The Great Equalizer

DARK MOTHERHOOD “Why do women become mothers? How does a women make that decision? How does it change them? How does it change their identity? And what about the women who regret it? What about the women who don’t look like my mum looked – a wonderful, warm, supportive, happy mother?” The darker, uglier side of motherhood is one that no-one likes to talk about. It’s a...

FEEDING OUR FAMILIES You asked, then we asked, and the great Meg Faure answered (all hail) Watch us on You Tube

HASHTAG INFLUENCED Love them or hate them, social media personalities have always got people’s tongues wagging (especially among each other Watch us on You Tube

STRONG AS A MOTHER Watch us on You Tube

QUARANTINE & CHILL To say that we all needed a little escapism this year would be a severe understatement Watch us on You Tube

[CONTENT WARNING] This week’s episode of The Great Equalizer is, by nature, explicit (even for us). But there’s a lot here that we feel needs to be addressed so – despite some misgivings – we decided to open the discourse about a topic that has so many women, and mothers, uncomfortably divided. This episode is about a little song that’s made one helluva impact. Cardi...

Women’s Month, Schwomen’s Month… When it comes to remembering, educating and empowering women, why stick to August when we’ve got September (and October, and November, and December)? So we’re continuing in our quest to showcase some amazing and inspiring women and this week it’s all about Natasha Kisten (AKA Fit Like Mummy). At the tender age of 19, Natasha lef...

THIS WEEK ON THE GREAT EQUALIZER…. Sam is birthing Bigfoot and Charlene is seeing the light, PLUS... As we round out Women’s Month, we continue in our quest to EDUCATE, UPLIFT and EMPOWER the women in our community, with the help of entrepreneur, personal development coach and author Despina Senatore. Despina is the founder of Purposeful Woman, an organisation that speaks to this moth...

KICKING OFF WOMEN’S MONTH with serial entrepreneur Shanéy Vijendranath There is so much to say about Women’s Month. The history behind it, the current plight of women in our country and the many unresolved issues still plaguing South Africa. Without ignoring these issues (rather, in trying to lend voice to them), we are dedicating the month of August to women in our communities...

WE’VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY, AND YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT Flat-nosed dogs are disgusting. Harry Potter is overrated. Musical theatre is fucking annoying. Brown cars belong in this world. Poetry is a bunch of pseudo-intellectual hooey. And pineapple always belongs on pizza. Have we got you hovering over that unfollow button? Don’t do it! We’ve got so much more where that came from. This...

This week on The Great Equalizer… Can you ever just be ‘whelmed’? Guys, there have been some important discussions on the boil over the past month (and important ones at that). The fight for representation and diversity in our inherently racist society has been top order over on the ‘Gram, while gender-based violence pervades our news, as does Covid-19 and the unavoidable...

This week on The Great Equalizer… It’s back to reality for restaurants, hairdressers and beauty salons, but is it back to school for the kiddos? In this episode the TGE ladies discuss whether we’ve decided to send our children back to school (depending on when ECD centres will be up and running again), or whether they’ll be home for the foreseeable future. We discuss our f...

This week on The Great Equalizer... We listen. We internalise We check. We correct. We move forward. Many thanks to Terence Mentor (AKA AfroDaddy) for coming on and having the patience to guide these two lily white lasses. This one is especially for other white parents looking to do better as an ally. To all our loyal listeners, let us know whenever we step a foot wrong. There is no shortage of le...

ABOUT TO CRACK? Us too, don’t worry. The latest TGE episode is up (YAY!) and even though it was recorded just one week into Lockdown 1.0 – before the extension and before Oom Cyril gave us all a good giggle with his infamous mask fumble – we’re still feeling all the feels and nothing is quite as it should be (still). We’re living through – nay, PARENTING through...

Hey Motherlovers! Two episodes, one week. How lucky are you!? So lucky that, if you're a local listener, you've got another 21 days to catch up on all things TGE :-D #hellolockdownextension Sorry, too soon? In this latest episode of The Great Equalizer we get down and dirty with Parenty editor Farrah Saville about media consumption in the time of corona. You've probably heard it all, right? Kooky...

This week on The Great Equalizer, the C-word is off limits. Yep, you heard it here first. Oh wait, did you think we meant... No, no, that one's still cool. I mean it's foul, but it's relevant sometimes. What we're talking about is the other C-word: Think COVID, Corona, anything lockdown-related or to do with quarantine... Blegh. GET OUTTA HERE. We're not touching it. In fact, there were penalties...

DO THE NEXT RIGHT THING! Now there’s a little Disney wisdom for ya’ll on this fine Monday. Guys, we don’t really know what the future holds and it’s just not lekker. By tonight (at least) we’ll know if we’re in lockdown or a State of Emergency, but beyond that… Well it’s a smorgasbord of doubt and worry here at TGE. Like many of you, we’re won...

CHIN UP, CHEST OUT, MOTHERLOVERS Watch us on You Tube

EP. 58 – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY! #EACHFOREQUAL is the theme of this year's International Women's Day, and in this latest episode of The Great Equalizer, your hosts dive headfirst into what that means exactly for women today. We chat a bit about Girls! Girls Girls! Magazine's latest viral video and ponder what it means to be bringing up girls (and boys!) in the current narrative. But what...

EP. 57: YOU HAVE 24 HOURS As moms, time is one of our most precious commodities. It’s simply something we can never have enough of, right?. Mostly we just want it to slow down, other times we want to duplicate it (or ourselves). So this week on The Great Equalizer, Sam and Charlene ponder the BS nonsense that is a Leap Day. In case you missed it, 29 February has come and gone, folks. A whole...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam takes a step back, Charlene has her own date with destiny and we play a little game of Am I The Asshole... the parenting edition. Here at TGE Headquarters we've been fascinated by the popular subReddit, Am I The Asshole (or AITA), which has a goldmine of parenting-related content. Look, we must be honest and admit that we had to educate ourselves about Reddit...

This week on The Great Equalizer, Maintenance Night comes back in a big way as we chat to MD and sexologist Dr Jireh Serfontein. In this episode we explore how our sexual tastes evolve as we get older and we unpack how couples can brave the most awkward and intimate conversations to get on the same sexual page Watch us on You Tube

LADIES CELEBRATING LADIES! This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam has a date with destiny, Charlene’s deep in the forest, and we chat about female friendships (in the month of LUUUURVE) because this week it's GALENTINE'S DAY. What's Galentine's Day, you ask? It's only the best day of the year! Tune in now to #listentothelatest and to see why we at TGE believe in the power of female friendship...

NO-ONE HAS THEIR SHIT TOGETHER Or do they...? On this week's episode of The Great Equalizer, we chat about what life would look like if we had our shit together, and why we keep striving to do all the things that would qualify us for having our shit together. Is it really possible to disembark from the Hot Mess Express and be put-together, organised and happy? Well, we don't effing know, obviously...

HINDSIGHT IS… 2020 This week on The Great Equalizer, Sam has a birthday (whoop whoop), Charlene has a handle on things (for now) and we discuss whether hindsight can really bring you insight when it comes to being a mom. The best thing about parenting is that you eventually become really good at it… Until your child levels up and the joke’s on you. They inevitably turn another...