Highly Enthused

Buckle up, bandits, it's the season finale of Highly Enthused! We're dipping back into some golden oldies this week in terms of TV, Books and Nail Tech, but we're also testing new ways to spice up omelettes and we're thinking a lot about ambition and what that word even means rn. Thank you to Assembly Label for sponsoring this episode, enter the link HIGHLYENTHUSED15 at checkout and you'll get 15% off your online order at assemblylabel.com! Sign up to our newsletter for links to everything mentioned in this episode, or subscribe for $5 a month for a bonus monthly newsletter on a theme! Also, grab our merch while it's still available, hot sexy long-sleeve tees only at highlyenthused.com/shop.

This week we have new Highly Enthused MERCH and multiple types of hot sauce! Our meatballs are spiced like felafels and we've got a restaurant that serves the most decadent tarama on toast. You want a Nicholas Cage movie? We got it. You want "elevated" crispy chocolate treats? We've got that too! We've got it allll. Thank you again to Assembly Label for supporting this episode. Enter the code HIGHLYENTHUSED15 at checkout for 15% off your online order at assemblylabel.com until the end of October. Only valid on Assembly Label brand items. For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com, or become a paid subscriber for just $5 a month to receive a bonus episode on a theme each month! Hit us up on Instagram @highlyenthused, or send us a love note at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

Spring is just about here, so we're feeding our plants a special juice, making sure our luggage doesn't go AWOL with some new tech and brining our chicken in pickle juice. What more could you want? For all the links to everything mentioned in this and every ep, subscribe to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Upgrade to a $5 subscription per month for an extra newsletter per month on a theme! This month is all about planning a holiday! Email us highlyenthused@gmail.com, check us on Instagram @highlyenthused and check back in two weeks for the SEASON FINALE. 

This week our pasta is neon, our bread is savoury and our citrus is tart and juicy. We've got a movie that focuses on the messy middle part of growing up, slippery rice noodles, a yoga studio that hums and SoMo's ongoing quest for the perfect pair of undies. Come along for the ride! For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com, or become a paid subscriber for just $5 a month to receive a bonus episode on a theme each month! Hit us up on Instagram @highlyenthused, or send us a love note at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

Hello! Recommendations this week include a bar DEDICATED to the Martini, a grief-studded novel set in Tuscany, an essential inflatable, a newsletter to get you writing and the ultimate it bag for that mid-winter holiday you've hopefully booked. Eat up, sweetpeas. For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com, or become a paid subscriber for just $5 a month to receive a bonus episode on a theme each month! Hit us up on Instagram @highlyenthused, or send us a love note at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

This week we're not basic and boring, we're functional and beautiful! We've got toddler fatigue, yes, but we also have two delicious, fragrant bowls of noodles, a salty seaweed snack and fish sauce so good you can use it in salad dressings. For non-food content we've got you covered with a television show to make you feel things and one, lovely very nice book. For all links to everything mentioned in this and every ep, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Subscribe for just $5 a month to receive a bonus recommendations newsletter each month! Hit us on IG to read some really good listener recs, or email us. Thanks!

Martinis are DEAD. There's a new cocktail in town. No but seriously, this week we are eating everything in our fridge, cooking chicken slowly in fragrant broth, watching movies with dad and cleaning things that probably don't need cleaning. Need a new foundation? Tick. How about a tool to elevate your toothbrush situation? Maybe a win that's Not Fancy, Just Good? You need it, we got it.  For all links to everything mentioned in this and every ep, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Subscribe for just $5 a month to receive a bonus recommendations newsletter each month! Hit us on IG to read some really good listener recs, or email us. Thanks!

It's was a long, weird, mouldy summer but we're finally back for Season 6! We took an extra long break and now we are refreessshhhedd and ready to jump into a season of sensuous and unctuous recommendations. We're planning trips and booking flights and packing boxes and shaking things up. But don't worry! We're not leaving you again for a long time. To whet your appetite this week we've got standing room only bars, Japanese spas, a few fun beauty tips and a noodle dish so quick and delicious you'll be making it tomorrow for lunch.  For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Become a paid subscriber for $5 a month to receive an exclusive extra newsletter per month, on a theme! Follow us on Instagram, send us an email, or check our website for more info.

