Wednesdays - It’s your final ‘Fridays’ treat!

Episode Date: September 5, 2024

TGIF! Sophie and Melissa are dishing up your final serving of their mini series 'Fridays'.Whilst indulging in a delicious Starbucks Frappuccino Chilled Coffee Drink, the girls are recounting the story of how a fateful slide into the DMs has formed their friendship. They also give their top tips on building the dream summer capsule wardrobe for anybody jetting away, and Sophie gives her best advice for a bride-to-be that's wanting to build some much-needed me-time into their weekend routine.--Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/wednesdayspodcast/TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@wednesdayspodcastEmail | [e-mail]--Credits:Producer & Editor: @ben_johnsAssistant Producer: @gurlinaheer_Exec: @jemimarathbone and Holly NewsonVideo editor: @jakeji.pSocial: @laurabcoughlan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

happy friday oh my god guys this is the final episode guys this is the final episode of fridays bought you by starbucks and their frappuccino chilled coffee drink available online and at your local supermarket the perfect little pick me up for when you next want to treat yourself so just sit back and enjoy this small tree as we pop open a starbucks frappuccino chilled coffee drink enjoy a lovely chat and dive into some more of your dilemmas we hope these bonus episodes are a really lovely surprise in your podcast feed perfect for enjoying today or over the weekend guys listen it listen, it's so nice. Every time we've done these episodes, Starbucks has given us a chilled Frappuccino coffee drink to enjoy.

And we love them. Boy, do we enjoy them. Boy, do we enjoy them. This one's my absolute favourite though, the mocha. I know I've had it before. I know we tried it before. But I've come to a decision. It's my number one.

So mine is the classic creamy sweet coffee is that a boring choice no it isn't because that you can have at any time of the day like that's that's versatile drink that's versatile whereas this is defo after a meal 100 it's a sweet treat that's it's a treat they both it's just chocolatey it's chocolatey i love chocolate it's giving you that chocolate hit you heard it here first it's going to be the new drink of the season i think hasn't it been so nice to just relax with a starbucks and record this podcast together like it's just so gorgeous do you think every friday we should make the starbucks frappuccino to your coffee drink a part of our friday routine absolutely me too so maybe chuck in a wednesday in there as well yeah wednesday and friday tree yeah i need

to pick me up on a wednesday that mid-week pick-up. Okay, whatever you say. Not going to argue with that, honey. You know what, I actually prefer if it's spread out more because then I really look forward to it. Me too. It feels like more of a treat. If I have it too often, I'm like, hmm. Me too, then it just feels like eating an apple every day, which is not a treat.

You know what I mean? It just becomes too regular, whereas this is a real treat. I want to look forward to having it and really just get excited. Twice a week is the sweet spot for me. Me too. whereas this is a real treat I want to look forward to having it and really just get excited twice a week is the sweet spot for me me too we mentioned last week that we made promise to indulge a bit more so we promised each other

we were going to indulge a bit more treating ourselves to big and small treats whenever we could we both kind of actually made a pact that we would go to the cinema

and Sophie sent me a really sweet message the other night she was like should we go to the cinema so that next day we had a little look online off we popped the king's road and we walked didn't we and we watched the new twisters movie with glenn powell and daisy edgar jones because it is a treat these days because it's not cheap to go to the cinema it's not cheap and also

it's just something that we kind of forget to do because you've got the convenience of tv so when you do go it feels like much more of an event much more of an indulgent thing to do we really indulge in that movie and sitting there with it on the big screen with the surround sound is so much better i also struggle normally in the cinema because i'm so used to having that next bit of technology checking my phone whilst i'm watching tv didn't do that at all i just put my phone away and I just really concentrated and just took in present we're present all of my

surroundings surroundings Daisy Edgar-Jones we're obsessed with her she's head to toe in the coolest outfits knockout her makeup's amazing

her hair's amazing she's had some like lighter bits put through the fringe has been thickened up don't know if there's put some extensions in there yeah it's just all really

working for her there's movement and the outfits are slaying oh my god they're so good they're so good you know if there's put some extensions in there. Yeah. It's just all really working for her. There's movement. And the outfits are slaying. Oh my God, they're so good. They're so good. You know what? She's really great. She looks like more of a woman now.

