It’s been a pretty busy time lately, but in the days I was in Melbourne, I was so lucky to catch the legendary Rob Mills to record an episode in celebration of his brand new book, Putting on a Show ! !! I only got my advance copy 24 hours beforehand and thought I’d give it a quick once over to prepare then go back to read it in more detail afterwards, but I could. not. put. it. down!!! It’s such a fabulous (and much needed) exploration of the average Aussie bloke, our shifting and sometimes dist...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 226
Lovely yayborhood, I am SO excited about today’s episode. You’ve probably heard me say before that one of the coolest parts of having a podcast is having audio evidence of how you felt at a particular point in your life to look back on, but being able to do that with our guests as well when they return for a reunion is even more special. Today, after nearly FOUR YEARS since we first recorded, the incredible Laura Henshaw and Steph Smith jumped on again to celebrate the second round of their Keep...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 225
Lovely yayborhood we’re back into our regular recording schedule and I’m SO pumped to have an epic guest for our first episode back. I had the privilege of sitting down with D'Leanne Lewis , a real estate mogul and star of Luxe Listings Sydney – many of you have probably already binged the first two seasons showing the ins and outs of one of the most cutthroat real estate markets in the world (and some seriously insane properties) and Season 3 is NOW available on Prime Video from today September...
Sep 30, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 224
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Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 223
Welcome to September lovely yayborhood you made it through winter I hope you’re excited to come out of hiberyaytion! And I can’t think of a better story to help you spring into spring than this one. Today’s guest epitomises the idea of seizing your yay having walked away from a booming career not only to take a new direction but to LITERALLY QUIT HER JOB ALTOGETHER, BUY A BOAT, LEARN TO SAIL IT AND THEN TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD ON IT!!! Yep, Kristina Costalos and her pilot partner, John Tilley, p...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 222
I am so excited about today’s episode, it’s a very special one on adoption following our anonymous Q&A. Some of you may remember I was at an event recently and was partnered with a legend named Matt Purcell from Sydney who I’d never met before and somehow we figured out we were not only both adopted and both from South Korea… but from the SAME orphanage around the very same time! I often talk about my adoption but rarely with someone with the same unique cultural story and this was so specia...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 221
Lovely yayborhood, I hope you’re surviving the final weeks of Winter - I can’t believe how fast the year is going, but I’m so excited we’re inching closer to Spring! Thank you for all the lovely feedback on the past few weeks of episodes and the anonymous Q&A – I’m so glad last week’s fertility and IVF episode helped some of you, wasn’t Erin just an amazing woman? The adoption episode is coming to you next week, but speaking of incredible women, I’ve squeezed another amazing story in between...
Aug 16, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 220
Lovely yayborhood, today’s guest is special for so many different reasons not least because we were born just three days apart and have so much in common. You’ll hear me say I think we’d be dear friends if we lived in the same city, and I’ve admired this amazing woman for many years from afar. Like many of our guests, you may have first heard about Erin Holland as Miss World Australia 2013 but there is so much more depth and detail to her pathYAY that somehow flies under the radar. For example, ...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 219
I’m so excited to introduce you to Anna Podolsky for so many reasons – the parallels in parts of our stories, her amazing business because the products are actually incredible but also because her work involves floofy puppies and that’s just the biggest yay of all. After immigrating from the Ukraine, Anna has been a successful professional gymnast, an international management consultant with the prestigious Bain & Co around the world and now founder of a booming pet food start up, Lyka Petfo...
Aug 04, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 218
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Jul 28, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 217
Thank you for your patience, yayborhood!! We're finally BACK after an unexpected break. I was so anal about having enough episodes pre-recorded to avoid any down time on the show while we were on the honeymoon but then ended up losing my voice as soon as we got back! It lingered much longer than I would have liked, so had to take a break anyway - really appreciate you waiting so patiently! We had originally planned for this #yaysofourlives episode to cover the post-honeymoon reflections and some...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 215
Few things feel as special as absolutely frothing one of our guests and everything they do, then hearing that they’ve been listening to the podcast themselves for years. And I feel even more privileged to have today’s guest on the show because she doesn’t do these very often (and in fact didn’t even reveal herself as the founder of her business until 8 months after its explosive launch onto the scene!) That’s just one of the many examples of Samantha Brett blazing her own trail – I found this ch...
