The Great Equalizer

This week on The Great Equalizer… Sam needs some alone time, Charlene is tired of being bullied, and we talk WATER SAFETY with Olympic swimming legend and CEO of The Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation, Ryk Neethling. This episode is TGE’s last hurrah for 2019… And it’s a biggie. As we all break away for the festive season and head to our respective holiday destination...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam scares the bejesus out of her child (again), Charlene is done with birthday parties and we call a spade a spade. That's right, folks. We've had enough of December and we're calling BS on the festive season. Can we all just admit that Christmas is hard and that the end of the year has us feeling like Luke Skywaylker in the trash compactor (if you know, you know...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam reaches the point of no return, Charlene feels like a new mom, and we head on back to the most upside-down of the upside-downs… The Fourth Trimester (dum-dum-duuuuuuuuuuuuum). Guys, your TGE hosts (Sam and Charlene) have been putting off this topic for a helluva long time. For us, the Fourth Trimester is equivalent to a big day of reckoning… That...

FEAR NOT, FOLKS! This Christmas, TGE’s got your back. If (like us) you’re pulling a lastminute.com on Christmas 2019, you’re gonna wanna listen to this week’s episode. Stay chill, calm your farm and pour yourself a gluhwein, guys, because we are NOT losing sleep over gifts this year. In this week’s episode, we chat to Rosa Krauss, founder of Honest Toys, South Africa&...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam's potty mouth bites her in the ass, MAYDAY MAYDAY we're losing Charlene and... We chat SOLO PARENTING, putting Sam’s estranged husband @ray.herbst in the hotseat. Because we’re a podcast that a) doesn’t man bash and b) hates to exclude anyone of any race, gender or creed, we decided to go behind enemy lines to include some more commentary fro...

This week on The Great Equalizer, we ask… HEY? RU OK!? It’s been several weeks since THAT video of Meghan Markle (AKA, the Duchess of Sussex) went viral. If you’re one of the few who haven’t watched it – and you must – it’s honest-to-goodness the very reason we started The Great Equalizer. Here is one of the most privileged women in the world crumbli...

This week on The Great Equalizer... Sam goes to the principal's office, Charlene is the picture of patience and WORD NERDS UNITE AGAIN! This year marked the 20th anniversary of Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo – one of the most iconic books of our generation and the start of several more gems that we’ve come to love. And if you’re not a Julia Donaldson fan, perhaps other old...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam and Charlene launch into the brave new world of ESSENTIAL OILS. Guys, this oily business has become just another excuse for moms to find a way to disagree and to choose their side in the Great Mom War. Jokes abound and many, many memes are doing the rounds about the greeny-beaniness of essential oils. The assumption of those in the dark is that only “cru...

“My kids come first, but don't think for a second that means I come last. I may be a mother and my responsibilities may be great but, by God, I'll have my nachos and margaritas while watching Dateline if it's the last thing I do.” Spot on, Mouthy Moms Club. Clearly it’s not just us at The Great Equalizer who are taking a stand against not mattering anymore. WE ARE PEOPLE TOO, FFS...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam scars her child forever, Charlene is feeling surprisingly in control of her life PLUS! Parenty editors Leigh Tayler and Jacqui Bester are IN THE HOUSE to chat perfect(ish) parenting. It was an absolute pleasure to welcome two new clowns to our crazy circus. In fact, we liked them so much we tied them up and put them in our trommel with the rest of our monkeys....

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This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam could do with a bigger pillow (to scream into), Charlene is going to jail and we talk SPANKING (with a splash of mom shame). The recent Constitutional Court ruling that outlaws the “reasonable and moderate chastisement of children” has us feeling all the feels. In a society as violent as ours… Well, we get it. It all makes sense. But: Are we...

This week on The Great Equalizer, it’s downhill to year-end and Sam is HERE for it. Charlene, on the other hand, is getting too much sleep (HUH!?). We also chat about about the TGE ethos (leading up to our first birthday) PLUS, most importantly, Sam talks to Learning from Luke's Jess Roberts about raising a child born with special needs. Jess takes us back to the moment she heard the news th...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam relays her journey to being crowned Mom of the Year, Charlene survived the wedding (in case you were wondering) and we talk future-proofing your child with human potential and parenting expert Nikki Bush. Every child will ask their parent what they think they should be when they grow up. Are you ready with an answer? If you just mouthed “Fuck no!”...

This week on the Great Equalizer, Sam flies solo at the end of #hellweek in South Africa. Luckily, post-partum doula and founder of The New Normal Genevieve Putter swoops in to relieve Sam from 60 minutes of monologuing. It truly has been a week from hell. For those of you living in South Africa, you’ll know that life around us has – in some places literally – gone up in smoke. I...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam is chilled like a lemon, Charlene is ready for some nuptials and the duo pull their heads out of the sand and talk Modern Cloth Nappies with South African Cloth Nappy Users founder Catherine Dowie. Guys, the intention is NOT to make anyone feel kak if they’ve gone the disposable nappy route. You do you, Boo. As always, #nojudgies. BUT, for those of you w...

'WATHINT' ABAFAZI, WATHINT' IMBOKODO' This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam's faith in humanity is restored, Charlene takes her weekends back, and Sam argues with Charlene about why Women's Day in South Africa is a crock of public holiday, cutesy hallmark card bullshit. Hands up now, who agrees? Watch us on You Tube

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam’s about to get fit AF, Charlene is captain of her ship and we talk TEMPER TANTRUMS. PLUS! We welcome back children's counsellor Phillippa Morassi. Now, we all know that it's age-appropriate for toddlers to lose their shit. Maybe you gave them the wrong coloured sippy cup, maybe they can't find the yellow teddy bear they don't actually own, maybe they wan...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam and Charlene are period twins, because friends who bleed together stay together! PLUS, we talk weaning, solids, toddler foods and picky eaters. Folks, we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again… WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE’RE DOING. But in this episode we acknowledge that the best guidance we ever got about weaning our babies and starting...

On this episode of The Great Equalizer, Sam also wants an uppie, Charlene is dotting her I's and crossing her T's and we talk about why women are such fucking nags. PLUS! We chat to South Africa’s version of a first lady Rachel Kolisi. Sam and Charlene pinpoint exactly why modern moms are so damn tired... Harper's Bazaar dubbs it Emotional Labour and we call it The Mother Load. It's doing 'a...

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This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam is missing her #1, Charlene is going through the motions and we talk aunties, uncles and that proverbial village that raises our kids. While the TGE ladies would like to think that we have this raising kids thing waxed (*choke*), we have to admit that we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for our people, our tribe, the village around us that gives the r...

When it comes to parenting, is there any commodity more precious than sleep? This week on The Great Equalizer, we unpack this foreign concept – the unattainable dream of getting enough zees, assuming your child does the same. Sam and Charlene debate sleep training and discuss how they tackle naps and bedtime in their respective homes. More importantly, they also chat to Jolandi Becker,...

This week on The Great Equalizer… There’s a tad too much love happening at the Herbsts, Charlene is out of the trenches and we talk NETFLIX FOR MOMS! Guys, Season 2 of Big Little Lies got under way this week and we couldn’t be more stoked. Our advice? Get those kids to bed and put your feet up ASAP because this is a show you don’t want to miss. Sam and Charlene also get ch...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam is a bad friend, Charlene is doing Sober October (in June) and we’re talking BODY IMAGE. We chat about our tumultuous relationships with our bodies in the past and how we’re striving to overcome that for the sake of our kiddos. We also have a couple of listeners weigh in with their body image experiences (see what we did there?). At the end of the...