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Rachel Vasicek is the Co-Founder of Francesca Jewellery with her sister Hannah. Rachel and Hannah have both been on the KICPOD before and now Rachel is back for KICBUMP!

For this episode Rachel sat down with Steph to share about conceiving in spite of having endometriosis and being warned she might struggle to fall pregnant, her spontaneous labour, her 27 hour posterior birth, and life with baby Raph and her partner Dave. Rachel also shares about how she’s navigating motherhood with her first baby (her business).

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Laura was sent a video of a male fitness influencer telling women that they use pregnancy as an “excuse” to gain weight and you better believe we have thoughts on it!

Plus! Laura was watching Modern Family and was inspired to ask you…what’s the most outrageous thing your mother in law has ever done? We loved your responses! 

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Cooper Chapman a former pro surfer turned Founder and mental health advocate. In 2020 he founded The Good Human Factory which runs workshops with students and corporates about mental health and wellbeing that so far have reached over 50,000 students & 15,000 corporate participants.

Cooper has just published his first book ‘The 1% Good Club’ - the simple way to transform your mental health in just 14 minutes a day.

In this episode, Cooper sits down with Steph to share what he has learned from devoting 14 minutes a day (for the last 1,600 days!) to his mental health and how we can all...

Some personal news this week - we’re bringing in a CEO to Kic the business which means that Laura is stepping out of the role. This week Laura shares why.

Also! Steph unpacks every track from Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl and we share our fave songs.

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Jordan Lambropoulos was last on KICPOD in August 2023 when she told us her story of living with Chron’s disease and undergoing a stem cell transplant. This week Jordy is back for KICBUMP after giving birth to her twin girls Indigo & Capri in January.

Jordy always assumed she would be infertile, so it was a huge shock to herself, and her medical team when she discovered she was pregnant, plus pregnant with twins!

In this episode Steph catches up with Jordy to talk about her pregnancy, the complications with her Chron’s and wearing an osto...

What gives you the ick?! Laura had a conversation with her chiropractor about icks and it inspired us to share ours. And we want to know yours! We’ll pop a question box on our Instagram story on the day this episode comes out. Please send us your icks!

Also! Steph was singing along to a classic 90’s banger with her four-year-old son Harvey when she realised what the lyrics were actually saying and how inappropriate they were. So this week we throwback to some of the most iconic millennial tunes that we innocently sung as kids with...

Earlier this year, Chloe Pink married the love of her life, Toby. A few weeks later, when an article about their wedding was shared to Facebook, the comments section was flooded with heinous comments about Chloe’s appearance. Chloe spoke up about the comments, and continues to use her platform to call out fat shaming.

In this episode we sit down with Chloe to speak about her wedding day, how the day was tainted by comments, the pressure of being in a relationship with an AFL player, why she continues to show up online in spite of th...

This week we’re asking: is it socially acceptable to lick the froth of a cappuccino from a takeaway coffee cup or lid!? And if you do…is it better to lick it with your tongue…or stick your finger into the cup and suck the froth off your finger?

Plus! We check in with how we’re going breaking our phone addictions.

And! Steph is reading a book about an intense female friendship and it’s bringing up a lot of memories so we wanted talk about it.

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This episode includes mentions of miscarriage.

As a second-time mum, there’s a lot that Steph has figured out. But a second child also introduces a whole bunch of new worries & anxieties into the mix too.

In this episode, Steph sits down with friend Nicole Maycroft to share about how anxiety & worry shows up in their lives and how they handle it. Plus - how they’ve both navigated going from one to two, moving house (and state) during pregnancy, and trying again after loss.

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One of us is starting to have sex again and one of us isn’t interested. This week we share what our sex lives look like right now for Steph (11 weeks postpartum) and Laura (7 months pregnant).

Plus we speak with our wonderful community member Jess about her running journey

Dementia is the leading cause of death in Australia. Over 433,300 Australians are living with dementia and an estimated 1.7 million people are involved in caring for someone with dementia. Dementia doesn’t discriminate. This year around 29,000 Australians are estimated to be living with younger-onset dementia, including people in their 30s, 40s and 50s. 

Tully Smyth lost her mum to younger-onset dementia in 2019 and now Tully is an ambassador for Dementia Australia. 

In this very important episode, we speak with Tully about her mum. Tully shares about her memories with her mum before her diagnosis, the small thin...

This week Steph checks in about her ADHD, including what she’s struggling with at home, and seeing a psychiatrist about medication.

Then - we discuss a recent journal article that “strongly discouraged” using the AMH test to predict a woman’s fertility. Laura shares about her experience getting an AHM test herself, and we look back at a conversation Laura had for the Do I Want Kids miniseries, where she spoke with Dr Karin Hammarberg, a Senior Research Fellow in the Monash University School of Public Health, about the notion that women’s fertility falls off a cliff at...

Madeleine Edwards is a skincare creator, beauty therapist and first-time mum to baby Carmine. 

In this week’s KICBUMP, Madeline sits down with Steph to talk through her pregnancy, birth story and the complications that resulted from her episiotomy.

