Ready or Not
By Ready or Not & Witching Hour
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Episodes: 103
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Nervous about taking maternity leave and not even pregnant yet? Us too. This is Ready or Not, a podcast for and about mothers and parents who make work, work.
We publish content all week long via our podcast, Substack, and social channels.
Every Monday, our new banter-based podcast Witching Hour will land in your ears right here, and every Wednesday, we publish our flagship interview podcast, Ready or Not.
Lucinda also shares deep dive essays on career and motherhood plus bonus fortnightly content on our Substack channel - readyornot.substack.com.
Every other day, you'll also find us talking to our community via @readyornot.pod
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Liv Brown on empowering mothers to find their style and letting go of clothes that no longer fit
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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How to slow down at work and is having a baby in your 20’s the new ‘teen pregnancy’? | Witching Hour
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Natasha Heger on being made redundant during parental leave and why putting ourselves last diminishes our place in the family
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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The best questions to ask in a job interview and your thoughts on screen time and staying present | Witching Hour
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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"Am I a good enough mum? Am I good enough at work?" with Bridgette Gale
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Pumping and dumping, a chipped tooth and being mimicked by a three-year-old | Witching Hour
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Minna Dubin on the rage mothers don't talk about
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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After a longer than anticipated gestation period, our newest babies - the Ready or Not Go To Guides - are here!
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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"It's time I address why I have felt like I can't do this": Michelle Battersby on that pregnancy announcement and delaying motherhood for her career
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The mental load and "you're a bit of a maternal gatekeeper aren't you?" | Witching Hour
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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My Daily Business founder Fiona Killackey on navigating sandwich caregiving and women owning their success
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Lily Allen says her kids 'ruined' her career and can stepping away be a good thing? | Witching Hour
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Leonie Akhidenor on toxic productivity and the relationship stuff that's keeping mums and dads up at night
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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The importance of workplace besties and mums share how they felt when their partner returned to work after baby | Witching Hour
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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"I focused more on my business and staff than setting myself up for motherhood": Good Times Pilates founder Cat Webb on what she's learned
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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"Don't p*ss on my foot and tell me it's raining" | Witching Hour
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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What do we call this...a postpartum therapy session? How to doula your friend? The interviewer becomes the interviewee? It's all of the above with Charlotte Squires | Postpartum Diaries
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Live from London: No sleep, tricky bosses and Loz on travelling without kids and returning to work | Witching Hour
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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"I was almost paralysed by it": Midwife Lauretta Hamilton on navigating hyperemesis, identity shifts and the mental load
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Why simple is smart and the rising trend of back to school Botox | Witching Hour
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Lucinda's first four weeks: The early days of going from one to two, how the parenting load has been shared and what's been surprising | Postpartum Diaries
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Mums talk money and Ballerina Farm: do we deserve to be outraged by another mum's postpartum journey? | Witching Hour
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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"I felt like the girl who cried birth": Lucinda's bizarre birth story | Postpartum Diaries
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Employers tracking their staff: how much is too much and are you more confident in motherhood or career? | Witching Hour
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Ana Kresina on how to plan financially for parenthood and why mothers need to think more about superannuation
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Saving for retirement on part-time pay: the challenges many mothers face and "it left a very sour taste in my mouth" | Witching Hour
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Jade Huggins on navigating life, work, pregnancy and motherhood after loss
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Why perfectionism doesn't always help us at work, the importance of holidays without kids and some baby news! | Witching Hour
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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MotherUp founder Kathryn Millhouse on high achieving and good enough mothering
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Gritty Pretty founder Eleanor Pendleton on what she needs as a mother and what fulfills her as a person
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Your 2024 goals, does the tooth fairy accept paypass and what do A type personalities have to do with motherhood and failure? | Witching Hour
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Holiday listening: All your childcare questions answered by an expert
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Holiday listening: An early favourite with The Memo co-founder Phoebe Simmonds
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Holiday listening: The most popular episode of the year with Ultra Violette co-founder Ava Chandler Matthews
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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To our generation, being a mum looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story? Plus, how mothers are navigating Christmas | Witching Hour
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Kasey Edwards on raising girls who like themselves and feeling like she’d failed the first hurdle of womanhood
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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We have some thoughts on THAT viral "daycare is bad" reel and how to tackle mansplaining in the workplace | Witching Hour
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Day one of uni, 20 years old and a positive pregnancy test: The Natal Naturopath founder Melanie Nolan on what pushed her forward
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Is it wrong to directly ask someone about their baby bump and how much sex are tired parents having? | Witching Hour
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Tori Bowman Johnson on the first words that come to mind when she thinks of motherhood and the advice she'd go back and give herself
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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TikTok resumes are now a thing and does anyone feel like an actual adult? | Witching Hour
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Sophie Pearce and Jayde Couldwell on the rise and rise of Beyond the Bump and the light and shade of motherhood
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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What a Whitney Wolfe Herd headline says about the way the media covers women and the controversial four-day school week trial | Witching Hour
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Nell Frizzell on journeying through the panic years, the tracksuit years and the partial eclipse
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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We need to find a hobby that takes as long as golf and "here I am fighting for feminism and I can't even start a barbecue" | Witching Hour
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Lisa Walker on navigating the loss of her husband and helping women over 40 claim back their energy and power
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Britney Spears: “If I got upset and asserted myself, I was out of control and crazy” and "HELP! I'm unexpectedly pregnant in a new job" | Witching Hour
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Gabrielle Nancarrow on why motherhood needn't be a dirty word for feminism and respecting a woman's choice
