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How To Do Online Dating (Successfully!) In Your 40’s
“YOU MUST BE MENTAL!” That was my response when my friend, Kylie Mitchell, told me that she was going to start online dating. I mean, dating is an interesting and challenging event at the best …
What Happens When You Have No Community Around You
Meet the delightful Casey Zhang. Born in a tiny village in rural China to illiterate parents, she educated herself out of poverty, moving to Australia in the mid-1990’s. A few years later, when she was …
The Pain And Impact of Early Onset Menopause
Menopause is an interesting enough, never mind life-changing, experience at the best of times, but experiencing menopause when you’re in your 30’s? In this conversation, I talk to Gayle Palmer, Osteopath, who found herself embroiled …
How Menopause Can Make You Not Fit For Human Consumption
It’s interesting when you try to find out things about Menopause, because all of the information is either really vague or really generic: you may experience this, you might find that, this other thing could …
A Love Affair Spanning Centuries
When my conversation with Victoria about our education system and wealth dynamics finished (you can listen to it here), Victoria started telling me about the new book that she was writing: a love story about …
Why You Need To Jingle Your Spoons
“You just need to jingle your spoons, Mum.” This was Ryan’s response when I told him that I’d got off a phone call with a friend and felt exhausted. It turns out that there is …
Why The Education System Lets Our Children Down
When my daughter came back from a 3-month stint in Colombia, she was full of all these entrepreneurial ideas: making money was easy, building businesses was a doddle, and creating new things was just so …
How To Get Out Of A Wheelchair… Permanently
What kind of thing would make someone who’d spent several years in a wheelchair, just get up out of it and never sit in it again? That was the question that made Elizabeth Anne Walker …
How To Spot A Toxic Coach
Have you ever experienced a toxic coach? Whether that’s a life coach or a sports coach or an arts teacher/theatre director? The amount of damage that a toxic person can do to others is phenomenal, …
How To Live A Life Of Joy with Chiara Sharp
I was in a bit of a weird space when I got on the call to Chiara and I needed to just get that out there and get it out of my space. It turned …
Why Feng Shui Is The Key To Success
“What’s a girl from cold, windy Ireland doing living in hot and sweaty Bali and how did you end up there?” It’s a valid question, right? I’m always fascinated by people who have upped sticks …
What Happens When Your Child Suffers Permanent Brain Damage
Back in 2015, my eldest daughter, Kira, was really into her horse riding. Training for 4-5 hours a day, she lived, breathed and existed all things horsey. Then she was thrown from two different horses …
Do You Believe You’re A Pretty Awesome Person?
I had the comment from my friend about how she believed that she was an amazing person (read about it here) on my mind when I spoke to my mentor, Karly Nimmo, yesterday. We had …
What happens when you don’t listen to your kids
“Which sibling relationship caused you the most problems?” Mildly philosophical discussions about family dynamics are the coolest. Bouncing around ideas about why someone did/does something and the different ways we can each deal with that… …
How To Overcome The Guilt and Grief of Midlife
I don’t know about you, but by the time I reached my fifties, I was an absolute MASTER at feeling guilty and being sad about what I’d lost and would never have again (think: cuddles …
Which Child Do You Love The Most?
Part 3 of the Things Your Kids Want To Know (But Are Too Afraid To Ask) series. I’m a bit of a reaction when you hear a parent answer that question with something along the …
Why Being Your Children’s Friend Is A Rotten Idea
👩👧💖Have you ever wondered what your children REALLY think of your parenting style (but you’re too afraid to ask)💖👩👧 I had a brainwave the other week: wouldn’t it be cool to ask my kids what …
How To Talk Teen #1
“How do you communicate with teenagers?” “How am I going to survive my kids’ teenage years?” “How am I going to keep a relationship going with my kids once they hit their teens?” …
Weirdly, The Word For 2020 is… Wonderful Connections
At the start of the year, if I’d been thinking about a word that was going to describe my experience in the coming year… …and to be honest, I didn’t do that because I didn’t …
Are women really still fighting for equality?
I did a degree in construction back in the 80’s. I was one of 6 women in the UK doing my job when I graduated, I worked on building sites for 5 years and I …
The Subtle Ways Women Are Silenced
I’ve never really experienced sex discrimination or gender inequality. At least, I didn’t think I had. Till I read a book and started doing some research and then I realised just how much of a …
Why Boys Need Rules
I’m going to talk today about the big topic of motherhood. I’ve been online for about three and a half or so years now. And I generally avoid the topic of motherhood, and particularly the …
How Forceps Mess Up Your Body
I had no idea that a forceps delivery would have any impact on me. I was certainly upset by the bruises on my baby’s face but I honestly thought that an “assisted” birth was way …
Life With a Terminally Ill Child
When I started this podcast, one of the things I wanted to do was chat to my friends so they could share their stories. I love listening to people’s stories and I’m always left feeling …
Depression, Sleep, and the Need to be Social
Podcast Episode 9 It’s well known that insomnia can lead to depression and anxiety and vice versa, but there are a few things about sleep that I’ve discovered recently, along with the impact that social …
It’s A Stupid Idea To Parent Your Partner
I got asked an interesting question: would I expect to have to parent my partner? I have strong opinions about this aspect of Australian culture that’s always been a source of irritation for me. Plus …
Persistent Pain: A Woman’s Disease
Podcast Episode 7 Persistent and chronic pain is something that a large number of women live with from a variety of causes: migraines, fibromyalgia (Lady Gaga is a sufferer), cancer, arthritis, or, in my case, …
How to be a Succesful, Happy and Single Mother of Five
People think I’m busy, that I’ve always got a tonne of things on and I can’t sit still for five minutes, but I’m a complete novice compared to my friend, Stephanie. After moving to Australia …
Every Mother’s Worst Nightmare
THE DEATH OF YOUR CHILD When your life is blown apart by something so traumatic, things can never be the same again. This wasn’t a planned conversation. My friend, Deborah Corbin, and I had planned …