A dark room, 25 strangers, and the first question is "who among you is a traitor?" Shoulders at ears. Palms sweating. Nowhere to hide. We're back for Season 2, and this season is all about relationships: the shapes they take, what makes them meaningful, and what gets in the way. Caitlin and Chantelle kick things off with a live Traitors experience that turned into a crash course in social dynamics: how we defend ourselves, when we follow the crowd, and the old patterns that resurface even whe...
20 Aug 2026
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? This episode delves into topics that may be triggering. Topics such a disordered eating, body contorting, body image and body health are discussed. Please go gently gently. If anything in this episode brings something difficult to the surface, please reach out to a therapist, friend or someone who loves you. We pull on a thread t...
13 Aug 2026
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. In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle get into one of the most anxiety-producing and least-discussed parts of adult life: how to actually connect with people. Not theoretically. In the room. Before the room. And in the spiral that happens after. They get into the specifi...
6 Aug 2026
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 — teacher, lobbyist, prison reformist, marketing executive, and self-described professional pain in the ass, for a painfully honest chat about the inextricable ties between work and our identities. Giana spent two and a half years engineering her own exit from corporate before she le...
30 Jul 2026
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 Caitlin and Chantelle sit down with writer and creative coach Lois Mac to unpack one of the most misunderstood parts of being a creative, thinking person: your voice. Not how you sound. Not your tone or your niche. The actual perspective underneath everything you've borrowed, adopted, and decided because someone else told you to. We get into: Why "authent...
24 Jul 2026
Are you play deprived?
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. In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle get into one of 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. We get into: The gendered conditioning that turns women's leisure in...
15 Jul 2026
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. In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle get into what it really means to sit in discomfort - with yourself, with the people you love, and in the rooms you're responsible for holding. We start where most conversations a...
9 Jul 2026
What if your brain is different, not wrong?
What if the reason you felt different growing up wasn't because something was wrong with you but because the world was simply built for a brain that isn't yours? In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle are joined by Rachel Moore - systems thinker, people & culture leader, and universe builder - for an honest and generous conversation about neurodivergence, identity clarity, and what it actually means to understand how your brain works. We get into why so many people, women especially, are o...
2 Jul 2026
When is a story helping or hindering?
We dive into some pretty tender personal stories in this episode. But nothing we aren’t ready to share. We were sitting in the airport lounge and discussing the dreaded feedback on tender stories. As we have both been writing our ‘About’ pages on our website we realised how hard it is to decide which stories to centre that provide an accurate reflection of who you are, how you think, how you got here, and the vision of the impact you want to create. If we know that the lens in which we see th...
24 Jun 2026
Is your internal compass actually yours?
Pissing off to Portugal in the middle of our 6 week sprint to shake ass on a rooftop might seem like avoidance to you. But we made a deal to go wherever connection lives. So there we were. 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. This episode is about asking the right questions to strengthen your internal compass without shaming the past versions of yourself that ...
19 Jun 2026
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: Do I know myself enough to ask for what I need?Do I know how/when to choose a battle?Can I regulate my own emotions and feelings in real time?Do I have the self-awareness to learn in partnership with someone else?Can you do all of this and still have a laugh?All that and more. New episode out no...
12 Jun 2026
Self growth without the self obsession
When was the last time you cancelled plans and called it protecting your peace? When did you stop asking for help because it felt easier not to bother anyone? When did "boundaries" become the reason you didn't show up? 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. And they've watched something quietly shift. The tools designed to help us know o...
26 May 2026
Introducing Existential Thread
The architecture of human belonging because it’s cool to care, and fun to give a fuck. Prepare to get out of your journal and into your life. Chantelle and Caitlin, Co-founders of Meus Studios, are two yappers obsessed with the way people experience the world and believe in the necessity of navigating this wild ride with others. Each episode is for the endlessly curious and delightfully unhinged who believe in self growth without the self obsession, are playful but not playing and despi...
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