It’s tips galore in this episode! Steph invites her friend Lisa De Sanctis (aka See Want Shop) into the studio to share tips for traveling with toddlers and newborns. Should you book a flight during their nap time or awake time? Do you book accommodation with one room or two? How do you anticipate and handle big emotions on flights? Are travel pram…

What have you pretended to like for a crush? This week Producer Lindsey was reminded of a time when she would get up early to watch the Socceroos because she knew the boys at school would be talking about it. We KNEW we couldn't be the only ones who did embarrassing things for crushes so we asked you: what’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve prete…

It doesn’t matter where in your running journey you are, we think you’ll love this chat! Phoebe and Anna are Cheeky Run Club: a social running podcast and community for your everyday amateur runner. Since launching their podcast in January, Phoebe and Anna have covered topics like sports bras, nutrition, running burnout, prepping for races, and so …

It's time for another rant from Laura! On a recent Instagram video calling out internalised misogyny, someone accused Laura of “playing the gender card” and today she shares her feelings about it. TLDR: if you’ve never experienced discrimination, you can’t tell people who have been discriminated against that it doesn’t exist. PLUS the Olympics are …

A must listen ahead of the women's Olympic marathon marathon this weekend! In the heat of the women’s 3000m steeplechase at the Tokyo Games, Gen Gregson fell and ruptured her achilles tendon. As devastating as it was that Gen’s steeplechase career was over, and her return to elite sport was uncertain, Gen saw an opportunity to fulfil another dream:…

This week Laura has some dream come true news…she’s been invited to run the New York City Marathon in November!! Find out how Laura has worked on her mindset in order to believe she’s ready to run a marathon…and how rebuilding her relationship with food and exercise has made it all possible. Then we invite one of Steph’s oldest friends, Hayley, on …

In 2023 we had the pleasure of speaking with Australian boxer Harry Garside. We talked about masculinity, success, proving himself, thinking he's not good enough, and why he deliberately puts himself in situations that make him uncomfortable. We've loved watching Harry at the Paris Olympics and it reminded us of how much we loved this chat with him…

You asked…we answered. We haven’t done an ask-us-anything in a long time, so we asked you for your questions and you didn’t hold back! How would you describe your sex life in one word? Steph, do you plan to have more kids? What do you regret? How do you feel about a few MCG’s worth of people following you online? And Laura…have you started washing …

This week Laura has a moment of self-reflection as she reveals the savage things she said to Dalton while PMS-ing and Steph shares how PMS hits her now that she’s had her IUD removed. PLUS! We want your sexy slip up stories! We’ve told you about the time Steph’s mum found her sexy nurse outfit, and when Laura’s cleaner discovered her vibrator…but t…

Ash Paraskevas had kissed girls long before she ever had sex with a woman. She would make out with girls in high school and tell herself it was something she was doing for attention. But after seven years in a heterosexual relationship, Ash could no longer ignore her feelings towards women. As scary as it was to leave her long-term relationship, sh…

This week we answer your D&M about how to decline an invite to an overseas wedding. You said: “I don’t know how to handle telling my best friend that I may not be at her wedding.” We share our thoughts on overseas weddings and the expectations placed on guests to attend - often at large financial expense. Plus we asked you to spill your celebrity r…

One in six people with vulvas reported feeling anxious or embarrassed about the way their labia looks. The recently published Labia Diversity Report from Women’s Health Victoria surveyed 1,030 women and people with labia aged between 18-50 about how they feel about their labia. They found 31% of those surveyed associated their labia with words like…

How much screen time is too much? Mandy Richardson is a child development and early parenting specialist and the creator of Raise Toddlers: a platform created to inspire and equip parents with the skills and tools they need to raise children from birth to six years old. Very importantly, Mandy is not anti-screens! But when she notices her three dau…

In a recent episode of The Kardashians, Kylie Jenner broke down in tears over comments she received about the way she looks. In the episode she said "people have been talking about my looks since I was 12, 13…after 10-plus years of hearing about (my looks), it just gets exhausting." We watched it and we want to share our thoughts. Plus Laura has be…

In the third part of our three-episode special about having difficult conversations, we invite our coach Janey Martino back into the studio to talk through making assumptions and not taking things personally. We’ve personally gone through our own experience of assuming we know what the other person is thinking and how they will react to something…w…

Janey Martino is a business founder, board director, advisor, investor and coach. She’s an advisor for Kic and our personal coach. Janey’s coaching has helped us in our confidence and leadership as individuals, and she recently helped us to faciliate the most challenging conversation we've ever had as friends. In the second part of this special thr…

This week we check in on our friendship. In case you missed it, an article came out a few weeks ago claiming there was a “rift” in our friendship. There’s not! But we have been having some deep conversations and this week we want to talk about it. Plus we preview our Wednesday (and bonus!) Friday episodes with our coach Janey Martino who has made t…

