“Cause we never studied the female body.” In this episode, we talk to Farideh — the musician behind "The Female Body", "You are such a good dad" and many more — about PCOS, motherhood, and how her songs are built from diagnoses, women’s words, and lived female experience.
Farideh writes songs from things most music ignores: diagnoses, symptoms, and sentences women repeat to each other when they’re trying to make sense of their bodies. In this conversation, she explains how her songs are built — from lists of conditions, overheard phrases, and moments when something finally clicks.
She talks about living with PCOS for years before it had a name, about motherhood as a shift into a fuller female experience, perimenopause as another stage of bodily change, and 12 Breakdowns of Christmas — her sketch series about mental load, burnout, and the emotional work behind the holidays.
This episode is about turning what women live through into music — and trusting the body when it keeps asking to be heard.
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