Kate Reeves and We Don't Have Time For This:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katerevz/
Know Thyself Live Show: https://www.wedonthavetimeforthis.com/knowthyself
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/we-dont-have-time-for-this/id1544178687
In this episode, Jules sits down with Kate Reeves, co-founder and co-host of the wildly successful podcast We Don't Have Time For This. Alongside her best friend of more than thirty years, Gemma Peanut, Kate has built one of Australia's most loved podcast communities, turning honest conversations about modern womanhood into sold-out live shows and a thriving business. But behind the laughs is a woman who has navigated real and significant change, including divorce, co-parenting, and rebuilding her life in ways she never expected.
Jules and Kate go deep on what it really takes to keep showing up when life does not go to plan. They talk about the vulnerability hangover that comes from sharing your life publicly. Kate opens up honestly about her divorce, the word she made peace with, and the enormous decision to step outside the lines of the life everyone expected her to live. She shares what co-parenting has taught her, the things our children pick up whether we like it or not, and the hope she carries for the kind of relationships they will one day build.
There is a beautiful theme running through this conversation about getting quiet in a noisy world, why silence has become the new luxury, and how life speaks to us first in whispers and then in shouts until we finally listen. Kate and Jules also explore the magic of building something with a best friend, the cruelty women can show one another online, why no woman is confident as a baseline, and the single most powerful feeling of all, which is not simply being seen but being truly known.
Wise, warm, hilarious and deeply moving, this is a conversation about reinvention, friendship, and giving yourself permission to change.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Intro Kate Reeves of "We Don't Have Time For This"
03:50 — Best Friends Since Eleven: The Origin of Kate and Gemma
06:21 — How the Podcast Was Born Out of Covid and United Mothers
09:34 — The Vulnerability Hangover and Why 40 Means Giving Fewer F*^%$
15:34 — When the Dads on the Sports Field Have Heard Everything
20:09 — "You Were Married to One": Talking Openly About Her Divorce
22:12 — Finding the Word She Felt Comfy With and the Mountain of the Decision
25:27 — What You Resist Persists: Life Speaks in Whispers Then Shouts
26:53 — Silence Is the New Luxury: Where a Mum Finds Space to Think
29:23 — Co-Parenting, What Kids Witness and What They Pick Up
33:52 — Building a Business With Your Best Friend on a Very Small Team
36:29 — Love What You Do: The Hours, the Hustle and the Why
40:55 — Is It the Truth? The Only Guiding Light Behind Every Episode
41:46 — "This Feels Like Church": The Live Shows and Feeling Known
42:51 — Know Thyself: The Meaning Behind This Year's Show
46:05 — The Mean Instagram DM and How Kate Handled It
49:36 — No Woman Is Confident as a Baseline
53:35 — Stronger as a Duo: Why You Don't Have to Do It Alone
55:02 — Every Seven Years You Become a Whole New Person
56:11 — Goals Are Allowed to Change: Permission to Evolve
58:25 — The Know Thyself Live Show and Wrapping Up
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Produced by ME Entertainment
Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau
Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau
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