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In 2005, Nic Russell’s two-year-old daughter, Kenzie, was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer. Months later, while Kenzie was still in treatment, Nic was diagnosed with breast cancer herself. Kenzie died just after Christmas that year. She was three.

In the years since, Nic has started a children’s grief charity in her daughter’s name, campaigned for women’s access to life-saving cancer treatment, been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and, in 2022, had a heart transplant.

In this conversation, Nic tells Kate about growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, fighting to get doctors to listen, the comedian she says saved her life, and what grieving people actually need from the rest of us.

Nic Russell's memoir, Bollix: When Life Isn’t All It’s Craic’d Up To Be, is out now.

If this episode has brought anything up for you, support is available: Lifeline: 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au

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• Listen: "I Didn't Know How to Deal With It": Jason Donovan on the Years That Almost Broke Him
• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw

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CREDITS:

Guest: Nic Russell

Host: Kate Langbroek

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Video, Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

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Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles are bringing Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility to a new generation — and one creative choice has already sparked a very passionate debate.

While in Australia promoting the new adaptation, Daisy and Esme sat down with The Spill’s Laura Brodnik to talk about becoming the Dashwood sisters, the friendship they first formed years before making this film, and why they felt so safe and supported by one another on set.

They also address the conversation surrounding the film’s historically unconventional hair and styling choices, why Esme believes some of the criticism misses the point, and why Daisy says a new adaptation should offer audiences something distinctive rather than simply recreate what has come before.

Plus, they talk falling in love with Jane Austen, sisterhood, romance, and the unexpected Love Island memories that connect them to the very first time they worked together.

Find more celebrity interviews and entertainment conversations on The Spill, wherever you get your podcasts.

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• Listen: "I Didn't Know How to Deal With It": Jason Donovan on the Years That Almost Broke Him
• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw

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CREDITS:

Guest: Daisy Edgar-Jones & Esmé Creed-Miles

Host and Executive Producer (No Filter): Bree Player

Executive Producer (The Spill): Monisha Iswaran

Video, Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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G Flip gave themselves one year to make their solo career happen. They wrote songs in their bedroom, built a spreadsheet of the Australian music industry and prepared a live show before anyone had booked them to perform.

Then one song changed everything.

In this conversation with Kate Langbroek, G shares the determination behind what might have looked like overnight success, and the story of the teacher who recognised their potential long before the rest of the world caught up.

They talk about a childhood obsession with drums, finding the language to understand their gender, and the extraordinary self-belief that kept them going. G also speaks openly about their relationship with Chrishell at the time of recording, falling in love in the public eye and the emotional experience of trying to start a family through IVF.

Funny, thoughtful and full of warmth, this is the story of how G Flip became G Flip.

This conversation was first published in August 2025. 

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• Listen: "I Didn't Know How to Deal With It": Jason Donovan on the Years That Almost Broke Him
• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't

 

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CREDITS:

Guest: G Flip

Host: Kate Langbroek

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Video, Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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A week into her sobriety, Belinda Carlisle broke down in the middle of Harrods and called her husband with one question: how could you stay with me?

Belinda has lived more lives than most. She started the Go-Go’s with a group of girls from the LA punk scene who had never played a note, and within three years they had the first number one album by an all-female band who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments. Then she went solo and gave the world ‘Heaven Is a Place on Earth’.

In this conversation with Kate Langbroek, Belinda opens up about growing up the eldest of seven with a stepfather who told her she’d never amount to anything, and the music press that called her “pretty and plump”. She talks about the drugs she used partly to stay thin and the 30-year addiction that followed, and about getting sober at 47. She also tells the story of the night she met her husband and moved in with him the next day, leaving LA for the south of France four days after the 1994 earthquake, and the morning her teenage son came out to her and then announced it at his school assembly.

Plus, why her G’day & Goodbye tour will be the last time she tours Australia, and why she might just come back for a one-off.

Belinda’s G’day & Goodbye tour plays Fremantle Prison (3 March), the Palais Theatre, Melbourne (5 and 6 March), the Enmore Theatre, Sydney (12 and 13 March) and Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane (19 and 20 March, 2027). Tickets are available here. Her latest album, Once Upon a Time in California, is out now.

This episode discusses addiction, disordered eating and body image. If it raises anything for you, support is available from Lifeline on 13 11 14 or the Butterfly Foundation on 1800 33 4673.

What To Listen To Next:

• Listen: Judith Lucy Wrote the Book on Wellness. Then She Got Cancer
• Listen:  Everyone Knows Rodger Corser. Almost Nobody Knows The Real Him
• Listen: "I Didn't Know How to Deal With It": Jason Donovan on the Years That Almost Broke Him
• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw

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CREDITS:

Guest: Belinda Carlisle 

Host: Kate Langbroek

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Video, Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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Judith Lucy wrote the book on wellness. Then she got cancer.

