Today's No Filter episode features a man with a beard. But it's not just any beard. Jimmy Niggle's life changed forever 10 years ago when he was 26 and sitting at his best friends wake. As beers were being passed around and stories told, Jimmy decided to change his life. But how exactly is a beard life changing? Since that moment, Jimmy has become a bit famous but not just because of his beard or the heartfelt story behind it. Earlier this year, he married the love of his life and their wedding ...
Aug 23, 2020•29 min
It all started with a holiday to Thailand and a hoodie with a picture of a monkey on it. That’s how Dotty Charles knew that the world had reached peak outrage. Dotty, also known as Ashley, Amplify Dot or A.Dot, is an English rapper, former BBC presenter and broadcaster. She's just started a new job as Lead Cultural Curator of Black Music for Apple and she's written a book called Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting But No One Is Talking . Dotty’s message is clear: there are many valid things that ...
Aug 16, 2020•43 min
Australians, and now the world, have fallen in love with a man named Michael. And if you don’t know why, you’re about to. At the end of 2019, the ABC released a four-part documentary series called Love on the Spectrum, which told the stories of young adults on the autism spectrum who were dating, in relationships and falling in love for the first time. One of those young adults on the series is a man named Michael. At 26, Michael’s dream in life is to become a husband, and he’s so determined to ...
Aug 09, 2020•35 min
If you're a fan of Stan's hit show The Bold Type, you'll definitely recognise today's guest. And if you’re not, then let me introduce you to Melora Hardin. Melora was born into a family of actors and got her first role when she was just six years old. Since then she’s been acting, singing and dancing on shows such as The Loveboat and Transparent and movies like 27 Dresses and 17 Again. She’s an actors actor. A Hollywood veteran. In our conversation, we touch on everything from that old chestnut,...
Aug 02, 2020•28 min
We're dropping into your feed to share an awesome episode of our new podcast, Me After You, with you. No matter how it happens, motherhood changes you forever. Me After You is the show that asks the question: So, what now? Each episode, host Laura Byrne guides some very different women through their very different stories of life after birth. In this first episode, we’re talking Identity, and you’ll hear from women like Alex Nation, who got pregnant at 18 and wrestled with being a kid with a bab...
Jul 29, 2020•36 min
Julia Gillard has been busy this year. Very busy. She’s written a book called ‘Women and Leadership’ with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala where they speak to 8 female leaders including Jacinda Ardern and Hilary Clinton about the impact of gender on the treatment of leaders. She's also the host of 'A Podcast of One's Own', where she leads thoughtful but fun discussions with well-known female (and some male) leaders from different industries around the world. Plus, she’s the Chair of Beyond Blue - a role whic...
Jul 26, 2020•37 min
To her many Instagram followers, it seemed like the 'Young Mummy' Sophie Cachia had a pretty rosy life. She had a successful influencer career and pyjama business that she had built off her Young Mummy blog, which she'd started after marrying an AFL player called Jarryd Cachia and having the first of their two kids at just 22 years old. But like most things on social media, there was a different story happening behind the scenes. Sophie was starting to question the life and identity she'd built ...
Jul 19, 2020•33 min
We're dropping into your feed to share an awesome episode of Lady Startup Stories with you. Flex Mami is a 26 year old slashie: she’s a DJ, TV presenter, podcast host, author and the owner of Flex Factory which makes products. She’s part of a new generation of businesswomen who have built their brand and business on Instagram and in this interview Flex and Mia Freedman discuss personal branding, content creation and product development in the age of the influencer. If you like what you hear, hea...
Jul 16, 2020•35 min
Rebekah Robertson had twins. Both assigned male at birth. Despite what was written on their birth certificates, Rebekah’s twins were very different to one another. And so began the story of a little person called Georgie who knew deep inside that she was a girl. In this conversation Rebekah explains when she first realised Georgie was transgender and how she handled everything from school to clothes to friends and doctors. She also talks about why the way she has parented her trans child is the ...
Jul 12, 2020•42 min
When Teresa Palmer was nineteen, she walked into Hollywood's biggest talent agency and told them she was happy to have a career, but her biggest plans involved being a mother. And, she hasn't gone back on that. Even though she's scaled the heights of life as a Hollywood movie star, appearing in movies with people like Adam Sandler and Rosario Dawson, it's her family that are the focus of her life. She's in a happy blended family who spend their lives between her hometown Adelaide and Los Angeles...
