Australian women will soon face a significant decision. In the coming weeks, they’ll help decide the next Prime Minister of Australia. With the election on the horizon, we have invited both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton onto No Filter to speak directly to you . The conversation you’re about to hear isn’t only about politics and policy positions. It’s also about the man behind the politics, the person who is asking you to put ...
Mar 15, 2025•50 min
Australian women will soon face a significant decision. In the coming weeks, they’ll help decide the next Prime Minister of Australia. With the election on the horizon, we have invited both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton onto No Filter to speak directly to you . The conversation you’re about to hear isn’t only about politics and policy positions. It’s also about the man behind the politics, the person who is asking you to put your t...
Mar 15, 2025•44 min
Comedy, motherhood, hot pants, and postpartum anxiety. Comedian and mother of two, Iliza Shlesinger, knows just how much energy parenting takes. She’s juggling the chaos of mum brain, managing family life, and dominating the road as one of the most successful comedians in the world. She’s full of great advice, avoids reading online comments, and—thanks to her chef husband— is always well-fed. Plus, both her husband and her beloved dog, Blanch, make a special appearance. W...
Mar 09, 2025•1 hr 1 min
A Routine STI Check. A Life-Changing Diagnosis. At 21, Ellie Harrison was living her London dream; working in fashion, in a long-term relationship, studying and partying with friends. Then a routine STI check changed everything: she was HIV positive. Her diagnosis was a complete mystery, and in that moment it felt like the sky was falling. Sitting alone on a canal-side bench after leaving the clinic, Ellie was convinced she'd just been handed a death sentence. In this conversation you’ll h...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr
“That’s not your real name” A secret past. A hidden identity. A childhood spent on the run. Listen to part two of this conversation here. When Tyler Wetherall was nine years old, Scotland Yard arrived at her home, and she discovered that her entire life had been a lie. Her father was a fugitive, her family had been living under assumed names, and the life she thought she knew had been built on deception.What you’ll hear: The moment Tyler learned her father was a fu...
Feb 23, 2025•47 min
In 2015, Australian con woman Belle Gibson was living the dream. Her app The Whole Pantry was hugely popular and she was about to launch a book of the same name. With hundreds of thousands of followers online, Belle had become a celebrated wellness influencer who'd overcome terminal cancer and had cured herself with healthy eating and holistic therapies. But it was all a lie. The truth came to light when her friend, Chanelle McAuliffe, noticed gaps in Belle's story. The moment she ex...
Feb 19, 2025•52 min
A series of cryptic emails. A terrifying discovery. A betrayal 10 years in the making. When high school teacher Hannah Grundy received a message about explicit images of her circulating online, she dismissed it as a scam. But as the warnings persisted, she uncovered a nightmare far worse than she could have imagined—a deepfake pornographic site dedicated to her, filled with violent images and fantasies, orchestrated by someone she trusted completely.What you’ll hear: The shocking mom...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr 4 min
"I'm Addison Shepherd, you must be the woman who's sleeping with my husband." One line. Thirty seconds. That’s all it took for Shonda Rhimes to change Kate Walsh’s life forever. Now, the Grey’s Anatomy star, entrepreneur, and proud Aussie local sits down with Kate Langbroek for a candid chat about reinvention, resilience, and swapping Hollywood for Western Australia. What you’ll hear: The career-defining moment that made Kate a household name Facing rejection and survivin...
Feb 09, 2025•36 min
Andy Lee is one of the most successful and loved people in the Australian entertainment industry and he puts some of his biggest successes down to luck, which isn’t true. In this chat with Kate Langbroek, Andy opens up about how important it is to tell your friends how you feel, how he and Hamish haven’t always vibed with certain projects, the nosy people on Instagram after he posts photos of his girlfriend and how he thinks failure is when you aren’t happy, not when you&...
Feb 05, 2025•51 min
The story of how this interview almost happened last year, but didn't, is a story about burnout, grief, and big life changes. But Mia Freedman and Kate Langbroek were ready this time - and now, this story is also about courage and new beginnings THE END BITS: Listen to more No Filter interviews here and follow us on Instagram here. Discover more Mamamia podcasts here . Feedback: podcast@mamamia.com.au Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice message , and one of ...
