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You can now JOIN our SECRET Patreon Community! ➡️ https://patreon.com/itsadrama
There's a 25% EARLYBIRD discount for the month of December!!
It's been quite a year for us.
If you have followed the podcast for a while, you will know that we have suffered two big losses. Both Liz's mum and dad passed within 6 months of each other.
And before you know it, it's Christmas time. Which is always the hardest.
Determined to celebrate Christmas in a way that we have never done before, in a country the four of us love, we have decided to leave New Zealand to spend a month-long-once-in-a-lifetime family break in...?
Did you know we now have a SECRET podcast? Behind The Drama is a fabulous member-only podcast where Brian and I take you deeper into the more personal stories about life as a married, entrepreneurial couple.
A couple who juggle travel, family, business, mental health and marriage.
A couple who have two adult kids that still live at home.
But that's okay.
Because they don't mind being slaves.
Honest.
If you are of a certain age who dreams of throwing conventional life into the air and swapping it for optimism, yes-ness, adventure, and a ton of much-needed knicker-wetting humour, then this is the podcast for you - It is real, it is honest, it is tough, and it is JUST what you need.
Trust me, you LOVE this! Find out more by going to https://patreon.com/itsadrama
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
We would love you to join us in this new stage of our lives and share everything we're too scared to share in public. You can do that by visiting our page at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsadrama/Thank you ❤️
PS: We are offering a 25% EARLYBIRD DISCOUNT to all our memberships for the month of December! We would love to have you with us!
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/podcast
Links mentioned in the show:
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
Sign up for Liz's FREE email newsletter. Weekly laughs, inspiration and honest-life-stories. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It's a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
😌 Need some calm and relaxation? We USE and LOVE the Headspace meditation app. It's been a lifesaver for me these last few months. HEADSPACE is packed with goodness and is FREE for the first 7 days. Give Headspace a go HERE ➡️https://itsadrama.com/headspace
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
🏡 We LOVE Housesitting. If you want to join us in using TrustedHousesitters to travel the world, check out these beautiful houses currently available worldwide & waiting for YOU to HOUSESIT!
Once you are convinced that housesitting its for you, use our exclusive discount code to get a WHOPPING 25% off HOUSESITTING by going here!
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
Follow us on:
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You can now JOIN our SECRET Patreon Community! ➡️ https://patreon.com/itsadrama
There's a 25% EARLYBIRD discount for the month of December!!
It's good to be back in New Zealand.
Three things happened to us last week that made us want to fall to our knees and kiss our home soil.
Sit back and allow us to share what they were and why we adore the country of New Zealand so very much.
PS: Please ignore Brian's face when we talk about the walking man. He's constipated.
(Brian, not the walking man) ❤️🇳🇿
We would love you to join us in this new stage of our lives and share everything we're too scared to share in public. You can do that by visiting our page at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/itsadrama/Thank you ❤️
PS: We are offering a 25% EARLYBIRD DISCOUNT to all our memberships for the month of December! We would love to have you with us!
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/Links mentioned in the show:
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
Sign up for Liz's FREE email newsletter. Weekly laughs, inspiration and honest-life-stories. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It's a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
😌 Need some calm and relaxation? We USE and LOVE the Headspace meditation app. It's been a lifesaver for me these last few months. HEADSPACE is packed with goodness and is FREE for the first 7 days. Give Headspace a go HERE ➡️https://itsadrama.com/headspace
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
🏡 We LOVE Housesitting. If you want to join us in using TrustedHousesitters to travel the world, check out these beautiful houses currently available worldwide & waiting for YOU to HOUSESIT!
Once you are convinced that housesitting its for you, use our exclusive discount code to get a WHOPPING 25% off HOUSESITTING by going here!
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
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We thought the sad news was over. Had floated away like water under a bridge. Babble, babble, babble. Brook, brook, brook. No more crying into a microphone. No more looking worried. No more sorrowful recalls.
But no. I'm sorry to say that this week's episode is a sad one. The floodgates are open once more.
This episode was so very hard to record. But record it, we did. Because it is important for us to be honest with you. Transparent. Real. You grant us the space to be who we are, to share everything that life throws at us. Both good and bad. You have given us your trust.
And for that, we love you.
So, as hard as it was to make this episode, it felt right to do so. We hope you feel the same.
Thank you, my friend. Thank you for allowing us, once again, to lean on you this week. We love and cherish you.
