In this episode I'm chatting with Jo Renshaw Tomlinson, 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 decision to ditch the dye was driven by a combination of looking to save money and being short on time and energy.

She didn't enjoy the grow out phase, particularly when she had a Pixie Cut to get rid of the remaining colour.

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 to dye it one morning, and stopped for a moment to ask who she was dyeing it for.

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 dyes, then vivid pinks and purples. Now her hair is white grey again, and she doesn't think she'll be dyeing it.... but never say never!

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 on LinkedIn), to creating AWWA accepting who we are, with her friend Rachel Peru.

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 change in length, rather than ditching the dye which had the most reaction from her family and friends.

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 for years. And having natural hair is just a part of the person she is today.

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. Perhaps a good thing, given that continuing to use home dyes was never really going to be an option when she down-sized from a six-bedroom family home to a motor home.

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.

Part of Juno's current attitude to ageing was forged by interviewing women from around the World for her PhD. And seeing first hand how age celebrated rather than feared in many of societies she visited.