Carrie Bickmore is one of the most well-known faces on Australian television. As the host of The Project she’s been delivering the news differently for ten years, she’s also host of Carrie & Tommy on the Hit Network and a mum of three kids. And this year she was awarded an Order of Australia medal for her contribution to media and brain cancer research through her charity, Carrie’s Beanies for Brain Cancer. So, basically she’s a bloody legend. In this episode of You’ve Gotta Start Somewhere ...
Jul 15, 2019•47 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Derryn Hinch is an Australian journalist whose career has spanned almost six decades. He’s recently made a return to the small screen as the host of Hinch on Sky News Australia after spending three years as a Senator in Canberra as leader of Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party. Derryn started his career as a journalist at the Taranaki Herald in New Zealand when he was 15 and hasn’t stopped working since (apart from a couple of stints in prison after being convicted of contempt of court). In this episod...
Dec 26, 2018•48 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Dr Chris Brown is a veterinarian, television presenter and half the Australian female population's hall pass. He started out as a guest host on the super popular Harry's Practice after being discovered trying to pick up a girl in a pub. True story. He was attempting to impress her with tales of the life of a vet and a TV executive just happened to overhear him. The rest, as they say, is history. Harry's Practice was cancelled not long after Chris' appearance and he's not so sure it was a coincid...
May 30, 2018•38 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Tim Ross (aka Rosso) is an Australian comedian, radio host, design enthusiast and television presenter. Rosso is best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Merrick and Rosso with fellow comedian, Merrick Watts. Their partnership began after Merrick saw Rosso play in his comedy band Black Rose and fell in love with his moon boots. They struck up a friendship and the rest, as they say, is history. Together Merrick and Rosso created their own unique style of comedy gig that was more like a b...
May 23, 2018•57 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Natarsha Belling is a journalist and newsreader with just about one of the most infectious laughs you’ll ever see on television. Ever since preschool Natarsha knew she wanted to be a journalist and worked her butt off to make sure she got into the career she was so passionate about. She started out as a reporter for Prime Television in Orange and also worked for the ABC. When she joined Ten News she was originally hired as a medical reporter, a job she loved. And over 20 years later Natarsha is ...
May 16, 2018•50 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Meshel Laurie is a comedian, radio and television host and author. Meshel started out as a stand-up comedian in the 90s, treading the boards with a lot of the comedy stars of today including Dave Hughes, Rove McManus and Wil Anderson. Meshel’s first comedy show was Daisy Belles with Corinne Grant but her career really started to take off after she debuted her solo show The Whore Whisperer: Confessions of a Madam all about her time working as a receptionist in brothels. Since then Meshel has been...
May 09, 2018•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Hamish Macdonald is an Australian journalist and host of The Sunday Project. He’s had an incredible career that’s seen him reporting from war zones, disasters and major world events. He’s also worked as a reporter for some of the biggest news organisations in the world including the UK’s Channel 4 News, ABC News in the US and Al Jazeera English. After years of living out of a suitcase, Hamish has finally settled back in Sydney where he’s host of The Sunday Project and a regular on ABC Radio Nati...
May 02, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Joe Hildebrand is an Australian journalist and host of the daytime television program, Studio 10 . Joe started his career as a cadet journalist at the Australian Associated Press and worked his way up to Editor at Large at News Limited which he admits is basically a fancy way of saying he can write what he wants. He’s appeared as a commentator on television programs including Q&A and Paul Murray Live . And also had a brief stint as a drive radio host on Triple M with Matt Tilley. In this epi...
Apr 25, 2018•48 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Chris Bath is an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter. She’s currently the host of Evenings on ABC Radio Sydney and presenter of 10 News First Weekend on Network 10. Chris’ path to working as a journalist started when she was a waitress at a Sydney restaurant where she met Sydney Morning Herald columnist, Peter Bowers. After suggesting she should study journalism Chris put in a last-minute application and ended up winning a scholarship to attend Charles Sturt University. During ...
