No Filter

Today on No Filter, we're revisiting an episode that Mia did with Chloe Shorten on the 26th of April, 2017....

Chloe Shorten has attracted a lot of attention over the last few weeks. As the wife of Bill Shorten - who will potentially be our next Prime Minister - many have said that in this election campaign, they wished they could vote for Chloe.

Chloe is a businesswoman, author, daughter of former Governor-General Quentin Bryce and mother of three. As a kid, she dreamed that she’d grow up, meet the love of her life, get married, have kids and grow old …..with that same person.

But, like one in three marriages, Chloe’s life didn’t work out that way because her relationship fell apart.

When Chloe Shorten separated from her husband of 10 years, she was concerned that it might affect her two young children.

Then, when she remarried Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and blended her family, she got even more concerned. So, she went hunting for help. For books, for studies, for information about the best way to do everything from “the talk” when you sit your kids down to tell them their Mum and Dad aren’t going to live together anymore to introducing new partners, navigating custody and even, eventually introducing new step-siblings or new babies. She didn’t find a lot. So she made her own...

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Show Notes

Your host is Mia Freedman.

With thanks to special guests Chloe Shorten.

Find her book, Take Heart, at apple.co/mamamia

This podcast was produced by Elissa Ratliff 

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What do you really want to know?

When preparing for an interview that’s the first question journalist, TV host and comedian Andrew Denton asks himself.

Andrew has been interviewing celebrities and regular people for more than 20 years, first on his ABC show Enough Rope, and now on his new show on Seven, Interview. But he very rarely has the tables turned on him.

Today, Andrew sits down with Mia Freedman to talk about dealing with depression, the ups and downs of his marriage to journalist Jennifer Byrne and what’s going through his head when he’s interviewing someone in front of an audience who doesn’t want to be there. 

It’s an interview not to be missed...

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Andrew Denton

Andrew Denton’s Interview airs Tuesday’s at 9pm on Seven. Catch up on 7plus.

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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If you’ve ever been in a romantic relationship of any kind and you’ve been together a while, you will have probably encountered your partner’s mother.

The image we have of a mother-in-law is pretty grim, generally. They don’t get great press. But for many women, their relationship with their mother-in-law is one of the most fraught in their lives and there are good reasons for this! They are intimately connected to your partner and so are you, obviously, but to one another, you’re pretty much strangers.

Sally Hepworth noticed this when she started collecting stories for her latest novel, aptly called The Mother-In-Law. Women would tell her stories about their partners mothers bringing over a raw chicken after they’d just had a baby, or of mothers-in-law who have keys to their child's house and use them regularly. And so, her fifth novel was born.

Sally is one of Liane Moriarty’s favourite Australian authors - she’s written five books, she has 3 children and she’s spent a long time talking to people who had issues with their mothers-in-law.

So what is it about this relationship that makes it so high-drama?

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Sally Hepworth https://www.sallyhepworthauthor.com/ 

Buy her latest book The Mother In Law at any good bookstore now.

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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In December 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s life changed forever when her short story in The New Yorker went viral.

‘Cat Person’, which was published in The New Yorker‘s December 11 issue, navigates a brief relationship between a 20-year-old university student named Margot, and an older man – Robert – who she meets while working in a movie theatre candy bar.

You can read it here:  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

It’s not a complex plot. But, like all the best pieces of fiction, it articulates aspects of life and culture in a way the rest of us have never quite been able to manage.

It resonated with millions of women around the world and was just before #MeToo really took off. But it also turned Kristen's life upside down.

So what does her life look like two years on? She joins Mia now...

CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Kristen Roupenian https://twitter.com/kroupenian?lang=en

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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There’s a fresh new face on breakfast TV and her name is Brooke Boney.   She describes herself as a proud Gamilaroi woman. And Brooke is proud. She grew up in a housing commission, was raised by a strong single mother and is the eldest of 6 kids.   So how did she end up as The Today Show’s entertainment reporter smack bang in the middle of some high drama and unimaginable public scrutiny?   She joins Mia now...  

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Brooke Boney https://www.instagram.com/boneybrooke/?hl=en 

Support the Witchery White Shirt Campaign here: https://www.witchery.com.au/shop/woman/clothing/white-shirt?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1-CPgPPJ4QIVVRSPCh1npgyOEAAYASAAEgJxbfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds 

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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Sex, drugs and rock and roll. That’s what we used to worry about when it came to the things that would mess up kids.

These days the rate of things like teen pregnancy, smoking, drinking and drugs have fallen off a cliff. But they've been replaced with phones, screens, social media and video games, all of which are potentially addictive.

David Gillespie knows exactly how we get addicted to these devices and why the addiction looks different in men and women. He joins Mia to talk about what’s happening to our teens and what we can do about it...

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest David Gillespie

You can purchase David's new book here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/teen-brain-david-gillespie/prod9781760559465.html

Listen to David's last episode of No Filter here: https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/no-filter/david-gillespie-knows-how-to-spot-a-psychopath/

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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Julie Bishop hasn’t been a private citizen for 20 years. But a few hours after this interview was recorded, that changed. An election was called and Julie's position as the Member for Curtain came to an end.

She’s been present for some of the ugliest moments in politics, both in Canberra and around the world.  And she's dealt with it all with her signature class and style.

She’s also always towed the party line.  But now she can say whatever she wants and she joins Mia to do just that...

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Julie Bishop

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Listen to The Quicky episode Mia mentions here: https://omny.fm/shows/the-quicky/does-the-australian-liberal-party-have-a-women-pro 

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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Turia Pitt has been through an enormous amount in her 31 years.

She was an engineer and ultra-marathon runner when she was caught in a bushfire in 2011. She's recovered from having 70% of her body burnt, learnt to walk again, written 3 books, got engaged to her long-term partner Michael, raised millions for charity and given birth to her baby boy Hukavai. Now Turia's latest book is a gift to young women about how to maintain your self-esteem in an Instagram-obsessed comparison culture 

Four years after her first No Filter interview, she joins Mia to talk about how her life has changed.

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Turia Pitt https://www.turiapitt.com/ 

Find her book Good Selfie at any good bookstore or at apple.co/mamamia

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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The first time Bec Rosen met Hamish McLaren she thought he was a bit of a tosser.  Bec was a single mum who had just ended a bad marriage and, along with her three young sons, she’d moved to Blueys Beach on the NSW North Coast. Bec’s family were in the early stages of rebuilding their lives when Hamish appeared and made himself indispensable.  So indispensable in fact, that Bec and Hamish got married in 2011.

And that was when Bec started to uncover the extraordinary lies her husband had told and the twisted secrets he was keeping from her and her boys.

If you've listened to the podcast Who the hell is Hamish? You already know a bit about Hamish McLaren...or Hamish Watson...or any of the other names he used.  But you haven't heard all of Bec's story.  Until now...

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guests Bec Rosen

To hear more of Bec's story listen to Who The Hell Is Hamish by The Australian https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/who-the-hell-is-hamish/id1451470931?mt=2 

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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Mandy Nolan has five kids to three different dads. Two of them she married and one was her defacto partner for many years.

This is a woman who knows a lot about blending a family. And blending it again in a different way. And then again.

The thing with blending though is that once you mix lives together, you can’t un-blend them. Once connected, the bonds Mandy and five kids have with all of their fathers and father figures are there for life in different ways.

Mandy is the host of our new podcast about surviving separation and divorce….it’s called The Split and she sat down with Mia to talk about how to have a good breakup and how she manages to juggle the relationships she has with all her children’s fathers...

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Mandy Nolan

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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This episode was made possible by Westpac.

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