It's our surprise Season 5 Finale!! This year was a marathon not a sprint, and we decided to give ourselves a bit of a pre-Christmas early mark. To send us off we've got lots of lovely things scattered in amongst an awful lot of **feelings**. Creamy, chewy noodles! Kitchen robots! Oscar Isaac with sizzling chemistry! Potent bottled cocktails with punch! A secret bar that feels like time travel! We'll still be sending newsletters every month for paid subscribers so sign up if you think you're going to miss us! For links to everything mentioned, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com, or become a paid subscriber for $5 a month - this will ensure you get a peek at our Christmas Gift Guide, out this week! Shoot us an email at highlyenthused@gmail.com, or follow us over on instagram @highlyenthused.

Guys, it's ep 13(!), we are in our longest season of all time, but we're not caving in yet! We have lots to say! Lots about letting onions turn deeply sweet and brown, lots about film, a random cleaning tip you'll probs be impressed by, gifts that feel good, an umami bomb condiment, and a few spatterings about that thing we love to see, the tangles of female friendship in books and on screen. For links to everything mentioned, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com, or become a paid subscriber for $5 a month - this will ensure you get a peek at our Christmas Gift Guide, out in November! Shoot us an email at highlyenthused@gmail.com, or follow us over on instagram @highlyenthused.

The sunshine had us energised this week and we are ticking things off our to-do lists left and right as we get ready for our first week outta lockdown. Baking cakes! Roasting peppers! Buying bikinis and chargrilling skewers and binging entire seasons of gripping television in one weekend! This episode was sponsored by ettitude. Right now, you can get 20% off your first order on all products including sale products (up to 60% off total) when you visit ettitude.com.au and enter promo code HIGHLYENTHUSED at checkout. Ts & Cs apply. For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Become a paid subscriber for $5 a month to receive an exclusive extra newsletter per month, on a theme! Follow us on Instagram, send us an email, or check our website for more info.

The end is in sight! Picnics are here! We're vibrating with new energy this week and have lots for you - about five things to up your picnic game (spoiler alert - just order pizza), a podcast that will make your brain melt, a 2-step strawberry recipe, a foreplay game and a website that tracks cool people's holidays to cool places. Sign. Us. Up. For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Become a paid subscriber for $5 a month to receive an exclusive extra newsletter per month, on a theme! Follow us on Instagram, send us an email, or check our website for more info. Outro music - Swamp Dogg, Lonely

It's the first day of spring!! And this weeks ep has more food recommendations than you can shake a stick at! (As well as a couple of non-food recs we managed to scrounge up.) We've got a cookbook worth dog-earing, two recipes that'll have you eating your greens, Gen Z inspired nail art, not one but TWO new podcasts to get obsessed with and are we..breaking up with linen sheets? Sign up for our Friday newsletter to get links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, and while you're there, become a paid subscriber for a bonus themed newsletter per month! This month we're donating the fee from all new monthly subscribers to Foodbank NSW. Email us if you like at highlyenthused@gmail.com, and send us friendly DMs @highlyenthused.

Oh hey, we're back with perhaps our longest episode ever? Lots of juicy tidbits this week including an addictive new show, a dish with black pepper as its star, a frightening doco, tunes to bop to, restaurant food delivered, and more! Sign up for our Friday newsletter to get links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, and while you're there, become a paid subscriber for a bonus themed newsletter per month! Email us if you like at highlyenthused@gmail.com, and send us friendly DMs @highlyenthused. This episode is supported by the book-loving honeys at WellRead, a book subscription service that always knows what you'll want to read next. See their website for more information and to order something for yourself, or to treat a mate in lockdown. We've released a whole box of snacks over at drnks.com, head to their packs section for a box containing a curated selection of all our favourite things to eat and drink, while stocks last (and stocks are verrrry limited).

Which Soph would win in a bar fight? Which Soph would win in a cook off? After a big scary life event what helps us feel like ourselves again? Exactly how drunk do we get while recording? You asked, we answer!  Sign up for our Friday newsletter to get links to everything mentioned in our regular episodes at highlyenthused.substack.com, and while you're there, become a paid subscriber for a bonus themed newsletter per month! Email us if you like at highlyenthused@gmail.com, and send us friendly DMs @highlyenthused.

