Life With Danni Duncan

It's just me on the mic this week, three weeks out from the New York Marathon and I am an absolute mess with nerves and gratitude in equal measure!

This exact week last year I got my clear scan results. No evidence of cancer. It makes me so emotional to say that out loud!

One year on, as a proud ambassador for the Jodi Lee Foundation, together with the support of Anna Liptak from Adventure Time Travel, I’m about to do something I never thought would be possible: run the New York Marathon. 

I tell you exactly how I found out, and the ridiculous moment I made Chris leave the room and come back in because his first reaction to my news was asking if he could come too.

I also get real about what training looks like four months after Gold Coast, the long run that absolutely wrecked me on Sunday (and exactly why), and why age has never been less relevant to what my body can do. I also share why this race means so much more than a finish line, including two friends I’ve lost to bowel cancer and why early detection is the whole fight.

We’re also raising money for the Jodi Lee Foundation with a raffle full of amazing prizes. Grab your raffle tickets here.

A huge thank you to Anna Liptak and the team at Adventure Time Travel for making this whole trip possible.

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan at or sign up for coaching.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over @lifewithdanniduncan.

16 rounds of IVF. 

Eight years. 

And one text message that changed everything.

Lisa Messenger is the founder of Collective Hub, the entrepreneurial brand she built from nothing in 2013, and one of the most fearless disruptors in business I know. She's written 40 books, shared the stage with Sir Richard Branson, and built something print insiders said was already dead into a brand distributed across 37 countries in eighteen months.

But before we got into any of that, I wanted her motherhood story first. The 16 rounds. The excruciating two week waits. And the moment, completely run down after round 16, she texted her best friend Sarah asking if she'd still be her surrogate. Sarah's reply gave her full body shivers. It still does.

We get into that whole journey, the heartbreak before the joy, what it actually means to reinvent a business more times than most people reinvent their wardrobe, and why she walked away from 36 staff to build a life with none.

This episode left me speechless more than once. I think it'll do the same for you.

Lisa has also gifted my community something seriously special. 30 days free inside Collective Hub, her membership and retreat world for founders and creatives. 

Claim your 30 day free Collective Hub access here: https://members.collectivehub.com/checkout/life-with-danni-duncan

Find Lisa on Instagram or via Collective Hub.

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan at or sign up for coaching.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over @lifewithdanniduncan.

Two weeks after having her second baby, Sally Grice sat in an important work meeting with one boob rock hard and engorged because her pump had failed her that morning. By the time the meeting ended, she was in agony. She ran to her office and broke down crying. Then she decided to build the pump herself.

Sally is the founder of LACEVO, and the pump she built is the one I have used almost every day for the last two years. Including through chemo.

This one is personal. We get into the industry secret that most women have been using the wrong nipple size for years, and how that "normal" pain and tissue damage was never actually normal. We talk oversupply, undersupply, donor milk, and why pumping and dumping deserves so much more respect than it gets.

Sally also walks me through Empower, LACEVO's new red light therapy device for breast health, engorgement, scarring and even mastectomy recovery. And we get real about what it actually costs to build a business as a mum, the travel, the guilt, and why she is doing all of it so her kids see a mother who never stopped chasing her dream.

I got emotional in this one. You might too.

You can find Sally and LACEVO on Instagram @lacevoofficial or at LACEVO.COM (use discount code Danni10 for 10% off)

If you need a push to take control of your health, download my app FIT by Danni Duncan.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over @lifewithdanniduncan.

Chris is back on the couch and this one goes places… You never know what you're going to get in one of our joint episodes 😂

We start with the woman who sh*t herself mid-way through a HYROX event and kept going anyway… before somehow ending up in a full blown debate about sex after four kids.

Chris has also been dealing with his own health scare behind the scenes, a gastroscopy, a strict new diet, and getting banned from his beloved energy drinks. We get into what happens to your mood and motivation when your gut health goes sideways, and why he was genuinely "not himself" for weeks.

Then we get into the real conversation. Why sex drive changes so dramatically after kids, why men and women experience desire so differently, and the theory Chris came up with comparing married life to going from a Ferrari to a Toyota Corolla. It did not land the way he hoped.