Apr 18, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Lehmo is one of Australia's most well-known comedians and in this episode of You've Gotta Start Somewhere, Rachel Corbett sits down with him to find out how he went from a regular country kid with no dreams of being a comedian to one of Australia's most well-known media personalities. Discover more episodes at youvegottastartsomewhere.com
Apr 11, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Season two of You've Gotta Start Somewhere is on the way and guests include Chris Bath, Meshel Laurie, Hamish McDonald and Lehmo. Catch up on all the episodes at youvegottastartsomewhere.com
Apr 04, 2018•3 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Shaun Micallef is an Australian comedian, actor, writer and television presenter who worked in what would seem to be the world’s least funny field before getting into comedy - insurance law. After ten years of talking to his wife about his desire to perform she eventually told him to give it a crack or never speak to her about it again. So he packed up the car and headed to Melbourne to start his career as a comedy writer. Shaun was first introduced to mainstream audiences on the sketch comedy s...
Oct 10, 2017•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Amanda Keller is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter. She’s one of the hardest working people in media hosting WSFM’s breakfast radio show, Jonesy & Amanda , Channel 10’s The Living Room and Dancing with the Stars . Amanda started her career as a producer working on Simon Townsend’s Wonder World and Midday with Ray Martin . She stepped in front of the camera after some strong encouragement from Ray Martin and never left. Amanda worked as a reporter on one of Australia's mo...
Oct 03, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 27
James Mathison is a television presenter who rose to fame as the host of Australian Idol. James’ very first television appearance was on Channel 10’s, The $20 Challenge but his career really started when he won a VJ search for Channel V on Foxtel. After working at Channel V with Osher Gunsberg the pair were offered a gig hosting a brand new show called Australian Idol . Little did he know it would end up being one of the biggest shows on Australian television. In this episode, James Mathison tal...
Sep 20, 2017•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Shane Jacobson is an Australian actor, writer, director and comedian. Shane became a household name after playing the role of Kenny Smyth, a portaloo plumber, in Kenny . A film he wrote with his brother Clayton. Shane was a performer from a young age, acting in amateur theatre shows. He tried his hand at stand-up and ended up with his own radio segment because someone tipped a Gold FM off about the funny voicemail messages he used to write and record for friends. In this episode, Shane Jacobson ...
Sep 13, 2017•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Ross Greenwood is the Nine Network’s business and finance editor and host of Money News on 2GB. Ross started his career in print journalism and decided to specialise in finance after noticing the finance guys seemed to take a lot of long lunches. Smart move. His first TV gig was as the money guy on Healthy, Wealthy & Wise and he’s now a reporter and commentator on The Today Show where he hosts his Money Minute segment. Ross was the editor of a number of finance publications including Busines...
Sep 06, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Deborah Knight is a journalist, newsreader and host of The Today Show . Deborah was part of the “Mitchell Mafia” studying journalism at Charles Sturt University. After graduating she started working for 2GB in Wagga Wagga before moving to Mix 106.5 in Sydney and then the ABC. Deborah has reported on some of the biggest news stories of the last two decades and was in Washington the day of the September 11 attacks. In this episode, Deborah Knight talks about her early love of journalism and writin...
Aug 30, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Gorgi Goghlan is a journalist, singer and host of The Project . Gorgi grew up on a sheep farm in Warrnambool and started her career as a teacher at McKinnon Secondary College. While she loved teaching her students she also loved performing and on nights and weekends she would perform in her own one-woman Shania Twain tribute show. Complete with back up dancers. Eventually she realised she needed to make performing a bigger part of her life so she said goodbye to her high school kids and went off...
Aug 23, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Michael Usher is an Australian journalist, newsreader and host of Seven News Sydney and The Latest: Seven News. Michael started his television career at the Golden West Television Network, Bunbury where he was posted to Kalgoorlie. After dipping his toe in regional reporting he moved to STW-9 Perth and eventually to the Nine Network in Sydney where he got a job as Olympic reporter covering the Atlanta and Sydney Olympic Games. He’s also worked as a foreign correspondent and has reported from som...
Jul 26, 2017•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Tommy Little is a comedian, radio presenter and the funny guy on The Project. Tommy originally wanted to be an actor but realised pretty quickly he could get paid for being himself so moved on to comedy. He started his media career at Channel 31 as a writer and performer, eventually moving to host of Studio A . He’s also worked on breakfast and drive radio shows as host of Meshel & Tommy on NOVA with Meshel Laurie and Carrie & Tommy on the Hit Network with Carrie Bickmore . He’s appeared...
