For our 100th episode we are joined by the brilliant, eloquent, brave and funny Ruth Corden! Ruth courageously shares with us her journey with infertility and how it has impacted so many aspects of her life and relationships. This is such an important conversation and is packed with vulnerability and epic humour. Ruth also has an amazing podcast (a firm fav of ours!) with her sister Ruth called "Finding The Funny" - we strongly urge you to get listening if you aren't already! You can find Ruth on IG @ruth_corden! Don't forget, we want to hear from you! Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite YOU to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Welcome back! Annoyingly the first 6 mins of our recording didn't record - wah! So we jump in a little ways into our convo this episode. You missed a lengthy chat about if it's patronising to say "love that for you!" - jury's still out, but I think it depends on your accent... Also in this episode we're discussing unproblematic celebrities. Is it possible? Are they out there? Is a fall from grace inevitable for everyone when they are put on a pedestal? (we get into the recent Lizzo stuff here too). Don't forget, we want to hear from you! Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite YOU to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

We're back on the airwaves with a Summer update from Gabby & Mel! Holidays, girls trips, yummy food, juggling all the things - we're catching up and it's so good to be recording again!  Don't forget, we want to hear from you! Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite YOU to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Today we're talking nostalgia of summer jobs, the fact that Mel will never pass an opportunity to compliment a bride and we get stuck into another of your Auntie Mae dilemmas around friendship and loneliness and being an introvert. Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite YOU to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Hello again! The time for Summer travel is upon us so today we're chatting about the best things that we do or bring on any trips, with a few side tracks down the road of the right kind of bras and the allure of a boob reduction as well as getting stuck into an Auntie MAE question from one of our listeners about how to know when you're ready to get married.  Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite YOU to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

It's as simple as the episode name. This week we're talking through all the things we are enjoying right now; TV, food, products etc. and it's safe to say, our Gabby is a sucker for a product. We also get into our latest Auntie MAE reader dilemma, featuring a bit of workplace drama and awkward co-workers.  Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite YOU to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Welcome back to MAE! Today we chat about the agony of swimsuit shopping, the type of domesticity we can get on board with and feeling triggered by certain homesteading models. We also have our first edition of Auntie MAE featuring a dilemma about extended family dynamics and being the default organiser. Super juicy. Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite YOU to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Today we get into the realms of considering what we'd do if we had more time; hobbies we'd try, courses we'd be interested in, new paths we are curious to forge, gear switches and the like. Don't forget out new segment: Agony Auntie MAE! Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite you to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Welcome back! Gabby joins us today from So-Cal and we catch up about handling flight anxiety, having non-disparaging break ups and the inevitability of AI taking over the world, including Tik Tok conspiracies about Britney Spears. Wahhh! It's a good one. AND we are launching a brand new segment for you: Agony Auntie MAE! Just like the old school advice columns of magazines gone by, we want to invite you to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we'll offer our best advice or thoughts on some of those submissions every week! So get in touch with us on [email protected]! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Ok not really, but we spend a bit of time considering what kind of wedding we'd have if we did and it would be AMAZING. We've got a fun little episode for you today - plenty of tangents and a few moments setting the stage for this summer and all the things we'd love to do; trips we're taking, memories we want to set unrealistic expectations for. You know the drill. As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

In today's episode, Gabby and Mel catch up and find out some brand new information about each other (a rare thing this many years into a friendship)! From morning routines to new work opportunities, we dive into four big questions for each other to get to the heart of what is happening in each of us in our lives in this season. If you'd like to support this podcast and get access to some BTS shenanigans, we'd love to welcome you to join our Patreon for just $5 (£4) a month. You can check it out here. 

A bit niche, but we have things to say about Love Is Blind Season Four and we know lots of you do too. So this episode is our full review, hot takes and gripes about all the drama of this time around. You know we love our patrons and it means so much to us to have your support, so if you fancy joining our Patreon community to receive more BTS stuff from the podcast and help us cover the costs of production, you can do that here.  

