We always feel good after these podcast episodes. We think it's because we talk more real stuff. More truth. More love. This episode is delicious. Yes, it's about Buddha's Birthday and religion but mostly it is about love. Love is everything. Life is love. Love is life. We're so grateful you choose to listen to the Get Merry show. We're eternally grateful for everything we have... and in fact everything we do not have. Oh life. Thanks to YOU for being part of the Merry ride. Stuff we talked abou...
Apr 30, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 145
This Get Merry podcast episode is brought to you by our 4-week Yoga and Pilates inspired home fitness program... MerryBody! Round 2 starts on June 4. It's going to be better than ever. Not only do you get the new workouts, you also get the new mindset sessions PLUS the daily motivation to actually take action. Get on the wait list NOW over at themerrymakersisters.com/merry-body/ This episode was super fun! We say this about every episode don't we (HAH). We start with enthusiasm and somehow get o...
Apr 25, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 144
This podcast is brought to you by Bean Ninjas. If you have a biz or side hustle check them out! Far out this episode is craycray, maybe we are just being more us, speaking our truth. Who knows but we had a lot of fun and we reckon you will too! If you need some inspiration (aka a friendly kick up the butt) to work on stuff you love... LISTEN! A couple things inspired this epic Get Merry chat. Carla is reading a life changing book at the moment (she won't stop banging on about it). She also react...
Apr 18, 2018•36 min•Season 1Ep. 143
How often do you worry about what others think about you? Does it stop you from doing stuff? Does it impact your behaviour? Does it stop you living your truth? Does it stop you living your life? What about when people actually start talking about you? What the heck do you do in these situations? How can you move through this in an easier way? During this Get Merry podcast we discuss this topic. We also give some pretty good tips too. Tune in, then let us know what you think! Send us a message on...
Apr 09, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 142
We've never really sat down and had a discussion about our values. So this episode is super SUPER real! All our episodes are REAL but usually, they're born from a coffee date chat and one of us will say "this is a podcast episode idea!" then we discuss again in an episode. In this #GetMerry podcast episode we literally sat down and Carla said "shall we talk about our values" and boom we hit record. We believe it is extremely important to know what our core values are because once we know, we can...
Apr 05, 2018•36 min•Season 1Ep. 141
This podcast is brought to you by Bean Ninjas. They seriously rock our biz world! If your financial foundations are not set for your online biz or blog, check them out! Ok, we were kinda crazy in this episode. Must have been the high of our epic MerryBody launch. We chat about perfectionism and why the goal of perfection is holding you back. In big big big ways. It's a whole heap of fun, tune in! If you know anyone suffering from the perfection disease, send this episode to them! Stuff we talked...
Mar 27, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 140
A must listen if you're a yo-yo dieter or calorie counter. We know you're over it. We've been wanting to tell this story for a while, so Emma decided to interview Carla and really find out HOW she lost 8 kilos from bringing yoga and pilates into her life. And how this was the beginning of MerryBody themerrymakersisters.com/merry-body She talks about how she used to think she HAD to diet or eat a certain way and exercise a certain amount of hours per week in order to be 'healthy'. She talks about...
Mar 20, 2018•23 min•Season 1Ep. 139
This podcast episode is brought to your by MerryBody. The 4 week Yoga and Pilates home fitness program. If you could hear your thoughts on a recording what they be saying? Would they be thoughts of kindness, compassion and love? Or thoughts of anger, hate and dislike? We've worked hard at changing our self-hating thoughts. And woah, did it take practise to turn them into self-love. And guess what though? The hate and judgement still creep in. Seriously, why do we always judge ourselves? This epi...
Mar 20, 2018•39 min•Season 1Ep. 138
This episode is brought you by our podcast partner GoodnessMe Box (goodnesmebox.com). This month's box was EPIC! Coffee, tea, chocolate, healthy delish crackers... and more! The best bit is that you can get $10 off your first box! Just use the code: MERRY when you checkout. It's an awesome box filled with the latest health and wellbeing products! This week we got a question via Instagram asking us about weight loss, not from a diet but from making lifestyle changes. She wanted to know exactly wh...
Mar 05, 2018•45 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Have you ever stopped and looked at your TV watching habit? How much TV do you reckon you'll watch in your whole lifetime? Yeh... it's probably about 8 years if you live to around 85 and watch about 2 hours a day. YES... 8 YEARS! Listen and find out why we don't watch TV. Stuff we talked about... the fact that if you watch TV 2 hours every day and live till you're 90, you would have watched about 6 YEARS of TV in your lifetime. We know CRAZY! how to change the TV habit. how mindless TV watching ...
