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Full Timers ClubDad's in the House - A Heart-to-Heart with Ellie's Biggest FanHey Full Timers, we've got something special for you this week. You know how Ellie's always talking about her dad? Well, we finally got him on the mic. Ross MacDiarmid, Ellie's personal cheerleader and voice of reason, sat down with her while visiting Singapore for a conversation that's both heartwarming and eye-opening.Ever wonder how much workplaces have really changed over the decades? Ross offers some fascinating perspectives on women's evolving roles in the professional world, calling it not just a revolution but a "necessary evolution" (gotta love dad wisdom).2025-06-2349 minFull Timers ClubFrom one generation to the next: A conversation between Bec and her mumWhen Bec’s mum was in town, we couldn’t help but think what a beautiful opportunity to sit down and have a chat with her - mother to daughter. From what it takes to keep the passion alive at 71 and 43 years into marriage, to reminiscing about her 18% mortgage repayments on her first flat, to the day your daughter tells you she's leaving for another country. Bec and Rhonda have a deep, poignant and heartfelt conversation that’s sure to make you want to call your mum, or better yet, wrap your babies up and never...2025-06-1453 minFull Timers ClubBuilding The Meat Club: Amy Bell on Business, Babies & Bold MovesThis week on the show, we're so excited to welcome Amy Bell - mum to two beautiful girls, wife to a wildly successful franchise owner, and a formidable entrepreneur in her own right. Amy is the founder of The Meat Club, Singapore’s first online meat trade business, and her journey is nothing short of remarkable.In this heartfelt and deeply honest conversation with Ellie, Amy shares how being made redundant while six months pregnant became a turning point that led her away from a legal career and into the world of startups. From la...2025-05-1342 minFull Timers ClubA 5 year fertility journey - Charlotte’s storyMaking the decision to have a baby is already a big life decision. But what happens when it’s not as easy as it seems? When it comes with miscarriages, fertility issues, and years of struggling to get pregnant?It’s a common reality yet prior to thinking about babies, it’s not something we’re aware of nor do we have honest conversations about it. In this episode, we talk to high performing career woman, Charlotte, who spent years on the fertility and IVF journey. She gives an honest a...2025-04-2556 minFull Timers ClubNew baby, New Job, Same old Full TimersEllie & Bec are back in the studio for the first time together in 2 months, with A LOT to catch up on! It has been a busy two months for the Full Timers, with Ellie navigating her first trimester whilst travelling quite a bit for work. And Bec has started an exciting new job, just now four weeks in. The girls are experiencing quite a multitude of emotions - Ellie worried about how she is going to do it all with three kids, and Bec feeling the hangover effect of...2025-04-2129 minFull Timers ClubRiff with Dr Biff: Is it me or is it Perimenopause?Menopause.Something that happens in your 50s and 60s, right?Not exactly. While menopause itself marks the official end of our periods, the lead-up—perimenopause— starts much earlier in our 40s, and sometimes even in our 30s. It’s not that menopause is happening younger; we’re just becoming more aware of the changes our bodies go through in the years before it.So if you’re dealing with irregular periods, sudden bursts of rage at your perfectly innocent partner, insomnia, or mood swings that make...2025-04-1230 minFull Timers ClubIntroducing Riff with Dr BiffWe are so excited to announce a new segment on Full Timers club with our new resident doctor, titled Riff with Dr Biff. Dr Laura Biffin (MBBS, GDFM, B.Pharm, SCHP) is the definition of a Full Timer. Mother to 3 beautiful children, doting wife, daughter and friend, Laura has embarked on the terrifying but very rewarding journey of starting something of her own. Late last month, Laura opened her first GP practice in Singapore, River Valley Doctors. Our segments with Laura will cover everything you can possibly think of...2025-04-0428 minFull Timers ClubMindset Bootcamp with Beata: Why are we so hard on ourselves? (Part 2)We’re back for part two of our first interview with Beata Justkowiak, ex-athlete, Psychologist and Life Coach. If you tuned into the first episode, we left on Ellie getting a little emotional with some confronting conversations. This episode you’ll hear what struck a chord and what has triggered her feelings, including the impact COVID had on family, work and personal lives. Beata also covers her experience with men and therapy - including why they come and see her and what motivates them to seek help, which she attr...2025-03-2624 minFull Timers ClubMindset Bootcamp with Beata: Why are we so hard on ourselves? (Part 1)We're really excited to introduce our