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If you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories, make sure you pop on over and follow us on your podcast app of choice! Here we are on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and even in full video on YouTube (wow!).
About the episode:
Pia Miranda and Janine Allis went onto Australian Survivor with very different plans: Pia was determined to win, while Janine was looking for an adventure. Neither expected to find a lifelong best friend along the way.
After spending around 50 days together without phones, TV or the usual comforts of life, the pair formed an extraordinary bond; one built on humour, honesty, and complete trust.
Now, seven years after Survivor, Pia and Janine join Tiffany Dunk to talk about the friendship that changed how they see themselves, why they believe true friends should make you the best version of yourself, and how they stay close despite living in different states and having very different lives.
They also reveal their friendship's love language, their hilarious holiday rituals, why their husbands have accepted that they're basically each other's "wives", and the advice they'd give anyone trying to make meaningful friendships later in life.
Plus, Pia talks about her new ABC cooking show Recipe of the Year with Adam Liaw, the TV project she and Janine are developing together, and why they're both exploring spirituality and self-growth.
Moments you’ll hear:
You can find out more about Recipe of the Year, the new ABC cooking series with Pia Miranda and Adam Liaw here.
Thank you for listening ❤️
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What did you think? We are a brand-new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media please tag us, we're @womensweeklymag, and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at www.womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Credits
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Leah Porges
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories, make sure you pop on over and follow us on your podcast app of choice! Here we are on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and even in full video on YouTube (wow!).
About the episode:
Tegan Higginbotham and Paul Verhoeven's love story began with a very unusual first date: a lingerie football game, followed by a birthday party and their first kiss outside a drag bar.
Now married, the comedy creators join Tiffany Dunk to talk about their Paris wedding, the proposal almost derailed by a Cornish pasty, the ducks that interrupted their ceremony, and how they navigate working together on Stan's new comedy series, Gnomes.
They also share what they've learned about love, laughter, communication, and keeping a relationship strong through the highs and lows of two careers in entertainment.
Moments you’ll hear:
You can find out more about Gnomes, the new Stan Original comedy series written by Tegan Higginbotham and Paul Verhoeven, here.
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand-new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media please tag us, we're @womensweeklymag, and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at www.womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Credits
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Phoebe Zukowski-Wallace
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories, make sure you pop on over and follow us on your podcast app of choice! Here we are on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and even in full video on YouTube (wow!).
About the episode:
Shaun Micallef admits he approached fatherhood much like an IKEA flatpack: without reading the instructions.
Now his middle son Gabe is 26, and the pair have become colleagues, co-hosting Network 10’s Shaun Micallef’s Parents Evening, a game show that tests just how well parents and their adult children really know each other.
In this episode, Shaun and Gabe sit down with Tiffany Dunk to talk about what Gabe inherited from his dad, growing up with one of Australia’s best-known comedians and how their relationship has changed now that they’re both adults.
Plus, they reveal how the homemade movies they made together when Gabe was a child may have laid the groundwork for them eventually ending up on television together.
Moments you’ll hear:
Watch Shaun Micallef’s Parents Evening on Network 10 and 10 Play.
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand-new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media please tag us, we're @womensweeklymag, and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at www.womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Sending thanks to our partners at Wounded Heroes.
You can help Wounded Heroes deliver emergency assistance to current Australian Defence Force members, veterans and their families by donating at: www.woundedheroes.org.au/actsofservice
Credits
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Leah Porges
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories, make sure you pop on over and follow us on your podcast app of choice! Here we are on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and even in full video on YouTube (wow!).
About the episode:
Brooke McClymont rode her bike past Adam Eckersley 's house every morning on the way to school in Grafton. Most mornings he'd yell out that he was going to marry her one day. She'd yell back "in your dreams, mullet head."
Ten years later they ran into each other at the pub at Christmas. Adam was living in his van at Merewether Beach. Brooke had a record deal. They sat up all night over cabanossi and brie and eventually worked out that they were more than friends. Then they signed a six-month lease in case it didn't work. That was 18 years ago.
In this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories, the country music couple talk to Tiffany Dunk about making a marriage work in an industry that pulls people apart: the three-week rule for time on the road, the morning shift Adam took for years so Brooke could sleep, and the six weeks he spent alone with two kids in lockdown while Brooke was on I'm a Celebrity.
They also go to the hard places. The COVID year when they were about to lose the farm, and the idea that saved it. The month Adam stopped getting out of the ute to play with his daughter at the bus stop, and what that told him. And the night he asked Brooke to book him in to talk to someone, because he knew he'd turn up if she did.
Their third album Souls on Show is out now, and one track, 'In and Out of Love', is the closest thing they have to a marriage manifesto: stay together while you fall in and out of it. Two decades on, Adam still says Brooke has the best female voice in Australia, and she still says he's the best songwriter she's ever written with.
