Subscribe to Mamamia Journalist and best-selling author, Julia Baird opens up about grace and how you can’t see it until it happens. How people look after people, love those who may seem unlovable and how being kinder can change everything. Mia and Julia speak about nurses, killers and the surprising places grace can be found. Julia tackles complex topics with clarity, passion and depth and she’s done just that with grace at even the darkest of times of her own life. She has released a new book ...
Dec 03, 2023•39 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Trinny Woodall is in a new era. She’s not quite sure what it’s called but it’s definitely a new life stage. Her beauty company is wildly successful. She’s newly single after a decade-long live-in relationship. Her daughter has left home. And she’s living with two men in their 30s. As flatmates. At age 59, she also posed naked on a horse. Not everyone liked that. As always, Trinny is candid, funny, vulnerable and an utter delight. Trinny has a new book called Fearless. It's a...
Nov 26, 2023•40 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Amalia Melis’ husband died suddenly in the middle of the night. What happened next sounds like something from a true crime podcast but it was her life. First, the police believed she murdered him. And then, three years later, she was forced to exhume his body as part of a custom in Greece that all families must experience due to over-crowded cemeteries. Amalia’s story of her life after her husband’s death is moving and unexpectedly beautiful. THE END BITS: Amalia is looking ...
Nov 19, 2023•36 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Cassie here. Subscribe to Mamamia After she was caught trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine out of Colombia in 2017, the media nicknamed her ‘Cocaine Cassie’. But Cassie Sainsbury’s life in a tough Colombian prison was so much more complicated. And interesting. In this episode, she speaks to Mia Freedman about prison life: the abuse, the relationships, the sex. And what happened afterwards. THE END BITS: Cassie Sainsbury has launched an onlin...
Nov 12, 2023•58 min
Subscribe to Mamamia In this conversation, Mia speaks to Paula Joye about working with the original 90’s supermodels: Christy, Cindy, Linda and Naomi. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from magazine shoots and backstage at fashion shows and explains the exact moment when designers completely turned against them. For many years, Paula was one of the most successful magazine editors in Australia, editing Cleo and launching Madison and Shop Til You Drop. She is now an author and digital content ...
Nov 05, 2023•51 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Mitch here. Subscribe to Mamamia Mitch Larsson is a former male escort with stories you would not expect from someone who was paid for sex. Mitch was a lawyer and stay at home dad but decided he wanted to change careers. And at first, his wife was supportive. In this episode he tells Mia about the time a client’s mum walked in on them, a lady in her 70’s who booked him regularly, a woman trying to get over a cheating ex and the woman who br...
Oct 29, 2023•48 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Jackie O here. Subscribe to Mamamia In this conversation, Mia speaks to Jackie O, the equal highest paid person in the media industry in Australia. After working together for 23 years, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie completely dominate breakfast radio. She talks to Mia about the long recovery from divorce, co-parenting, being on Hinge, the media being obsessed with her weight and behind the scenes of negotiating a huge radio contract. THE END B...
Oct 22, 2023•49 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Shanelle Dawson was just four years old when her mother disappeared and was convinced by her father for decades that her mum didn’t love her or her younger sister anymore. The truth is Chris murdered Lyn and moved his 17 year old girlfriend into their family home just two days later. Shanelle spent her entire life looking for answers and being manipulated. The Teacher’s Pet podcast series unearthed compelling evidence which led to the case being reinvestigated in 2018 and Ch...
Oct 15, 2023•49 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Laura and Matt here. Subscribe to Mamamia In this episode, Mia speaks to TV personalities Matty J & Laura Byrne about their marriage, parenting and living their private life in the public eye. They met on the Bachelor, got pregnant nine months later and because neither had a blueprint for what a healthy marriage looked like, they created their own. Matt is the primary carer of their two daughters and Laura works three jobs. In this wide...
Oct 08, 2023•49 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Hamish here Subscribe to Mamamia Hamish Blake takes us beyond Radio and TV and into the personal life of the funniest bloke in Australia. Hamish speaks about accidentally discovering the gender of his first baby, his existential crisis every time he realises his six year old daughter can do things on her own and the hilarious advice he has about his kids and their schoolyard dramas and the value of money. He tells Mia how he deals with a bu...