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 214
I doubt there are many of you listening who haven’t drooled once or twice over Chris Hemsworth’s body before... I mean, you’re only human right? WELL, you may NOT have realised you were actually drooling over our GUEST for this week – yep, I’m thrilled to have Chris’ legendary body double and professional stuntman Bobby Holland Hanton on the show this week. Bobby has worked on many major Hollywood blockbuster films including Thor, The Avengers, Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Mission Impo...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 213
This week is Men’s Health Week from the 13th to the 19th June and every year we dedicate a specific episode to the conversation. Like most international or national awareness weeks, the health and wellness of men and boys and their specific needs are important every week and not just right now, but it always helps to have gentle reminders, especially for topics that can carry by stigma, tradition or shame. We’ve had some amazing conversations with fabulous guests about the changing social concep...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 212
Our final guest for the Finders SEEKers miniseries is none other than SEEK’s very own Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand – Kendra Banks . And we are SO lucky to benefit not only from her insider tips on taking advantage of the Great Job Boom, but also her personal wisdom on pivoting gleaned through an incredibly diverse and exciting career. With a BA from Yale in Economics and Maths followed by a Masters in Euro Politics, Kendra – like many of us – has ended up in places she never e...
Jun 09, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 211
Lovely yayborhood, I hope your June is going well so far. In case you need it, a little reminder of last week’s quote of the yay – if you aren’t where you thought you’d be as we approach the middle of the year (which as always, has crept up outrageously quickly), it is impossible to fall behind in your own life as your pathway is on its own timetable . From my conversations over the past few weeks, a lot of us are still feeling a bit of an emotional hangover from the past few years but are quite...
Jun 07, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 210
Lovely yayborhood, I am so excited about today’s guest – if you follow me, you’ll already know how much I admire her talents and if you follow her those talents will need absolutely no introduction. On the off chance you don’t, however, you’ve still probably seen her work without realising it draped on some of the nation’s biggest names (although, to be fair, she is in her own right one of the nation’s biggest names and an absolute icon of style). Even if you do already know of Effie Kats , I’m ...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 209
Lovely yayborhood, welcome to June!!! And welcome back to #yaysofourlives after a few weeks of Ang and I taking turns cancelling because of what we like to call "PLEH" (as well as some pretty jam packed schedules). You'll hear all about what "PLEH" means and why it's become such a crucial part of our friendship in the episode (and hopefully it helps you in some way too as I suspect we're not the only ones feeling it right now). And if you are, you couldn't get a more perfect #quoteoftheyay than ...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 208
I'm so excited to present our next miniseries in partnership with SEEK . It has brought so much yay to mix up the format and zoom in on particular facets of seizing your yay, so allow me to introduce Finders, SEEKers . You've all heard me rave on and on about how life unravels in many different chapters and how the most uncomfortable, scary changes in our lives are usually the most transformative and exciting. One of the many silver linings of an otherwise undesirable few years is the opportunit...
May 18, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 207
I'm so excited to present our next miniseries in partnership with SEEK . It has brought so much yay to mix up the format and zoom in on particular facets of seizing your yay, so allow me to introduce Finders, SEEKers . You've all heard me rave on and on about how life unravels in many different chapters and how the most uncomfortable, scary changes in our lives are usually the most transformative and exciting. One of the many silver linings of an otherwise undesirable few years is the opportunit...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 206
I'm so excited to present our next miniseries in partnership with SEEK . It has brought so much yay to mix up the format and zoom in on particular facets of seizing your yay, so allow me to introduce Finders, SEEKers . You've all heard me rave on and on about how life unravels in many different chapters and how the most uncomfortable, scary changes in our lives are usually the most transformative and exciting. One of the many silver linings of an otherwise undesirable few years is the opportunit...