**At the top of this episode we want to let you know that we’re going to be talking about subjects relating to spiritual and religious abuse, including trauma and the adjacent issues that might present within that context of experience. If these feel like tender topics for you, we want you to give you a heads up to take your time with this episode and even though we hope that our conversation will be an empowering one with plenty to learn from our guest and a hopefully a feeling of hope for anyone experiencing this in the past or present as we converse - please feel free to skip it if now isn’t the right time.** With that being said - we want to introduce you to our special guest for today’s episode: Dr. Laura Anderson is a therapist, trauma resolution and recovery coach, writer, educator, and creator who specializes in complex trauma with a focus on domestic violence, sexualized violence and religious trauma and is the founder and director of the Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery, working with clients who have experienced high demand/high control religions, adverse religious experiences, cults, and religious trauma. In this episode Laura shares from her own story of spiritual abuse and we talk about what religious and spiritual trauma and abuse can look like; how to identify red flags within religion and spiritual spaces and what the process of healing requires. We talk through the common after-effects of how high control environments impacts us in mind and body. This is a fascinating conversation, and we really hope you find it hopeful and supportive. You can find Dr. Laura's work here. And her new book, 'When Religion Hurts' is available for pre-order now here.

Back with another round the world episode discussing Mel's new beauty products, Gabby's best advice for not getting burgled and a brief discussion on how far is too far in the age of cancel culture and accountability. As always, if you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here. It's just $5 a month to access our BTS, get the monthly Making An Effort Magazine and come along to our patron only events! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast 

*Content Warning - we're talking about a few adulty things in this episode, so if you usually blast this around your kids, you might want to pop some headphones in this time* Honestly, with some heaviness of the world the last week, this conversation was a ridiculous escape. We talk about how much we'd have to make on Only Fans to admit we're doing it, Gabby's flat feet, Mel's netball fundraiser (which you can donate to here if you fancy being charitable) dog poo and Gwyenth's ski trial. Enjoy! As always, if you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here. It's just $5 a month to access our BTS, get the monthly Making An Effort Magazine and come along to our patron only events! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast 

We are truly delighted to share our conversation with author and all around beautiful human, Sarah Norquoy! You're going to love her as much as we do! Sarah lives in the Orkney Islands, way up off the top of Scotland and we talk with her about island living and how sea swimming changed her life when she hit 50. Sarah shares with us beautifully about the honour and pain of caring for her parents who both have dementia and how social media has been a supportive place for her as she navigates that. Sarah's memoir 'Salt On My Skin', all about her foray into sea swimming while her mother's memory began to decline was released in 2020 and you can buy it here and find Sarah's honest, fun and inspiring IG here.

Back in the hot seat this week, answering some of your burning questions from the existential to the mundane and practical. We're very much non-experts but really enjoy thinking out loud about some of the great questions you have - hope you enjoy! As always, if you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here. It's just $5 a month to access our BTS, get the monthly Making An Effort Magazine and come along to our patron only events! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast 

Join us today for a stroll down memory lane to our favourite fashion moments from our teenage selves including the double tank top, ironic t shirts and cutting our own hair. We're also covering how good it would be to be arrested for driving while sleep deprived and the awkwardness of declaring the arrival of your period to your cleaner! As always, if you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here. It's just $5 a month to access our BTS, get the monthly Making An Effort Magazine and come along to our patron only events! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast 

Join us this week for a round the world tour of the contents of our heads. We've got celebrity couples chat, some ranting about sponsored ads and a little jaunt into imagining life in 15 years (Mel could be a Grandma 😱)  As always, if you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here. It's just $5 a month to access our BTS and come along to our patron only events! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast  ","resolvedBy":"embedly","width":456,"height":152,"providerName":"Spotify","customThumbEnabled":false,"thumbnailUrl":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f5b8f37f8f7b74cdfbf5f20ee"}" data-block-type="22">  

