Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About... Today's Topic: Should We Ban The Word Pretty ? 00:38 - Foreword from Editor of Marie Claire Nicky Briger 1:13 - Kristie explains her complex relationship with the word 'pretty' 2:47 - Kristie realises that looks and 'being pretty' is a currency in her childhood 4:32 - When Kristie asked Mum at 11 'do you think I'm pretty?' 7:41 - The Thinkergirls ask little girls what they think of the word pretty? 14:43 - Well...so should we ban...
Jan 20, 2019•16 min•Ep. 170
Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About... Today's Topic: Happiness 00:26 - Foreword from Editor of Marie Claire Nicky Briger 1:17 - Marie Claire writer Kathryn Madden shares her experience of completing Yale's 'Happiness Course' 6:12 - Obsessing over what you don't have is the killer of happiness 9:57 - Visualisation as a technique to promote happiness from the course 12:38 - Writer of 'Happy As' Lisa Portolan on why we're all so obsessed with being happy 18:31 - The onl...
Jan 20, 2019•27 min•Ep. 169
Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About... Today's Topic: Miscarriage 00:31 - Foreword from Editor of Nikki Birgger 1:13 - Co-founder of Pink Elephant Support Samantha Payne takes us through the stats of miscarriage 8:33 - How important is it that people around someone experiencing a miscarriage know how to support? 10:01 - Features Director of Marie Claire Sarah Grant 11:33 - Kristie goes through the do’s and don’t when someone around you has experienced a miscarriage wi...
Jan 20, 2019•35 min
Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About... Today's Topic: I Do - One Year on from Marriage Equality 00:56 - Foreword from Editor of Nicky Briger 1:23 - LGBTQI advocate / champion Jason Ball on where marriage equality is in 2019 7:40 - Luke & Craig said ‘I do’ this year. They share their story 10:47 - The powerful moment that made them realise what marriage equality actually means 18:36 - Has anything changed in their relationship post marriage? 20:56 - Christine Forst...
Jan 20, 2019•38 min•Ep. 167
Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About... Today's Topic: Emotional Labour 00:44 - Foreword from Editor of Nikki Briger 1:27 - What actually is ‘emotional labor’ in a relationship to Stace and Kristie? 5:43 - Women bit by bit taking on more in relationships 8:18 - Feminine and masculine energy in relationships. We’re not just talking about men and women here 12:27 - Kids being a game-changer for ‘emotional labour’ in relationships 15:33 - What are some of the take outs fr...
Jan 20, 2019•26 min•Ep. 166
Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About... Today's Topic: Anxiety. 0:28 - A foreward from Editor of Marie Claire, Nicky Briger. 1:04 - The Thinkergirls interview Juanita Phillips; ABC News Presenter, author and mother of two. 7:14 - Marie Claire staff Millie, Robyn and Susie tell us how their anxiety started. 9:07 - The Thinkergirls interview Jill Stark; Author of Happily Never After. 15:41 - Millie shares how she deals with her anxiety through breathing. 17:23 - Juanita ...
Jan 20, 2019•37 min•Ep. 165
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… STACE'S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 05:30 - The big news Stace has to share with everybody!!! 07:15 - Why Stace is SO nervous about sharing it 08:45 - Where the decision came from 14:05 - The signs Stace felt on the day from people that had passed away 20:20 - Sorry, you NAPPED on this day? 33:30 - What Stac...
Jan 17, 2019•37 min•Ep. 164
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… The 411 - The giphy debate + Meghan Markle was too eager after her first date with Prince Harry 4:00 – The Gif/Jif debate leads to a discussion of the pros of Jiffy 6:51 – The NY times reported on this… in 2003! 8:46 – The founder of giphy said at the 2013 webby awards that he thinks it’s pronounc...
Jan 15, 2019•31 min•Ep. 163
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Trinny Woodall on Aussie Style, Designing a makeup range and choosing not to regret 6:54 - Being in a partnership, over time you become the Yin and the Yang. 9:22 - What is Trinny Time and why does she love it so much? 13:27 - Trinny has so much self-confidence. How did she get to that point in he...
