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🗓️ 29 July 2024
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0:00.0 | What about your identity? Like, how's that shaped and changed? Because you've had these |
0:14.9 | amazing, you've had a huge career shift. You do something completely different than what you were |
0:19.6 | doing before. |
0:21.9 | And you've had these three children. |
0:24.4 | How does that all intersect? Tell us about that. |
0:34.7 | So, I mean, I think I'm fairly typical, I like to think, of, I think most people at a certain point in their life who've maybe had a few children. And I do think it a hundred percent normal to feel like you've lost your |
0:39.8 | identity. |
0:40.8 | 100 percent. |
0:41.8 | And you know, and it's something that we battle with, isn't it? |
0:43.8 | It's almost like this internal struggle that we have. |
0:47.1 | But I actually think that for such a short amount of time that actually you can be in this kind of baby bubble or toddler bubble |
0:56.8 | when it's really, really hard. I think, do you know what? Right. We're meant to almost. You know, |
1:01.6 | we can't, we can't still be craving to be 20 again. It's not practical. It's not realistic. |
1:08.3 | You know, we can't all just be out slot dropping in the clubs, can we? Well, we've got... you know what, it's fine. This is where I'm meant to be in this particular moment and time. |
1:33.7 | And so I think, you know, especially with Nate, I did that. I went, right, I've got a new baby. |
1:40.7 | I'm just going to be a bit of a hot mess for a while. And that's fine. I'll get back to being, |
1:46.2 | you know, the old me when I'm ready to get back to the old me. But in this moment, |
1:50.3 | in time, I'm going to sit here in the leggings. I'm going to eat what I want. I'm not going to exercise. I didn't exercise until I was about eight, nine months postpartum. I've got no interest |
1:56.1 | in bouncing back. I'm air quoting. I hate that phrase so much. |
2:01.5 | Exactly. |
2:02.6 | It's awful, isn't it? |
2:04.0 | Because also postpartum and also for the foreseeable once you've had kids, if you bounce, |
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