2 Kids From The Burbs with Laura Racky and Christian Cunningham

Some questions sound simple until you try to answer them.

In Episode 5 of 2 Kids From The Burbs, Laura Racky and Christian Cunningham cover movies and TV shows, stories that stayed with us long after the credits rolled and had an enormous emotional effect.

The conversation covers discipline, health, parenting, growing older and the parts of ourselves we've left behind along the way.

Five Questions:

• What movie or television show stayed with you long after you watched it?
• What are you still trying to figure out about yourself?
• What have you outgrown but still miss?
• If you could start parenting again, what would you do differently?
• If you could change one thing about each other, what would it be?

We discuss anxiety, Eckhart Tolle, discipline, the final twenty per cent of self-improvement, missing the freedom of being irresponsible, raising children, supporting your partner and why the people closest to us often understand us better than we understand ourselves.

Topics covered:

• Movies and TV shows that changed us
• Why some stories stay with us forever
• Anxiety, overthinking and the "watcher"
• Logic versus emotion
• The final twenty per cent of self-improvement
• Why discipline is harder than knowledge
• What we've outgrown but still miss
• Missing irresponsibility as adults
• Parenting and what we'd do differently
• Supporting each other through different seasons of life
• The small things that make relationships work
• Understanding your partner more deeply
• Growing older without losing yourself

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Episode 4 of 2 Kids From The Burbs, the fast questions show from the team behind the Let's Just Start Podcast.

This week: Secret competitiveness, What your 16-year-old self would think of you now, The best part of getting older, Irrational fears, One thing you wish you'd done but won't, and a full breakdown of why one of us will never be allowed to have a professional boxing match.

We also accidentally have a real conversation about raising kids in a world where the old rules don't apply anymore. And then there are filing cabinets.

Questions this episode:

• What are you secretly competitive about?
• What would 16-year-old you think of you now?
• What's the best part about getting older?
• What's your most irrational fear?
• One thing you wish you'd done but probably won't

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The conversations you have after the kids have gone to bed.

In Episode 3 of 2 Kids From The Burbs, Laura Racky and Christian Cunningham ask each other five simple questions that lead into the usual theatrics.

The five questions:

1. What is your most memorable meal?
2. What is the best moment of your life?
3. What would you steal from each other’s wardrobe?
4. What was the last thing that made you properly laugh?
5. If you swapped jobs for a day, what part of the other person’s job would you enjoy most?

A question about food becomes a conversation about grandparents, becoming a lawyer, making your parents proud, and ridiculous pre-GFC dinners.

A question about life’s best moments turns into family, kids, near-death experiences, being present and the memories that stay with us forever.

A question about clothes somehow leads to stolen hoodies, sensory-friendly T-shirts and whether Christian could pull off a fur scarf.

We talk about ugly dogs, why kids are often the funniest people we know, creativity, structure, career choices, trust, discretion and what we secretly admire about each other.

We're getting in a rhythm now...

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Topics

• The conversations after the kids have gone to bed
• The meals we never forget
• Family memories and making your parents proud
• Kids, parenting and remembering the good parts
• Near-death experiences and perspective
• Joy maxxing and finding the small moments

• Why ugly dogs are hilarious
• Creativity versus structure at work
• Trust, honesty and telling people the truth

Five questions. Nine minutes. No overthinking.

In episode two of 2 Kids From The Burbs, Laura Racky and Christian Cunningham answer five fast questions that somehow move from morning routines and favourite books to unlimited ice cream, hidden personality traits and relationship advice.

The questions:

1. What is one thing you look forward to every day?
2. What is your favourite book?
3. What would you eat every day if there were no calories or health consequences?
4. What is something about the other person that might surprise people?
5. What is your best relationship advice in one sentence?

We talk about school drop-offs, morning coffees, kids waking up, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning, The Master and Margarita, litres of ice cream, kilos of lollies, introverts pretending to be extroverts, and why the best relationships might start with focusing on what you bring rather than what you receive.

A conversation about the little things we look forward to, the people we love, and really trying to bring your best to the situation.

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This was supposed to be called "Five Quick Questions." It was Five and it was quick. Somewhere in the middle of a Friday afternoon recording, fuelled by an intermittent fast and the promise of a chicken schnitzel, we realised (weeks) later the name was dumb but we were actually onto something.

Here's the actual story, we grew up in the same suburb.

Decades later we ended up married, running businesses together, hosting a podcast together, and somehow still finding new things to argue about and agree on.

2 Kids From The Burbs is the show where we ask each other the fast questions that mean something (probably). Career sliding doors, the advice that changed everything, the belief you used to hold that you've now completely abandoned. No long-winded set-ups, no corporate answers, just the real version.

This is the new show from the team behind Let's Just Start, the podcast that's hit the Top of the Apple Charts. If you've followed us there, you know what you're getting. If you haven't, welcome. Forget what we said this was going to be called, it's this now.

Find us here:

Digital Resources: Therackycunninghamcollective.com

Instagram: @letsjuststartpodcast

Tiktok: @letsjuststartpodcast

Youtube: @LetsJustStartPodcast

Laura Insta: @laura.racky

Laura Tiktok: @lauraracky

Christian Insta: @leaderbiltacademy

Christian Tiktok: @leaderbilt

Leadership training and coaching: Leaderbilt.co