Life With Danni Duncan

It's almost midnight in our New York hotel room. We're absolutely knackered, I can barely walk, and Chris and I are still trying to wrap our heads around what we've just done.

42.2 kilometres. Around 60,000 runners. Five boroughs. And TWO personal bests.

But bloody hell, New York made us work for them.

We started the marathon together, ready to take on this massive moment as husband and wife. A beautiful little couple goals moment, right?

Well, that lasted about as long as the first bridge before Chris disappeared on me. 

What followed was one of the most incredible, exhilarating and downright brutal runs of my life.

I got completely carried away by the crowds, ran WAY faster than I should have, and by 30K I was struggling big time and having a full-blown argument with myself just to keep going.

And then, at around 36K, I witnessed something that really shook me. Something that made me think about just how serious running a marathon can be.

In this episode, we're giving you the full, unfiltered debrief. The highs, the struggles, the moments I questioned myself, and what it took to get across that finish line.

Chris and I have been through a lot together, and this was another massive experience we got to share as husband and wife. Even if we didn't actually run much of it together! 

Plus, we smashed our $10,000 fundraising goal for the Jodi Lee Foundation (and you can still donate!) and we may have made a slightly impulsive tattoo decision while we were in New York…👀

Two PBs, over $13,000 raised, and one hell of a story to tell.

I'm so bloody proud of us.

Thanks to Adventure Time Travel for making this opportunity possible. If you are keen to do an international marathon - Anna Liptak and the team at ATT are your go too!

You can catch all our New York Marathon adventures over on Instagram @danni.duncan_.

And if watching us has sparked something in you, I've got running plans from Couch to 5K right through to a full marathon inside the FIT by Danni Duncan App, including the marathon plan I used to train for New York.

Jess Stenson is a three-time Olympian, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and last year, she became the fastest ever Australian female Marathon runner at the time. 

She’s also a trained physiotherapist, a coach, and a mum of three, including an eight-week-old.

We go back to the Olympic dream she’d had since she was eight and quietly given up on, and the coach who told her years later to write it down anyway. What happened next still gives me goosebumps.

This one gets personal. With New York Marathon days away for me, I ask Jess the question that’s actually been keeping me up at night: how do you leave your babies behind to run on the other side of the world? Her answer genuinely changed how I’m walking into next week.

If you’ve ever doubted whether you can do hard things while raising kids, this is the episode that puts that doubt to bed.

Find Jess Stenson on Instagram for more of this energy.

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.

Emily Chadbourne is one of my closest friends, a life and mindset coach, and the person who tells me exactly what I need to hear. We’d just come back from our fourth retreat together, this one in Byron Bay, when we sat down to record.

We get into the comments calling me fat phobic. I talk about why that one genuinely baffles me, I’ve never called someone fat on my page. Every time I’ve said the word, it’s been about fat loss in the context of health and strength, never aesthetics. We talk about what people actually hear versus what I’m actually saying, and why your reaction to someone else’s content usually says more about you than it does about them.

I also read out a message I got this week from a woman who asked her gastroenterologist for a colonoscopy even though she had no symptoms, because of something I’d said online. They found precancerous polyps. Her gastroenterologist asked if her “influencer” happened to be me, turns out multiple of his patients have mentioned me. It’s one of the best messages I’ve ever received.

We talk trolls, tall poppy syndrome, comparison, why women get punished for making money, and why I will never apologise for being proud of myself again.

This one is raw, it’s real, and it’s one of my favourites.

Find Em on Instagram for more of this energy.

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.

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.