Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read…

Your Joyful Years

In Your Joyful Years, Professor Joyce Harper provides an empowering, evidence-based guide to thriving beyond 50. Moving past the menopause, this book reframes later life as a vibrant new beginning—a time to rediscover purpose and prioritise self-care. Combining 40 years of scientific expertise with the candid wisdom of 50 inspiring women, Professor Harper offers a reassuring roadmap to health, happiness, and living authentically. This is the essential second book in her life-stage trilogy, proving that your best years are still to come.

Season 3 / Episode 16 – 6 August

Lou Featherstone: Luinluland’s self-love revolution baby

In this podcast Professor Joyce Harper will be interviewing guests to discuss all things health related and debunking some of the many myths around our health.

What can I say about this woman? Lu in Luland, AKA Lou Featherstone is a 50-something mom on a mission to help women of all ages unlock their potential and become as confident as they can be. Hence, the Self Love Revolution Tour!

She is a founding member of the Zero Fucks Club, a sex-positive movement that helps others grow old disgracefully! To do that, Lou is touring the WORLD in her beloved vintage Bluebird bus, busting myths about midlife and menopause along the way.

After emigrating from the UK to Portland, Oregon, she found herself extremely unhappy, she’d lost touch with her sexy self. Through small groups of AMAZING women in Portland, and her incredible Instagram community, she began to speak out more, and soon rediscovered her own voice.

That process led to two huge discoveries: first, she mastered solo sex, which changed her relationship with her body and was a huge part of re-finding her confidence. Second, it led her to feel less connected to her husband, and she made the incredibly difficult, but incredibly bold, decision to separate.

At this time she was a track-and-field tutor at a local high school but they did not approve of her social media presence – so, naturally, she told them to fuck off.

Sustainable fashion is another HUGE passion of Lou’s, check our her Instagram to see her wild style. She has an array of fantastic clothes on her bus and she gives women permission to play with their clothes which involves a lot of fun and a lot of fucks.

Every day she wakes up more in love with who she is. “I love myself more today than I did yesterday, and tomorrow I’ll love myself more than I do today.”

And she’s a TEDX speaker – helping women find their roadmap to self love. Fuck the rule book!

Lou has reclaimed her joy.

Warning – we swear a lot! This podcast is full of laugher, fun and outrageousness. This woman is so inspiring.

Lou grew up in a vicarage and has worn many hats over the years – including heading up the PTA (yes, picture her with a clipboard, shaking things up). A major turning point came when she moved from the UK to the USA with her husband. It was there that she realised something was missing – and that it was time to make a radical change. That

awakening was sparked when Lou realised the power of her vagina, vulva, orgasms, and menopause. For many women, menopause becomes a superpower – the moment they truly stop giving a fuck.

Lou embraced this shift. She left her husband, bought a vintage bus, started a YouTube channel, launched an Instagram account, and hit the road across America, inspiring women everywhere to reclaim their joy. Today, she’s performing a one-woman show and running her own festival in August 2025 in the UK.

If you get the chance, go and see her. She’s unforgettable.

She has some brilliant quotes, besides the one in her bio. Here is another – “Give up on the destination. Embrace the fucking journey.” What more can I say?

Professor Joyce Harper

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