first episode with Full Timer Beata Justkowiak, Ex-athlete, Psychologist and Life Coach. As a mental wellness advocate, she takes life with its ups and downs, and mixes psychology with life coaching, making it practical for her clients to improve their daily lives.We had the pleasure of sitting down with Beata from Energising Goals to chat about the difference between life coaching, therapy, counselling, psychology and everything that sits between. Both of us have had experiences with therapy...2025-03-0931 minFull Timers ClubTherapy isn’t just for when times are toughGym memberships, pilates, trainers, facials, bio hacking, 7-step skincare regimes - we’re constantly finding ways to optimise our physical health and appearance, yet we seldom give the same amount of investment and time to our mental health. We wait until we’re in the midst of a storm, or struggling, before we seek out therapy or coaching. But what if we took a more proactive approach to our mental health, building up our repertoire of coping tools so that we are more resilient and better equipped to deal with situations when they arise? We’ll exp...2025-02-1739 minFull Timers ClubWhy is my time valued less than others?This has to be one of our favourite episodes. We discuss what is the Value of Time - a concept we all think about but rarely break down.
How do we measure the value of our time? Are we spending it wisely? How do we build quality over quantity when time is poor? And does it mean something different for men and women?
It's a bit longer than previous episodes but there's just too much to cover, including:
⚖️ A Woman’s Value vs. A Man’s Value: How society places different...2025-02-0549 min
Full Timers ClubComparison: The Thief of JoyHow many times a day do you find yourself comparing your cooking skills, parenting, careers, marriage, wrinkles, handbags and everything else in between with others? If you don't, well, you're only 10% of the female population. Over 90% of women say they compare themselves, their success (or lack of it) with others. Women are also more likely to compare what they don't have versus what they do have - leading to a feeling of inadequacy, discrepancy or failure. This is despite the fact that we all know social media is a series of highlight reels, and we...2025-01-2918 min
Full Timers ClubWe’re done with resolutions, 2025 is about themes!Out with the old (year) and in with the new! So bring on 2025!We're back for Season 2 of Full Timers Club and cannot wait to get into the good, the bad, the funny. This season we have some new guests including the infamous Annette Male, coming to you in February, we’re bringing in a resident doctor to answer your questions about women’s health - such as perimenopause, ADHD, and contraception once you're done pushing out the kids - as well as bringing back Alexis, our finance goddess to bring you more money matters advi...2025-01-2234 min
Full Timers ClubThat’s a wrap on 2024...The craziness of Q4 and end of year. Christmas presents and gifting. Preparations for Christmas lunch, dinner and whatever else you need to do. Going away or going home and holiday planning and who sleeps where and who's hosting Christmas. Navigating family dynamics and catch ups and get togethers. As if there's not enough for Full Timers to do throughout the year, the Silly Season takes it to a whole new level.We'll share our own experiences, frustrations and joys, how we're starting to think about 2025 and finally, give a huge amount of gratitude for the season...2024-12-1325 min
Full Timers ClubWomen and money: Putting ourselves in the equationWe are so excited to introduce our first guest on the show, financial advisor and mediator, Alexis Livanes from Eight Wealth at St James Place. It’s no surprise that when women consider their finances, they often consider the family or themselves as part of it - but rarely, do we think about ourselves.We chat to Alexis about the need for women - even those in happy, long term relationships - to consider their own financial position, especially as women live longer lives and as women are incredible value accumulators. We will also cover th...2024-12-1041 min
Full Timers ClubThe greatest lessons are often found in the worst experiencesOften when you look back at the biggest lessons you’ve learned in life, or beliefs you hold, it’s not from one big grand event, it’s from small interactions, little moments that have built up over time and you’ve built upon them. Could be things like being reminded to say “we" over "I" or sending out Friday emails to staff to wrap up the week, or observing our favourite leaders in action and taking little observations and lessons to inject in to your own leadership style. Sometimes it’s not even the positive things that create the most imp...2024-11-2926 min
