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Julia Baird On Grace And Grief

12.03.2023

Subscribe to Mamamia Journalist and best-selling author, Julia Baird opens up about grace and how you can’t see it until it happens. How people look after people, love those who may seem unlovable and how being kinder can change everything. ...

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12.03.2023 Julia Baird On Grace And Grief Subscribe to Mamamia Journalist and best-selling author, Julia Baird opens up about grace and how you can’t see it until it happens. How people look after people, love those who may seem unlovable and how being kinder can change everything. ...
11.26.2023 Trinny Woodall Is In Her Naked-On-A-Horse Era Subscribe to Mamamia Trinny Woodall is in a new era. She’s not quite sure what it’s called but it’s definitely a new life stage. Her beauty company is wildly successful. She’s newly single after a decade-long live-in relationship. Her daughter ...
11.19.2023 Her Last Shopping List For The Man She Loved Subscribe to Mamamia Amalia Melis’ husband died suddenly in the middle of the night. What happened next sounds like something from a true crime podcast but it was her life. First, the police believed she murdered him. And then, three ...
11.12.2023 How ‘Cocaine Cassie’ Really Survived Three Years In A Colombian Prison You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Cassie here. Subscribe to Mamamia After she was caught trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine out of Colombia in 2017, the media nicknamed her ‘Cocaine Cassie’. But Cassie Sainsbury’s life ...
11.05.2023 Paula Joye On Working With Cindy, Christy, Linda & Naomi Subscribe to Mamamia In this conversation, Mia speaks to Paula Joye about working with the original 90’s supermodels: Christy, Cindy, Linda and Naomi. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from magazine shoots and backstage at fashion shows and explains the exact moment ...
10.29.2023 A Male Escort On The Women Who Pay For Sex You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Mitch here. Subscribe to Mamamia Mitch Larsson is a former male escort with stories you would not expect from someone who was paid for sex. Mitch was a lawyer and ...
10.22.2023 Jackie O On What She Wishes She'd Known About Divorce You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Jackie O here. Subscribe to Mamamia In this conversation, Mia speaks to Jackie O, the equal highest paid person in the media industry in Australia. After working together for 23 ...
10.15.2023 The Teacher’s Pet: ‘The Moment I Realised My Dad Murdered My Mum’ Subscribe to Mamamia Shanelle Dawson was just four years old when her mother disappeared and was convinced by her father for decades that her mum didn’t love her or her younger sister anymore. The truth is Chris murdered Lyn and ...
10.08.2023 Laura Byrne And Matty J On Marriage And The Mental Load You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Laura and Matt here. Subscribe to Mamamia In this episode, Mia speaks to TV personalities Matty J & Laura Byrne about their marriage, parenting and living their private life in ...
10.01.2023 Hamish Blake On Being A Dad You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Hamish here Subscribe to Mamamia Hamish Blake takes us beyond Radio and TV and into the personal life of the funniest bloke in Australia. Hamish speaks about accidentally discovering the ...
09.24.2023 It Seemed Like A Scam But Then She Died. Megan Bhari’s Story You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Jamie here. Subscribe to Mamamia The Believe in Magic charity was set up by a 16 year old girl and her mother. Megan and Jean’s charity helped grant wishes to ...
09.17.2023 Leigh Sales And Lisa Millar: The Introvert And The Extrovert Subscribe to Mamamia As two of Australia's most well-known and successful journalists, Leigh Sales and Lisa Millar have witnessed and reported on the most significant news events in the past 30 years. They’re also best mates. Leigh and Lisa both ...
09.10.2023 How Alisha Aitken-Radburn Got The Villain Edit You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Alisha here. Subscribe to Mamamia Alisha Aitken-Radburn was a contestant on the Honey Badger’s season of The Bachelor (2018) and got the dreaded ‘villain edit’. It nearly destroyed her. So ...
09.03.2023 Brendan Watkins: The Secret Son Of A Priest And A Nun Subscribe to Mamamia Brendan Watkins was eight years old when he and his brother were told they were adopted from different families. He spent decades trying to track down his biological mother and father. It wasn’t until his 29th birthday ...
08.27.2023 Belinda Chapple On The Implosion Of Bardot Subscribe to Mamamia In the early 2000's there was an Australian girl band that everyone was obsessed with, they were called Bardot. And Belinda Chapple was one of the members. Chances are you might remember their hit song Poison. Or ...
08.23.2023 EXCLUSIVE: Mackenzie Arnold, Defence Minister Of Australia Subscribe to Mamamia It’s been a big year for Mackenzie Arnold. She’s gone from being able to walk down the street without getting recognised to being approached on the street by strangers. In her first podcast interview since the FIFA ...