Oct 01, 2023•51 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Jamie here. Subscribe to Mamamia 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 J...
Sep 24, 2023•46 min
Subscribe to Mamamia As two of Australia's most well-known and successful journalists, Leigh Sales and Lisa Millar have witnessed and reported on the most significant news events in the past 30 years. They’re also best mates. Leigh and Lisa both work for the ABC and share a passion for journalism but they're very different. One wakes up at 3am, loves strangers and does park runs on the weekend. While the other looks for the exit at parties, is learning to play the cello and has interviewed every...
Sep 17, 2023•49 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Alisha here. Subscribe to Mamamia Alisha Aitken-Radburn was a contestant on the Honey Badger’s season of The Bachelor (2018) and got the dreaded ‘villain edit’. It nearly destroyed her. So why did she then decide to sign up for two seasons of Bachelor In Paradise and does she regret it? What about the time she had sex with a camera in the room? Or having a cheating scandal with her now-husband play out publicly? Alisha has written a book ca...
Sep 10, 2023•50 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Brendan Watkins was eight years old when he and his brother were told they were adopted from different families. He spent decades trying to track down his biological mother and father. It wasn’t until his 29th birthday he requested his original birth certificate and from that he was told his mother was a nun. In this conversation Mia speaks to Brendan about the lengths he went to, in order to uncover his birth parents. And he’s taken her through an even more difficult journe...
Sep 03, 2023•39 min
Subscribe to Mamamia In the early 2000's there was an Australian girl band that everyone was obsessed with, they were called Bardot. And Belinda Chapple was one of the members. Chances are you might remember their hit song Poison. Or you may have watched Popstars where the band was created. But what you might not know is that a lot of things went on behind the scenes. On this episode of No Filter, Belinda joins Mia to share the stories she’s wanted to tell for twenty years. From their quick rise...
Aug 27, 2023•46 min
Subscribe to Mamamia It’s been a big year for Mackenzie Arnold. She’s gone from being able to walk down the street without getting recognised to being approached on the street by strangers. In her first podcast interview since the FIFA World Cup, Mackenzie sits down with Mia Freedman to chat about it all. From having the whole country thanking you for what you did, to pre game rituals, superstitions and playing with your best mates. You’re not going to want to miss this chat… THE END BITS: Follo...
Aug 23, 2023•39 min
You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Elizabeth here. Subscribe to Mamamia Three weeks before Elizabeth Day’s 39th birthday, she had a bad romantic break-up. It had been her first long-term relationship after her divorce and she felt like a total failure when it ended. She was looking down the barrel of turning 40 as a single woman without the children she so desperately wanted. Fast forward to today and Elizabeth is one of the most successful podcasters in the world, and she’s...
Aug 20, 2023•51 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Natalie Barr has worked at Channel Seven for 29 years and has been an original member of their #1 rated breakfast TV show, Sunrise, for 20 years. But when she was offered the top job of host in 2021? Her first reaction was hell no. On this episode of No Filter, Nat gets candid about her career and reservations about taking on the hosting gig, turning 50, motherhood, and her long-standing marriage. We have a feeling you’re going to love this interview... THE END BITS: Follow ...
Aug 13, 2023•57 min
Subscribe to Mamamia In 2017, Emily Hall was 37 weeks pregnant and preparing for a beautiful future with her husband Matt, when the unthinkable happened. Matt died suddenly one weekend and she found herself joining a club she never wanted to be a part of … a widow at 30. In this conversation, Mia speaks to Emily about how she balanced soaking in the joy of being a new mother, while also grieving the sudden loss of her husband, and finding love again. THE END BITS: Read more of Emily's story here...
Aug 06, 2023•48 min
Listen to part two of Mia and Sharon's conversation here. Subscribe to Mamamia Samantha Azzopardi spent 10 years receiving care as a troubled teen. It would be years before the truth came out that she was actually an adult woman. Her scams stretched decades and impacted families, friends and even children, in Australia and abroad. But it wasn’t money that she wanted… In this conversation, Mia speaks with investigative journalist Sharon Davis, who has spent the past few years working on the succe...
