Lise and Sarah

Are you cutting a fringe? Hiring skip bins to throw away the whole house? Taking up a sneaky cig habit? Thinking about casually walking out of your life and into a new one? Yes. We know you are.
So we’ve brought in the Patron Saint of midlife reckonings, Em Rusciano, for a special episode on just this.
Em Rusciano has spent her life being impressive. Winning, performing, achieving and making herself indispensable to everyone around her.

Then came the moment in her 40’s when she realised - she couldn’t do it anymore. She wouldn’t do it anymore.

In this stunningly honest conversation, Em tells us why blowing up your life can sometimes be the only way to save it.

She talks about the hidden cost of over-functioning, and the uncomfortable truth about boundaries; you will lose people over them. And that’s ok.

Plus, the small acts of midlife rebellion bringing Em back to herself.

Em’s turned it all into an incredible new live show, Addicted to Love. It’s touring nationally; and we’re heading along to the Brissie show!

Find ticket details below!

BRISBANE | 22nd AUGUST | QPAC https://www.qpac.com.au/whats-on/2026/em-rusciano-addicted-to-love

CAIRNS | 30th AUGUST | TANKS ARTS CENTRE https://www.ticketlink.com.au/ticketlinkEvents/cabaret/cairns-festival-2026-em-rusciano-addicted-to-love

NEWCASTLE | 4th SEPT | CIVIC THEATRE https://civictheatrenewcastle.com.au/what-s-on/all-shows/em-rusciano-addicted-to-love

THIRROUL | 5th SEPT | ANITA’s THEATRE https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/em-rusciano-tickets/artist/1946105

MELBOURNE | 18th SEPT | PALAIS THEATRE https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/em-rusciano-tickets/artist/1946105

SYDNEY | 19th SEPT | STATE THEATRE https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/em-rusciano-tickets/artist/1946105

PERTH | 26th SEPT | HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/em-rusciano-tickets/artist/1946105

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Dealing with narcissists? Gossips? Toxic people? Sarah has the answer: Grey rocking. Where you become so boring, so neutral and so impossible to bait that they simply have nowhere to go.

Also: Sarah wants answers about a very expensive orthotics upsell, Lise wants to unpack Penélope Cruz’s deeply unexpected hobby, and a tiny teenage request becomes a multi-generational cooking day for the memory bank.

Plus, pointy flats and the power of saying, “No, thank you.”

The Fine Print:

Send us something for the background! The address for fan mail, cards, post it notes and drawings is:
Lise and Sarah
Clearshot Digital
Unit 3 / 421 Logan Road
Stones Corner QLD 4120

Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | FRI NOV 20 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | SOLD OUT

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

PERTH | SAT DEC 5 | TICKETS https://megatix.com.au/events/disco-club

Want to support the show and become a Goldie? Subscribe to Lise and Sarah GOLD on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users you can become a Goldie via Substack! The best way is to subscribe via your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.

We record at Clearshot Digital (https://clearshot.digital/) in Brisbane and they’re awesome

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sarah has a burning question for retail. She is in your shop. She is there to buy something. She is your target market. She has money. So why oh why is she….completely invisible?

Meanwhile. the Clean Girl era is dead, and party girl is in. After years of sleep scores, slicked-back buns, perfect skincare routines and optimising ourselves, the new trend is…..the opposite. Lise explains why the new “party girl” is less about wild nights and more about being slightly messy.

Plus, why did our parents have people over constantly while the thought of hosting a casual dinner now requires six weeks of preparation and a nervous breakdown? Could Taco Tuesday be the answer?

The Fine Print:

Send us something for the background! The address for fan mail, cards, post it notes and drawings is:
Lise and Sarah
Clearshot Digital
Unit 3 / 421 Logan Road
Stones Corner QLD 4120

Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | FRI NOV 20 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | SOLD OUT

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

PERTH | SAT DEC 5 | TICKETS https://megatix.com.au/events/disco-club

Want to support the show and become a Goldie? Subscribe to Lise and Sarah GOLD on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users you can become a Goldie via Substack! The best way is to subscribe via your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.

We record at Clearshot Digital (https://clearshot.digital/) in Brisbane and they’re awesome

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Science says being judgy might actually be good for your friendships, so it’s time to reveal the hatred that unites us: Sunflowers and Gerberas.

