Welcome to Staying Iconic with Sophie Atton: the podcast for women who want more from life and aren't afraid to go after it.
Each week, Sophie shares conversations, insights, and practical advice on creating a life that feels as good as it looks. From confidence, personal style, wellness, travel, and routines to success, mindset, and achieving your biggest goals, this is your space to become the woman you've always imagined being.
Whether you're building your dream career, elevating your lifestyle, stepping into a new chapter, or simply looking for inspiration to think bigger, Staying Iconic is here to help you create a life that feels aligned, exciting, and completely your own.
Because being iconic isn't about perfection.
It's about knowing who you are, going after what you want, and showing up as her every single day.
Why Does Making Friends Feel So Awkward in Your 40s?
When did making friends get so bloody hard?
Because it used to be easy. School, university, work — you were constantly thrown together with the same people, doing the same things, at the same time. And then suddenly you reach your 30s and 40s and that entire infrastructure disappears.
You can have brilliant friends, people you've known for years, a family you love, a busy life — and still find yourself thinking, I don't actually have enough people around me.
I've thought about this a lot, partly because I've experienced it myself, and partly because I can't understand why we don't talk about it more.
So in this episode, I'm getting into why friendship changes so much as we get older, what happened to my own social life when I had children and went through various life changes, and why having lots of friends isn't necessarily the same thing as having the kind of social life you actually need.
I've also done the research into what happens to our social networks as we get older — and, thankfully, there are some very practical things we can do about it.
Because apparently, making friends in your 40s is basically dating.
Which means at some point, someone has to make the first move.
2 Oct 2026
My Life Is Great. So Why Am I Changing It?
My life is good. Really good.
But I've realised I'm one of those people who is never quite finished. I'm always thinking about what could be better, what I want more of, what I want less of, and what might make life feel a little more exciting, interesting or fulfilling.
And lately, I've had quite a lot on my mind.
My body has been changing. There are things about my health that have been getting harder to ignore. I've been thinking about how much of my time and energy I give to other people, how much fun I'm actually having, whether I'm still challenging myself enough — and, perhaps most importantly, whether the life I'm living now actually feels like mine.
So this week, I'm getting quite personal.
I'm talking you through the things I'm actively doing to make my life better right now — including some things I've started, some things I've stopped, and some things I've realised I simply don't want to put up with anymore.
Some of them are small. Some are surprisingly big.
And I'm sharing them because I suspect I'm not the only woman in her 40s looking around at a perfectly good life and thinking: I love this, but I want more.
Not more because what we have isn't enough.
More because why wouldn't we?
24 Sept 2026
I Kept Saying "When Things Calm Down…"
This is the episode every overworked, over-needed, overstimulated woman in her 40s needs to listen to.
Because somewhere along the way, it became very easy to put ourselves last.
We tell ourselves we'll do the things we want when the kids are older, when life calms down, when we have more time, more money, more confidence, or when our bodies look different. And because there is always something that needs us, one day can quickly become years.
In this episode, I'm talking about why I think so many women in their 40s are stuck in this cycle, and the uncomfortable truth about where it can lead if we don't change it.
I'm also getting very personal about what happened when I realised I couldn't keep waiting either. I talk about why I reached that point, what finally made me decide it was time, and how I actually started making changes when my life was still busy, complicated and full of people who needed me.
Because I genuinely think this is something we need to talk about now… before we wake up five or ten years from now and realise we spent all that time waiting for life to become easier.
If any of this sounds painfully familiar, press play. These 15 minutes just might make you rethink what you've been putting off.
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