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Let's be real. We are all going to go through a period in our lives where we come across some sort of hurdle with a friend. Be it a disagreement, growing apart, having emotionally draining and toxic friendships to full blown friendship breakups. It's all part of this crazy thing we call life. Every week we receive multiple questions about navigating friendships and hot dam we do our darndest to give you the advice you need. But because of the good humans we are we decided to go above and beyond this week and have a professional weigh in to give you some much needed and very qualified advice.

Enter Dr Hannah Korell.

Hannah is both a Clinical Neuropsychologist and a Registered Psychologist. She completed her university training and PhD in neuropsychology at the University of Melbourne.

 Hannah has spent over a decade becoming an expert in why the brain makes us do the things we do (and sometimes the things we don't want to do!) Fierce mental health advocate, Hannah brings and psychology together to explain common life dilemmas, minus the BS. Part of this no BS approach was releasing her book HOW TO BREAK UP WITH FRIENDS. 

She get into the nitty gritty on what makes a real friend, toxic friendships, how to attract good friends, the effect is has on your health and navigating a breakup.

You can find Hannah at @nobullpsych

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This podcast episode discusses sexual assault, coercive control and living in a cult, This may be triggering to victim survivors. If you need help or someone to talk to, you can call 1800 RESPECT or visit respect.gov.au.

“My name is India Oxenberg. I was in a cult for seven years. I didn't want to be saved,"

This is the harrowing opening line to Stan's four-part docuseries that explores the NXIVM cult. The cult started as a US-based self-improvement group, led by Keith Raniere, but in the end the group was exposed for the dark and disturbing cult that it was.

For 20 years from 1998 and 2018, Raniere recruited thousands of people under the guise of personal development seminars and self improvement sessions even luring in several celebrities and socialites with the most prolific being Smallville star Allison Mack.

Over a long period of time, NXIVM faced a multitude of accusations of systemic sexual abuse of female members by Raniere and members of his inner circle. India was a part of this cult, without knowledge that it was a cult, for 7 years.

The last two of which she was a part of a secret sub group within the cult called DOS, which is a Latin phrase that translates to "Master over Slave Women," It was at this point India was expected to engage in sex acts with Keith Raniere, to act as a slave to Smallville star Allison Mack and to be a master to her own two slaves. It was also here that she was held down naked and branded with Keiths initials on her stomach without anaesthetic and while being filmed. 

We are so grateful to have India join us today to personally tell us her story. How she got involved with the group, what life was life inside, the perpetual yet slow grooming, the coercive control, the manipulation and brain washing, the things she was made to do, the collateral she was forced to put down to ensure her silence. She speaks candidly about when things turned sexual, her inhumane branding and eventually how she found her way out and her life after the cult.

You can follow India @indiaoxenberg

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Therapy Thursday is backkkkkk!

We missed giving you our unqualified but ridiculously enthusiastic and passionate advice! 

Today we chat age gaps. Is it an issue? Can you date older? Can you date younger? As one listener says “I really liked him until I found out his age”

Next is something a little different, we chat circumcision. Should you circumcise your child!? What are the pros and cons? Obviously we don’t have penis’ so can’t speak from experience lol. But we come armed with plenty of facts and opinions. 

HELP! I can’t stop catching feelings! Every time I sleep with someone my feelings come rolling in! I feel like I’m setting myself up for disaster. (Spoiler - you probably are)

Guys you know the drill! Tell your mum, tell your dad, your friends and your dog and share the love, because, well, we love love xx

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Lifers! We are back! It is our first episode back for the year and we wanted to kick it off with something fun, different and a little weird! So we decided to chat with a very highly recommended psychic medium - aptly named David the Medium - and see what the future holds for us and well, basically if Brittany will ever find love. Lolz.

As a medium David connects with people that have passed over to the other side, meaning he can deliver messages and communicate on our behalf with those that have passed. You’ll have to tune in to see if we had any luck connecting with and loved ones.

He also predicts the sex of Laura’s baby and well, we can’t wait to see how that one plays out!!

This chat is full of tears, laughter, predictions and inappropriate jokes, all in all it was an eye opening experience so strap on in.

If you want to check out David on Instagram and book in a reading for yourself you can find him @davidthemedium

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HAPPY FREAKING NEW YEARS EVE LIFERS!

On todays little stroll down memory lane we are bringing fireworks... well, less fire works and more gaslighting, but this is one heated little episode.

This is episode 29 from season 3 and it is one of our favourite episodes as so many people have experienced this behaviour or been guilty of it themselves and it is so very relatable.

Pop some champas and settle back for this recap episode - Big love to you all.

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Wandering down Memory lane day 2!

Today on "Britt and Laura are taking a mini Christmas break but didn't want to leave you hanging so rehashed some of our older and favourite episodes" we are rolling alllll the way back to Season 1, episode 3. Back when we were brand new little podcast virgins and still working out what buttons did what, but we were determined to share stories and content that would in some way help and change peoples life, even if it was just one person. As this was one of the more popular episodes and was aired so long ago we thought it was time to re share it with all our new listeners!