Liz and Brian x
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/more-unwanted-news/
Links mentioned in the show:
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
Sign up for Liz's FREE email newsletter. Weekly laughs, inspiration and honest-life-stories. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
🍕🍕 Black Sands Pizza in Oakura: https://blacksandpizzeria.co.nz/
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It's a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
😌 Need some calm and relaxation? We USE and LOVE the Headspace meditation app. It's been a lifesaver for me these last few months. HEADSPACE is packed with goodness and is FREE for the first 7 days. Give Headspace a go HERE ➡️https://itsadrama.com/headspace
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
🏡 We LOVE Housesitting. If you want to join us in using TrustedHousesitters to travel the world, check out these beautiful houses currently available worldwide & waiting for YOU to HOUSESIT!
Once you are convinced that housesitting its for you, use our exclusive discount code to get a WHOPPING 25% off HOUSESITTING by going here!
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
Follow us on:
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MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country? SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE!
It's all happening in New Plymouth's Pac'n'Save. Mostly around the frozen chicken aisle.
Join Liz and Brian this week as they share a healthy dose of New Zealand gossip. Find out what happens when they meet a fan with marital advice, reveal the outcome of be-friending suspicious shoppers, and live up to their favourite label of being scummy!
Enjoy!
If you'd like to watch this podcast on video, you can do that on Spotify.
Enjoy!
Liz and Bri xx
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/life-in-nz
Links mentioned in the show:
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
Sign up for Liz's FREE email newsletter. Weekly laughs, inspiration and honest-life-stories. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
🍕🍕 Black Sands Pizza in Oakura: https://blacksandpizzeria.co.nz/
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It's a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
😌 Need some calm and relaxation? We USE and LOVE the Headspace meditation app. It's been a lifesaver for me these last few months. HEADSPACE is packed with goodness and is FREE for the first 7 days. Give Headspace a go HERE ➡️https://itsadrama.com/headspace
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
🏡 We LOVE Housesitting. If you want to join us in using TrustedHousesitters to travel the world, check out these beautiful houses currently available worldwide & waiting for YOU to HOUSESIT!
Once you are convinced that housesitting its for you, use our exclusive discount code to get a WHOPPING 25% off HOUSESITTING by going here!
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
Follow us on:
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So this is the BEST Island in Fiji?
Today's episode is brought to you ON LOCATION. We are IN Fijji. Actually there. With the plan trees and everything.
I've always wanted to say that. "On location".
It reminds me of Judith Chalmers when she'd stand by a fishing boat somewhere in the Bahamas wearing a turquoise sarong. Flashing her polished dentures at the camera while we all watched through the telly in England. Drooling. Depressed. Wishing it was sunny and not dark at four o'clock.
If you'd like to watch this podcast on video, you can do that on Spotify.
Enjoy!
Liz and Bri xx
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/island-in-fiji
Links mentioned in the show:
😌 Need some calm and relaxation? We USE and LOVE the Headspace meditation app. It's been a lifesaver for me these last few months. HEADSPACE is packed with goodness and is FREE for the first 7 days. Give Headspace a go HERE ➡️https://itsadrama.com/headspace
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
🏡 We LOVE Housesitting. If you want to join us in using TrustedHousesitters to travel the world, check out these beautiful houses currently available worldwide & waiting for YOU to HOUSESIT!
Once you are convinced that housesitting its for you, use our exclusive discount code to get a WHOPPING 25% off HOUSESITTING by going here!
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
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Liz and Brian and getting ready to go to a wedding in Fiji.
Of course, there are concerns. Just a few. What with those dancing men and crab-racing women? It's all too much to think about...So Liz, thinks about her old pal, Mo. You know, Mo? The salt-of-the-earth mother-in-law. Mo, with no knickers...THAT Mo.
Join us as we plan a VERY special (and extra sociable) occasion!
Liz and Bri x
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/fiji-wedding-party-here-we-come-oh-fk
Links mentioned in the show:
😌 Need some calm and relaxation? We USE and LOVE the Headspace meditation app. It's been a lifesaver for me these last few months. HEADSPACE is packed with goodness and is FREE for the first 7 days. Give Headspace a go HERE ➡️https://itsadrama.com/headspace
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
Follow us on:
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I am a huge fan of this week's guest. Rachael Herron is a best-selling author who not only moved from the United States to New Zealand with her wife, but she then went on to write a book about it!
I have followed Rachael for a long time. She has a fabulous podcast (link below) about writing, which has helped and inspired me, both in life and on my writing journey, and today, I got to chat with her about her big move down under!