We talk about appreciation as the missing link, the text message from three years ago that turned Danni on more than anything since, why men often need sex to feel loved while women need to feel loved to want sex, and yes, we get into exactly how often we're actually having it. On the record. Numbers and all.

By the end we've agreed we need to get an actual sexologist on the podcast, because clearly we need help! 😂

If you want more of this energy online then follow us over on IG @‌danni.duncan_ @‌chrisduncan7

My final retreat of 2026 is coming up next month and there aren’t many spaces left! Don’t miss your chance to join me and a group of incredible women in the gorgeous BlueGreen Sanctuary in Byron Bay for 3 nights of beautiful food, mindset and nutrition workshops, yoga, relaxation and more! Don’t miss out!

If you need a push to take control of your health, download my app FIT by Danni Duncan or sign up for The Vitality Project

We've never been more connected. A text, a voice drop, a scroll, and we know exactly what everyone in our life is doing without ever actually seeing them. So why, when it actually comes to showing up in person, committing to a night out, being in someone's presence, does it suddenly feel like the hardest ask in the world?

That's the question I've been sitting with. And it came from something pretty humbling. Chris and I planned a trivia night in Melbourne to raise money for the Jodi Lee Foundation ahead of our New York Marathon. We were pumped. We throw a good night, always have. We sold four tickets. Four. Everyone said they were coming. Nobody actually committed. We had to cancel it.

Turns out it's not just us. The Jodi Lee team told me events are hard right now. Everyone I've spoken to says the same thing, retreats, trivia nights, get-togethers, all getting cancelled because people just aren't showing up.

So I started thinking about my parents. Monthly dinner parties. Getting dressed up. Actual hors d'oeuvres. Staying up late listening to the adults laugh through the wall. We don't do that anymore. And I don't think it's just busyness. I think we're socially burnt out, so wired into everyone's lives that we've mistaken being informed for actually being connected.

I get into why I quit the news two years ago, the real upside of social media I'm not willing to throw out, and whether we've traded connection for the feeling of it.

This one's more of a conversation starter than an answer. I want to know what you reckon.

My final retreat of 2026 is coming up next month and there are just a few spaces left! Don’t miss your chance to join me and a group of incredible women in the gorgeous BlueGreen Sanctuary in Byron Bay for 3 nights of beautiful food, mindset and nutrition workshops, yoga, relaxation and more! Don’t miss out!

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan or sign up for coaching.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @‌danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast.

2 out of 3 Australian women report bias or discrimination in their own healthcare. Most of it around diagnosis and treatment. If you've ever left an appointment with more questions than answers, this episode is for you.

My guest today is Dr Mariam Chaalan, a Sydney based GP, women's health advocate, and the doctor behind Instagram's Ask The Doctor. She also cohosts the Well by Mamamia Podcast. The second we met in person we didn't stop talking, because we see healthcare the exact same way.

We get into why so many women are conditioned to shrink their symptoms in a fifteen minute appointment, the exact script to use so you walk out with an actual plan instead of just a script in hand, and the iron deficiency conversation every woman needs to have with her doctor (hint, it's not always your period).

Dr Mariam also shares the story of a GP visit at four years old that made her furious enough to become a doctor herself, and why that moment still shapes the way she treats every single patient today.

If you've ever been told it's nothing and walked away not quite believing it, get comfortable. This one's for you.

Find Dr Mariam on Instagram and TikTok

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan or sign up for coaching.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @‌danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast.

This is the episode I told my own team I might get cancelled for, and I don't care.

For twenty years, doctors told me I had IBS. Cramps so bad I thought labour couldn't be worse. Crawling into my mum's room as a kid, thinking something was actually wrong with me. Turns out something was. Pregnant with my fourth baby, that same "IBS" turned out to be a tumour.

I'm in remission now. And since finishing chemo, my IBS hasn't just improved. It's gone. Vanished. Not managed, not "under control", gone.

Bowel cancer is now up 260% in eighteen to forty five year olds. Once you see a number like that, you can't unsee it, and once you hear my story next to it, you'll understand exactly why I can't stop talking about this.

