One LA morning, Linda lounges on her couch and welcomes Comedian & Voice Artist Blair Socci (Bob’s Burgers, Aqua Teen Forever) to talk about finding her voice in her life and work. They talk about body image, how weirdly lopsided dating is for her, and how she has realised the balance of masculine & feminine drives of career demands and wanting a family.

Find Blair’s special 'Live from the Big Dogs' on VEEPS and follow her on IG @blairsocci or www.blairsocci.com

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Have you ever felt stereotyped? Before she stops off to buy snacks, Linda catches up with award-winning podcaster Sequoia Holmes (Black People Love Paramore) to dive into a long running theme through Sequoia’s life; being introverted and encountering stereotypes around her blackness and womanhood. The two chat about how important it is to shed these pigeonholed perspectives, and the dangers of privilege and feeling tokenised.

Sequoia recounts times in her school life and past relationships when these stereotypes as a woman of colour have shown up and how she almost wrote the best teenage self help guide. 

Find Sequoia on IG @sequoiabholmes and @bplppod 

And listen to Black People Love Paramore, a podcast about random, underrepresented interests of different niches of Black people, where you find your podcasts!

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While shopping at a flea market, Linda gets distracted by some big questions and heads home to seek out some advice from one of NYC’s most sought after relationship therapists, Vienna Pharaon (The Origins of You, This Keeps Happening). Vienna outlines the five origin wounds that you may be affected by, and discusses why it is so important to understand your family upbringing. How do these dynamics affect us in our relationships today? Why do these patterns repeat and how do we approach conflict in healthy ways? 

Find Vienna on IG @mindfulmft, and grab her best-selling book "The Origins Of You" or listen to her podcast "This Keeps Happening" 

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Linda’s friends and family are starting to feel even more far away. As we live increasingly global lives, Linda is wondering, how do we maintain these homegrown relationships while setting down roots elsewhere? 

Linda spends an afternoon with illustrator and podcast host Sophie Ansari (Podcrushed & @scribbledbysophie) and hears about her life living overseas away from her close knit family. 

You also hear about how Sophie’s birth experience solidified her identity and compelled her to step up from her people pleasing ways. They chat about Sophie’s approach to motherhood, how her husband and her share the parenting load, and how both women are suckers for nostalgia. 

Search up Sophie's podcast Podcrushed with her co hosts Penn Badgley & Nava Kavelin, plus follow her on IG @scribbledbysophie 

Join Linda on her hilarious and real journey towards self-reflection and growth. Season 3 will continue to see Linda grapple with every essence of change and control with an extended season of weekly episodes of returning characters and a new cast of exciting guests: comedians Blair Socci (Aqua Teen Forever), DeAnne Smith (Netflix’s Gender Agenda), best-selling author & therapist Vienna Pharaon (The Origins of You), and more to be revealed.

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On a leafy street in Sydney, Linda arrives at the home of Aussie TV Icon Osher Gunsberg (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, The Masked Singer). They have a candid conversation about the darker times in his life: dealing with depression, addiction, OCD and suicidal ideation all while maintaining a smiling public profile on television. 

Osher reveals the Tough Love lessons that he’s had to learn in order to keep up his long term sobriety, and how his relationships have saved his life.

Together they ask: How do you manage catastrophising & dark thoughts? What are our jobs as parents?

Find Osher’s podcast Better Than Yesterday, plus his memoir Back After The Break and find him on IG @osher_gunsberg 

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What do we really know about our parents' lives and the decisions they make? Comedian, actor and writer Andrea Jin was often left wondering where her strong emotions came from, and in her 20s, she discovered a deep family secret that made sense of it all. 

Linda meets Andrea in downtown LA where Andrea intimately shares her unconventional life story, and the two women bond over Asian families (and relationships with critical mothers), career aspirations, sexuality and how important it is to know your origin story.

Join Linda on her hilarious and real journey towards self-reflection and growth. Season 3 will continue to see Linda grapple with every essence of change and control with an extended season of weekly episodes of returning characters and a new cast of exciting guests: comedians Blair Socci (Aqua Teen Forever), DeAnne Smith (Netflix’s Gender Agenda), best-selling author & therapist Vienna Pharaon (The Origins of You), and some of the most integral personalities of pop cultural fabric, Sophie Ansari (Podcrushed), Osher Günsburg (The Bachelor), and more to be revealed.

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Linda’s been thinking about the F-word again. Fertility. 

It can be confronting to plan ahead when it comes to your own fertility but in recent years, women have more access and awareness with TTC AKA ‘trying to conceive’. Today, Linda pays a visit to her fertility specialist who helped freeze her eggs and the two discuss how much the process improves mental health and strengthens relationships, and in Linda’s case, helps take the stress out of TTC.

And did Linda defrost her eggs for this pregnancy? You’ll hear all that and more with Dr. Jenny Cook; Gynaecologist, Fertility Specialist and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon with over 25 years in the industry.

