What happens when the “happiest time of your life” becomes the darkest?

This week, Kate and Tansy sit down with former police officer and mum of one (and one on the way), Eden Judd, for a raw, unflinching conversation about postnatal depression, anxiety, bipolar II, and the brutal truths of early motherhood that no one talks about on Instagram.

Eden shares how a traumatic birth, insomnia, and a crippling fear of asking for help led to a breakdown, and how she fought her way back through the doors of a Mother Baby Unit.

From the fear of having her child taken away to the deep stigma surrounding psychiatric medication during pregnancy, Eden opens up about what it really takes to survive and recover.Kate shares her own experience with perinatal PTSD, while Tansy dives into why judgment in motherhood is rampant—and why so many women feel they have to perform their way through pain.

You'll learn:

Why sleep is not a luxury in the postpartum period—it’s a survival strategy

How the system is failing new mothers, and what real care should look like

Why we need to stop judging mums who ask for help (and start showing up with lasagna)

Whether you're a mum, a support person, or someone navigating mental health while raising a family, this conversation is a must-watch.

Brutal, tender, funny, and deeply necessary.

Resources linked below for anyone who needs support.

COPE (Centre of Perinatal Excellence) – info & screening tools https://www.cope.org.au

PANDA – helpline for perinatal anxiety & depression https://www.panda.org.au

Gidget Foundation Australia – specialist care for new parents https://www.gidgetfoundation.org.au

MumSpace (Parent‑Infant Research Institute) – free online mental health programs https://www.mumspace.com.au

Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness – emotional support for new mums https://www.peachtree.org.au

Lifeline – crisis support 24/7 https://www.lifeline.org.au

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This week, Kate and Tansy are joined by psychologist and no-bullshit mental health voice Taash Balakas for a raw and relatable conversation about the inner chaos we all carry. From imposter syndrome to over-functioning during Christmas, self-advocacy to family blow-ups, Tash helps us unpack the stuff we usually keep buried in the group chat.Nothing is off the table: ruminating thoughts, social anxiety, being the “good girl,” carrying the mental load, chronic pain, boundaries with boomers, fatphobia, decentering men, and why radical self-acceptance isn’t a destination - it’s a practice.You’ll learn:How imposter syndrome hijacks your success - and how to reframe itWhy women are so sh*t at saying no (and how to get better at it)How to handle boundary backlash (especially from family) without losing your mindTaash doesn’t gatekeep. She explains therapy concepts in a way that actually makes sense, offering real-world strategies, gentle honesty, and hard truths (with a sense of humour). If you’ve ever felt like a fraud, like you’re too much or not enough, or just plain exhausted from keeping it all together—this episode is for you.Also includes:How social media warps our self-worthThe performance of being a “fun” personFatphobia, patriarchal conditioning, and why so many women lose themselves in service of othersThe world may not be built for women’s mental health! But this episode might be a small start.#BluntAndTheBeautiful #MentalHealthAwareness #ImposterSyndrome #Boundaries #PeoplePleasing #TherapyTalk #PsychologyPodcast #SelfWorth #WomenSupportingWomen #RadicalAcceptance #Fatphobia #SocialAnxiety #BurnoutRecovery #DecenteringMen #KateAndTansy #TherapyIsCool

Welcome back to The Astrology Fix, where we explore the celestial forces that shape our inner worlds. In this episode, Kate and Tansy dive deep into the planet Mars - the astrological firestarter that governs action, anger, desire, and drive.

Mars gets a bad rap. It’s often blamed for impulsive decisions, aggression, or anger outbursts. But as Kate explains, Mars is not chaos. Mars is clarity. It's the part of you that says: "No more people-pleasing. This doesn't work for me anymore."

• Mars Sign: Tells you how you act. Your style of anger, desire, assertion.

• Mars House: Tells you where you need to act. The area of life that demands your fire.

Some highlights:

• Mars in Leo: Needs pride and purpose. Overperforms when stressed. Doesn’t need permission to shine.

