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Ready or Not

The podcast for and about mothers and parents who make work, work by two cousins with four children between them.We publish content all week long via our podcast, Substack, and social channels.Every Monday, our banter-based podcast Witching Hour with Loz and Lu will land in your ears right here.Every Wednesday, we publish our flagship interview podcast with Lucinda aka Lu, Ready or Not.Every Friday, we publish our brand new mini tip-based episode with Ready or Not"s agony aunt and advice queen Loz,

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28:12

We're not buying what Joe Jonas' publicity team is...

Ready or Not ·

2023/09/14

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 Friday.In today's episode, we cover:How a construction industry giant tripled the number of men taking parental leave.Recent research indicates that Millennial fathers dedicate three times as much time to their children compared to their own fathers, but if you're Joe Jonas,

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56:08

Rachel Maksimovic on solo motherhood, letting go of...

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2023/09/12

Picture yourself living the good life in Bali. You pee on a stick thinking you'll quickly quash any fears that you might be pregnant, but those two lines appear. The test is positive and you're keeping the baby. Only, you're doing it solo.You work for yourself, you don't tell your clients that you're pregnant for fear of losing the work and the much needed income, and maternity leave isn't a thing.But you make it work, and every day, your beautiful boy serves as a reminder of everything you've

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22:31

Having it all sounds exhausting and leaning out is...

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2023/09/07

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.In today's episode, we cover:Michelle Wolf's having it all analogy has us re-thinking our affinity for the breakfast buffet.The professional women who are leaning out, and why the term itself needs a rebrand.Can't we all just get along? Inspired by this brilliant post from The Midwife Mumma, we take a look at some research into the often

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51:01

How do you return to work after pregnancy loss when...

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2023/09/05

How do you return to work after a pregnancy loss when you support pregnancy, mothers, and babies for a living?This is the situation that Lactation Consultant, Midwife, Naturopath & Educator Joelleen Winduss Paye found herself in when she lost her baby girl 16 weeks into pregnancy. She experienced labour, her milk came in, and she somehow got through what she didn't think she could.Here, Joelleen intimately walks us through it all: how she navigated it, how she returned to work after a postpartum

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27:51

Girl math is more fun than mum math and why we're...

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2023/08/31

Welcome back to Witching Hour: the show that looks at what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us as we navigate making work, work alongside parenting.In today's episode, we cover:Are you my momager? The burnout that millennial managers - particularly women and mothers - are experiencing in managing their team's emotional wellbeing, not just their workload. Plus, where do we draw the line between the personal and the professional and what should we expect from our bosses? (Find the

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55:23

Amy Pearson on finding something you love outside of...

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2023/08/29

An hour in conversation with Amy Pearson feels a lot like a session with a business coach, which comes as no surprise given she splits her professional time between brand design, education, and mentoring. She's incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to her work, but more than that, she's generous and honest when it comes to making work, work alongside parenting.She's a mother of two, She's the founder of Sun Mother Studio and Birth My Business and she's deeply passionate about helping mothers make

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26:02

Charlotte York Goldenblatt returns to work and how do...

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2023/08/24

[Just a heads up, there's a few swear words in this ep] Welcome to the first episode of Witching Hour, coming to your ears every Friday.Think of Witching Hour as Ready or Not's loose little sister: a place to share what's exciting, delighting, intriguing, and frustrating us in the world of parenting and career.She might be Lucinda on Ready or Not, but she's probably more likely to be Lu or Luce here, because on this podcast, we have a new co-host: Lucy's cousin who feels more like her sister,

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52:20

Working and parenting from a motorhome in California...

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2023/08/22

If you're an avid consumer of lifestyle and travel media in Australia, there's a fair chance you've pored over the intelligent words of Caroline Clements.As one of the first editorial leaders in the very early days of Broadsheet, Caroline helped shape the publication into the authority on Australian city culture that it is today.Since then, she's worked in editorial and production roles with some of the country's biggest magazines and brands, before taking her passion for storytelling to a new

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52:11

Aboriginal and South Sea Islander mother Jemmason...

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2023/08/15

Jemmason Power is an Aboriginal & South Sea Islander mother who lives in Meanjin Brisbane with her husband and her son. She works full time as a consultant & facilitator in indigenous cultural responsiveness, she was a lead actor in Stan's recent original series Black Snow, she's a model, and in a former life, she was also a professional netball player. She was born into a Pentecostal church, she played elite netball until she was 18 weeks pregnant while hiding her bump under baggy jumpers,

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57:24

Ultra Violette co-founder Ava Chandler Matthews on...

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2023/08/08

You might not find a more honest conversation on motherhood and career than the one you're about to hear.Ava Chandler Matthews is a mother and the co-founder of Ultra Violette, a skincare brand stocked at some of the biggest retailers in the world.She went back to Ultra Violette at three months postpartum, she travels a lot, and while she loves her son to no end, she's open about missing her old life and not considering herself a particularly maternal person.Here, we talk about some of the struggles

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65:38

Writer and postpartum doula Naomi Chrisoulakis on the...