Further listening: Everything I Learned About Egg Freezing https://link.chtbl.com/cEE704Rl

Further reading: 

Victorian Government Health Information - https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/ConditionsAndTreatments/Egg-freezing

IVF Australia - https://www.ivf.com.au/treatments/fertility-preservation/egg-freezing

VARTA - https://www.varta.org.au/

US Fertility - https://www.usfertility.com/

UK https://www.hfea.gov.uk/

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We’re taking a lil break this week to chomp on a NY pizza slice, but wanted to share what’s been happening in our Tough Love members-only community! 

If you sign up, you’ll get the weekly episodes, ad-free, and before anyone else! Plus my newsletter and members only episodes! Like the one I’ve just shared, titled BONUS EPISODE: How To Win Your Life. 

How To Win Your Life is one of the most popular Tough Love episodes ever and my conversation with wellbeing expert Jono Nicholas (Reachout Australia, Wellbeing Outfit) was easily one of the most insightful chats packed with advice, answering some big questions:

How closely tied is what you DO to who you ARE? What actually feeds your self esteem and happiness? How do you create a healthy and sustainable work/life balance? How do you define success? Sign up as a member of our Tough Love world and get this episode immediately. 

And - have you got a Tough Love story to tell? I’d love you to be a part of our members only series Tough Love: Love Stories and share your experiences and challenges. So whether it’s long distance, career related, family relationships or another big Tough Love lesson you’ve been learning, hit me up at [email protected].

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Linda spends an afternoon with Emmy-nominated TV writer, comedian, podcaster and author Chelsea Devantez (The Problem with Jon Stewart, Girls5Eva, Not Dead Yet). They nestle on Chelsea’s couch to talk about the ugly side of relationships; from friendship breakups to Chelsea’s traumatic experience in her first relationship which lingered for decades afterwards. 

You’ll also hear about Chelsea’s history of overworking. Do you consider yourself a workaholic? And while a lot of us may be familiar with the “fight or flight” stress response, what about “fawning”? It’s a Tough Love lesson that is all too relatable!

Chelsea's memoir “I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going To Anyway)” is out June 4 via www.harpercollins.com/pages/chelseadevantez

Follow Chelsea on IG @chelseadevantez and catch her podcast Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast where you listen to podcasts!

If this episode has brought something up for you, please check out the following resources: 

If you’re in the US www.thehotline.org

If you’re in Australia www.1800respect.org.au

If you’re in the UK www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk

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Linda is back in Los Angeles and heads straight to the best food court in Koreatown with LA based fashion stylist Chloe Badawy to talk about finding confidence and living unapologetically. They dig into the complex mental load of motherhood, plus Chloe gives you the hottest tips for nailing your personal style and the key to longevity in her relationship.  

Find Chloe on IG here @CLOHEYYY and see more of her stylist work via her website chloebadawy.work

Join Linda on her hilarious and real journey towards self-reflection and growth. Season 3 will continue to see Linda grapple with every essence of change and control with an extended season of weekly episodes of returning characters and a new cast of exciting guests: comedians Blair Socci (Aqua Teen Forever), DeAnne Smith (Netflix’s Gender Agenda), best-selling author Charlotte Ree (Heartbake: A Bittersweet Memoir), and some of the most integral personalities of pop cultural fabric, Chelsea Devantez (The Problem with Jon Stewart, Girls5eva, Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast), Osher Günsburg (The Bachelor), and more to be revealed.
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Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand. Pandora's hand-finished jewellery crafted from high-quality materials offers endless possibilities for personalisation empowering people to express their personal style through its pieces. Starting as a small jewellery shop in Copenhagen, Denmark more than 40 years ago, today Pandora is present in over 100 countries. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and is sourcing recycled silver and gold for all of its jewellery, just as the company has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Learn more au.pandora.net  

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Magnus and Linda head back to Australia to visit family before the baby pops out in a few months. It’s Mother’s Day so Linda’s mum, Janet, reminisces about becoming a mum and then Linda seeks out a best friend to talk about her experience of new motherhood, how parenting changes your relationship, and especially those first few challenging weeks of life with a newborn. 

Join Linda on her hilarious and real journey towards self-reflection and growth. Season 3 will continue to see Linda grapple with every essence of change and control with an extended season of weekly episodes of returning characters and a new cast of exciting guests: comedians Blair Socci (Aqua Teen Forever), DeAnne Smith (Netflix’s Gender Agenda), best-selling author Charlotte Ree (Heartbake: A Bittersweet Memoir), and some of the most integral personalities of pop cultural fabric, Chelsea Devantez (The Problem with Jon Stewart, Girls5eva, Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast), Osher Günsburg (The Bachelor), and more to be revealed. 

This episode is proudly presented by Pandora au.pandora.net  

About Pandora:

Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand. Pandora's hand-finished jewellery crafted from high-quality materials offers endless possibilities for personalisation empowering people to express their personal style through its pieces. Starting as a small jewellery shop in Copenhagen, Denmark more than 40 years ago, today Pandora is present in over 100 countries. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and is sourcing recycled silver and gold for all of its jewellery, just as the company has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Learn more au.pandora.net  

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