Buy Souls on Show or book tickets to their show here
Email [email protected] with your date and accommodation preference to book Hang at the Wang
Sending thanks to our partners at Wounded Heroes Australia.
You can help Wounded Heroes deliver emergency assistance to current Australian Defence Force members, veterans and their families by donating at: www.woundedheroes.org.au/actsofservice
Moments you’ll hear:
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand-new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media please tag us, we're @womensweeklymag, and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at www.womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Credits
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Phoebe Zukowski-Wallace
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We hope you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories...
Jim Rogers met his wife Lorna in a small English town. The two connected over a shared obsession with VW Beetles. They married, had three children, and moved to Perth chasing sunshine. Life was good until Lorna was diagnosed with melanoma and tragically died within a few years, leaving Jim a single father to three children under nine.
Eighteen months later, his parents sent him on a holiday he didn't want to go on. There, he met a man named Tyler. What followed was a relationship neither of them expected, kept quietly in the background of family life for years, and one that's now lasted 26 years.
In this episode, Jim and Millie sit down with Tiffany Dunk to talk about the process of writing Jim's memoir together: the hardest parts to put into words, what it was like for Millie to hear new stories about her mum and her dad's early relationship with Tyler, and Jim's more recent diagnosis of young-onset Alzheimer's, which he's chosen to speak about publicly rather than hide.
Plus, Jim talks about the podcast he co-hosts with Hamish MacDonald, Hold the Moment, and what he hopes it can do to de-stigmatise Alzheimer's and help people with the diagnosis feel less alone.
Moments you’ll hear:
Photo Credit: Rob Palmer
You can listen to Jim’s podcast, Hold The Moment, here.
Find Jim & Millie’s book, Holding on to Happiness, here.
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand-new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media please tag us, we're @womensweeklymag, and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Sending thanks to our partners at Wounded Heroes.
You can help Wounded Heroes deliver emergency assistance to current Australian Defence Force members, veterans and their families by donating at: www.woundedheroes.org.au/actsofservice
Credits
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Leah Porges
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We hope you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories...
Content Warning: This episode discusses suicide, mental health issues, grief and the loss of a parent and child to illness. If you or someone you know has been affected by any of the issues raised, help is always available. Call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Find more support services here: Need help? Support services and crisis helplines in Australia - The Australian Women's Weekly
In 2009, Gavin Larkin sat his wife Maryanne and their closest friends down at the dinner table and told them about an idea he'd been carrying since his own father died by suicide years earlier. It was a simple question that could change everything: "Are you okay?"
Allison "Ally" Langdon, a journalist and friend who was part of that conversation, knew instantly she had to help get the message out. What followed was R U OK? Day which has since grown into a national movement. But what followed was something that neither Ally nor Maryanne could have imagined.
In this episode, Ally and Maryanne sit down with Tiffany Dunk to talk about the early, uncomfortable days of getting a newsroom to even say the word "suicide," what it actually looked like for Ally to show up for her friend in the hardest years of her life, and the quiet, everyday ways two women have held a friendship together, and a legacy alive, for close to two decades.
Moments you'll hear:
Visit the R U OK? Day website here.
Learn more about Ally and Maryanne's friendship in our exclusive interview here
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand-new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media please tag us, we're @womensweeklymag, and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at www.womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Our special thanks to our partners at Vixin
Vixin real results, simple skincare that's a little bit fancy: vixin.com.au
Use the code LOVESTORIES for 30% off your order at Vixin now!
Sending thanks to our partners at Wounded Heroes.
You can help Wounded Heroes deliver emergency assistance to current Australian Defence Force members, veterans and their families by donating at: www.woundedheroes.org.au/actsofservice
Credits
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Phoebe Zukowski-Wallace
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We hope you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories:
Ed Kavalee still remembers the exact moment he fell for his wife, and it happened on his TV screen, watching her compete as Angel on Gladiators.
In this episode, Tiff Hall and Ed Kavalee sit down with Tiffany Dunk (or podcast Tiff as Ed calls her) to talk about how a TV crush turned into an 18-year love story, including the radio interview Ed engineered just to meet her, the moment he got cold feet six months in, and the blender that won her back.
They also open up about becoming parents, Ed's own childhood without a father in the picture, and how that's shaped the kind of dad he wants to be. Plus, Tiff talks candidly about rebuilding her relationship with her body after having kids, and why she built a business helping other women do the same.
Moments you’ll hear:
Find out more about Tiff’s self-defence classes here.
Check out Tiff's work with 28 by Sam Wood here.
Find Tiff Hall on Instagram here.
Keep up with Ed Kavalee on Instagram here.
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at www.womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media, please tag us @womensweeklymag and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at www.womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Our special thanks to our partners at Vixin
Vixin: real results, simple skincare that's a little bit fancy: vixin.com.au
Use the code LOVESTORIES for 30% off your order at Vixin now!
