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A Hot Minute With Us40: Goodbye Hotties! Our Last Hot Minute HURRAH!Well hotties, as the saying goes, all good things come to an end. It's time for us to hang up our podcasting boots, to put away the mics, and spend a bit more down time with our families and friends. For this final episode we chat about: how the hot minute concept has grown and evolved for us our three most important hot minutes at the moment (yes, probably no surprises what comes up here) wrap up our thoughts and feelings about the podcast journey express our big gratitude to you our hotties for being there...2025-04-1448 min
A Hot Minute With Us39: Love Letter To A Friend & An Announcement📣 HOTTIES, A BIG ANNOUCEMENT TODAY - TUNE IN TO FIND OUT MORE 📣 Hello Hotties, Welcome back to another episode with Han & Rach. Well, if this episode doesn't have Hannah's name written all over it, I don't know what would. In this episode we dive into a realm where Hannah thrives; words of affirmation heaven. We share and discuss: • our love letters to one another • how Hannah unexpectedly finds herself emotional • our on love languages and the importance of words to Han, but also how important it is for everyo...2025-04-0738 min
A Hot Minute With Us38: Hannah's Personal Dance With Anxious ThoughtsAnxiety, what does it mean to you? Have you personally suffered from its crippling grip at times? Do you know someone who experiences it? Perhaps a friend, a parent, a sibling, a loved one. Does it show up when you least expect it, and how do you manage it? In this episode we do a deep dive into Hannah's lived experience with anxious thoughts, Â including: when it began and how it looks and feels for her how she finally recognised what the feelings were Hannah reading a diary entry, sharing the real, raw and honest truths t...2025-03-3141 min
A Hot Minute With Us37: SOLO | She said ‘I do’C'mon, admit it, who doesn't love a wedding? Yes the logistics can be alot, yes they can be expensive as the host AND as the guest, but who doesn't love LOVE! In this episode we keep the SOLO episode fun, alive and kicking with a journey back in time to Rach and John's wedding day on the 21st of April 2018. We hear about: Rach & Han's hot minutes Rach's wedding being the best day of her life the amazing photographers the fun job Hannah was assigned in the setup of the wedding day snippets of R...2025-03-2421 min
A Hot Minute With Us36: Han's Foolproof Method When Making A Big DecisionOk, so picture this, you have a big decision coming up, how do you come to the conlusion you need? Do you make a list, chat with friends, not sleep, procrastinate? How do you make your decision? Well Hotties, let us save you the termoil, Han has made a new helpful discovery and has all the answers to help us on our way. In this chat we dicusss: Han's impression of herself that she isn't good at decision making (Rach feels differently) Rach's process - involves a good review or 12 the method Hannah's psych...2025-03-1730 min
A Hot Minute With Us35: HOT MINUTE CHAT | Miscarriage And How It Felt With WhitneyIt's time to welcome a new voice to our Pod, Whitney from Fitt Siss talking all things conception, pregnancy, loss and the road ahead. This chat is real, raw, vulnerable and wholesome. It reminds us how the need for connection, support and leaning within our tribe during tough times, is so important. Hannah and Whitney discuss: Whitney's road to conception and how that looked PCOS - and her experience with a specialist who didn't advise her well falling pregnant even with irregular periods blighted ovum - A type of miscarriage the choice to miscarry n...2025-03-1051 min
A Hot Minute With Us34: How Do You Find Your Suburb? Where Do I Belong?Tell us, Hotties, have you ever deliberated over where to live? Perhaps you questioned if moving out of your comfort zone is an option, moving away from or closer to family? Have you settled for living where your significant other wants to be based, but perhaps your hearts not in it? Well, in this episode we delve into all the in's and out's and feelings associated with buying, selling and finding your home. We discuss: Hannah's feelings whilst we record for the last time in her Port Melbourne home what is it about a h...2025-03-0339 min
A Hot Minute With Us33: Celebrating Us As Podcasters!Welcome back Hotties, it's the year 2025 and we're back to regular scheduling over here, that's right, we're back in the studio TOGETHER, and excited to reflect on how far we've come. In this episode we delve into Hannah's world - statistics, relfections, goals and dreams. Safe to say she was in topic heaven. In this episode we: talk about being a good team - where Hannah pushes & strives at all costs, Rach brings us back to earth, we balance each other out have a laugh about our first episode and how we've progressed a...2025-02-2440 min
