Feros Talks

In this episode, our guest is Aussie swimming legend, world record holder and Olympic gold medal winner Cate Campbell.

Cate’s brother Hamish has severe cerebral palsy and requires around the clock care. We speak to Cate about what it's like growing up with a sibling who has a disability. And we find out what influence Hamish has had on Cate's career.

Patrice O Brien from Beyond Blue and Paralympian Danni Di Torro talk with Pete and Tristram about mental wellbeing, how and when to ask for help and exploring being OK with making mistakes.

Andrew Gurza is a disability awareness consultant and crippled content creator and has cerebral palsy. In his work, he seeks to explore how the lived experience of disability feels, as it interplays with intersectional communities. In this episode, we'll discover what it's like to be, as Andrew calls himself, a queer cripple and how he's attempting to change our homo normative and beautiful body culture.

In this episode, Isabel Osuna-Gatty talks about culturally and linguistically diverse communities, how they view disability and how their approach to community is so different.

Jessie Sadler founded the Christina Stephens adaptive clothing label after her mum had a fall some years back and damaged her elbows. After researching the fashion available in the market for style conscious women with short or long-term physical challenges, she realised there was a social and business opportunity in front of her. Jessie wants to give women living with disabilities a choice. She wants to bring inclusive and adaptive clothing to the mainstream. You can listen to her story as she talks to Pete and Tristram about her fashion label and her plans for the future in the adaptive clothing industry.

Nastasia Campanella, who has been blind since she was 6 months old, is a successful journalist and broadcaster whose voice you may recognise from Triple J for the last 7 years. Nas talks about some of the obstacles she faced throughout her career and how she came to be a Disability Affairs reporter for the ABC.

Growing Bold and Technology

In this episode we’ll attempt to get to the bottom of why Aboriginal people experience disability at a greater rate than non-indigenous Australians and what could be done to help Australia’s first people with disability.

“I just was sad. I was sad for my girls having to suffer.” Find out exactly how best friends Kate and Mandy of Too Peas in a Podcast came to host a hugely successful podcast and why people love to listen to them.

In this episode we’ll hear how these two mothers from Victoria came together to find a voice in the silent world of parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs. And in doing so they have started their very own revolution. Kate Jones and Mandy Hose are hosts of the hugely successful Too Peas in a Podcast and very little is off limits as these two women chat in a raw and honest way sharing their truths with their audience, outside of the twin world, outside of the disability world, outside of additional needs.

"Tris accidentally drives over the guy's ankle." Co-host Tristram Peters and his carer Dan talk with Pete about the Carer Relationship and share some of their funniest stories.