Our title this week is thanks to the heeeeavenly Donna Lewis! Taking us out on this fine day in lockdown. We have so much this week, from a green smoothie/risotto recipe by a curly-haired goat farmer, to a fun game for nights in, two podcasts for long walks, very cool posters for kid or adult rooms and a real estate website you will be addicted to from here on out. Hold onto your hats. Sign up to our free Friday newsletter for links to everything mentioned in this episode, or become a paid subscriber for an extra themed newsletter once per month! Join the convo/DMs on Instagram @highlyenthused, and email us if you wish at highlyenthused@gmail.com This episode is supported by Liminal*, a free online series event coming up from August 16-20 for women curious about diving headfirst into the world of startups. Register now, and get ready to seize your dream job.

Lockdown has us going a little loopy. Our screen time is wayyyyy up and we're at the "just say yes" to all our impulses stage. Yes to baths! Yes to cocktails! Yes to plastic toys! Yes to skincare and homewares and reading kids books as adults! As always we cover all angles in this weeks ep - from margs in the bath to a checker-print oven mitt, a sandwich good enough to eat for dinner, new homewares to perk up your Tuesday afternoon, and croissants so delicious they're worth walking 10km for. Sign up for our Friday newsletter to get links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, and while you're there, become a paid subscriber for a bonus themed newsletter per month! Email us if you like at highlyenthused@gmail.com, and send us friendly DMs @highlyenthused.

It's a lockdown special! Are we over it? Yes! But do we still have fun and delicious things to share? Always! From a burnished cheesecake to a fuzzy, cozy throw rug, cold noodles and a cute little snack of a book, we have it all, folks. Sign up for our Friday newsletter to get links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, and while you're there, become a paid subscriber for a bonus themed newsletter per month! Email us if you like at highlyenthused@gmail.com, and send us friendly DMs @highlyenthused.

Trying and failing to have it all! Attachment theory jokes! A love letter to Sarah Snook! Wanting to be slapped in the face (by observations)! Other kinds of consensual face touching! Decorating choice paralysis! A perfect gift for a pondering writer! A way out of our podcast ruts! For a link to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. While you're there, why not pitch in $5 a month for access to a bonus, themed newsletter every single month (they're really good). Hit us up on Instagram with chats and recommendations, or email us if you feel like it.

We've got no less than THREE cafe recommendations for you this week, team, three! These come with a side of two very special vinos, some rib-tickling denim, Danish STUFF you clearly need to add to cart, a book with actual plot (shock! horror!) and plenty more exceptional trinkets and tidbits to fill your time. For a link to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. While you're there, why not pitch in $5 a month for access to a bonus, themed newsletter every single month (they're really good). Hit us up on Instagram with chats and recommendations, or email us if you feel like it.

It’s Episode 3, the weather’s turned crrrrisp and we’re both bracing ourselves for our new/old work lives. To gird our loins ahead of rejoining the grind, we’re taking holidays within holidays, doing some luxe shopping on a budget, devouring a glossy publishing memoir, making a new-to us Mexican salsa and playing yet another classic tune from the 70s. For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up for our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Become a paid subscriber for the price of a fancy coffee and you'll get a bonus, themed newsletter a month. Check us on the Instas @highlyenthused or email us if you fancy, highlyenthused@gmail.com

We're back with some glorious stuffs, including a recipe we're calling "fiddly elegant", the best in Japanese socks, fruit-shaped candles and our thoughts on the next cocktail to suffer death-by-meme - the! spicy! marg! For links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, sign up for our free Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Become a paid subscriber for the price of. a fancy coffee and you'll get a bonus, themed newsletter a month. Check us on the Instas @highlyenthused or email us if you fancy, highlyenthused@gmail.com

We're back! For Season 5! And things in Sydney are getting a little feral! There's a **vibe** in the air, and we're just so happy to be back in your ears. This week we're talking lingerie and lazy cooking, break up karaoke and spicy-sweet snacks, a podcast we've both fallen in love with, a photo book to solve all your problems, a website that cuts to all the good (sexy) bits in books and acid wash florals to suit this crazy mood. We're also launching our sweet new paid newsletter option, with our first one due to drop in May. Get on it! We love you! Sign up for both of our newletters at highlyenthused.substack.com. Check us on the Instas @highlyenthused or email us if you fancy, highlyenthused@gmail.com

