Life on the B Side

There’s a saying - "What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while". But sometimes, what you do once in a while can have a profound effect on what you do every day.

It can be har…

Moments of disconnect happen to everyone, right?

Join Maria as she takes on a little exercise to identify why she can’t create a vision for her life and what the biggest barrier to discovering her pu…

Once the journey into midlife gets underway, one town you might visit is Crisis-ville. It’s situated somewhere near Parent Village and Invisibility Central.

Navigating your way through Crisis-ville i…

Show name change! Why?

Because I refuse to talk to myself, or a wall.

Because actually, this is just Life on B Side.

And some B sides have been known to be better than the A sides.

Not sure if you’re…

There’s not much I don’t feeling guilty about.

Being a sh*tty daughter is near the top of the list though.

I’m not always sh*tty. Only when it matters.

And just when I learned to live with the weird …

ME: Valentine’s Day is utter horseshit, yes? Can we agree on that?

THEM: OK, so what’s really important in a long-term relationship?

ME: Earplugs, distance, a good solicitor?

THEM: *unimpressed*

ME: …

When Maria finds herself apologising to food, it sparks a few questions…

Why do we say sorry so much? How do our past experiences of apologising shape why we say sorry?

And why, oh why, did she apolo…

Lists, lists and more lists. Apple watch notifications.

And the world’s most annoying app.

The constant stream of tiny things to do, questions to answer and general background noise can be a f*cking …

It might be a New Year thing or an age thing, but quitting things is definitely a topic of discussion at the moment.

Maria looks at how you know when it’s time to quit something and how it’s better t…

Maria has unlocked a new level of parenting – guiding your children through their first broken hearts.

Listen as Maria examines her own break up CV (she has plenty of experience) and provides her gui…

Not every Christmas is a merry one, but happy endings are sometimes achievable. The trouble with bad memories is they keep floating out of the woodwork like festive ghouls intent on ruining your happ…

If you listened to Episode 3 then you’ll want to hear this one :)

Listen in to find out the names of all the 90s bands included in Episode 3! Maria will guide you through each one. How many did you g…

When a man ‘of a certain age’ dismisses the concerns and accusations of women ‘of a certain age’, it shows he doesn’t have a clue about the lived experience of women.

This episode contains some detai…

How, after almost 30 years of consigning university to a bin labelled failure, reliving shared experiences with old friends helped Maria salvage a part of herself she had forgotten. There was physics…

27 years after graduating it’s finally time to attend a reunion of sorts. But after almost 3 decades, Maria can finally admit that university didn’t turn out the way she’d hoped at 18 and that she pr…

Everyone’s got one.

Some folks are so desperate to share their opinion (not their, well, you know what) that they won’t wait to be asked.

But not all opinions are created equal and the trick to getti…

Aah the 90s. Who doesn’t look back on that decade with fond memories? Memories is all we really have as there’s very little photographic evidence of what we got up to.

We still have the music though!…

Thought teenage friendships were difficult to navigate? Well not much has changed. Except maybe the new ways we can kill our friendships these days.

Maria didn’t expect to use social media to assassi…

What makes a 48 year old woman with a crippling fear of failure suddenly decide to launch a podcast?

Maria explains why now is the time for Gen X women to ditch any obsession with perfection, forget …