Jan 14, 2019•38 min•Ep. 162
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Lola Berry On Heartbreak, Inner Strength & Knowing Your Worth When Dating 5:50 - What's the process of writing a book - how long does it take? 7:00 - How do you come up with ideas for the books? Lola has written 10 in 8 years! 9:20 - Lola shares how she was smashed after her 'Day on a plate' a...
Jan 13, 2019•38 min•Ep. 161
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Juliet Allen on how to know you've found 'the one' + tips for connected sex 1:00 - Kristie’s trick to affording walnuts. LOL 7:24 - are dudes using condoms more these days? 8:23 - as a sexologist are there trends / patterns in clients Juliet sees? What are they? 11:22 - do you want to go deeper wi...
Jan 10, 2019•27 min•Ep. 160
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Not Coping With Sundays When You're Single + Period Chat 9:16 - Sunday’s have always been built on a feeling of ‘fun’s over’ 11:36 - Feeling guilt. Is there a way to change the ideas of what you ‘should’ be doing. Are you being realistic? 14:17 - What are the things that symbolise you feeling good...
Jan 08, 2019•38 min•Ep. 159
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Rae Morris on learning through fear, the highs of her career and what editorial really means 6:00 - The reality of publishing a book is terrifying. 9:31 – What does it mean to be an editorial makeup artist? 13:41 - Rae explains the benefit of using a makeup brush on your hair. 15:43 - Rae embraces...
Jan 07, 2019•39 min•Ep. 158
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Talitha Cummins on beating anxiety + female binge drinking 7:15 - Where Talitha started her journalism career 9:36 - Talitha recalls her first job as a total introvert and how that felt to realise she was anxious 1:05 - The surreal anxious feeling where you go our of body in anxiety 13:37 - Is the...
Jan 06, 2019•35 min•Ep. 157
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Motherhood Week - Stacey June shares her first experience as a Mum 3:43 - The Thinkergirls have a crack at a convo they've never had before....motherhood 6:23 - Stace & Ben's journey to conceiving & how convo's about kids happened very very early on 9:19 - Not being able to conceive natura...
Jan 03, 2019•47 min•Ep. 156
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… The 411 - Bachie Live Recap with Osher Gunsberg 3:30 – We’re all a bit devo about Shannon leaving Bachie, but what goes on behind the scenes? Osher shares the reality… 5:33 – Where do eliminated contestants go when they get driven off set? 9:23 – The Sympathy Pash between Cass and Nick. 13:09 – Ni...
Jan 01, 2019•33 min•Ep. 155
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Lucy Peach + The Power Of The Period Lucy shares how she became so fascinated and inspired by the menstrual cycle (4:46) We look at the female menstrual cycle as an inconvenience when it’s so much more powerful than that (7:21) Lucy breaks down the menstrual cycle broken down into the seasons &...
Dec 30, 2018•33 min•Ep. 153
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… The 411 - Royal Wedding Breakdown 6:30 – Who are all the kids at the wedding? Where did they come from?! 11:51 – Megan arrived alone and it made Kristie so sad for her. 14:02 – Prince Charles walked Megan down the aisle, rather than her mum. 18:13 – The tradition of “giving away the bride” is an a...
Dec 27, 2018•32 min•Ep. 152
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Julie Stevanja (Stylerunner CEO) on how to become a great manager Stace & Kristie don't throw the word 'inspire' around loosely & delve into why they find Julie to be exactly that (6:07) How do you learn to manage a team when you've never done it before? Julie explains (6:58) The ability t...
Dec 25, 2018•20 min•Ep. 151
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Emma Isaacs On Letting Go Of The End Game + Never Having A 'Real' Job 7:09 - Emma on her new book ‘Winging It’ 8:36 - Where do you even start when you’re writing a book? 10:53 - Where’s the line with trying to control versus trusting that what will be will be? 12:09 - How do you practically implem...
Dec 24, 2018•36 min•Ep. 150
Welcome to our 2018 Summer Sessions! We’re going back and bringing you our fave eps from this year to get you through the summer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Team Thinkergirl! This Episode… Meet The Thinkergirls: Stacey drops her engagement story and Kristie's first bday single Wanna know what the gals are reading/watching/listening to in TG Froths? (4:45) Kristie gets super vulnerable and shares why she was so nervous this Birthday...she's single (8:15) Stace speaks about the import...