After years of anxiety and a burnout that forced her to step away from stand-up, one of Australia’s funniest women went searching for a way to feel better. That search took her all the way to an ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon. Let’s just say enlightenment wasn’t what she brought home.

Just days before her scheduled double mastectomy, Judith joins her longtime friend Kate Langbroek for a conversation that is as funny, frank and deeply personal as you’d expect.

She shares the Christmas Day revelation that changed how she understood her family, and the devastating phone call that exposed the boyfriend she thought she’d grow old with. She also opens up about the anxiety that followed her on stage for decades, and why it took until her 50s to ask what she actually wanted her life to look like.

And when her cancer diagnosis brought up a fear familiar to so many single women, who would look after her, her friends had an answer.

Judith’s new book, Well Well Well, is out now through Simon & Schuster.

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• Listen: "I Didn't Know How to Deal With It": Jason Donovan on the Years That Almost Broke Him
• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw

You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE. 

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CREDITS:

Guest: Judith Lucy

Host: Kate Langbroek

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Video, Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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Benson Boone knows what people say about him. He’s heard the Harry Styles comparisons, the Freddie Mercury references and the assumptions about everything from his jumpsuits to his politics. He’s even had strangers tell him they thought he’d be a “real douchebag”.

We know No Filter listeners love a great interview so we’re sharing an interview from our sister podcast, The Spill. No Filter executive producer and Spill guest host Bree Player sits down with Benson to talk about what people get wrong about him, why those comparisons can be frustrating, and the imposter syndrome that follows him into rooms full of his musical heroes.

For someone so confident onstage, life away from it can take some figuring out. Benson opens up about adjusting to the quiet after a tour, his constantly racing mind and how a song about losing one person became a love letter to the people who show up for him.

Find more celebrity interviews and entertainment conversations on The Spill, wherever you get your podcasts.

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• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw

You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE. 

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Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here.

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CREDITS:

Guest: Benson Boone

Host and Executive Producer (No Filter): Bree Player

Executive Producer (The Spill): Monisha Iswaran

Video, Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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Rodger Corser has played a jackaroo, a detective, a cop and a heart surgeon, and for most of his career he's been very good at not telling us much about himself. In this episode Kate gets him talking.

He takes us back to the pub bands he played from age 16, and to the film school degree that was supposed to put him behind the camera. He tells the story of walking into the Rent audition with no plan and walking out with the lead, and of the notorious party cast that followed. We hear about meeting his wife Renae through a matchmaking agent, and about becoming a stepdad and then a dad. Rodger also talks about the diagnosis that came barely a year into their relationship, how bluntly it was delivered, and the second opinion Renae's mum insisted on that changed everything. From there he describes the busy years of 12-hour days and months away from home, which his family carried, and the quiet years since. He also gets into the Underbelly nickname that has followed him around for almost two decades.

Rodger talks about the pivot from scripted drama to hosting The Traitors and The Floor, the Today show speculation, and why he thinks the industry asks young performers to give away too much of themselves. Then there's Shawshank. After 20 years away he's returning to the stage as the Warden, opening at Sydney's Theatre Royal in January 2027 and touring to Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane.

What To Listen To Next:

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• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw
• Listen: Sophie Delezio Wouldn’t Change A Thing
• Listen: Liane Moriarty Was Terrified To Write A Big Little Lies Sequel. She Did It Anyway.
• Listen: Harriet Dyer: "It Should Have Been A Dealbreaker. I Chose Him Anyway"

You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE. 

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CREDITS:

Guest: Rodger Corser

Host: Kate Langbroek

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Video, Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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Koko Casey was a flight nurse. She spent her career flying into disaster zones and distant countries, keeping critically ill strangers alive at 30,000 feet, until the night a routine medical retrieval turned into the plane crash she was never supposed to survive. On the 17th of November, 2009, the jet she was working on ran out of fuel in a storm off Norfolk Island and ditched into the ocean at close to 200 kilometres an hour. Koko and everyone else on board lived. What came next very nearly took her life anyway.

In this episode, Koko tells Kate Langbroek what the official story leaves out: the sixteen years of chronic pain and PTSD that followed the crash, the slow slide into addiction and self-loathing she now calls "the hitchhikers," and the points where she came closest to not making it at all, including an overdose discovered by her own children. She talks about the group therapy session that changed how she spoke to herself, the flying lesson she booked to face her fear head-on, meeting the man who would become her husband while he was landscaping her backyard, and the decision to legally change her name as a symbol of who she'd become. She also talks about her work today, presenting to the Royal Australian Air Force's Human Performance and Safety team, and what it took to finally put her story on the page.

