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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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35:47

The Mel Robbins episode that we can’t stop thinking...

Ready or Not ·

2026/03/08

Welcome back to Ready or Not, the show where Loz and Lu try to figure out how to make work, work alongside motherhood.Today on the show:How important are work relationships or really relationships in general? Loz was listening to a Mel Robbins podcast episode ‘called “This One Study Will Change How You Think About Your Entire Life” and it got her thinkingJemima Kirke Gives Her Most Honest Parenting Advice Yet: One of our listeners DMed this piece and we had to talk about it.Got a question? Submit it

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14:19

Dear Ready or Not: Is it normal to feel bored on...

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2026/03/04

Welcome back to Dear Ready or Not, our weekly Q&A where you send us your questions on work, motherhood and everything in between, and we answer them honestly.This week you’re asking us:How do you navigate a job that’s significantly more intense than the one you have now?How and when do you ask for 4 days or 3 days when the role was advertised for 5 days?Is it wrong that I’m bored on maternity leave? I’m 4 months in, absolutely obsessed with bub but bored. Got a question? Submit it anonymously

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22:25

The hidden cost of being a woman

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2026/03/01

Welcome back to Ready or Not, the show where Loz and Lu try to figure out how to make work, work alongside motherhood.Today on the show:Is this becoming the job no one wants? Loz’s friend has noticed that children are no longer saying they want to be teachers when they grow up, so she went down a rabbit hole.And then, with International Women’s Day coming up, let’s talk about the hidden cost of being a woman. Find the Two Broke Chicks post here.—Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please

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22:39

Dear Ready or Not: How do I cope with my mum...

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2026/02/25

Welcome back to Dear Ready or Not, our weekly Q&A where you send us your questions on work, motherhood and everything in between, and we answer them honestly.This week you’re asking us:Help! I need some advice for looking for a job on maternity leave.How to cope when you’re let down by the support in your family (in this case my mum) gives us.How do I position a pay rise after returning from mat leave? I’ve been back for four months and our performance pay review is coming up.Got a question

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37:56

Do we treat motherhood like it’s a personality test?

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2026/02/15

Welcome back to Ready or Not, the show where Loz and Lu try to figure out how to make work, work alongside motherhood.Today on the show:In the age of social media and constant hot takes, is the definition of the “good mother” constantly changing, or does society still favour one version of motherhood above all?And, as promised, Loz and Lu go more in depth about what their week to week logistics look like, including what the start of kindergarten and primary school is actually like.Got a question for

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16:06

Dear Ready or Not: Should I say I'm pregnant while...

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2026/02/11

Welcome back to Dear Ready or Not, our weekly Q&A where you send us your questions on work, motherhood and everything in between, and we answer them honestly.This week you’re asking us:When should you ask for flexible work arrangements, now or closer to your return?Compressed work weeks are being removed from my workplace. What do I say to management to advocate for myself and those who currently have it?Job hunting while pregnant: when and how do you tell a potential employer?Got a question

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56:04

Chantella Perera on the overwhelm of the double shift

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2026/02/10

Chantella Perera was familiar with the juggle before motherhood ever entered the picture.Before motherhood, she was working two jobs as a professional athlete playing WNBL and AFLW, because women's sport alone would never cut it as a pay check. And then, when becoming a mum, it became the double shift – navigating the paid work alongside what society dubs the world’s biggest job.And here, we talk all about it: the push pull and guilt that comes with being both the primary earner and the mother, how

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36:30

Dads want flexibility, so why is it so hard to get?

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2026/02/08

Welcome back to Ready or Not, the show where Loz and Lu try to figure out how to make work, work alongside motherhood.Today on the show:How early is too early to put your name on a childcare waitlist? And then,Flexibility for mums is great, but can we start talking about flexibility for dads, too?Plus, here’s the Rana Hussain article that Lu referred to—Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review.You can also find us on

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30:27

What does seeing me work all the time do to my kids?

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2026/02/01

Welcome back to Ready or Not, the show where Loz and Lu try to figure out how to make work, work alongside motherhood.Today on the show:What does seeing me work all the time do to my kids? We go deep on that piece on The Cut that’s gone viral. Then:“I’ve lost my ambition, and I’m okay with it…”: Amil Niazi is the author of a new book called Life After Ambition: A Good Enough Memoir, and she recently shared an excerpt of it on Chatelaine that had led us on a meandering conversation of what ambition

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20:20

Dear Ready or Not: How do I negotiate working five...

