Spoiler alert: in Kelly’s world, the answer is ‘Yes’. A neat freak from way back (like waaaaay back), Kelly doesn’t care that messiness is …
Straight and Curly Ep 59: Tracking diet and exercise
Carly is a committed tracker when it comes to diet and exercise. I actually hate tracking for two reasons: I hate the idea of trackers …
Straight and Curly Ep 58: Having difficult conversations
Difficult conversations. For the conflict-averse (like me) – they can be terrifying. But they’re also a necessary part of life, and essential for good …
Straight and Curly Ep 57: The comparison game
Comparison is the thief of joy; we all know this. Yet, we don’t seem to be able to stop measuring ourselves and our achievements …
Straight and Curly Ep 56: How to focus
Carly and I came to a very disturbing realisation recently. Despite being credited with being highly focused and disciplined people, we’re not. We’re both …
Straight and Curly Ep 55: Self-help – who should you listen to?
Jason Connell wrote a blog post entitled ‘Why I’ve lost faith in Tony Robbins (and most life coaches)’. The interesting thing about this is, …
Straight and Curly Ep 54: 50 shades of white noise
The things I will do to get my friends to listen to my podcast. Today’s episode was specially requested by them and pays homage …
Straight and Curly Ep 53: Our faves after a year of podcasting
Have we seriously been podcasting for a whole year? Neither Carly nor I are quite sure how that happened, but we’ve had the best …
Straight and Curly Ep 52: Not so New Year’s resolutions
Aaaaaand, we’re back! It’s our first episode for 2017 so we’re talking New Year’s resolutions. Or, rather, Not-So-New Year’s resolutions. In this episode Carly …
Straight and Curly Ep 51: How to not lose your mind this Christmas
‘Tis the season to be merry! And it’s also the time of year where things do tend to get on top of us all. …
Straight and Curly Ep 50: Ask us anything
We cannot believe it – episode 50 already! To celebrate the milestone we told the members of our Straight and Curly Facebook group they …
Straight and Curly Ep 49: Blogging
Carly and I have been blogging for 10 and six years respectively and it’s something that’s afforded us both a huge number of personal and …
Straight and Curly Ep 48: Adult friendships
The topic of adult friendships has been a much-discussed one in our Straight and Curly group on Facebook. Mia’s question neatly summed up most …
Straight and Curly Ep 47: Dealing with burnout
Carly and I polled the Straight and Curly Facebook group to find out what topic they wanted us to cover in this episode, and ‘dealing …
Straight and Curly Ep 46: Goal setting
If I was given to overthinking, I would be paranoid that I come across as a bit of a smug asshole at the start …
Straight and Curly Ep 45: Planning out your week
Vanessa from our Straight and Curly group on Facebook asked: I was wondering if you could do an ep on planning out your week? …
Straight and Curly Ep 44: Finding time for hobbies
Boy oh boy, Carly and I could have talked about hobbies all day. Turns out, we are very passionate about them! In this episode …
Straight and Curly Ep 43: Overthinking
Carly read an article on The Mighty linking certain elements of overthinking to high functioning anxiety and totally identified with it. I read the same …
Straight and Curly Ep 42: Beauty Hacks
One of the rad members in our Straight and Curly group on Facebook started a thread sharing the hacks she uses to shorten her daily …
Straight and Curly Ep 41: Introversion and Extroversion
The funniest thing about the Straight and Curly podcast is the fact that Carly and I thought we were really different people before we …
Straight and Curly Ep 40: How to feel more confident than you are
Carly and I are both naturally confident people. But that doesn’t mean we’ve not had that confidence dented at various stages of our lives. In this …