As we head towards the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to do an episode on the ever important topic of Looking After You! But when you're so busy looking after everyone else, how do you factor that time in?

It's an overused cliche, but you know the airplane safety video that tells you to fit your oxygen mask before anyone else, because if you've run out of oxygen, no one else is safe? We're here to remind you that if you're not taking care of yourself, then chances are you can't take care of anyone else. Or, you can for a certain amount of time, until you crash.

Full Timers will never put themselves first but just like everyone else, we need time for us, we have to make ourselves part of the equation, and find ways to look after yourselves. We'll chat about how, when, and things you can do that give you some breathing space, beyond checking your phone on the toilet.

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When you're full timer, it's easy to put your health last. But when could that cost your health, or life? For Ellie, she let insurance get in the way of checking her skin, and ended up having a melanoma. For Bec, pitches and meetings got in the way of a much needed doctors appointment that resulted in early stages cervical cancer.

This is a topic too important to ignore, and in honour of Frocktober, an Ovarian Cancer Research Fund initiative, we're frocking up to tell full timers to please get your boobs, bits and bodies checked, and tell your friends to do the same.

A note to listeners: this topic deals with the passing of loved ones so please bear that in mind before listening.

https://www.frocktober.org.au/

https://www.lachlankeanfoundation.org/about-3

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Returning to work after having a baby and maternity leave, no matter how long you take, is a life-altering experience. You return to a job and a place that knows you and you know them - yet your whole world is different and YOU are different.

You have a human that depends on you, hormones raging through your body and your priorities are completely different - yet you’re expected to be the same person as you were before.

We share some of the tactics and techniques that helped us manage this life-changing transition, why it’s important to start before you go on maternity leave, and how to communicate with your colleagues and bosses so that you return empowered and supported.

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It seems everywhere you look, family, friends and colleagues are being made redundant. And we are no different.

Both of us have experienced redundancy in the last 2 years - both having quite different experiences but ultimately feeling exactly the same. Angry and frustrated. Feelings of hopelessness and sadness followed soon after, and it was then we realised we were experiencing the 5 stages of grief. Despite finding amazing new jobs in great agencies, the insecurities remain, questioning our worth and feeling like it could be just around the corner yet again.

We want to share our stories with you in the hope that, should you go through a redundancy, you feel heard and seen, and can apply some of the things that got us through it, to help you navigate this shitty time.

And if you have been made redundant, you will be ok.

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Welcome to the Full Timers Club!

We are Ellie and Bec, best mates for the better part of a decade, mums to little ones, senior women in the ad industry, as well as full time wives, friends, daughters and everything else in between. I’m sure this sounds familiar to all the women listening.

To kick off our first season of The Full Timers Club, we're discussing everything from being made redundant, the taboos of wanting more kids when you’re a senior woman in advertising, how to look after yourself when you’re busy looking after everyone else, right through to your wardrobe strategy post a life changing event like becoming a mum.

Every episode aims to highlight what it takes to be a full timer in today's world; the ups and downs, the best and the worst. We certainly don’t have all the answers but hopefully we’ll share some of our own experiences and help you feel seen as Full Timers yourselves. Like you, we're flat out but we wouldn't have it any other way.

Oh, and no episode will be over 30 minutes. And if you listen to us at 1.5x speed like we all do, it’ll be just right for your morning commute. Welcome to the Full Timers Club.

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