I just remember her as like the girl from Normal People when she's obviously like meant to be like 15, 16 or whatever. And now I'm like, God, you look like a real mature woman. Do you know who she gives me? Almost a bit Daisy and the Six. Oh, it's because of the fringe. Daisy Jones and the Six. It's the fringe that you're thinking that i think and like a little bit like ethereal and like floaty and like it's very elegant yeah we

love very absolutely obsessed timeless also not sure if anyone else picked up on the fact that she was wearing this like gorgeous silk brown i believe dress and it had this like corset over the top and it had this one of the shot and it reminded me of your dress that you wore to like the brunette no no no i wore it with you in france in paris oh yes but it also wanted to be your pink dress that you wore to the brits with the corset over the top wow yes it was very similar and i was like wow this is it really gave me a similar wow a corset is one of the most flattering things you can ever get you know what we should actually get them emily evans the stylist she said that people have like of course it's actually made for them like the kardashians and everyone who goes to the met gala and they go under their dresses yeah and they

literally like the olden days and it's like pretty expensive but you can get it molded to your body and then you can wear it under every dress wow and you will never know god that's a real treat boy you got yourself a treat so i do actually think that going for a movie day with the boys i think that maybe we do once every two months a lovely movie day and then we walk to a restaurant and maybe we try a new restaurant every time and a new movie yeah also then there's more stuff to talk about because it's like a new place new movie i love discussing in depth a new thing you've seen and some people notice so many things that you haven't noticed and vice versa we should go to some of those like arty movies yeah i think we

should just do that i think it's gorgeous it's good for the soul it's good for bonding it's wholesome we're going to be bringing back an old favorite with a twist so welcome back to treat or dry i'm really excited and we've got some potential treats and some potential dry ones so should we get into it yeah let's get into it okay listen 15 minutes sweating out a busy night in a sauna oh i'm gonna go with no treat i feel great after sweating out the toxins i do but i don't enjoy it neither hate being in the sauna but at the end of it i feel really great but that's like going to the gym is gyming a treat or a dry i don't gym i do a pilates class and that for me feels the whole way through like a treat whereas the gym doesn't not okay well

i just think it's really tricky because like it's obviously a treat she feels so fantastic afterwards but you really don't feel great in it if you do teach me what you're doing a boiled egg as an afternoon snack dry a boiled egg from certain places it's 10 out of 10 if it's been overboiled ew if it's got any gray in it that gray around the yolk it reminds me of school like when i was so young and they used to sell them in the salad counter and i'd be like i personally think a boiled egg is one of the most disgusting things that you can give i've watched you eat boiled eggs many a time out of that pot is that for the sake of protein you're like i need the protein no i used to have it i think i overdid it like i literally repulsed. No, I used to have it. I think I overdid it. Like I literally repulsed.

You know when you used to like something and now you can't even look at it. I also don't mean like avocados anymore. Don't know what's going on with me. I know. A night at the opera. True. Wow, never been.

Let's dress up. Let's go do something different. Let's go do it. Let's take going to the cinema to the next level and go to the opera. Let's take treat to the next level. Let's. I'm down. It's giving Emily in Paris. I'm going to the cinema to the next level and go to the opera. Let's take treat to the next level.

Let's. I'm down. It's giving Emily in Paris. I'm going to be walking up those stairs with the chandeliers and the beautiful murals on the wall and the panelling and the whole thing. You know what we're going to be packing in our bag? One of these bad boys. I've absolutely been so thrilled to be drinking these on a Friday. I've enjoyed this so much.

The Starbucks Frappuccino Chill Coffee drinks are indulgent. They're delicious. It's a gorgeous coffee moment. It's happiness in a bottle. They are just perfect for a bit of well-deserved me time. I've got loads of these for Jamie as a treat at home. I know he'll be obsessed. Should we get into the dynamics?

