The Weird Years

This week we're wrapping up Decision Season with maybe one of the most important questions so far... how do we know if life is actually going in the right direction?

We hear a lot about hitting goals, ticking boxes and the unavoidable list of everything we're supposedly meant to have achieved by 30, blah, blah, blah. But when we're deep in the decision-making stage of life, how do we know if the choices we're making are actually taking us where we want to go?

In this episode I get into...
✨ Why it's so hard to know if you're on the right track
✨ Why we often only know a decision was right in hindsight
✨ The invisible progress problem
✨ Why we need a new way to measure progress
✨ How to keep moving when you don't know exactly where you're going
This episode is for those of us feeling the heavy pressure to get life right. Trust me, I'm there with you- so let's talk it over.

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You've heard the term Soft Life, but what does it really mean when strip away the IG aesthetics?

In this episode, we're joined by the one and only Toni Tone - podcaster, bestselling author, and one of our generation's wisest women - as we dive deep into the philosophy of the soft life.

People may have hijacked the term to mean Pilates at 11 on a weekday, sugar baby culture, or kicking back and doing nothing, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

This powerful philosophy is about rejecting self-sacrifice in favour a life that puts your wellbeing at the centre... but how do you do that when, as women, we're constantly being asked to give more and more?

Toni takes us through:
✨ What a soft life actually is, and why it's so powerful
✨ Why soft living requires firm boundaries
✨ How this philosophy shows up in relationships, career, money, and more
✨ How to identify where we might be abandoning ourselves to meet other people's expectations

If you're tired of the hard graft but still want to pursue your own dreams, grab a notepad - you're going to want to lock in for this one.

Order Toni's new book, Soft Life: 10 Steps to a Gentle, Abundant and Easeful Life, HERE

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Toni - @t0nit0ne
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You've heard the term Soft Life, but what does it really mean when strip away the IG aesthetics?

In this episode, we're joined by the one and only Toni Tone - podcaster, bestselling author, and one of our generation's wisest women - as we dive deep into the philosophy of the soft life.

People may have hijacked the term to mean Pilates at 11 on a weekday, sugar baby culture, or kicking back and doing nothing, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

This powerful philosophy is about rejecting self-sacrifice in favour a life that puts your wellbeing at the centre... but how do you do that when, as women, we're constantly being asked to give more and more?

Toni takes us through:
✨ What a soft life actually is, and why it's so powerful
✨ Why soft living requires firm boundaries
✨ How this philosophy shows up in relationships, career, money, and more
✨ How to identify where we might be abandoning ourselves to meet other people's expectations

If you're tired of the hard graft but still want to pursue your own dreams, grab a notepad - you're going to want to lock in for this one.

Order Toni's new book, Soft Life: 10 Steps to a Gentle, Abundant and Easeful Life, HERE

Follow the show on your favourite platforms:
Toni - @t0nit0ne
Instagram - @theweirdyearspodcast
Tiktok - @theweirdyears

What if you’re actually not made for the 9–5?

If you sometimes sit at a desk for 9 hours straight and start to feel like your body wants to wiggle out of your skin, then girl, I have been there.

We were sold the dream of finding a career which is our purpose, climbing the ladder to the very top and smashing a few glass ceilings on our way. But more and more of us now, in our 30s, are looking around and thinking, wait... this kind of sucks?

In this episode, I’m joined by Rachel, who, with pure optimism and a refusal to keep slogging away at a life she didn’t want, quit her 9–5 to start her own one-person social media agency. She's just made the leap and is here to give us the hot take.

In this episode, we get into:
✨ That creeping feeling that the career you chose is not giving you the life you want
✨ How to mitigate the risk of the big quit
✨ What actually happens when you make the leap
✨ A realistic picture of quitting your 9–5 (not the shiny IG version)
✨ Things to consider before you sack in the day job

When I read that 66% of adults are considering starting a business/side hustle, it made me realise just how big the gap is between how we want to fill our working days vs what we’re actually doing. So let’s talk about it.

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What if the reason you're stuck isn't confusion, it's that the life you want feels socially unacceptable?

We all grew up with society handing us a script for what a "good life" should look like: the love story, the career, the milestones, the version of womanhood that makes sense to everyone else. But what happens when you look at that script and realise... I don't actually know if I want it? And who will I be if I don't?

When desire collides with identity, every decisions starts to feel huge.
This episode explores why what we took in as kinds, might have a lot to answer for in our thirties.

We're getting into:
✨ Why the real struggle is sometimes not knowing what you want, but admitting it ✨ Why some choices feel so morally loaded
✨ Why we judge ourselves so hard for our own desires
✨ How you can know what would make you happier and still struggle to let yourself want it
✨ Practical tips to shut down the noise of the scripts we're told to read

The pressure to choose is loud, and so many of us feel torn between the life that look good on paper and the life that feels right in our bodies. So let's talk it over.

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