Welcome back to Ask Ready or Not! It’s Ready or Not’s tip-based episode, landing in your ears every Friday.

This week, Loz talks about work life ‘balance’ and if there’s such a thing. She also candidly chats about her own experience and what she’s doing to make work, and life, that little bit smoother. 

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Sarah Pound is a force. She’s a mum of three, she’s currently writing her third cookbook, she has a range in Australia's leading supermarkets and one million people follow her on Instagram for her simple and healthyish approach to cooking. 

And while she doesn’t have any whimsy stories of cooking with her nonna from the age she could walk, she did always dream of writing a cook book one day, so here, from primary school teaching to catering to the Wholesome by Sarah brand blowing up, she tells us all about it how she got to where she is today.

Here, we talk about finding the thing that makes you happy, why she won’t apologise for being proud of herself, the stress that comes with breastfeeding challenges, and how she’s found the transition going from two to three children.

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In this episode, we cover the below topics: breastfeeding, cooking, newborns, going from two to three children, being a business owner, being a working mum, small business, catering, writing, cook books, recipe ideas, cooking for young families, motherhood and parenting.

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#sarahpound #wholesomebysarah #smallbusiness #entrepeneur

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Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• The new wave of women selling money manifestation and abundance mindset courses - is it empowerment or exploitation? 
• Plus, new research shows young Australian women are becoming more supportive of traditional gender roles than they were 14 years ago. What’s driving it, and what does it mean for the next generation?

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In this episode we cover: manifestation culture, money and motherhood, female empowerment, influencer marketing, abundance mindset myths, gender roles and relationships, feminism and financial literacy, the rise of trad wives, preventing violence against women, and how social media shapes young women’s attitudes about power, privilege, and equality.

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Welcome back to Ask Ready or Not! It’s Ready or Not’s tip-based episode, landing in your ears every Friday.

Today, Loz chats with psychologist, author and mum Jacquie Ward about raising sensitive kids -  the ones who feel things deeply, notice everything and can get overwhelmed by the big emotions that come with everyday life.

Jacqui breaks down what sensitivity actually is (spoiler: it’s a biological trait, not a parenting style), how to handle meltdowns without making things worse, and why sensitive kids often grow into the most empathetic and creative adults.They also unpack the overlap between sensitivity and ADHD, how to support boys to express emotion, and why parents shouldn’t try to toughen up sensitive kids. 

Find Jacqui on Instagram at @jacquie_ward_ or visit https://www.jacquieward.com.au/ for her resources and book.

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In this episode, we cover: sensitive kids, emotional regulation, parenting strategies, ADHD and emotional reactivity, raising boys, empathy and resilience, classroom support, and practical ways to create calm at home.

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 Using Gen's full name, which is Genevieve La Hunt feels a bit weird, and it's not just because she's a good friend of Loz's, my Witching Hour co-host, of course, and the host of Ask Ready or Not. It's because when I jumped off this recording, I felt like I had just  chatted with a friend myself. 

 Gen is the founder of Sunday Agency. She works in publicity and PR she's had a really interesting career.

But what was more interesting about her was just how real she is. You will not meet anyone who talks as straight as Gen. She really resented owning a business, particularly in the early days of motherhood. She resents that she worked from the hospital. She resents that she sent emails while she was in labor. She doesn't think this girl boss thing really applies when she talks about how she's had to navigate paid work and motherhood 

Instead, here, she offers something really real. With all that in mind, you could then be expecting a negative piece of conversation, but that's not what you're going to get today. You're going to get a really realistic look into what it's like to navigate business as the mum, as the boss. You're going to hear about her corporate experiences and what the difference between really good management and really terrible management looks like,  especially when it comes to her really challenging fertility journey and a traumatic miscarriage,

And you're going to learn about what it's taught her, about being a leader and being in business as a parent and with a family today. There's lots of swearing, there's lots of fun. There is so much honesty. It really is one of my favorite conversations to date.

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In this episode, we cover the below topics: publicity, pregnancy loss, miscarriage, fertility, trying to conceive, leadership skills, publicity, public relations, being a mum in business, founder story, working mum, working motherhood and more.

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This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurong people of the Kulin Nation. The land on which we're lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• When she earns more: what Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce reveal about modern relationships, power, and money. Are we as progressive as we think, or do we still quietly expect men to earn more?
• And are mums more worried about dads enjoying parenthood than dads are about mums surviving it?

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In this episode we cover: female breadwinners, money and marriage, gender roles in relationships, ambition and motherhood, career identity after kids, emotional labour and equality at home, stay-at-home dads, the mental load, modern partnerships, feminism in relationships, financial power dynamics, and what Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship says about changing gender norms.

