Walnut Wednesday
by Lara Gieseke
On a Wednesday, Lazz and her guests share how they had courage and 'walnutted', to encourage you to move, decide to be brave and be a part of The Walnut Tree.Lazz is the creator, owner and life giver of Walnut Wednesday which is now so much more than a podcast. It is incredible real-life humans, changing the world, one baby brave step at a time. She's been bravely walnutting and leading other women to grow their own confidence ever since."I am so many things, but if I had to narrow it down to a few I'd suggest, I'm a healer, self-leader, podcast host and more importantly, a Walnut".
Episodes
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#308 Fight, Flight & Not Fitting into Square Boxes with Cloe Willetts
This (walnut)Wednesday we welcome back the gorgeous Cloe, for more deep discussions - some of which didn't come full circle, sorry - her ADHD diagnosis, grief workshops and taking some time off the dating scene. Hang out with Cloe on the internet @wordswithcloe and let us know what you think of...
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Episode #307 She’s Neurospicy and Authentically Living Life with Moana Nicholson
This week I got to chat with my ol friend, Moana, about her journey through her ADHD diagnosis and what life after diagnosis looks like for her. We talk about ADHD burnout, getting diagnosed as an adult - a slither of motherhood and postpartum - the different presentations of ADHD, masking…
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#306 Evoke Audio and EMDR with Matt Eller
This (walnut)Wednesday we welcome my (not)old friend since primary and high school, Matt Eller. I got to pick Matt's brain on living out my drama school dreams where he did a diploma to finally actually "living the dream" with his company, Evoke Audio. We also touched on a squishy topic after…
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#305 With a Whimper not a Bang with Kate Bromley
WE'RE BACK! For the first episode of 2026, I am so happy to welcome back, Kate Bromley, to help facilitate this episode. The theme of this episode is "a lot... but nothing" and just celebrating a warm return back to the mic! I hope you enjoy being a fly on the wall for another Kate & Lazz chat....
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#304 Self Employment and Survival Mode with Colby Robbins
This week I have the lovely Colby chatting with me all about how she got into author services and self employment. From dog sitting to content pulls she's found herself in a really happy place in life. I intended to have a bookish chat about starting a business, but of course, we do a deep dive…
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#303 A Solemn Sixth Birthday
If you share this episode and celebrate WALNUT WEDNESDAY TURNS SIX YEARS OLD with me on November 5th 2025 I will send you a walnut mug or book (whatever I have left on the shelf). Six years of leading myself and may there be many more! Trust: I am safe, I am secure. In love I trust. My faith...
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#302 Keeping My Head Up
Hi hi hi I am over the moon to have found a moment to catch you up. Current lesson: some people need you broken and "you don't need to remain broken, just because it is all you've ever known" (thanks to Alex Reads Tarot on Tiktok). Talk to you soon! Love, Lazz xo PS CHASING THE WILD BY ELLIOTT…
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#301 Oh Vienna with Kat Farron
This week, I'm so excited to speak with a friend from HIGH SCHOOL who is out in the world doing all sorts of amazing stuff! Welcome, Kat Farron! Kat spent almost 10 years climbing the ranks in retail marketing, thriving in high-pressure environments and pushing through the quiet warning signs of...
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#300 I'm Proud of You
IT IS EPISODE 300 and is the last of the weekly episodes. This week we take a walk down reflecion lane and I let you know about the latest in Lazz land. I am so proud to be the walnut woman talking with you today. I hope within these 300 episodes lies the catalyst for YOU to do something brave....
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#299 Postpartum Honesty with Sam Cotton
This week I get to chat with a wonderful friend of mine, Sam Cotton, who shared an honest overview of her postpartum experience. I'm so grateful for women who come and share their stories with us - and this episode is no exception! Sam and I chat about her story in hopes to help new (or…
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#298 Kindness, Courage and Seats Studio with Amberley Macphearson
This week I am so excited to have one of my besties online to chat to me all about starting her business and the journey she's been on up until now. Amberley is a hairdresser, business owner and all round bad bish surviving some of the most difficult things life could throw at you. Check out...
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#297 What Do You Do When No One Is Looking
A small but mighty share - what do you do and how do you behave when no one is watching? BLAD Tracksuit: Way She Goes Clothes [code: WALNUT15] Nails: Glamrdip https://www.glamrdip.com/WALNUT61705
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#296 You Put Up With What You Think YOU Deserve
"you don't love yourself - because you put up with what you think you deserve" This week a passing comment has really stuck with me and made me reflect on my self love and self worth - what do you think?