Maddie also shares about how her relationship to her body has changed due to the post-birth complications she experienced and how pregnancy, birth & having a baby girl is shifting her body image.

Plus! Living at home with her mum, three sisters, partner and baby under one roof and why it’s the best thing for t...

Serena Williams is the latest ambassador for Ro - a telehealth company that sells GLP1 medications - and we need to talk about it.

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This is the hype dad TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@hypegirlbree/video/7542062348291296519?_r=1&_t=ZS-8zBNJVpDc5I

This is the video from Alex Light that we played https://www.instagram.com/p/DNv_vZE2Iw3/

And this is the second video from Alex Light we mentioned https://www.instagram.com/p/DN3WFkW2E2G/

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Savannah is back on the podcast!!! We had Savannah on the KICPOD for the first time in 2023 when we were in London and you guys LOVED it so we HAD to have her back on the podcast when she was in Australia to run the Sydney Marathon.

In this episode, Savannah sits down to Laura to catch up on her running streak, how she’s prepping for the Sydney Marathon, her non-nuclear family, why she moved out of her house with her partner, and the impact of weight loss medication use on her body image.

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This week we share your tips for what has ACTUALLY helped you get off your phone! A few weeks ago Steph shared that she’s been spending too much time on her phone, and we asked for your tips to try and break our phone addictions. This week we share all of your tips and commit to doing one thing for three weeks.

We’ll check back in on Monday September 22 to see how we’re going!

Then - we got such a huge response from our segment about hysteria we had to talk about it aga...

Happy Saturday!

When we were in London in 2023 we had the privilege of sitting down with Savannah Sachdev. You might know Savannah for her impressive 1500+ day run streak!

You guys loved this episode the first time around so we decided to put it at the top of your feeds before we have Savannah back on the podcast on Wednesday.

In this conversation with Savannah we talk about sex, growing up in a conservative family, social anxiety, and her running streak.

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A few months ago we asked for your pregnancy questions for an episode with Laura & Dalton, and we got soooo many questions that we had to do a second episode. This time, with Steph!

You asked: how are you feeling about work? Have you experienced “pregnancy brain”? Do you have a birth plan? Have you & Dalton been having sex!? And lots more…

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This week we answer one of your DMs about navigating your body changing during pregnancy. Sending love to anyone currently navigating this too

We know we need it…but how many of us are actually getting enough sleep? Turns out - not a lot! This week Laura speaks with sleep expert Elina Winell about the fundamentals of good sleep - how much of each stage we need, if we can really “catch up” on sleep, what’s worth putting into your sleep routine and what’s not, and the importance of calming our nervous system throughout the day and not just before bed. 

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Steph’s been on her phone more than she’d like but she has a plan to try and quit it!

But we want to know from you - what have you done that’s actually worked!? Tell us on Instagram @kicpod.

Plus! One of our team members had her AirPods turn up somewhere she wasn’t expecting, which inspired us to ask you…what’s your wild AirPods story?

And! Laura finally got fitted for a new maternity bra 🙌

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It’s KICBUMP fave - Dr Billy Garvey! Billy is back this week to talk about our favourite topic…sleep. This time it’s a little different as Steph & Billy are both in the newborn phase with babies Billie and Heidi.

In this episode, Billy and Steph both share what sleep is looking like in their homes right now, the things they’re proud of, and the things they’re less proud of, how Billy transitioned his two older kids to share a room, parental preference, and lots more.

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This week Laura shares about the different ways that manosphere influencers have been attempting to discredit and diminish her online and the very long history of calling women “crazy”. 

And! What’s the wildest thing that’s happened to you in a job interview? We saw a TikTok comment from someone saying something not quite right in a job interview…which made us wonder if you guys had any stories of your own. And you did! 

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Brooke Boney is a proud Gamilaroi woman, journalist, presenter, and author. Last year Brooke resigned from her job hosting The Today Show to pursue a Master’s degree at Oxford University. This year Brooke published her first book ‘All of It: Notes on public life, private joy and everything in between’.

Laura speaks with Brooke about all of it - hard work, family, proving herself, relevance, why she left The Today Show, fertility, and more.

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One of the most common questions we get in the KICPOD DMs on Instagram is about weddings, so when we saw this article about the increasing costs of attending a wedding, we knew we had to talk about it. Plus we discuss how you can navigate when things are outside of your budget.

Then Steph tests Laura’s knowledge of iconic Aussie TV shows and ads. How many did you guess!? Let us know on Instagram.

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The wedding article from The Knot https://www.theknot.com/content/wedding-guest-cost

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When Jamila was 31 she was diagnosed with craniopharyngioma - a rare brain tumour that would see Jamila undergo surgeries, radiation, scans, hospital stays and everything in between.

Jamila has written about her experience of it all in the book ‘Broken Brains’ - which she co-authored with writer & podcaster Rosie Waterland who writes about her experience of trauma brought on by a childhood of abuse and neglect.

In this episode, Laura & Jamila discuss the surprising similarities between Jamila and Rosie’s broken brains, and how society treats physical illness very differently to mental illness. Jamila shares about...

