456 Club

In your 40s, 50s or 60s? Welcome to the 456 Club. It’s just like your favourite group chat that will make you laugh, think and feel connected. Hosted by Narelda Jacobs and Cathrine Mahoney each week, we’ll discuss the topics in your world from: sex, dating, menopause, ambition, motherhood, not-motherhood and what you’re not supposed to say about ageing bodies.

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Cathrine Mahoney On The Teen Years And The Parenting 'Lasts' You Don't See Coming

On today’s episode, writer, comedian and host of Mamamia's 456 Club podcast, Cathrine Mahoney joins us to share her unfiltered experience of parenting a teenager. With her trademark humour, Cathrine Mahoney offers hilarious reality checks about what's coming in the teenage years from endless food bills to impossible-to-wake mornings, and the unexpected melancholy of the parenting moments you don't realise will be your last. Whether you're in the trenches with little ones, or watching your teenag...

Apr 17, 2025•32 min

Don't Call It A Breakdown With Julie Goodwin

Hello 465 Club! You probably know Julie Goodwin’s incredible reality TV story. As the beloved MasterChef winner, cookbook author, and radio personality, she’s been a household name for years. But behind the scenes, Julie was always taking care of everyone—except herself. In this episode of our Gen X podcast MID, she opens up about her journey with mental health in recent years. If you're discovering MID for the first time, you're in luck—we've just wrapped Season 4, meaning our entire collection...

Mar 25, 2025•43 min

Getting Married Again After 50 First Dates

Welcome to a special episode from Mamamia's podcast for Gen X women, MID. This episode is all about all. Specifically, it’s about finding it in your MID years. Maybe for the second, fourth, first time. This is a story about Dr Amantha Imber, an organisational psychologist who got divorced a few years ago. When Amantha knew she wanted to re-partner, she went about it with a typical approach to efficiency - going on more than 50 first dates in her first stint of online dating. Those dates had stri...

Mar 21, 2025•51 min

How Often Do You Water To Your Friendship Garden?

Friendships are some of the most important relationships in our lives, but just how much time and care are you really giving to your friendship garden? Today we chat with Bec Sparrow from the Friendship Project and Chaotic Social's Chrissy Flanagan about how to friend new friends, keep old friendships going strong and repair the connections that are fading out. A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Rebecca Sparrow - The Friendship Project Chrissy Flanagan - Chaotic Social CREDITS Hosts: Narelda Jacobs...

Jun 15, 2023•44 min

Letting Go & Growing Closer To Your Adult Children

This week on the 456 Club we are talking about the complexities of parenting children who aren’t children. How do you maintain healthy boundaries? Can you be friends with your kid? And what do you do when you profoundly disagree with choices your adult child is making? This episode we speak with Mia Freedman, about her relationship with her adult son, becoming a grandmother, and what the experience is like transitioning from ‘ your child’s manager to their consultant’. Plus, we’re joined by Fami...

Jun 08, 2023•43 min

All The Things You're Not Supposed To Say About Ageing Bodies

From grey hair, to saggy bits and everything in between! There’s no denying our bodies change as they age and our relationship does with them as well.So how do women in their 40’s and beyond feel about their bodies? And faces? And hair? Today we’re speaking to Tracey Spicer and Virgie Tovar about all the things you’re not supposed to say about ageing bodies. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Tracey Spicer , author of Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future. Virigie Tovar, a...

Jun 01, 2023•41 min

The Power Switch: When You're Parenting Your Parents

Growing up, your parents are your world, and sometimes sooner than you think the carers become the ones who need to be looked after. Welcome to the ‘ sandwich generation’ sometimes you’re parenting young children and your parents at the same time, and all the while you are trying to hold down a job and still have a life. It’s tough, we see you and this episode is for you. This episode we are speaking to Jean Kittson, who knows the job of parenting parents so well she’s written a how-to book abou...

May 25, 2023•41 min

Do Women Actually Become Invisible After 40? Three Very Different Stories

Have you ever felt invisible? From being overlooked for career opportunities, to being isolated from loved ones, and feeling overshadowed by children this week we get vulnerable to prove that we are in this together. Plus we chat with Carlii Lyon, a personal brand expert who helps women in their 40’s and beyond rebrand themselves to feel relevant in their lives again. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Carlii Lyon, A Brand In You And, Cathy, Sandra & Rose for sharing their story. CREDITS Hosts: N...

May 18, 2023•43 min

Dating, Relationships & Dating Again

Want to know what it’s like online dating for the first time in your 50’s? Or what the key to spicing up a long term relationship is? Then this episode is for you! This week on 456 Club we’re talking about dating, relationships and dating again. From great dates to duds, it’s a mixed bag in the 456 Club and we dive head first into all of it. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Fiona & Laura Jackel CREDITS Hosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine Mahoney Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz Audio Producer...

May 11, 2023•39 min

Yes, We're Still Having Sex

SEX! Now we’ve got your attention... it’s time to talk about it. When it comes to what you do or don’t do in the bedroom, we know everyone’s experience in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s is unique and that’s more than okay. For episode two we are joined by two women on very different sides of the fence. Susan Jarvis is in her 50's and having the most passionate sex of her life, while Monica Zwolsman turns 60 this year and has sworn off sex forever. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Susan Jarvis Monica Zwo...

May 04, 2023•31 min

WTF Is Happening To Me?

Welcome to the very first episode of 456 Club, hosted by journalist and Studio 10 presenter Narelda Jacobs and author and podcast host Cathrine Mahoney. We’re kicking off talking about menopause, and peri menopause and everything in between. From mood swings, to sleep anxiety to a dry vagina, it can be a lot. Especially when you’re going through it and you don’t know where to turn. Narelda has been through it, and Cath, well, she isn’t sure. Today, we’re joined by Ali Daddo, model, author and so...

Apr 27, 2023•45 min

Introducing 456 Club

In your 40s, 50s or 60s? Welcome to the 456 Club. Hosted by Narelda Jacobs and Cathrine Mahoney each week, we’ll discuss the topics in your world from sex, dating, menopause, ambition, motherhood, not-motherhood, and what you’re not supposed to say about aging bodies. The first episode drops Friday the 28th of April. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 23, 2023•2 min

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