Adulting

Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the twenty-first episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Leaving London.  I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the nineteenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Ageing. The submission read ‘Ageing and how scary it is to watch your body change.’ You all had a lot to say on this so let’s dive right in. I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the eighteenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… GOODNESS. The submission read ‘What’s GOOD in the world atm!!! What is making us happy!!!???’ What followed was tonnes of lovely positive messages and so that’s all this episode is really. I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!  Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the eighteenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… GOODNESS. The submission read ‘What’s GOOD in the world atm!!! What is making us happy!!!???’ What followed was tonnes of lovely positive messages and so that’s all this episode is really. I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the seventeenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Politics Now. The submission read ‘How politics is no longer just politics and is now just a social media circus. It terrifies me.’ This comes after Trump’s unprecedented re-election as President this week. I hope you enjoy, as always please do rate, review and follow the show!https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998https://www.economist.com/international/2024/03/13/why-the-growing-gulf-between-young-men-and-womenhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/literary-dilemmas-influencer-coaching-boys-vs-girls/id1719284496?i=1000676168561 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the sixteenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… insidious misogyny. The submission read ‘Don’t know how to phrase this properly but Saoirse Ronan on the Graham Norton show and the problem with even the ‘nice guys’ not getting it/how women are always on edge’. So, I have condensed that to 'insidious misogyny', which I hope works! This conversation is two-fold, both about what happened on that literal couch, and the parasocial relationships we have with celebrities which mean we can sometimes give tiny viral moments, way too much airtime, and secondly. what this represents more broadly, at a time when gendered and sexual violence against women feels to be at an all-time high. I hope you enjoy, as always, please do rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the fifthteenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… motherhood. The submission read ‘women sharing the realities of having kids on social media is putting me off having them’. This chat has been a long time coming. The topic of parenthood is something I grapple with, and I wrote a piece about it for my Substack, too, a few months ago, called Maybe, Baby, which I will link in the show notes. I have a lot of thoughts on this, and you did, too! I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!https://oenonef.substack.com/p/maybe-baby Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the fourteenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Jealousy. The submission read ‘being jealous of others and how to overcome it’ I actually really loved this topic, because we all feel jealous from time to time but it’s such a shameful and somewhat embarrassing feeling that maybe we don’t always talk about it, so I felt it was nice to hold space to share these emotions and realise just how common they are. I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the thirteenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… overconsumption. The submission read Romanticizing Overconsumption on Social Media. This is a topic that has come up time and time again and I am really glad that we’re finally getting into it! I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the twelfth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Feeling Stuck. The submission read Feeling Stuck/ Directionless. Ok first, we all need a wellness check I think, I have also been feeling similarly to so many of you but reading these submissions did make me feel a bit sad but also comforted and I hope by the end of this episode we can all come away with a renewed sense of clarity and hopefulness.  I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the eleventh episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Politics in friendships. Can you be really close friends with someone and have wildly different beliefs. This came up after Taylor Swift was pictured hugging trump supporter, Brittany Mahomes during the U S open. We will come on to this a bit later on in the discussion  I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the tenth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Hobbies. The submission read: Do people actually have hobbies? Seems running is the current fad but how many enjoy? I hope you enjoy :) as always, please do rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the ninth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… The Covid Hangover! The submission read – The Covid Hangover – people being less sociable and not making the effort to go out. I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the eighth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Blake Lively. The submission read: Blake Lively/ women being piled on / cancelled on the internet. Whilst this conversation was initially about the two camps of support for either Justin Baldoni or Blake Lively, after the press fallout from the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s mega sell out It Ends With Us, it was also about the way famous women are built up only to be torn down. Anne Hathaway, J Lo, Cara Delevingne, Jennifer Lawrence just to name a few, have over the past decade, fallen in and out of favour for sometimes indefinable reasons. I had so many messages on this, perhaps this shows we are more interrogative of what content we are being fed, and how easy it is to be manipulated by media, as opposed to instances in the past when everyone turned against Keira Knightley or Julia Roberts and everyone kinda just accepted that they loved to hate with little introspection as to why. Article from The Cut - https://www.thecut.com/article/domestic-abuse-survivors-react-it-ends-with-us-drama.html I hope you enjoy  as always, please do rate, review and subscribe!