I know you are going to love Rachael as much as I do.
It's impossible not to. She is frank and open and freely shares the obstacles she overcame when moving to New Zealand from America.
Sit back and hear about Rachael's fears and dreams, about being an alcoholic, about meeting friends in New Zealand when you are an introvert, and much, much more.
Enjoy!
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/moving-from-usa-to-new-zealand
Links mentioned in the show:
See Rachael's podcast, courses and her NEW book HERE
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
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Feeling is healing. I've read those words a lot while grieving my mum. And it's true; to a certain extent, it's true. But what people fail to mention is that feeling also hurts like hell. And no one likes to feel pain. Not if they can possibly avoid it.
In this week's behind-the-scenes episode, we share a personal healing practice that Liz has undertaken to help navigate the grief around losing her mum. Writing.
Liz is writing her second book, but what started as a happy, healing book about New Zealand has morphed into something quite different. An unexpected beast. Something that scares Liz to write and scares Brian to stand by and witness.
Thank you for being with us and for listening. You are loved, you are needed, and our hearts always beat with yours.
Your friends,
Liz and Brian x
Visit the podcast page here: https://itsadrama.com/writing-to-heal/
Links mentioned in the show:
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
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What's happening? Why, when I was feeling fine, 'doing ok,' and 'coping', do I suddenly feel like I've been hit by a sledgehammer and fallen down a well of darkness?
It's been almost five months since my mum passed.
This is a behind-the-scenes podcast. One of those we never expected to record. But record we did.
I've never had a public panic attack before. I didn't have a clue what was happening. But I do now, and we wanted to share this podcast episode with you in the hope that it might help you in some small, comforting way.
Thank you for being with us; you are loved, you are needed, and our hearts always beat with yours.
Your friends,
Liz and Brian x
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/having-a-public-panic-attack/
Links mentioned in the show:
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
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Liz and Brian are back in New Zealand. They flew from Chiang Mai via Bangkok and China and, thirty hours later, were home in Taranaki, New Zealand. Tucked up in bed.
But flying home to NZ didn't go smoothly. In fact, it was a sodding fiasco.
What started as a dream-come-true-flight ended with wet knickers and tears.
And not only that, the food on the plane was sh*t.
Sit back and listen to the story of the return flight
Enjoy!
Liz and Brian x
Visit the Show Page here: https://itsadrama.com/flying-to-nz
Links mentioned in the show:
Sign up for Liz’s FREE email newsletter. This is the best way to get to know Liz and have her meet you. I look forward to sharing my words with you ❤️
Love to travel and laugh? Get Liz’s book, THE TRAVEL BOG DIARIES📕 (now available on AUDIO!) A hilarious memoir of how Liz and her family travelled the world for a year (with very little money and far too many hormones!)
❤️ Like what you heard? Please rate and review the It’s a Drama Podcast here, or if you are on Spotify, please review us over there. Your short review helps us massively and encourages us to continue!
🇳🇿 Remember! If you are thinking of MOVING TO NEW ZEALAND and want to know more about the country, SIGN UP below for our FREE 5-DAY VIDEO GUIDE To Life in New Zealand. This will also lead you to more details of the NZAhead Community that Liz and Brian talk about 🇳🇿
💰 Transferring currency? We are proud to team up with TorFX, a foreign exchange service company that offers personal FREE advice and guidance anywhere in the world. If you are looking for a money-saving currency solution where trust and transparency count, we’ve done the homework for you! TorFX. We use them, our community uses them. These guys are great!
Please assume all links on this page are affiliate links. This means we make a small commission at no extra cost if you use the links. Thank you 🙂
Thank you for listening; you are fabulous, and we love you.
Liz and Brian x
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Trusting our Teeth to Thailand and paying to be pummelled.
After three weeks in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Liz and Brian are smiling from ear to ear.
Their bones have been pummeled, their teeth nicely drilled, and they have a ton of cash to spend in weird restaurants...
In this week's show, the couple share all about having their teeth fixed with a dentist in Thailand, the full Thai massage experience, and eating out in weird restaurants.
Enjoy!
Liz and Brian x
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Combining much-needed dental work with a holiday, Liz and Brian left New Zealand and are in Thailand for a month.
Brought to you from their bedroom in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, they are ready to share the story of how they went from feeling utterly stressed and wound up like a screw to feeling chilled and relaxed and floppy like a pair of braless breasts.
Find out what Liz and Brian are doing in Chiang Mai to relax, what happened at the airport, and why the smell of sandalwood might probably make Liz sick forever.