Hey, ladies. I've decided to quit my job and go traveling which i'm really looking forward to it's come at the perfect time i've just come out of a long-term relationship and feel that going away will be perfect thing to get back to myself i'm going on my own which i think will be fun i'm a bit nervous about coming across as shy and not making the most of my time away what are your top tips for meeting new friends and meeting new people? When you go traveling, you rock up an hostel. I'm telling you now, you walk in, you meet 10,000 people. It's wild.

Everyone's having fun. Just say to yourself, like, I'm just not going to be shy this trip. Like, it's fine to be yourself. I think, like, let's just not be so shy. Like, make the effort to ask people questions. Make the effort to ask, like, can I come with you guys? You know what I sometimes do if I'm, like, a bit shy? I sometimes just laugh at myself. i find it so funny if i find things awkward and i like don't

know anyone and i'm like god this is awkward like i could feel my body like naturally would want to just be shy and not speak yeah i just end up laughing at the situation and then i'm laughing and then they're like what are you laughing at and then everyone just laughs like if you just laugh your way through life a bit like walk in there laugh you're like in some random hostel with loads of random people like it's so funny when you think about it like that i know do you know what i mean it's like such a weird experience i also think like there's nothing wrong with just being like old-fashioned like a nice smile and just being like hey how are you guys also by the way the first thing you do is you go wherever you just come from where are you going next because always when you're

traveling you're all doing similar routes so you're like oh i've just done peru like we're going to bolivia now it's like it's all the same chat so they're going to have done routes you've done and then you all exchange notes you're like don't stay at this hostel stay at this place go to that place that's really good ends i think just keep yourself really relaxed don't freak out about making friends because it will just happen naturally and the more you like overthink it and panic about it you might then almost like shut yourself off from like people being open to you because you're going to be like freaking out about it so much always we're traveling ask people's numbers straight away just go for it be like their instagrams whatever just just yeah maybe easier to just follow someone on instagram me

and melissa made in chelsea so when we first joined when I first changed I didn't know anyone apart from where we were from at the time but we just made friends do you want to know what I did I slid into her DMs I messaged her and I went what are you wearing for this event day and she said I'm not going but then we made friends from then on we literally then just became at the next event day we were there together and you're like hey but actually you're like this hey the frozen jaw smile oh god it's so good because you guys remember i had the botox drama where i froze my jaw and i couldn't smile but anyway melissa first time i met her i was like hey

with this tiny little smile this tiny mouth tiny mouth anyway we're friends and you know what then we just would always just message each other so like you probably will like link up at the next place you go to yeah they could be going two days before you or two days after you but it's very much that vibe and i think you'll keep seeing people on the same path because people do the same route everyone's going to be lovely everyone's there for the same reason which is to have fun and make more friends. Everyone's going alone as well. Most people are alone.

Yeah, loads of people are. So you're not going to be by yourself in that. I think just try and be as confident as you can be. Be yourself. Yeah, and have the best time. Okay, dilemma two. Hey ladies, been absolutely loving all your content this summer. I'm heading away to Ibiza with the girls

and just wanted to treat myself to some new pieces. Lovely. Can you walk me through the dream summer wardrobe, please? That's fun. Right, okay, central for me is lots of linen white linen skirt and a white linen shirt and i also recommend doing a long skirt because you can do that over a bikini with just a bikini top sexy but then also it's like quite appropriate for going out for dinner if you just chuck a tank top on but then you still look put together but beachy like the whole thing just works i think a long white linen skirt or just a long white cotton skirt and i'm also gonna say like a straw bag they're big they're easy you can chuck everything into it you can get them as messy

as ever like they never get dirty you don't care about it don't spend loads of money on one i just get something that you like the shape of that can fit loads of stuff in and then i'd also get like a zip up sort of pouch situation you can shove the sun cream in there or you can shove in the essentials like cash your id your phone camera whatever then that's like in a safe place in the bag so i definitely get those four items two really good fitting bikinis i would try and stay away from white if you're trying to build up some essentials just because white's difficult to buy and difficult to wash i would go for black go for black literally a red always is great always is great if you're coloring blue a dark one is amazing go for

colors that you like that are fun i would always just always do a black just because i think it can be and i personally wouldn't do pattern just because to go under outfits as much you could just have a block color agree and it's easier to when you're building up almost like a capsule, like summer wardrobe vibe. What else? I would say like a black, shorter dress. A linen-y vibe or a cotton vibe, whatever. I would then maybe do something quite fun. Yeah, go on then.

