EXISTENTIAL THREAD

more than a podcast.

We want to equip you with the tools, confidence and language to move through life’s sticky moments.

You can expect additional resources to sit alongside the episodes so that you can listen and then practice imperfectly.

EPISODES and resources

What if our bodies were more than a vehicle?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

What if our bodies were more than a vehicle?

What if beyond the fixing and moulding and scolding, there was wisdom and intelligence? What if your relationship with your body became a conversation with a friend?

In this episode we pull on a thread that has come up in almost every single episode of season one: our relationship with our bodies. Not what they look like. Not what they can do. But what it would mean to actually be in them, to see them as intelligent, as worthy of conversation, as more than a vehicle for getting through the day.

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What if we were taught how to make friends?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

What if we were taught how to make friends?

You're about to walk into a room of strangers. Your shoulders are at your ears. You've already invented three reasons to leave. And the only social scripts you have are from a playground in 1994 or a networking event in 2019. So what do you do next? That’s exactly what this episode is about. Adults learning how to connect.

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What if the job is only part of the Problem?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

What if the job is only part of the Problem?

What would you do if you realised the system you've been raging against lives inside you too? What if you’re secretly the one keeping it in place? In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle are joined by Giana Ceresia for a painfully honest chat about the inextricable ties between work and our identities.

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What is your voice and where does it go?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

What is your voice and where does it go?

When did you last say the thing you actually meant, not the version that sounded safe, polished, or approved of in advance? In this episode creative coach Lois Mac unpacks one of the most misunderstood parts of being a creative, thinking person: your voice.

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Have we lost the art of play?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

Have we lost the art of play?

When did you last play? Not rest. Not scroll. Not exercise with a target or socialise with an agenda. Actually play. Purposeless, unscripted, a little bit ridiculous. This episode is about the most radical things an adult can do: absolutely nothing useful. We explore what play actually is, why we stopped doing it, what it's costing us, and what it might feel like to let ourselves have it back.

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how to move past the discomfort of disagreement
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

how to move past the discomfort of disagreement

We grew up mistaking being good at yelling for being good with confrontation but articulating your needs, quietly, is a whole other thing. It requires self inquiry, conviction in your own feelings and needs, and a bunch of tools in the toolkit to navigate disagreement and repair.

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What if your brain is different, not wrong?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

What if your brain is different, not wrong?

What if different doesn't mean wrong, it just means different? Caitlin and Chantelle sit down with Rachel Moore to explore neurodivergence, identity clarity, and what it actually means to understand how your brain works - from self-diagnosis to systemic barriers, and everything the world didn’t design for.

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When is a story helping or hindering?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

When is a story helping or hindering?

This episode is about the stories we tell and what happens when they no longer fit. About ourselves, others, and the world we live in. But what if the story you've been telling about yourself is the very thing in the way of more meaningful connections?

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Is your internal compass actually yours?
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

Is your internal compass actually yours?

If you don’t take the time to examine what you are striving for, it is very easy to end up down a path that you don’t recognise and have no idea how the hell you got here.

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What it really takes to co-create
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

What it really takes to co-create

It’s tempting to make a co-creation decision based on what you need from the other person. Can they bring something to the table that I don’t?

But the reality spends so much more time in the realm of…

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Self growth without the self obsession
Caitlin Duryea Caitlin Duryea

Self growth without the self obsession

As millennial women, Caitlin and Chantelle have lived the full arc of the self-improvement and convenience era; the body checking apps, the therapy speak, the Instagram wisdom, the delivery apps.

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