• 9 - cultural v personal identity, body image and wanting to rave to the grave BOI
    Apr 20 2025

    We're joined by a VIP this week - LOML Jas chats all things growing up being called fat, tensions between societal, cultural and religious expectations, living life for YOU and raving in your 30s. All good stuff. Enjoy bbs xx

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    38 mins
  • 8 - working with young offenders in the youth justice service - and how teenage us could have ended up the same way
    Apr 13 2025

    In ep 8, my wonderful long-term friend Leanne joins me in the garden to talk about her wild, harrowing but super fulfilling job in the youth justice service, plus remembering our time as teens and realising how close we might have come to being a youth offender like Leanne now deals with on a daily basis.


    Apologies for the crappy audio, I won't record in the garden again!

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    44 mins
  • 7 - living with a degenerative brain condition , grief and being 'too much'
    Apr 6 2025

    This week we're joined by the wonderful Georgie who lives with Chiari malformation, where the lower part of the brain pushes down into the spinal canal causing some pretty shitty symptoms. Despite this, and losing her best friend at 12 years old, G has a gorgeous outlook on life. Hope u enjoy xx

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    54 mins
  • 6 - shooting star moments, childfree by choice and side quests
    Mar 30 2025

    In the first of the new Growing Pains format, this week we're joined by Phoebe who has a pretty magical outlook on life. We discuss those delicious 'shooting star' moments in life, confidence, dating, being childfree by choice and completing ALL the side quests.

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    44 mins
  • 5 - Covid, cancer and U-turns: Five years since lockdown (p2)
    Mar 23 2025

    In part two of the Covid *special*, we get more into depth about the wild five years I've had since it all kicked off. On paper, my life was better five years ago, but it's ALMOST like societal metres of success isn't a one-size fits all?!

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    34 mins
  • 4 - Five years since Covid: how the pandemic pushed me to rock bottom p1
    Mar 16 2025

    How the heck has it been FIVE YEARS since we were first put into a Covid lockdown. I know we don't like to think of that bizarre period of time - I don't either - but Covid totally turned my life upside down and I hit *several* rock bottoms. Let's get into it.

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    25 mins
  • 3 - Late to the party: being a baby bisexual
    Mar 9 2025

    Trigger warning: sui* ide


    Feeling behind is a universal feeling - but behind WHAT? In this ep we discuss U turns in life and being 'late' to the party. I'm only just exploring my queerness, whilst I *could* have been married to a bloke and have a mortgage by now. Thank GOD it wasn't the latter...

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    23 mins
  • 2 - Platonic dating, celibacy and falling in love... with your flippin self
    Mar 2 2025

    In this episode of Growing Pains, we talk about unintentional celibacy, dating for the first time in seven years and giving *yourself* butterflies.

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    26 mins