The Beautiful Nightmare

Awarded the Best Comedy Podcast 2024, and 2023 nominee for the Australian Podcast Awards, Shanelle Franklin and Tamara Linke bring you The Beautiful Nightmare.

You’re perfectly imperfect, overworked and seriously misunderstood. You’ve got the shits with your family, your boss is a ‘Grade A Dick’ and all you want is to sail away with Pink to a deserted island and eat sourdough. Bliss! Oh don’t forget self-care – add it to the bloody list. Shanelle and Tamara navigate the steep learning curve of life’s shit storm, giving you permission to stop, feel heard, and pour your beverage of choice.

Spoken with humour, heart and truth, it’s survival of the fittest and nobody’s winning. If laughter is your tonic and some A-Grade BS is your thing- this podcast is for you.

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Update frequency: every 3 days
Average duration: 29 minutes
Episodes: 256
Years Active: 2021 - 2025

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SO YOU'RE A SPORTS MUM

We solemnly swear we'll never be that parent, but if you aren't already, it's coming baby. Perhaps it's something in our DNA, a genetic throwback from our caveman ancestors that instills a scary kin…

00:52:00 | Sun 05 Sep 2021

HOME SCHOOLING

Lockdowns have given us a lot of things; a chance to be with the loved ones we previously never had time for, the beauty of reflection in a world ravaged by a seemingly never ending pandemic, and a c…

00:38:56 | Sun 29 Aug 2021

WHO'S YOUR DADDY

We know our partners, but do we really know what they are thinking?!!? This is a chance to jump inside their heads and get the low down on Dad guilt..is it a thing? What about self-care? How many tim…

00:45:28 | Sun 22 Aug 2021

DIRTY RHYMES

Just for fun this episode Shanelle and Tamara uncover the sometimes shocking, sometimes debauched history behind the rhymes you've grown up on and have now passed on to your children. Each has a les…

00:37:46 | Sun 15 Aug 2021

LET'S TALK SEX

In this episode we chat about the limits our bodies afford us after having kids and how this impacts sexy times for you and your partner. We're talking feeling sexy when you're breast feeding, appla…

00:49:32 | Sun 08 Aug 2021

SH!T MUM

Shanelle and Tamara share their 'Sh!t Mum' moments in the hope that you can feel a little better about your own. Why do we love them soooo much yet want to return them from whence they came, all at t…

00:31:40 | Sun 01 Aug 2021

SCHOOL RUN

If you have this one under control you're onto something mum, but for most of us we're multi-tasking like an octopus whilst suppressing our anxiety for the most part. Cornflakes or toast? Make up you…

00:39:18 | Sun 25 Jul 2021

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

That emergency biscuit or lolly in your bag is your secret bribery weapon to ensure your kids are on their best behaviour. Where would we all be without the helpful tool that is ‘bribery’. We constan…

00:38:20 | Sun 20 Jun 2021

THE BIRTH

So you've given birth, but it's all good, you've just put Xena the Warrior Princess to shame with your heroic efforts. We chat everything from hot doctors, drugs and nose beads, to baby blues and pos…

00:34:59 | Sun 13 Jun 2021

YOUR JUDY'S

We all face low points throughout our life journey, and just like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ lying in poppy fields, it’s your Judy’s that help you up and remind you of who you are and what you’re …

00:41:26 | Sun 06 Jun 2021

WIFEY

Making time for our partners can quite often have the least reserves for. It's not deliberate, but far out, the proverbial plates are spinning above us at a million miles an hour! Whether it be feeli…

00:52:33 | Sun 30 May 2021

LETTING OFF STEAM

We throw everything we’ve got at the love job that is motherhood, but what we really need is a chance to let off some steam. The all important self-care gets put on the back burner whilst we power o…

00:32:59 | Sun 23 May 2021

MUM GUILT

We feel guilty when we have a moment of self-preservation that allows us to fill our mum cups. Whether it’s having a night out with friends, going to the gym, screaming at your child because they're…

00:53:38 | Sun 16 May 2021

JUDGEMENT DAY

We judge ourselves, we judge others, and you’ve gotta love the older generation judging us ‘new age’ mums. Enough of the people pleasing right!!

From telling your kids off in public, to boys playing…

00:50:04 | Sun 09 May 2021

YOU'VE CHANGED

The incidental things that we are genuinely thrilled about now, are far from what would have excited us before. The desperation for an uninterrupted hangover or your kids eating a healthy meal you pr…

00:40:01 | Sat 01 May 2021

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