Eat Sleep Repeat

Kelly is back from Bali, barely recovered and armed with the kind of stories that only come from a very big weekend away. Meanwhile, Kee has been feeling the quiet side of freelance life and finds herself unexpectedly emotional about long weekends, little routines and the strange things that make parenting feel magic.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Mobile Skips
Tip Toe - BINGE
28 Summers - Elin Hilderbrand
Imperfect Women - Apple TV
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
Kelly McCarren @kelly_mccarren
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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New research says almost 60% of Australian parents are experiencing psychological distress. But for Kee and Kel, the most confronting part isn’t the statistic - it’s how familiar it feels.
This week, they unpack the kind of burnout that doesn’t always look like falling apart. It looks like getting everyone to school, answering emails, remembering the lunchboxes, swallowing the guilt, and wondering why you’re so snappy when you’re trying so hard. Maybe the problem isn’t that parents aren’t coping, but that they’re being asked to carry too much.
LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
ABC - Calls to support struggling parents as national survey reveals increasing psychological distress
8 Signs of You Have Depleted Mother Syndrome and How To Cope
Beyond Blue
Lifeline - 13 11 14
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
Kelly McCarren @kelly_mccarren
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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This week, Kelly is personally victimised by a stuffed daycare kookaburra, a scrapbook full of suspiciously wholesome family activities, and the creeping fear that maybe everyone else is doing parenting better.
Meanwhile, Kee is finding the magic in small domestic wins, from Facebook Marketplace chairs to the kind of cos home moment that makes you feel like you might actually be getting it right.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Let’s Go Fishing Game
Mindful & Co Yoga Snap Game
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
Kelly McCarren @kelly_mccarren
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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This week, Kee and Kelly are joined by Lem Zakharia - founder of Bedou, former executive producer of It’s A Lot with Abbie Chatfield, and the creator of the podcast Twice Displaced.
Lem’s family story doesn’t fit the neat little boxes we’re used to. She fell in love with her wife Christina, and slowly became a parent to Christina’s two kids -— first from the sidelines, then right in the thick of tantrums, boundaries, bedtime battles and teenage emotional landmines.
In this conversation, Lem opens up about step-parenting, queer family life, earning a child’s trust, and the moment she realised being “the other parent” wasn’t something she could claim - it was something she had to build.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Lem Zakharia's Instagram @lemzakharia
Twice Displaced - Podcast
Overshare - Podcast

HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
Kelly McCarren @kelly_mccarren
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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This week, Kee and Kelly are having one of those weeks where everything is technically fine… but also absolutely not fine.
Kee has a moment in Pilates that feels bigger than Pilates, Kelly survives a truly cursed medical appointment, and a very bold preschool sickie attempt hits a little too close to home.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Too Good To Go
Kia Abdullah - Author
Off Campus - Prime Video
Is It Too Early to Bitch? - Grace Rouvray
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
Kelly McCarren @kelly_mccarren
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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