Unwind on sleepless nights to a wholesome mix of parenting stories, quirky humour, and cosy crafting. A fun, honest and unscripted conversation between Emma and Elliot on non-judgemental parenting life: sit with us in the blanket fort and join the discussion! We’re not here to provide answers but to share our experiences and explore how parenting has changed. A topical PodCraft, based in Yorkshire, hand-crafted by parents... Relax, enjoy, and be part of the community.
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The Dolls Podcast spotlights ladies from the 60s and 70s who inspire cohosts Emma Rosa Katharina and Abigail Devoe. With each episode they’ll share the story of one actress, activist, musician, groupie, or fashion icon, with the purpose of proving her lasting influence. They may have lived in the time of the Whiskey A Go-Go and Studio 54, but celebrating the women of yesterday still matters today. Keep the shindig going with @thedollspod on Instagram!
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What makes creative people tick? How do they find and develop their inspiration? Welcome to the podcast that draws back the curtain on the inventive mind and its artistic process with a series of interviews between host Emma Lister and performers, choreographers, designers and other artists. Look out for our special mini-series, like 'Ballet for the 21st Century' and 'Ballet Macabre'.
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In each episode, we talk with inspiring scientists, thinkers, and other self-actualized individuals who will give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in. Scott Barry Kaufman explores the depths of human potential and tries to get a glimpse into human possibility in every episode.
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A hilarious look at the volatile world of sport where guests compete for points with their sporting punditry. Informed comments are rewarded but witless outbursts are penalised.
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Two guys talking **it - A Gastroenterology and Hepatology podcast
A/Prof Jon Segal and Dr James Haridy
“Two Guys Talking $#it” is a podcast where two Gastroenterologists break down complex topics into engaging, educational, and occasionally humorous conversations. From liver health to gut microbiota and everything in between, A/Professor Jonathan Segal and Dr James Haridy deliver insights, share the latest research, and discuss clinical pearls with the odd guest in tow. Comments, suggestions, questions please contact us on twitter @2guystalkingit or leave a comment below..
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Telling the unheard stories from the sporting community in the North East.
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But Make It Scary is a dark comedy podcast that twists hit romantic films into the horror movies you didn’t know you were missing. Tune in every other Wednesday to hear your host, Sequoia Simone, and some incredibly funny guests stretch, bend, and warp these stories of infatuation into chilling tales. A podcast for those who know there’s nothing more terrifying than love! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Retail is constantly moving and adapting as consumer behaviour changes. The Retail Wrap-Up Podcast is dedicated to just this. Join us as we interview some of the world's best retailers to understand how they are succeeding and then draw insights into the changing world of retail. RetailOasis is Australia's leading consumer facing retail consultancy, and a registered B-Corporation. Our mission is to co-create the future of sustainable retail, whilst using business to positively impact the env ...
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Starting Primary School | Parents discuss the transition from nursery to reception
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1:05:35How have the first weeks at school been for our 4-year-old and for us as parents? This is the one where Emma and Elliot chat about adapting to the new routine of school, how it's different from nursery, the challenges and joys, tips and advice for a smooth transition, graduating pre-school, and stories from the first days and weeks of reception. In…
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Carl Donnelly, Ian Moore, Jake Wood, Natalie Pike
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59:57EastEnders actor Jake Wood, football presenter Natalie Pike, author and comedian Ian Moore, and comedian Carl Donnelly join Rick Edwards for an hour of sporting punditry, humour and entertainment. Points are awarded for informed comment, wit and passion, but taken away for nonsense and answers lacking in conviction. In the final round, the top two …
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Busting Viral Mental Health Myths w/Joe Nucci
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1:08:43This week, Scott speaks with psychotherapist and writer Joe Nucci, whose work tackles the intersection of mental health, misinformation, and pop psychology. Joe has built a large following by debunking viral myths and bringing nuance to conversations that are too often oversimplified online. Together, they dive into his new book, Psychobabble: Vira…
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Parents chat with 4 year old daughter | What is your favourite...? (with special guest Lilly)
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34:39A super special fun episode with the debut of Lilly on the podcast! This is the one where Emma and Elliot chat with their 4-year-old daughter, and she ends up taking over the conversation and interviewing us about all sorts of things - getting a bit carried away. Lots of laughing as she was in a silly mood! And so we have this conversation recorded…
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Bob Mills, Kelly Sotherton, Ned Boulting, Thom Gibbs
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58:27British former heptathlete Kelly Sotherton, journalist and presenter Ned Boulting, journalist Thom Gibbs and comedian Bob Mills join Rick Edwards for an hour of sporting punditry, humour and entertainment. Points are awarded for informed comment, wit and passion, but taken away for nonsense and answers lacking in conviction. In the final round, the…
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Dougie Anderson, Luke Moore, Neil Delamere, Susie McCabe