Dec 23, 2018•34 min•Ep. 150
On Ep 149 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, besties Stacey June and Kristie Mercer - The Thinkergirls - break down the year that has been, sharing what happened month by month, from starting the Pod Channel, to Stace's marriage and Kristie owning her passion for singing. 3:12 – January: Stace was in equipment here + Kristie was feeling optimistic 8:20 - February: Reality sunk in for Kristie + Stace was feeling exhausted 12:05 - March: Kristie was feeling lost + Stacey fell pregnant 21:12 - April:...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 149
We are thrilled to have you listen to the sneak peek of We Need To Talk About... covering our first topic: Anxiety. Anxiety is the leading cause of ill health in girls and women in Australia. 1 in 3 women, and 1 in 5 men, will experience Anxiety in their lifetime. Full season of We Need To Talk About... drops Monday 21st January 2019. Marie Claire and The Thinkergirls Present We Need To Talk About... Today's Topic: Anxiety. 0:28 - A foreward from Editor of Marie Claire, Nicky Briger. 1:04 - The ...
Dec 12, 2018•37 min•Ep. 148
On EP 147 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia sit down with another amazing guest; Chief Brand Officer of Bumble and badass girl boss Alex Williamson! 5:09 - Bumble is the “It Girl” of dating apps and technology. 7:06 - Rejection breeds aggression, which is why women making the first move on Bumble has redefined the dating dynamic. 11:02 - Bumble’s goal is to end misogyny, and the current...
Dec 11, 2018•36 min•Ep. 147
On EP 146 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia have their weekly chinwag to discuss the reality behind the abundance vs. lack dating theory and what does your sex life really symbolise? 7:26 – Cliché’s like “You’ll find him when you least expect it” are total bullshit. 10:06 – Everyone has a different theory on when you’re going to meet someone. 12:10 – One day Kristie can be so ok in her ...
Dec 09, 2018•39 min•Ep. 146
On EP 145 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia have a touch base about what the rest of the world is talking about (provided it’s interesting!)... Stace wants to know what happens when you leave a group chat after seeing a SBS Feed video + Sarah Hyland has started a go fund me page to pay for her uncles emergency surgery, yet her net worth is in the millions... 2:59 – Do you die a friendsh...
Dec 05, 2018•35 min•Ep. 145
On EP 144 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia sit down with another amazing guest; fashion icon, media personality, podcaster and son of Richard Wilkins... Christian "Prince" Wilkins! 5:06 - Where did Christian’s nickname ‘Prince’ came from? 9:41 - Is it true that the more camp you are, the easier it is for the people closest to you to accept you as gay? 11:32 - Why do women assume that a...
Dec 02, 2018•39 min•Ep. 144
On EP 143 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia have their weekly chinwag to discuss how Kristie has noticed the differences in the way men and women approach musicians and DJ's and now that Stace is trying for a baby again she's had to really back herself and follow her intuition in an area she's far from an expert in. 3:15 – After only 4.5 months of gigging, music and performing feels lik...
Nov 29, 2018•36 min•Ep. 143
On EP 142 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia have a touch base about what the rest of the world is talking about (provided it’s interesting!)... Stacey wants to talk about Tristan Thompson cheating on Khloe Kardashian and how he didn't show remorse until it affected his career + Kristie read an article about what happens to your brain after you die, and it leads to a huge philosophical a...
Nov 27, 2018•39 min•Ep. 142
On EP 141 of The Thinkergirls Pod Channel, Stacey June and Kristie Mercer creators of some of the most successful female podcasts and content in Australia sit down with TWO incredible guests; sister comedy duo, actors, writers, directors, producers, superwomen... Hannah and Eliza Reilly! 3:19 - How did Hannah and Eliza start working together? 5:46 - What was it like being in the same year level as your sister despite not being actual twins? 7:30 - Hannah & Eliza’s partnership forces them to ...
Nov 25, 2018•38 min•Ep. 141