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2026/01/28

Welcome back to Dear Ready or Not, our weekly Q&A where you send us your questions on work, motherhood and everything in between, and we answer them honestly.This week you’re asking us:How to do a full-time job in four days.How long to take off for baby number two without derailing your career.What to do when work wants you in the office more, even though it clearly makes life harder, not better.Got a question? Submit it anonymously here!—Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell

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33:03

How to go back to a job that makes you feel hollow

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2026/01/25

Welcome back to Ready or Not, the show where Loz and Lu try to figure out how to make work, work alongside motherhood.Today on the show:Loz goes deep on the fascinating research that tells us how mums start the new year, and just a hint, it’s not “new year new me” and,How to go back to work at a job that makes you feel hollow. This is a brilliant post I stumbled upon on Instagram, and for those of us sitting at our desks feeling a little despondent, I thought this might be the pep in the step that

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5:33

2026 announcement

Ready or Not ·

2026/01/05

Happy New Year! We’ve got some big things happening in 2026 and a few changes as requested by you. You can expect a little bit more of Loz and Lu this year - we hope you’re as excited as we are!—Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review.You can also find us on Instagram:@readyornot.pod@laurentreweek_@lucindamckimm_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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45:18

What mums need most with psychologist Frances Bilbao

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2025/12/16

Frances Bilbao founded Mums Matter Psychology when her oldest child was just three months old, and now, alongside raising three children her practice has grown into a social enterprise supporting more than 4,000 families each year with over 120 clinicians nationwide. So, as you might’ve guessed, she’s learned a lot of what parents need. And I love hearing from parents that are also psychologists, because they just get it, from both the professional and personal point of view.Here, we hear all about

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30:21

Are we all doing Christmas wrong? Q&A | Witching Hour

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2025/12/16

Welcome back to Witching Hour, the show where two mums and sort-of cousins figure out how to make work work. This week, we answer your biggest Christmas and end-of-year questions, including:• Are we all doing Christmas Day wrong by visiting multiple houses• What’s the actual etiquette for daycare and teacher gifts when budgets are tight• How to survive working through school holidays without drowning in mum guilt• What to say when your family expects long-distance Christmas travel with

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11:38

I was made redundant on maternity leave, what do I do...

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2025/12/11

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 shares her best tips on what to do if you're made redundant on maternity leave.— Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review. You can also find us on Instagram: @readyornot.pod @laurentreweek_ @lucindamckimm_—This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. The land on which we’re lucky

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45:03

Stephanie Vizard on the impossibility of being...

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2025/12/09

Stephanie Vizard has thought and written a lot about parenting, relationships, and work. Her first novel, The Love Contract, was directly inspired by maternity leave and in her most recent release, A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances, Steph explores the dynamics between mothers and daughters, and how their relationship is impacted by really different attitudes to work, ambition, and parenting.But when she’s not writing, she works as a lawyer. And here, we hear all about navigating both the

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37:41

Are we all doing Christmas wrong? Q&A | Witching Hour

Ready or Not ·

2025/12/07

Welcome back to Witching Hour, the show where two mums and sort-of cousins figure out how to make work work. This week, we answer your biggest Christmas and end-of-year questions, including:• Are we all doing Christmas Day wrong by visiting multiple houses• What’s the actual etiquette for daycare and teacher gifts when budgets are tight• How to survive working through school holidays without drowning in mum guilt• What to say when your family expects long-distance Christmas travel with

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1:37:36

Your summer reading list, the business of book covers...

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2025/12/05

[Apologies for some dodgy bits of audio in this episode, unfortunately we couldn’t come up with a solution that we could get to in time because our batteries are low but we still love you and thank you for listening anyway] Welcome back to the third and final part of The Low Battery Book Club, 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. The second episode, where we unpacked cancel culture

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12:49

Starting a new business as a mum – here’s what you...

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2025/12/04

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 is sharing everything you need to know about starting a new business as a mum. From navigating the costs and admin to finding time and maintaining your sanity, she’ll share the lessons she’s learned and the advice she wishes she had from the start. If you’ve got a business idea brewing or you’re already in the thick of it, this one’s packed with practical tips on all the

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58:26

Jesinta Franklin on navigating public life privately

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2025/12/02

After the overnight fame that came with winning Miss Universe Australia in 2010, model, presenter, and now co-owner of bioactive honey company Honey for Life Jesinta Franklin has always done things differently.From the get-go, she was never going to let her public and private lives get too close, and she’s a unique example of what straddling both worlds can look like. For example, she may have protected her kids’ privacy well before the conversation entered the zeitgeist, but she’s always been open

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