• Mars in Pisces: Intuitive and empathetic, but needs boundaries or risks burnout, dissociation, or addiction.

• Mars in the 6th House: Grows through rituals, routines, and structure. Without it? Perfectionism and burnout.

• Mars in the 11th House: Collective change lights your fire. Isolation dims it.

They talk about Mars as a gut feeling, a tightening in your chest, the moment you say yes when you meant no. It’s your internal side coach, whispering: "You don't like that. Say no."

Mars isn’t about screaming in a carpark. It’s about knowing when to leave the party. Declining an invite without guilt. Not explaining yourself. It’s adult. It’s calm. It’s a love letter to your energy.

Join the Blunt and the Beautiful Facebook group for Mars worksheets, resources, and more astrology fix.

We love you. We’re proud of you. Let your Mars rise.

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From chaos on the yellow carpet to chaos in the celebrity press cycle, Kate and Tansy are back to dissect another week of pop culture that has us laughing, yelling, and side-eyeing Bezos.

They dive into:

• The terrifying moment Ariana Grande was rushed at the Wicked premiere and why empathy isn’t parasocial

• North West’s finger dermal piercing (is it punk, painful or pure chaos?)

• The Vanity Fair all-male Hollywood cover: where are the women?

• Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez taking over the Met Gala and what that means for the future of fashion’s biggest night

• Dick Van Dyke as Bond? Yes, that almost happened

• Sabrina Carpenter cast as Alice in Wonderland, Usher in the club, and whether we’re finally entering camp musical era

• Plus, theatre recommendations (with wigs), migraine TikTok hacks, and a brief spiritual moment about ear pressure points 🧝‍♀️

It’s smart, unfiltered and deeply unserious. Just the way you like it.

#thebluntandthebeautiful #theweekthatwas #arianagrande #vanityfair #northwest #dermalpiercing #jeffbezos #metgala #celebrityculture #sabrinacarpenter #aliceinwonderland #popculturepodcast #motherdaughterduo #weeklyrecap #smartandsilly #tiktoktrends #celebritydrama #melbournelife #podcastrecommendation

This week on The Blunt and the Beautiful, we’re joined by the women who built us — in more ways than one!

Tully Humphrey and Sarah Pasini. Founders of Tully Lou, Curious Conversations, Co- Founders of Stitch Up Studios, and about 7 other domain names they may or may not use, these two are more than just businesswomen — they’re chosen family.

In this episode, we deep-dive into everything from co-founder therapy sessions to influencer fakery, grief and caregiving, and the terrifying return of SkinnyTok.

We talk friendship, finances, eating disorders, family legacies, and the impossible task of showing up online when you’d rather crawl under a doona.

We also get brutally honest about what it’s like to co-run businesses, reparent yourself through motherhood, and why you’re better off being kind than nice. Spoiler: Nice is for people who can’t set boundaries.

Whether you're healing your inner child, managing your mental health, or just trying to avoid polyester during perimenopause — this one’s for you.🔥

Takeaways

Real friendship means knowing what words not to say

Influencer culture rewards performance over authenticity

Women deserve to be financially educated — and empowered

Grief, guilt and caregiving often exist in the same breath

You can rewire an eating disorder, but it takes brutal honesty

Purpose really doesn’t age (hi, Nana!)

SkinnyTok might be gone, but body pressures still haunt us

Business partnerships are basically marriages. With more admin.

⏱ Chapters

00:00 – What makes a ride-or-die friendship

06:00 – Influencer culture and “nice girl” performance

14:00 – Grief, legacy and caring for elders

19:00 – Reparenting through motherhood & food language

25:00 – Therapy, money, and launching 47 businesses at once

31:00 – SkinnyTok, body image & when Barbara shows up

37:00 – Op-shop codes, society spreadsheets, and fake linen values

#TheBluntAndTheBeautiful #BluntPodcast #TullyLou #SarahPasini #CuriousConversations #FemaleFriendship #WomenInBusiness #FinancialWellness #GriefSupport #SkinnyTok #BodyImageAwareness #MotherhoodUnfiltered #EatingDisorderRecovery #TherapyTalk #FriendshipGoals #NeurodivergentVoices #PodcastOfTheWeek #WomenSupportingWomen #KateAndTansy

The Astrology Fix with Kate Forster & Tansy Gorman

This week, Kate and Tansy dive deep into Saturn - the planet everyone loves to hate but can’t escape. Often painted as astrology’s villain, Saturn is actually your greatest teacher. It’s the planet of discipline, growth, and radical self-awareness -the one that shows up to ask, “Are you ready to become who you really are?”