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1:05:33Broadcaster Dougie Anderson, journalist Luke Moore, and comedians Neil Delamere and Susie McCabe join Rick Edwards for an hour of sporting punditry, humour and entertainment. Points are awarded for informed comment, wit and passion, but taken away for nonsense and answers lacking in conviction. In the final round, the top two points scorers go head…
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The Psychology of Athletic Excellence w/Dr. Alex Auerbach
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55:00This week, Scott Barry Kaufman sits down with Dr. Alex Auerbach, a licensed counseling and sport performance psychologist who works with some of the world’s top performers—from Olympic champions to NBA, NFL, and MLB athletes, as well as elite military units, Fortune 500 companies, and high-growth startups. Together, they dive into insights from Dr.…
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The Wiggles | Parents discuss taking toddlers to live shows
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58:22Have you taken your children to the theatre, to see musicals, a concert, ballet, or a kids' show? This is the one where Emma and Elliot chat about The Wiggles: what we enjoy as parents and taking a baby & toddler to various stage shows, inlcuding conversation about... The Bluey Live Show, Musicals at Disneyland Paris, a performance for children by …
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Danny Mcloughlin, David Alorka, Emma Paton, Guvna B
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59:48Sports presenter David Alorka, rapper and author Guvna B, presenter and former athlete Emma Paton, and comedian Danny Mcloughlin join Rick Edwards for an hour of sporting punditry, humour and entertainment. Points are awarded for informed comment, wit and passion, but taken away for nonsense and answers lacking in conviction. In the final round, th…
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Coming soon: all new parenting stories on SERIES 5 of "Don't wake the baby!"
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2:41Welcome back to the blanket fort! It's time to unwind on sleepless nights to a wholesome mix of parenting, humour, and crafting. All new content, same old us, and a few surprises! Make sure you've got notifications turned on to catch new episodes every other Thursday. We can't wait to share it with you all! Here's a taster and a reminder of what we…
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Dealing with Feelings w/ Dr. Marc Brackett
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55:57This week, Scott sits down with Dr. Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of Dealing with Feelings: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want. Together, they explore why so many of us struggle to manage our emotions and what we can do about it. Dr. Brackett explains the importance of co-regula…
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Working mums & dads | Parents discuss balancing full time jobs with raising kids
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42:40Returning to work after a baby, our jobs, work-life balance, working from home... This is the one where Emma and Elliot discuss maternity and paternity leave, fitting in work around a baby and toddler, and failing at having a healthy work-life balance. Have things changed from the 90s? Are you a stay-at-home parent? How do you find time for the ful…
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“I think that love will never die. Once you know somebody, you can never unknow that person. And knowing is loving. So you never can get out of love.” The Dolls Pod Beatle Girl miniseries concludes! Part two of our “Oh Yoko!” episode focuses on her music, activism, and of course, we tell the ballad of Yoko and John. Also: car seats and nurseries an…
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Growing up as an identical quadruplet | Parents discuss pros & cons of having siblings
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49:02Multibirth vs only child... sharing childhood stories of being an identical quadruplet! This is the one where Emma and Elliot discuss the differences in experience between being a quadruplet and being an only child - and how it affects our parenting today. What are some of the pros and cons of having a large family? And the pros and cons of not hav…
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“The average rating of our podcast is too high,” we lamented. “Let’s incite a mob of one-star reviews just for covering Yoko Ono!” We giggled, as we rubbed our little hands together like flies. Season 2 of the Dolls Pod is going down screaming, or whatever you call those distinct vocal stylings. The fifth episode of our Beatle Girl miniseries is he…
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Rethinking Time and the Myth of Urgency w/ Chris Guillebeau
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43:02This week Scott speaks with author, entrepreneur, and world traveler Chris Guillebeau, best known for The Art of Non-Conformity and his latest book, Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live. Chris unpacks the concept of time anxiety—the persistent feeling that we’re running out of time—and explains why it’s different from FOMO…
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Born during COVID-19 | Parents discuss lockdown pregnancy and baby
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41:43We had a baby during the pandemic... This is the one where Emma and Elliot discuss getting married, pregnancy, and having a newborn during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how the UK lockdown affected those with preschool-age children. How did you find parenting in lockdown? Did it have some positives for toddlers and parents? This is part of our …
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Picky Eaters | Parents discuss toddler food preferences
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42:17What's your little ones' favourite food? This is the one where Emma and Elliot talk all things tasty! Yum yum... Meal times, beige food, eating habits, setting a good example, failing to eat healthily, and sharing our experience. Have you given in to sugar? Are you a sweet or a savoury person? We just share our story, and have a good moan about the…
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Linda McCartney: The Life Behind the Lense
