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This episode takes Home Alone as a surprisingly relatable Christmas reference point. Not the chaos, but the pressure underneath it. The role of the mum. The overwhelm that creeps in as December gathers pace and everything needs organising, remembering, and holding together.

Then we pivot, naturally, to talk about coats. Dry robes, sitting suits, raincoats. The practical layers we live in through winter and school runs, and how comfort has quietly become a form of survival.

The conversation then turns to older kids and connection. How relationships shift as they grow. Less physical closeness, more emotional navigation, and learning how to stay close without clinging.

A lighter, honest chat about Christmas, motherhood, winter layers, and finding ways to stay connected through it all.

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In this episode we wander through the strange, joyful and exhausting corners of modern girlhood and womanhood. We talk about the invisible weight of the Christmas mental load, the odd rituals of sleepovers and school plays, and the tiny cultural artefacts... Fisher Price little people, inclusive nativities, online followers... that tell us who gets to belong and who gets left out.

Threaded through it all is a conversation about community and inclusion. How we shape it, how we protect it, and how easily it can be undone.

We recorded this before the sad news that Girlguiding has decided to ban trans girls from its spaces. That decision stands in sharp contrast to the spirit of this episode, where we explore what it means to build communities that are expansive, safe and genuinely welcoming. The timing makes this conversation feel even more important.

The episode lands in a place of hope - that we can do better, and that we can keep rewriting the rules of belonging together.

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This week we start with broken-society T-shirts and end up somewhere between bucket baths, Google searches, and grief.

We talk about the great women who’ve gone — the kind who shaped how we see the world — and what it means to lose that kind of strength.

We try to make sense of the millennial ache, the cost of living and the cost of caring, and how sometimes nostalgia is the only currency left.

And yes, Nikki finally talks about her TEDx.

It’s a mix of memory, laughter, and a little heartbreak — the kind of conversation that reminds us how fragile and funny life can be.