Surprise! Turns out this is the season finale of Season 4 after all. We're off to have ourselves a break over the summer - part holiday (for SoRo), part maternity leave (for SoMo). We didn't want to leave you in the lurch though so this ep is chock-a-block with the good stuff. Think sexy netflix shows, a Sydney swimming bible, comfort reads, a banging dance tune and some "last ep of the season" silliness we didn't edit out. What sport does SoRo have a vendetta against? What weird way does SoMo describe being pregnant? Just how many times does SoRo's skin get complimented? You'll have to tune in to find out guys! Vamanos! If you haven't signed up for our newsletter yet - don' t worry there's still time! Get it at highlyenthused.substack.com. Check us on the Instas @highlyenthused or email us if you fancy, highlyenthused@gmail.com

So much in this week's episode, from a podcast direct from lockdown in Melbourne, swimwear that will - no joke - change your life, vinegary fruit drinks, perfect (and cheap!) linen shirt dresses and something we wish we had more of all the time - a damn good book recommendation. Sign up to our Friday newsletter for links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, check us on the Instas @highlyenthused or email us if you fancy, highlyenthused@gmail.com

We've kept it snappy this week, but man do we cover a lot of ground. We've got supermarket flowers, a mouth-sweating spice blend, steamy sex scenes and a dark horse in the baked good aisle. We're self-medicating through TikTok, we're turning into our mothers and not one single chickpea was cooked in the making of this episode! Sign up to our Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com for links to everything mentioned in this and every episode, follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused and email us love notes at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

In this ep you'll learn how to stock your freezer with good-qual pizza and beer, impress people with a fruitful "house wine" strategy, lose hours to a TV show, de-pill those freaking balls off your jumpers, and generally get your feelings BACK ON TRACK thanks to an old fav Agony Aunt column. You need it? We got it. Sometimes. Find all the links to everything mentioned in this episode in our weekly newsletter. Follow us on the Instas @highlyenthused, or email us if you like! highlyenthused@gmail.com

This week we are thrusting our face into the flowering bushes of Sydney in spring and letting sprigs of jasmine perfume our houses. It’s our favourite time of year, but there are deadlines to meet and sometimes the seasonal shift can make SoRo a little blue. To steady our equilibrium we have some decadent chickpeas, an app to track our cycles, a memoir to make us brave and yet ANOTHER perfect doughnut. SoRo also tries to make “gardening chic” a thing though neither of us are 100% convinced. Sign up to our Friday newsletter to links to everything mentioned in this and every episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused and email us love notes at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

This isn't and will never be a baby-focused podcast, but lots of you asked for recs, so we have a couple to share. But we're also staying hydrated drinking interesting Spanish stuff and well-concealed thanks to a refillable beauty product. Sundays are made for meatballs, so you should try these ones, and oh - we point you in the direction of probably the best doughnut of your entire life. No hyperbole. For all the links to everything mentioned in this ep, sign up to our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Follow us on the 'gram @highlyenthused and if you'd like to email us, do it at highlyenthused@gmail.com! Thanks for listening.

We are back in business guys! Season 4 is here and we've got a couple of changes ahead (both big and small), and we are fully recharged and ready to bring you recommendations. This week an awful lot of them are food related! We've got chai and we've got tacos, we've got crispy chicken and chickpeas and middle eastern spices, we've been knitting and movie watching and wearing a lot of stretchy, cozy clothing. We're so glad to be back! Sign up to our Friday newsletter to links to everything mentioned in this and every episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused and email us if you should like to at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

It's the season finale of season three! So, it's about time we school you in how to properly make risotto and Spanish tortilla. Plus, plenty more including cool earrings, recipes for canned goods, a very excellent new TV series on the ABC, a podcast that'll make you feel more positive about the pandemic and finally, a cheap and chic orb lamp from IKEA. Sign up to our Friday newsletter to links to everything mentioned in this and every episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused and email us if you should like to at highlyenthused@gmail.com. We'll be back soon!