You can’t be what you can’t see and for most of us (for better or worse) our only parental role models will be the people that raised us. So are we destined to raise our children in the same way that our parents raised us? And if you want to parent differently…how can you unlearn the way you were brought up? Lael Stone is a speaker, educator and au…

This week it’s Laura’s turn to be thrown under the bus! We searched far and wide for someone in Laura’s life who could tell an embarrassing story about her and this week we finally got one - her oldest friend Bec, who shared a story of the time Laura revealed what she household item she used to get…intimate with. Plus we listened to an episode of S…

Sal & Al met in their office kitchen, fell in friendship love, and six months later they had matching tattoos. In the 7 years that have followed, they’ve gone through romantic and friendship break ups, work, travel, starting a podcast, building a business and writing a book together, so they’re pretty much experts on friendship at this point. One o…

It’s an intimate one today! In a recent episode of The Kardashians, Khloe made a comment about people having hair down there and Laura wants to talk about it. Does laser hurt more than waxing? Do you remove hair from your butt? And Steph shares the time she tried out her waxing skills on Josh. Then we check in on the goals we set ourselves at the s…

Jess Quinn was one of our very first KICPOD guests way back in 2019. This week Jess returns, but this time for KICBUMP, after welcoming her first daughter Marla into the world last November. In our first conversation with Jess she shared her story of childhood cancer and having one of her legs amputated when she was nine years old. In this episode,…

If you’re going away by yourself, do you take the family toothpaste or do you buy a spare toothpaste and leave the family toothpaste at home? Steph and Laura have been doing a lot of traveling recently and this week we find out who buys a spare and who takes the family toothpaste (leaving their partner without). Plus we always suggest calling 1800 …

Ashani Dante and Fi Sanford are the Founder and CEO of The Flourish Journey, an organisation committed to supporting teenage girls to become empowered, resilient and connected adults. They help young girls to cultivate their own self-awareness and self-confidence, but this doesn’t mean that Ashani & Fi feel confident at all times. In this episode A…

Steph’s been seeing a therapist for the past few months and in today’s episode she shares how it’s been going, what she’s learned from it, and she and Laura reflect on how valuable it’s been for both of them to speak to someone unbiased who you can be totally truthful with. Then Laura reflects on completing the Kic Run 10 - 21km program and complet…

For the final episode of the miniseries Laura sits down with her husband Dalton. How does he feel about Laura doing this miniseries? What are his own fears around having children? Is it selfish if they never have children? And finally…do Laura & Dalton want kids? Then we hear from you about what the series has taught you. And Laura reflects on what…

Sydney Fashion Week was a few weeks ago and it raised important conversations about who gets invited, who gets photographed, and how the event leaves people feeling afterwards, so this week we reflect on our own experiences of attending Melbourne and Sydney Fashion Weeks both as guests and walking in shows. Then we take a trip down memory lane to r…

The decision to have children is a personal one but if you’re in a relationship, the decision is one that you can’t make on your own. So what do you do if you find yourself in a situation where your partner wants kids but you’re not ready…or you want kids and your partner isn’t ready? Or what if you want children…but you don’t have anyone to have t…

For many women in their 20’s and 30’s, the tick of the biological clock can be deafening. We’re told our fertility falls off a cliff at 35 years old, so if we want children, we’d better get moving. When you add on messaging around the desire to be a “young” mum to keep up with your children, this only adds to the pressure that many women feel to ma…

It’s a mixed bag this week! Steph has a raspy voice (the sick kind…not the sexy kind) and Laura has a story about a dryer gone wrong and she wants to know what you would do if you were in the same situation. Then Steph shares the decision she recently made to get her IUD removed. And we call relationship coach (and friend of the podcast) Megan Lusc…

The most common fear we heard from you while planning this series, was what children would do to your career. Progression, relevancy, loss of superannuation, loss of identity, and comments like "why would you have kids if you're going to go back to work," all contribute to women making the decision to have children. And with increased rates of home…

If you're talking to people about the decision to have children it’s likely you’ve heard a version of this - “parenting is really hard so if you’re not 100% sure that you want children…don’t do it”. This episode is here to challenge that idea. The reasons people say not to have children are very convincing - you’ll never sleep again, your relations…

Laura came in with a rant this week! So the next time you think about commenting “stay in your lane”...think again. And one of you asked a tricky question about splitting the bill when you go out for dinner. You asked: “Is it stingy to ask to not to pay for alcohol I haven’t drunk it? So Laura & Steph take it to the Kic Court to decide! Do you agre…

