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And just like that, our six-part series is done! 

Product Reviews
15 for you by LK join in time for the Christmas round here
Nics skincare journey Mecca-morphosis Purifying Cleansing Balm 

It's an Earl Grey day and add in some caramel slice.

When you were little, what did you want to do when you grew up? 
Fond mems of Maccas
On being a comedian 

A bit of behind-the-scenes of being a business owner and doing what you have to do to make it work!  
Changing careers or starting a new business in your 30s

WTAF was Nicola's old job at the pub?

Weird facts about us - When your reading voice is in an English accent, and your fear of Aliens takes you to the therapist 

Fecking MyGov emails and Nicolas's latest scam email 

Wearing sexy undies and getting Christmas ready a bit early this year.

Come join us for a Christmas Lunch! 

Thank you all so much for joining us for our little 6-part series! I'm not sure at this stage if we'll be back as life is crazy with the kids, but please reach out on socials; we'd love to hear from you! 

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Welcome to episode 5 of 6! Straight into some product reviews again today. Nicola is sharing her new fav store in Brisbane and Jess is Back on the Bissell train! 
We're also discusing:

Invisalign fails and hygeine
Nicola's latest reel and boomer vs conscious parenting lols
Our ideas on spoon fed vs baby lead weaning and a little sweet milk tip
To leash or not to leash and crying in the cold
Unsolicited advice from friends and family
Why we don't like the concept of selling sleep- how sometimes the professionals can make you feel like you're doing it all wrong and the damaging effects of not giving options to parents.
The Triple P parenting course - a little online refresher for Jess
Leo's bday and a last minute cake baking sesh for day-care. 

Look forward to catching up for our last ep (for now, who knows?) next week! 
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Ep four of 6, and we felt so light after this one! 

We're straight into a couple of shitty Mother, Unrefined moments
Chicken nugs, atomic kitten and proactive 
Tingle Cream, Meal Prep and Fish 
Georgie's first haircut
Parenting Styles and the balance between the styles - we're getting honest here
Gentle Parenting vs Toxic Positivity 
Have you ever had to discipline another kid in front of their parents?
Weighted Pillows
List the things that you don't care about anymore as a mum - hello's, outfits and hectic mess.

Look forward to catching up next week! 
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We're halfway! Welcome to episode 3 of our 6-part series! 

Today, we're starting with the never-ending discussion of beige food... unfortunately, after years of humble bragging, Jess is now eating humble pie.

Flipping the order and doing our product recos at the beginning. Today, we are talking about salt and glassy skin with a deinfluence.

FIFO mum life! A question we received a few weeks ago asked about this, so we wanted to share our experience with it. Nicola asked Jess some questions, particularly, what did you choose to prioritise? We also discussed the bed and bath routine saga and got a musing from Mitch about cleaning.

What happens when you're a stay-at-home mum, and your network of mum friends starts going back to work? Some tips from Nicola.

A bit of bathing and foreskin chat, and we share our wins for the week.

Look forward to catching up next week! 
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WANT TO COME TO OUR XMAS PARTY? Tickets will be going on sale THIS WEEK! Join us on our mother, unrefined Facebook page here for all of the details. 

Episode 2 and we're in a mum funk already! This episode isn't our usual chirpy selves but we wanted to keep it real as usual. 

We discuss everything from trying to get shit done with kids in toe 24/7, manscaping, Depop, mum dumps/journaling and a visit to Nicola's local fire station. 

Looking forward to catching up next week! 

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Hello again! How are you? After (yet another) few months off without any warning we have decided to to come back for a six week series and we can't wait! 

We thought we'd start with a little round up of us, who we are and how our friendship came to be as well as what we are doing now and some awkward moments with work

The kids catch up

Party time- join us on our mother, unrefined Facebook page here for the details

Tickle his pickle

Glass mask, hormonal acne and breastfeeding 

Product reviews are back!

Salt and stone DEO here

Kit cosmetics unwind body balm here

Look forward to catching up next week! 
If you enjoyed this episode we would really appreciate if you could leave us a rating or review, it means so much to us and it really helps us to be seen (and obviously we will love you forever for it!) 

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We're on time! We can't believe it either ;)

Starting off with the week that was...Shopping with kids, mature-aged women and thank you, but
Nicola's little slip and brush with fame which led to a little who have you seen in the wild before?
What was your last Google search?
What is your Kareoke song?
What word makes you squirm?
What were you afraid of as a kid?
What's on the menu?

Undies recommendation for the week
Bonds bloody comfy period undies
Cotton on Body 5 for $40 undies 

Ok and now we're back to the kids, thanks for listening and reach out if you have any questions or want anything discussed on the pod xx

Just a reminder to join our mothers group on facebook here 

If you enjoyed this episode we would really appreciate if you could leave us a rating or review, it means so much to us and it really helps us to be seen (and obviously we will love you forever for it!) 

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OK we missed a week again- sorry!! It's super hard to get nap time aligned and as you will hear in this episode, we couldn't get them matched up. That's #mumlife for you! 

Starting with some news from Jess - period is here! Not exactly news but after being extremely late it was for her! 
Tics, butt checks and vaginal molluscum
poo smear and panic

So now the potty talk is out of the way we're here to discuss social anxiety and societal expectations via our own personal experiences.
Going to events and not knowing other guests 
travel anxiety
How you perceive yourself vs how others perceive you 
Finding qualities you admire and why

short and sweet today but we appreciate you listening- ciao xx

Just a reminder to join our mothers group on facebook here 

If you enjoyed this episode we would really appreciate if you could leave us a rating or review, it means so much to us and it really helps us to be seen (and obviously we will love you forever for it!) 

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Well hello! It's been a while and boy have we missed our chats! We know we dropped off the planet a bit there with no explanation and no message whatsoever and we are sorry about that...life was crazy!! Anyway, we're back and so happy to be here!

 Episode breakdown: 

·    What happened to us...not much but also sooo much! 

·   Going off the gram 

·    Mother, Unrefined moments, toddler torch intrusions and saging the house 

·    Doing everything and achieving nothing is how we feel right now leading to Nics discover of Wisey app
·    Going from 2-3 kids (or at least opening the discussion)
-    Daycare options 

Just a reminder to join our mothers group on facebook here 

If you enjoyed this episode we would really appreciate if you could leave us a rating or review, it means so much to us and it really helps us to be seen (and obviously we will love you forever for it!) 

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• What’s giving you your #mummojo right now? (think fav products, recipes, exercise - anything that is making you feel like a supermum?)
• A little bit about Shiva and her family
• What are you listening and/or watching right now? 
• Favourite mum hack?
• Shiva's journey to motherhood
• Shiva's daughter’s meningitis diagnosis
• Meningitis, what causes it and can it be prevented in babies as young as 4 months?
• What Shiva wish others knew about the disease