The Midlifers
🎙️ The Midlifers Podcast is a weekly Australian podcast for midlife women and mums over 40, where two Gen X / millennial women have a laugh about what it really means to be in your middle years.We dive into 80s, 90s and 2000s nostalgia, pop culture, parenting, ageing,…
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We Thought Viennetta Was for Rich People I Nostalgic Comedy Podcast (opens the original)
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Remember when having a Viennetta in the freezer basically meant your family had made it? Or when someone having the full set of encyclopaedias or an ice dispenser in the fridge was the height of luxury? This week on The Midlifers Podcast, Mez and Fonz take a hilarious trip down memory lane as they revisit all the things we thought were incredibly fancy as kids in our ‘ Do You Remember ’ segment. What did you think was fancy as a kid of the 80s? Before that, it’s time for ‘ Rant or Rave ’, where
CFMs, Crocs & Career Changes: Welcome to Midlife 😂 (opens the original)
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What do Samuel L. Jackson, Julia Child, Colonel Sanders and Vera Wang have in common? They all found major success after the age of 40 ! This week on The Midlifers, we're talking about why turning 40 doesn't mean your best years are behind you. In fact, for many famous people, it was only the beginning. We share the stories of people including Eric Yuan, who founded Zoom at 41, Colonel Sanders, whose KFC success came after 60, Kris Jenner, who helped launch Keeping Up With the Kardashians in her
Hot Pants, Heart-throbs & Iconic Music Videos: The 2000s Were Something Else (opens the original)
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The 2000s gave us some seriously unforgettable music videos - and we're going back to revisit the best of them! This week on The Midlifers Podcast, we're talking about the music videos that defined the 2000s in our Besties segment, from Britney Spears' iconic red leather jumpsuit in Oops!... I Did It Again to Beyoncé's legendary Single Ladies , Kylie Minogue's tiny gold hot pants in Spinning Around and Justin Timberlake’s What Goes Around…Comes Around. And because it's The Midlifers, we're not j
The Craft vs Practical Magic: Which 90s Witchy Classic Did It Better? (opens the original)
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It's time to grab your broomsticks, Midlifers! 🧙♀️ This week we're getting seriously witchy as we put two iconic 90s movies head-to-head in our latest Who Did It Better Battle: The Craft vs Practical Magic. We're taking a nostalgic trip back to the 90s to revisit the fashion, friendships, witches, magic and unforgettable moments that made both movies cult classics. From Neve Campbell, Fairuza Balk and the teenage coven of The Craft to Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman's sisterly magic in Practic
Then & Now: Whatever Happened to Family Get-Togethers? (opens the original)
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Remember when family visits were basically a weekly event? In this episode of The Midlifers, we're taking a nostalgic trip back to the 80s and 90s and asking: whatever happened to extended family get-togethers? We reminisce about weekends spent visiting cousins, Sunday dinners at Grandma and Nonna's, random knocks on the door, sleeping over at grandparents' houses, making up dances for the adults, playing games with cousins and being sent off to the park with absolutely ZERO adult supervision. W
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