Liz goes braless; Brian goes commando, and the taxi driver's wife goes without saying. Thank you for being with us in Thailand!
Enjoy!
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This week has been horrible, it really has.
I'm sorry, but we have more sad news to share. Thank you for being here and letting us talk about it.
We also share the difficulties of being able to rest. I for one, struggle to differentiate between work and rest, and as I made this episode, I realised that I might be using the excuse of "but I LOVE to create" to distract myself from grief.
Either that or I'm a workaholic.
The truth is, I'm scared of dropping the balls that I've spent years learning to juggle. If this sounds like you, I think you'll enjoy this episode.
This is such a fascinating topic, and I intend to write about it in-depth (obviously not when I'm supposed to be resting with Brian...) for my private newsletter readers.
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For now, please enjoy this episode and thank you again for being you. I love and appreciate you.
Liz x
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Is it Just Me? Wouldn't every mother be the same?
Our son is on holiday in Vegas. And of course, there've been a few dramas.
What was interesting, though, was how Liz and Brian reacted differently to some worrying news.
Go on, Bri. Put the coffee pot on...
Enjoy!
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There's been a bit of a to-do in New Zealand this week.
A shortage of HRT. Scary stuff...
Talking about taking hormone replacement, Brian shares why he takes Testosterone, and the couple discuss their battle to stay true, keep it real and refrain from hitting the delete button whenever they make a mistake.
Enjoy!
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Stay.
This week we were given a huge reminder. Something that changed the way Liz sees things. The stars aligned. Questions were answered.
On one sunny morning in New Zealand, suddenly everything made sense.
This podcast is sent to you with love. We appreciate you always and hope this simple kiwi reminder brings you the comfort that it brought us.
Our hearts beat with yours,
Liz and Brian x
With special love, respect and thanks to The Mutton Birds
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When we booked our month-long trip to Thailand back in May, it seemed like a grand idea. Get away. Change of scenery. Leave the kids.
And now, when it’s almost time to leave, we’re having second thoughts.
Or Liz is.
In this week’s episode, Liz and Brian chat about the realities of going overseas when one of you doesn’t quite feel up to it. Fear, dread, excitement. Fear again. We’re feeling the lot.
We also discuss the effect of probably the best birthday present we have ever given our daughter and Liz’s simple fix to one of her nagging microstresses.
Enjoy!
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Be the help you needed.
That's always been my motto. My blueprint. My words-in-guiding-armour that help me forward whenever I feel stuck. Especiaslly in these terrifying times of deep grief when I hesitate to share my sadness and struggles for fear of losing subscribers or upsetting those here for the laughs.
But.
What I have today has to be shared.
It has to be.
Last week I experienced panic and hope in a way that I never expected. Or knew how to cope with. But I did cope...and by talking about these things I felt empowered and obliged to share.
I wish I'd known about the physiological side of grief. I wish someone had warned me what it does to your brain. Your mood, your thoughts.
I hope by sharing my experiences, I can be the help for you.
Thank you for listening and watching. We love you.
Arohanui
Liz and Brian xx
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I wrote these five letters in the days and weeks after my Mum’s passing. During the darkest and hardest of times. When I needed hope instead of gloom. Light in place of dark. Laughter instead of snot. When I needed my mum.
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It's the first time in eight weeks I've left the house.
Apart from getting groceries, walking in nature, and spending an hour or two working at our local cafe, my safe place to grieve has been at home.
Alone.
In this episode, we wanted to share our first overnight trip away since losing Mum. We went to see our son, Sonny, in Hamilton, New Zealand. In the real world.
Filled with grief but determined to do something normal, this is what the experience looked like.
Thank you for listening and watching. We love you.
Arohanui
Liz and Brian xx
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Lately, when I drop into bed at night, I find myself asking how on earth I got through the last twelve hours. Quite often, I don't remember what I did or half of what I said.
Yet, if you passed me in the street, you'd think I was a normal, everyday person going about her day, coping. Doing grown-up stuff. Making videos. Living without a mum.
This episode was inspired by you.
It is made in recognition of all those who have reached out to me, people who have shown their love and support and shared their grief journey stories. People who, from the outside, look happy and sorted and appear to have it all together.
But, like me, they don't. Not always. And that's okay.
As a good friend said to me, "Grief is a journey, not a destination".
My friend, Brian and I are here today, so neither of us has to make that journey alone.
Always remember, our hearts beat with yours.
Arohanui
Liz and Brian xx
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