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Chapter 1: What traditional owners are acknowledged at the start of the podcast?
Kickpod acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the land in which we're recording this podcast, the Yulukit Wulan clan of the Boomerong, who are a part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to our elders, past and present, and extend our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
Welcome to the Kickpod, a DNM with your besties on the stuff that matters.
One, two, three, four, five.
Good morning. Good morning. How are you? No, more importantly, how are you and your washing machine?
Guys, I, do you know what? I've got a lesson here this morning for everyone today. Don't complain on the internet.
No!
Don't complain on the internet. I'm joking. Why would you stop complaining on the internet? I'm joking. What is the internet for if thou cannot complain?
I just found it so funny watching your stories this morning because like just the way that some people responded to you complaining that you had crystals in your washing machine, which by the way, from washing a nappy, by the way, Which is so annoying and just like something I can totally relate to like not wanting to deal with.
But the fact that they didn't give you place to vent about that was just so ridiculous.
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Chapter 2: How does Laura feel about her identity shift after stepping down as CEO?
Some of my followers like to hold me to account and sometimes I need that and that's great. But yes, yesterday, okay, first lesson. I've got a couple of lessons here for everyone today. Number one, being efficient. I got up yesterday, six o'clock. I had a load of washing on by 6.15am. Well done.
killing the day well done but then I literally killed the day yeah because then I went to put it at like 6 45 in the dryer and I saw that I was like what the heck because I've never washed a nappy before accidentally yeah also didn't even think that I would have picked the nappy up with it can I just say why was the nappy in the washing not to blame Not to blame. It was Dalton, wasn't it?
Not to take it.
You're putting Dalton. You're going to throw him under the bus. Not that I'm not taking accountability because it was a team effort. Yeah. I did pick it all up. Yeah. But Dalton, we have a bin upstairs for nappies. We haven't started using a proper nappy bin yet because Atlas still has, he only has milk. So he doesn't, it just smells like custard.
Chapter 3: What lessons does Laura share about parenting challenges?
So we just put it in the bin upstairs in the bathroom. Like, no, we don't even have a bin bag. Oh my God. We wrap them up. It's fine. Anyway. So usually I'm the one, you get the nappy, you change the nappy, you put it in the bin. Dalton throws it across the corner of the room onto the wash pile. Why? Because lazy.
He throws nappies onto the wash pile.
Yes.
And what?
Why? Because then he knows he'll pick them up. I don't know why. It's like he doesn't want to put it on the floor. Okay, so he must have done that. In case it gets on the floorboards, he puts it on the clothes.
And then one of you threw like your towel or something on top of it and didn't think.
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Chapter 4: How are Steph's renovations progressing and what challenges have they faced?
Yeah. And then you just put the washing in there. Yeah, okay.
That is silly. And then I just picked it all up. Reckless. Put it straight. I agree. Very silly. So there was a team contribution to this. But I should have known. I should have known because he does do that often. But anyway. So I open the washing machine. I'm like, what the heck are these? Because I didn't, I've never thought about the insides of it. Yeah, like what it must be to absorb it all.
I haven't spent. I haven't, it's never crossed my mind. Fair.
Chapter 5: What emotional reflections do Laura and Steph have about Mother's Day?
I've never thought, wow, it absorbs a lot. I wonder how. Don't, it's something I don't care about. I just, I'm glad that it works. Yeah. Anyway, so I opened it and I was like, what the heck has gone through the washing machine? First of all, I thought, because Dalton always puts, he has dry lips and he uses like Dermalip or something. It's like this blue.
Oh, like maybe it was a lip balm or something.
Honestly, I reckon we have got 55, you know how like gals open their purses and they've got like a hundred lip balms in there? That's Dalton. Dalton has like 48 of these around the house. They are good though, those ones. So I'm like, oh my God, did he have like three in his pocket and it squirted through and then it crystallized? No.
Anyway, because essentially it looked like, it was just one nappy, but it looked like three tennis balls of gel that had been chopped up into really small pieces in the washing machine. Anyway, I was like, this is, this is not a problem for me to conquer today.
