2025 Full Stop podcast topics
Since starting our podcast, we've been incredibly lucky to share the wisdom, stories, and insights of so many amazing guests. Our guest list has always been longer than our episodes—if only we had the hours, we could easily produce a weekly show! But that’s not quite our plan. Yet!
In 2025, we’re trying something new. We’ve taken a long look into our most popular episodes since we began in 2019, reflected on themes we haven’t yet explored about childlessness that we’ve been asked to cover, and asked for feedback from our wonderful Full Stop Community. We have a curated list of episode themes we’re aiming to explore this year which we’re sharing below.
One of the things we love about the Full Stop podcast is how we can respond to real-world events that impact childlessness. We've learned so much by adapting during the global COVID pandemic and remain mindful of the shifting political landscape in 2025. We know the term childless can sometimes be wielded as a weapon to divide people, and we do our best to educate on why that’s unacceptable through our manifesto. Whilst we’re aiming to cover our themes, we’ll remain flexible to ensure we’re addressing what matters most to our community. Our hope for 2025 is to amplify more voices, share more stories, and spark meaningful conversations.
International Women’s Day: For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment (this is the official United Nations theme for 2025 on 8th March 2025).
Childless and honouring our reasons. We each arrive at this space for different reasons, how do we honour each other and avoid minimalising the circumstances to avoid isolation and division?
Navigating friendship, with a focus on the second wave when other people in our lives become grandparents.
Spaces in which we may find language or situations that exclude childless patients, students or users.
Climate crisis and childlessness and responding to movements that have a pronatal bias and how we can be climate aware.
Childless and being an aunt, uncle or godparent or having an indirect child caring role that make impact our feelings (or not having a role like this and feeling excluded in a different way).
Childless and couples, how childlessness sits in partnerships that were created at any time during childlesness.
Othering and to handle conversations and situations that make us feel excluded or patronised.
Revisiting
LGBTQIA and childlessness.
People of colour.
Loneliness (within different situations including being single).
Ageing and practical solutions.
Menopause.
