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Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Penny Ashton
77 episodes
5 months ago
Send us a text 2021 New Zealander of the year, microbiologist and award winning science communicator, Siouxie Wiles cycled to Penny's west Auckland whare this week to chat about making the world a little pinker. They got the party started chatting about her lawsuit with her employer, the online abuse she suffered at the hands of internet AND parliamentary trolls during her promotion of the NZ Government's eradication response to COVID, and her ambitions to be Maverick in Top Gun. From t...
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Send us a text 2021 New Zealander of the year, microbiologist and award winning science communicator, Siouxie Wiles cycled to Penny's west Auckland whare this week to chat about making the world a little pinker. They got the party started chatting about her lawsuit with her employer, the online abuse she suffered at the hands of internet AND parliamentary trolls during her promotion of the NZ Government's eradication response to COVID, and her ambitions to be Maverick in Top Gun. From t...
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Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Pink Science Rockstar Siouxie Wiles
Send us a text 2021 New Zealander of the year, microbiologist and award winning science communicator, Siouxie Wiles cycled to Penny's west Auckland whare this week to chat about making the world a little pinker. They got the party started chatting about her lawsuit with her employer, the online abuse she suffered at the hands of internet AND parliamentary trolls during her promotion of the NZ Government's eradication response to COVID, and her ambitions to be Maverick in Top Gun. From t...
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5 months ago
59 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Superstar Morgana O'Reilly
Send us a text It's another Showy Ovaries Live and this time from New Plymouth's beautiful Pukekura Park for WOMAD Aotearoa. Penny was delighted to chat to one of New Zealand's most prolific and talented actresses Morgana O'Reilly, fresh from her stint as "health butler" and cellphone thief in the global smash hit, The White Lotus. Penny and Morgana discussed life on set, taming imposter syndrome, agonising over which accent to use, attending the glitzy LA premiere and how to use a blen...
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7 months ago
54 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Award Winning Bronwyn Turei
Send us a text Wellington Theatre's 2024 Co-Actor of the year Bronwyn Turei (Ngāti Porou) drops into Penny's house to discuss all things fleshy. From being head girl at Gisborne Girls, to dealing with a lot of intense trauma as a teenager, to heading to London's Globe theatre to becoming a constantly jobbing professional actress, she and Penny covered how her body rode this rollercoaster. She talked of hitting the giddy heights of fame aged 24 when cast in the TV show Go Girls, of leaning int...
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7 months ago
1 hour 5 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Jodie Rimmer is Back
Send us a text National Treasure Jodie Rimmer invited Penny to her whare to chat all things actorly. From her launching straight from school onto the screen via a saddle, to fun with Ryan Gosling, to chronic pain, HRT and mental health crises, they covered it all. Born in the same year she and Penny mused how long ago the millennium was, Jodie discussed her past as a cross country athlete in Florida, the wonders of Dr Theatre, how she could have been Rachel McKenna and how much she is loving ...
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8 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Tickled Pinky Agnew - The Queen of Downloads Returns
Send us a text The Inimitable Pinky Agnew has been top of the Showy Ovarian pods ever since it was recorded as the first ever episode back in 2021. Her charm, wit, warmth and sparkle have entertained over 700 of you, so whilst Penny was performing The Tempestuous in Wellington for a month (which runs til December 1st), she decided to drop into Pinky's newly downsized pad to catch up with our Queen of the Downloads. Pinky discussed the delights of embracing 70, celebrancy, loving her grey po...
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11 months ago
1 hour 5 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
HRT & Poetry
Send us a text With a husband catching the FLiRT variant and subsequent laying low, Penny decided to bust out an ovum with her WOMAD poem all about her Showy Ovaries epiphany. Listen in as hubby shouts up the stairs from his isolation den for sandwiches, and Penny chats about what happened with HRT, what's coming up in her world and screeching about tampons in a petrol station. As you do. Buy Sense and Sensibility tickets here: www.circa.co.nz/package/sense-and-sensibility/ And...
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1 year ago
11 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Brainy Niki Bezzant
Send us a text To coincide with the launch of her new book today; The Everything Guide: Hormones, health and happiness in menopause, midlife and beyond, Niki Bezzant dropped in to Penny's house with almond croissants to talk life, hormones and her prodigious brain. In her third visit to Showy Ovary Town, Niki told Penny of her mission to educate women about how to feel good in the skin they're in, to be kind to themselves and to look after our bodies like the well oiled machines they can be....
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1 year ago
1 hour

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Full Noise Angela Barnett
Send us a text Writer, journalist, redhead advocate and PR specialist; Angela Barnett swung by Penny's house to discuss inter generational bodily shizzle in all its complicated glory. From her mother's traumatic birth, to her own struggles with bulimia, to making sure her daughter navigates the world aware of the ridiculous standards placed on women by the patriarchy and the diet industrial complex, they cover it all. Angela is a committed body shame banisher and advocate for women and...
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1 year ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Magical Amanda Kennedy
Send us a text Waaaay back in August 2023 Penny dropped in on Amanda Kennedy's house in West Auckland to discuss her body, her dewy complexion and her adult onset epilepsy. One half of the comedy duo The Fan Brigade, the librettist couple behind NZ Opera's The Unruly Tourists, Amanda was dealing with her recent diagnoses of ADHD, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome AND epilepsy. But was still smiling, particularly about her magical pussy. She regaled Penny with tales of getting nude in Japan, breaki...
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1 year ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Penelope Patchstart
Send us a text The time has come, the research is in, the arse is too sore, the foot annoying, the new upper belly is sticking out too far... it is time for the HRT! Two days after her epic 50th birthday party Penelope Patchstart is slapping on some Estradot in the low dose of 25 somethings and seeing if it is the golden elixir of her dreams. Dreams can flounder on the rocks of reality of course, but how will you know if you don't try? In her very first unboxing podcast ovum Penelope d...
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1 year ago
10 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Brightest Amy Spark
Send us a text After her ballet teacher wouldn't let a very young Amy dance purely on on foot, she readjusted her life ambitions to being a pathologist. Inspired by forensic stories from her parents and from novels by Kathy Reichs, (the inspiration for the TV series Bones) she set her sights on dead people and being the last voice for those who can no longer speak. Penny dropped in on her Palmerston North Dr's office to discuss her journey with her own "meat suit" and how her day job of...
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2 years ago
1 hour 1 minute