A Hot Minute With Us32: SUMMER SOLO | Rach Has Serious Road RageAnyone else get quite animated behind the wheel? Those of you that don't know, Rach sends Hannah many voice notes while driving and hidden in amongst her sweet notes are mini fits of rage and swear words. Very entertaining at times as she pops in and out of anger and calm. Rach is incredibly vocal and honest behind the wheel. Time to learn more about our sweet funny cohost.  In this Summer Solo Episode we discuss: the importance of saying 'thank you' if Rach lets you into the traffic needing a lesson in patience ho...2025-02-1713 min
A Hot Minute With Us31: SUMMER SOLO | The Four Of Us: Sibling LifeHotties, It is time to head down Hannah siblings memory lane. Hannah is the youngest of four and her siblings are incredible human beings. Her parents are no longer together, but for parts of her upbringing their were 6 of them under one roof for periods of time. Hannah describes her experience of being the youngest of four and how life looks now for the four of them.  In this Summer Solo Episode we discuss: what it was like growing up in a family of 6 how Sarah, Hannah's biggest sister was always a maternal figure to...2025-02-1017 min
A Hot Minute With Us30: SUMMER SOLO | Story Of My French ExchangeImagine packing up your world at 16 years old and heading to France to complete a Student Exchange year and live with an unknown family. This is what Rach did. Come along the journey in this episode as she revisits this experience. It's impactful, it's heavy, it's raw, it's uplifting and inspiring. In this Summer Solo Episode we discuss:Â what it felt like to live with not just one, but two host families how Rach's distorted eating began what living in a foreign country and not speaking the language felt like what going to school as a t...2025-02-0321 min
A Hot Minute With Us29: SUMMER SOLO | Diary Of Oscar’s HomebirthYou guys asked for more about Hannah's planned homebirth with her son Oscar, so in this episode she generously shares her birthing experience. What a talented story teller she is. Yes, she tells us what it was like to birth her baby on her own as the midwives didn't quite make it in time! It is quite special as her son Oscar has JUST turned ONE this week! In this Summer Solo Episode we discuss: how Hannah knew she was in labour how Hannah prepared herself for this birth Trent's response to Hannah asking him to g...2025-01-2720 min
A Hot Minute With Us28: SUMMER SOLO | Making Time For Rach & JohnWelcome back Hotties for another sensational Summer Solo Episode. Do you ever wonder how you find time for your relationship? Or how you create time for your relationship amongst parenting? Is your relationship something you are wanting to up level in 2025? You are not alone! In this episode we go there and dive deep into relationships and watering what matters most. In this Summer Solo Episode we discuss: how Rach creates time for her relationship with John family time and what it means to Rach what it might look like for Rach's family to d...2025-01-2014 min
A Hot Minute With Us27: SUMMER SOLO | How I Overcome Feeling BlahHOTTIES, Welcome back to A Hot Minute With Us in 2025. Welcome to our first ever Summer Solo Series. In this Summer Solo Series we dive into our voice notes in more of our 'natural' style responding to each other and diving deep, solo! Come along for the ride. Do you feel BLAH ever?! What do you do? In this Summer Solo Episode we discuss: what on earth a Summer Solo Series Episode will look like feeling blah and what it looks like for us what we do to get of the blah feeling why...2025-01-1311 min
A Hot Minute With Us38: Hannah's Experience Living With AnxietyToday2025-01-0341 min
A Hot Minute With Us26: HOT MINUTE CHAT | Growing Up With 400 Siblings On The Farm with John RighettiEver thought about what it may have been like growing up in a family of 11? Wonder no longer, and tune into this one. In this Hot Minute Chat we discuss: Johns upbringing being the second youngest of 9 children growing up on the farm pros and cons of a large family what family life looks like today learning to drive farm utes at the age of 8 sustainable living by eating off the land why John is happy to have a small family fun stories and quirks about being apart of a large family on a heritage listed...2024-12-1638 min
A Hot Minute With Us25: HOT MINUTE CHAT | I Didn’t Want Children With Trent CooperHotties, prime those ears, and prepare yourself for a new voice hitting the airwaves: Han sits in the drivers seat and welcomes Trent Cooper to the podcast for our very first Hot Minute Chat. Now, he should need no introduction if you've been with us from the start, but if this is your first time listening (welcome) and Trent is of course, Hannah's long term partner and father of their two boys. Now, you may think, well, that all sounds lovely, however that picture of children and playing happy families wasn't always on the cards for...2024-12-0934 min