This weeks snack-sized ep is all about our favourite places to look for the ceramics, lanterns, lamps and linens that make our homes more inviting, more luminous and dare we say it slightly more...chic? Sign up to our newsletter for links to everything mentioned in this and every ep: highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on Instagram or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com

There's a lot of food in this ep! Because that's what we do now, friends. From silky poached breakfast fruit to the world's most perfect jam and TWO low-and-slow recipes, to cocktails ideas and some help if you're moving house, we got you. We got you! Sign up to our Friday newsletter for the links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on the Instas @highlyenthused and email us if you so desire at highlyenthused@gmail.com

When times get tough, books have to get comforting. We've got one of our pals - journalist, pod-caster, and comfort reader extraordinaire - Hannah-Rose Yee on the podcast this week, taking us through her five(ish) fave books for these weird-as-fuck weeks. Tune in for cozy coming of age tales, behind-the-scenes secrets, filthy sex scenes and our theory of cathartic crying. What more could you need! You can find Hannay-Rose on instagram at @hannahroserose. For links to everything we mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused, and email us if you like, we like emails, at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

Welcome back to life on the inside. We're shopping and we're not shopping, we're doubling down on cheese and upping our intake of cabbage, we're drinking gin and using it to sanitise. Not only do we have a new and excellent film catalogue to help your indecision and endless scrolling, but we have a new book by a favourite author, cake WITH vegetables in the mix, and a salty, citrusy soda for your next shopping trolley. It's a crazy world out there, but you gotta be in it to win it. For all links to things mentioned in this and every episode, sign up to our Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com. Follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused, and email us if you like, we like emails, at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

We might be stuck at home, but we still want our skin to look fresh and *dewy* for all those zoom parties we've been invited to. We called up qualified naturopath, beauty therapist and certified skin whisperer Fay Halkitis of Luna Beauty & Apothecary to share all her best at home beauty secrets. Tune in to find out which fruits you can smear on your face and the best kind of sugar for scrubbing your bod. Bliss! Sign up for our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com for all the hot tips and links, follow us on Insta @highlyenthused and if you like, send us a love note at highlyenthused@gmail.com

What do we want? Isolation tips! When do we want them? Anytime please! Your two fav Sophs are bringing home the bacon this week with no less than six cosy loungewear brands, some boozy and booze-free beverages, two recipes and lots more fun and laffs. Sign up for our newsletter for all the links to everything mentioned at highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on Insta @highlyenthused and if you like, send us a pee-mail at highlyenthused@gmail.com

It's our first isolation episode! We managed to record this while staying socially distanced, and we're talking about some of the "micro delights" that have been getting us through the days so. Tune in to find out which of us has become a...bird watcher? Sign up to our newsletter for links to everything mentioned in this and every ep: highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on Instagram or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com

Look, we're just going to put this out there, SoRo breaks her sex silence in this episode. Need we say more? Gird your loins. Sign up to our newsletter for links to everything mentioned in this and every ep: highlyenthused.substack.com, follow us on Instagram or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com

We're back for Season 3! After a leisurely summer break, we've returned refreshed, full of recommendations and ready to take on the year/Covid-19. To kick off our season we've got a fancy, fishy vinegar that'll turn any salad into a sensation, a 150-year-old classic tome of English literature that had SoRo laughing out loud, and a couple of sexy, silky, slippery recommendations to make sure you're having your best time in the bedroom. Get in there! We promise we won't leave you for this long again! Actually we can't promise anything! Follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused, email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com and sign up to our Friday newsletter for all the links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com

Hello! We're dropping in from holidays with a special treat: our guide to a bevy of delicious things to do, eat, see and drink in our nation's capital - Canberra. From the best bar McComas drank in last year (plus a very musical cocktail), to SoRo's adventures in dressing like a member of Gen Z and a real-time recording of our experience with James Turrell's Within Without, we bring you the best for a weekend away. Have more Canberra tips for us? Email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com. Sign up to our Friday newsletter for links to every place we mention (and more), at highlyenthused.substack.com and check us on Instagram for some BTS from the trip (including SoRo's face as she experiences her first B&E roll). We'll be back in March! This episode was made possible by the assistance of Visit Canberra. Meals, drinks and accommodation were complimentary.

