the beach and not a thing else), and she's convin...
Donna Lancaster: Turning Your Wounds Into Wisdom
On this week's episode, we're joined by Donna Lancaster — therapist, author, co-founder of The Bridge Retreat, and a self-described "elder in training...
Crepey Chests, Second-Hand PJs and Why We're Too Old for Loud Bars
Karen's calling in from sunny Puglia, and after last week's second-hand pyjamas confession, the internet has voted: for once, it's Team Kaye. What fol...
Gail Rice: Scaring myself alive at 70
For her 70th birthday, Gail Rice booked a male escort. It was a toss-up between that and a skydive, and she went with the one that scared her more. Bu...
Midweek Catchup: Puglia, Pre-Loved Pyjamas and Racing with Kelly Holmes
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Karen's back in Puglia on the annual trip, exactly a year on from the news that changed everything, this time with a c...
Jane Green: When You Stop Waiting To Be Chosen
Bestselling novelist Jane Green had it all. E18 New York Times bestsellers, over 10 million books in print, the beautiful homes, the blended family, t...
It's Not My Knee, It's My Hip (and Other Excuses)
Kaye's spent £120 on running shoes she may never run in, Karen might finally be selling the camper van, and a "blackhead" turns out to be something el...
Pauline Campbell: "I Am Never Going to Lower My Hand Again"
On this week's episode, Pauline Campbell got in touch herself and said she'd be a good guest. She was right. Told at 15 by a teacher she wasn't capabl...
Midweek Catchup: The Whistling Hearing Aid, The Joy of Sex, and Karen's Filthy Nails
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Karen turns up in cut-off trousers she hacked herself and sandals that have been in the garden all week. She gets her...
Sian Reeves: The Acid Yellow Dress - Caring for Dad, a Hairdresser Con, and Turning 60
On this week's episode, we're joined by Sian Reeves — actor and host of the Who Cares? podcast.
Sian talks about caring for her poorly dad, what...
Midweek Catchup: Grief, Therapy and a David Tennant Selfie
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Kaye Adams and Karen MacKenzie mark the death of Scott Hastings at 61, six months after he joined How To Be 60 to talk...
Cally Beaton: Wrong Medication, Wrong Career, Wrong Country. Right Decade.
Cally Beaton was a high-flying TV exec, a single mum of two, and quietly falling apart in her 40s. Then Joan Rivers looked her in the eye over dinner...
Midweek Catchup: A Year On, And It's Only Just Hitting
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Karen marks a year since her breast cancer diagnosis and admits she's only just starting to feel it. Because no one te...
Philippa Perry: Why Your Kids Went Quiet (And What They Wish You'd Ask)
Philippa Perry on why adult children go no contact, what they wish their parents understood, and why the door might open again if you try a different...
Midweek Catchup: Six-Packs, Bingo Wings and Using Meryl Streep as Your Inspo
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we're back together after Karen's Crete holiday and straight into the big questions: is Kaye developing a six-pack or...
Mia Mauge: From Invisible to Unstoppable — The Power of Showing Up at 60
On this week's episode, we're joined by Mia Mauge, who went from feeling invisible in her forties to walking onto a Marks & Spencer's lingerie set at...
Midweek Catchup: When Your Belly Button Starts Looking Like The Scream
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we discover that Kaye has been staring at her belly button in the mirror and what she found there is... haunting. Kare...
Victoria Hislop: The Woman Who Found Adversity Easier Than Success
On this week's episode, we're joined by Victoria Hislop, bestselling author, honorary Greek citizen, and the woman who celebrated her 60th birthday wa...
Midweek Catchup: Bum Cheeks, Ballet and the Makeup Counter From Hell
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Kaye's in Milan playing loyal assistant on Donna May's business trip (hairbrush already cleaned, wash bag already judg...
Wendi Peters: A Carpet Fitter, A Terrible Wig, and the Art of Not Giving a Damn
On this week's episode, we're joined by Wendi Peters - Corrie legend, current star of the touring theatre production Glorious, and living proof that t...
