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Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. This week, for the first time ever, we have a special guest host and former Ready or Not interviewee Ellen Hooper. Ellen is an executive coach and a podcaster herself, and today she's talking all about imposter syndrome and how to say goodbye to it. As we learned rece...

When I sat down to record this chat with my friend and the founder of Emeldo Emily Dornbusch, I warned her that I might sound a little bit more professional and a little less like me. But on listening back, it's actually the listeners that I need to warn, because this conversation is probably about as honest a depiction of making work, work alongside motherhood as you'll get. We have a baby that m...

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 Tuesday. In today's episode, we cover: What is ‘Parental Mental Load’? Managing a household is worth $3.8 trillion in economic value, survey says How you all get through a diffi...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. This week, Loz is talking all thing resume writing and parental leave. Loz's links: Resume Genius Canva Chat GPT Resume.co Handy resources: Non chronological resumes Cover letter examples Resume templates --- Shop the Ready or Not Go To Guides now, for $29 each or $69...

 I've been having a lot of those days where you feel absolutely in the thick of it. I have a seven month old and a two and a half year old. Posie, the seven month old, isn't really sleeping. And I've often felt like pulling my hair out, like I'm going a little bit crazy. And then today I listened to my conversation with best friends and creatives, Annika Hanne and Bobby Clark. Something lit up ins...

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 Tuesday. In today's episode, we cover: Mothers going for gold at the Paris Games and why Loz Is loving Raygun’s breakdancing performance And an honest look at the first three mo...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. This week, Loz is talking about finding some form of balance between work and family life. Lu's links: Shop the Postpartum and Return to Work Planning guide that inspired this episode here. Find your return to work wardrobe checklist here . Find the one meals two ways...

As a mother of three, Peleina Guthrie has had her fair share of return to paid work experiences, and each one has taken a slightly different turn. On her first rodeo, she went back to work earlier than she'd planned after landing a new job opportunity that she couldn't refuse. Six months into settling into that new workplace, she was pregnant with baby two and she was terrified. And, the third tim...

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 Tuesday. In today's episode, we cover: Study Reveals that Husbands Stress Women Twice as much as children do. Some JD Vance comments from 2021 have resurfaced and it has Lu wond...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. This week, Loz is talking about finding some form of balance between work and family life. Loz's links: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anylist-grocery-shopping-list/id522167641https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mealime-meal-plans-recipes/id1079999103https://coda.io/@sj-craw...

You know those people that you look at and think if I had my time again, I would’ve liked my career to look a little more like theirs? For me, that person is Jessie Stephens. It’s not that I expected her level of success for myself, but I always dreamed of being a journalist and a published author. So, perhaps it’s a little embarrassing to admit all this, but I was always curious about if or when...

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 Tuesday. In today's episode, we cover: Is workplace culture all it’s cracked up to be? And Margot Robbie Is Pregnant, But We Didn't Hear It From Her: Do celebrities owe us pregn...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. This week, Loz is talking about how to negotiate a more flexible working situation that works for you. --- Thanks for listening to Tits & Tricks! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review. You can also find us on Instagram at readyor...

Olivia Mioni always knew that her mum was an inspiration, but when she stepped into motherhood herself, she appreciated her even more. Her mum was single, she worked full time, she made a career when she was 40, and Olivia never felt like she was left to the wayside. And as a lawyer, Olivia was always worried about how she'd make work, work alongside motherhood. It wasn't necessarily the career st...

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 Tuesday. In today's episode, we cover: Where to start when you don’t know what career you want And we have to talk about THAT The Bear episode, Ice Chips, that depicts perhaps t...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. This week, Loz takes you through some simple hacks to make packing those lunchboxes that little bit easier. --- Thanks for listening to Tits & Tricks! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review. You can also find us on Instagram at re...

Nine pregnancies, two living babies and three businesses: Keira Rumble, the founder behind Krumbled Foods, Habitual Beauty, and Mini and Me, has experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. And as her many Instagram followers will know, she keeps it incredibly real. I think that's why her story is so compelling; why she's so loved and admired by mothers and business owners across the c...

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 Tuesday. In today's episode, we cover: Millennial moms don't have it all, they just do it all ( Huff Post ) Serena Williams and Rihanna take us behind the scenes of what happens...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. This week, as Lu returns to paid work herself, she gives you all of the best advice she's received on pumping, bottle refusal, breastfeeding and returning to work from lactation consultant and Go To Guide expert Joelleen Winduss Paye. Plus, she shares her own experien...

When Neha Ruch decided to take a career pause for family life, the mothers that she met weren’t exactly the image that society had painted of them. These mothers weren’t baby-obsessed, one dimensional people without a clever thought and they weren’t people that didn’t know how to do anything outside of changing a nappy. These were smart women with thoughts and passions and ideas. They were choosin...

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: I am not my kids playmate: the Instagram post that had mothers feeling seen the world over Apparently Taylor Swift – as an unmarried 34 yea...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. Loz has Sienna home for the school holidays at the moment, so she's giving you all her tips for how to spend your days without breaking the bank, both for the parents that are taking time off of paid work and those who aren't. LINKS Shop the Ready or Not Go To Guides...

Sally Branson doesn't believe in balance when you have young kids, and as I write and record this at 8pm on a Monday night ahead of inevitable overnight feeds, before a day of having both kids tomorrow, and making sure I pump enough to get to the city for paid work the following day while my husband has our five month old while he tries to get as much work done as he can, I can't help but think th...

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: The rise of the dry promotion and how to negotiate salary talks if this happens to you. An overachiever fails on maternity leave ( re this...

Welcome back to Tits and Tricks! It’s Ready or Not’s new bite sized tip based podcast, and it’s coming to your ears every Thursday. Off the back of a recently solo parenting stint (and navigating paid work alongside solo parent) Loz is taking the reins today to talk really simple hacks to get you through the day. As always, we're not breaking any new ground here, because we want you to do less. In...