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Chapter 1: How has Laura's anxiety changed since having Atlas?
I am not the anxiety. The anxiety is separate to me. It is a separate character and it is something that I'm dealing with. Hi. How are you today?
I am good. That's good.
How are you? Why are you good? I don't know.
Chapter 2: What reflections does Laura share from attending Michelle Obama's talk?
Do you know what, guys? We just had, no, I had a laugh about this off mic. I'm sorry. It's okay. I'm sorry. But I was just laughing about an episode we did recently on our hot takes. And the best thing about having a podcast, so there was a hot take that came up that someone said that voice notes suck. Now, if you want to listen to that episode, we'll link it in the show notes.
We shed our thoughts. But Steffi made a comment that any long voice notes she listens to on Fast Forward. And we had footage. This is the best thing about recording, everything we say and do, is that about four weeks ago, Steffi... Not long at all. ...had a, not a go at me, but Steffi was like, I would never listen to a... It wasn't a serious go. No, it was a joke. It was a joke.
Chapter 3: How does Laura separate her identity from her anxiety?
Oh.
Queen efficiency.
But Steph said we don't, everything doesn't have to be efficient. Like we don't need to listen to voice notes on Passport. And then, alas, a few weeks later, we caught Steph out. Not that we try to do that here. Also, it is just a reminder that it is okay to change our minds. And if we do, it doesn't matter.
I don't think I changed my mind. I just.
Defense queen is back, guys.
Guys. I've come a long way with my defense. At least I'm laughing.
Okay.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Laura face postpartum as a new mother?
My goodness me. I think it was more that I was a sometimes fast forwarder and my point was more to have a go at you and less focused on myself. But then when I was really asked the question, I'm just like you. And that's okay.
I love it. That makes me happy. No, we can be different, but love when we're the same. Also, just it is okay to change our minds.
It is okay. It's also okay.
And I love that because honestly, I reckon five years ago, if I said anything on mic, like not even when I say controversial, like we're not really that controversial, but you know what I mean. If I said like, I don't like wholemeal bread. And then like three months later, I decided that I tried it. Oh, I like it again.
I like wouldn't eat wholemeal bread in public in case someone thought I was a liar.
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Chapter 5: How does Laura compare her parenting journey to others?
Yeah. You are a bit like that. We've come a long way. We've come a long way. You know, or I have maybe in my style. Anyway. Anyway. Okay. Now I've got, I've really, I've got some things for the intro. I love this. Is that okay?
Nah.
Ah, what shall we do?
Put them in the bin.
Perfect.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Laura gain from discussing motherhood with her co-host?
Cool. Steph's in a cheeky mood. Perfect. What a day. What a fun day. Okay. So number one, we're going to start with the most serious one. Okay.
Wow.
Okay. I just wanted to... Beautiful. Well done.
Are your eyes okay? Yeah. My cheeks are hurting.
Chapter 7: How does Laura plan to address her mental health and seek help?
So I just feel like they need to be up.
We're both in a silly mode. But now I'm serious. Okay. So I just wanted to come on and have an honest, give an honest update, honest, just checking on how I'm feeling. Okay.
because I'm very conscious that if you follow me on social media, and I also know and I understand why this is because I've done the same thing, but a lot of people that are at the same stage postpartum talk to me a lot in my DMs as I talk to them back because it's like we're in the same regression, same stages of the baby's life, et cetera.
Solidarity is like everything in early, I mean, honestly, in motherhood in general. Exactly. Yeah.
And I've spoken a lot about how much I have loved, and I do love motherhood so very much. And the first three months of Atlas's life was just so special. So, I mean, it's all been very special, but that newborn phase, I really loved. I loved so much more than I thought that I would. Also, it depends on your baby.
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Chapter 8: What lessons does Laura learn from Michelle Obama's experiences?
Like he was a really chill newborn.
Everyone likes different phases more. Exactly. It's not even your choice really. Like some people are just life happens or mental or emotionally more available to soak it in at different points. Exactly.
And I think because I loved the first part so much and I've spoken so much about that. As he has gotten older, where now he's now almost six months old, which is wild, I have started to struggle a little bit. And I feel like I have been maybe pushing it to the side because I keep telling myself like... Number one, I feel like the more months you get postpartum, the less grace you give yourself.
And I'm finding myself starting to be like mean to myself in a way of being like, like this morning as an example, I slept in because we were up quite a bit last night. And I woke up and I was like, oh my God, why didn't you get up earlier? Like today my mum was there. Like I could have got more work done, like et cetera, et cetera.
Which like in the first three months, I would never have done that to myself. I would have just accepted that and be like, that's fine. Like keep sleeping, you know?
Yeah.
So that's one thing. And then the second thing, so giving myself less grace because I feel like you start to go back into more normal-ish life, like not, of course, like not completely back to normal yet. Everyone's different. But you then forget that you are still like quite early on
but I think because I'm not like fresh postpartum, I feel like I have to get it all right and I have to be productive and all those things. So that's one thing. And then the second thing is my anxiety is getting really bad. And I, it's interesting that the first three months again, like I definitely had it sometimes, but it wasn't,
super it wasn't like really bad at all I for context for anyone that maybe is a new listen to the podcast or also like I haven't spoken a lot about my anxiety for a long time I haven't had it for a long time so maybe if you've listened in the past maybe three years I wouldn't have spoken about it much because it's something that kind of went away which I was very grateful for
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