We're all over the show today! From discovering who in our family gets a turn down service every damn day, to miracle snail serum on amazon and a gory story to finish - we're catching up and sharing our latest favourite things.  As always, if you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here. It's just $5 a month to access our BTS and come along to our patron only events! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Today we discuss taking things personally in our work, the shame of a family dentist appointment, weird celebrity advice we remember and all the nuance and feelings that come up when you have to enlist help in your life. If you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Hey lovers. It's another call in episode from you today! We asked you to tell us about your best WORST dates and breakup stories and you delivered! Thank you so much for trusting us with your tales and we hope that some of these moments shared will give you a laugh, maybe spark your memory of romances long gone or at least offer you some solidarity in the meantime.  If you want to hang out with us some more and support the running of the podcast, feel free to check out our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast  

If you've ever watched a movie or TV show and wished you could reach through the screen and eat the food -- this episode is for you! This week Gabby and Mel chat about their favourite on-screen food appearances. Maybe grab a snack before you listen to this one, we're about to get hungry. 

We're back this week to discuss some of your recent unpopular opinion submissions. We run the whole gamut in this one: from Taylor to slow cookers, The Office to nail art, beige clothes to ASMR - we were really entertained by all the things you cannot abide and hope you find it fun too. As always, you can get in contact with us on [email protected] or stay in closer touch by supporting our Patreon: https://patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link  

HNY friends! We're back with a little catch up episode for you - sharing about our respective Christmases; talking about how tiring the season can be when you realise YOU ARE THE GROWN UP, and also giving you our favourite TV watches of 2022! There is also a significant amount of food chat in this, because of course there is. Don't forget, if you want to support the production of this podcast and hang out with us a little more, you can join our patreon for just $5 a month! https://patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Welcome to our final episode of MAE for 2022! We have a doozy for you! Today we are sharing lots of your holiday stories, traditions and a few funny mishaps along the way. We have fires, broken bones, a box of grandma's hair and dogs with big private parts. You need to listen to get the full picture... A huge thank you to everyone who wrote in or sent us a voicenote - we had so much fun listening to your submissions and it always makes us feel closer to you guys who listen when we get to hear from you. Thanks for supporting our wee podcast this year and we'll be back in 2023 for lots more fun. Love, Gabs & Mel x

In our penultimate episode of 2022 we thought we'd share a bit about boundaries. This is something we often get asked to talk about and so we're opening up about what we find difficult around setting parameters with others and ways that we have been able to update our boundaries as we've grown to help protect our energy, peace and mental health. Don't forget you can join our patreon to support what we're doing,  get more MAE content and BTS access of what we're up to and planning for the podcast for just $5 a month! https://patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast This is your last chance to send us your favourite Christmas/holiday stories for our last episode of the year! Any funny mishaps, wild stories, cozy traditions or sweet memories - we wanna hear them. You can submit an email or send a voicenote to [email protected]

We have a cozy episode for you today; full of food we are dying to make and plans we're making for the rest of the holiday season. Gabby also makes up a new word that really tickles Mel. Enjoy! Housekeeping Notices! - We're having an online cocktail party for our patreon listeners on the 8th of December and we have our friend Audrey Assad bringing us some Christmas music. You can join our patreon for just $5 and come along and hang! https://patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast - We want to hear from you! Send us your favourite Christmas/holiday stories for our last episode of the year! Any funny mishaps, wild stories, cozy traditions or sweet memories - we wanna hear them. You can submit an email or send a voicenote to [email protected]  

