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Ready or Not

The podcast for and about mums who make work, work, brought to you by two sort of cousins Loz (mum of three) and Lu (mum of two).Each Monday, we banter on all things motherhood, feminism, career, ambition, and pop culture.Thursdays, we answer three listener questions on all things motherhood and career. As an extension of the motherhood/career conversation, each month, you"ll also find an interviewwith a real mum that"s definitely not doing it all, but rather, doing her best to navigate it all.Find

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36:36

Why perfectionism doesn't always help us at work, the...

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2024/01/21

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.In today's episode, we cover:Perfectionism helps women stand out at work. But over-preparedness can deny them leadership positions (from Fortune)Mum’s the word: The joy and importance of holidays without kids (from SMH)Baby Posie is here! And we can't wait to share more of

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46:32

MotherUp founder Kathryn Millhouse on high achieving...

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2024/01/16

Kathryn Millhouse has achieved a lot in her professional life, but she’ll be the first to tell you that the confidence she had to back herself in within the workplace didn’t exactly translate to motherhood, at least not overnight.Having faced fertility challenges, pregnancy loss and postpartum depression and anxiety, the journey to becoming a mother was far from those perfectly filtered photos we see on Instagram.Cue MotherUp: her business that focuses on mother-centric planning, with tools and

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46:40

Gritty Pretty founder Eleanor Pendleton on what she...

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2024/01/09

Welcome back to a new year and season of Ready or Not! In business and in motherhood, Eleanor Pendleton is a wise, intuitive woman. Nearly 10 years ago, she launched Australia’s premiere beauty website and digital magazine, Gritty Pretty. And just a week after launch, the magazine’s first issue received over 135,000 views.Alongside her evolving publishing business, Eleanor has been growing her own family, too. The mother of two has had some really contrasting experiences when it comes to pregnancy,

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47:35

Your 2024 goals, does the tooth fairy accept paypass...

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2024/01/07

Welcome back to a new year of Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.In today's episode, we cover:The future of work: key emerging workplace trends to watch for 2024,Five parenting trends that will apparently be huge this year,What does an A type personality have to do with motherhood and failure?And our listeners share their

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57:28

Holiday listening: All your childcare questions...

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2024/01/02

Hello from your very pregnant and very tired host. I'm Lucinda, and this is Ready or Not's three part holiday listening series. Over the next three weeks, we'll be re-releasing some of the year's most popular episodes. I hope you have a great holiday, and I'll see you on the other side, when we're back with new episodes of Ready or Not on Wednesday the 10th January.This week, with the beginning of childcare looming for many, we're going back to our chat with childhood educator Kabba, where we ask

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41:32

Holiday listening: An early favourite with The Memo...

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2023/12/26

Hello from your very pregnant and very tired host. I'm Lucinda, and this is Ready or Not's three part holiday listening series. Over the next three weeks, we'll be re-releasing some of the year's most popular episodes. I hope you have a great holiday, and I'll see you on the other side, when we're back with new episodes of Ready or Not on Wednesday the 10th January.This week, we're taking it back to one of our most popular early episodes with The Memo co-founder Phoebe Simmonds. Phoebe and I had our

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59:41

Holiday listening: The most popular episode of the...

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2023/12/19

Hello from your very pregnant and very tired host. I'm Lucinda, and this is Ready or Not's three part holiday listening series. Over the next three weeks, we'll be re-releasing some of the year's most popular episodes. I hope you have a great holiday, and I'll see you on the other side, when we're back with new episodes of Ready or Not on Wednesday the 10th January.We're kicking things off with Ultra Violette Co-Founder Ava Chandler Matthews. This was the most listened to Ready or Not episode this

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54:16

To our generation, being a mum looks thankless,...

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2023/12/17

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.Just a note that today's episode discusses sexual assault, eating disorders, and stresses that can come up in pregnancy.In today's episode, we cover:Forbes: Drybar cofounder built a $255 million hair business while her personal life ‘imploded.’ She has a warning for

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64:19

Kasey Edwards on raising girls who like themselves...

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2023/12/12

Author and mother of two Kasey Edwards didn’t like herself all that much growing up, so when she gave birth to her first daughter, she made it her mission to learn how to.And as someone who had worked out the relationship between hard work and success in her corporate life, motherhood – where hard work doesn’t necessarily lead to reward – rocked her.IVF made her feel like she’d already failed at womanhood, and her birth and breastfeeding journey further cemented this notion that she had concocted

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40:22

We have some thoughts on THAT viral "daycare is bad"...