So here's the question I'm not supposed to ask out loud: what if IBS isn't a diagnosis at all? What if it's just the label they give you when they've run out of answers, and your gut is drowning in the same ultra-processed bullshit we've all been told is normal?

I know how this sounds. I know "everything in moderation" is the thing you're about to type at me. Listen first, then tell me I'm wrong.

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @‌danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over at @‌lifewithdanniduncan

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan or sign up for coaching.

There's a kind of trauma that doesn't have a name yet. Birth trauma finally gets talked about. Postpartum depression finally gets talked about. But feeding trauma, what happens when your feeding journey ends in a way you never chose, still isn't validated. Nicola D'Souza is a breastfeeding counsellor and infant feeding practitioner on a mission to change that.

Nicola's own feeding trauma began in NICU. She shares the story of a nurse who put her premature daughter's feeding tube back in without her there, and fed her formula despite a freezer full of Nicola's own breast milk. "I felt something snap inside me." What followed was PTSD, panic attacks, and a physical anxiety response that lasted months.

But feeding trauma isn't only a breastfeeding story. Nicola's worked with mums who bottle fed by choice and still felt robbed of that experience, with mums of teenagers still carrying it from when their babies were tiny, and with women processing it thirty years later.

This one is personal for me too, and it's not the first time. I've had feeding trauma more than once with my own kids, but the hardest was having to stop breastfeeding London during chemo, something I still find hard to say out loud. We get into the donated milk, wanting her to relatch, and the moment Nicola told me something about what my body was still doing for me mid-chemo that I did not see coming.

If you've ever felt like your feeding story doesn't get to count as trauma, this one's for you.

You can find Nicola on Instagram @‌infantfeedingcoach.jersey, or through her website here,

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @‌danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over at @‌lifewithdanniduncan

If you need a push to take control of your health - download my app FIT by Danni Duncan.

If you're ready to make epic changes our express coaching ⁠No More Mondayz⁠ is open to start 1 September - find out more here.

Aneliese was fit, confident, and in the Air Force in her twenties. Then came two kids, a caking business, and in November 2022, a cancer diagnosis. Eighteen months of chemo, surgery and radiation later, she'd beaten it. But what came next was harder than the diagnosis itself.She describes it as climbing straight out of one well into another. The first was cancer, forcing her to fight to survive. The second had no doctors, no urgency, nothing forcing her to move at all, and that's where she got stuck, leaning on wine, then gin, and junk food just to get through the day. Until her husband said five words that changed everything: you don't love yourself anymore.Ten months into the Vitality Project, Aneliese is twenty kilos down, and the real work happened long before it ever showed on the scales. We talk about the four week plateau nobody warns you about, why she said no to a GLP-1, and what it actually took to fall back in love with herself.If you've ever felt stuck at the bottom of your own well, this one's for you.If you need a push to take control of your health, download my app FIT by Danni Duncan https://fitbydanniduncan.com/

If you're ready to make epic changes our express coaching No More Mondayz is open to start 1 September. I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over at @lifewithdanniduncan.

Jess Blizzard spent over a decade being told she was making it up. Anxious. Attention seeking. Overdramatic. At 33, after years of surgeries and misdiagnoses, her specialist gave her two options: a full hysterectomy, or a script for medically induced menopause. He wrote it on the spot. She never filled it.

In this episode Jess opens up about the pain, the fertility struggles, and the moment she rang her mum in tears, ready to just go through with the surgery. She shares the small, unglamorous shift that changed everything, no magic pill, just one thing layered on another until she started feeling better.

We get into inflammation, estrogen dominance, and why she believes her body was never broken. Jess is now 41, medication free, and feels better than she did at 29. She's also the co-founder of Mbody Minerals, built from the very things that healed her.

If you've ever been told your pain is normal, or that you're too much, this one is for you.

You can find Jess on Instagram @jessblizzard or learn more about Mbody Minerals at mbodyminerals.com

If you need a push to take control of your health, download my app FIT by Danni Duncan at fitbydanniduncan.com or sign up for coaching at danniduncan.com.au/the-vitality-project-program/

I also share all of my health and fitness tips over on IG @danni.duncan_ so if you want more, make sure you join me over there. Or follow the podcast over @lifewithdanniduncan.