Babe Thirteen is Erin Lightfoot of Erin Lightfoot Ceramics Design Studio. We had a chat about how our babies are destroying the ability for us to drink, Erin trying to explain the actual pains of labour and what it feels like, the surprise sensation of pushing baby out of ya bum bum (quote a midwife “it’ll feel like you will poo a fridge.” and how your body transforms itself to help you with the birth of your baby.

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In part two of Babe Twelve, Rachel and I spoke about working mum life, doing something small for yourself every day and how you become more ruthless with your work now that you've got a baby. Oh, and to quote a lady from Real Housewives of Melbourne, "You can have everything in life; just not at the same time."

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This episode of Babe Number Twelve will be split into two parts: the birth and the bidniss.

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*edited: I've re uploaded this episode as I used WAY too many "umms" (164!!!). Apologies to those who had to listen through that prior to the re upload!*

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In this last episode of the decade (oh my goodness!) Lisa Peri talks about a total career change and what it felt like to have finally found her “thing”. We also talk about how we see our small businesses as a community and not competition, how each of the pieces of work we ever created were made with sweat, tears and lots of swearing rather than love and of course, we talk the birth of her four children and how differently births were treated over 20 years ago.

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Babe Nine is Kathryn, one half one Jak & Co Designs. Kathryn chats about how challenging and traumatic the pregnancy and birth of her first child was at a very young age of 18, how a misunderstanding lead her OB to offer a random student midwife to cut her baby’s cord and of course, about work and the reality of first markets.

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Today’s episode has been released a week early, reason being I’m just too bloody excited to get this one out since I’ll be talking to Stacey who is the other half to Flock Curiosity Assembly from last week. Hear us chat about the weird worst case scenarios we come up with as a parent, not knowing what profession to call ourselves and how doing what you love for a living is not all fun and games.

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Sarah is a co-owner of Flock Curiosity Assembly and in this episode we chat about toilet training (a lot of poo talk, you guys!), how much we cry with our newborn, what we do to deal with tantrums as well as business talk: marketing tips and tricks.

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Babe number six Issy of Seriously Milestone; listen on to hear her talk about her three babes, a loss and peri natal depression as well chatting small business.

This is the first time we've tried recording remotely! Pretty cool, huh.

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Apologies for the delayed release! Today’s babe is Kelly from Benna Co; listen on to hear her talk about the birth of her 3 boys, raising said three boys and vicious swooping magpies.

Also apologies for the audio in this episode! I'm sure you can tell how super professional I am.

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