Life Uncut

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP.

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Hey Lifers,

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Welcome to flirt school. Here you'll learn what to do, and quite likely exactly what not to do. How much is too much eye contact? Have you tried breaking that eye contact and taking your gaze to a forehead? We unpack...

Things start off today with some plant talk and it's no stretch to say that Laura is not quite on the path to being a green thumbed goddess. Hopefully the plants can be rescued from the compost.

Vibes/unsubscribes for the week:

Britt - Halty style of dog lead
Laura - Netflix Live to 100. Secrets of Blue Zones
Keeshia - Unsubscribing from people using descriptive words in second hand ads
Ben - Mark Manson documentary on Apple TV

Then we jump into your deep, dark and dirty questions:

• I’m currently on maternity leave so I’m home a lot. We have a security camera at our front door that my fiancé and I get notifications for when someone’s there. However my fiancé is obsessed with looking at it every time it goes off, literally EVERY time.. so it feels like I’m sort of being watched with whatever I do.
  I made a comment a while ago that it makes me feel a bit weird and it’s giving controlling vibes and he was apologetic and said it was absolutely not his intention, he said he will stop looking at it, and he stopped commenting on every time a notification went off. But now he’s doing it again. Is this normal?!
• Last night at dinner my partner told me he had masturbated the night before as he was in the mood but I had fallen asleep. He always watches porn if he’s going to masturbate- which I’m totally fine with. However, my question is: is it weird for your partner to masterbate while watching porn, when I’m in bed next to him sleeping?? I find it a little strange and weird knowing he was getting off to some porn while I was right there next to him. Not because it wasn’t me he was getting off to, just the fact he had to do it while I’m there sleeping. 
• One of my absolute pet peeves is not receiving a thank you for my generosity. I’ve given them gifts, home cooked meals and heartfelt cards. I’ve previously travelled interstate for a wedding and contributed to the wishing well. Some of them I don’t even receive a thank you from unless I bring it up.
  Am I being unreasonable?
  

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Hey lifers!

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Laura's now a believer! She's experienced a bit of an out of body experience!

We unpack a clip going viral on tiktok at the moment and have a question for you! Is it okay to ask someone for their financial status before going on a date with them?
More deeply, do you think you could have a successful relationship with someone who has a different level of ambition to you?. 

Joining the podcast today is body confidence influencer, Great British Bake Off contestant and future author of ‘diet starts Monday’ Laura Adlington. There seems to be a lot of internet conversation around completely loving ourselves and being entirely confident in our body and while that's absolutely the goal, it's not where a lot of us are genuinely at. This conversation feels so real. It's very honest and completely transparent. 

We chat:

• Why we feel like we don't like ourselves
• Diet culture messaging is built into us from when we are kids
• Body neutrality movement and learning to focus on other components of yourself over your body
• How laura feels about the word fat & how fatphobia looks in our world
• Opinions on bariatric surgery and medications like ozempic
• How fertility is impacted by body size & Laura's BMI prevents her from adopting a child

You can follow Laura on Instagram
Her podcast "Go love yourself" is on Instagram and available on apple or spotify

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  Building the biz from the basement up! Uncut with Brittney Saunders. Aweng Chuol, From refugee to Queen B you can listen to here. We also unpacked the idea of the 'hedonic treadmill' with Mark Manson, author of the Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

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It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP.

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Hey Lifers!

There's a lot going on today: ringworm, TV free lives, and pre peacocking.

Big question for ya, if you are in a long term relationship and you stop wanting to have sex (for any reasons), can you/should you 'allow' your partner to fulfil their sexual desires somewhere else?

There are so many factors that come into play with this question, and we unpack the grey areas.

Vibes for the week:
Laura:  Errr not having a TV
Britt: Cruel Summer on Prime video
Keeshia: Only murders in the building on Disney+

Then we jump into your questions:

• Should I feel guilty about having a sex dream about one of my boyfriend’s single friends? This is maybe the second time I’ve ever had a sex dream and I woke up very horny. 
• My partner and I have been together for 8 years. Within the next few months he is going to receive a portion of his inheritance from the sale of the family business. It is a huge amount (8 figures). He sat me down last night and explained to me that (his exact words) he did not trust me with his money and he wants me to sign a prenup/binding financial agreement before he receives it. I'm really hurt by the way he has raised this issue. Am I right to feel upset or am I overreacting?

• I separated from my husband of 12 years about 2 years ago, it was a defence family so I spent a lot of my marriage alone looking after our 2 young kids whilst he was away and feeling very alone, unsupported and unimportant compared to his work. I became very depressed. I have recently started dating someone & he is a widow. His girlfriend passed away 3 years ago with cancer. He has had flings but nothing more since. Now after we spend time together he feels guilty and depressed because of his grief. I understand this is very normal. My question is… do I persist or will I be 2nd to something else again? This sounds wrong but I suffered years of never feeling like I was the priority. 