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1:15:18Our 4th episode of the Dolls Pod Beatle Girl miniseries is all about Lovely Linda! As Linda Eastman, she was one of rock-and-roll’s premiere photographers, capturing the likes of Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones, and the first woman to photograph a Rolling Stone cover. As Linda McCartney, she was an animal rights advocate and one half of one of …
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Can You Really Change Your Personality? w/ Olga Khazan
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48:29This week Scott speaks with journalist and Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan about her latest book, Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change. Olga shares her personal journey experimenting with ways to reshape her own personality—armed with insights from the latest psychological research. Together, she and Scott explore whether…
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Involved Dads | Parents discuss navigating the modern gender split
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43:50Gender roles: Does society want fathers to be involved in parenting? This is the one where Emma and Elliot chat about mum & dad roles in parenting today, the challenges, and bucking gender stereotypes. How things have changed from the 90s, pet peeves, and sharing our story of trying to share responsibilities 50/50 - Do you follow typical gender rol…
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#11: A/Prof Elliot Tapper - Liver legends, lies and lactulose
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56:57Today we had the privilege of talking to a true superstar in the world of Hepatology. Elliot B. Tapper MD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Michigan. He is Academic Chief of Hepatology. His primary goal is to empower patients to enjoy a high quality of life. He is an expert in the mana…
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Sleepless Nights | Parents discuss managing extreme tiredness
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34:49Surviving on a lack of sleep with babies and toddlers... The one where Emma and Elliot chat about funny sleep-deprivation stories, hallucinations, grumpy husbands, differences between a first child and having two children; will you ever sleep again? Let's grumble together about our collective lack of sleep... How much sleep do you get with your bab…
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“It was like hitching a ride on a shooting star: a fantastic experience that caused immense pain, but I’m glad I had it…That sort of experience doesn’t come twice.” Except when it does. You know the story, you know the songs, but there’s so much more to the woman behind them. Episode three of the Dolls Pod Beatle Girl Miniseries is dedicated to roc…
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Debunking the Genius Myth w/ Helen Lewis
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1:07:11This week, Scott sits down with acclaimed journalist and Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis to explore her latest book, The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea. Together, they examine how society defines—and often distorts—the concept of genius. Helen argues that there’s no universal, objective definition of genius, and that the peopl…
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Behind the Scenes | Parenting fails, ramblings, baby interruptions, bonus stories, outtakes & more
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44:43It's another fan-favourite "tangents" episode with bonus baby & toddler stories - Join Emma and Elliot for this special episode, full of all the bits and bobs that got cut out, and a peek behind the scenes at all the bloopers and interruptions. Plus interesting tangents and expanded stories about parenthood that we couldn't fit into the main episod…
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#10: A/Prof Gianluca Ianiro and Dr Benjamin Mullish - The gut microbiome in health and disease
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1:03:20Today we’re talking bugs, bowels, and breakthroughs with A/Prof Gianluca Ianiro and Dr. Ben Mullish, two microbiome maestros who make poo science strangely fascinating. A/Prof Gianluca Ianiro is an Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome and a Consultant at the Gastroenterology Unit of the Fondazi…
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Maureen Starkey: A Life Between The Beats
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56:04“She married Ringo, but she could’ve had Paul, that’s why the lady is a champ!” Episode two of the Beatle Girl Miniseries is about sweet, strong, and rebellious Maureen Starkey. She never wrote a biography and gave very few interviews. She’s the silent fashion icon of the decade. But she was the heartbeat of the backbeat and an emotional refuge for…
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This week, Scott sits down with English comedian, author, and BBC radio host Robin Ince. Known for co-presenting The Infinite Monkey Cage alongside physicist Brian Cox, Robin brings his signature wit and wisdom to a deeply personal and socially relevant conversation. The episode centers around Robin’s new book, Normal Weird and Weirdly Normal: Adve…
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Identity Shift | Parents discuss rediscovering yourself after having children
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38:18Is being a mum or a dad your only identity? Exploring how we change as people in parenthood. This is the one where Emma and Elliot chat about past hobbies, things we've lost along the way, adapting to struggles & the relentless busy stress of life, finding time for ourselves, taking up new hobbies, accepting things are different, and the spirituali…
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The Next Step - Saturday Night Fever (1977)
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1:21:35We conclude our 6 part series, The Next Step, with SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)! The surprisingly harsh film that launched a #1 bestselling soundtrack by the Bee Gees and John Travolta to super stardom. You'll easily be able to summon the sight of Travolta strutting down the street in the opening scene and hear that thumping beat of Stayin' Alive, b…
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Cynthia Lennon: More Than Just The Mrs.