This time of year can hold some pretty hefty expectations of what it means to be a family. In this episode we are talking about what happens when the reality isn't all that you hoped for and how to manage expectations of ourselves and others around the holidays. Families look different for us all and they are ever-changing, so if you find this a tough season for any of those reasons or you are feeling bound up by the nostalgia trap of wanting everything to be perfect and magical, this episode is for you.   SEND US YOUR STORIES! As always we love hearing from you and we are putting together a new call-in episode specifically around the best traditions, rituals or practices you have (or maybe had growing up) for Christmas or the holiday season. Send us your emails or voicenotes with your stories or experiences to [email protected]. Voice Note Submissions: Here’s what you gotta do: Set your phone to airplane mode (helps field off interruptions) and get the voice note/memo app up. (for iphones search your apps for "Voice Memos") Record your message by hitting the red record button, checking the time is ticking and holding your phone like you would in a phone call. (Ah, the good old days when people used to use their phone as a phone…) Keep it snappy! We will likely only use submissions that are around a minute long! Share the recorded memo to an email and send it off to us at [email protected] Pat yourself on the back for your bravery and technological prowess! Want to support us in creating Making An Effort? You can be our patreon for as little as just $5 a month and get access to extra content and first dibs on helping us with episode ideas and BTS features! Find out more here: patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Welcome to our first festive episode of 2022! This is gift-giving for the lazy gals out there who just need some reassurance around this season of high expectations. We thought we'd get a head start on talking all things gift-giving, including a good old-fashion whine about how hard it is to buy for our husbands. We're sharing our best present ideas, and basically teeing things up nicely for our loved ones to buy us all the nice things we mention in this episode for Christmas.  As always, we want to invite you to join our patreon community - especially on our brand new Sharecase tier! We have opened up a Marco Polo channel for anyone on our $10 a month tier just so we can share BTS of life where we are, all the things we're working on for the podcast and continue conversations with you after each episode! We would love to see you there - AND - becoming a patreon really supports us to keep our podcast running! Here's the link so you can check it out: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

With Gabby having moved house recently and both Mel & Gabs having both done considerable renovations to their homes, this episode is dedicated to all things house stuff. We are sharing our regrets, our best decisions and our paint colour choice woes and of the ups and downs of making a house a home!  We also have some BIG things coming up for our Patreon Community including a new partnership that's going to take our connection to you all to the next level! We are pumped. You can join our Patreon and get access to all the BTS for just $5 a month! Click here for all the info: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast As always you can reach out to us with any of your own thoughts or feedback on [email protected]  

*Trigger Warning* We want to give you a heads up that in this episode we talk about some pretty sensitive topics around sex, sexuality, religion and shame. Whilst we believe what we talk through is super important and ultimately hopeful, if this brings up difficult issues for you, look after yourself as you listen. We are DELIGHTED to be joined once again by songwriter, musician and our all around legend friend, Audrey Assad! Together we decided to dedicate today's episode to returning to the topic of purity culture. Between the three of us, we are sharing how purity culture has shaped us, and the ways we are healing from it piece by piece. We really hope you find something healing in us sharing our experiences. Feel free, as always, to reach out to us via email [email protected] with any of your thoughts. We also have some BIG things coming up for our Patreon Community including a new partnership that's going to take our connection to you all to the next level! We are pumped. You can join our Patreon and get access to all the BTS for just $5 a month! Click here for all the info: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Do you have a bestie? Are we too old to have *actual* best friends anymore? Are best friends a thing reserved for carefree days when you could spend all of your time with your one person? What happens when you see your friends hanging out without you?  How do guys do friendship? It's a mystery. We truly don't know.  These are all the topics we're exploring today. It's a friendship-extravaganza. Welcome. We have some BIG things coming up for our Patreon Community including a new partnership that's going to take our connection to you all to the next level! We are pumped. You can join our Patreon and get access to all the BTS for just $5 a month! Click here for all the info: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

We thought it was about time we revisited a conversation about our bodies and body image. In this episode we share a little about the evolution of our mindset around body image; how tricky it can be to stay connected to the goodness of our bodies, how anxiety shows up, the nonsense of 'bouncing back' after having babies and all the ways we are trying to be compassionate towards ourselves and feel at home in the skin we're in. To keep up with us behind the scenes and hear our newest community news, consider joining our Patreon for just $5 a month! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast We'll be hosting our virtual cocktail party reunion really soon for Patrons only, you should come!

Welcome back! This week we are divulging all the latest pop culture events du jour that are piquing our interest. Gabs has a short rant about the caliber of modern rom-coms and Mel gets into the current food trends she's not sure about... it's a juicy episode. To keep up with us behind the scenes and hear our newest community news, consider joining our Patreon for just $5 a month! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast We'll be hosting our virtual cocktail party reunion really soon for Patrons only, you should come!