08.20.2023 Elizabeth Day Knows How To Fail You can hear the second half of Mia's conversation with Elizabeth here. Subscribe to Mamamia Three weeks before Elizabeth Day’s 39th birthday, she had a bad romantic break-up. It had been her first long-term relationship after her divorce and she ...
08.13.2023 How Natalie Barr Became The Main Character Of Breakfast TV Subscribe to Mamamia Natalie Barr has worked at Channel Seven for 29 years and has been an original member of their #1 rated breakfast TV show, Sunrise, for 20 years. But when she was offered the top job of host ...
08.06.2023 Emily Hall & The Young Widows Of Instagram Subscribe to Mamamia In 2017, Emily Hall was 37 weeks pregnant and preparing for a beautiful future with her husband Matt, when the unthinkable happened. Matt died suddenly one weekend and she found herself joining a club she never wanted ...
07.30.2023 Samantha Azzopardi Spent Her Adult Life Pretending To Be A Child: Part Two Samantha Azzopardi spent 10 years receiving care as a troubled teen. It would be years before the truth came out that she was actually an adult woman. In part two of this conversation, Mia speaks with investigative journalist Sharon Davis, ...
07.30.2023 Samantha Azzopardi Spent Her Adult Life Pretending To Be A Child Listen to part two of Mia and Sharon's conversation here. Subscribe to Mamamia Samantha Azzopardi spent 10 years receiving care as a troubled teen. It would be years before the truth came out that she was actually an adult woman. ...
07.23.2023 Erin Barnett Just Had A Hysterectomy At 28 Subscribe to Mamamia After gracing our screens on reality TV Erin Barnett had a battle on her hands… to get doctors to take her seriously. The 28 year old quickly became a public figure after starring on Love Island Australia, ...
07.16.2023 Caitlin Moran Thinks It’s Harder To Be A Man Than A Woman Right Now Subscribe to Mamamia Caitlin Moran is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and successful writers, columnist, novelist and world famous feminist icon. Caitlin knows a lot about talking to women, in fact she’s written two books specifically about it How ...
07.09.2023 Jessie Stephens: Something Bad Is Going To Happen Listen to part two of Mia and Jessie's conversation here. If you're struggling with anxiety & depression, reach out to Beyond Blue here. Anxiety and depression are mental health issues that so many Australians will experience in their life. But ...
07.02.2023 Nicole Madigan's Stalker Was Another Woman Listen to part two of Mia's conversation with Nicole here. Subscribe to Mamamia Journalist Nicole Madigan, was stalked for three years by a woman she didn’t know. A woman who became so obsessed with Nicole, that she tried to ruin ...
06.25.2023 The Life Stage You Finally Have A Name For Subscribe to Mamamia A few weeks ago, Mia inhaled a newsletter titled ‘Is Going Camel Mode Inevitable For Parents.’ Camel mode is a time in your life when you power down to focus on one task, it might be for ...
06.18.2023 What Emma Gannon Wants You To Know About Burnout Subscribe to Mamamia Emma Gannon had a successful podcast, had written multiple books and a career as a high profile journalist in the UK. She also had a happy personal life, and on paper everything looked great…but she was unhappy. ...
06.11.2023 David Limbrick’s First Girlfriend Was Murdered By A Serial Killer Subscribe to Mamamia In the early 1990s, 21-year-old Paul Denyer terrorised the Victorian suburb of Frankston. He preyed on the local women; stalking, abducting, and eventually murdering three young victims. Their names were Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream, and Natalie Russell. ...
06.05.2023 The Wrongful Conviction Of Kathleen Folbigg Subscribe to Mamamia Nearly 20 years ago, Kathleen Folbigg was sentenced to 40 years in jail for the murder of three of her children, and the manslaughter of her fourth. She was described as Australia’s worst female serial killer. Earlier ...
06.04.2023 Elise Loehnen Walked Away From Fame & Money For A Smaller (Better) Life Listen to part two of Mia's interview with Elise, here. You’d probably recognise Elise Loehnen’s face because, in her role as Chief Content Officer at Goop, she hosted the Goop Lab TV show on Netflix and the Goop podcast alongside ...
05.28.2023 The Woman Who Broke Up With Her Boyfriend & Walked Across Australia Subscribe to Mamamia When Sophie Matterson was 31, she broke up with her long-term boyfriend. Soon afterward, she packed all her belongings into saddlebags and decided to trek from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay on the east ...
05.21.2023 "My Best Friend Is Having My Baby" Listen to part two of Lisa and Sarah's story here. Lisa Messenger always thought she’d be an entrepreneur, not a mother. But one day, after 15 years of running multiple businesses including publishing company The Messenger Group and later Collective ...