May 05, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 205
Continued from part 1... Thank you so much to everyone who submitted questions for the annual birthday Q&A episode and then waited patiently for basically a MONTH while it kept getting pushed back. The spicy cough turned into a very rude and longer-lasting cold that wreaked absolute havoc on my voice box meaning we had to postpone about ten times before finally sitting down to record. If Ang and I are a little hectic when we record virtually, the Galentines Day episode proved that we're pure...
Apr 27, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted questions for the annual birthday Q&A episode and then waited patiently for basically a MONTH while it kept getting pushed back. The spicy cough turned into a very rude and longer-lasting cold that wreaked absolute havoc on my voice box meaning we had to postpone about ten times before finally sitting down to record. If Ang and I are a little hectic when we record virtually, the Galentines Day episode proved that we're pure chaos when we record in ...
Apr 26, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 203
Hope you had an amazing Easter break and thank you to everyone who submitted questions for our very belated birthday Q&A. As you can hear, I recovered from the spicy cough but somehow caught a cold straight after and still sound like a man, so we delayed it AGAIN which means if you have any extra questions or good news stories for the episode shoot them over this week and we’ll eventually get around to recording it. In the meantime, I’ve got a ZINGER today for you that I recorded when I soun...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 202
Well, the spicy cough finally caught up with me but thank goodness I squeezed this one in earlier so I could get it to you before Easter. Today’s guest epitomises everything that gets me excited about life and its many twists and turns plus she's even more special because she was nomi-yay-ted by someone in the yayborhood. So first off, very big thank you to the lovely Emily de Wiljes for listening to the show and for taking the time to submit this beautiful story. I probably wouldn’t have discov...
Apr 13, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 201
It's a week late due to the spicy cough finally catching up with me, but here's the final instalment of Casta-yays for this Blood vs Water season with SOLE SURVIVOR, MARK WALES !!!! So bloody proud of this legendary human and what a joy to sit down and go through some of the behind the scenes reflections of his game with him. Thank you so much to those who submitted questions too, we got through a bunch of them and I wanted to ask a few of them myself. Such a full circle moment having only met M...
Apr 12, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 200
What a whirlwind few weeks it’s been – I can’t believe it’s already April and I don’t know about you guys but I’m counting down until the Easter break to catch up with myself again. It’s been SO delightful to work with real life people in the flesh and travel around again – of course I’ve gotten overexcited as usual and episodes have been dropping all over the shop between Survivor, #yaysofourlives and the regular schedule BUT I hope it's been keeping things fresh and you on your toes. I couldn’...
Apr 05, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Lovely yayborhood, you might have seen that we have quite a few friends on the latest season of Survivor (a few of whom you’ve already heard from on the show) and we thought for those of you who find some yay in watching the show it’d be the perfect opportunity to dish up some behind the scenes dirt for you. So, quick heads up for anyone who isn’t a big fan, there’ll be a few bonus episodes during this Blood vs Water season that assume you know the show and rule of the game well (but we’ll still...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 198
My goodness it's been a big few weeks and my brain is a little scattered trying to catch up (which you might hear in the episode - I fumbled my way through this one a bit). But we’re back with our regular programming and I’m delighted to have the beautiful Anna Robards here just days after the launch of her very first business. You might know Anna from Australia’s first ever season of The Bachelor which screened, get this – TEN YEARS AGO THIS YEAR – or SAS Australia which is screening right now....
Mar 17, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 197
We recorded this one a few weeks ago, then I didn't have signal in South Australia unexpectedly so I couldn't upload this episode until now. Neither of us really remember what we talked about (plus so much more has happened in the past two weeks), but hope it brings you some yay anyway! + Announcements on Insta at @spoonful_of_sarah + Join our Facebook community here + Subscribe to not miss out on the next instalment of YAY! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 14, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 196
