The Mother Daze with Sarah Wright Olsen & Teresa Palmer

This week on The Mother Daze, we’re chatting all things toddler WILDNESS! Running away for solo adventures in the wilderness, diving off patios, chucking rocks in mouths, falling, tripping, slipping, sliding, donking and generally causing absolute MAYHEM! Just the basic insanity of having a one-year-old in an already chaotic household full of kids. Funnnn guys funnnn, insanely cute but send help!

Things take a rather serious left turn as one of the girls shares a recent, terrifying brush with death. A confronting experience that brought with it a massive shake up and a powerful reminder of just how fragile and precious life really is. How one split second distraction in this case actually saved her.

Tez fills us in on the new dreamy home, the excitement, the overwhelm and the seemingly IMPOSSIBLE task of moving house while juggling five kids, work and the million other things that keep life spinning!

Meanwhile, Sarah shares the absolute madness that unfolded when the boys were out of town recently and it’s was just her, their nanny Sonya and the three little girls. Let’s just say the shit REALLY hits the fan (or the face, in Sarah’s case!).

From near-death experiences to poo-covered disasters, we’re giggling our way through the glorious mess of motherhood. Because sometimes, if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry! As we always say Weeeeeeeeee

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Koala Eco Natural Bathroom Cleaner

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Kick Building, Byron Bay

Artipoppe Baby Carrier

Bugaboo x Stella McCartney Butterfly 2 Plus Pram

MooGoo

MooGoo Kids Moothpaste (Strawberries & Cream)

Koala Eco

Skylight Smart Family Calendar

They Run The Night Podcast

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

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More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This week on The Mother Daze, Tez talks shooting a movie alongside her boys! Whaaa?! The girls chat the magic of sharing the set together, watching our kids follow their passions and the incredible joy of seeing them step into who they’re becoming. Plus, the girls get into some WILD stage parent stories, competitive Pokémon folks, sideline sporting fanatics and the hilarious (and sometimes downright bonkers!) lengths some people go to in perhaps trying to live out their own dreams through their kids! Weeee

And in some very exciting news, Tez and her family have landed their dream Byron pad, complete with a wraparound porch, cows and climbing ivy! She chats about the dreaminess of finding a home in a place they love so much, the magic of planting roots and creating a space for their fam to thrive.

The girls also reflect on the collective upheaval of 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse. From the shit hitting the fan and friendship turmoil to unexpected life shake-ups and everything in between, it seems like the collective has been put through the wringer this year! And ya know what? Horses represent strength, resilience and courage and after all the twists and turns of this year, we’re FINALLY feeling the energy shift! Yahooo.

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They Run The Night Podcast

Apple Cider Vinegar (2025)

The Clearing (2023)

@starofthesea.polly

christinaprokos.com

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

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More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This week on The Mother Daze, Teresa is getting ready to return to God of War with a freshly dyed head of hair and a heaping dose of self-care! The girls chat new beauty finds, Teresa’s new at-home facial friend from Shark Beauty, and Sarah shares some of the trusty everyday serums she keeps coming back to.

We chat about how too much makeup can make us feel less like ourselves, and those glossy, retouched magazine shoots that look beautiful… but also have us wondering, “Wait, is that actually me?”

It’s also Sarah’s birthday!! 43 woop woop! She’s another year older and feeling pretty content with exactly where she is, craving more simple days with the people she loves. Her book tour is also wrapping up, which gets us talking about how weirdly uncomfortable it can feel to actually be proud of ourselves and give ourselves a little pat on the back.

We’ve also got some long-overdue Dazey member shout-outs (WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!), plus we unpack some of the shifts we’ve both been feeling lately. Is there something in the air?! Because it certainly feels like the universe is moving things around.

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Mountain Glow Serum Ursa Major

Bare Glow Baeo

Shark FacialPro Glow Shark Ninja

Green Slate Mineral Polish Ursa Major

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

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DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20

More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This week, Sarah’s book is officially OUT and she’s hitting the press tour! Weeeee! Tez talks licking back up on God of War and the separation anxiety that comes with the idea of saying goodbye to her older kids even just for a week.

Sarah shares a scary mom-fog moment that sent her into a shame spiral, and Tez shares her own similar story. We unpack the Motherload, how a simple break in routine can trip up an overloaded brain, and importantly, the preventative methods and systems we can all put in place to help keep our kids safe in cars, especially on hot days.

Plus, moving house, shooting movies, the craziness of this mothering season, travelling, book-launch madness and giving our friendships a whole lot of grace when life gets wildly busy. Because the best friendships are often the ones where nobody keeps score and everyone just gets it when we are in the trenches.

Resource Links:

Sarah's Book (Now Available):

Life Uncut Podcast

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

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DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20

More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This week on The Mother Daze, we’re joined by a repeat guest, our friend, Daniel Ahearn! Dan is the author of The Way Back Home, a father of two and an attachment-focused family therapist. Daniel’s work is all about helping parents and teens stay connected through the beautiful, messy and sometimes completely bewildering years of adolescence.

And you better believe we came armed with ALL our burning questions about raising teenagers!!!

At the heart of Daniel’s book is an attachment-based approach to parenting and one beautifully simple idea we LOVE: connection over correction. Sounds dreamy yasss… but HOW do we actually do that in the thick of teen life?!

We talk repairing after conflict, holding boundaries without blowing up the connection, natural consequences, and why sometimes we need to stop correcting for a hot sec and connect with what’s actually underneath the behaviour.

Then we get into alllll the things. How much is too much to share about our own (sometimes rather colourful ) pasts? How do we talk about drugs and alcohol without making it weird or terrifying? Mental health days, losing them to their peer group, loosening the reins (gulp!) and building the kind of relationship where, when the messy stuff happens, they actually WANT to come to us.

Resource Links:

The Way Back Home Daniel J. Ahearn

danieljahearnlmft.com

waybackhome.app

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/

DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20

More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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