Have you been wondering how homeschooling works? How some mums juggle homeschooling and working? What do the days looks like, how to fit it in with life? If so, then this episode is a must. Rhi had it all in the world of career - a business she built from the ground up, she was thriving financially and climbing all the ladders. But one day, after many work trips and time away from her family, she found herself soul searching. Is this really the life she wanted? Did this fit in with her values? The answer came fast and clear - Rhi gave up her financially secure business and decided to focus on her family instead. She responded to her child's school refusal by deciding, on a whim, she would try homeschooling. Now, two years later, she is still homeschooling her son who is now happy, thriving and no longer has worries and stresses about going to school. She is building a new business that allows her to use her passion of creativity and still be around for her family, as well as fulfilling their familie's financial requirements. 

What do you do when your birth plan is not even close to the reality, when your dreams of motherhood are replaced by a terrifying truth and your world feels like it is flipped upside down? When everything you thought you knew is challenged or quite literally thrown out the window? This was Szendi's introduction to motherhood, as if the usual things like learning how to take care of a brand new, teeny tiny baby are not enough! Ten years later, Szendi recounts this experience with awe inspiring grace and calm. She tells us how she survived, when she knew she had to challenge people in authority for the benefit of her child and when sometimes the hardest decisions can be the most life changing. Szendi's story of inspiring, heart-wrenching and real. But please take caution as Szendi shared her story from the heart - it is raw and may be triggering. 

Our first episode of 2026 was captured on camera for the first time. We launched our website, and a YouTube channel for listeners to have another platform to access our conversations. In this episode we debriefed on our Christmas for 2025 - the highs, lows, how to handle a busy mum juggle when life throws curveballs and how to we stayed calm through the Christmas chaos. Most excitingly, we dove into 2026 and the plans we have in store for our little snippet of the Podcasting world. 

On our final episode for 2025 we chat with the very knowledgeable and insightful Nina Visic, a Mindful Parenting Coach at Mindful Parenting Lifestyle. Nina works passionately helping parents and children build emotional strength, empathy, confidence and a positive outlook. If you're curious to learn more about mindful parenting and mindful living, in a busy-mum-friendly way, then tune in as we asked Nina the hard questions and learned how to incorporate this helpful technique into our days with minimal time and effort. 

Rolling into the end of the year has been real for the Careers & Cartwheels crew - from job changes to navigating the homeschool grind. We chat real mum-juggle and the feeling of burnout as we count down to the end of the work and school year. 

In Part 2 of our discussion with the very knowledgable Alex - endorsed and registered midwife in Australia, who has supported countless women through pregnancy and birth - both in hospital and at home. We are proud to bring you this conversation as our way of shining light on the deeply transformative experiences of birth and motherhood, and the gross need to educate women so they can feel empowered to make their own informed choices in this profound chapter of life. 

Our powerful converstaion with registerd and endorsed midwife, Alex, has is available in 2 episodes. Alex is a passionate advocate for choice and does not hold back in sharing the raw truth in her midwifery experience in Australia. Alex brings to our attention what the healthcare system is doing so wrong and how it is not supporting the best interests of pregnant women through their journey into motherhood. A truly insightful conversation, and a must listen for all mums who want to feel empowered to make their own choices. 

Amanda is a mum of teens, personal trainer, wellness coach and business owner who seems to be doing it all in her "mum juggle". Amanda opens up about her personal life, how her mum juggle has changed over the years and what she has learned along the way. Professionally, Amanda shares an honest and holistic view of physical health and exercise, and how this is entwined with our mental and emotional health as mums and women. She is also kind enough to answer some common questions from the world of fitness. 

In this raw conversation, we chat about how relationships change after having children. We also explore the 7 stages of marriage, how parenting shifts the dynamic between partners, and share some honest reflections, personal stories, and little tips and tricks we've picked up along the way to help keep the relationship alive - even when life gets chaotic. 

Today we welcomed Dr. Synta from Euneek You Health to talk about Women's Health through all the seasons of womanhood. Dr. Synta has a background in Chinese Medicine, is a Naturopath and a mother herself who shares some must hear insights about how we can better care for ourselves depending on our stage of life. Some of her tips and insights are surprising, definitely not commonly shared by General Practitioners, however they are supported through years of tried and tested practice in the world of Naturopathy (and passed down through generations!). 

In an honest and raw conversation on the daily life of motherhood, we open up about the challenges we face based on the path of motherhood we chose. Pam opens up about PMDD, and how it has impacted her life, as well as the life of her children, husband and family. 

Today's mum juggle is around "back to school" - from the perspectives of a working mum with multiple school drop-off's and a homeschooling mum with no drop-off's but an endless to-do list navigating different ages, stages and grade levels. 

Mum guilt - a real phenomenon that psycholgy classifies as so profound in a mother's life that it has been deemed it's own sub-type of guilt. We chat about the different ways we experience mum guilt - how our path through motherhood affects what we feel guilty about, as well as what we have in common, regardless of how we do motherhood. Finally, we bring in some interesting information from the literature, so if you like a bit of "research" talk, then this chat will satisfy those curiosities. 

On our second episode of Careers & Cartwheels, and our first topic, we chat about Post-Partum Identity Loss. We both experienced this sense of loss and confusion, and as we navigated the changes and challenges we each chose a different pathway on which to go through motherhood. We chat about personal and family values, and how they dictated the decisions we made once we became mums, and the idea of "bouncing forward" rather than looking back. 

In Careers and Cartwheel's PREMIERE episode, Pam and Zana dive into their journey's through motherhood and the way they decided to do the "mum juggle". Surprisingly, the juggles are polar opposites - from corporate career climbing mum of 5 navigating school drop-offs, lunch preps, a blended family and trying to find time for the much needed "me time" through it all to a homeschooling mum who completed uni, started the career climb, then married her highschool sweetheart and gave up the career for days at home with her busy boy crew. Both are busy, both are relevant, both are in line with each set of values. We introduce ourselves and shine light on our differences so we can emphasise the reason for Careers & Cartwheels - to build empathy and understanding between all mums so we can respect each other's chosen pathways through the mum journey.