WEBVTT - MID Has A Message For You

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to a MoMA mea podcast. Mamma Mere acknowledges

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<v Speaker 1>the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast

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<v Speaker 1>is recorded on Sex Money Sandwich. Do I sound unhinged? Good?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Holly Wainwright. Welcome to Season two of mid Conversations

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<v Speaker 1>for Gen X Women who are Anything. But maybe you've

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<v Speaker 1>listened to season one, and if not, why not? And

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<v Speaker 1>you've already heard me talking to some very interesting women

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<v Speaker 1>and one man about the mess and wonder of midlife.

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<v Speaker 1>We talked about bodies and booze and grief and dating.

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<v Speaker 1>Just go listen. Well, like women in their second acts,

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<v Speaker 1>we're just warming up, and in season two, coming to

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<v Speaker 1>your ears on August six, we're kicking it up aer Notch.

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<v Speaker 1>We asked midwomen what they wanted us to talk about,

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<v Speaker 1>and they told us, And so we're starting here with

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<v Speaker 1>sex Money Sandwich. That means what happens to desire as

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<v Speaker 1>you move into midlife, the blistering reality that, despite what

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<v Speaker 1>jen Z thinks, money worries don't just vanish because you're

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<v Speaker 1>a proper grown up. And yes, the reality of being

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<v Speaker 1>the Sandwich generation simultaneously shouldering the mental load for aging

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<v Speaker 1>family and growing kids. Mid women's lives do not all

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<v Speaker 1>look the same, and midlife for us doesn't look like

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<v Speaker 1>it looked for our mothers. We were and we are

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<v Speaker 1>a rule breaking generation. Some of us have empty nests,

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<v Speaker 1>some of us are parents still dealing with kids knits,

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<v Speaker 1>while some of us are grandparents now. Some of us

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<v Speaker 1>never wanted to or got to be, either of those things.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of us are leaning into changing our careers, leaving

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<v Speaker 1>bad relationships, leaping into great ones, working on the ones

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<v Speaker 1>we have, setting off to go all the places and

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<v Speaker 1>do all the things and taste all the everthings that

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<v Speaker 1>we've always fantasized about. Some of us are struggling, and

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<v Speaker 1>the women I'm talking to Season two reflect all of that.

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<v Speaker 1>From big names like the Australian supermodel who knows more

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<v Speaker 1>than most about making peace with a face that no

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<v Speaker 1>longer looks like it did at twenty to one of

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<v Speaker 1>Australia's most successful authors, to actors and TV anchors whose

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<v Speaker 1>names you definitely know, and some thoughtful writers and thinkers

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<v Speaker 1>whose names will be a new but whose words will

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<v Speaker 1>stay with you. We're talking divorce and rage and invisibility

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<v Speaker 1>and ambition and friendship and all the things the conversations

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<v Speaker 1>are mid are like the conversations you're having with your

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<v Speaker 1>gen X friends. It's the only kind of conversations we

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<v Speaker 1>have time for now. The powerful ones, the funny ones,

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<v Speaker 1>the helpful ones, the honest ones. Mid Season two is

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<v Speaker 1>dropping wherever you listen to your podcasts on Tuesday, August six.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you're busy, but go follow us. I'll be

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<v Speaker 1>waiting there for you, friends. And as they're saying in

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<v Speaker 1>America right now, l FG, that's Leed's fucking goa