It's a later problem.
I thought maybe in a couple of hours and then the day got away from me and then it was 9pm and I asked AI what I should do and honestly, it wasn't helpful. Also, I asked you guys on my Instagram what I should do.
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Chapter 6: How has becoming a mother changed Laura's perspective on her own parents?
Most people said throw out the washing machine. Also unhelpful. Also unhelpful. You can't do that. Yeah. And then a lot of people said just keep running it through like until it goes away. And our plumbing is so bad. Like we have had plumbers to our house more than anyone needs to, to drain our pipes. Yeah. So not an option. Yeah. Anyway, but yes, I did last night.
Open it and think, you know, when you just want to call your mum. Yeah. I was like, in this moment, I am not an adult. I feel like a child. I'm 18 again. Even though I have a child. My first holiday by myself. I can't adult today.
Chapter 7: What advice would Laura give to her past self before becoming a mother?
I need to just not do it. So I closed it and I did it in the morning. And it was so funny because people genuinely wrote to me. It only, and I can't, sorry, I can't not do this voice. No, it needs to.
That's the best kind of voice.
It's only a 10 minute thing. Just do it now. Like just this. And I was like, guys, sometimes you don't need to be, you just need to say to me, Laura, I get it. Sometimes I just, you know, that's my favorite thing that I always say. I deserve it. Yeah, exactly.
But also, like, you were speaking, like, laughing at yourself, like, this is ridiculous. It's not like you went on, bawling your eyes out. Oh, my life is so hard because of that. Like, okay, if you come on and you're acting like that over putting a nappy in the washing machine, you would have deserved comments like that.
No, what's the deal? I've always said to Steph, if one of us ever goes rogue, I have a deal with quite a few of our friends about this. You take my phone and you don't give it back to me for a while.
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Chapter 8: How do Laura and Steph navigate the complexities of motherhood?
Yeah, yeah. But what I'm getting at is like you should be allowed to like just make fun of yourself and complain or vent about something like that. And again, it's not like you were doing it super dramatically and seriously and people need that. to just let that be. And if they want, like, honestly, I just can't like people that are like, Oh, this is just complete. Oh, I just can't.
I just, I just can't say, I see every time those comes through those, those type of passages come through as a blessing. Do you know why? Why? Because then I get to screenshot it or I always cut the name out. I always cut the name out. Because I just don't need to send. Actually, I didn't cut it out for the guy that compared my nipples to his penis. Chain so big. Chain so big. Thank you, Linz.
Chain so big. I did not cut it out for chain so big. No. But I will always cut it out. Even if it's just like a DM that I'm, because last night I screenshotted that, sent it to my mother's group and we all had a laugh about it. It's funny. And so I was like, thank you for giving me this laugh before bed. True.
Speaking of mother's group. Laws, it's your first Mother's Day coming up. Obviously by the time this comes out it would have been yesterday. How do you feel about that? Do you feel weird going into a Mother's Day that's like obviously you're still going to be about your mum? It's actually quite nice. There's a question coming up because we're doing a Q&A today, guys.
Thank you for sending them in. And there's a question about our relationship with our parents since becoming them ourselves. Is it weird going into a Mother's Day where like it's also going to be about you?
So it is very weird. Yeah. I'm very excited. Yeah. And Dalton's kind of, from my observations of him recently, is treating it like it's my birthday. Good. And I think that's... That's lovely. So cool. Now I have two birthdays a year. Perfect. As I should. As you should. The other birthday, actually, there should be three. International Women's Day. Another one. Yes. Another one. Perfect.
Every day should be. No, but it is... It's funny. I... Yeah, it's, I mean, really, what I'm really looking forward to is spending, my mum is going to come over. I'm very lucky to still have my grandma in my life as well and with us. And so mum is going to bring grandma over and that'll be so special to have the four generations together. So I feel very lucky to have them.
Oh, I'm so excited for you.
And this is your first Mother's Day with two kids, plural. Yes.
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