Following Monday’s chat about hobbies, this episode dives into how to stay motivated to actually do them — especially when life is busy, tiring, cold or just a bit… January.

Katie and Katy explore:
Gardening and allotments — the joy of planting bulbs, watching things grow and losing yourself for half an hour
Creative urges — floristry, drawing and the pleasure of doing things simply for enjoyment
Travel and planning — discovering that even researching holidays counts as a hobby
Exercise habits — from marathons to walking to work, and how building routines makes movement feel automatic
What truly motivates us — avoiding boredom, loving fun and fresh air, and knowing how good you’ll feel afterwards

They also tackle the mindset side:
✨ Making habits easy (set your clothes out, don’t miss twice)
✨ Remembering the feeling after doing something
✨ Starting small — 15 minutes can change your day
✨ Pull vs push goals: choosing things you want to do, not things you feel you should do

With humour, honesty and a touch of self-realisation (“turns out we DO have lots of hobbies!”), the episode reminds midlife women that hobbies don’t need to be worthy or productive — they just need to make you feel good.

A warm, relatable nudge to stop overthinking, start small and find joy in whatever sparks your interest.

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This week the conversation begins with January blues, endless colds, annoying neighbours and parental house moves — classic midlife chaos — before landing on the real topic: hobbies.

Katy and Katie chat honestly about how easy it is to lose hobbies in your 40s and 50s when work, family, health, hormones and life admin creep into every spare minute. They admit hobbies often feel like “one more thing to do”, but also explore how grounding they can be when life feels heavy.

From gardening to reading, crafting and podcasting itself, they reflect on how small pleasures and creative outlets can boost mood, identity and confidence — especially for women navigating perimenopause, medical appointments and the general slog of winter.

There’s also a diversion into authenticity and why not everything has to be monetised or Instagram-perfect — sometimes a hobby is just for joy.

A warm and relatable reminder that hobbies don’t have to be big, productive or impressive — they just have to make you feel more you.

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This week’s Crisis Talks goes FULL Room 101 — social media edition.
We rant (lovingly) about phones glued to faces, airplane etiquette that should be illegal, and why scrolling comment sections may actually shorten your life.

Expect:
📱 kids walking into walls because iPads are life
✈️ strangers playing games with NO HEADPHONES
🚂 people watching movies on trains like they own the carriage
🧠 doomscrolling, politics, and arguing with bots
💥 Andrew Tate, Tommy Robinson, Farage — straight into the bin
💬 the world’s worst social media sayings: “louder for the people at the back!” and “not all hero's wear capes”
✍️ apostrophe rage and grammar crimes that haunt the soul

We wrap on a high with wholesome follows: Celeste Barber, Big Fat Greek Mama, Bob Mortimer’s Train Guy, the Turtle Hospital, Sun Bear Sanctuary & more.
Proof the internet hasn’t fully rotted our brains… yet.

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