If you or anyone you know needs to speak with an expert, please contact your GP or in Australia, contact Lifeline (13 11 14), Kids Helpline (1800 55 1800) or Beyond Blue (1300 22 4636), all of which provide trained counsellors you can talk with 24/7.

Koko Casey's book, Stay: From Flight Nurse to Patient, is out now through New Holland Publishers.

What To Listen To Next:

• Listen: "I Didn't Know How to Deal With It": Jason Donovan on the Years That Almost Broke Him
• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw
• Listen: Sophie Delezio Wouldn’t Change A Thing
• Listen: Liane Moriarty Was Terrified To Write A Big Little Lies Sequel. She Did It Anyway.
• Listen: Harriet Dyer: "It Should Have Been A Dealbreaker. I Chose Him Anyway"

You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE. 

SUBSCRIPTION GIVEAWAY: The You Beauty hosts have bundled together their all-time favourite beauty products and two Mamamia subscribers are winning the lot. Subscribe to Mamamia to be automatically entered to win. Current subscriber? You're already in the draw. T&Cs apply.

Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here.

Watch No Filter on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram here. Follow us on TikTok here. 

Feedback: [email protected]

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CREDITS:

Guest: Koko Casey

Host: Kate Langbroek

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Audio and Video Producer: Josh Green

Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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Here is a very special episode of Unleashed, Mamamia’s podcast for Gen X women.

One of the hosts of Unleashed, Dr Ginni Mansberg, has been going through something incredibly difficult. Ginni’s mum had been very ill for a long time and made the decision to choose voluntary assisted dying.

Ginni wanted to talk about what was happening with her mum and her family on Unleashed. And rather than just having a conversation about VAD, they decided to tell the whole story.

It’s about what happens when you know someone you love is going to die. About family, grief, love and all the complicated feelings that come with saying goodbye.

And it’s Ginni telling that story as both a doctor and, ultimately, as a daughter.

This is part one of a three-part series, beginning one month before Ginni’s mum’s death. Listen to part two and part three here.

Please take care while listening. This episode discusses voluntary assisted dying, death and grief. If this conversation brought up hard feelings and you need some help, please call Lifeline here.

In your ears today is Cath Mahoney, Bruna Papandrea and Ginni Mansberg

Check out our Unleashed music playlist for some feel good throwbacks!

The End Bits:
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Love the show? Hit follow on Apple or Spotify — it helps other Gen X women find us.

Executive Producer Grace Rouvray
Senior Producer and Audio Editor is Tina Matolov
Social Media Producer is Annaliese Todd

Did you know some of our shows are now in video on the Apple Podcast app? Make sure your phone is up to date and check it out here!

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Jason Donovan has spent almost forty years being reinvented in public: teen heartthrob, chart-topping pop star, tabloid cautionary tale, musical theatre mainstay. In this conversation with Kate, he finally puts it all together in his own words, including the night at LA's Viper Room he still doesn't love talking about, and what he now understands about why it happened.

Jason opens up about growing up the son of an actor in 1970s Melbourne, being cast alongside a young Kylie Minogue years before Neighbours, and the strange, competitive spark that pushed him toward a pop career of his own. He talks candidly about his recent, surprisingly honest turn in Kylie's new Netflix documentary, revisiting their relationship on his own terms rather than a tabloid's. He reflects on turning down Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and on his father Terence Donovan's legacy fighting for Australian content quotas in the 1970s, a movement he says made his own career, and Hugh Jackman's and Cate Blanchett's, possible. And in a moment he says he's never spoken about publicly before, Jason talks about losing his dad earlier this year, and what it means to bring Randle P. McMurphy to life in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on the very Melbourne stage his father once performed on.

Jason Donovan stars as Randle P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, exclusively at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre from 13 November. Tickets at cuckoosnest.com.au.

What To Listen To Next:

• Listen: Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
• Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
• Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
• Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw
• Listen: Sophie Delezio Wouldn’t Change A Thing
• Listen: Liane Moriarty Was Terrified To Write A Big Little Lies Sequel. She Did It Anyway.
• Listen: Harriet Dyer: "It Should Have Been A Dealbreaker. I Chose Him Anyway"

You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE. 

SUBSCRIPTION GIVEAWAY: The You Beauty hosts have bundled together their all-time favourite beauty products and two Mamamia subscribers are winning the lot. Subscribe to Mamamia to be automatically entered to win. Current subscriber? You're already in the draw. T&Cs apply.

Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here.

Watch No Filter on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram here. Follow us on TikTok here. 

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CREDITS:

Guest: Jason Donovan

Host: Kate Langbroek

Executive Producer: Bree Player

Audio and Video Producer: Josh Green

Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

 

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