What are we thinking? Like a really fun, like crochet set or something. Oh, we love crochet. I love crochet. That again could be like out for dinner vibes or you could be going to the beach club and you could just wear the top with then the long white skirt or you could wear the top

on the matching crochet skirt exactly and if you wanted to wear it in the evening you put like either nude underwear nude underwear but if you want to be

a bit more modest you can get yourself a little slip number like a short slip skirt which is literally like a boob tube skirt you know those ones get one of those

what's been your favorite piece of the summer so i got this like halter neck dress it was very sheer but i found it really comfy and i just really loved wearing it like i felt very slinky was the word yeah i think mine would be oh this really nice i know what mine is of yours what i really love that long skirt you're wearing gorgeous so this really long like sherry kind of chiffon and it was like stripy but like brown and black kind of like a zebra print vibe but it's not it's actually a pattern it's like obviously inspired by that and you can wear it as like formal out for dinner or i wore it over a bikini great for summer i really like wear it in winter formal out for dinner or I wore it over a bikini. Great for summer. I really like it.

Also you could wear it in winter with like boots and like a jumper over the top. Easily. Dilemma three. Hey Sophie and Melissa, listening to your podcast has been a part of my weekly routine for such a long time and getting my Wednesdays fixed is one of the highlights of my week. That is very sweet. Thank you. I'm getting married in October and I can't wait for it.

Woo! That's so exciting. However, it has been quite chaotic with planning everything and I'm conscious of stretching myself too much. I don't want to be seen as selfish but with the wedding approaching I want to start having some more me time. I want to cherish the moments of planning but also put myself in a good headspace. Basically I want to live in the moment and not let it rush by. Do you have anything you do every week which is just for you which gives you the chance to reflect? Bit of self-care time.

Like even going to the gym or doing a Pilates class like Melissa does. Or like for me, one of my facial tools. Yeah. Like doing that. Just taking some time to do like a lovely little face massage is what Sophie loves to do. Or a sheet mask. Or just watch like Vanderpump Rules for an hour. No one's speaking to you.

Because let me tell you, people talk to you a lot when you're getting married like it's wedding planner it's that your mom the stepmom the mom-in-law the bridesmaids logistics everyone wants a piece of you you just need to decompress you know i would do i would turn off your phone and like put it on airplane mode or whatever put podcast on and just go for a walk that is what i would do walk for an hour and then maybe go to your gym class or whatever and do that for an hour and then after that you're like right i've had my two hours of me time which i needed this week yeah and now i'm ready i actually miss speaking to the wedding planner i actually miss thinking about the wedman do that on a monday morning you're good to go just prioritize it be like guys i just need a minute i'm out of office until 1 p.m on monday go about

it's back email set up you know no one speaks to you from the minute you finish work at 6 p.m till 8 p.m on a monday evening i think ultimately you up you know no one speaks to you from the minute you finish work at 6pm till 8pm on a Monday evening done I think ultimately you have more power than you think and I think it's fine

to stand up and have boundaries yeah like I need this headspace time to just decompress setting boundaries

and having you time is so essential to a sane mind I think not being a people pleaser in the wedding planning moments is hard to achieve

but I think it's important to speak up. Also, I promise you it will all be worth it. Yeah, and just soak it in, enjoy every moment, and don't feel like you're being selfish. Like, be selfish. Yeah. Hasn't Friday's been so fun, don't you? I've loved it.

I don't want to stop. I know, and it's just been setting off my weekend so nicely as well. I know, it's just like the perfect catch- so nicely as well I know it's just like the perfect catch up and gossip that we need I know it is it's the right time everyone's like in the mood

for a gorgeous weekend ahead thank you guys so much for listening and remember this episode was made possible by Starbucks and their Frappuccino chill coffee drink

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