Rosemary sat down to talk to career coach Jane Downes about making big career changes, rejigging your CV, what's changed in the 20 years since she started her coaching business and what to do if YOU'RE the micromanaging maniac.

Jane's website is here, and you can buy her book here.

And DON'T WORRY! Beatrice will be back on Friday. She's in Knoxville, learning to line dance and eating all the grits she can get her grubby hands on.

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Things we discuss include:

• Is the silent treatment a form of emotional abuse?
• Rosemary's very low-cut jeans.
• Adam Brody's Stylist cover.
• Brian Jordan Alvarez, everyone's favourite English Teacher.
• The dark stalker fantasy Rosemary read is called Lights Out by Navessa Allen. Content warnings abound.
• Lee Child's decision to hand his Jack Reacher series over to his brother.
• Karrie Locher, who Rosemary loves, on Instagram.

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This episode contains discussion of sexual assault, rape, murder and coercive control. It won't be suitable for all audiences. Please, look after yourselves first – if you don't feel able for this discussion, maybe skip this one. xo R&B

Things we mention include:

• the civil case taken by Nikita Hand against Conor McGregor
• the murder of Laiken Riley
• Gisèle Pelicot and the mass rape trial in France involving 50+ men from of her own community
• Germaine Greer, shutting down the idea that a woman shouldn't be president because she menstruates
• Women, Language and Power by Susannah Baldwin
• Kathleen Correia, whose husband was jailed for eight years for coercive control
• Jade Rasmussen, whose ex boyfriend assaulted her and had his sentence suspended and his "happy marriage" used as evidence of… something we don't quite understand
• Y: The Last Man, a graphic novel Beatrice recommends

If you need support, or to speak to someone about an experience you've been subjected to, Rape Crisis Ireland has a list of resources available to people here.

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We're planning our Thanksgiving dinner (lunch, Beatrice would call it) while lamenting a dental calamity that has befallen poor Tilip and arguing about whether or not Rosemary has ever heard the phrase "derring-do" (she hasn't).

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We're talking about some of our best recent purchases – and they are, er, decidedly more middle-aged than we'd accounted for.

Things we mention include:

• Martha Stewart's toile test: Give me the definitions of toile, tulle, tool, tuile, toyle, and toil
• John Derian's cabbage leaf gravy boat, and stunning turkey serving platter
• the metallic knee-high boots Beatrice bought from Target
• Laidback London's moccasin booties
• Rosemary's beloved Gaiamika mugs
• Cecilia Blomdahl on YouTube
• Kinvara hand cream
• THE viral Orolay coat
• the pink Avoca coat (of dreams?)
• Rosemary's not-worn-very-often Nikes 
• Lamy fountain pen
• Storq maternity clothes (esp this cardigan)
• The belly band Rosemary would NOT recommend
• Bea's new vaccuum cleaner
• Beau's compliment joggers
• the Ugg slippers EVERYONE recommends

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Now that Beatrice is back in the workplace, our listeners have a lot of work-related questions for her to answer.

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Beatrice has a new job! By the time you're listening to this episode, she'll be deep into her first week so please send her alllll the good vibes and pray she doesn't have any broken zippers this week of all weeks.

Things we mention…

In case you wondered, Rosemary is knitting the Seahorse blanket from We Are Knitters, which seems no longer to be available on the website. This is what the finished product is supposed to look like; if you'd like to give it a go, just DM Rosemary on Instagram and she'll send you a little pic of the (very easy and beginner-friendly) pattern!

If you'd like to read along with our in-person book club (and we'll do an episode on the book for Patreon in a few weeks!), the book is Theory of Bastards by Audrey Shulman.

Beatrice's borderline-obsessive love of Margaret Heffernan continues apace. In this episode, she talks about Uncharted.

And this is the version of The Gruffalo that we have (and Atlas does, as Granny predicted, love it).If you're in the US and would like to pre-order Rosemary's book, you can do that right now on bookshop.org, Amazon.com or from Barnes & Noble.

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Does this make us terrible friends, terrible women, or both?!

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With special guest Sophie White.

You can follow Sophie on Instagram @sophwhitewhoop, read her work on Substack here, listen to her podcasts The Creep Dive and Just Write the Thing wherever you get podcasts, and Mother of Pod exclusively on Patreon, and buy her books wherever books are sold – but Gutter Bookshop is a good place to start if you want to support an indie bookshop. Yes, she's irritatingly prolific. 

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Could Chat GPT get the best of Philip Mac Cabe? Why are children so efficient at picking apples? Should there be more team spirit at running competitions? And does cutting prices hurt the pumpkins' feelings?! 

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