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 Workplace Gender Equality Agency have published employer gender pay gaps for the first time, Self help vs Leadership – the way we market books to women and men And your thoughts on these damning gender pay gap reports.--- THIS...

Welcome back to Postpartum Diaries! This week, Lucinda's doula and friend Charlotte Squires (aka The Living Doula) joins her to talk all things postpartum, going from one to two, conversations to have with your partner before postpartum and returning to work, and her best tips for caring for a new parent. Then, Charlotte becomes the interviewer and asks Lucinda all about her postpartum reflections! --- THIS WEEK'S PARTNER This episode of Ready or Not is brought to you by MUMMA MILLA:...

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: Sleep impacts women’s workplace ambitions more than men, research shows (Women's Agenda)Live from London: Loz on travelling without kids and returning to paid workAnd with our community's help, we answer a listener's question about...

Welcome back to a regular episode of Ready or Not! Part 3 and 4 of the Postpartum Diaries will return next week, but for this week, we're taking a break to bring you a regular Ready or Not interview with a brilliant person: midwife & mother of two Lauretta Hamilton. Lauretta suffered severe HG during both of her pregnancies, to the point where she had to take time off paid work and as a midwife, she admits that she felt like a failure in early motherhood. In this episode, she talks...

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: Why keeping it simple is smart in the workplace, inspired by a brilliant piece by Derek Thompson for The Atlantic.How beauty became our damaging obsession and the rise of return to school Botox among mothers, inspired by a piece in...

Welcome back to Postpartum Diaries! This week, we're talking all things the first four weeks, covering: What's surprised Lucinda in her second postpartumThe early days of going from one to twoThe products she's ACTUALLY neededHow things have been divided in the householdAll things recoveryAnd SO much more!We'll be back to regular Ready or Not programming next week, before we get stuck into part three and four of the Postpartum Diaries in the weeks that follow. --- THIS WEEK'S PARTNER This...

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: H&M CEO Helena Helmersson abruptly steps downThat Ballerina Farm controversy and whether we deserve to be outraged by another mum’s postpartum journeyAnd mums talking money: after our money themed episodes, we ask you for your best...

A big hello from your host Lucinda. Today, things are looking a little different around these parts as we kick off the Postpartum Diaries: a four-part series that today, will begin with my Witching Hour co-host Loz asking me all about my bizarre birth story. I'll be honest, I'm nervous about how personal this is going to get. Normally, I interview others and share little snippets of my own life at best, so this is taking things to the next level. But, as someone who has always valued the...

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: Top City law firm names and shames work-from-home shirkers: Lawyers to be tracked entering and exiting the office in corporate crackdown‘Sittervising’ is the latest parenting trend because it’s freaking geniusAnd your answers to our...

As a mother of two, Ana Kresina knows all too well that there are so many delightful moments in parenthood. But as a financial educator working in tech, Ana also knows that kids can be exhausting and parenthood can be financially overwhelming. Money is one of the leading causes of stress and divorce, and navigating finances can be an incredible source of pressure for single parents and carers. Cue, Kids Ain't Cheap: Ana's recently published book that helps you to plan financially for...

Welcome back to a new year of 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: Infant formula startup Bobbie axed all recurring meetings for 2024Saving for Retirement on Part-Time Pay: The Challenges for WomenYour reflections on holidaying with kidsAnd Loz's hot tip on what not to say to another...

Jade Huggins is a Senior Product Manager at Portmans. She’s also a mother of three, but while her first and third born are firmly in her arms, she sadly lost her middle child, Sonny, at 32 weeks. Here, she shares her story with us: how she returned to paid work after loss and how she carried on through the worst pain of her life. She doesn’t sugar coat the impact losing Sonny has had on her, but somehow, she tells her story in a way that will leave you feeling heartbroken, yes, but also,...

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: Perfectionism helps women stand out at work. But over-preparedness can deny them leadership positions (from Fortune)Mum’s the word: The joy and importance of holidays without kids (from SMH)Baby Posie is here! And we can't wait to share...