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Listen to Lotte Bowser and our episode on Grief here

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Hey Lifers!

First up today, Laura's come to an interesting discovery about her anatomy...
Britt has an update on her egg freezing journey and we're deeply thinking of anyone who is struggling with their or their partner's fertility at the moment. 

We have a question for to ask yourself, your friend, colleague, partner or kids.
How can I be 1% better?
You can interpret this however you wish. It could be in your work life, towards your partner, personal growth etc. 

Then, it's producer Keeshia's dream come true. Her favourite podcaster Steven Bartlett joins Life Uncut! Steven Bartlett is the host of The Diary of a CEO, one of the most listened to podcasts in the world. He's an incredibly successful businessman and entrepreneur. He's also an author and an investor on Dragon's Den (the UK version of our Shark Tank).

In this interview we focus on the secret sauce behind what made Steven so successful, making incremental improvements, and embracing the art of effective communication.

We chat:

• Sweating the small stuff - why the seemingly insignificant things matter 
• The power of never disagreeing - why "never disagreeing" doesn't mean sacrificing your opinion but instead fosters a culture of empathy and understanding.
• Pissing people off for success - why making waves and challenging the status quo can be a sign that your business strategy is working. 
• Unapologetic values & how these values can determine what we make of ourselves

You can grab Steven's new book The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett here!

You can find Steven on Instagram

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It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP.

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Hey lifers!

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Little update on Britt's fertility and where her (small) eggs are at!

We unpack the weirdest beauty treatments including salmon sperm facials...
We also talk about how it's refreshing to see people like Julia Morris being open with the cosmetic procedures they elect to have.

Our vibes for the week:
Britt: Point hacks au on instagram
Laura: Painkiller on Netflix (and also Dope sick on Disney plus)
Keeshia: Denton Ultime Pillow

Then we jump into your questions:

• My ex and I have been broken up since march. He wanted to get back together, I didn't and so he blocked me on social media. I’ve found out that he has a new girlfriend of 2 months. A week ago unblocked me and started viewing all my stories. He doesn’t follow me so he has been intentionally looking me up and stalking me. I know I shouldn’t care but what the hell? I still have feelings but also know I don’t want to go there again and wouldn’t because he has a girlfriend. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ?
• Should you uninvite a friend from your birthday party if they don’t even text you on your birthday? Context, I’m having a limited seating birthday lunch and had to be tight with the number of people I invited. When I put the invite out a few weeks ago, she responded saying that she would like to come but wanted to bring her partner as well. I said yes, and allocated 2 of the limited seats to them. My party is coming up now, as I had my birthday last week but the thing is, I haven’t heard from her in weeks. I didn’t hear from her on my birthday and not since. I feel annoyed that I gave up 2 spots for them and feel like I want to tell them that they can’t come. 

• Is it crazy to message the family, mum in particular, of a guy who has ghosted you? We dated for a year, but we were long-distance. I was supposed to see him in 2 weeks for the first time this year but now he's ghosted me. He said he's super overwhelmed with work and it takes a toll on him but he loves me so much. Never did he ever say that we had ended, he simply has ghosted me. I can see that he's following a couple new girls on instagram, so clearly he has time on his hands. I want him to know that no one deserves this and he can't get away with treating people like this but he won't respond to my messages. I'm not going to keep pushing him but I want his family to know how he's treated me. I know it's a bit crazy, but I want to know whether it is completely unacceptable or not?

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Hey Lifers!

It's Britt and Keeshia's birthday! The conversation around milestone anxiety (especially because one of them is turning the big 3-0) rears it's head again. Laura & Producer Keeshia unpack whether Keeshia's joy around her birthday this year is linked to being in a relationship & what it means we need to be doing for our single friends on their birthdays!

There's a new study that has shown that (in hetero relationships) men are more commonly the first to say "I love you." A particularly interesting part of the study showed that it usually takes 69 days for them to say it... we're not the ones crunching the numbers here.
Then we get into a truly great interview with Lotte Bowser.

Lotte Bowser is a writer and podcaster. It was a modern day romance where two people both swiped right and fell in love almost instantly. They moved in together, they travelled together, they got engaged and then in 2019 Ben was diagnosed with terminal cancer. In late 2020, Ben died and Lotte had to 'say goodbye' from a hazmat suit. Lotte has had to learn how to navigate life as a young widow and how to move forward with her life.

In this chat we speak about:
-The stages of grief are bullshit
-Grief can be so isolating and so lonely
-How to support someone through the loss of someone, and also what not to do
-Finding purpose and moving forward after someone you love has died

Lotte has co-written a grief workbook called “Now, what?” with friend of the podcast and host of Darling Shine Ellidy Pullin and is currently writing a book of her own. 
You can follow her journey here

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It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.