Full Timers ClubCan women have it all?As Full Timers, we are incredibly aware of the weight of all our responsibilities. But is that because we’ve been conditioned to bear the burden? From a young age we are told, You can have it all. Be who you want to be. The sky is the limit! And while the intention is good, have we been set up to fail? Today we unpack three narratives we wish we could change. 1) Women can have it all.2) Big boys don't cry. 3) Men as the provider. But...2024-11-2227 min
Full Timers ClubI have nothing to wear!How many times a week do you look in your cupboard and think, "I have nothing to wear", and inevitably end up in the same uniform. For us, it's almost daily. This is a battle even before kids, but since having our babies, with our bodies and identities changing, we've struggled with articulating in words and clothing what the new 'me' is - asking ourselves who am I? What is my identity, and how do I dress to reflect that? We've got some strategies that we've put in place...2024-11-1521 min
Full Timers ClubRedundancy and Identity: You are not your work!After an overwhelming response to our episode on being made redundant, we decided to dive a little deeper into a common feeling felt post-redundancy. That without our job, our sense of self and worth came into question. We felt lost, unsure of who we are or what our value is, and after receiving many messages from listeners the thing we all had in common was a deep insecurity about our identity. We wanted to share some insight into what we did to help pull ourselves out of this feeling, to remind ourselves of what...2024-11-0825 min
Full Timers ClubSo, are you having more kids?!So, do you want more kids? Are you having any more? These are questions we get asked, and find ourselves asking each other, quite a lot at this stage of our lives; if the timing feels right to have another baby. Firstly, we want to acknowledge how privileged we are to even have an option to choose to try for another baby, if any at all. For us, we've had many discussions over glasses of wine, cups of coffee, and through voice notes about...2024-11-0220 min
Full Timers ClubLooking after you when you’re busy looking after everyone else.As we head towards the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to do an episode on the ever important topic of Looking After You! But when you're so busy looking after everyone else, how do you factor that time in?It's an overused cliche, but you know the airplane safety video that tells you to fit your oxygen mask before anyone else, because if you've run out of oxygen, no one else is safe? We're here to remind you that if you're not taking care of yourself, then chances are you can't take care of...2024-10-2529 min
Full Timers ClubCheck your health, Full TimerWhen you're full timer, it's easy to put your health last. But when could that cost your health, or life? For Ellie, she let insurance get in the way of checking her skin, and ended up having a melanoma. For Bec, pitches and meetings got in the way of a much needed doctors appointment that resulted in early stages cervical cancer. This is a topic too important to ignore, and in honour of Frocktober, an Ovarian Cancer Research Fund initiative, we're frocking up to tell full timers to please get your boobs, bits and bodies checked, and...2024-10-2526 min
Full Timers ClubBack to work, baby.Returning to work after having a baby and maternity leave, no matter how long you take, is a life-altering experience. You return to a job and a place that knows you and you know them - yet your whole world is different and YOU are different.You have a human that depends on you, hormones raging through your body and your priorities are completely different - yet you’re expected to be the same person as you were before.We share some of the tactics and techniques that helped us manage this life-changing transition, why it...2024-10-1830 min
Full Timers ClubI was made redundant, what the f*** do I do now?It seems everywhere you look, family, friends and colleagues are being made redundant. And we are no different.Both of us have experienced redundancy in the last 2 years - both having quite different experiences but ultimately feeling exactly the same. Angry and frustrated. Feelings of hopelessness and sadness followed soon after, and it was then we realised we were experiencing the 5 stages of grief. Despite finding amazing new jobs in great agencies, the insecurities remain, questioning our worth and feeling like it could be just around the corner yet again.We want to share our...2024-10-1823 min
Full Timers ClubIntro to Full Timers ClubWelcome to the Full Timers Club! We are Ellie and Bec, best mates for the better part of a decade, mums to little ones, senior women in the ad industry, as well as full time wives, friends, daughters and everything else in between. I’m sure this sounds familiar to all the women listening.To kick off our first season of The Full Timers Club, we're discussing everything from being made redundant, the taboos of wanting more kids when you’re a senior woman in advertising, how to look after yourself when you’re busy lookin...2024-10-1818 min