Feb 21, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 136
This episode will help you stay motivated when it comes to exercise and eating well. It's brought to you by our new 5 minute workouts! When you sign up HERE (themerrymakersisters.com/5minutes) you'll be sent 8 Yoga and Pilates inspired sequences that will easily fit into your every day. Yep, they're quicker than a cup of coffee! learn to move your body in a loving, FUN way. Ok, this episode was epic. We had a lot of fun recording it! It's perfect for you if you've been feeling kinda blahhh and j...
Feb 15, 2018•54 min•Season 1Ep. 135
This episode is brought you by our podcast partner GoodnessMe Box. The best bit is that you can get $10 off your first box! Just use the code: MERRY when you checkout. It's an awesome box filled with the latest health and wellbeing products! This month there was so much goodness... like peanut butter and natural tinted lip balm. In this episode, we talked about the reasons why we might be unhappy and also how to get happy again. Stuff we talked about... the feeling of boredom and dullness... whi...
Feb 09, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 134
This podcast episode is for you if you're thinking about quitting your job. It was a super fun episode to record! This episode is brought you by our podcast partner Bean Ninjas (beanninjas.com). The decision to use the Bean Ninjas book keeping management service was game changer for us. Turned our accounts from struggle town to bliss town. Check them out! Stuff we talked about... The story about how we actually quit our jobs. Fun! How much money we saved before we quit the jobs. The fears around...
Feb 04, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Ok, we've voted... and it's time to stop hating your body. If you've been following along with us on the podcast and the blog for a while now you would know that we've spent a lot of time hating our bodies. It's taken a while and we still fall back... but finally we can both say that we love our bodies. We've spoken about this subject several times, coz it's bloody important and we're sick of seeing amazing people put their amazing lives off just because they think they need to lose those extra ...
Jan 24, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Today we chat with our good friend Cate, she's 10 years old (and AMAZING we love her) and has a heap of life lessons for us. She tells it straight. Stuff we talked about...what is the purpose of life? what is the purpose of life? what does love feel like? what's school like for a 10 year old? #1 life tip what is the scariest natural disaster? Cate asked us if we love our jobs and what was life like before Merrymakers. It was a super fun and cute episode. We wonder how Cate has so much wisdom at ...
Jan 15, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Oh, you guys know our Pilates love is strong! During this episode, we talk all things Pilates. Tune in! Stuff we talked about... How Pilates changed our lives. The physical, emotional and mental benefits of Pilates. How Pilates is sustainable and a forever exercise thing, as opposed to something like Cross Fit. How Pilates and building core strength also builds confidence. How Pilates and yoga have become a self-love practice. We no longer exercise from a place of fear. We're working on an aweso...
Jan 10, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 130
To goal or not to goal? That is the question. During this Get Merry podcast episode, we chat all things 2018. Stuff we talked about... Our theme's for the year. What we want the year to feel like. What actually brings joy to us both. What creates the sense of freedom. The importance of identifying our own values. Our new reading challenge. If you have any topics you'd like us to discuss let us know! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 04, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Such a fun episode! Here's our 2017 wrapped into an hour! Stuff we talked about... We go through the major projects from the year. The book, the challenges, the app, the nothingness! Emma touches on her break up. How she was sad but now super grateful for it all. Yoga and Pilates teacher training. The amazingness! Creating space to make room for magic. Themes for 2018: Freedom and Joy. Biggest lessons. Favourite books. Favourite movie/doco. Stay up to date with all our podcast episodes. Subscrib...
Dec 27, 2017•59 min•Season 1Ep. 128
We got new tattoos! Yay so fun and cool, we love them. We got a bunch of questions about them on social media so we decided to record a podcast episode about the meanings and stories behind them. We both got exactly the same tattoos. HAHA, no we don't do everything together but yes we are super best sissy friends. It's bloody awesome. How good are sibling friends? It seriously brings joy and warmth to our hearts when we meet other siblings who are proper best friends. Yay, all of us. We are so #...
Nov 28, 2017•19 min•Season 1Ep. 127
We've been getting asked a stack of questions like... What exercise do you do? What do you eat? Why do you love Pilates and Yoga so much? How many classes do you do a week? You've toned up, how did you do it? So we gathered we should just answer everything on a podcast episode, and here it is! Stuff we talked about... How many pilates and yoga classes we do each week. What we eat. Letting go of guilty feels. The changes we've made to our diets. Why all that really matters is your mindset. How it...