From Kate’s brutally honest account of her own Saturn return: therapy, antidepressants, fifty kilos lost, and two babies - to Tansy’s reflections on boundaries, reinvention, and rebuilding, this episode strips back the fear and explains what Saturn is really doing when it shakes up your life. Expect talk of breakups, breakthroughs, delayed dreams, friendship overhauls, and why Saturn doesn’t punish...it prepares!

You’ll learn:

• What the Saturn return (ages 27–30) actually means and why it’s a psychological reset.

• How to tell if your Saturn lesson is about structure, scarcity, or self-respect.

• The Saturn signs and houses explained—from Aries to Pisces.

• Why Saturn is less a villain and more your cosmic editor, keeping your story coherent.

• And the viral bit: how Saturn gets revenge for you (yes, really) depending on its placement in your chart.

It’s astrology meets accountability - with a little chaos and a lot of cackling.

1. Saturn Return Explained: The Hard Lessons That Shape You

2. Saturn in Astrology: Growth, Boundaries & Becoming Who You Really Are

3. Stop Fearing Saturn — Start Learning From It

4. The Saturn Return Survival Guide: Life Lessons in Your Late 20s

5. Saturn: The Planet That Edits Your Life (and Gets Revenge For You)

6. Astrology’s Tough Love Planet — Saturn Lessons by Sign

   
   

   
   

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Welcome back to The Week That Was with Kate and Tansy - your weekly dose of brutal honesty, cultural dissection, and the occasional galaxy-themed fashion meltdown.

This week we’re unpacking:

• Timothée Chalamet’s confusing American Vogue cover (galactic background? tight embroidered jeans? Is he the new Doctor Who?)

• Mariah Carey’s ill-timed boycott joke in her Sephora Christmas ad – and why rich celebrities seem completely detached from reality.

• Kristin Chenoweth’s problematic tribute post, Charlie Kirk’s death, and the missing conversation around gun violence in America.

• A deep dive into the cultural echo chambers, celebrity performativity, and the growing divide between influencers and actual influence.

• Plus: Oasis merch hysteria, Nicole Kidman’s horror comeback, Chappell Roan’s Cyndi Lauper moment, and Glenn Powell’s disappointing season finale.

From chaotic fashion editorials to capitalism's final boss (yes, we’re talking about those bear-shaped Starbucks cups), The Week That Was is a wild ride through the week's most unhinged moments.

You’ll learn:

• Why marketing fails when it lacks diverse thinkers.

• How celebrities miss the mark with political commentary.

• The weirdly emotional joy of Oasis t-shirts post-concert.

💅 As always, it's smart, savage, and slightly unhinged.

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This week on The Blunt and the Beautiful, we’re diving headfirst into the digital delusions of modern life — from voicemail rage to coroner’s reports as bedtime reading (yes, really). Kate’s inbox is in its villain era, Tansy’s Notes app is a therapy session with a soundtrack, and both of them are still paying for subscriptions they forgot about in 2018.

In this episode, we unpack the rules of phone etiquette (who made them?), why women make better FBI agents than the actual FBI, and how being always accessible is making us emotionally bankrupt. We ask: why can’t we just be offline? Why do we save 400 recipes we’ll never make? And how do you unsubscribe from a VPN and your ex?

