Embrace the Crazy

The insta holiday vs reality. You know when you have seen your friends or family post these happy smiling photos of a holiday and you think… that’s not exactly how our holidays go. Kristy and Dan share their experiences of holidays with a big family. The ups and downs of spending time and being with each other. They also reflect on their holiday upbringings and how it shapes their values, thoughts...

Each of our children are so different but we easily catch ourselves trying to treat them and bring them up the same. We discuss our children’s differing personalities and needs and talk about what works well for us. The differences in interests, personalities, feelings and lists goes on. What we do to help get the balance and ensure that everyone has a voice in our family. That includes our dog an...

Coming to you from Rio in Brazil, Kristy and Dan talk about how they built up to being able to go on holiday a week without the kids and feel totally at home and comfortable with life. From the incredible support structures around them that they have fostered, to the small steps they have taken over many years, they share how being themselves, and focussing on themselves brings the best out in the...

Kristy shares a recent unique experience she had travelling overseas to visit her best friend. During that week away, Kristy was able to let go of her mother coat and be herself. It's been many years since Kristy experienced this feeling. It was a satisfying moment in life to recognise where we are as a family, how we are working together and how that person before kids is still alive and well...

Kristy and Dan provide some insight into how the functions of their house work, the traditional and not so traditional ways that they make things work. From managing finances, doing jobs around the house and getting the kids involved so that they take responsibility and contribute to the running of the household. See how it has evolved overtime and the strategies they use to make sure the importan...

We get asked all the time how do you do it with four? This provides you some insight into the challenges and joys we have with four time everything. Yes it is mayhem and the volume of everything can be overwhelming but there are some silver linings that we experience that makes it all worth it.

Planning and Organisation = Sanity, or Does It? looks at what we do to try and build in a fraction of structure to our crazy lives. The things that work and the things that don’t and how we work through it when it doesn’t work.

Embrace the Crazy podcast talks about consistency in parenting. From modelling good behaviours, managing outbursts to fairness with your children. Dan and Kristy talk share stories about their parenting and how they work towards consistency with their children.

Dan discusses the key ingredients to maintaining a good exercise and self care schedule focusing particularly on the importance of a good network, a flexible approach and consistency. Kristy speaks frankly about the limitations imposed by kids on ones self care and the importance of joining a gym with a creche. Both reflect on how their relationship has changed with children but also why the need...

It is so easy to believe the Insta life but scratch under earth and you see quickly the craziness of a parents life raising 4 kids. One of the keys to our success is our partnership. It's tough almost everyday but we have each other. That gets stretched pretty quickly when tensions rise and so knowing when that is going to happen, understanding each other and having strategies in pace to help...

Dan and Kristy talk about how amongst the crazy of their life they try and get balance and wellness. From juggling kids and their businesses the couple find time to be together every Friday. They have a baby sitter that they use regularly to have focussed time amongst help from family. Importantly they talk about it regularly knowing when they need time away or together. List to how this busy fami...