Merry Christmas everyone!! We thought we would bring you a little Christmas treat. In this bonus episode, Jana and Ria shine a light on eating disorders at Christmas as they touch on the social pressures of eating out, food anxiety and owning your eating.  Highlighting the importance of acceptance at a time where eating a little (or even a lot) more than usual can be quite daunting for some. Have a listen, look out for each other and enjoy! --- Make sure to hit that follow button and head...

Hello and welcome to the final week of the first season of Matriarch's podcast: Let's Talk About Sex. This week, the gorgeous trio of Alicia, Jana and Chloe talk about what they know (or perhaps, don't know) about menopause, how it affected their mum's and their hopes for the discussion about menopause in the future. Have an amazing Christmas, and we'll see you in the New Year. Lots of love, the Matriarch Team x  Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your...

Welcome back to the Matriarch podcast. This week, on episode 5 of Let's Talk About Sex, Jana and Alicia talk about fertility. As is the beauty of the Matriarch podcast, enjoy listening to a mixture of personal experience and worldly musings about all things pregnancy, children (or rather lack of) and fertility. Lots of love. Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch --- Welcome back to...

Welcome back to the Matriarch podcast. This week, on episode 4 of Let's Talk About Sex, Lulu and Alicia are back again! (Who else loves this dynamic duo?!) Bit more of an emotional one this week, as we navigate the broad topic of bodily autonomy. Touching on everything from sex, consent, disability, transness, sex work and even just getting ready for a night out, we basically just have a really good chat. So pretend you're on FaceTime with your best pal, and enjoy. Much love.  Make sure to...

Welcome back to the Matriarch podcast. This week, on episode 3 of Let's Talk About Sex, Lulu and Alicia get down and dirty talking about the ins and outs of contraception. Speaking from their personal experiences, the girls cover issues surrounding hormonal contraception (i.e. the pill and the IUS), as well as male attitudes to protection and how contraception conversations manifest themselves in hook up culture and relationships. Hope you enjoy! Make sure to hit that follow button and...

TW: consent.  Let's talk wanking.  For the second episode of our sexy season, Jana, Alicia and Ria talk all things female pleasure. Why do we hide our vibrators? Why is wanking such a masculine practice? and should we really be feeling awkward about talking to our closest friends about it? Take a listen to hear our take... Make sure to hit that follow button and head over to our Instagram for your fill of daily Matriarch content - @mtrrch Love, The Team @ Matriarch --- Welcome back to...

TW: consent, assault. We're back and we're better than ever, baby. Welcome back to Matriarch's very own podcast. We've had some changes since you were last here and it's not just our cover art...  Matriarch is now a team of six incredible women and lucky for you, we love to talk. So what better for our first podcast season than sex. From wanking to menopause, we've got you covered with weekly episodes over the next month.  On our first episode, Jana, Harriet and Ria are talking about consent...

TW: Grief When your life changes and your house becomes a florist. On 17th June 2020, our lovely father, Nab passed away. It was sudden, out the blue and jolted my life forever. Life is now very much pre and post Dad and I can't see it any other way. One day I was 19 years old, the next I was living a life that was way beyond my control, knowledge or what should be expected of any 19 year old - overwhelming to say the least.  Over the past year, with the support of incredible friends and...

TW: Grief Sita, Mara and Ria. aka The trio. aka The sisters. aka Flora, Fauna and Merriweather. Please give a warm welcome this week to Sita and Mara Kalsi, Ria's older sisters, and a huge pat on the back for actually managing to co-ordinate the three of them to record an episode!  It's totally fitting that Sita and Mara are the first guests on the podcast being 2 of the women who inspire not only Matriarch but Ria, every day.  Our sister's club has always been tight knit, weird and...

TW: eating disorders, calorie counting, diets, body image and weight loss/gain. Finding fitness in my life has always been a struggle and a yoyo but now, at the age of 20, I do feel like I'm getting there and changing my lifestyle for my body and mind. But this was hard, it's been 2 years and I'm still going, because ultimately, none of this is linear - it's a consistent effort. Join our creator and founder Ria for another episode where she discusses the past 2 years of incorporating fitness...

I promise, this isn't me panicking about finishing my degree... But I have in fact finished my 3 year degree at the University of Exeter studying English and I feel like it's run away from me! So today, I take a run down of my journey from sixth form to uni and reflect on my course - strengths, weaknesses and everything in between.  Feel like you have a voice to be heard? Let us know and send a DM or an email! For more information, head to our website, mtrrch.com. Find us on Instagram: @mtrrch

Since March 2020, the fight for social justice has seem to become a priority in the culture of all generations. With this, online activism became a way for people to support and stay safe during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Nowadays, it seems anyone with access to the internet and and Instagram account can begin making content to inform others and we’ve seen the rise of infographic culture. But where’s the line between help and hinder? Today, I discuss the development of online...

Flop, fall, break down, fail. Whatever you want to call it, we all experience it on a regular basis. But is there more to unpack here than just a simple word? What's the effect of that on us over time? What does it really tell us about people? Do we use this to judge people with rather than to help each other? Today I unpack some of my experiences with failure and how that's effected me and where I've found power in failure.  Feel like you have a voice to be heard? Let us know and send a DM...

Welcome to the podcast! The new facet of the growing platform, Matriarch. Set up by Ria Kalsi in 2019, Matriarch is the platform that strives to create change, empower and build human connection. Starting by blogging about her own thoughts and struggles, Matriarch has grown into a platform that welcomes anyone and everyone's voices whether it's through blog posts, Instagram resources or, now, a podcast! In our first episode, Ria shares the roots of Matriarch - where we've come from, what...