It's our season finale episode for Season Two! Can you believe we've made it this far? We can't. Glad to have you here with us as we set foot as born-again flappers into a new decade - The Roaring Twenties. This week we're naming our sometimes earnest, sometimes silly resolutions for the year ahead, snacking on chips and sausages and planning Nora Ephron-style parties. Classy! Oh, and we have a few excellent recommendations for Christmas gifts this year - with more in our weekly newsletter, sign up at www.highlyenthused.substack.com! This episode is supported by drnks.com, Australia's original natural wine retailer - who now also do Christmas wrapping and personalised notes! Enter your message and request in the delivery instructions. Also, don't forget to enter HIGHLYENTHUSED at checkout for 10% off. Highly Enthused is also supported this week by Gelato Messina and their totally top-notch Dulce de Leche and Choc Hazelnut Spread! Head into store, mention Highly Enthused to the staff you’ll get a jar of each for half price until December 31, 2019. Stocking stuffers here we come! Ts & Cs in our newsletter on Friday.

We're a little - how should we put this - loosey goosey this week. Sure you could blame the wine, but we like to think it's our extreme love of travel bubbling over! This week we celebrate two of our favourite cities and compare notes on our top tips. We've got tacos and massages, handmade donuts and hand mixed spice blends, wine bars and martinis and honestly a lot of giggling (due to the wine). As we mention FREQUENTLY this week, you can now only find all the details of our recommendations in our newsletter, which you can sign up for at highlyenthused.substack.com. Come chat to us on instagram @highlyenthused and if you feel like getting us an early Christmas present, leave a us a (glowing) review on itunes! This episode is supported by drnks.com, Australia's original natural wine retailer - who have a brand new website! Enter HIGHLYENTHUSED at checkout for 10% off. Highly Enthused is also supported this week by Gelato Messina and their incredible herd of jersey cows! Head into a Messina store in Sydney or Melbourne before 31 December 2019 and mention HIGHLY ENTHUSED to the staff and you’ll get your first bottle of Messina Milk half price. Full Ts & Cs in our newsletter on Friday.

Life has been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster this week, team, but we're hunting for delight in the small things (thanks for the tip, Ross Gay!) and singing about salad (you really should tune in for that alone). We also have some excellent recommendations for Sardinian pasta, special wine from the Yarra Valley, books about that sweet twilight of your late 20s before life really happens, and a podcast about your relationships at work. Dive in! Follow us on Instagram @highlyenthused, email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com and sign up to our Friday newsletter for all the links to everything mentioned in this episode at highlyenthused.substack.com This episode is supported by drnks.com, Australia's original natural wine retailer. Enter HIGHLYENTHUSED at checkout for 10% off, and come along to their sixth birthday party on December 1 at The George Hotel in Waterloo, Sydney for lots of wine and free tacos! Highly Enthused is also supported this week by Gelato Messina and their incredible gelato degustation! Book online at gelatomessina.com/degustation, use the code HIGHLYENTHUSED and you’ll get $20 off each seat on your booking until Feb 22, 2020. Full T&Cs in our newsletter this Friday - highlyenthused.substack.com

It's not summer yet but it's already getting pretty hot here (thanks, climate change). To help us all cool off, we've got Caroline Clements - of 'Places we Swim' fame - on the pod to take us through the best places to throw yourself into a body of water. From a "nature’s own" version of Wet and Wild, to a local spot affectionately nicknamed 'The Slab', we cover a lot of ground (er, water) in this ep. Dive in. You can find Caroline at @placesweswim or @carolineclements_ on Instagram or at placesweswim.com This episode of Highly Enthused is supported by Australia's original  natural wine retailer, drnks.com, our favourite site to spontaneously order wine at lunch and have it delivered before the day's done - even on Saturdays! Enter the code HIGHLYENTHUSED at check-out for 10% off  your order.  You can join the conversation on Instagram @highlyenthused, sign up for  our newsletter for all the links from this and every episode at  highlyenthused.substack.com or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