Plus, Lise has become the teenage party house and has rules, snacks and one open toilet to prove it.
And Reese Witherspoon holding a Sweet Valley High book has sent us into a full detective spiral. Are we getting a reboot? And more importantly, were you an Elizabeth or a Jessica?
Plus, you voted for adventure. You voted for Guinea Pigs. You voted for Tarot! Our Scottish online reading awaits. What will it reveal?

The Fine Print:

Send us something for the background! The address for fan mail, cards, post it notes and drawings is:
Lise and Sarah
Clearshot Digital
Unit 3 / 421 Logan Road
Stones Corner QLD 4120

Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | FRI NOV 20 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | SOLD OUT

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

PERTH | SAT DEC 5 | TICKETS https://megatix.com.au/events/disco-club

Want to support the show and become a Goldie? Subscribe to Lise and Sarah GOLD on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users you can become a Goldie via Substack! The best way is to subscribe via your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.

We record at Clearshot Digital (https://clearshot.digital/) in Brisbane and they’re awesome.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Look. Sometimes, a mysterious Scottish tarot reader comes into your life. Sometimes you want to say ‘yes, mysterious person. Please predict my future with your online witchcraft’ Sometimes you want to shout “it’s not a scam, Sarah! I swear!’

Today is that day. And naturally, Sarah is suspicious.

Also this week: Lise roadtests the latest genius TikTok parenting hack - sibling dinners - and gives it a ten out of ten. And in a desperate attempt to get off her phone, Sarah has discovered cooking. She’s so insufferably smug about it that she just basically wants to brag, ok?

The Fine Print:

Want to send us something for the background? The address for fan mail, cards, post it notes and drawings is:

Lise and Sarah
Clearshot Digital
Unit 3 / 421 Logan Road
Stones Corner QLD 4120

The show phone is 0489 214 653 

Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | FRI NOV 20 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | SOLD OUT

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

Want to support the show and become a Goldie? Subscribe to Lise and Sarah GOLD on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users you can become a Goldie via Substack! The best way is to subscribe via your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.

We record at Clearshot Digital (https://clearshot.digital/) in Brisbane 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lise has uncovered the greatest marriage hack the internet has ever discovered. A woman married to the ghost of a 300 year old pirate. Is a ghost actually the low-maintenance midlife partner women have been waiting for?

And then, because this show has range, things take a genuinely beautiful turn with Oprah and Gayle’s 50-year friendship, friendship anniversaries, and why the women in your life are the real love story.

And we didn’t believe a single person would send us anything in the mail. We were so wrong. From poems, to letters, to postcards and drawings, eat your heart out Agro. We’ve got Cartoon Connection up the wazoo here.

The Fine Print:

Send us something for the background! The address for fan mail, cards, post it notes and drawings is:
Lise and Sarah
Clearshot Digital
Unit 3 / 421 Logan Road
Stones Corner QLD 4120

Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | FRI NOV 20 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | SOLD OUT

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

Want to support the show and become a Goldie? Subscribe to Lise and Sarah GOLD on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users you can become a Goldie via Substack! The best way is to subscribe via your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.

We record at Clearshot Digital (https://clearshot.digital/) in Brisbane and they’re awesome

Why did supermarket samples disappear? Bring them back! Stop charging us for paper bags and bring in the cheese!
Plus, the horror of technology dobbing you in - including Strava sex documentation - and whether a trip to Paris to see Celine Dion can be written off as podcast research. Plus: why is a handheld fan being dismissed as a “silly luxury” because it’s targeted at women? Lise would like to have a word about it.

The Fine Print:

The show phone is 0489 214 653 

Send us something for the background! The address for fan mail, cards, post it notes and drawings is:
Lise and Sarah
Clearshot Digital
Unit 3 / 421 Logan Road
Stones Corner QLD 4120

Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | FRI NOV 20 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | SOLD OUT

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

Want to support the show and become a Goldie? Subscribe to Lise and Sarah GOLD on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users you can become a Goldie via Substack! The best way is to subscribe via your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.

