Comin' in hot with some solid recommendations from Gabs that are countered by some conversation about the ways that motherhood is depicted. We also share some of the things that you told us make you feel like a grown ass adult. Hard relating. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Gabby is in a self-enforced shopping and sugar embargo so today she tortures herself by talking about things we would like to spend our money on! We also discuss body dysmorphia during your cycle, the Quiet on Set Documentary and the personality of Dakota Johnson. Enjoy! As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Mel shares another embarrassing work-related story. We talk about if making Easter baskets for your kids is mostly an American phenomena. A listener let us in on planning their very low key wedding. Thanks for tuning in for another episode of cozy listening!

Today's episode is a catch up. We're talking Mel's visit to London, the John Mayer experience, Gabby's annoyances over the random crap that accumulates around her house, Spring intentions and some new ideas for our Patreon crew! As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And as always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Grab your tissues, the second part of our friendship breakup stories had us tearing up big time! In this episode we hear more from you guys about the messy, complex world of friendship. Huge love to all who sent us their stories - we are so grateful for you. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And as always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

We're back with an episode where we get to hear from you - our favourite! We asked you to tell us your stories of friendships lost or broken - something that we have all experienced the pain of but don't really talk about as much. Thank you to everyone who shared with us, it means a lot that you'd trust us with your stories. We had so many responses so we're making this a two parter. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And as always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

In this episode, we're helping a listener make a dreamy wedding soundtrack, talking about highs and lows from the week (Gabby is now a non-consenting gym model) and Mel still has a freaking cough. Boooo. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have INCLUDING our latest call in episode about friendship breakups and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And as always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Catch up with us this week as we talk about the full gamut of life lately; from needing the approval of women to annoying nail techs to patronising church signs, we are sounding off a bit! Enjoy! As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have INCLUDING our latest call in episode about friendship breakups and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And as always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

This week we are discussing our former cringe #girlboss ambitions, why we cannot recommend spicy books, Gabby's witchy tincture era and the resurgence of Mel's Paul Mescal crush. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have INCLUDING our latest call in episode about friendship breakups and we will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And as always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Honest to God, this episode is delirium. Neither of us were in good states of minds to have any business recording a podcast, but nevertheless, we ended up talking about noisy cars, listeners having questions about getting over exes and we had a ridiculous discussion about nuts. I'm sorry or you're welcome. I'm not sure how this will go for you. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And as always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

You are in for a TREAT this week. Not only are we discussing the true markers of mid-life, we're also discussing couples who share a social media profile, clickbait titles of our fav movies and we have a guest cameo from none other than Mel's mother in law, Iris - who took her opportunity to give a bible lesson and share her elder wisdom. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And finally, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Back behind the mic this week discussing what we got up to during the break, the beauty of the Dan Levy movie 'Good Grief' (Mel sings the wrong song in a reference to the movie which she is agonising about now), things we want to do more of in 2024 and some winter skincare product reccos. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And finally, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

It's the MAE Live Episode! Just in time for everyone to be out of holiday/festive mode - we have our live Christmas Special! This was SUCH a fun night - I hope you can sense the energy that was fizzing through the room in this recording. We loved getting to sit down and chat with so many of you. Expect fun stories, unpopular opinions, and a little Gabby and Mel Q&A. As always, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and will offer our best advice & thoughts in future episodes. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! And finally, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

This week Gabby brings some of her unfounded, unexplainable gripes and Mel tries to counter them with some unexplainable lovely things. We read a listener letter and get hyped about our live event coming up! Please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and will offer our best advice & thoughts. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! As finally, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Ok, this episode is pure chaos. Gabby is stalking her neighbours. Mel tells a mortifying NSFW story. There's aging dilemmas, bitching about period drama's and a little gossip at the end. We packed in a lot. Anyway, please feel free to get in touch with us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and will offer our best advice & thoughts. Reach us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! As finally, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

You guys, we are having our first ever LIVE RECORDING! It's our Christmas special, if you will, and you are invited! This episode we worry if anyone will actually come and it turns out between recording and releasing this episode - many of you are - YAY! There are a teeny handful of tickets left if you haven't got yours already! Here's the link: https://www.makinganeffortpodcast.com/store/p/christmas-special Also, please do keep writing to us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have and will offer our best advice & thoughts. Get in touch on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! As finally, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5/£4 a month you'll get access to our monthly Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Hello and welcome back for more nonsense chatter with Gabby and Mel! This week we are lamenting how dark it is so early and coming up with foolproof ways for Gabs to keep her three little ones entertained in NI over the longest darkest days in December. We're also getting stuck into a listener food dilemma that is super niche but super fun to troubleshoot! YOU are invited to write to us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have about how to use ingredients or about life issues in general and will offer our best advice & thoughts. So get in touch with us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

Welcome! In this weeks episode we're recapping Gabby's trip to Dollywood, got into it about a cooking dilemma involving mushrooms. There was a lot of other nonsense thrown in there too. YOU are invited to write to us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have about how to use ingredients or about life issues in general and will offer our best advice & thoughts. So get in touch with us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

The episode name sounds worse than it is, but this week we're off on one about which TV shows were sexy sexy in their day. We also dive into your foodie dilemmas so keep em coming! YOU are invited to write to us about any life or food dilemmas, issues or questions you have about how to use ingredients or about life issues in general and will offer our best advice & thoughts. So get in touch with us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast

It's a 40th Birthday recap extravaganza with a side of your mispronounced words kinda episode! So many fun stories - we love hearing from you! So... We wanna hear more about your food dilemmas and your real life dilemmas! YOU are invited to write to us about any dilemmas, issues or questions you have about how to use ingredients or about life issues in general and will offer our best advice & thoughts. So get in touch with us on hello@makinganeffortpodcast.com! As always, you'd be so welcome to support the podcast by joining our Patreon! For just £$5 a month you'll get access to our Making An Effort Magazine stacked with all our favourite things we're buying, eating, reading and watching each month and get invited to join us for our MAE Patreon only live recordings and cocktail hours. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/makinganeffortpodcast