There’s a bit of weird ego in this ep, but it bears fruit! We have tips for things to wear on your wedding day (or to subtly suggest to a bride), some extremely easy dishes-not-dishes to serve at your next having-people-over-thing, we discuss the one beauty product to keep in your fridge and a very special little book you can probably smash out on you next commute. This episode is supported by Australia’s original natural wine retailer, drnks.com, they have an IRL bottle shop too guys! Check it out at The George in Waterloo, Sydney. As always, enter HIGHLYENTHUSED at check-out for 10% off your order. Sign up to our Friday newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com, email us if you so desire at highlyenthused@gmail.com, or we’ll see you on the instanets @highlyenthused. Thanks for listening!

It's our first Guest List for Season Two! We've got Kate Jinx from Sydney's own Golden Age onboard to take us through her five fave summer films. From a 90s classic, to a 70s french fever dream, to a forgotten Australian rock musical gem - we've got you well and truly covered for those hot summer nights when you just can't scroll through Netflix anymore. Dive in! This episode of Highly Enthused is supported by Australia's original natural wine retailer, drnks.com, our favourite site for getting prepped for the silly season. Enter the code HIGHLYENTHUSED at check-out for 10% off your order. You can join the conversation on Instagram @highlyenthused, sign up for our newsletter for all the links from this and every episode at highlyenthused.substack.com or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

This week, SoRo gets her aura photographed and leans into four different types of white noise, while SoMo spends a lot of time cackling at things on the internet, including dog memes on TikTok and Norwegians who like to touch themselves. Oh, and a new wine bar has opened that's ~somehow~ perfectly designed for us, we discover great egg rolls and hair serums, and have some serious advice regarding radishes. Strap yourselves in. This episode of Highly Enthused is supported by Australia's original natural wine retailer, drnks.com, our favourite site to spontaneously order wine at lunch and have it delivered before the day's done - even on Saturdays! Enter the code HIGHLYENTHUSED at check-out for 10% off your order. You can join the conversation on Instagram @highlyenthused, sign up for our newsletter for all the links from this and every episode at highlyenthused.substack.com or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com.

When it comes to cookbooks, we might need to start instituting a 'one in, one out' policy. Except we could never - we love them all like beloved, weighty, glossy-paged children! This week we're focusing on five of our favourites, the ones we return to again and again. Listen up to find out which cookbook we reckon you can read like a novel and which recent hit has spawned multiple viral recipes. Oh and SoRo reveals the true depth of her obsession with lentils. --- This episode of Highly Enthused is supported by Australia's original natural wine retailer, drnks.com, our favourite site to spontaneously order wine at lunch and have it delivered before the day's done. Enter the code HIGHLYENTHUSED at check-out for 10% off your order. You can join the conversation on Instagram @highlyenthused, sign up for our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com

Would you, could you, refrain from purchasing clothes you don't need for three WHOLE months? SoMo's set herself a challenge. Meanwhile, SoRo unlocks a secret level in the burrata game, we talk orgasm workshops, an unmissable Martini happy hour, a disruptive detergent company and recommend a 1972 banger because why the hell not? This episode of Highly Enthused is supported by Australia's original natural wine retailer, drnks.com. Enter the code HIGHLYENTHUSED at check-out for 10% off your order of delicious, natural goodness. Dirty Work, written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and performed by Steely Dan is sampled in this episode for review purposes only. You can listen to the full song here. You can join the conversation on Instagram @highlyenthused, sign up for our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com

We love any excuse for a fancy beverage here at Highly Enthused, and this week we're diving into our fave five! Don't stress though, none of them are particularly complex (in fact we're not 100% sure one of them even counts as a cocktail). We make the case for bringing back daiquiris and having yourself an Amaro Spritz summer. It's a short, fast, sweet and loud this week - jump in! -- This episode of Highly Enthused is supported by Australia's original natural wine retailer, drnks.com. This week, we're diving into their selection of sakes and pairing them with a generous slice of comte. Enter the code HIGHLYENTHUSED at check-out for 10% off your order. You can join the conversation on Instagram @highlyenthused, sign up for our newsletter at highlyenthused.substack.com or email us at highlyenthused@gmail.com