Parenthood

For our first REAL TALK episode of the season, Liv & Leonie are coming in hot with screen chat and what everyone is doing behind closed doors, specifically:

📺 Winter holiday chat on Liv's recent virus spell & Lee braving Greece w toddlers

📺 How much screen time we're all allowing and how we feel about it

📺 What the research recommends

📺 Screen time guilt

and so much more

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We've kicked off The Vault segment. Where callers call in with their confessions about what's keeping them up at night. Recordings are anonymous, they stay in the vault.

This week, in this solo ep, we're talking parental anxiety, specifically:

🤯 Do we all freak out about leaving our kids for a night?!

🤯 Do you believe anxiety is your intuition telling you something?

🤯 Does it get any easier as the kids get older?

🤯 Has anyone else crashed into a pole?

and so much more...

The Vault Hotline - To record your confession and for your chance to be featured on the pod, click this link: https://www.speakpipe.com/parenthoodpodcast

For more on the parenthood pod find us at: https://linktr.ee/parenthoodpodcast

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I'm chatting with Megan & Peter from The FitMum Method about how bouncing back fast after birth led to the toughest time of their lives. We chat about:

🤯 The dangers & pressures with bouncing back quickly

🤯 Being back in the gym 3 weeks postpartum

🤯 Feeling like a fraud

🤯 Low sex drive

🤯 How to best communicate with your partner during tough times

🤯 The importance of a repair ritual

and so much more...

How to find out more about The FitMum Method:

Website: https://www.thefitmummethod.com/

Instagram: @mumlete

Want to contribute to the conversation?

The Vault Hotline - https://www.speakpipe.com/parenthoodpodcast

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BONUS EP - Throwback: My Imperfect Life

Bringing you a throwback to our most listened to episode - episode 1.

I speak openly about my experiences with past relationships, pre and post-natal depression and why I started the pod. This podcast healed me, during a really dark period and empowered me to build something that may help others too.

Now our mission is: To smash the stigma on struggles experienced by parents. 

To find out more about the podcast visit: https://linktr.ee/parenthoodpodcast

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BONUS Ep - Hubby Jules is on the pod! Sharing our hot travel tips.

In this Parenthood Uncut episode (unedited and you'll have to forgive us for the inconsistent audio at times), we reflect on our trip to Greece with our 2 toddlers as we live out our final days of our holiday. We discuss:

🤯 Anxiety in transit

🤯 Fewer locations, longer stays

🤯 Travelling pre v post kids

🤯 What we regret not bringing

🤯 What we lost along the way

and so much more...

Items referenced:

1. Chromecast
2. Baby Bjorn Travel Cot
3. Yo-yo Travel Stroller

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BONUS EP - Parenthood Uncut - Solo ep

Bringing you the juice from Greece, where I am on holiday with my 2 & 3 year old. Today I'm discussing my experiences with leaving our children with a local babysitter, I reflect on:

1. What made me feel I could trust the babysitter
2. The challenges I experienced when using a foreign babysitter
3. Other people's judgements re leaving kids w a babysitter
4. How I prepared my children
5. Scary moments like keeping my kids from falling off a cliff

and so much more...

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BONUS EP - Parenthood Uncut - Solo ep

Bring you home truths from Greece, where I am on holiday with my 2 & 3 year old. Discussing the challenges of travelling with toddlers and ultimately is it worth it?

I discuss:

1. The impacts of jet-lag
2. Missing pre-kid travel
3. Impacts of 24/7 family time
4. Adjusting holiday expectations
5. Mosquito infestation

and so much more.

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Bringing you raw audio from Greece. Due to a heap of travel questions from our tribe, we are spilling all of our travel tips, specifically re the flight. We chat about:

✈️ What to pack and what I couldn't live without

✈️ How to keep toddlers entertained on a 24 hour journey

✈️ Navigating the airport with toddlers

✈️ What to bring on the flight

✈️ How to manage public tantrums and so much more.

Resources:

Baby Bjorn Travel Cot

Folding bed rail from Kmart

Yoyo stroller

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In this weeks episode I chat with sexologist Aleeya Hachem, about all things sex, including:

🔥 How many times a week people are having sex

🔥 How soon people have sex after conceiving 

🔥 Sex during infertility 

🔥 The pressures can we feel to have sex

🔥 Sex toy, role play, how to spice things up

and so much more

References

Book: Come as you are by Emily Nagoski

Insta: @great.sexpectations

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In this real talk episode we're talking all things; juggling it all, specifically:

🤯 How we feel about travelling for work

🤯 Solo parenting stints

🤯 Relationship resentment

🤯 The mad juggle of parent life

🤯 Mum & toddler meltdowns and so much more.

Resources:

https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/cancelled-podcast/

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