Lisa Burling was living the life as a PR powerhouse in London, spearheading huge global campaigns, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, when she decided it was time to move back home to Australia, settle down in a small coastal New South Wales town, and start a family.

Everything was cruising along just as she’d imagined it, she’d reconnected with her high school sweetheart, given birth to her first child Luca, and fallen pregnant with her second son Nate not long after.

But her picture perfect life quickly unravelled. A challenging pregnancy meant Nate was delivered via emergency c-section eight weeks early. And if that wasn’t difficult enough, just 24 hours after he was born, her partner called to let her know he no longer loves her and their relationship was over.

Suddenly finding herself as a broke, unemployed single mum to two little boys, one of which was fighting for his life, Lisa hardly recognised her new reality.

What follows next is a true phoenix rising from the ashes story – Lisa opens up to me about how losing everything allowed her to start again and design the life of her dreams.

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Here’s the thing about Kate Malvenan – she is honestly unlike anyone I’ve ever met.

She’s brilliant, inspiring, empowering, her energy and enthusiasm for life is infectious – I was hanging off her every word and I could’ve sat and chatted to her for hours.

Kate was a celebrated film make up artist, before turning her focus to homewares with an exquisite shop on the Gold Coast called Maison and Maison.

She fell head over heels with the man she describes as the absolute love of her life, but not long after giving birth to their beautiful little girl Annabelle, she discovered her husband was using ice, his addiction eventually becoming so severe, she had no choice but to flee with her daughter.

Then, after experiencing strange body aches, eventually she was told she had terminal lung cancer, with just 6 - 24 months left to live.

But, as a solo mum, dying simply isn’t an option. Her little girl needs her.

So, for the last year, she’s dedicated her life to saving her life.

And that includes everything her doctors have described her here, in addition to regular trips to a clinic in Mexico, Hope 4 Cancer, which she credits with reducing her tumour by a staggering 75 per cent after just 3 weeks of treatment, shocking her doctors back home.

We laughed, we chatted, we cried. I feel like I’d known Kate my entire life. She's the word resilience personified, proof your mindset is everything, and has the most incredible advice for anyone going through a tough time,.

So grab the tissues, and strap yourself in, because this one will stay with you for some time.

Enjoy.

*** The day before this episode went live, Kate was told by her doctors in Mexico that there was NO trace of the cancer she was told would be taking her life just 12 months earlier. She'll be having this incredible news confirmed with her doctors here in the coming weeks.

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Abby Gilmore always had a clear vision of how she thought her life would look. She always wanted to be a young mum, and after two miscarriages, she finally got her wish, giving birth to her first daughter Milla at 21, and her second daughter Arlo not long after. Everything felt like it had fallen into place. That was until she discovered her AFL partner’s infidelity, completely upending her world.

Suddenly finding herself as a single mum to two girls under two, battling depression and nursing a shattered heart, Abby knew she had to dig deep and piece together her life again to be the mum she always wanted to be.

I absolutely loved chatting with Abby, she’s so inspiring, and she gets really honest about the things she would’ve done differently, what co-parenting with her ex and his partner now looks like after a rocky start, how she finds healing in sharing her story with her almost 115 thousand instagram followers, and how she finally has the life she always dreamed about.

The podcast gods were against us, so bear with us through her adorable 5 month old son Mason’s poo explosion, my dog becoming obsessed with a bee in the house, and a very persistent delivery man at the door.

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HOLA!

Thank you so much for tuning in to my very first podcast. To kickstart the series, I thought it'd be a good idea to turn the tables and give you guys the opportunity to get to know me a little more, to hear my story, where the idea to create Lemonade came from, all things single mum life, and how I'm turning the hardest time in my life, my lemons, into lemonade through this very podcast.

A very big thank you to my dear friend Georgia Love (@georgiealove) for the hard hitting questions.

I'd love for you to hit me up on Instagram (@elizabethanile) to let me know what you think or if you've got someone you reckon would be a perfect fit for the show, I'm all ears!

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