Nov 19, 2017•32 min•Season 1Ep. 126
We've been reading (slash listening) to the book: Think and Grow Rich and it's ahhh-mazing! We're 100% sure it's changing our lives in magical ways. It's a self-help, self-development book written in 1937 by Napolean Hill. We know... that's ages ago but it's still super relevant. As you can tell by the title it's about growing in riches BUT it's not just about our incomes. The philosophy, stories and techniques Hill writes about can be transferred to ANYTHING. This book is about living our full ...
Nov 08, 2017•38 min•Season 1Ep. 125
This episode is a general life and business update. It's fun, we ramble, we also probably go on many tangents. Stuff we talk about... where we are at with our biz, why we stopped everything to create space. Space = magic. health update, the importance of health. HEALTH IS NUMBER ONE YO! moving house, magical friends, good vibes. connecting with intuition, living in alignment (again). noticing the signs. BOOM shake the freaking room. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 10, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Jasmin Kechel creator of Lemon Canary is some kinda magic. We had so much fun chatting and listening to her views on all things from chakras to business and we even got to the whole meaning of life thing. Cool, hey. If you haven't heard of Lemon Canary you are gonna wanna check it out. Especially if you love beautiful things. You would have seen some of her amazing essential chakra oils, soy candles and mists featured on our Instagram stories. But the current showstopper has got to be the Aphrod...
Oct 01, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Why should you listen to this episode with Dr Rach: if you are human. Seriously. Everyone should listen to this episode. We are so #blessed to have Dr Rachel Whyndam in our lives, as a friend and doctor. She's a naturopath and a medical doctor. We feel like this episode is so important for everyone to listen to. We adore Dr Rach, she brings a warm, grounded, fun and strong energy to the room, you'll be able to feel it when you listen. She shares information about health and illness in a non-scar...
Sep 14, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 122
Why you should listen to this episode: if you ever find yourself thinking you should be at 'this' point of life when you reach 'this' age. We chat with the AMAZING Rachael Jansen who shares her story on being 'ageless' and why it's more about stages... rather than ages. This is the stuff we talked about: how women are stereotyped by their age. how women are seen (or we see ourselves) as invisible when we reach a certain age. why the term 'middle aged' is irrelevant. how our thoughts and beliefs ...
Sep 13, 2017•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 121
Listen to this episode if you want to find out what our morning and evening rituals are. Or if you love rituals. Or if you are keen to start a morning or some kind of ritual. We start by announcing our 30 day podcasting challenge is a fail. But then we also realise it isn't a fail. It's actually the opposite. Stuff we talk about: We talk about the benefits of having a routine or ritual. How they create a calm and steady feel for the day/evening. Meditation, how to do it if you don't think you ca...
Sep 12, 2017•28 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Why you should listen to this episode: if you've ever thought that you need to 'be strong' when all you really wanna do is take off your mask and be real. Amber joins us on the couch again for magical episode 111! Here's the stuff we talk about: recognising your fears. how we tell ourselves stories like "I'm just impatient" or "I'm just..." we questioned whether being strong could be changed to choosing love. we bang on about self acceptance and self-awareness again and we realise that sometimes...
Sep 10, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 119
Why you should listen to this episode: if you're the type of person who is continuously looking and asking for external validation. If you're thinking about what others think about you, seeking their approval, forever comparing and just feeling stuck. Listen, get un-stuck, realise that the only approval that truly matters is your own. Don't worry, we've been there PLUS we still go back. We share our personal experiences and just have a general chat. The obsession with external validation is not ...
Sep 08, 2017•32 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Why you should listen to this episode: if you ever question putting energy into your friendships. Emma and Carla chat about creating awesome friendships. How they went from putting no effort into creating relationships to now, focussing on cultivating magical friendships that make them smile huge. They talk about this cool quote from Into The Wild: "happiness is only real when it's shared." Mic drop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 07, 2017•24 min•Season 1Ep. 117
You should listen to this episode if you need more motivation to change your lifestyle AND you love the crazy ramblings of Emma and Carla. During this episode Emma and Carla talk about how changing their food and lifestyle lead them to finding their purpose in life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 06, 2017•15 min•Season 1Ep. 116