A Hot Minute With Us24: It’s The 20 Year School Reunion: Reflecting On Han’s Rebellious School YearsSo, we won't lie, once upon a time we thought people who were 20 years on from school, were somewhat of a dinosaur. Yet here we are living proof that we're still spring chickens...right? With Hannah's upcoming 20 year school reunion, it has us turning back the clock to reflect on Han's school journey. Those formative years. What she was like, what her friendships looked like, how she behaved in the classroom...or didn't behave and why she was led to become a teacher herself. In this episode, we cover it all, and we invite you to step...2024-12-0240 min
A Hot Minute With Us23: Manifesting Our Future Loves - On A Bunnings Receipt!Who said manifesting has to be fancy? Pop down to your local bunnings, grab a snag or a veggie burger, and on your way out, jot down some notes on your future dreams, aspirations and love life in the carpark, and call it a day. Or like us, at your local pub, while the birds have a poop in your wine. In today's episode we go back in time and revisit that time we were both single, and looking for love. We wrote down all of our hopes, dreams and wishes that we'd find in a future...2024-11-2535 min
A Hot Minute With Us22: Can We Have A DAY OFF Parenting?Do you ever sit and daydream about what a day might look like if you had free reign and no responsibilities? ...because us too!! Do you think about the days when you aren't locked into breastfeeding, or required to be home by a certain time for children's bedtimes or perhaps you simply just want a morning to yourself now and again? I'm sure you can agree, the "parenting manuals" forgot to mention the little detail about no days off!! So in this chat we sit down and chat about why we would like a day off b...2024-11-1828 min
A Hot Minute With Us21: BONUS! Hotties Questions AnsweredHotties, you asked, we've answered. Your questions have been coming in HOT and we are here to dish the answers to you. In this episode, we unpack our history with animals and pets, we chat about our future careers, mumming plans, where to next and we also give the goss on some interesting anecdotes from our careers as a teacher & international flight attendant. It's light, it's fun, it's fluffy and it's interesting. It's giving all the best friend on the phone vibes, coming straight to your ears with real honest answers. If you have...2024-11-1330 min
A Hot Minute With Us20: No More Nappies! EC & The Journey To Get ThereWhat on earth is EC? In this episode we chat all about Elimination Communication with babies, how smart babies are, transitioning into toilet training and the commitment to wearing underwear for good! Sick of changing nappies & a full bin? Want to have more money in your pocket? Want to empower your children? No more nappies means the beginning of potty independence and more money in your pocket. Giving your baby the opportunity to use the potty is a bonding experience, empowering your child and a closer step to never needing to change a nappy ever again! Hannah...2024-11-1141 min
A Hot Minute With Us19: What We REALLY Think About ParentingHotties, is it just us, or do you also wonder if there will ever be a day when we can leave the house and not have to watch the clock and hurry home to our children? Who knew parenting would be so TRIGGERING! These gorgeous, squishy, innocent, kind, funny little people...could push so many buttons. Parenting really pushes you to your limits, and in this episode we openly discuss our thoughts on what we REALLY think about it all. Have you ever felt guilt for sending your children to daycare, or felt guilty after...2024-11-0445 min
A Hot Minute With Us18: Overwhelm & Anxiety; Can Our Podcast Survive?In this day and age it's fair to say everyone experiences anxiety to varying degrees, what we delve into today is how anxiety makes us feel, the feelings that have been coming up for us with creating our podcast, and the lack of time. We chat about how open communication really may be a key factor in welcoming some calm, along with needing to feel like we have a semblance of control within our life, and that life isn't just happening to us. We touch on when big decisions and the thought of the unknown can feel...2024-10-2832 min
A Hot Minute With Us17: Living With An Eating DisorderHello dear Hotties! This week Rach generously and openly shares her experience with something she kept hidden from those closest to her for many many years. This raw and vulnerable chat, exudes honesty and a real insight into how it felt to live with Bulimia. Rachael dives into the lowest points in her life, how her brain responded to certain situations, where it began, her feelings in amongst her colleagues and friends and how it felt when it was no longer a secret amongst those closest with her. She speaks about how she climbed out the other...2024-10-2144 min