Jul 19, 2017•56 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Marc Fennell is a podcaster, radio and television presenter, documentary maker, author and host of SBS Viceland’s The Feed . Basically, he’s a busy guy. Marc’s career began when he won an AFI Outstanding Young Film Critics Award in high school and not long after that he started as the film critic for FBi 94.5. Marc was only 19 when he was hired to present DVD reviews for SBS’s rebooted version of The Movie Show but it was his next role that really put him on the map as “That Movie Guy” on Triple...
Jul 12, 2017•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Ben Fordham is an Australian journalist, sports reporter, radio presenter and regular on Today. Ben started his career as a work experience kid at 2UE. He worked his way up to a reporter and won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 1997 Thredbo landslide. He wasn’t even 21. In 1998 Ben moved to Sky News as a reporter and presenter and less than a year later was poached by the Nine Network to work on 60 Minutes, A Current Affair, Nine News and Today. Ben worked as a fill-in host on radio and e...
Jul 05, 2017•48 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Mia Freedman is a journalist and co-founder of the Mamamia Women’s Network. Mia began her career as the work experience kid at Cleo Magazine and got her first paying job as the magazine’s Beauty Editor. She left Cleo after five years and in 1996 became the youngest editor of Cosmopolitan at the ripe old age of 24. After leaving magazines, Mia had a brief stint working at the Nine Network before starting her own blog, Mamamia. That blog has now become the largest women’s media company in Australi...
Jun 28, 2017•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Waleed Aly is an Australian journalist, academic, lawyer, television and radio presenter. Basically he’s one hell of an overachiever. He’s best known as the host of The Project , but he also writes for the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and lectures at Monash University. Waleed started his career as a newspaper columnist after reaching out to journalist, Martin Flanagan and was one of the panel members on the Channel 31 show, Salam Cafe. He’d been a regular in the fourth chair on The ...
Jun 21, 2017•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Leigh Sales is host of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 730 as well as the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3. Since starting at the ABC in 1995 Leigh has held a number of prominent roles at the network including the co-host of Lateline and their Washington correspondent from 2001-2005. In her current role, Leigh is constantly going head to head with the countries biggest political figures which is an excellent contrast to her conversations about baking and musical theatre on Chat 10 . In th...
Jun 14, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Peter Helliar is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, television and radio presenter. So there’s pretty much nothing in showbiz he can’t do. His first crack at high-profile television was as a part of the cast of Rove Live where he worked with people who’ve gone on to become some of the most well-known names in television including Meshel Laurie, Dave Hughes, Carrie Bickmore and Hamish & Andy. He’s currently the funny guy on The Project , creator of the sit-com How To S...
Jun 07, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Sarah Harris is an Australian journalist and host of Studio 10 . Sarah studied journalism at the Queensland University of Technology and got her first job at the Seven Network in Brisbane where she was filing reports for Seven News and Today Tonight . Over the years Sarah has worked as a reporter and news presenter for shows including Today, Weekend Today, Nine News Sydney and Prime Gold Coast News. In 2013 Sarah resigned from the Nine Network to host Network 10’s morning show, Studio 10 with It...
May 31, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Brendan “Jonesy” Jones is a radio presenter and one half of WSFM’s incredibly successful breakfast radio show, Jonesy & Amanda with Amanda Keller. Brendan started his career at the community radio station 2BCR in Bankstown. In 1990 he got the night gig at 6KA in Karratha, Western Australia before doing mornings and afternoons at 2NM, Muswellbrook and then arvos at i98 in Wollongong. After living the regional radio life Jonesy started working in the big smoke with gigs on B105 Brisbane and Tr...
May 24, 2017•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Ugly Phil O’Neill is a radio legend and for anyone over the age of 30, he’s probably best known for his time as host of the Hot30 Countdown with his then-wife, Jackie O . Phil’s story is one of focus and determination. He started his career in Western Australia where he applied for a radio gig despite having no experience. His first shift was a disaster but he was determined to make it in the industry he loved. Radio had been a huge source of comfort for him as a lonely kid and over the years he...
May 17, 2017•57 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Lawrence Mooney is a comedian and host of Triple M Sydney’s breakfast show, Moonman in the Morning . Lawrence worked a number of different jobs, including as a customs officer, before getting into stand-up. Now he’s one of Australia’s most loved comedians. In 2018 Lawrence took Triple M Brisbane’s breakfast show to No 1 before making the move to Sydney to host his own show for Triple M Sydney featuring Gus Worland, Jess Eva and Chris Page. Lawrence has also done a bunch of TV including the ABCs ...
May 10, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 10
