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From "I'll Call Ya" to Forever: The Film Set Love Story of Amy and Ken Ferris
Some love stories begin with silence — and a man on a crane who forgot to dial.
As Amy Ferris launches her new book, Amy in Retrograde: Desperately Seeking Rewiring, she takes us back to where it all began: a dive bar on Amsterdam Avenue, a jukebox, two drinks, and three words that were not I love you — they were I'll call ya. He didn't. She waited. She stewed. She showed up on set, planted her hands on her hips, and told him — in front of the entire cast, crew, and catering — exactly where he could go.
James Gandolfini called her the coolest chick he'd ever met. Anthony Minghella said she had platinum balls. Ken came down from the crane.
From Inherited Trauma to the Humming Queen, Frannie Sheridan's Journey Back to Joy
What if everything you went through was actually preparing you for your greatest gift?
Navigating Grief, Connection and Dementia
A moving memoir that brings remarkable stories of transformation and hope to life.
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Michelle Wollaston On Why Your Body Still Remembers Trauma Long After It's Over
Most conversations about abuse focus on the moment it occurs. But for many women, the greater impact lies in what follows.
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Chook Sh*t Happens: Julie Hayes' Cruise Diary of Glamour, Grime, and White Shoes
My mum had a saying she'd pull out whenever I got a little too big for my boots. Years later, on my first cruise — she got me again.
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Mike Devlin Shares Taylor Swift Inspired Chicken Tenders Recipe (Better Than Takeaway)
Evidently one of Taylor Swift's favourite foods. Can I make them professionally, yet show you how easily it's done?
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Fiamma by Dana Neri
At its thematic core, Fiamma is an exploration of absence — specifically, the enduring psychological imprint of losing a parent during formative years.
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The D'Ascenzo Zone hosted by Mike D'Ascenzo
A space for those seeking growth, clarity, and a deeper understanding of what it means to build a meaningful life.
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Bali's Day of Silence: Mike Devlin On How Nyepi Works
The day before Nyepi, windows begin to be blacked out and open venues shuttered. Most mobile networks go dark.
Recognising the Women
Behind the Work
Every day, women build audiences, share knowledge, and create content that genuinely changes lives — often without the recognition they deserve. The DWC Content Creator Awards exist to change that.
- 01 Podcast of the Year
- 02 Newsletter of the Year
- 03 YouTube Channel of the Year
- 04 Blog / Online Publication
- 05 Social Media Creator
- 06 Book / Self-Published Author
- 07 Emerging Creator
- 08 Community Builder
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Editorial Update
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To every woman reading this —
There is something happening in the conversations this week that feels different. Women are writing in not just to share what they've overcome, but to name what they are building — quietly, deliberately, on their own terms.
This issue spans grief and gastronomy, entrepreneurship and the garden, sport and the stars. It is, as every issue is, a small map of where we are right now — and a reminder that we are always in good company.
Wherever you are reading this, thank you for being here.
— Cami, Publisher
Scars that Shine
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After the Diagnosis, I Finally Started Living
When Sharon received her breast cancer diagnosis at 47, she had two businesses, a marriage she was holding together by habit, and a life that looked fine from the outside. What came next — the treatment, the collapse, and the extraordinary rebuilding — is the story she never expected to be telling.
"I used to think resilience meant holding on. Now I know it means knowing when to let go."— Sharon Aldridge
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DWC Conversations 18 — How to Set Boundaries and Protect Your Energy
The digital guide our readers return to most often. Practical, direct, and designed to be read in an afternoon and returned to for years. Written for women who already know they need to change something but aren't yet sure how to begin.
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DWC 100 Women
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Dr Anita Kapoor
Cardiologist · Author · Advocate
A practising cardiologist who realised that the most important conversations about women's heart health weren't happening in clinics — so she took them to the street, to social media, and eventually to a book that has now reached over 200,000 readers globally.
Dr Kapoor is one of the most compelling voices in women's health today. What makes her remarkable is not the credentials — it is the refusal to let those credentials become a barrier between herself and the women she is trying to reach.
Pet Care
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What Your Dog Actually Needs — And What We Give Them Instead
The gap between our emotional projections and our pets' actual requirements is wider than most owners realise. A veterinary behaviourist on the five most common misunderstandings she sees in the consultation room — and the simple adjustments that make the biggest difference.
Pat Allchorne's
Best Reads
Five books. Every month. Chosen by a woman who has spent her life surrounded by them. Pat Allchorne ran a 40,000-book shop for nearly twenty years — now she reads for the joy of it, and shares what she finds with DWC readers around the world.
"A book left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing — but also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life."
For nearly 20 years Pat ran a second-hand bookshop in Warrington — over 40,000 books on every subject imaginable. Now retired, she reads with the same joy she always has, especially when she discovers new authors.favourite book?
Small Business
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The Invoice You're Afraid to Send
How undercharging became the polite habit that is quietly undermining your business. Three women who identified the pattern, named their number, and discovered that the client they feared losing was not the one worth keeping.
Column
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The Version of You That Keeps Getting Postponed
She is not waiting for retirement or the mortgage to clear. She is waiting for you to stop treating her future as the reward for everything that comes before it. The postponed version of yourself is not a distant destination. She is a decision you keep not making.