Jul 05, 2020•47 min
This interview was recorded in January 2020. This is a story about fame and power and money and celebrity. And…..yoga. And the point at which all of those things meet is at the bare feet of a man named Bikram Choudhury. Wearing signature tiny black Speedos and his long hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, Bikram Choudhury was the king of an empire built on sweat, obsessive devotion and, as we learn in a recent Netflix documentary called Bikram, sexual harassment, rape and maniacal control. Th...
Jun 28, 2020•43 min
Narelda Jacobs grew up in a big, rambunctious family. Her mother, an Irish trailblazer, came out to Australia and married Narelda's dad, a member of the Stolen Generation who went on to become a religious minister. Narelda Jacobs is a proud Whadjuk Noongar woman and there’s so much to her story: a strictly religious upbringing, four older sisters, teen pregnancy, a shotgun marriage, a divorce…..there are many plot twists in her life and she recounts them with such warmth, wisdom and humour. Over...
Jun 21, 2020•49 min
*NOTE: This interview was recorded before the Black Lives Matters protests that are sweeping the world* You fall in love with your best friend, she tells you she's terribly sick and you leave your husband to be with her. Together with her ex-wife and ex-girlfriend, you're there when she passes away 18 months later. And that's just the short version of Elizabeth Gilbert's extraordinary life over the past few years since she last spoke with Mia. It's been two years since Rayya died and Liz joins M...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 07, 2020•35 sec
Andrew Solomon always wanted a family of his own, but he grew up in a time where that wasn't a reality for someone who was gay. Over the years, he tried to fight his sexuality - with conversion sex sessions, with relationships with women. When he finally accepted his true identity, Andrew met the love of his life and together (with four other parents) they created the ultimate modern family. He also wrote several best-selling, prize-winning books and delivered some extraordinary Ted Talks. Andre...
May 31, 2020•50 min
There’s a content warning on this episode: talk of suicide, and there’s also some graphic language Rita Therese is her pen name. Gia is her sex worker name. Her real name is a secret, to protect her privacy. After beginning as a waitress at bucks' parties, Rita Therese has spent most of her twenties earning a living in the sex industry - as well as topless and nude waitressing, working in brothels and as a FIFO sex worker in mining towns. Now, she's written a memoir called COME , which shares ex...
May 24, 2020•51 min
If you’ve never experienced an unhealthy relationship, one where passion and power and control insidiously morphs into abuse…..this episode might confuse you. But even if you’re one of the women who has never been through that kind of relationship, is not going through it now…..I bet you know someone who has. Or is. Abusive relationships come in 50 shades. The one most commonly understood is physical abuse. It’s a very clear line when you’re physically harmed by someone who claims to love you. T...
May 20, 2020•28 min
It was 2016 and Glennon Doyle was a wife, a mother and the author of a book called Love Warrior, that was about to be released. The book was a memoir about repairing her marriage after discovering her husband's longterm infidelity and Oprah had chosen it for her bookclub. This was big-time. And Glennon was about to begin a national promotional tour across America. What happened on the first night of that book tour was definitely not part of the plan. But it turned out to be the best thing that e...
May 17, 2020•1 hr 6 min
We've wanted to bring you this story for a while now - because it's a story that's played out in our extended Mamamia family. Anne Stephens (mother of Mamamia's Clare Stephens and Jessie Stephens) was twenty-two and finishing her teaching degree when she discovered she was pregnant. It was 1982 and things were different then. She couldn't see where she could give the baby the life she wanted for him. 37 years later, he found her. After a mission and a half. Here's Andrew's story. Anne's story is...
May 13, 2020•41 min
We've wanted to bring you this story for a while now - because it's a story that's played out in our extended Mamamia family. Anne Stephens (mother of Mamamia's Clare Stephens and Jessie Stephens) was twenty-two and finishing her teaching degree when she discovered she was pregnant. It was 1982 and things were different then. She couldn't see where she could give the baby the life she wanted for him. 37 years later, he found her. You'll hear Andrew's story later this week on No Filter. Jessie an...