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1:03:14“For far too long now, Mum has put up with being relegated to a puff of smoke in Dad’s life and that is simply not the truth. Now it’s time to set the record straight.” - Julian Lennon, about his mom, Cynthia At face value, it’s the classic tale of “boy meets girl, boy is in a band, boy’s band becomes the biggest band in the world.” But wait, what …
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The Science of Inspiring Leadership w/ Dr. Adam Galinsky
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1:00:09This week, Scott welcomes Dr. Adam Galinsky, Professor at Columbia Business School and author of Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others. Together, they explore what makes a truly inspiring leader—and how anyone, regardless of title or position, can develop the qualities to lead with vision, courage, and impact. Dr. Galinsky sha…
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The Next Step - Save the Last Dance (2001)
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1:14:36We’re making our entrance for this one running in with arms in bras bas! Was SAVE THE LAST DANCE (2001) the beginning of the dance movie craze of the noughts? With a bonus film that definitely hits right in the middle of that fad: STEP UP (2006) It’s interesting revisiting STLD on the other side of the reckonings that happened around BLM. It earnes…
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Mum Chat | Identical Quadruplet sisters discuss parenting (feat. Becky & Kirsty)
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49:54What's your parenting style? Bonus holiday episode! This is the one where two of Emma's sisters join the conversation, and the three mums chat about being parents and share funny toddler stories. Big thanks to our special guests this week: Rebecca Bani and Kirsty Small. The three sisters discuss: who is the strictest mum? What's the weirdest thing …
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5 years after first recorded, we're rereleasing this episode of our first dance flavoured mini series - Ballet for the 21st Century. We've chosen to revisit the last ep in that series, Boys Dance Too, because having just discussed the film Billy Elliot we thought it was worth digging into some themes that came up in more depth. This episode has bee…
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#09: A/Professor Emma Halmos & Dr CK Yao - Food is Medicine.. or is it?
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56:18Today we welcome two world-leading dietitians to talk all things diet in IBD and IBS.... A/Prof Emma Halmos is a senior research dietitian at Monash University and the Alfred Hospital. Her scientific achievements have had a major impact in clinical practice nationally and internationally. The most notable was the pivotal feeding study that demonstr…
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Turning Ideas Into Action w/ Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
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54:50This week, Scott welcomes Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, senior research scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Director of the Creativity and Emotions Lab. They dive into Dr. Pringle’s new book, The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas Into Action, which offers research-backed guidance on transforming …
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The Next Step - Billy Elliot (2000)
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1:15:33We couldn't make The Next Step mini series without including BILLY ELLIOT. Is this the seminal dance coming of age film? How does it hold up a quarter of a century after it was released and became a cultural phenomenon? Bonus film: THE FITS (2015) starts eerily the same as Billy Elliot, but steers firmly away from the predictable halfway through...…
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She’s a rock star, she’s a mom, she’s the ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb! Plucked from the LA club scene for her fierce style, Cherie Currie went from never having sang before to fronting the biggest all-girl rock band of all time. The Runaways lit up the stage, sold out arenas, and recorded best-selling albums, all before Cherie was out of high school. T…
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Pass the Parcel | Parents discuss children's birthday parties
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54:08What's your ideal party? This is the one where Emma and Elliot chat about birthdays, from babies to toddlers—a fun topic fresh on their minds with Lilly just turning 4. They discuss games, party bags, cakes, different approaches, cost, presents, and what we did at ages 1, 2, 3, and 4. Plus, we share a poo fail story, birthday anecdotes from our chi…
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