Jul 30, 2023•47 min
Subscribe to Mamamia After gracing our screens on reality TV Erin Barnett had a battle on her hands… to get doctors to take her seriously. The 28 year old quickly became a public figure after starring on Love Island Australia , and surviving the jungle on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here , sharing her difficult journey with Endometriosis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with thousands of adoring fans. In this conversation, Erin shares how she landed on the decision to change her life by getting a...
Jul 23, 2023•45 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Caitlin Moran is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and successful writers, columnist, novelist and world famous feminist icon. Caitlin knows a lot about talking to women, in fact she’s written two books specifically about it How To Be A Woman and More Than A Woman. But her latest book What About Men looks into how the problems of feminism are also the problems of men. And on this episode of No Filter she joins Mia to ask the question, is it harder to be a man than a woman in th...
Jul 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Listen to part two of Mia and Jessie's conversation here. If you're struggling with anxiety & depression, reach out to Beyond Blue here. Anxiety and depression are mental health issues that so many Australians will experience in their life. But for Jessie Stephens, her experiences with mental health issues were almost inevitable. Jessie’s latest boo k, Something Bad Is Going to Happen is her most personal project yet. Jessie taps into her own experiences with mental health to create an incre...
Jul 09, 2023•49 min
Listen to part two of Mia's conversation with Nicole here. Subscribe to Mamamia Journalist Nicole Madigan, was stalked for three years by a woman she didn’t know. A woman who became so obsessed with Nicole, that she tried to ruin her life. Nicole found herself in a constant state of anxiety for herself, her children and her partner. And on this episode of No Filter she joins Mia to share her story… THE END BITS: With thanks to Nicole Madigan. You can find her book Obsession here. Feedback? We’re...
Jul 02, 2023•43 min
Subscribe to Mamamia A few weeks ago, Mia inhaled a newsletter titled ‘Is Going Camel Mode Inevitable For Parents.’ Camel mode is a time in your life when you power down to focus on one task, it might be for an aging parent, dealing with a separation or a chronic illness, or in the case of both of our guests today, parenting little kids. On the show today, Mia explores the concept of camel mode with writer Katheryn Jezer-Morton, and the day-to-day routine of it with a friend of the podcast, Amel...
Jun 25, 2023•43 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Emma Gannon had a successful podcast, had written multiple books and a career as a high profile journalist in the UK. She also had a happy personal life, and on paper everything looked great…but she was unhappy. And burnt out. Which is when she realised that no amount of success is worth your health. Her new book, The Success Myth, Letting Go Of Having It All dives in to why all the things we measure as successful - being rich, famous, even having kids - are, in fact, myths....
Jun 18, 2023•44 min
Subscribe to Mamamia In the early 1990s, 21-year-old Paul Denyer terrorised the Victorian suburb of Frankston. He preyed on the local women; stalking, abducting, and eventually murdering three young victims. Their names were Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream, and Natalie Russell. David Limbrick was Natalie Russell’s boyfriend at the time. He was just 19 when Natalie was found, and his life was forever changed. David went on to become a member of the Victorian Parliament, representing the suburb o...
Jun 11, 2023•39 min
Subscribe to Mamamia Nearly 20 years ago, Kathleen Folbigg was sentenced to 40 years in jail for the murder of three of her children, and the manslaughter of her fourth. She was described as Australia’s worst female serial killer. Earlier this week, she was pardoned of her crimes. Mia Freedman sits down with journalist Jane Hansen to hear Kathleen's story... Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 05, 2023•57 min
Listen to part two of Mia's interview with Elise, here. You’d probably recognise Elise Loehnen’s face because, in her role as Chief Content Officer at Goop, she hosted the Goop Lab TV show on Netflix and the Goop podcast alongside the company's founder, Gwyneth Paltrow. But that fact is probably the least interesting thing about Elise Loehnen. In 2021, Elise walked away from her extremely high-profile job to launch a podcast and write her book. And her book On Our Best Behaviour, has blown our m...
Jun 04, 2023•44 min
Subscribe to Mamamia When Sophie Matterson was 31, she broke up with her long-term boyfriend. Soon afterward, she packed all her belongings into saddlebags and decided to trek from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay on the east coast with five camels. For 13 months Sophie crossed deserts, salt lakes, and cattle stations, often without seeing another person. But somehow, along this journey, Sophie found love. She joins Claire Murphy to tell her all about it... THE END BITS: With thanks t...
May 28, 2023•50 min