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#295 My Self Talk is Strong
Saddling up for my most hefty walnutting yet and I have noticed that the FIVE+ years of doing the self-work has built me up to be a resilient walnut woman, who can handle anything while at the same time, give myself grace if things make me uncomfortable; and more importantly, not make it mean...
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#294 I Can Buy Myself Flowers
Not sure why this song kept popping into my head for this episode, Walnut. This week, I am feeling so empowered to be a woman - I am loving the resurgence of "girl power" and how much comradery I feel and see in coversations with other Walnut Women and Walnut Mamas in my current season. The girls...
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#293 Trying to Energy Match
This week's Menty B is sponsored by my parents offering to pay for a new carseat that I need. In this season, where my time is so much more precious, I have had reflected back to me, all the relationships where the energy I put in is not matched. This has overwhelmed me so much, that accepting…
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#292 Working 9 to 5
Hi hi Walnut, pardon the water works but this episode got me in my feels (again). I've had my first week back in corporate work and while there are so many good things and things that work about it on paper; on the inside I am really sad about it. I also mentioned I have created a new podcast...
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#291 Just Carry On
This week is a short story time where I felt seen by my friend. I have been getting stuck in a "just carry on" mentality and I have noticed that I stopped asking for help - which doesn't mean I don't need it!
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#290 Try Not To Cry
I'm sick, I'm tired and we went on a family holiday with friends.
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#289 Business and Bear & Moo with Hannah Porter
This week I get to chat with Hannah, from the New Zealand Brand, Bear & Moo. We real-talk about business, cloth nappies and everything in between! Hannah says: I am the Founder & Director of Bear & Moo, an online store based in Hamilton for your everyday family. As a new Mum, I found there were...
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#288 Veerie Edits, Books & a Fly on the Wall with Vee Barbas
I am so excited to be speaking with the gorgeous Vee, this week! We talk all about creating a social media platform, editing, books and some of Vee's favourite reads. Vee is an indie editor and all things book lover. She loves working with her authors to bring their stories to the next level…
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#287 A Change of Scenery
I AM BACK AND FEELING FRESH after an afternoon getting out of the house with a sunshine and rainbow safe space friend. The quote I could not remember on this episode was: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results," Check out some of my bookish templates and...
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#286 Little Rose & Low Tox Living with Lynnaire Odell
I'm so excited to be having this chat with the beauty behind Little Rose! We tallk all about starting her brand, I get to ask my burning questions about her amazing low tox products and what it's like to live a low tox life. @littlerose_natural website: www.littlerose.nz At Little Rose our…
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#285 Comprehending & Communicating in Conversations with Kate Bromley
The beautiful Kate is back and IN PERSON with me! Welcome to another fly-on-the-wall chat about communicating and who comms are actually easier for. We talk about comprehension and pressure and where that leaves us in conversations. Connect with Kate on Instagram @misskbromley and if you are in…
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#284 Chill The Eff Out
I'm just calling myself out in this episode. At the end I thank you for listening to my "garbage" and then redact the statement. I'm just going through it right now, Walnut; and trying to figure out where all the versions of myself can flow and exist together - it's a bit hard!...
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#283 The Relief of Home
This week's overshare is about how I did an exercise where I was asked to think of "my happy place" and interestingly enough, what came to mind was... MY OWN BED!
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#282 Pulled In Two Conflicting Directions
This episode is a reflection of the relief I felt when I came home from a walnutting - Louie and I went out (again). I felt the dread from everything I said and I felt the squishiness of not wanting to go back to normal. I am finding it very hard to try and be brave and get out there, while also...
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#281 Being Kind is a Flex
This week I was reflecting on an episode where I was actually triggered by being called nice. I talked about how kindness isn't a weakness and went to great passionate lengths (which I still stand by) about being called nice. But after going through the condition and since being a mother, being...
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#280 "Way She Goes" with Jen, owner, Way She Goes Clothes
This week I am so excited to be having a chat with the gorgeous Jen, from Way She Goes Clothes. I basically love bombed Jen ever since my first purchase and have never looked back... sorry Jen! We talk all about starting a business and all of the thought that has gone into this brand. Jen is the...
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#279 Talk When You Don't Feel Like Talking
Your voice matters, my voice matters and a little slither of feminism scattered into this short and sweet podcast episode.