Feb 02, 2025•52 min
We are so excited about the year ahead at No Filter. You can follow Kate Langbroek here . And Mia is still in your ears on Mamamia Out Loud - if you don't already listen, you're in for a treat. And you can subscribe to Mia's newsletter to stay connected to all her thoughts about...everything. THE END BITS: Listen to more No Filter interviews here and follow us on Instagram here. Discover more Mamamia podcasts here . Feedback: podcast@mamamia.com.au Share your story, feedb...
Jan 29, 2025•11 min
In this conversation from the archives we go back to 2003, when a two-year-old girl captured the hearts of Australians after she was involved in an accident at her NSW childcare centre. Her name was Sophie Delezio. A vehicle crashed into the centre and caught alight, trapping Sophie and burning 85% of her body. After that accident, she lost both her legs below the knee, her right hand and ear. Three years later, in May 2006, Sophie was hit by a car as her nanny pushed her wheelchair across the r...
Jan 26, 2025•58 min
There’s something we need to talk about more. In this episode of No Filter from the archives Naomi Watts, Alison Brahe-Daddo & Dr Ginni Mansberg sat down with Mia Freedman to talk about the Bermuda Triangle of women’s health. The funny and the not so pleasurable, hot mess stuff. They get real about the rollercoaster that is menopause and peri-menopause. The chaos, brain fog, sex drive and silver linings. Prepare for a huge flow of beautiful stories and some new found IDGAF attitu...
Jan 23, 2025•54 min
The world knows Naomi Watts as one of the most iconic and accomplished actors of her generation - from The Ring to Mulholland Drive, King Kong to The Impossible - and so much more. But Naomi Watts is starring in a new role now…the role of author and advocate and innovator for menopausal women. She’s written an incredible new book, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause. But before she could write it - she had to wrestle with the strong sense of shame she ca...
Jan 19, 2025•45 min
Can a woman really grow a baby without knowing she is pregnant? The answer is YES, as supermum Erin Carty proves! Erin’s story is one of bravery- as she details coming to terms with being an instant mum. You’ll hear about her husband’s heroic actions, their family’s shock and the incredible way Erin grew to bond with her bub. Diary Of A Birth features mums telling their miraculous stories of bringing life into the world, and we have all medical questions and concern...
Jan 16, 2025•32 min
Happy New Year - No Filter listeners - how are you going so far in 2025? Did you survive the silly season? Did you make any “new year, new me” resolutions? Maybe you’re one of the many people who chose to get through the holidays sober…or maybe you enjoyed some Christmas tipple but now you’re feeling sober-curious. Wherever you might be on the mocktail to cocktail spectrum - this conversation is for you because our guest, author and health & wellbeing coach, Sa...
Jan 12, 2025•52 min
What do you do when you receive a phone call saying that your daughter has murdered someone? Mary Pershall spent 28 years trying to shield her youngest daughter Anna from her demons. First, it was anorexia, then other mental health issues and later drug use including marijuana and ice. But one act of rage in 2015 changed the course of Anna and her mother's life forever. So how do you deal with the fact your daughter is a murderer? Listen to part two of this conversation where Mia talks to Mary's...
Jan 09, 2025•44 min
Tara Westover was 16 when she stepped into a classroom for the first time. She didn’t know how to talk to her peers, had never heard of the Holocaust and thought that she was sitting amongst heathens. Today Tara holds a PHD in intellectual history and political thought from Cambridge University. She’s attended Harvard as a fellow, and has just written her first book, a memoir called Educated. So how did she get here? Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman&n...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Never has the cliche “truth is stranger than fiction” applied more than to the woman on today's episode. You couldn’t make Susan Francis’s life up - it has too many twists. It begins with an adoption story and the mystery of her biological parents, it includes a secret sister, a heartbreaking confrontation, unexpected love and a series of events that were so dramatic that she had to write them down in a memoir just to make sense of them. It’s called The Love That Re...
Jan 05, 2025•34 min
How do you prepare for prison? How do you tell your young daughters that you aren’t going to see them for a very long time? Kerry Tucker was jailed in 2004 for one of the biggest white-collar crimes committed by a female in Victoria at the time. She’d been stealing money from her employers. She owned up to it, went through the process and spent 4.5 years behind bars in a maximum security prison away from her two daughters. Surprisingly for Kerry, jail was the making of her and she&rs...
