Well, we’re on a roll! With baby number two still keeping us waiting (any day now!), we’ve squeezed in another podcast, and this one goes everywhere (as usual haha). We start with the bump update and Carla’s wild nose job saga (two surgeries, a skin graft from her bum, and a two-year swelling situation no surgeon ever warned her about).
It turns into a real conversation about why we’ve normalised changing our faces, and how a society so obsessed with “fixing” bodies got this far from self-acceptance.
Then we dive into Off Campus, th show everyone’s talking about… and what it’s teaching us about emotionally intelligent men, healthy relationships, and supportive friendships. We get into men’s mental health, the pressure to “achieve” and s much more!
Heads up: we briefly touch on suicide and men’s mental health in this episode. Please skip or come back to it if you need to.
A few things we chat about:
- Plastic surgery is never “just” a procedure. Carla’s story is a real reminder that surgery is major, healing can take years and the before-and-afters never tell the whole story.
- Our bodies are meant to change… bloating, puffiness, swelling, all of it. Recognising it as completely normal (periods, pregnancy, travel, being human) is so good for us.
- Off Campus is displaying emotional intelligence, its leading men celebrate the women in their lives, hold space for feelings and show us what supportive, healthy relationships can actually look like.
- Men’s mental health matters… so many men were raised to bottle it all up, and creating safe spaces to feel and talk can literally save lives.
- Money won’t buy happiness (but we keep having to relearn it!)… chasing achievement and external validation is part of life… but real happiness and wellbeing comes from within (as long as you have the essentials).
Stuff we mentioned:
- Off Campus — the hockey-romance series on Prime Video, based on Elle Kennedy’s Off-Campus books (starting with The Deal)
- Coop on YouTube — the creator whose plastic surgery reaction videos kicked off the chat. He’s so funny! Probably the coolest and most decent Gen Z guys we’ve seen online. Admittedly we don’t follow many (haha).
- Emily in Paris — on Netflix
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas — our current Romantasy obsession (no spoilers… mostly haha)
- “Boys” — the upcoming book on raising boys we mention, will chat more about this soon.
- Episode 444 — Ozempic, Botox & binge eating
- Episode 443 — our Romantasy book recommendations
Before you go…
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Always merrymaking
Emma + Carla