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Welcome back to The Low Battery Book Club, a bonus monthly three-parter in collaboration with Charley from Book Smut, where we consume way too much culture and talk way too much trash. If you need to play catch up on the first episode of this series, you can find it here.

On the show today:

• We share our favourite recs of the month (something old, something new, something high, something low)
• We deep dive The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done by Clare Stephens, talking pile-ons, cancel culture, phone addictions and the tension between our private and public lives.
• Plus, we talk all things smutty, horny reading – Charley gives us the stats on the rise of the dragon porn genre and what to read next if you need more libido stirring reads. 
• We pick our December book club pick and land on the extra books we promise to read before we meet again.

And here’s our ‘something old, something new, something high, something low’ for November…

Charley:

Old favourite: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

New: CANNOT WAIT for The Mushroom Tapes (Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein) and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Nov 13, Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien)

High: Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

Lowbrow but loving: Love is Blind 

Lu:

Old: Re-watched The Family Stone in honour of Diane Keaton. Grab a tissue box and do yourselves a favour.

New (for her, anyway): Nymphet Alumni podcast. (Fave episodes: Magazine Girl & Fashion and Psychoanalysis w Dr Valerie Steele) 

High(s): 

In Vogue: The 90s – Disney, six episodes. 

Sentimental Garbage’s episode on Diane Keaton, especially the excerpt at the end from her book ‘Then Again.’ 

The Pitt on HBO Max, finally watching and loving. 

Low: Losing Jane Goodall AND Diane Keaton since we last recorded. RIP icons.

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In this episode, we cover the below topics: 

Clare Stephens, internet pile-ons, cancel culture, Diane Keaton, Jane Goodall books, book club, new movies, pop culture, sentimental garbage, Caroline O’Donoghue.

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Welcome back to Ask Ready or Not! It’s Ready or Not’s tip-based episode, landing in your ears every Friday.

If your hormones have felt completely out of whack since having kids, think mood swings, brain fog, low energy or irregular cycles, this one’s for you. Loz chats with Mel, founder of The Seed Cycle, about the science behind seed cycling and why this ancient ‘woo woo’ practice actually works.

Mel breaks down how specific seeds can help balance estrogen and progesterone, what to do if your period’s irregular after birth, and why syncing with the moon can help when your cycle’s still finding its rhythm. She also shares the real signs your hormones might be out of balance, the role stress plays, and how small nutrition tweaks can make a big difference to your mood and energy.

Find Mel’s products and resources at theseedcycle.com.au or follow her on Instagram at @theseedcycle.

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In this episode: hormone health, seed cycling, postpartum hormones, nutrition for women, stress and cortisol, cycle syncing, and working mum wellbeing.

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Because my Witching Hour co-host and the host of Ask Ready or Not Loz is the yin to my yang, she always thinks of things that I don't. Take, the other week, for example. My entire family had been sick for over a month and it had left me completely dry of new interviews. When I was fretting about this, Loz said, Lu, there's so many old brilliant episodes that so many of our listeners have never heard. Play one of those. And one person came straight to mind: the queen of magazines and mother to four boys, Justine Cullen. I cringed through listening back to my original intro back in March 2023 in the 18th ever Ready or Not episode, and I want to play a bit for you so we can firstly laugh together and secondly, remind ourselves how far we've all come, because we’ll all have an example of this. 

Here, we talk about why we all love Chilli Heeler, what life looks like when you're parenting both young kids and grown men, and the identity crisis that changed Justine's approach to work. If you want to get up to speed on what Justine is up to now, you can look her up on Instagram, but for now, please enjoy learning from and laughing with someone that I will always think of as iconic. 

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In this episode, we cover the below topics: the magazine industry, separation, single parenting, the publishing industry, writing a book, journalism, New York fashion week, pumping, breastfeeding, identity, ambition, career changes, media. 

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This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurong people of the Kulin Nation. The land on which we're lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

We Pay The Rent and you can too.

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Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• Why mums hide their ambition: are we still expected to apologise for loving our jobs, or has ambition become the new taboo for mothers?
• The trad wife trend:  why a growing corner of social media is telling women to ditch their friends and find everything they need at home.

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In this episode, we cover: ambition and motherhood, guilt and identity in working mums, feminist relationships, the value of female friendship, the mental load, loneliness and community, and the ongoing battle between caring and carrying.

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This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation,  the land on which we’re lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We Pay The Rent, and you can too.

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