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Show-busy Lizzie Tollemache
Send us a text Performer, director, side show starlet, writer and all round showbiz whiz Lizzie Tollemache may have been travelling the world hammering nails into her head and making thousands of people laugh, but underneath all that was a diagnosis lurking that would change her whole perspective on life. Penny visited her carnie friend's Christchurch home to learn all about the realisation she gained in lockdown that led to her ADHD epiphany and whole new lease on life. From her ten y...
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2 years ago
1 hour

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Showy Ovaries Live - Tenacious Justine Smith
Send us a text Hello lovely Showy Ovarians, Penny's back with another Showy Ovaries Live! This time with her comedy compatriot, fellow tenacious broad and Bette Midler lover; Justine Smith. They rendezvoused onstage at Q Theatre in the 2023 NZ International Comedy Festival to discuss how their bodies have taken them through being a woman in comedy since the late 90's. Justine had a tattoo-off with a fellow Disney lover in the audience, they then discussed the #metoo movement in N...
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2 years ago
56 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Excellently Accomplished Eilish Moran
Send us a text Queen of Christchurch's Court Theatre stage, Eilish Moran took some time out of her packed schedule to chat to Penny about her body, her menopause and being in Penny's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility at the Court in February 2023. Penny was excited to get to know a woman she saw onstage all through her youth and adolescence in such plays as Little Shop of Horrors, The Crucible and so much more. Eilish was so generous sharing her parent's dementia journeys, her...
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2 years ago
55 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Showy Ovaries Live - The "O" Show
Send us a text Hello all you wondrous Showy Ovarians, Penny Ashton is back for Season Three! Yes release the fireworks and say huzzah Showy days are here again in a season where we will be pivoting away from focusing mainly on menopause and opening up to our bodies in all their glory! Kicking things off with The "O" Show from the Hamilton Arts Festival recorded on February 26th 2023. Another fun live record peppered with diary readings from Ashton's adolescence for added teenage angst a...
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2 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
A Very Covid Xmas
Send us a text It's a surprise Xmas Special for Showy Ovaries! Tune in to hear Penny chat to her husband Matt from different rooms in their house. Why might that be???? Listen in and find out. Hear them pass some isolation time over the festive season by chatting the presents of Xmas past, hear some ukulele carols and find out what moves Matt to tears. No it's not Christmas Cracker Jokes... though there are a lot of them included FREE OF CHARGE. You lucky things. Meri Kirihimete!!&nbs...
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2 years ago
34 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
My Body My Voice
Send us a text In the very last little dribble of Showy Ovaries Season Two, here's one last ovum all about your hostess with the most chest's relationship and journey with HER body through her life. If it's good to gander at her guest's goose, so must she talk turkey and be honest about her own twisty tale of bodily acceptance. So Penny is here to talk about her epilepsy medicine's effects on her adolescence and early adulthood, about her intolerance for no orgasms, about her squeamishness ar...
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3 years ago
18 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Showy Ovaries Unleashed
Send us a text To end Showy Ovaries Season Two we have the raucous, ribald, squirty and hilarious recording of Showy Ovaries Live taken at the Suter Theatre on Friday October 21st for the Nelson Arts Festival. Penny was like really really really excited to welcome back Nicky Pellegrino and Niki Bezzant, together with 140 cheering punters to discuss their books, their menopauses and women's health in general. They chat about David Bowie's influence on Niki's bits, blinding rage, fanny physio, ...
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3 years ago
1 hour 21 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Excellent Local Body Judene Edgar
Send us a text The deputy mayor of Nelson until a matter of weeks ago, Judene Edgar was happy to beam into Penny's office to celebrate no longer being a target for councilphobes and her relief at being released from the bondage of reading 1700 page agendas. A playwright, improviser, governance expert, former Councillor and loyal friend, Judene's perimenopause is at 6 years and running with her having suffered from various symptoms and some debilitating side effects along the way. She chatted ...
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3 years ago
59 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
The Cult of Tusiata Avia aka Tusiata Two - The Sequel
Send us a text It's World Menopause Day and what better guest to revisit than the very woman who told Penny that the day existed in the first place. Tusiata Avia was Showy Ovaries third ever guest, and in their conversation she alerted Penny to the fact World Menopause Day was just around the corner. So Penny leapt to action and launched the whole shebang on World Menopause Day. A year later Tusiata wanted to tell Penny how listening to Showy Ovaries over the past year has changed the w...
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3 years ago
42 minutes

Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.
Send us a text 2021 New Zealander of the year, microbiologist and award winning science communicator, Siouxie Wiles cycled to Penny's west Auckland whare this week to chat about making the world a little pinker. They got the party started chatting about her lawsuit with her employer, the online abuse she suffered at the hands of internet AND parliamentary trolls during her promotion of the NZ Government's eradication response to COVID, and her ambitions to be Maverick in Top Gun. From t...