PLUS, a highly anticipated celebrity cake recipe, a bonus doco recco, a questionable shoe, some wise words and a head made of steel. So much goodness in our final newsletter of the year 🎉
ICYMI, our hosts announced that a special guest will join them on tour. I think you’ll like her. She’s really funny, smart, and extremely good-looking. What a great get! You can watch the reveal below 👀.
My birthday takes place during the tour, and if you’ve been racking your brain on what to get me, buying a ticket to one of the shows would make my entire year (no pressure). I can’t wait to see you!
“Something that my pelvic floor specialist said was the importance of women my age to be doing weight training. I've been doing my dumbbell exercises but I also bought a weighted vest. I wouldn’t run in it, but I will walk on my treadmill wearing my weighted vest, and you could walk around your house. It's like incidental exercise.”
“It’s probably the most well known/famous/best documentary ever made. It's about the fact that everyone knows the song, but a lot of people don't know the person who sang it. He released these songs in the 60s and early 70s and they’re very inspiring creatively, because they did nothing — total flop. But what he didn't know was that on the other side of the world, it was becoming the most famous song in the entire country and in South Africa, they became obsessed with him. There were all these stories about how he had died on stage, and they became obsessed with finding out the true story. The best documentary has an amazing twist and this one does. It's so satisfying.”
“I read the description and went, I'm gonna hate this. It's about a magician who does card tricks and I'm not really into card tricks. For the first 10 minutes, you're like, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool actually. These tricks are impressive.’ But then something clicks, and you realise that there's something about this man you haven't noticed yet, and it changes the whole documentary.”
“One of the things that annoys me about my life is I find it hard to get to discover new music. Zan Rowe hosts ‘Take Five’ on ABC, where she talks to musicians about their favorite songs every month on both Spotify and Apple Music. She then puts together a playlist called Monthly Mixtape.
It’s always new music, and it's a real mixture of genres. Often, if I'm just doing things around the house, and I'm a bit podcasted out, I'll put one of those on, and there'll be some songs on it that are really not my thing, and then there'll be some that I'm just like, ‘Oh, I love that.’ And I can immediately go and find the artist. I just would love more recommendations for good mix tapes.”
Do you have some great recommendations for music? Tell us in the comments!
On Friday’s episode, our hosts did a terrible job of explaining “Mia’s knock-off Prada plastic shoes that Jessie hates.” If it’s been bugging you all day (same), don’t worry we have a visual. I repeat, we have a visual. And look… I honestly wish I hadn’t asked. See how much I do for you!
On Thursday’s episode, I, for the first time in a long time, talked about getting dumped a few days after the said dumping occurred. In the moment, it felt therapeutic, but as everyone who’s gone through heartache knows, the feeling of extreme sadness and worthlessness will randomly pop up every so often. When you’re doing the dishes, when you’re in a meeting that could have been an email, even when you’re having the best time giggling over messy glasses of wine with your friends. It’s a sudden stab in your chest that slowly fills your whole body with nausea.
Anyway, I’ve been trying really hard to figure all of these big feelings out and I owe it all to you.
“Oh Em. This happened to me a few years ago… Now I can’t even remember his name 😂”
“It sounds cliche but try and replace the negative things you tell yourself with positive ones. ‘I'm not worth being loved’ with ‘I have so much to offer the person who truly loves me’. There are hard days and that’s okay.”
“My heart is at ease knowing that, what was meant for me will never miss me, & that what misses me was never meant for me.”
“You will look back one day and realise that these break ups are just lessons to put you on the right path. One day you may say ‘I'd do it all again if it means being where I am today’.”
“Those that make you cry aren’t worth your tears. Those that are worth your tears won’t make you cry.”
“Surround yourself with family and friends.”
“I’d listen to someone like Taylor Swift who's singing my pain and basically just be kind to yourself. Do things that make you happy, be around people who love you.”
“Every person that doesn’t work out takes you a step closer to the one who will.”
“It's ok to feel upset and hurt.”
And of course we HAVE to acknowledge our Holly Wainwright who has seen me go through these little heartaches many (literally soooo many) times in the past.
I couldn’t agree more with this comment:
If you want to listen to Hol’s brilliant advice as well as hear exactly what this dreaded text said (I’m sorry, I physically can’t bring myself to write it out again), take a listen to Tuesday’s episode.
On Monday’s show Mia talked about the lore behind Tom Cruise sending his friends a white chocolate, coconut bundt cake. If all you could hear was commotion in the studio, well, that’s because our boss Ruth MADE the cake herself and shared it around mid-record. In case you were wondering, cake + hungry hosts + microphones… are not a good mix.
What was a good mix was Ruth’s masterpiece.
Take a look at the chaos this cake caused. This is for your eyes only FYI 👀
Oh, and yes. We heard you. For those wanting the Tom Cruise cake recipe, Ruth has kindly shared the one she used. Tap the button below.
🎧 Listen to the Tom Cruise cake chat on Monday’s show. Cake chaos begins at the 34:38 mark.
Sorry Jessie, but we’ll never let you live this down 😂.
Last week, Jessie wrongly pronounced a word. When you’re a writer and you mispronounce a word, we will never stop talking about it. It becomes your life, it becomes your meaning, it becomes your truth.
Ruth, once again, went above and beyond with the joke and brought in (I kid you not) the heaviest buu-clay I’ve ever seen. Don’t let this interesting transportation manoeuvre trick you. She clearly has a head of steel.
We, of course, had to get (read: force) Jessie to sit in it for the group pic (featuring Mia’s ‘plastic Prada knock-offs that Jessie hates’).
The fuss-free fantastic Christmas present 🎁
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Have a wonderful new year! x
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