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2023/08/01

Naomi Chrisoulakis is a freelance writer, postpartum doula, and a mother of two.In the early days of her career, she cut her teeth in the magazine industry, working for the likes of Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan before a move to Los Angeles would lead her down the freelance route.Moving home a year earlier than her husband to take an editor role at Women’s Health, it was during a four-day trip back to LA that Naomi fell pregnant, and her two births and postpartum periods couldn’t have been more

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61:28

We're back! With a daycare Q&A, a new pregnancy, and...

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2023/07/26

That daycare Q&A episode I've been rudely promising for three weeks now is finally here, and I am finally back from my holiday.Given this episode is a bit different in nature, I also share a reflection on the first trimester of pregnancy number two and a recap on travelling to Bali with a toddler.I mention sex, the perhaps naive surprise of this pregnancy, my disenchantment with pregnancy this time around (that essay that I mention can be found here), and more - so keep that in mind if you have

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38:06

Manon Pietra on changing the corporate narrative,...

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2023/06/27

Manon Pietra is a diversity, equity and inclusion partner at Canva.She's also the "other mum" as she puts it. That is, the non-birthing person in a two-mum family.What I love most about this conversation is the reflections around what we assume to be a gendered experience, because while Manon and her wife may be similar when it comes to biology, that doesn't mean that Manon would go on to understand what her wife would go through in pregnancy, birth, and beyond.Here, we talk about what she's learned

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60:31

Lawyer and mother of four Silje Andersen-Cooke on...

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2023/06/20

Picture this: you're a mother of one, you're newly pregnant and you're at your dating scan. The sonographer goes a little quiet. There's not one baby in your tummy, there's not even just the two. You're pregnant with triplets.This is what happened to now mother of four and litigation lawyer Silje Andersen-Cooke.I can physically feel the shock and worry of it all: wondering what this means for your babies, what this means for your body, what recovery might look like, and how on earth you return to

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53:21

Alison Rice on leaving her glossy career for more...

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2023/06/13

Alison Rice is a mother and a journalist turned career and business mentor. She cut her teeth at The Walkley Foundation for Excellence in Journalism before going on to lead and launch some of the world's largest digital women's media titles into the Australian market.To some, she had it all.But, a realisation that her work was perpetuating a kind of desire culture and leading women to question themselves would ultimately change the course of her career.It was then during those early days of

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45:52

Alpha-H Chief Commercial Officer Tina Randello is on...

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2023/06/06

Tina Randello is the Chief Commercial Officer of global skincare brand Alpha-H. She’s also a mother of two and the founder of The Encoreship — a return-to-work program providing opportunities for women and mothers who have been out of the workforce for an extended period.She’s held down massive roles, she’s worked both full time and part time alongside her parenting journey, and she’s learned a lot from navigating it all for thirteen years.What seems to make her a great leader is that she believes

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44:51

The perfect motherhood myth and redefining our sense...

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2023/05/30

Elise Addlem is a feminism and philosophy educator for mothers and parents.She's also a mother herself, and through her work, she breaks down complex topics into digestible bites. She makes the daunting interesting and she is deeply passionate about educating others on the intersection of motherhood, feminism, patriarchal parenting, and neoliberal capitalism.Here, we talk about the perfect motherhood myth, how our sense of self can change for the better in motherhood, the power of knowledge, and

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54:33

Public triumphs and private heartbreaks: Collective...

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2023/05/09

Publicly, a burgeoning business that led her to New York for a meeting with Anna Wintour and to sharing the stage with Richard Branson on multiple occasions.And privately: eight years, 18 rounds of IVF, and a friend willing to carry her baby, all in pursuit of becoming a mother.This is an incredible story of how Collective Hub founder Lisa Messenger has made work alongside her challenging journey to parenthood work.Here, we talk staying open, how she got through sixteen phone calls telling her the

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37:26

Australian Birth Stories host and mother Sophie...

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2023/05/02

Sophie Walker is the host of hit podcast, Australian Birth Stories. She's also a published author, the creator of the birth class, and a mother of three boys.It was Sophie's traumatic first birth that inspired the podcast, which at the time of the interview had over 11 million downloads, but at the time of publishing, she's up to 12 million. That's nearly half of Australia.The expansion of her business has led to some really exciting projects such as her new book, and it's also led to her becoming

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68:50

Navigating hyperemesis, working with a newborn, her...

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2023/04/26

Vomiting 30 times a day while trying to run a shop. No parental leave after the birth of her son Remy. Owning a retail business in Melbourne during a pandemic. Navigating her husband’s cancer diagnosis and treatment.And then, after falling pregnant with the baby that the doctors said would be nearly impossible to conceive without assistance, a pregnancy loss.Navigating motherhood and career for Think Thornbury owner Maggie May Moshe has not been linear.Here, she walks us through it all: from

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