05.14.2023 Kate Reid Had Anorexia. Then She Opened A World Famous Bakery Listen to the second half of Mia and Kate's conversation here. Kate Reid has lived three very different lives. The first, as an engineer who worked at the most elite level of Formula 1 car racing. The second as a ...
05.07.2023 Why Megan Phelps-Roper Sat Down With J. K. Rowling If the name Megan Phelps-Roper doesn’t immediately ring a bell for you, her former church and home might - the incredibly controversial and almost universally despised Westboro Baptist Church. Megan was raised in the church and from just 5 years ...
05.06.2023 Introducing: A Brand New Show For Women In Their 40s, 50s & 60s We've got a new Mamamia podcast we want to tell you about. In your 40s, 50s or 60s? Welcome to the 456 Club. Hosted by Narelda Jacobs and Cathrine Mahoney each week, we’ll discuss the topics in your world from ...
05.01.2023 Remembering Jock Zonfrillo It is with deep sadness and shock today we learnt about the passing of Jock Zonfrillo. The chef, best-selling author, and philanthropist was best known in Australia for his role hosting MasterChef – quickly becoming a crowd favourite after taking ...
04.30.2023 The Woman Who Ate Herself Out Of Heartbreak Nobody plans to be divorced before they turn 30. But that’s exactly where Charlotte Ree found herself after the breakdown of the relationship that had consumed her whole adult life. Charlotte moved out and into an apartment by herself, and ...
04.23.2023 The Big Secret To Female Friendship Subscribe to Mamamia TV shows like Sex & The City and Friends would have us believe that we all need a tight-knit group of best friends who will always be there for us. But in reality making, and keeping friends, ...
04.16.2023 Mary Coustas Was 49 When She Became A Mum Listen to Clare's off mic chat with Mary Coustas here Mary Coustas has graced Australian screens as 'Effie Stephanides' for over 30 years; the big haired, stand out character from Acropolis Now. But behind the scenes, Mary is an open ...
04.12.2023 BONUS: The Real Life Story of ‘Wellmania’ Subscribe to Mamamia We're dropping into your feed to reshare a special episode of No Filter with you. Wellmania is the Netflix show that everyone has been talking about for the last few weeks. Celeste Barber plays Liv who is ...
04.09.2023 Kate’s Husband Cheated On Her For Decades & She Never Knew Listen to the rest of Mia's conversation with Kate here... It was after a dinner with friends one night, that journalist and writer Kate Legge’s husband pulled her into their garage to confess; he’d been having an affair. And as ...
04.07.2023 Introducing But Are You Happy: Clare Stephens On Being Jealous Of Her Best Friend This week at Mamamia we launched a new podcast called But Are You Happy? And we thought you might like to hear it... Over eight weeks, Clare Stephens is sitting down with 8 celebrities to ask them to get vulnerable ...
04.05.2023 BONUS: Kyl Myers Is Letting Her Children Choose Their Gender Subscribe to Mamamia We're dropping into your feed to reshare a special episode of No Filter with you. Over the weekend, Dr Kyl Myers and her partner Brent were featured on an episode of 60 Minutes, resurfacing the national conversation ...
04.02.2023 Gwyneth Paltrow And The Rise Of The New Gurus Subscribe to Mamamia What do Gwyneth Paltrow, Russell Brand, Pete Evans and Andrew Tate have in common? With more and more influential figures emerging from corners of the internet promising everything from happiness, to more sex, to a healthier gut, ...
03.27.2023 Pip Edwards Has Something To Say Listen to the rest of Mia's conversation with Pip here... If you believe certain tabloids and websites, you'd be forgiven for thinking Pip Edwards is simply a socialite, an influencer, and the ex-girlfriend of a famous cricketer. But in reality, ...
03.19.2023 The Woman Who Learnt To Walk Again…Twice Subscribe to Mamamia Kath Koschel had just achieved her dream of playing cricket professionally, when a terrible on-pitch injury meant she lost the use of her legs. That was the beginning of a series of events that you truly have ...
03.12.2023 Nikki Gemmell Doesn't Want To Have Sex Anymore Listen to the rest of Mia's conversation with Nikki here... A few weeks ago, an article in The Australian entitled ‘Sex? I’m Over It’ infiltrated the group chats of Gen X women all across the country. In it, author Nikki ...
03.05.2023 Rob Mills Isn’t Who You Think He Is Subscribe to Mamamia When Australian Idol first graced our television screens 20 years ago, audiences fell in love with a 21 year old 'Millsy', a larrikin with blonde highlights, an eye brow piercing and an incredible voice. In his personal ...
02.26.2023 The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About Elfy Scott was thirteen when she came across some medication with her mum’s name on it. After Googling the name of it and seeing the words schizophrenia and psychosis, the ‘voices’ her mum often complained about hearing started to make ...
02.19.2023 The Moment Jessica Watson’s Life Flipped Upside Down Subscribe to Mamamia The story of Jessica Watson's unbelievable solo sailing trip around the world at age 16 has been etched into Australian lore. More than a decade after that achievement, the details of how she survived 210 days of ...

