Life Uncut

Today's episode is with one of the most successful authors of our time and the man who is known globally for not giving a f*ck. Mark Manson's book the subtle art of not giving a f*ck sold more than 10 million copies. Mark brought his unique perspective on happiness, relationship dynamics, and the delicate art of recognising when it's time to break up.

We spoke about:

• When is it time to break up vs what is a normal ebb and flow of a long term relationship?
• What's good compromise and what's people pleasing and lacking boundaries?
• What indicates whether a couple can survive one of them cheating?
• The need for healthy conflict and how to have healthy conflict
• Opportunity costs and inherent sacrifice 
• Fleeting happiness

You can find all of Mark's work here! His newsletter, books and podcasts are fantastic.

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Hey Lifers,

It's so nice to be back in your ear holes!! We are coming to you cross hemispherically (but you're not to trust Laura with geography). 

First up today, we have a big catch up about what's happened over the break! This catch up included Britt frolicking to the nicest destinations on the planet and Laura being hospitalised with pneumonia. So, you know, same same!
We have a big chat about asking your friend when they're going to going to get engaged/proposed to. Do we all need to stop doing this?

We also talk about whether you should, if given the chance, take a swipe at an ex. Chelsea Handler hosted the critic's choice awards the week after her ex boyfriend Jo Koy hosted the Golden globes and the two monologues were like chalk and cheese. The audience's laughter and acknowledgement of joke writers really showed who came out on top. We also discussed whether gendered jokes are okay in one direction and not the other.

You can watch Chelsea Handler's whole monologue here.

It's so nice to be back and we're really excited about what is planned for this year!

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Hey Lifers

Today's episode is from our chat with the wonderful Michael Hing at one of our live shows! This episode is such a laugh! Hingers is a character.

We chat about:

-having two Chinese doctors as parents and wanting to work in comedy 

-being a finalist for cleo bachelor of the year

-using 'culture' in comedy

-microaggressions and racism being a Chinese guy working in radio

-working out what's worth speaking out about and what's not

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HeyLifers,

Today's episode is from our conversation with the incredible Flex Mami at one of our live shows!

We chat about:

-where the name "Flex Mami" came from

-personal branding and where that becomes a business

-being 'authentic' online & performative authenticity

-tokenism and the other side of the coin when it comes to increasing diversity

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Hey lifers,

Today's episode is from our conversation with the incredible Ellidy Pullin at one of our live shows!
Ellidy initially joined the podcast in February 2022. You can listen here if you'd like a refresh. When we first spoke, Ellidy's baby was a newborn! In today's chat, she turned 2 years old and we got to catch up on where life has taken the two of them over the last 2 years.
We spoke about:

-it 'taking a village' to raise a child

-how grief evolves and can takes different shapes and forms

-how trauma dumping can pull you backwards

-the story they tell Minnie

-whether dating again is on the cards

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Hey Lifers!

This is an entire episode of your most embarrassing stories from Christmas and New Years!
Some of these have us crawling up in a ball from the sheer horror of how mortifying they are!
Also, please enter 'bulbous vulvus" and 'gashit' into your vocabulary. 

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Hey lifers!

We hope you've had such a great Christmas with the people you love the most!
This is our highlight reel of 2023! It's some of the funniest, most insightful, perhaps most valuable lessons from the wonderful people who have joined the podcast throughout the year. You can listen to all of the episodes by using the links below:

Matthew Hussey Matthew Hussey Does Give a F*ck About Your Relationship

Joanne McNally The Art Of Riding A Lover To Sleep

Vogue Williams Is Your Husband Jealous Of Your Best Friend

Sarah Wilson Dating Younger Men, Making Anxiety Beautiful & Travelling The World Solo

Hugh Van Cuylenburg Mental Fatigue & How To Make Vulnerability A Strength

Steven Bartlett Make it 1% Better! Sweating the Small Stuff

The Shrine The Last Instalment Was In This Episode

Elizabeth Day Does All Failure Lead To Lessons Or Success?

Laura and the Pigeons The Pigeons

Trinny Woodall The 'Currency' of the Ageing Woman

Milestone Disappointment Milestone Disappointment

Ask Uncut When A Threesome Turns Into A Pregnancy

Ask Uncut When You're the Only Single One In Your Friendship Group

We hope you had such a wonderful time going back through some of our favourite moments of 2023!

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Hey Lifers!
We're in with our last ask uncut of the year! Britt is in Scotland and scaring strangers in her apartment complex. 
Have you experienced a bit of a sliding doors moment with your partner? Maybe your paths almost crossed before you actually met, or something happened and it meant that things could be so different to what they are now!