A Hot Minute With Us16: Homebirths, Birth Pools, Private Midwives & Hospitals… We’ve Done Them All!Hotties, come for the ride of pregnancy and birth with us! Hannah and Rachael not only share Birkenstocks, clothes, food and some quirks, but we shared the same midwife and both had a homebirth! Today we dive right into the journey we had in both of our pregnancies and the lessons we learnt from our first births in order to shape our second births. We went through Mamatoto Midwives and both shared Juliana as our private midwife (not at the same time!). Today we talk about what that journey is like; the decision to have either a...2024-10-1439 min
A Hot Minute With Us15: Hello Postpartum Body...Let's Get To Know One Another!Strap yourself in for this one Hotties; whether you have been pregnant, birthed a child, been a sporty person, hit the gym or looked closely at your body in the mirror you will be able to relate to this one. It is a lot to navigate... you fall pregnant, you honour your changes within your body, you birth and then you are back to you again, right? Absolutely not (for most)! In today's chat, we dive into all of the feels around our post pregnancy bodies. We share the joy we have felt through the process o...2024-10-0736 min
A Hot Minute With Us14: BONUS! Our Quirks Are Normal, Right?B, B, B, BONUS Episode! Hotties, you guys asked for more and we listened. This one is FOR YOU! We asked for your questions and they blew us away. Today we answer a fun question where we share our quirks; the perculiar traits that make us who we are today that form us, our behaviour. We learnt things about each other today. One of us doesn't like dry feet or hands, one of us needs things to be tight to feel secure and both of us have no filter on stopping with our pizza ingredients. ...2024-10-0221 min
A Hot Minute With Us13: Is It Time For A TV Detox?Welcome back to A Hot Minute With Us. We are so glad you are here. Today we dive into Rach's experiment with turning that black box on the wall off; the TV. She chats about how it has impacted her parenting, her family dynamic and what opportunities it has now opened. The outcome has been incredibly positive for many reasons. We chat about what has been lost since TV's have come into our lives; more so paid TV where we can choose whatever we want to watch whenever we want. This is at a cost of h...2024-09-3035 min
A Hot Minute With Us12: Walking Gives You Super Powers!Clothes out, shoes on, lets go for a walk for both the body and mind. Today once your laces are done up, lets take you with us for a walk; we chat all about the benefits for us, the benefits on the brain and mental health, how it fuels our day as individuals and as mums looking after little ones and our secret to ensuring you get out and make it happen. No excuses. Before we hit record on this one, we went out for a walk together. As enjoyable as it was, we do reveal we...2024-09-2328 min
A Hot Minute With Us11: Day In The Life Of An International FlightieCome fly with us! After many requests, today we go in the air with Rach. Han can stay on the tarmac where she prefers. Rach is an International Flight Attendant, and one day soon enough, she'll be back in the skies. She takes us on the plane with her and into a day in the life of a flightie. Hannah guesses what she thinks Rach does as a flight attendant and Rach explains exactly what her job in the air entails. She dives into the goss around the mile high club, the vomit, the brown stuff on...2024-09-1637 min
A Hot Minute With Us10: So, Will You Try For A Girl Now?Grab a cup of tea, sit in the sun (if there is any) or head out for a stroll and create that hot minute for you. Pop in those headphones and strap yourself in. This one is a biggy. Today we chat about gender in our children, gender disappointment (which is real) and whether it is ok to ask someone if they are going to have another child, or futhermore if it is ok to ask if they are going to try again to have a specific sex, in this case, a girl. It seems in our...2024-09-0922 min
A Hot Minute With Us9: Breakups; They're Painful, But My Goodness We Grow!Breakups; painful and sometimes cathartic. Settle in, join us for this ride through two decades of love, both deep love and tumultuous unhealthy love and the self development that comes. Today we discuss our past relationships and the growth we have gained from each. We share about our pain, our resilience, our spiralling, our deep sadness and even our moments of pure freedom upon a breakup. Yep, we revisit it all. We share how we did the work, grew from each relationship, evolved and got to the place we needed to be within ourselves personally before we...2024-09-0225 min