Whether it’s biological, circumstantial, financial, environmental, a result of trauma, or simply because you don’t want to, the reasons why people decide to be childfree are as diverse as the reasons why people decide to be parents. For many people, the decision to be childfree is met with comments like “you’ll change your mind,” or “you won’t know…

You meet someone, you get married, you have children. Right? That’s been the status quo for so long that it can be hard to imagine an alternative. For so many people who don’t feel called to be a parent, that path doesn’t feel right. But if you’ve grown up in a world where everyone you know, and everyone you follow, and every character in every mov…

Having children is one of the biggest decisions we'll ever make. And for many people between the ages of 20 - 40, who don't feel called to be a parent, this question can be all-consuming. It was for Laura. Last year Laura opened up on the podcast for the first time about her anxieties about having children. Your messages of support, encouragement, …

We talk a lot about rebuilding our relationship to food but we don’t talk as much about our relationship to exercise. Off the back of Laura’s HIIT classes in the Kic app, and the D&M we responded to last week about listening to your body, we wanted to talk about it. And just like our relationship to food - even when you’re in a good spot with exerc…

Jess Sanders is a social worker and children’s author. Her latest book ‘You Can Do Hard Things - A Little One’s Guide For Not Giving Up’ helps children see disappointments as opportunities. A growth mindset empowers children to believe in themselves and reach their full potential. From building blocks, to learning times tables, children are constan…

Our stories of overthinking and overexplaining! Laura shares what happened when she spent the day rubbing her eyes and tried to buy three bottles of wine on a Friday night (without looking in the mirror) and Steph reveals a recent email fail. Then we hear your stories of overthinking. Overthinkers, hypochondriacs, anxious girlies…you’re all welcome…

When Ash Paraskevas was in her early 20’s she was in a longterm relationship, studying law (as the first person in her family to attend uni) and competing in Miss World. From the outside - it looked like she had it all. But inside she was struggling with severe anxiety, depression, domestic abuse and changing everything about herself to try and fit…

We saw a TikTok about "food noise" and we want to talk about it. "Food noise" is the relentless thoughts about food and eating that unfortunately so many of us have experienced or still do experience. We reflect on how food noise still shows up for us regardless of how much effort we put into combating these thoughts, and what we can do to try and …

This episode is tough but a really important conversation for every parent and person with young people in their lives. Grooming refers to an older child or adult establishing a trusting relationship with a child or their family to sexually abuse or exploit the child. The average age that a child is abused is 6.8 years old and 90% of children who a…

It feels like only yesterday that we were sitting in our cars recording this podcast on our iPhones and now you’ve downloaded us over 14 MILLION (!) times in places as far and wide as Greeland and Jamaica. For KICPOD’s 5th birthday we take a trip down memory lane from them to now, reflect on what making this podcast means to us and hear what the po…

If you’ve ever questioned if you’re on the right path and wished you could ask someone who’s no longer alive what they think, a psychic medium could help connect you. Jessica Lynne is a psychic medium who’s dedicated herself to connecting the living with their departed loved ones. Steph & Laura both received a reading from Jess, and in this episode…

People are commenting on Laura's TikTok telling her she should divorce her husband Dalton. And you know what? Laura couldn't care less. Plus! Steph had a moment when she realised something she was doing to “save time” actually ended up worse off than if she’d put in effort to begin with. So we asked you…what do you to “save” time that ends up takin…

If you haven’t been to kinder since you were IN kinder, you’ve probably forgotten what it’s all about and what the big deal is. So as Harvey gets closer to kindergarten age, Steph speaks with early childhood consultant Catharine Hydon about all things kindergarten. They talk the big things, like: what do our kids actually learn at kinder, how does …

What do you do to feel safe while running or walking alone? We saw this video on Instagram where a woman lists everything she does to feel safe while running outside alone and we wanted to talk about it. Plus Steph & Laura share their own experiences of feeling unsafe while running and walking by themselves. Then we talk getting over a breakup. A c…

In January, one of our Kic community members, Ellie, messaged us on Instagram asking to share her story of being diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer diagnosis at just 31 years old. Ellie noticed a lump in one of her breasts last August. When it didn’t go away, Ellie made an appointment to get it checked out by her GP. Within days, Ellie un…

We asked for your wild Aussie wildlife stories and in this episode we hear about your run ins with spiders, possums, and emus, and find out what happened when Steph and her friends were riding bikes in high school and came face-to-face with an emu. And you loved our episode with relationship coach Megan Luscombe so much that we invited her back to …

Katie Lolas is beloved by her online community who she shares her life with. When Katie’s sister, Nadia passed away unexpectedly in 2021 at 31 years old, Katie’s community grieved alongside her. But Katie had another job to do: she was 35 weeks pregnant and in three weeks’ time, she was due to deliver her first child, Harper, via C-section. When Ka…