We have a chat about a woman who is going viral for a post she made about how she wasn't attracted to her husband. It's getting...mixed reviews!

Vibes for the week:

Britt: movie - Promising Young Women
Laura: Netflix doco Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife

Then we jump into your deep, dark and burning quesitions!

• I’ve been with my husband for 13 years. Recently an openly gay dude who he’s acquaintances with started sending him messages at all hours of the night telling my husband how much he likes him and that he can’t stop thinking about what his 🍆 would look like etc. We would also wake up to deleted messages in the morning (so the friend had deleted it before my husband read it). It’s made me really uncomfortable. Yes, my husband showed me the messages but when I asked him to tell the friend to stop, he wouldn’t. He said “I’m not gay so it shouldn’t matter.” Eventually my husband messaged the dude and told him to stop but he did it in a way that was so undermining to me. The message was basically “I’m as shocked as you are, I don’t mind the messages but my psycho wife has lost her shit about it so to save my sanity could you just not send me those messages anymore”. The messages stopped but after that I feel so differently about my husband. I feel like he betrayed me….. just by the lack of respect and throwing me under the bus to the other guy. What do you think? Have I over reacted here?
  
  

• Last night my husband and I were just chatting and the conversation turned to our sex life. We’ve never watched porn together. I asked him if he had watched porn before, since we’ve been married and then again after our first child was born. During that convo, I became curious and started asking more questions but he said he didn’t want to talk about it anymore as it made him uncomfortable. Instead of listening to him and respecting his wishes, I kept questioning him. He got frustrated as I didn’t respect his wishes and he refused to talk about it anymore. I then became really upset and angry. Not because he put a boundary in place, but because he’d watched porn since we’d been living together. We’ve always had a great sex life (with the exception of dry times after the kids) and have always been open with our communication about it.

  
  

  Him watching porn since we have been living together and being married makes me feel like I haven’t been enough for him and like I’m not good enough, and he has to get pleasure outside of me. However, I actually don’t have a problem with porn - I’ve watched it myself before, watched it with previous partners and would have been open to watching it with my husband. Upon reflection, I now know why I’m so upset about it. In my previous relationship (before I met my husband), my then-partner watched porn a lot. It got in the way of our sex life and he never wanted to be intimate AT ALL with me. I really don’t know how to go about this and how to move on mentally. My husband hasn’t done anything wrong and this isn’t his issue.
  
  

• I went ahead and booked a holiday during cyber Monday sales. I only need one day of unpaid leave to be approved from my job (I’m a teacher) in order to go, however I didn’t wait for the leave to be approved before booking. For reference, people take unpaid leave for holidays all the time at my work. I have only ever taken one day off other than sick leave throughout my 6 years of teaching at this school. My boss has rejected my leave and told me to cancel my holiday or fly home half way through for this one day of work. It’s a professional development day and no kids will be there. Apparently I can’t attend via zoom (because she doesn’t want me to) and have to be there in person in order to reconnect with everyone. I don’t know what to do. I love my job and don’t want to have my bosses think of me badly, but I’ll lose over $1200 to book new flights home and my holiday will be shortened by 5 days. What should I do?

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Hey Lifers!
In this episode, we sat down with the talented Emily Weir, known for her role as Mackenzie Booth on "Home and Away." Emily shares the highs and lows of her path into acting, as well as the challenges she faced with alcoholism, her path to recovery, and the realities of living with OCD and anxiety.

Emily shares how:
-Her success in acting wouldn't be there if she hadn't committed to being sober
-She realised she had a problem with alcohol
-Her life and friendship groups shifted after going sober
-Substances/alcohol can be the mask to what's going on under the surface
-To seek and get help if you have a bad relationship with booze

Em is a particularly insightful woman and in this chat, she opens up so vulnerably in the hopes that she can help shift the narrative of what an 'alcoholic' looks like. 
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Hey Lifers!
It's so crazy that Christmas is so close! Britt is on her way to Scotland. Laura is not carol'd out. We have a bit of an accidentally deep chat about making Christmas feel special and how we can feel at this time of the year.

Britt was mistaken for someone else but we all know she needs to clean her car before she could do well in that job!

A few days ago we were sent a message from one of our listeners and it was such a big conundrum that we wanted to unpack it today.

The short version is that our listener has been in a relationship with a man for a year, and they have kept it on the down low. He was king hit a few weeks ago, severely concussed and now has no memory of their relationship. She doesn't know what to do or how to be a supportive partner. We chat about Laura's personal experience that is quite similar and how we think she should go about supporting her partner.

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