Jiawa Liu is @BeigeRenegade on Instagram and her feed is fantastic. She creates clever, stylish, eye-catching cinemagraphs and short-form videos with a humorous kick.

Jiawa was born in China and attended primary school in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. She studied law in Perth and practised as a lawyer in Canberra. She now lives in Paris, to Jiawa it’s the most beautiful city on earth.

In this episode Jiawa talks about creating her handle @beigerenegade, her issues around the word “influencer”, her addiction to mobile game Simpsons Tapped Out and what she hunts for in thrift stores.

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Megan Morton has written four books on styling: It's Beautiful Here, Things I Love, I Love My Room and Home Love. She has The School, The Studio and The Excursions. The question is, can a woman have too many businesses? Megan says no and envisions her multi-pronged enterprises like a sushi train where she picks up different roles and tasks.

In this episode Megan talks about growing up on a banana farm in southeast Queensland, juggling careers, writing letters by hand and where she stores her children’s teeth.

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When I interviewed Melissa Leong it was before the MasterChef announcement. Back then, I was excited about her upcoming Netflix fame.

There was so much to chat about with Melissa aka @fooderti on Instagram. The zig-zag of her career, two years living in Tasmania on a self-imposed sabbatical, writing cookbooks and hosting and judging on The Chefs’ Line on SBS and now, Netflix.

In this episode Melissa talks about the role of food in her Singaporean-Australian upbringing. We chat about the role of SBS in Australia, diversity and representation on the small screen. I also shamelessly crush on Melissa’s style.

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Yolanda Edwards was the creative director at Conde Nast Traveler for five years. She now has her own magazine, Yolo Journal - the most wonderful, dream-like travel periodical. The launch issue of the magazine was solely fixed on Italy.

In this episode Yolanda talks about her life and career. Her life changing experience living on a Greek Island, her wanderlust and her entree to the world of magazines (it was a shop assistant in Agnes B who told she looked like the kind of person who should work in magazines) and her experience with Instagram. She also shares a Helmut Newton anecdote.

Yolanda is a woman of many Instagram accounts. Find her @YolandaEdwards, her house in France @maisonmedoc and of course, @yolo.journal.

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Brooklyn-based Laura Tucker has written over 20 books - two of which were New York Times bestsellers - Standing Tall with Vivian Stringer and A Mother’s Reckoning with Sue Klebold.

But in this interview we chat about All The Greys on Greene Street - Laura’s YA fiction debut. The book takes place in New York City in 1981 and our 12-year-old hero Olympia is struggling with a mother who won’t get out of bed, a father who has gone missing and there’s an art mystery afoot.

Laura talks about that particular moment in SoHo history, kids roaming the city and the writer’s life Laura has created for herself.

Find Laura on Instagram and buy her book from your fave indie bookseller.

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Jennie Hogg of Lois Avery returns to Head Ovary Heels! Jennie and I were chatting recently and we thought a follow up podcast would be a trip as Jennie's life and business has evolved so much since she started Lois Avery nearly three years ago.

In this interview Jennie talks about getting to know her customers, breaking the rules of marketing and how the really great business deals have come to her. Her luxe, made-in-Italy cashmere scarves are stocked at London’s Fortnum and Mason and in Tokyo at the Isetan department store.

Definitely follow Jennie on Instagram for her travels in Italy and her love for all things Italian.

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New Zealander Anna Saunders has just launched Primer - a smart, chic women’s lifestyle website. She founded the site with Felicity Robinson. The pair used to work side-by-side at marie claire magazine in Sydney.

In this episode, Anna talks about her love for magazines, working in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and what she hopes to build with Primer. Such a good name for a women’s lifestyle site, right?

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Actress Shuang Hu appears in two of the best, Australian tv shows of late: The Family Law and Ronny Chieng: International Student.

Shuang - or Shu as her friends call her - is from China, raised in Brisbane and now living in Los Angeles. She talks about auditioning, memories of snow and what she’s reading. Oh, and the family Law is like her real family now.

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Photographer Luisa Brimble is a true original and delight in this episode. She talks about starting photography, looking for context in everything that she shoots and being her own agent.

You must, must, must follow Luisa on Instagram.

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Melbourne-based writer Louisa Deasey was contacted by a French family, via Facebook, whose grandmother in her last days called out for Louisa's father. It sets Louisa off on a path of discovery - reconnecting her with the father she hardly knew - and the story of A Letter From Paris unfolds.

In this interview, Louisa talks ghosts, time travel, family and money. Oh and astrologer Mystic Medusa also gets a mention.

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