Ready or Not

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 talking about how to negotiate a more flexible working situation that works for you.

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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, fro...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort-of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• We unpack All Her Fault -  the film, the mindset, and the moment that made us rage. Is it really all her fault, or just the default?
• Loz and Lu reflect on some of the moments that they’re proud of and surprised by in both motherhood and career this year. 

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In this episode we cover: de...

[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...

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 t...

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...

Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• The great school holiday juggle: Who’s actually getting a break? (spoiler alert - it’s not mums)

Australia’s unpaid labour is worth $688 billion and women are doing most of it.

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In this episode we cover: school holidays and the mental load, invisible labour and emotional burnout, working motherhood...

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 takes you through the five interview questions that may just help you land your dream job.

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Jodi Wilson has led an unconventional life. She became pregnant with her first of four children at 22, she’s always worked as a freelancer and was even one of the OG mummy bloggers, she lives in a rural part of Tasmania, and she’s deeply interested in researching and writing about both motherhood and what our brains and bodies need to live well. 

So, while Jodi’s experience with making work, work as a mum might not represen...

Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• Should you show your kids’ faces online, or not? What started as a simple privacy decision has become a full-blown cultural divide.
• Plus, we chat about women’s rights that are more recent than you thought.

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In this episode we cover: kids’ privacy online, share-enting and digital footprints, mum-sha...

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 talks about why you shouldn't discount applying for full time roles even if you're after part-time work or non full time hours.

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Last time I interviewed Clare Stephens for Ready or Not (and just as a side note… if you haven't listened, I highly recommend you go back and listen to that one before this, which is here) she was just under a year into motherhood, she was working at Mamamia, and she'd just completed the manuscript for her now-published book, The Worst Thing I've Ever Done, which through the lens of fiction, examines what it means to be both at the...

Welcome back to Witching Hour, the show where two mums and sort-of cousins figure out how to make work work. This week, we talk about:

• What really hits harder: going from one to two kids or zero to one

• How to prepare emotionally and practically for two under two

• The fear of telling work you’re pregnant again

• Whether your promotion dreams are still alive after maternity leave

• How to study, pivot or completely reinvent your ...

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 talks about work life ‘balance’ and if there’s such a thing. She also candidly chats about her own experience and what she’s doing to make work, and life, that little bit smoother. 

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Sarah Pound is a force. She’s a mum of three, she’s currently writing her third cookbook, she has a range in Australia's leading supermarkets and one million people follow her on Instagram for her simple and healthyish approach to cooking. 

And while she doesn’t have any whimsy stories of cooking with her nonna from the age she could walk, she did always dream of writing a cook book one day, so here, from primary school tea...

Welcome back to Witching Hour – the show where two mums and sort of cousins figure out how to make work, work. Today on the show:

• The new wave of women selling money manifestation and abundance mindset courses - is it empowerment or exploitation? 
• Plus, new research shows young Australian women are becoming more supportive of traditional gender roles than they were 14 years ago. What’s driving it, and what does it mean for t...