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#278 A Free and Fluid Life After Three Births with Jess McKenzie
This week we speak with Jess, a mid-thirties, rural living, homeschooling mama of three wild boys aged six and under who is learning to balance being a coordinator of chaos while doing healing work and parenting. Jess has had two birthing centre births (one with interventions) and a homebirth.…
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#277 Another Mom Walnutting
I ATTENDED A MUMS AND BUBS YOGA CLASS! I felt fear, I felt nervous, but I did one tick box at a time and got my little butt - and my bubba's butt - to the class! Mums and Bubs at Wild Wellbeing in Kapiti
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Episode #276 The Journey Is What Makes Us A Walnut with Stephanie Napolitano
This week I have author, Stephanie visiting us, where we talked all about her book "Pretend For Me" (and those coming soon). We had a chat about postpartum, marriage and creating despite going through hard things. A theme I really enjoyed during our conversation was how two things can be true at...
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#275 Being Social Gave Me Dread
I have attended another social event as a new mom and discovered being social gives me dread akin to hangxiety!
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#274 Calling Myself Out On Being A Bad Friend
Just doing some reflecting today and looking at the baskets I want to put more of my eggs in!
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#273 The Last Bottle of Breastmilk
I'd been quietly removing a pump each day, trying to regulate my nervy system (& boobies) into not pumping anymore. Breastfeeding/pumping/mixed feeding comes with so much extra baggage as the Mother of the Vampire, no matter how logically you think about it, it still hits you in your worthiness...
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#272 Jiggle Forward instead of Bounce Back
I got my first period. It makes me feel like I'm another step closer to "going back to normal" and it makes me uncomfortable because I feel so far from "normal"
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#271 Being Selfless to be Selfish
Something new I'm trying because my relationship is taking a hit postpartum - being selfless in the name of being selfish.
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#270 The Energy of "Let's See" with Kate Bromley
The theme of this episode is about being happy instead of right and letting things reveal themselves to us. Connect with Kate on Instagram @misskbromley or in my free Facebook Group, The Walnut Tree.
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#269 Birth Story Part 3 Anxiety, BF & Quiet Quitting
Following episodes #262 and #266 this episode is part three of Vampire Louie's Birth Story: about developing anxiety and my breastfeeding journey.
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#268 I Don't Feel Like A Person
Coming at you from a neutral place where "I don't feel like a person" www.walnutwednesday.com/podcast/
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#267 My First Solo Drive
I have taken Vampire Louie on two outings BY MYSELF! I was anxious and scared but I did it anyway! www.walnutwednesday.com/podcast/
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#266 Birth Story Part Two
Following episode #262 this episode is part two of Vampire Louie's Birth Story: the two days at the Birthing Unit and coming home. I will have to do part three about developing anxiety and my breastfeeding journey. If you'd like to share your story and be a guest visit...
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#265 First Long Drive and Mom Math
I googled what is Mom Math: "Mom math" is the formula for the complicated equation that equals simply running an errand, or leaving the house for any task at all. www.walnutwednesday.com/podcast/
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#264 Life is Short
Life is short - full stop.
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#263 The Mushroom Garden
The Fourth Trimester... what a ride! hemorrhoids. That is all.
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#262 5th Birthday & Birth Story
WALNUT WEDNESDAY TURNS FIVE TODAY! Please screenshot, share & tag me @walnutwednesday to celebrate with me. This episode is Vampire Louie's Birth Story xo
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#261 I Have Anxiety AND a Village
My first episode post-vampire! the only way through it, is THROUGH it Sleep deprivation is a form of torture say yes, receive and bask in grattitude ask for what you need www.walnutwednesday.com
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#260 Birth, Breast Feeding and a Baby with Steph Burchmore
I'm so grateful to have one of my gorgeous friends, Steph, visit the podcast after chatting to her about all things condition related. We talk about her birth story, how I am trying to milk myself, post natal depression and my fear of losing my identity. Steph is a mum to a one year old who...
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#259 Stimulation Without Obligation with Kate Bromley
The Beauty is back! We welcome Kate back to the podcast and this time we took up the challenge to talk mid-menty-b rather than on reflections and the lessons that have come with it. We discuss how to keep going when you're "in it" - what we are both doing, how we are both struggling to make…
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About this show
On a Wednesday, Lazz and her guests share how they had courage and 'walnutted', to encourage you to move, decide to be brave and be a part of The Walnut Tree.Lazz is the creator, owner and life giver of Walnut Wednesday which is now so much more than a podcast. It is incredible real-life humans, changing the world, one baby brave step at a time. She's been bravely walnutting and leading other women to grow their own confidence ever since."I am so many things, but if I had to narrow it down to a few I'd suggest, I'm a healer, self-leader, podcast host and more importantly, a Walnut".
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Lara Gieseke
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