Two Raw Sisters

WARNING: This episode contains brief mentions of grooming and child sexual assault material. If you or someone you know needs help, a list of resources is available at the bottom of the description.
Today we have Jo Robertson on the podcast. Jo is a qualified sex therapist with a master's in medicine and nearly 20 years in sexual health, child development, and trauma. She came on to talk about one of the most urgent questions we hear from parents in our community: how do we protect our kids online?
This was one of our most eye-opening conversations. A 65% surge in under-age gaming since 2021, the insane increase in children creating sexual content of themselves (seven to ten year olds), how online grooming actually works and why the "not my kid" belief is a myth, and the four immediate things any parent can do right now.
Jo also shares her own experience raising three boys with strict screen rules, how she handles the "but all my friends have phones" conversation without backing down, and the exact age-by-age roadmap for talking to your kids about bodies, consent, porn, and the internet - including why eight is the right age to explain sex, and ten is the right age to talk about porn.
New episodes out every second Thursday.
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Where to get help:
• Lifeline: Call 0800 543 354 or text 4357 (HELP) (available 24/7)
• Suicide Crisis Helpline: Call 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO) (available 24/7)
• Youth services: (06) 3555 906
• Youthline: Call 0800 376 633 or text 234
• What’s Up: Call 0800 942 8787 (11am to 11pm) or webchat (11am to 10.30pm)
• Depression helpline: Call 0800 111 757 or text 4202 (available 24/7)
• Helpline: Need to talk? Call or text 1737
If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111
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When life gets full, food motivation slides fast and it's a slippery slope. One skipped breakfast becomes a 3pm crash becomes whatever's closest at dinner. We get it, because we're time poor too.
This week we're sharing exactly how we plan our weeks in just 15 minutes. Our Intelligently Lazy System keeps us fuelled, saves us money, and means we never have to stand in front of the fridge at 6pm with absolutely no idea what to make.
No aspirational 47-step meal plan here. Just a few achievable, smart decisions you only have to make once, so you stop making them every single day.
We're never going to get any less busy… so this might just be the push you needed.
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Download the Two Raw Sisters app on the Apple App Store here, or Google Play here.
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This one is such a good conversation. Amanda co-founded Wilson & Dorsett, Lisa came on as CEO, and these two are full of life and the spitting image of what we are like but in best friend form. We cover so much good stuff in this episode:
The frameworks they set up early to protect the friendship
What actually happens when they disagree
How two completely different working styles can complement each other
What flexibility really looks like inside a growing business
Burnout, sprinting, falling in a heap, and learning to be okay with that in business
Why comparison is a thief of joy, in business and in life
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Download the Two Raw Sisters app on the Apple App Store here, or Google Play here.
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Starting your baby on solids is one of those things that sounds straightforward until you actually do it and suddenly you're down a google rabbit hole at 11pm wondering if you've already done it wrong.
In this episode, we sit down with Gina Urlich, nutritionist, mum of four, and founder of Odi Nutrition, to cut through the noise and make the whole thing feel a lot more manageable. Gina brings the kind of grounded, real-talk advice you'd get from a friend who just happens to have a degree in nutritional medicine and four kids under her belt and she's done the solids journey with all of them.
We get into:
- The signs that your baby is actually ready (and why "being curious about your food" isn't one of them).
- The first foods worth focusing on.
- The nutrients that a six-month-old needs more of than a fully grown adult man.
- Introducing allergens.
- The difference between spoon feeding and baby-led weaning
- What a balanced lunchbox actually looks like in real life.
- Why the family dinner table might be the most underrated parenting tool going.
If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the pressure to get it all right, this one's for you. it's a lot simpler than the internet makes it look.
Find Odi Nutrition here: https://odinutrition.com
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Download the Two Raw Sisters app on the Apple App Store here, or Google Play here.
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Sophia Dawson is deep in her PhD researching the link between diet and OCD and what she's uncovering goes way beyond OCD. If you're someone who feels chronically wired, anxious, or just permanently on edge, this episode is going to make a lot of things click.
We get into why what's on your plate directly drives your stress response, why your blood sugar might be behind more of your anxiety than your actual life is, and why so many people are doing everything "right" and still struggling. ( the food system has a lot to answer for.)
This isn't about clean eating or cutting things out. It's about understanding what your body's actually been trying to tell you and why food is the first place to start, not the last.
Hear Margo on the WHOLEistic Psychology Podcast: Margo Flanagan of Two Raw Sisters: Chronic Illness, Identity, and How Food Became Part of Her Healing #10
Find Sophia here:
https://www.wholeisticpsychology.com/
@wholeisticpsychology
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