This week we read an article from The Cut about 8 women’s first orgasms and we LOVED it so we wanted to share it. Plus Steph shares the story of the first time she achieved a Big O.

Then - Laura accidentally spent too much on a peach which inspired us to ask you - when have you gotten to the checkout and realised something was more expensive than you were expecting? And did you buy it or put it back!?

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The orgasms article from The Cut https://www.thecut.com/ar...

Steph is back!! For her first KICBUMP episode back, Steph answers your questions about postpartum life: going from one to two, postpartum rage, the age gap between Harvey & Billie, sleep deprivation, prolapse, and more!

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Steph shared her birth story with Billie in the episode 'Welcome baby Billie! Steph’s birth story'. You can listen here https://pod.fo/e/2eb71c 

Steph shared the story of introducing Harvey to Billie in the episode 'Welcome back Steph!'. You can listen here 

Steph mentioned Tiny Hearts and their tips that you...

If your feeds are anything like ours, you’ve probably also noticed more #skinnytok and #diettok content recently. This week we unpack both, what’s so problematic about this type of content, and some red flags you can be wary of when you’re scrolling.

Then we take a look at two content creators and the highly problematic content they publish.

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The Butterfly Foundation is available for anyone concerned about eating disorders or body image issues. You can contact them via their free phone line on 1800 33 4673 between 8am – midnight (AEST), 7 days a week.<...

Rechelle Coombes was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes when she was 12. In her teens and early 20’s, Rechelle developed diabulimia (an eating disorder where diabetics restrict themselves of insulin) which landed her in hospital many times. As Rechelle got her diagnosis under control, Rechelle learned her kidneys were failing, which now means she is on the waiting list for a simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant.

In this episode we speak with Rechelle about the differences between Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes, the misconceptions and stigma surrounding both, everything that led up to the point of Rechelle needing an organ transplant, and ho...

This week Steph updates us on how things have been going for the past 5 weeks since she gave birth to baby Billie, plus how it went introducing Harvey to Billie for the first time, and what’s going on with their house renovations.

Then we speak about the men who have been charged with allegedly sexually abusing infants and children at childcare centres in Melbourne, and our fears for how this will affect women returning to work. 

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Sylvia Jeffreys speaking on The Today Show about childcare https://www.instagram.com/p/DLm...

The temperature has dropped, the days are getting shorter, and everything feels a bit harder than it should right now. We’re in the depths of winter in Australia right now and so for this special Friday episode, Laura shares ten things she does to try and stay healthy during the colder months.

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This week Dalton is back on the podcast to answer all of your pregnancy questions! 

You asked: what are you most excited for? Are you scared to see Laura go through labour? Do you know the gender? How have Bill & Ben reacted? And more!

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Zara McDonald is the co-founder of Shameless Media and co-host of Shameless podcast. We know you guys love Shameless as much as us, so we hope you love this chat with Zara as much as we do!

In this special episode, Laura & Zara share their top three business lessons they’ve picked up from running Shameless Media and Kic.

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Zara co-hosts the podcast Shameless. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/shameless/id1352875216 

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Milly Bannister is the Founder of Gen-Z mental health charity ALLKND. We spoke about Milly on a Monday catch up episode a few months ago when she went to Canberra for the Budget lock-up and so we were honoured when she joined us on the podcast

This week our special guest co-host is the Founder and CEO of Cheek Media, Hannah Ferguson! 

Laura caught up with Hannah to talk about the word “influencer”, how the mainstream media reacted when Hannah attended the Budget lockup earlier this year, the state of the Liberal Party, Hannah’s run for the NSW Senate, the comments that hit the hardest, and more!

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Zoe Marshall is an proof of the power of manifestation. Zoe was at rock bottom after an abusive relationship and the death of her mum when she turned to manifesting. Now, Zoe has put everything she’s learned into her book ‘Ariise: Manifest the life you deserve’ about the tools and techniques of manifestation. 

In this episode we speak with Zoe about writing about the hardest points of her life, and the difficult conversations she had to have with her loved ones about it. Then we discuss all things manifesting - why Zoe prefers to call it “co-creati...

It’s a very special episode this week as Steph shares her birth story with baby Billie! Steph catches us up on everything that’s been going on since she went on mat leave in early May - the end of the third trimester and early labour symptoms before finally going into hospital and delivering Billie in late May. Plus, Steph shares about the scary aftermath of Billie’s birth compared to Harvey’s.

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Dr Emily Musgrove is a clinical psychologist and the resident psychologist on one of our favourite podcasts - The Imperfects. Dr Em has just published her first book ‘Unstuck’ and we were so excited to have her in studio to talk about it!

Laura sits down with Dr Em to speak through what it means to be unstuck, avoidance, the inner critic, self-compassion, why treating ourselves with self-compassion doesn’t mean we’re being lazy, rumination and people pleasing.

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In case you missed it - Laura and Dalton are having a baby!! For this very special episode we got Steph (and baby Billie) into the studio for Steph to ask Laura all the questions we knew you’d be dying to know - how far along are you? Were you trying? How did you find out? How is Dalton feeling? And more!! 

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