For people who happen to be parents. The feminist podcast to make you laugh as much as you cry, learn as much as you unlearn with a whole lot of no-holds-barred chat thrown in for good measure. Whether parent or non-parent, guy or gal, c’mon get down and dirty. Listen and subscribe now on Global Player. For advertising opportunities on this podcast email: dax@global.com
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A podcast where we talk about our book of the week. Read along with us!
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Manifest Law of Attraction Positive Affirmations set to music for a Positive Life Live your best self with these continuous phrases and words of encouragement
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Dyslexia is commonly thought of as a condition that hinders correct spelling, but in reality it is a more complex condition to do with how people process information. Join me as I explore this through real stories, looking at what impact dyslexia has on people how they live through it, what they're coping strategies are and what they feel they have gained from having a different information processing system.Let's stop focusing on what dyslexics can't do.
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At Orange Media Network, amazing students come through our doors every day, where they join the student newspaper, TV station, radio station, magazines, creative design and marketing teams. On the OMN Alumni Podcast, we talk to people who started their journeys at Oregon State University and OMN. We learn about their time at OMN, what they're up to now, and the things they learned along the way.
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As the pair hit the West-End in their first Live Nation show, Anna and Polly talk sex ed, pleasure and why it’s time to stop centering the peen. Oh and how platonic love has to be up there with romantic amour. Til death, indeed…Di Heart
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It’s an extra special episode where we meet the newest member of the Dirty Mother Pukka family as Polly chats to Anna for the first time since baby Lola arrives and maternity leave begins.Di Heart
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A special episode! Anna chats with author Chris Hammer about his new crime novel THE VALLEY, the fourth in the Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic series. Chris' award-winning debut SCRUBLANDS was an instant bestseller and is now a TV series. THE VALLEY is his seventh novel and follows detectives Nell and Ivan as they investigate a murder in rural Austral…
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Anna and Polly are joined by Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia co-authors of How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Autism and ADHD. They delve into everything from masking, diagnosis relief and grief plus the difficulties with official diagnosis.Di Heart
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Anna and Polly share their wildest job experiences. From welding car parts to making weed-infused perfume, their unconventional careers unravel and they chat about how motherhood impacts it all.Di Heart
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Anna and Polly take a deep dive deep into the world of post-childbirth sex, orgasmic birth (yes, that’s a thing), and vibrators (Polly is never without hers). Joined by the brilliant minds behind the Somatica Institute, Danielle Harrell and Celeste Hirschman.Di Heart
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A special episode! Kate Slotover from the Book Club Review Podcast joins Anna to discuss what makes a good book club book and our top recommendations. We tried to keep it to three each, and failed. Our best book club books are: STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL by Charlotte Wood ALL FOURS by Miranda July JAMES by Percival Everett WIFEDOM by Anna Funder FRUIT O…
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As Tory MP Kemi Badenoch describes maternity pay as ‘excessive’, Anna and Polly dig deep into a system set up for mothers and parents to fail.Di Heart
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Anna and Polly have reached the point in styling where wipe-clean and comfortable are key. But stylist ?Claire Hall lands on the podcast to shake up their wardrobes and say a few choice words to an ageist fashion industry.Di Heart
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With our new resident sexologist Polly Hazlewood in the building, the duo talk fantasies and how important they are in your relationship. Strap in for the ride team.Di Heart
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In this episode Anna and Polly open up about the rupture and repair of their friendship. Driven by numerous people saying they were ‘friendship goals’, the pair set the record straight on the reality of such a solid union and dig deep on the way they argue, rupture and repair. Love isn’t about always getting on. And it’s not about always agreeing. …
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Somewhere between the pandemic and extreme childcare costs, we stopped laughing. There’s a guilt in feeling joy in a cost of living crisis; An anxiety in laughing when the world is seemingly crumbling. Anna and Polly try to force a smile and question the importance of laughter and how to get it back.…
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The What Not To Wear star wears her heart on her sleeve as she opens up about her alcoholism and, in turn, sobriety. She describes the breakup of Trinny and Susannah like a divorce and this episode opens up about the normalisation of parental drinking. From ‘Mummy needs wine’ to ‘gin o’clock’.Di Heart
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As Anna sits down with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to talk free school meals, she is asked if it’s a boy or girl. Listen in for an emotional chat about the two-year-old scheme and what the gender of Anna’s baby is!Di Heart
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From struggling to ‘celebrate’ until the baby first cries to birth anxiety in the third trimester, Polly sits in the pregnancy hole with Anna as they navigate baby showers and splash down.Di Heart
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Whether pregnancy anxiety or just sudden dread before bed, we are an anxious nation with panic attacks on the rise. Anna and Polly talk about their most anxious moments. The why and the resolution. It’s an anxiety-inducing white-knuckle ride.Di Heart
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Anna and Annie discuss the 2024 Booker Prize Longlist. Our book of the week is WOO WOO by Ella Baxter. The latest novel from the award-winning author of New Animal, this tells the story of Sabine, an artist about to open her exhibition. She faces the pressure of the show and the terror of being stalked. Both disturbing and funny, Baxter's writing i…
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From the domestic load to maternity discrimination, Zoe Blaskey opens up on how fooked over mothers are at home and work. And comes to the DMP table with empathy as well as solutions.Di Heart
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It’s happening. Our first Live Nation show. And you are invited to a night that will make you laugh as much as you cry in the West End’s Duchess Theatre. This is the office party you always hoped for without the misogyny and cold sausage rolls.Di Heart
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The maths ain’t mathing. How to cover the six weeks of summer holidays with a wonky childcare system, overpriced summer camps and inflexible working. The Eastenders actress talks about keeping it together under pressure and how to keep the love alive with her partner among it all.Di Heart
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Anna and Annie discuss the Booker Prize 2024 Longlist. Our book of the week is THE ALTERNATIVES by Caoilinn Hughes. We loved this Irish novel about four eccentric sisters each grappling with their dysfunctional family in different ways. Gripping, humane and funny, we highly recommend this one. Coming up: WOO WOO by Ella Baxter. Follow us: Email: bo…
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How many times have you heard someone say “I’m so OCD” sweepingly in relation to being a little tidy. So misunderstood, Shakira opens up about how OCD changed her postnatal journey and how she took a turn for the better.Di Heart
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So you’ve been friends for decades but can’t remember the last time you felt good around that person. From friends who use you as a personal therapist to those who take, take, take and find fault at every turn, some friendships just aren’t, really, that friendly at all. From when to get out and how to get out. To making peace with people dramatical…
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Polly and Anna dig deep on their lack of z’s. From an average two hours on Polly’s side to pregnancy insomnia on Anna’s, the pair find solutions to their snoozing issues. And open up about the intense expectations put on mothers in the newborn haze.Di Heart
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Whether the weight of the world, pregnancy hormones, PMT or menopausal symptoms, the pendulum of moodiness is hard to navigate. For both partners. Anna and Polly analyse their moods in an attempt to sort the wood from the hormonal trees.Di Heart
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In this episode Laura downloads to Polly and Anna her need for connection in a world that feels disconnected. Whether under her roof, over a roast dinner or fleetingly in a park, she opens up about leaning in at a time when everyone feels far apart.Di Heart
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Childcare in the summer holidays is a nightmare. We have roughly 25 days of holiday and there’s 62 days to cover. The maths just doesn’t work. Listen in for solutions to the childcare issues.Di Heart
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