No Filter

When Gabbie Stroud shut the door on her primary school classroom in 2014, she knew that she was leaving teaching forever. Between the growing curriculum, demanding parents and standardised tests like Naplan, Gabbie had begun to see her role not as a teacher, but as a data analyst.

Now Gabbie has written a memoir, Teacher, which tells her story: How she came to teaching, what our kids need from their teachers - and what finally broke her.

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Gabbie Stroud.

Buy her book Teacher here. Or at apple.co/mamamia.

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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The day your life turns upside down usually starts like any other. It’s ordinary, it’s normal. And then, life smacks you in the head and everything changes in an instant.

Leigh Sales has spent many years interviewing people whose lives have changed suddenly and tragically and, she's had a few of those days herself. In her new book, An Ordinary Day, she speaks candidly with people who’ve faced the unimaginable. 

So what happens when everything that could go wrong, does go wrong? And how have these conversations shaped the way she deals with her own personal tragedies?

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Leigh Sales.

Buy her book Any Ordinary Day, here. Or at apple.co/mamamia.

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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Serena Williams is one of the greatest athletes of all time. But in the 48 hours before Mia was due to sit down with her, the US Open happened, and Serena Williams was all over the news for all the wrong reasons.

So we waited for her to cancel. But she didn’t. Instead, Serena Williams did what working women and working mothers do, she got on with it. She sucked up her personal feelings and met her commitments.

In this very candid conversation with Mia, Serena talks about the first thing she did when she got off the court at the US Open, her involvement in the new Berlei breast cancer campaign - and the fact that she sings - and life with her one-year-old daughter, Olympia.

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Serena Williams.

Buy the Berlei "Chrissy" Bra here. All profits will go to Breast Cancer Network Australia.

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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It’s hard not to fangirl over Olivia Newton-John. She's Sandy from Grease! 

69-year-old Olivia has had some incredible highs in her life and some crushing lows. She’s had breast cancer, lost her beloved sister, miscarried, been divorced and her former partner disappeared in mysterious circumstances.

But she’s also had an incredible career, a beautiful daughter and a life full of laughter,  love and adventure.

Olivia has turned 70 and while her cancer has returned for the third time, she’s optimistic about the future...

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Olivia Newton John.

Buy her book Don't Stop Believin at apple.co/mamamia

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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After the fall out from the US Open, Mia Freedman sat down with Serena Williams to talk about what it's like when the world's eyes are on you, how her daughter Olympia comforted her when she got off the court and how motherhood has changed her. 

This is a sneak peek of the interview. 

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Serena Williams.

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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On the last episode of No Filter, you heard from Mary Pershall whose daughter Anna, murdered the man she was living with during a descent into mental illness and drug addiction.

One of the aspects of Anna’s story that gripped the nation was that at the time she committed the crime she was 18 weeks pregnant.

So what happened to Anna’s baby?  

Her sister Katie stepped in and took on the role of parent and this is Katie's story...

CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Katie Horneshaw and Mary K. Pershall.

Buy her book Gorgeous Girl here or at apple.co/mamamia

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

Next week, Mia speaks to Olivia Newton John.

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What do you do when you receive a phone call saying that your daughter has murdered someone?

Mary Pershall spent 28 years trying to shield her youngest daughter Anna from her demons. First, it was anorexia, then other mental health issues and later drug use including marijuana and ice.

But one act of rage in 2015 changed the course of Anna and her mother's life forever.

So how do you deal with the fact your daughter is a murderer?

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Mary K. Pershall.

Buy her book Gorgeous Girl here or at apple.co/mamamia

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

Next week, Mia speaks to Mary's other daughter Katie. 

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This podcast will deal extensively with the subject of rape and won't be appropriate for all listeners. If this podcast does bring anything up for you then please call 1800 RESPECT.

When people think of feminism, they think of Germaine Greer. Her manifesto The Female Eunuch was released in 1970 and is still shaping conversations 48 years later.

But what happens when an icon - whose job it is to be provocative - exists in a culture of outrage?

Most recently, the release of her Melbourne University press book On Rape has led to an onslaught of headlines condemning her brand of feminism and questioning her relevance in 2018. And she joins Mamamia Out Loud co-host Jessie Stephens to talk about it in this very special episode...

The Links

Buy Germaine's book On Rape here or at apple.co/mamamia

This episode was produced by Elissa Ratliff and Jessie Stephens. 

 

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Moana Hope is the breakthrough superstar of the AFL women’s competition, kicking goals first for Collingwood and now North Melbourne.

But funnily enough, sport is probably the least interesting about Moana. She’s one of 14 kids and quit school at the age of 10 to take care of her dying father. At 26 she became the sole carer for her disabled sister Lavinia. She also runs her own company and wants to have a big family with her girlfriend Isabella Carlstrom.

So how does she manage it all? In this candid conversation, Moana Hope opens up to Mia about everything….

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Moana Hope

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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"Aw, are you having a boy or a girl?"

It's what every parent-to-be is asked as soon as the lines appear on the pee stick. But Kyl Myers and her partner Brent are two of a growing number of parents who refused to answer that question and made the choice to raise their child as "gender creative". Kyl and Brent have never publicly disclosed the biological sex of their child Zoomer, and they don’t use the pronouns 'he' or 'she'. They intend to let Zoomer decide on what gender to identify as, if any, as they grow.

So what’s it like raising a gender creative child? Why choose to do it? And what happens next?

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CREDITS:

Host: Mia Freedman 

With thanks to special guest Kyl Myers.

Follow the Raising Zoomer Instagram account here.

Read more about gender creative parenting on raisingzoomer.com

Producer: Elissa Ratliff

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