Ready or Not

DEAR READY OR NOT: What do you do when you're made redundant on maternity leave? Should you feel guilty taking a second round of parental leave when you're still relatively new in the job? And is it time to walk away from a high-paying job that's boring?
—
Got a question? Submit it here!
—
Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review.
You can also find us on Instagram:
@readyornot.pod
@laurentreweek_
@lucindamckimm_
—
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurong people of the Kulin Nation. The land on which we're lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We Pay The Rent and you can too here.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When I noticed a new follower notification pop up just a few months ago, with some 300 followers and the Instagram handle @youwanted.this, I was intrigued by the name. Immediately, I had a pretty good idea of what the content might look like, and I was right: its creator - Ashley Brooks-Garrett – was clearly passionate about exploring feminism, life, and work through the lens of motherhood and womanhood.
In the short time since I first started noticing her content, she’s built a much bigger following: an audience made up of people who are either enraged or in full support of the topics she explores so thoughtfully and thoroughly, through social media, Substack, and her mental load app, Tether, too.
So today, we find out more about the mother and the brains behind it all: what her career life has looked like, what her motherhood journey has entailed so far, what drove her to the work she’s doing now, and why a woman that calls it how it is, is immediately branded as negative, complaining, and as you’ll hear from Ashley herself, far worse, too.
This conversation set a fire within my brain, as we talk about so many of the issues that mothers and women face today, so I hope you like listening as much as I did.
I’m Lucinda, this is Ready or Not, and here’s the clever and candid Ashley Brooks-Garrett.
—
Got a question? Submit it here!
—
Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review.
You can also find us on Instagram:
@readyornot.pod
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to the show! Coming up today: Does society have a weird sense of ownership over mothers? And if so, where does it stem from? What’s it connected to? And what does beauty, sex, and money have to do with it?
Got a question? Submit it here!
—
Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review, it supports the show more than you think.
You can also find us on Instagram:
@readyornot.pod
@laurentreweek_
@lucindamckimm_

—
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurong people of the Kulin Nation. The land on which we're lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We Pay The Rent and you can too here.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DEAR READY OR NOT: What do you do when your child will only eat beige food? How to manage being a working mum without a village and should I have a third baby at 40?
—
Got a question? Submit it here!
—
Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review.

You can also find us on Instagram:

@readyornot.pod
@laurentreweek_
@lucindamckimm_

—
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurong people of the Kulin Nation. The land on which we're lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We Pay The Rent and you can too here
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to the show! Coming up today:
What you're really saying when you call your mum friend boring: We came across this brilliant Substack by Jennie is Writing and we had to talk about it.
Got a question? Submit it here!
—
Thanks for listening! If you liked the show, please tell your friends, subscribe or write a review.
You can also find us on Instagram:
@readyornot.pod
@laurentreweek_
@lucindamckimm_

—
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurong people of the Kulin Nation. The land on which we're lucky enough to raise our sons and daughters always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We Pay The Rent and you can too here.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.