Also on the docket:
📲 Texting as trauma
🎧 45-minute voice notes (aka DIY podcasts)
🧠 Biohacking burnout
📚 Hoarding essays, eulogies, and dumpling bakes
🧼 The fecal phone crisis (sorry)
👻 And what it really means when you can’t throw out a digital receipt from 2007

This episode is basically a 2x-speed scroll through every toxic internet habit we hate but can’t quit — and yes, we’ll be saving it to our Notes app.

Takeaways

• There is fecal matter on your iPhone. Think about that.

• Texting is a warzone. Voice notes are the trenches.

• Everyone’s performing online — even in their email send times.

• Digital hoarding is the new emotional repression

• TikTok is ruining your attention span (but god the babies are cute)

• Real friends let you ignore 387 unread texts without guilt

• Biohacking can suck it

  
  

Chapters

00:00 – Inbox anxiety & unread badge shame
07:00 – Doomscrolling, coroner's reports & shit drivers of Australia
13:00 – Hoarding receipts, essays, and existential dread
20:00 – The cult of voice notes & generational etiquette wars
26:00 – Subscription scams, VPN lies & LinkedIn regret
31:00 – Pomodoro lies & productivity propaganda
36:00 – Screen time, sound pollution & why silence is scary
40:00 – Attention spans on life support & Notes app confessions

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In this episode of The Astrology Fix, Kate Forster and Tansy Gorman unpack the planet that rules beauty, money, love, and self-worth — Venus. But forget the TikToks telling you to “dress like your Venus sign” — this is about alignment, not aesthetics.

Kate explains how your Venus sign reveals what you value, how you receive love, and where your abundance flows. Together, she and Tansy explore the energetic link between money and worthiness, why “rest is devotion,” and how to reprogram scarcity thinking into a state of trust and flow.

They also break down Venus through the elements (fire, earth, air, water) and houses, showing how this planet shapes everything from your style to your nervous system’s sense of safety. Expect talk of Cartier watches, Diptyque candles, comfy shoes, and the deep truth that “you don’t have to fight for what’s meant for you — just become a safe place for it to land.”

This one’s equal parts therapy, luxury, and cosmic wisdom — poured straight from the goddess of love herself.#theastrologyfix #thebluntandthebeautiful #kateandtansy #venusvibes #astrologyexplained #zodiactalk #abundancemindset #selfworth #scarcitytostrength #cosmicwisdom #astrologypodcast #womenwhotalk #selfdiscovery #spiritualgrowth #beautyandvalues

This week’s episode kicks off with a weather report (Melbourne is back to being cute), a chat about constipation (we didn’t), and of course, our usual dissection of the absurdity of pop culture.

Kate and Tansy fangirl over People’s new Sexiest Man Alive — Jonathan Bailey, aka the Bridgerton babe and all-around theatre dreamboat. It’s a queer milestone and a good excuse to rewatch Crashing (Phoebe Waller-Bridge supremacy forever). Cue a reflection on representation, hotness, and why middle America is crawling, not running.

Then it’s onto Lady Victoria Beckham (yes, she’s using the title), a $200 VB foundation, and the most pretentious knitwear description ever: washed in the surrounding peaty lochs. Move over, cashmere, it’s all about the Erin Patterson mushroom boot era — vegan leather or plastic? Kate has thoughts.

Next up, Trisha Paytas on Broadway?! The girls unpack her Beetlejuice cameo, the chair-breaking chaos, and why parasocial love for Trish is alive and well. Meanwhile, Ryan Murphy’s new show All’s Fair is getting panned — Tansy calls it “clip farming”, Kate wants her time back, and Kim K’s acting is giving… nothing.

And finally, a reflection on the power of manifesting, pleather fart pants, the stork (don’t ask), and why Goop might’ve dodged a very campy bullet.

You’ll Hear About:

• Jonathan Bailey becoming People's first openly queer Sexiest Man Alive

• Lady Victoria Beckham’s title rebrand, and the most expensive foundation on earth

• Taylor Swift’s mushroom boots and the ethics of "vegan leather"

• Trisha Paytas’ Broadway debut (and broken chair)

• Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair flop, and whether Kim K is capable of human connection

  
  

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