Gardening
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Growing Roses in Difficult Conditions — What Actually Works
Less advice, more evidence. From soil preparation to the first bloom, what experienced growers actually do — and what they stopped doing years ago. An honest, practical guide for gardeners who have killed a rose before and want to understand why.
Kindred Keri
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The Art of the Difficult Conversation — With Yourself
Most of us are quite good at avoiding the conversations that matter most. This week, Keri sits with the particular challenge of honesty when the other person in the room is you — and why it's often the conversation that changes everything else.
DWC 100 Women
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Amara Diallo
Journalist · Documentary Maker · Advocate
Her three-part documentary on female genital cutting in West Africa was broadcast in 40 countries and cited in three UN policy reviews. She is 44 years old and still working from the same small office in Dakar, with the same single-mindedness that characterised her work at 24.
Amara Diallo does not seek recognition. She seeks change. Which is precisely why she belongs on this list.
Column
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Why Women Over 40 Are Still Apologising for Wanting Money
The hesitation isn't about capability. It is about permission. Somewhere in the conversation between who we were raised to be and who we are becoming, wealth got coded as something we were meant to facilitate for others, not build for ourselves.
Column
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I Stopped Trying to Look Younger. Here Is What Happened Instead.
The first thing that happened was that I had more time. The time I had been spending monitoring, adjusting, comparing, concealing. It adds up, quietly, over years. This is not a column about letting yourself go. It is about letting yourself be.
Health & Beauty
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What Changes in Your Skin After 40 — and What Actually Helps
The dermatology, without the marketing. What is actually happening to skin at midlife, why the products you used at 30 are no longer doing the same job, and what the evidence actually supports. A clear-headed guide from a consultant dermatologist who sees 40-plus women every day.
The Home of
Sir Archibald Fluffington
He is imperious, opinionated, and thoroughly convinced of his own magnificence. Sir Archibald Fluffington III — Fluff of House Biscuit, Emperor of the Side Table Realm — chronicles the indignities of domestic life entirely on his own terms.
"One meow, a tail wrap around her ankle, and a dramatic flop onto my side — voilà. I had secured a human."
Fluff of House Biscuit. Emperor of the Side Table Realm. Undisputed Duke of Disdain. Sir Archibald has endured much — toddlers, vets, expired yogurt — and he intends to tell you all about it.imperious cat in fiction?
Mike Devlin — Women in Sport
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The Women's Football Revolution That Everyone Saw Coming — Except the Men Who Run It
Attendances are up. Broadcasting deals are growing. Sponsorship interest is genuine. Mike Devlin looks at how women's football became the sport's fastest-growing story — and why the institutions are still, bafflingly, catching up.
Movie Review
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Still Here
A film about a woman who survives something unspecified, and what survives inside her. Denis works slowly and never explains herself — a form of respect, in cinema, that is rarer than it should be. One of the year's most quietly essential films.
Column
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The Friendships That Survive Everything — and the Ones That Can't
There is a kind of friendship that exists in the context of your life as it once was. When the context changes, so does the friendship — sometimes gently and sometimes all at once. The ones that didn't survive, and what I now understand about why that was right for both of us.
Mental Health
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What Happens in Your Brain During a Grief Wave — and Why That Matters
Grief is not linear, and it is not a character flaw. It is a neurological event that changes shape over time. Understanding what is happening physiologically can be one of the most compassionate things you do for yourself — or for someone you love who is carrying it.
Weekly Tarot Reading
Read in Full →What You Know Without Being Told
The High Priestess is the card of intuition, patience, and the quiet intelligence that lives beneath the surface. This week, she asks you to trust what you feel before you feel the need to explain it — to yourself or anyone else.
There is something you already know. The reading this week is a gentle insistence that you stop looking for permission to act on it.
The DWC weekly reading is offered as reflection and inspiration only.
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EU Passes Landmark Menopause Workplace Protection Legislation
Employers across the bloc will be required to make reasonable adjustments for employees experiencing severe menopausal symptoms. Advocates call it a meaningful first step; implementation guidance is still being developed.
View from Around the World
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What Turning 50 in Sydney Taught Me About Belonging
A midlife reckoning with community, identity, and the unexpected joy of beginning again in a city that never stops moving. Susan Park arrived in Sydney at 48, knowing no one. By 50, she had built something she hadn't expected to find again.
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Jamie Tedrick-Monroe on Healing With Humour: The Ultimate Guide to a Terrible Mindset
Awareness is the first step to change. Healing isn't about never slipping into negativity — it's about noticing when we do and finding the courage to step back into the light.
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Debi Barr On Why Women Need to Be Kinder to Themselves — and How to Start
We second-guess how we look, how we parent, how we work, how we show up for others. We push ourselves to be everything to everyone. It's exhausting — and far more common than you might think.
Michelle Wollaston On Why Your Body Still Remembers Trauma Long After It's Over
Most conversations about abuse focus on the moment it occurs. But for many women, the greater impact lies in what follows — long after the danger has passed.
Chook Sh*t Happens: Julie Hayes' Cruise Diary of Glamour, Grime, and White Shoes
My mum had a saying she'd pull out whenever I got a little too big for my boots. Years later, on my first cruise — she got me again.
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