Jan 02, 2025•1 hr 5 min
When you think of a psychopath, you probably imagine someone like serial killer Ivan Milat. But according to David Gillespie, it's more likely to be your boss or your grandma. Five to 10 per cent of the population qualify as psychopathic, and the rate can be as high as 20 per cent among corporate leaders and politicians. So how do you spot them? What do you do if you have to work for or with them, or better yet, date them? Grab a cup of tea and get ready to go ‘OH MY GOD’... THE END ...
Dec 31, 2024•55 min
It was an ordinary day on the 30th of July, 1997 in Thredbo, but at 11:35pm the earth moved. Lives were changed and lost in just a few minutes. The Thredbo Landslide happened fast. It hit two ski lodges where 19 people were sleeping. It destroyed the buildings, ripped them off their foundations, and plunged those inside under tonnes of debris and concrete. For the first two days, we were told that there would be no survivors. However, on the morning of the third day, 66 hours after he was ...
Dec 29, 2024•46 min
What were you doing on Boxing Day morning in 2004? Sarah Ayles was on a beach in Sri Lanka, putting on a mask about to go snorkelling with her business partner and ex-boyfriend, when her life changed forever. The Boxing Day Tsunami was caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean and experts say it had the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. 227,898 people lost their lives across Indonesia, Sri Lanka , India , and Thailand but Sarah survived. Click here to subscribe to...
Dec 26, 2024•52 min
On the 12th of September, 2018, Australian Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran’s International Airport in Iran. She spent 804 days incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin and Qarchak prison for espionage, a crime she never committed. She was an innocent Australian stuck in a foreign prison...with no way of getting home. Kylie’s story about her imprisonment, and what happened after she was finally released is unbelievable. Except it really happened. Want more of Kylie? Lis...
Dec 24, 2024•58 min
The last few years of Abi Morgan’s life would make an incredible TV show, although you might not believe it because of the plot twists. One of those twists is that Abi herself is an Emmy-award-winning screenwriter of movies like Iron Lady, with Meryl Streep, and TV dramas like The Split. But nothing could have prepared her for the cascading series of events that began on a very ordinary day. The crescendo of this story is that, after waking up from a coma, Abi's partner of 20 years didn't ...
Dec 22, 2024•45 min
When Louisa Hope walked into Sydney’s Lindt Cafe 10 years ago she didn't expect her life would change forever. Louisa is one of the survivors of the Sydney Siege. She and her mother were held at gunpoint and trapped for 17 hours before the gunman executed cafe manager Tori Johnston on his knees in front of her. Another hostage, Katrina Dawson was killed moments later in gunfire when police stormed the cafe. Louisa joined Mia Freedman for a conversation in 2019 to talk through what happened...
Dec 21, 2024•57 min
Have you ever been love-bombed by a romantic partner only to have them go cold as soon as they’ve snagged you? Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who made you feel crazy because of their ability to seem SO great in front of the neighbours but be SO different behind closed doors? What about a boss who steals your ideas, your thunder and your inspiration…Or a parent who always made your life about them? According to our guest today, chances are you’ve ...
Dec 15, 2024•48 min
The Believe in Magic charity was set up by a 16-year-old girl and her mother. Megan and Jean’s charity helped grant wishes to sick children in a make-a-wish sort of way and some kids, including Megan, even got to meet One Direction members. The charity was founded because Megan was diagnosed with a rare brain condition and a few years later a brain tumour. A group of internet sleuths became suspicious after Jean tried to raise money for an emergency trip to see a doctor overseas. So was Me...
Dec 13, 2024•41 min
Cait West was raised inside an fundamentalist Christian patriarchal cult that believed that women should be submissive to men and that girls should be raised to serve their husbands…by first serving their fathers. Until she was 25 years old, Cait was what is referred to as a ‘stay-at-home daughter’ - what exactly does that mean? And how did Cait decide to finally leave? Listen to this timely, important, and deeply empowering conversation to hear Cait’s incredible story - Only on No Filter. You c...
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min
[Part 1 of 2] Having one baby is hard. Imagine four! This is the incredible story of Taylah Tudehope-Glachan ’s pregnancy and birth with her quadruplets. In Part 1 of Taylah’s tale, she details a roller-coaster fertility struggle; think PCOS, endometriosis and IVF. Plus what it was like discovering her successful transfer had resulted in four babies. You’ll hear about high-risk pregnancy, exactly HOW she fell pregnant with quads, and how she handled her hospitalisation at 24 weeks Can’t wait for...
Dec 07, 2024•32 min