May 09, 2020•41 min
Today, I’m Skyping with Dr Norman Swan, who's become one of Australia's most well known faces during the COVID19 crisis. Every night, he's been on our televisions keeping us up to date with the latest science on the pandemic, with his gentle Scottish accent and no nonsense warmth. His podcast Coronacast has become a daily must listen. So, what's it like with everyone listening to everything you say about a life or death situation? How has he been coping with the pressure? Credits Host: Mia Freed...
May 06, 2020•26 min
Everyone in Australia has an opinion about Malcolm Turnbull's time as Prime Minister - including and most especially the enemies who brought him down. So, what happens when the dust has settled after being ousted in a political coup? Twice. What do you do with the rest of your life? Malcolm Turnbull has written a book called A Bigger Picture that tells the story of his life. It's a big book about a big life, and on today's show, Malcolm talks about his marriage, being a father and why he refused...
May 03, 2020•36 min
Today, I’m Skyping with Amanda Gordon , one of Australia's most well known and well respected psychologists. We're catching up about anxiety. Which is a real thing right now. There are real things to be anxious about: the possibility of illness, job insecurity, kids at home all day, and it goes on and on... How do you know you whether you're anxious, or have Capital A Anxiety? We talk through all of this. And if you’re suffering from anxiety and need some support, check out our online anxiety co...
Apr 29, 2020•24 min
Imagine being ousted from your community, from your family, your whole life, because of a condition you'd developed during childbirth. A condition that most Australian women can have fixed relatively quickly and easily. Dr Catherine Hamlin wasn't having any of that. She and her husband created the legendary Hamlin Fistula Hospital and began saving women's lives back in the 1960s. Over her sixty years in Africa, Catherine became a national treasure of Ethiopia and Australia and we didn't want her...
Apr 26, 2020•43 min
Today, I’m Skyping with Trinny Woodall: TV host, author, fashion and makeover expert, founder of beauty company Trinny London. Trinny is isolating in her London home with her family, including her teenaged daughter Lyla and her partner, 76 year old advertising executive Charles Saatchi. Her mother, in a care home, has been diagnosed with COVID19 and is a super-carrier. I asked her about that, and how she's going running her business from home. You can listen to Trinny on No Filter HERE . And you...
Apr 22, 2020•18 min
Tracey Cox knows about sex. She's been writing about it since before she was even having it. Her books have taught generations of women how to receive and give pleasure in a way that gives them complete agency over their sex lives, and her new book is called Great Sex Starts At 50 . She's got advice and stories for every woman's sexual appetite: and she also reveals the surprising thing that can put a dampner on your sex life. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and ...
Apr 19, 2020•44 min
Today, I’m Skyping with Osher Gunsberg: TV host, podcast, author, mental health advocate and new dad. He and his partner Audrey recently had a baby called Wolfie and now they’re a family of four along with Audrey’s teenage daughter from a previous marriage. Osher had been three weeks into shooting the new season of the Bachelor when the decision was taken to close down production ,clear out the bachelor mansion and send everyone home. I asked him about that, about life as a new dad and about anx...
Apr 15, 2020•23 min
We wanted to update and revisit an interview I did with Holocaust survivor, Eddie Jaku, who describes himself as The Happiest Man Alive. Today his 100th birthday (I called up his granddaughter Danielle to find out how he's planning to celebrate) but as well as that, people are looking for wisdom and perspective and joy right now. Eddie is full of life, advice and stories about a world few people remember. A world that few people survived. A world that many people want to forget about. But not Ed...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr
The first time Simi Polonsky Hoffman was on No Filter , she was deep in grief. Her husband, Shua, had died of a sudden illness, leaving her with two children and another on the way. Simi and her sisters run a clothing line in New York City inspired by their Orthodox Jewish Faith and without Shua, she didn't know what her future looked like. But there's a new chapter in Simi's story that we are so happy to bring you today. Join us on No Filter to hear the story of hope we all really need at the m...
Apr 10, 2020•56 min
Today, I’m Skyping with Turia Pitt- mining engineer, athlete, motivational speaker, author, mother and bloody legend. I wanted to ask her about how to cope with adversity and she has some sage advice. You can listen to the other two No Filter interviews I’ve done with Turia HERE and HERE. And you can buy her books and courses HERE. Listen to Turia on No Filter here , and here . Recommendations: Tiger King , Dear Edward Credits: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram and get her free ...
Apr 08, 2020•23 min
