The irony of this week’s topic isn’t wasted on anyone, trust us. Between Helli spending just 4 days of October in the country and Charlotte being knee-deep in everything wedding (yes, she knows this is at risk of becoming her entire personality), we have not been slowing down. After a couple of recommendations and catching up on life lately, we’re discussing why sometimes slowing down is the best way to actually achieve your goals faster and in a more efficient way.

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Rail Journeys From Above on Channel 4 (truly the best mindless watching)

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Helli is back from Scotland and Charlotte has officially given notice! We have a chat about True Crime and whether the genre as a form of entertainment has crossed a line into excessive depictions of abuse and violence to serve a fascination with the perverse, rather than as a deterrent for behaviour like this.

This week we’re chatting about the topic of urgency culture, we are so used to having everything we need at our fingertips from Amazon Prime delivery to Uber Eats and multiple streaming services to choose from – has this given us unrealistic expectations of ourselves and others? We’ve normalised expecting instant results so how does this impact our mental health and skills like patience and resilience. We’ve grown up glamourising productivity, girlbossing, multitasking, click to tidy videos and Sunday resets that happen in 20 seconds – the reality is that this takes hours. Urgency Culture has become normal culture but it creates a perceived pressure that is unsustainable, unrealistic and can ultimately lead to burnout.

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The Menendez Brothers documentary

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Rivals on Disney+

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Anyone else still totally obsessed with Adam Brody? We’re guilty as charged! This week we’re getting into why actually, *everybody* wants “Nobody Wants This”, the book everyone needs to read this autumn and why we all need to lean into trusting our gut feelings a bit more. Why are we so bad at trusting our guts? Is it because we’re women and we’re told it’s silly? Is it because we’re always looking for solid evidence before we make a decision? We’re not sure, but what we do know is over the past few years we’ve found ourselves saying “I should have just trusted my gut” more and more, and we can’t be the only ones.

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Nobody Wants This on Netflix

The Grand Tour Zimbabwe on Amazon Prime

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

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We’re very much a work-in-progress when it comes to stopping people pleasing, but that’s why we want to talk about it. People pleasing can manifest itself in so many ways from always saying “yes” to constantly apologising to compromising our boundaries or offering to do something or taking the fall for something to keep the peace. Is it because we as women were rewarded for people pleasing tendencies early in our career? But it’s not sustainable, it creates resentment and how do you even know if it’s worth it? How do we break the habit of people pleasing?

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare on Amazon Prime

Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods on BBC iPlayer

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

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