Kathryn Millhouse has achieved a lot in her professional life, but she’ll be the first to tell you that the confidence she had to back herself in within the workplace didn’t exactly translate to motherhood, at least not overnight. Having faced fertility challenges, pregnancy loss and postpartum depression and anxiety, the journey to becoming a mother was far from those perfectly filtered photos we see on Instagram. Cue MotherUp: her business that focuses on mother-centric planning, with tools...

Welcome back to a new year and season of Ready or Not! In business and in motherhood, Eleanor Pendleton is a wise, intuitive woman. Nearly 10 years ago, she launched Australia’s premiere beauty website and digital magazine, Gritty Pretty. And just a week after launch, the magazine’s first issue received over 135,000 views. Alongside her evolving publishing business, Eleanor has been growing her own family, too. The mother of two has had some really contrasting experiences when it comes to...

Welcome back to a new year of 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 future of work: key emerging workplace trends to watch for 2024,Five parenting trends that will apparently be huge this year,What does an A type personality have to do with motherhood and failure?And our listeners...

Hello from your very pregnant and very tired host. I'm Lucinda, and this is Ready or Not's three part holiday listening series. Over the next three weeks, we'll be re-releasing some of the year's most popular episodes. I hope you have a great holiday, and I'll see you on the other side, when we're back with new episodes of Ready or Not on Wednesday the 10th January. This week, with the beginning of childcare looming for many, we're going back to our chat with childhood educator Kabba, where...

Hello from your very pregnant and very tired host. I'm Lucinda, and this is Ready or Not's three part holiday listening series. Over the next three weeks, we'll be re-releasing some of the year's most popular episodes. I hope you have a great holiday, and I'll see you on the other side, when we're back with new episodes of Ready or Not on Wednesday the 10th January. This week, we're taking it back to one of our most popular early episodes with The Memo co-founder Phoebe Simmonds. Phoebe and I...

Hello from your very pregnant and very tired host. I'm Lucinda, and this is Ready or Not's three part holiday listening series. Over the next three weeks, we'll be re-releasing some of the year's most popular episodes. I hope you have a great holiday, and I'll see you on the other side, when we're back with new episodes of Ready or Not on Wednesday the 10th January. We're kicking things off with Ultra Violette Co-Founder Ava Chandler Matthews. This was the most listened to Ready or Not...

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. Just a note that today's episode discusses sexual assault, eating disorders, and stresses that can come up in pregnancy. In today's episode, we cover: Forbes: Drybar cofounder built a $255 million hair business while her personal life ‘imploded.’ She has a warning...

Author and mother of two Kasey Edwards didn’t like herself all that much growing up, so when she gave birth to her first daughter, she made it her mission to learn how to. And as someone who had worked out the relationship between hard work and success in her corporate life, motherhood – where hard work doesn’t necessarily lead to reward – rocked her. IVF made her feel like she’d already failed at womanhood, and her birth and breastfeeding journey further cemented this notion that she had...

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. Just a note that today's episode discusses sexual assault, eating disorders, and stresses that can come up in pregnancy. In today's episode, we cover: ANZ links bonuses to office attendance and we have plenty of thoughts.Apparently kids will pay the price in push...

20 years old, day one of her university degree, and a positive pregnancy test. And a few years later, twins, a separation, and a period of solo motherhood. If that sounds like enough to push university and starting your own business to the side, that's because it is. But nothing was going to stop The Natal Naturopath founder Melanie Nolan. Here, she shares her incredible story. From finishing a university degree as a single mother of three to building her business. From hoping to sell her...

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. Just a note that today's episode discusses sexual assault, eating disorders, and stresses that can come up in pregnancy. In today's episode, we cover: The mum who was fired a week before her due date, inspired by this The Cut pieceAnother mum got slammed about...

Tori Bowman Johnson never considered herself overly maternal, so it's come as a surprise even to herself how entrenched her work is in the motherhood space. Through her books, Afterwards and Before, and her production series The First Word, Tori is deeply passionate about opening up conversations not just about motherhood, but womanhood, too. As a mother of two who has never taken traditional maternity leave, she knows a thing or two about making work, work and here, we talk about the...