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Julia Baird On Grace And Grief

Trinny Woodall Is In Her Naked-On-A-Horse Era

Her Last Shopping List For The Man She Loved

How ‘Cocaine Cassie’ Really Survived Three Years In A Colombian Prison

Paula Joye On Working With Cindy, Christy, Linda & Naomi

A Male Escort On The Women Who Pay For Sex

Jackie O On What She Wishes She'd Known About Divorce

The Teacher’s Pet: ‘The Moment I Realised My Dad Murdered My Mum’

Laura Byrne And Matty J On Marriage And The Mental Load

Hamish Blake On Being A Dad

It Seemed Like A Scam But Then She Died. Megan Bhari’s Story

Leigh Sales And Lisa Millar: The Introvert And The Extrovert

How Alisha Aitken-Radburn Got The Villain Edit

Brendan Watkins: The Secret Son Of A Priest And A Nun

Belinda Chapple On The Implosion Of Bardot

EXCLUSIVE: Mackenzie Arnold, Defence Minister Of Australia

Elizabeth Day Knows How To Fail

How Natalie Barr Became The Main Character Of Breakfast TV

Emily Hall & The Young Widows Of Instagram

Samantha Azzopardi Spent Her Adult Life Pretending To Be A Child: Part Two

Samantha Azzopardi Spent Her Adult Life Pretending To Be A Child

Erin Barnett Just Had A Hysterectomy At 28

Caitlin Moran Thinks It’s Harder To Be A Man Than A Woman Right Now

Jessie Stephens: Something Bad Is Going To Happen

Nicole Madigan's Stalker Was Another Woman

The Life Stage You Finally Have A Name For

What Emma Gannon Wants You To Know About Burnout

David Limbrick’s First Girlfriend Was Murdered By A Serial Killer

The Wrongful Conviction Of Kathleen Folbigg

Elise Loehnen Walked Away From Fame & Money For A Smaller (Better) Life

The Woman Who Broke Up With Her Boyfriend & Walked Across Australia

"My Best Friend Is Having My Baby"

Kate Reid Had Anorexia. Then She Opened A World Famous Bakery

Why Megan Phelps-Roper Sat Down With J. K. Rowling

Introducing: A Brand New Show For Women In Their 40s, 50s & 60s

Remembering Jock Zonfrillo

The Woman Who Ate Herself Out Of Heartbreak

The Big Secret To Female Friendship

Mary Coustas Was 49 When She Became A Mum

BONUS: The Real Life Story of ‘Wellmania’

Kate’s Husband Cheated On Her For Decades & She Never Knew

Introducing But Are You Happy: Clare Stephens On Being Jealous Of Her Best Friend

BONUS: Kyl Myers Is Letting Her Children Choose Their Gender

Gwyneth Paltrow And The Rise Of The New Gurus

Pip Edwards Has Something To Say

The Woman Who Learnt To Walk Again…Twice

Nikki Gemmell Doesn't Want To Have Sex Anymore

Rob Mills Isn’t Who You Think He Is

The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About

The Moment Jessica Watson’s Life Flipped Upside Down