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Michelle Andrews and Laura Henshaw open up about their career and baby fears and your advice on going from one to two kids | Witching Hour
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Haylee Collins on integrating our ever evolving identities and the beauty and pain of motherhood
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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An argy bargy on how we should talk about money and the best advice on breastfeeding & returning to work | Witching Hour
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Christina McKay on the power of a positive birth after trauma and losing and rediscovering herself in motherhood
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Childcare educators are earning so little while childcare is so expensive and is working from home good or bad for feminism? | Witching Hour
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Penny Moodie on OCD in motherhood, writing The Joy Thief, and THAT The Imperfects episode on the mental load
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Does having a clean home make you a successful person and why women are opting out of marriage | Witching Hour
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Lauren Trend on the constant whiplash of navigating paid work and parenting, feeling depleted, and working with the ebbs and flows of the seasons
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Friendship shifts after kids and what's our problem with women who decide to be child-free? | Witching Hour
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Bronwyn McCahon on the golden era of magazines, rubbing shoulders with Beyonce, and keeping something for yourself
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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The UK women over 65 combatting loneliness and the work perks parents actually want | Witching Hour
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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How to navigate work alongside the emotional load of fertility treatment with Fertility Collective founder Ceci Jeffries
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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We're not buying what Joe Jonas' publicity team is selling and the winning formula for landing a part-time role | Witching Hour
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Rachel Maksimovic on solo motherhood, letting go of perfection, and doing your best
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Having it all sounds exhausting and leaning out is just learning to say no | Witching Hour
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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How do you return to work after pregnancy loss when you support pregnancy, mothers, and babies for a living? With Joelleen Winduss Paye
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Girl math is more fun than mum math and why we're done with over apologising | Witching Hour
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Amy Pearson on finding something you love outside of being a parent, empowering mothers to thrive in business, and how she built Sun Mother Studio
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Charlotte York Goldenblatt returns to work and how do you approach a promotion when you're pregnant? | Witching Hour
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Working and parenting from a motorhome in California with writer, editor, and Places We Swim author Caroline Clements
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Aboriginal and South Sea Islander mother Jemmason Power on the cultural load and landing a lead role in Stan's Black Snow
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Ultra Violette co-founder Ava Chandler Matthews on feeling redundant and the slow burn of motherhood
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Writer and postpartum doula Naomi Chrisoulakis on the frustration of being at the mercy of motherhood
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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We're back! With a daycare Q&A, a new pregnancy, and a recap on holidaying (can we call it that?) with a 15-month old
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Manon Pietra on changing the corporate narrative, being the "other mum" and our assumptions on gendered experiences
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Lawyer and mother of four Silje Andersen-Cooke on raising triplets while making work, work
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Alison Rice on leaving her glossy career for more purpose and losing her own mother during early motherhood
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Alpha-H Chief Commercial Officer Tina Randello is on a mission to help mothers find their encore
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The perfect motherhood myth and redefining our sense of self with Elise Addlem
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May 30, 2023 |
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Public triumphs and private heartbreaks: Collective Hub founder Lisa Messenger on disrupting the publishing industry and her eight-year conception journey
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May 09, 2023 |
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Australian Birth Stories host and mother Sophie Walker on building a hit podcast, the pressure of being the breadwinner and letting her husband learn things his way
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May 02, 2023 |
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Navigating hyperemesis, working with a newborn, her husband's cancer diagnosis and a pregnancy loss with Think Thornbury owner Maggie May Moshe
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Author and journalist Melanie Dimmitt’s life changed when her son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. But, her story isn't a sad one
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Midwife and mother of four Erin Phibbs on birth trauma, the most challenging transition, and what her husband learned from taking full-time parental leave
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Writer Alexandra Collier woke up with a ravenous hunger for a baby. Her partner did not
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Pumping on the streets of New York and Chilli Heeler as an icon with magazine legend Justine Cullen
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Daycare Diaries 2.0: A good week, an average week, and a hot tip live from the car
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Max Jahufer on always being the different kid, his upcoming role in a trans film and navigating parenting after long work days
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Daycare Diaries: The dreaded first drop off, colds, gastro, and the best bits
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Anna Commons on raising her nonverbal autistic son and creating work that feeds her passions as well as her family
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Scrambling to do the best we can and being where you are when you're there with Lael Stone
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Carrying a heavy load and corner office breakdowns with Mekanism Chief Strategy Officer Ambika Gautam Pai
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Feeling guilty no matter what we do and calling in your village with Jessica Prescott & Vaughne Geary
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Nobody has it all with Chief Commercial Officer Danika Johnston
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Writing emails while tapping the bouncer and navigating two businesses, a son and a stepson with Phoebe Simmonds
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Why you don't have to love every second of mothering to love motherhood with perinatal counsellor & mother Gemma Smith
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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BONUS Q&A: Breastfeeding and returning to work with Shterna Glick
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Navigating work trips as a mother of two, letting go in order to share the load and the need for flexibility with Amy Bradshaw
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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What happens to your career and identity when you lose your own mother? With Jaala Alex
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Social inclusion specialist, sports broadcaster & mother Rana Hussain on teaching her daughter that she has a choice
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Georgie Dent had a mental breakdown at 24. Now, she's on a mission to make Australia the best place in the world to be a parent
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Dropping the plastic balls and talking relationships, parenting & career with psychologist Yara Heary
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Single parenting, shift work and navigating burnout, trauma and identity with midwife Clare Kelly
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Finding your why in work & parenting, surviving cancer and a new path with Charlotte Squires
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Flying high in New York, returning to work the day after a pregnancy loss, shifting gears and writing a book during a pandemic with Gabrielle Nancarrow
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Dec 10, 2022 |