ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Real women. Real talk. Real life is messy as hell.
We’re everyday women having honest conversations about the uncomfortable, complicated, heartbreaking, and downright messy parts of life—the things we sometimes hide in our effort to look like we have it all figured out.
We’re not experts, and we’re not here to give you advice or tell you how to fix your life. We’re just here to talk about it—the good, the bad, and the gloriously messy—and remind each other that maybe we don’t have to have it all figured out.
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
40 minutes
English
United States
9 episodes
since Aug. 16, 2026
episodic
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In Part 2 of our conversation about family, we shift from the families that made us to the families we’re making now.
We talk about the pieces of our childhoods that we’ve chosen to carry forward, the things we’re intentionally doing differently, and the boundaries we’ve had to set with family memb…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In Part 1 of our conversation about family, we're looking back at the homes we grew up in, the roles we fell into, and the dynamics we once thought were completely normal—because they were our normal.
We talk about the things our families gave us that we want to keep, the things we're int…
Sometimes life gets so full that even the simplest things start to feel impossible.
This week, life got in the way. We didn’t have the time, energy, or bandwidth to pull together a full-length episode—so instead of pushing ourselves past the breaking point, we decided to take our own advice and piv…
In this episode, we’re talking about what it means to be the default parent — the person everyone somehow finds when they need a snack, a Band-Aid, help finding the thing that is directly in front of them, an answer to a question, emotional support, or apparently anything else at any hour of the da…
Nobody really prepares you for perimenopause.
One day you're going about your life and the next you're wondering why you can't sleep, why you keep blanking on words mid sentence, and why all of a sudden just looking at your partner makes you feel annoyed.
We talk through our persona…
We all have them—the parenting choices we probably wouldn’t brag about at school pickup.
In this episode, we’re talking about our questionable parenting decisions—the shortcuts, compromises, bribes, and survival tactics that might earn us a little side-eye from someone on the outside.
Because paren…
In this episode, we’re talking about what it means to be the strong one—the nurturer, the problem-solver, the person everyone runs to when they’re hurting, overwhelmed, or just need someone to make things feel okay.
But what happens when you’re the one who isn’t okay?
We talk about the invisible we…
How do you balance work, family, relationships, friendships, kids, responsibilities—and somehow still find time to take care of yourself?
In this episode, we talk about the balancing act so many women know all too well: trying to keep all the plates spinning while wondering how everyone else is man…
Welcome to Messy as Hell—where real women have real conversations about the beautiful, complicated, and often messy parts of life.
In our first episode, we introduce ourselves, share our very first Messy Moments, and dive into a conversation about those times when someone asks, “How are you?” and t…
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