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The Weird Years

Lydia Vornweg

The Weird Years is the podcast for anyone Googling "How to make life decisions" at 2AM. We thought we had time but life moved fast, the rulebook disappeared, and the next step feels like a big fat ?

Each week, Lydia (@lydsie) and a guest dive into the big, weird, and messy realities of career, relationships, health, identity and more. There's no sugarcoating, no perfect answers, but a lot of laughs—just real talk about figuring it out together.

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S3 · E7
September 15 · 24 min
How to Know If Your Life Is Going in the Right Direction?
This week we're wrapping up Decision Season with maybe one of the most important questions so far... how do we know if life is actually going in the right direction?We hear a lot about hitting goals, ticking boxes and the unavoidable list of everyt...
September 1 · 55 min
Toni Tone on Soft Life: What It Really Means & How to Build It
You've heard the term Soft Life, but what does it really mean when strip away the IG aesthetics?In this episode, we're joined by the one and only Toni Tone - podcaster, bestselling author, and one of our generation's wisest women - as we dive deep ...
S4 · E8
August 25 · 51 min
What If You’re Not Meant for the 9–5? - with Rachel Kitcat
What if you’re actually not made for the 9–5?If you sometimes sit at a desk for 9 hours straight and start to feel like your body wants to wiggle out of your skin, then girl, I have been there.We were sold the dream of finding a career which is our...
S3 · E7
August 11 · 21 min
Do You Actually Want It - or Were You Taught to Want It?
What if the reason you're stuck isn't confusion, it's that the life you want feels socially unacceptable?We all grew up with society handing us a script for what a "good life" should look like: the love story, the career, the milestones, the versio...
S8 · E6
August 4 · 51 min
Can You Ever Know the Right Choice? - Decision Clinic with Psychology of Your 20s Host Jemma Sbeg
How do you make the huge, meltdown-inducing decisions of your 30s - and is there ever really a "right" answer?In our first ever Decision Clinic, I'm joined by Jemma Sbeg, host of The Psychology of Your 20s - one of the biggest psychology podcasts o...
S3 · E3
July 28 · 59 min
I’d Rather Be Single Than Settle – Dating in Your 30s with Sophie Milner
Date, get married, have a kid, live happily ever after - that’s what we were sold, right?Well, the dating pool is looking kind of swampy, women are more self‑sufficient and self‑funded than ever before and actually… not everyone wants kids.Cher sai...
S3 · E4
July 21 · 28 min
Why do we stay too long?
You know that niggling feeling that the path you're on isn't the right one... it's time to talk about it.The relationship which isn't moving forward, the job where the promotion never comes, the city we know will never feel like home - why do we st...
S3 · E3
July 14 · 54 min
Facing My Trauma Through Psychedelics - with Daniel O'Shaughnessy
What if one radical choice to heal rewired your life completely?Joining me this week is nutritionist, author and functional medicine practitioner Daniel O'Shaughnessy. Daniel has been doing something which many of us might have curiously come acros...
S3 · E2
July 7 · 51 min
My Healthiest Love Ever Is An Age Gap Marriage - with Jackie Adedeji
What if being ‘too much’ was never the problem - you were just with people who couldn’t hold you?This week I’m joined by the stunning, vivacious and straight‑up hilarious Jackie Adedeji– the broadcaster and girls’ girl from Instagram known for her ...
S3 · E1
June 30 · 36 min
We’re In Decision Season (Where the Hard Choice Makes Life Easier)
Welcome to Decision Season dramatic music playsI joke, this won't be scary, I promise. This season we dig into the choices that have shaped us so far, the ones we still wonder if we got right, and the ones we’re wrestling with right now.In this epi...
S2 · E10
June 16 · 46 min
An Honest Report Back From the Baby Bubble
"I love you, but I'm exhausted" is a line that's been whispered at 2am, 2pm, 10pm, and every hour in between to our big blue-eyed, five-month-old baby.Last time we caught up on baby life, I was three weeks postpartum and riffing mainly on the birth...
S2 · E9
June 2 · 42 min
Why are we suddenly craving a "soft life"?
Why are we suddenly craving the "soft life"?You might know this term from polished reels of flawless women skipping out of pilates at 11am and into a matcha café, but the soft life philosophy has a much richer origin. It started with women in Niger...
May 12 · 25 min
Is Self-Improvement Making Us Selfish?
What if the version of “working on yourself” you’ve been sold is actually pulling you further away from other people?In this solo episode, I’m unpacking the strange relationship between self-improvement and selfishness, and the point where becoming...
S2 · E8
April 21 · 42 min
Why Women Feel Guilty All The Time (and How to Stop)
Why does everything feel like it’s your fault… even when it isn’t?In this solo episode, I’m unpacking guilt - that constant, low-level hum that seems to follow women everywhere. From work to relationships, money to motherhood, friendships to fina...
April 8 · 41 min
Is It Time to Stop Analysing and Start Feeling?
What if your “self-awareness” is just control in disguise? 👀I hate to call you out like that… but I’m also calling out myself.In this episode, I unpack something that’s been sitting uncomfortably with me:I can explain my feelings perfectly… but I d...
S2 · E6
March 31 · 55 min
Finding Love Without Burnout with Dating and Confidence Coach Laura Nagiel
What if it’s not dating that’s broken… but how we’re showing up in it?Stick with me for this.... I personally know so many amazing, sucessful, loving, and beautiful women who want to find a partner but are struggling in the dating world, so what's ...
S2 · E7
March 24 · 54 min
What If Body Image Isn’t Actually About Your Body?
What if the problem isn’t your body… it’s the fact you’ve been thinking about it for 30 years straight? This week, I’m getting into body image, and why, somehow, it feels more confusing now than it ever did before.Because here’s the thing… I've gen...
S2 · E6
March 10 · 47 min
Losing My Partner to Suicide and Finding a Way Forward - with Lisa
Content warning: This episode includes discussion of suicide.We're sold a Disney-inspired story of love. Meet the love of your life, get married, have children and live happily ever after. But nothing in life is guaranteed.What happens when somethi...
S2 · E5
March 3 · 1 hr
We Need to Catch Up, I’m a Mum Now!?
If you told me a year ago that I would be releasing this episode, I would have been shooketh...But wow can things change. Really fast and really dramatically. And now my big becoming era is being shaped by a new reality of motherhood. I was very un...
S2 · E4
February 24 · 1 hr 1 min
Challenging the Fear of Motherhood with Raychel Addo
In our 20s it feels far away.Like something that will “change everything”.But in your 30s?It starts to feel closer.And the questions get louder.Will I lose myself?Will my ambition survive?What happens to my identity?In this episode, I’m joined by R...

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