After three months and two babies and one glorious Summer, we are BACK! It has felt so good to sit behind the mic again and catch you guys up on the shenanigans of the last little while. This episode is a roundup of all things Summer, having twins, what we've been up to with the usual dose of off-topic discussions and musings. We are so happy to be back! To keep up with us behind the scenes consider joining our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast We'll be hosting our virtual cocktail party reunion really soon for Patrons only, you should come!

You guys, this is our last episode of Season 3! We're signing out this season of the podcast with some hilarious, rotten and downright terrible summer job stories for you, our listeners (as well as our own). Thanks to everyone who submitted their stories via voicenote and email/text/DM. We love hearing from you! Thanks, as always, for being such amazing supporters - we can't wait to come back soon with Season 4. To keep up with us in the meantime (we'll be having a virtual cocktail party reunion in late summer) you can consider joining our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

This week we're sharing our summer plans. One of us is having two babies extracted from our bodies and one of us hopes to learn to surf 😂 We'll let you guess who is who. We also get into the spiralling world of Mormon Momtok and the latest "soft swinging" scandal you absolutely don't need to know about but is totally worth a deep dive. Enjoy!

We would love for you to welcome to MAE the fellas that we've spent lots of time talking about on the pod over the last 60+ episodes - our lovely husbands! It felt like a bit of a double date, but without the pints and snacks and we had a lot of fun bringing Chris and Dave in for a good old chat and a little spousal quiz... The video for this episode (plus bonus nonsense) will be available for our patrons! You can sign up to be a part of our patreon community for just £4/$5 a month here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast Shownotes: https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/

Today we get to talking about the lesser known women that we have found inspiring. You might be surprised by Mel's niche historical choice and Gabby's 90's throwback icon. This epsiode also heavily features the escapades of another one of our sheroes; Mel's mother in law, Iris. Enjoy!

Tune in this week to hear about all the small things that are making us ridiculously happy. From This Is Us to cowboy boots to good old fashioned boiled sweets like your granny always had in her pocket, Mel and Gabs are dishing out some of the things giving them a spring in their step right now. Shownotes can be found here: https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/episodes

This week Mel has some beef to get off her chest about the way Americans say things and then hot on the heels of some big political moments in both our countries, this week we are talking about what it looks like to engage with politics, contentious issues and be an ally in private and public. Shownotes for this episode are over here: https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/episodes

This week Gabby shares about her very real, very relatable rogue facial hair. We confirm the randomness of how the child naming process goes and deep dive into the emotional rollercoaster that is a long distance romance. And friendships! What about long distance friendships - how do we make sure all of the above stand the test of time and kilometres. 

This weeks episode features a lengthy chat on why people aren't called by their ACTUAL names and some of the ways we sometimes think we're letting the side down as feminists.  Anything worth noting will be in the shownotes here: https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/episodes

This is a call-in episode featuring all of you and your celebrity encounters! You all spill the tea on your run-ins with the rich and famous. Hope you all enjoy!

This weeks episode is a bit of a catch up, catch-all conversation, including us discussing what kind of help or luxury services we'd hire if we were rolling in cash. Listen in, feel free to message us and catch up with any shownotes here: https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/episodes

You guys gave us some EXCELLENT fodder for this epsiode when you sent us through all the things that give you culty vibes. From peloton to Hillsong, essential oils to coffee - we're discussing all the elements of cult followings with humour and full disclosure that we subscribe to these cults too 😂 Any shownotes worth mentioning will be found here: https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/episodes  

Ok, we're for sure going to get things wrong in this conversation because it's a delicate one, but we thought it was worth chatting a little bit about what it means to be a critical thinker these days. Can you call people to accountability without shame? Is cancel culture ruining our ability to handle difference maturely? Lots to think about here so come join us for a conversation! Anything worth mentioning will be linked in the shownotes here:https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/episodes