We record at Clearshot Digital (https://clearshot.digital/) in Brisbane 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you’re prone to the Sunday Scaries, the dread of returning to work on a Monday, spare a thought for our Goldie who had had a wildly vivid sex dream about her new boss. She now cannot look him in the eye. Is it desire? Is it stress? Should she raise it in her 1:1? We investigate with all the scientific rigour of two women plugging “what does a sex dream about your boss mean” into ChatGPT.

Speaking of dreams, we end up on Dane’s motorbike fantasy, which now includes slutty leather pants and long hair whipping in the wind. Please. Sometimes all a girl wants is Target tracksuit pants and a warm pub lunch.

Show notes:

The show phone is 0489 214 653 

Want to become a Goldie? You get episodes every Friday that the free listeners don’t get. Subscribe either on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users, the best way is to subscribe via Substack, on your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.


Wanna party? Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | FRI NOV 20 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | SOLD OUT

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Perth, you yelled and we heard you

After a spectacular amount of DM chaos, Disco Club is officially coming to Perth this December!

And yes, it’s happening FAST.

🪩 Saturday 5 December
🪩 Metro City Perth
🪩 General public tickets on sale Friday 19 June at 11am Perth time.

Want early access to tickets? There are TWO WAYS:

But stuff that.

Since you’ve read the show notes we’re gonna make it really easy.

The Pre-Sale link is right here: https://mtix.me/discoclub

Pre-sale is open from Thursday 18 June at 10am Perth time until Friday 19 June at 10am Perth time.

You can still sign up to Disco Mail RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW (https://www.discoclub.com.au/) to get tips and other things, or get your pre-sale access that way!

And Goldies: the pre-sale link drops in the Lise & Sarah Gold Facebook group tomorrow morning, but you’re ahead of everyone because you read this far down. Great job. Love that for you.

Ok! Rally the troops, fire up the WhatsApp group, and we will see you on the West Side.

Head to discoclub.com.au for tickets and all the details!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s midwinter, we’re nesting, and frankly we need things to watch, read, wear, rub on our faces and obsess over immediately.

This week, it’s our bumper recommendation list. From the podcast that blew our minds to the tradwife novel everyone is fighting for at the library, the $28 Big W bomber that looks suspiciously expensive, and the nappy rash cream beauty hack nobody saw coming.

Plus: Pears soap nostalgia, designer jewellery secrets, bed-making rage, scapula pullbacks and a surprisingly persuasive case for getting a colonoscopy. Something for everyone!

The Fine Print:

Disco Club tickets are here!

BRISBANE | SAT NOV 21 | TICKETS https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

MELBOURNE FRI NOV 27 | TICKETS: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/lise-sarahs-disco-club-tickets/artist/3329869

SYDNEY SAT NOV 28 | TICKETS https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=LISSARDC26&eg=VENUE&ep=VENUE

The show phone is 0489 214 653 

Send us something for the background!

The address for fan mail, cards, post it notes and drawings is:
Lise and Sarah
Clearshot Digital
Unit 3 / 421 Logan Road
Stones Corner QLD 4120

Want to support the show and become a Goldie? Subscribe to Lise and Sarah GOLD on Apple Podcasts here (http://apple.co/LiseandSarah)

For Android users you can become a Goldie via Substack! The best way is to subscribe via your desktop computer here: https://liseandsarah.substack.com/

You can then connect your Substack to Spotify. Here’s how:

How to listen to Lise & Sarah GOLD on Spotify

1. Open your welcome email from Substack after becoming a paid subscriber.
2. Scroll until you see the section about podcast listening options.
3. Tap 'Listen in Spotify'.
4. You’ll be prompted to connect your Spotify account to Substack. Follow the prompts and hit approve/allow.
5. Spotify should then open automatically and Lise & Sarah GOLD will appear in your podcast feed.
6. Hit follow - and you’re in. New GOLD episodes will now land in Spotify every Friday like a tiny emotional support package.

If it’s not showing up:

• Make sure you’re logged into the same email/account you used to subscribe on Substack.
• Check your Spotify app is updated.
• Go back to the original Substack email and tap the Spotify link again.

Still stuck?

Visit Substack Support for help connecting your podcast feed to Spotify. Technology is humbling for all of us.

We record at Clearshot Digital (https://clearshot.digital/) in Brisbane 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.