Life As We Know It Toni Tenaglia, Lisa Cameron and Steph Halamantaris

After a year and a half we're back! Sooooo much has happened in the past 36 months, Steph got married, Lisa started a business and got loved up and Toni....well not a lot changed in her world except for menopause! Get the latest on our lives. Follow us on instagram @lifeasweknowit.podcast @tonitenaglia @lisaesthercameron @steph.presents and follow us on Facebook "Life As We Know It Podcast" - come join our community and share our life journey.

Why do we do the things we do, what motivates us to keep going? We decided when we first started this podcast, the reason for doing it was for us to share our experiences so anyone listening would know they are not alone and that there are others going through the same experiences. How does your why help define who you are or is your why defined by who you are? Tania Doko, lead singer of Bachelor Girl, joins us in this episode and shares her experiences and her reasons for her whys. She talks about things she does to help keep her focused and sane...hahaha

The Circle of Friendship, it's like the circle of life only with friends. We talk about how there comes a time in your life where you outgrow certain friendships, and how your common interests change. The things that may have once brought you together could now be the things that drive you apart. Do you have that conversation with specific people to say the time has come to move on from your friendship or do you let that relationship die a natural death? Constant lockdowns has changed so many peoples lives in so many different ways and has brought out the good and bad in people. You may be seeing a side to someone that you didn't know existed and are feeling like it's made that friendship toxic. These are just some of the topics we talk about in this podcast, find out how we have evolved from certain friendships.

Being Sweet Sixteen was all about Toni and Lisa being underage and getting into nightclubs, Steph being one of the popular girls at school and being the teacher's pet. Toni was the organiser, Lisa was the party girl and Steph was the Choc Top Chick....yes you read right! Do you remember being Sweet Sixteen? Have a listen to see how much of this episode you relate to...hahaha

In this episode we pre-empt Steph's "hopefully in the very near future" proposal...Toni and Lisa put forward suggestions of how it may happen while sharing their experiences of their marriage proposals. We talk about how we would like to be proposed to again, should that day arrive and we discover the whole fanfare is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be, in fact Toni says she'd be more than happy to be proposed to with a kinder surprise ring. Lisa talks about how she did things arse about with the proposal happening after the wedding date was set and Toni talks about having to pay for her own engagement ring. Steph meanwhile is pondering how she thinks Nick may propose to her.

Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, however it can be detrimental to the point where you lose your authenticity and you don't speak your truth. You spend too much time trying to help someone else rather than helping yourself and living your life....so how do you keep your empathy in check? This is exactly what we discuss in this podcast...how being too empathetic can affected situations in our lives...as an empath how do you block certain situations or people who can cause you to feel ill.