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2023/12/10

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.Just a note that today's episode discusses sexual assault, eating disorders, and stresses that can come up in pregnancy.In today's episode, we cover:ANZ links bonuses to office attendance and we have plenty of thoughts.Apparently kids will pay the price in push for

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36:41

Day one of uni, 20 years old and a positive pregnancy...

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2023/12/05

20 years old, day one of her university degree, and a positive pregnancy test. And a few years later, twins, a separation, and a period of solo motherhood. If that sounds like enough to push university and starting your own business to the side, that's because it is. But nothing was going to stop The Natal Naturopath founder Melanie Nolan.Here, she shares her incredible story. From finishing a university degree as a single mother of three to building her business. From hoping to sell her first

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57:08

Is it wrong to directly ask someone about their baby...

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2023/12/03

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.Just a note that today's episode discusses sexual assault, eating disorders, and stresses that can come up in pregnancy.In today's episode, we cover:The mum who was fired a week before her due date, inspired by this The Cut pieceAnother mum got slammed about concerns about

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45:00

Tori Bowman Johnson on the first words that come to...

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2023/11/28

Tori Bowman Johnson never considered herself overly maternal, so it's come as a surprise even to herself how entrenched her work is in the motherhood space.Through her books, Afterwards and Before, and her production series The First Word, Tori is deeply passionate about opening up conversations not just about motherhood, but womanhood, too.As a mother of two who has never taken traditional maternity leave, she knows a thing or two about making work, work and here, we talk about the messiness of

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34:55

TikTok resumes are now a thing and does anyone feel...

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2023/11/26

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.In today's episode, we cover:Goodbye cover letters and CVs, hello TikTok resumes, and how we feel about this new trend, inspired by this Women's Agenda piece.Does anyone feel like an actual adult? Not us, and this piece by The Cut has us thinking about our most mature and

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73:39

Sophie Pearce and Jayde Couldwell on the rise and...

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2023/11/21

It might be easy to pin Sophie Pearce and Jayde Couldwell as two mothers that are living the dream when it comes to parenting and paid work, but that would be to miss the point entirely. Six and a half million downloads, partnerships with some of the country's biggest brands, and over 200 episodes later, the pair have been incredibly influential when it comes to opening the flood gates for genuinely honest parenting dialogue.Here, the mothers share why making work, work isn't quite working at the

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42:01

What a Whitney Wolfe Herd headline says about the way...

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2023/11/19

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.In today's episode, we cover:A Whitney Wolfe Herd headline that made us question the way women are portrayed in media,Queensland public schools to trial a four-day school week,The gender pay gap for organisations with a workforce of 100 or more employees is going to be on

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60:14

Nell Frizzell on journeying through the panic years,...

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2023/11/14

Nell Frizzell might just be one of the wisest and funniest people I've ever had the pleasure of speaking to. She's a journalist, an author, and a mother, and she writes with the sort of candour and kind sense of authority that makes you trust her immediately.My dog-eared copies of her books - The Panic Years and Holding the Baby - are completely battered and bruised, such is the wisdom and comfort that her words bring to exploring gender, motherhood, politics, and culture.Here, we talk about the

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50:14

We need to find a hobby that takes as long as golf...

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2023/11/12

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.In today's episode, we cover:How can you overcome imposter syndrome? You don’t: A piece by Reshma Saujani the CEO of Girls who Code.'My "self care" is a shower. My partner's running marathons. Seriously?': Holly Wainwright's advice column and why we're starting a "golf"

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45:59

Lisa Walker on navigating the loss of her husband and...

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2023/11/07

On a warm January day in 2022, Lisa Walker pulled up to her husband’s house to find him peacefully unresponsive on his bed.A whirlwind of navigating solo parenting, grief, and continuing to build upon the business idea that was already in motion ensued, and as a mother of two, the show - while not according to script - went on.It was during pandemic walks that Lisa and her business partner’s chats often turned to managing the mental load of feeling constantly foggy, fatigued and frazzled. And after

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60:05

Britney Spears: “If I got upset and asserted myself,...

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2023/11/05

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we make work, work alongside parenting. It's Ready or Not's loose little sister coming to your ears every Monday.In today's episode, we cover:You don’t have to have it all figured out10 ways motherhood makes you extraordinaryA deep dive into Britney’s new bookA question from a listener about an unexpected pregnancy in a new jobRe-thinking the "find your passion" adviceAnd we're loving

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