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the seventh episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Summer. The submission read: The feeling of a well-lived summer being underwhelming each year, and feeling disappointed. I was actually quite surprised that this one beat babies, they were tying for a long while, but I personally really understood the sentiment of this submission. I read this to mean, that we put so much store in summer, there is so much lore around the season, it’s the fun sexy season where nothing is off limits and the nights are long and the possibilities are endless, but perhaps as we get older, the nostalgia for that freedom we associate with summer is stronger than the truth of it, so we’re left wanting and bereft. I really enjoyed recording this episode... I hope you enjoy it, too! As always, please do rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the sixth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… Dating. The submission read: What’s going on in the collective psyche of single ppl, why dating is so hard atm? Wow, firstly I have never had SO many dms on any subject. Where to start… well I guess the first thing to say is 99.9% of the messages were from women, and women are my main demographic, but also all of the submissions were about heterosexual relationships… more than happy to talk about queer love in another episode, it just didn’t come up this time. I had so much to say on this topic, I hope you enjoy :) as always, please do rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the fifth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… far right attacks. The submission read: Far Right Attacks, where do we go from here? I am recording this on Thursday afternoon the day after lots of racist, Islamophobic, fascist riots were planned, but in a bittersweet turn of events we saw anti-fascist and anti-racist counter protestors turn up in their thousands and basically block the areas that were said to be targeted. It made me feel very proud of our city and Bristol and Brighton, Newcastle, Nottingham and all of the other places that showed solidarity, however perhaps we, as that silent majority, need to be less silent, show up more, and do more in general to make sure everyone in the UK feels safe and welcome.Again, I wanted to put a trigger warning here to say that there will be messages about racism and the ongoing rise in fascism and if that is too upsetting or distressing then please do switch off now.As we know three little girls Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were murdered at a Taylor Swift themed party, and fuelled by disinformation about the murderer, this horrific tragedy was seized upon by the racists and fascists to bring violence and rioting to Southport, targeting mosques and minority groups, this has now spiralled into fear for so many with the rise of far right and islamophic propaganda spreading like wildfire especially on social media. For this conversation we focussed on the feeling and general environment in the wake of these events as well as talking about where it has come from and what we can do. This is an extremely sensitive subject but I do believe it’s important we talk about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the fourth episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About… social media addiction. The submission read: Social media addiction. I def have it and hate this habit now that I’m a mom, SOS how to deal? Podcast episode mentioned: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000657387961Please do rate, review and subscribe, it helps others to find the podcast O x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to Adulting, and the third episode of Let’s Talk About… a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic, and every Wednesday we dig deep. Let’s Talk About…parent mortality. The submission read: parents mortality… my dad is terminally unwell and I am only 28. Before we begin I just wanted to give you a trigger/content warning. I received so many messages about parental loss, grief, being a carer, dealing with terminal illness, and so if any of those subjects are too close to home or may be too upsetting this episode might not be for you. Although despite the very difficult subject matter, so many of you expressed how much of a relief it is to actually talk about grief and loss in a culture that has a strange and fractured relationship with death. So many of us don’t really know what to say or how to talk about it, which is why I was so grateful that so many of you were so generous with your own experiences.Please do let me know any feedback and always, I'd love for you to rate, review & subscribe, it helps people to find the podcast,O Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back for the second episode of Let’s Talk About, a conversation between me and you, about whatever we’re dying to discuss that week.  The idea is, I guess, a broadening of Adulting... where that was about all of the things we never got taught in school, this is almost like seminars on life; where my audience (that's you!), get to chat anonymously about things they couldn't necessarily discuss over lunch with their friends, or feel like they don't have anyone to talk to about whatever it may be.  To get involved, follow me on Instagram @oenone, where every Tuesday we vote on a topic and every Wednesday we dig deep.Let’s Talk About… Skinny being back with the rise in Ozempic use, and feeling the pressure to be thinner.My Substack mentioned in the episode, https://open.substack.com/pub/oenonef/p/on-desire-beauty-and-ozempic?r=1ucxow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to this new season of Adulting, where we will be discussing a different topic each week. Let's Talk About... is a feature I host on my Instagram, which I absolutely adore, so I thought I would try out developing it further by adding an audio element.This is the first episode and so things may change from here on out; please do send me your thoughts and feedback I would love to hear from you.As mentioned in the episode, here is the link to my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/oenonef/p/the-wriggliest-path?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webI hope you enjoy,Oenone Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.