A Hot Minute With Us8: Relationships & Little Ones. Spoiler; It's Not Easy!This chat is for everyone: those of you who have children or those of you have friends or siblings that now have children, everyone, in one way or another will be able to relate to our conversation today. If we choose to have children (with a partner), we don't date our partner knowing what either of us will be like as parents. We are different, we change. There is no denying this once children are involved in our life. We have a big chat about how our relationship with our partners has changed and evolved since...2024-08-2629 min
A Hot Minute With Us7: This Is Your Sign; Download That Dating AppAnyone else tried to avoid the dating app scene? Did you then dive in and find your partner? Did you end up getting married or have kids? Settle in, this one is a goody all about the road to living your best "lovebird life" via the apps. Today you hear from two converted humans who talk openly about our experience with dating apps (Tinder and Bumble) and how we found our partners today. We reminisce on our dating days, explore the dating app world and the ups and downs we had in finding our partners we are...2024-08-2126 min
A Hot Minute With Us6: First Time Parent TruthsYou are not alone with thoughts of wondering what you have done and whether you are going to be in a dark room settling a baby forever? Will you continue to feel this isolated? Is this your life now? Hannah generously shares her journal piece to begin the discussion on her experience of becoming a first time parent. This one is so close to our hearts, raw and vulnerable. Whether you are a parent or not, this episode has pearls of wisdom for everyone. It is an open, honest & real chat we wish we had in our e...2024-08-1927 min
A Hot Minute With Us5: When your Comfort Zone is too CosyIt is easy to stay in what we know: a workplace, an unhappy relationship, a sports team, a familiar suburb or with the same friendship group. Sometimes when we stay stagnant, we prohibit growth and finding a new opportunity. Today we discuss what it looks like to remain safe, what it feels like to step outside your comfort zone and we give some examples of what this can look like. This chat is a goody and very timely for us with starting our own podcast. We hope it inspires you to try something new. Love...2024-08-1429 min
A Hot Minute With Us4: The Ebb and Flow within FriendshipsLife is always evolving and naturally there is always a rise or decline of energy, connection, of learnings and self development, throughout the stages of life. This is true of friendships. Today we chat about our friendship and how it has had chapters and evolved throughout our 35 years of friendship. It is raw, real and honest. We discuss things today we haven't previously shared together. We hope it gives you insight into the normality of how friendships are always changing. Love Rach and Han x  How to join the A Hot Mi...2024-08-1221 min
A Hot Minute With Us3: What on Earth is a Hot Minute?You may be asking, 'What on earth is a hot minute?' Today is the day to find out. We delve into what a hot minute can look like, feel like and become in your day. You will walk away after this episode with some hot minute ideas and hot minute take aways and a clear understanding of what this concept means. Let us know on our Instagram a hot minute take away you received today. Love Han and Rach x How to join the A Hot Minute with Us community and f...2024-08-0714 min
A Hot Minute With Us2: Meet Hannah. Who is Han?Today it is time to get to know our second co-host, Hannah. It is her turn to sit in the hot seat and be interviewed by Rach about what makes her who she is today: her family, finding out she was going to be a Mother for the first time, her profession, some happy moments in life and also her saddest during a tough year of loss. There are some tears today. Press play to start learning about your other new friend. Love Han & Rach x How to join the A Hot Mi...2024-08-0523 min
A Hot Minute With Us1: Meet Rachael. Who is Rach?What an honour, you have returned for another episode! Today is the beautiful chance to get to know one of our co-hosts Rachael. We'll share voice notes & hot minute take-aways from our week. You will walk away today getting to know more about Rach: her family, her daily non-negotiable, her creative skills, the best advice she has received and even her favourite colour. We hope you leave this episode feeling uplifted and inspired. Thanks for being with us, Hannah and Rach x Check out Rachael's art talents: @littlelindsay_studio How to join...2024-07-3117 min
A Hot Minute With UsWhy do a Podcast?Welcome to our A Hot Minute With Us Podcast maiden voyage. We are so happy to have you here. Having our own podcast has been a pipe dream for us for many years, so here we are, two lifetime friends taking this first step and making it real. In our very first episode we discuss why we are starting a podcast and why we are using voice notes. As two mothers with our hands full you will come to understand why voice notes are a big part of our lives, communication and our podcast. Come and join...2024-07-2909 min