Midweek Catchup: Video Calls, Toilet Seats & a Letter from Downing Street
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Kaye nearly video-calls a professional contact from the loo (don't judge - you've done it), Karen's losing her voice t...
Jo Hamilton: The Post Office Took Everything — Except Her Fight
On this week's episode, we're joined by Jo Hamilton, the village sub-postmistress who was wrongly convicted of false accounting in the Post Office Hor...
Midweek Catchup: Forgot the VIP, Found the Earbuds, Bartered at the Optician's
On this week's Midweek Catchup, Kaye bought a Peter Kay VIP package, forgot about it entirely, and queued in the rain like a mug. Karen lost her earbu...
Tessa Peake-Jones: Why Being Alone at 60 Might Be the Best Relationship You've Ever Had
On this week's episode, we're joined by Tessa Peake-Jones, one of Britain's most beloved actors (yes, Raquel from Only Fools and Horses, and yes, she...
Midweek Catchup: Two Women, Two Holidays, One Mango Massacre
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we're reporting live from separate corners of Spain (well, almost) with tales of holiday chaos that'll feel painfully...
Donna Ashworth: Grief, Growth and the Freedom to Become Yourself
This week Kaye and Karen are joined by Donna Ashworth. Bestselling poet, wellbeing advocate, and author of Loss: The New Collection.
Donna talks...
Midweek Catchup: Sangria, Seromas and Stolen Mango
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we're recording across borders — Kaye at home, Karen on a sunny balcony in Seville, and honestly, it's never felt more...
Rosie O’Donnell: Reinvention, Motherhood, and the Gift of Getting Older
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Rosie O’Donnell, who opens up about building a life that finally feels like her own - from leaving America fo...
Midweek Catchup: Broadcasting from a Hospital Waiting Room (Popcorn Included)
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we’re coming to you from a Glasgow hospital waiting area — because life doesn’t pause neatly for podcasts, does it? Be...
Sheila Nollert: No Expiry Dates - Why One Woman Canoed into the Wilderness at 65
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Sheila Nollert, who decided that turning 65 was exactly the moment to do something many people said she should...
Midweek Catchup: Oatcakes, Journaling and Life’s Unexpected Curveballs
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, Kaye and Karen chat about the things that creep up on you in midlife — from unstoppable snacking (hello oatcakes and p...
Daisy Goodwin: The Internal Fire Alarm — Anxiety, Ambition and a Second Adolescence
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Daisy Goodwin, novelist, screenwriter and creator of Victoria, who joins Kaye and Karen for a candid conversat...
Midweek Catchup: Loggate, Needles & New Beginnings
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we unpick the drama that gripped absolutely no one but us… Loggate. Yes, the missing firewood, the woodyard showdown,...
Suzi Quatro: Determined, Independent and Not Slowing Down at 75
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Suzi Quatro, who at 75 is still doing exactly what she loves ... releasing new music and heading back out on t...
Midweek Catchup: Bathroom Floors, Gas Bills & Stabbing the Devil
On this week's Midweek Catchup, we need to warn you. The first ten minutes involve Karen, a stomach bug, and a decision no woman should have to make b...
Sally Gunnell: Hurdling Towards 60 — The Champion's Guide to Ageing Well
On this week's episode, we're joined by Olympic gold medallist and all-round legend Sally Gunnell, who, just months out from her 60th birthday, is pro...
Midweek Catchup: Duck Eggs, Lost Rings and the Weird Comfort of Superstition
On this week’s Midweek Catchup, we wander cheerfully off-piste — from the unexpected thrill of blue duck eggs and medication-induced hunger, to Valent...
Mandy Appleyard: Caring for Mum, Dignitas and the Police Knock at the Door
On this week's episode, we're joined by journalist-turned-celebrant Mandy Appleyard, who shares the extraordinary story of what happened when her fier...