Our first guest! For this episode we invited all-round angel and co-founder of health & fitness app Keep It Cleaner, Laura Henshaw, on for a chat. From that flat feeling extended lockdowns have brought many Australians to "COVID disappointments" like postponing your wedding five times, Laura breaks down what's helped her get through some tough times over the past couple of years - and we chat about how it's okay to be upset about the trivial stuff, even if you're thankful about the bigger stuff. Plus she used to be a DJ so we of course discussed the best/worst tracks of the 00s.

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When you're a kid, making new friends is easy. It's usually whoever sits next to you in class, maybe also whoever isn't being the school bully. But once you hit adulthood, it's SERIOUSLY tough. This ep, we discuss our own attempts at making adult friends (we've had to do it a LOT), can you Instagram DM your way to friendship, and how to even meet new people in the first place.

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Nothing is more contagious than comparison syndrome (or as Mel calls it in this ep, comparison-itis) - you basically catch it every time you go on Instagram. Mel and Josie chat about the type of content that sees them falling deep into the comparison trap and share some methods they use to snap out of it.

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In lockdown it feels like everyone is either a) attempting to do it sober or b) drinking more to get through it, so in this ep we chat about our own changing relationships with alcohol over the years, changes we've made to our habits during locky d, and reflect on Australian drinking culture as a whole (and how it can be tough to cut out booze completely).

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Oh my god, we're already at a sex episode! This ep, we're chatting all things libido - normalising the ebbs and flows, the weird pressure we put on ourselves to be having sex all the time, how a bowl of buttery mash potato and a new season on Bridgerton is kinda better than (most) sex anyway, and getting back in the sack after pushing a child out of your uterus.

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We're big on sustainability - this planet needs our help, and over-consumption is a huge factor when it comes to adding more crap to landfill. But... we can't stop buying clothes. In this episode, we chat online shopping, the unhealthy connection of mood and adding to cart, decisions we've made to curb our consumerism, buying 20 pairs of trackpants because they're being discontinued, and Josie's hack for avoiding stupid spending.

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Welcome to You're Doing Great Sweetie, the podcast that's like an audio hug. For our first episode, we're talking COVID. The virus that upended our world and changed everything. Now we're adjusting to it - what is COVID "Normal"? As parts of Australia enter another major lockdown, life is anything but consistent. We talk mental health, that weird pressure to do EVERYTHING in a period of mental exhaustion, and feeling claustrophobic in a borders-closed country.

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Find us on Instagram: @doinggreat_sweetie

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