This episode is called "So I dated a sociopath" and it's an episode we often refer back to in our current episodes as it had such a huge impact on Britts life. It also had such an amazing response at the time from listeners saying it helped them through their own tough and toxic times and made them realise that;

A) They are not alone and there is nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed of and

B) That this is no way is a reflection on them and there is light at the end of the tunnel,

It shaped Britt into who she is today and knowing it is shedding light on situations that aren't often spoken about makes sharing it all the more important.

See you soon you big bunch of legends!

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Lifers take a walk with us down memory lane! This week while we are holidaying with our martinis (Brittany) and soda waters (Laura) we are rehashing some of our favourite episodes.

The last episode we released before taking a wee Christmas break was episode 100, and we can't believe how far this little podcast has come over the past 18 months. Todays episode is freaking WILD and not for the faint of heart.

We are taking you all the way back to episode 13 from February this year, where we interviewed the hilariously inappropriate comedy duo Ashley and Rayna from Girls Gotta Eat an American podcast that covers all the things we here at Life Uncut love.

Girls Gotta Eat is a powerhouse in the USA and receives over 2.5 million monthly downloads. it's raunchy, it's wild and its a lolacoaster with a side of panalol.

We hope you love the ride!

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Guyssss it’s our last episode of the year!!

And what a crazy year it has been!

Ok so what’s on the menu today. We certainly cover some ground!

We take a look back on the year that was, reflect on our last years resolutions - did we achieve them? How do we feel about them?

Of course we have accidentally unfiltered for you, but first we dissect a fb discussion question on whether it’s ok to ignore men who approach you to chat, or is that just plain rude. Do we owe them anything? Should we be polite if we feel uncomfortable? Do you owe it to a man to be nice?

Britt has a very out of character run in with a man on her first and last night out for the year because #2020 is finishing the year a sly dog. 

We recognise that being alone at this time of year can be hard, but we want you to know you are never completely alone. There is always someone to talk to and someone that cares.. even if you jump on our fb group to join the chats with some likeminded and beautiful humans!

We thought what better way to wrap up the last episode than with an Ask uncut regarding a girl who embarrasses herself at her work Christmas party. Fitting.

We can’t THANKK YOU enough for all of you love and support this year. We ADORE each and every one of you. We read all your emails and messages and we are

So grateful for the amazing community that has been created. 

We couldn’t and wouldn’t be able to do this without you. You’ve all supported and helped us so much and we can only hope you have felt supported and loved too. 

If it weren’t for you guys we never would have won the Listeners Choice at the Australian podcast awards, an award we are so chuffed with. 

We can’t wait for a bigger and better 2021. Until then, join the fun and join some healthy and usually hilarious conversation on the fb discussion group - Life Uncut Podcast. 

Have a safe and healthy Christmas and New Years and let’s roll in to the new year with good energy, great intentions and filled with love and optimism.

Please, if you’ve gotten this far and you haven’t hit 5 stars or left a review yet, well you sly dog what are you waiting for.

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Happppy Thursday lifers! Holy smokes it comes around quickly dunnit!

Starting with some cracker accidentally unfiltered’s and ‘can’t believe they said that’s’ before jumping into a meaty and ever so insightful topic, conflict styles.

We’ve spoken about love languages and attachment styles in the past and we think this is a really great way to complete the conversation and tie them all in together.  

The 5 conflict styles we discuss are 

-Conflict avoiders 

-volatile couples 

-validating couples

-hostile couples

-hostile-detached couples.

These are so important to understand about yourself and your partner so you can work towards a happier, healthier relationship. 

So, which one are you!? 

You can do your own conflict style test here

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Peace x

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Happy Tuesday lifers! 

We are doing another switcheroo this week and bringing you Ask uncut today, but we have good reason! You’ll have to listen to find out though. Some things just can’t be avoided!

We have a great one for you with some very relatable questions and some good solid lols. 

But before we get into that, some jerk had the nerve to put a girls face through a “how pretty are you?” app before deciding if her would date her... then proceeded to give her her feedback before they had even met and WTF JERRY THERES A REASON YOU’RE SINGLE JERK OFF. 

As you can tell, we are not ok with this. 

Okies, into the episode;

Firstly, what do you do if you can’t stand the noises your partner makes when he’s having sex!? Can you tell him? Do you just put up with it and hope for the best? 

What if your partner never told you he loved you. But showed you in other ways. Is that enough? This one related back to the good old love languages and we both have different ideas on it.

Lastly, but definitely not least,  we have one listener who’s bf keeps getting sent nudes in a group chat and she ain’t ok with it. How do you navigate that one!? 

We will be back with our big juicey episode on Thursday guys!

Thanks for all your love recently, so many of you taking the time to leave reviews and have great meaningful discussions on the Facebook group! If you aren’t a member, where you at!?

@lifeuncutpodcast

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