Not Working Right Now
Melyse Skaarup and Alicia Jones
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S2E5: Before You Burn It All Down: Find The Grey Area
Burnout has a way of making everything feel black and white: stay miserable, or burn it all down. In this episode, Alicia sits down with Melyse — this time in the hot seat — to unpack the inspiration…
S2E4 S2E4: Detours Become Directions; A conversation with Marisa Bernardo
What happens when life forces a pivot you never planned for — and you still choose to keep going?In this deeply honest conversation, Alicia and Melyse sit down with Marisa, founder of Defining…
S2E3 S2E3: Name It, Don’t Fix It.
Feeling stuck in the messy middle? This episode is your pause button.In Season 2, Episode 3, Alicia and Melyse guide listeners through a simple but powerful self-reflection practice: What’s working…
S2E2 S2E2: Behind the Porches - What Instagram Didn’t Show You
What started as a slightly unhinged idea (buying grocery carts full of pumpkins) turned into a real business, and a crash course in the messy middle.In this episode, Alicia and Melyse go behind the…
S2E1 S2E1: We're Back! (And the Messy Middle Got Messier)
Happy 2026 — we’re back! If you’ve been here since Season 1, you might be wondering where we went. Short answer: life happened. Long answer? The messy middle got really messy.After telling you we…
S1E12 Ep 12: Your Questions, Our Chaos: Our First Community AMA
This week, we’re doing something different — and something fun. We asked you, our Not Working Right Now community, to send us your burning (and sometimes random) questions, and wow, you delivered.In…
S1E11 Ep 11: Starting SSRIs: The First Week Feels 🫣
This week on Not Working Right Now, we’re pulling back the curtain on what it’s like to start an SSRI for anxiety. Melyse is just 10 days into sertraline (Zoloft), and she’s sharing it all: why she…
S1E10 Ep 10: Summer, Sanity, and Saying No: A Messy Middle Pulse Check
In this solo episode, Alicia and Melyse are back to share a pulse check on summer, talk about their sanity (or lack of!), and explore what’s next in their messy middle journeys.Melyse spills details…
S1E9 Ep 9: Screens, Boredom, and Why Your Child's Education Requires Teamwork -- A Real Conversation with a Teacher and Mom
In this episode of Not Working Right Now, we sit down with a grade school teacher Katie, who is also a mom, runner, yogi, and unofficial Christmas sweater influencer to dive into all things school…
S1E8 Ep 8: Burnout, Boundaries & Your Body’s Whispers — a Conversation with Dr. Sarah Vadeboncoeur
In this episode of Not Working Right Now, we sit down with Dr. Sarah Vadeboncoeur, a Naturopathic Doctor who helps women stop running on stress and start feeling like themselves again, because "being…
Ep 7: Beach Chicken And Other Unhinged Parenting Hacks (That Actually Work!)
This one’s for the parents just trying to survive.In this bonus episode, we’re stepping away from career pivots and diving into the gloriously chaotic world of parenting — specifically, all the…
Ep 6: Work Got The Best Of Me, Home Got The Rest—A Conversation with Sara
If you’ve ever felt like the version of you at work is shiny and put-together, while the version of you at home is running on fumes… this one’s for you.In this episode, we sit down with fellow messy…
Ep 5: Let's Talk Money, Honey! 💸
In this episode, we (Alicia + Melyse) open up about what finances actually feel like in this season of life — pausing careers, raising kids, and carrying the invisible weight of all those obligations…
Ep 4: What Is Working Right Now vs. What’s Still a Hot Mess
This week on Not Working Right Now, we’re doing a little pulse check on life. In true messy-middle fashion, we sat down for a candid chat about what’s actually working for us right now… and what’s…
Ep 3: Resting is Harder Than We Thought
We used to think rest meant crashing on the couch after the kids went to bed or booking a vacation we were too burnt out to enjoy. But since hitting pause on work, we’ve had to totally rethink what…
Ep 2: When Life Was “Fine” (But Not Really)
In this episode, we’re going back to before. Before the pause, before the unraveling, before we admitted that “fine” wasn’t cutting it anymore. We’re talking about what life looked like when we were…
S1E1 Ep 1: Life’s a Mess, Let’s Podcast
Welcome to the very first episode of Not Working Right Now—a podcast for moms in the messy middle. You know the stage: you’re done having babies, but not done growing… and something about your…
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Not Working Right Now has published 17 episodes since June 2025, covering topics in Kids & Family, Parenting.
Not Working Right Now is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 23m.
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