Sending thanks to our partners at Wounded Heroes.
You can help Wounded Heroes deliver emergency assistance to current Australian Defence Force members, veterans and their families by donating at: www.woundedheroes.org.au/actsofservice
Credits:
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Leah Porges
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We hope you enjoy this episode of The Australian Women's Weekly Love Stories:
Before Big Little Lies became a global phenomenon, Liane and Jaclyn Moriarty were just two sisters filling exercise books for pocket money, dreaming of becoming writers.
In this episode, Liane and Jaclyn sit down with Tiffany Dunk to talk about the family that shaped them: a mother who fostered more than 50 babies, a father who paid them to write, and the safety of growing up as two of six kids who loved books more than television.
They open up about the year Jaclyn was published first, the private rage Liane admits she felt, and what it took for her to finally sit down and write her own first novel.
Plus, they reflect on the whirlwind of Big Little Lies becoming a Hollywood sensation, the sequel Big Little Truths, writing a role for Meryl Streep, and Jaclyn's newest release, Time Travel for Beginners.
Moments you’ll hear:
Check out Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty here.
Find Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty here.
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Love Stories community and visit us at www.womensweekly.com.au
Email us your love stories (and any feedback) at [email protected]
If you share your love story on social media, please tag us @womensweeklymag and use the hashtag #AWWLoveStories
Subscribe to The Australian Women's Weekly at www.womensweekly.com.au 👈🏽
Our special thanks to our partners at Vixin
Vixin: real results, simple skincare that's a little bit fancy: vixin.com.au
Use the code LOVESTORIES for 30% off your order at Vixin now!
Sending thanks to our partners at Wounded Heroes.
You can help Wounded Heroes deliver emergency assistance to current Australian Defence Force members, veterans and their families by donating at: www.woundedheroes.org.au/actsofservice
Credits:
Host: Tiffany Dunk
Edited by Phoebe Zukowski-Wallace
Production by Leah Porges
Our wonderful The Australian Women's Weekly team
Our Head of Vodcasting is Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Australian Women's Weekly website
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode description: Life may be cancelled but Netflix is not! Here is a monster list of must-see movies that we think you need to see if you haven’t already or need to revisit for some cosy, lovely Easter movie watching times.
Rate, review, subscribe and we’ll give you a shout out next episode!
Also follow us on Insta and slip into our DMs here: @realtalkwithhollyandali OR here: @aliwhittle_ AND here: @hollynrichards
NOTES FOR THOSE PLAYING AT HOME
The 8 Harry Potter films
The Godfather trilogy
Check out Marlon Brando when he was hot here https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/remembering-marlon-brando-by-jack-nicholson-187366/
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Toy Story series
Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The hot guy from The Newsroom Ali is talking about https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755603/
The hot guy from The Newsroom Holly is talking about https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0302330/
Pretty Woman
Stand By Me
Now and Then
Casper
Check out the hot real-life Casper Devon Sawa here https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001701/
Titanic
Good Will Hunting
Spirited Away
Sixteen Candles
Cruel Intentions
Any Disney movie
La La Land
Forrest Gump
Check out Tom Hanks on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/tomhanks/?hl=en
Castaway
Philadelphia
Big
Splash
Jack
Patch Adams
Jumanji
The Departed
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler’s List
The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Almost Famous
Call Me By Your Name
Blue Is The Warmest Colour
The Great Beauty (la ˈɡrande belˈlettsa)
The Breakfast Club
Read a list of John Hughes films here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughes_(filmmaker)#Filmography
Read a list of Nora Ephron films here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Ephron#Feature_films
Read a list of Nancy Meyers films here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Meyers#Filmography
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Notting Hill
Knocked Up
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Well, we know you're spending more time on the Internet, and it's easy to get lost in the abyss. So, we've compiled a list of some of the people you need to be following on Youtube, Tik Tok and Instagram. PLUS we explain exactly what TikTok is and how to get the most out of it for those not yet in the know.
Rate, review, subscribe and we'll give you a shout out next episode!
Also follow us on Insta and slip into our DMs here: @realtalkwithhollyandali OR here: @aliwhittle_ AND here: @hollynrichards
NOTES FOR THOSE PLAYING AT HOME
Listen to our previous episodes from the corona special eps here https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/special-the-most-bingeable-tv-series-of-all-time/id1440447506?i=1000468941020 and here https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-hottest-new-books-you-have-to-read-during-lockdown/id1440447506?i=1000469667056
Follow Emma Chamberlain on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC78cxCAcp7JfQPgKxYdyGrg, TikTok here https://www.tiktok.com/@emmachamberlain?lang=en and Insta here https://www.instagram.com/emmachamberlain/?hl=en
Follow Riverdale star KJ Apa on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/kjapa/?hl=en
James Charles YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCucot-Zp428OwkyRm2I7v2Q
The Dolan twins https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDolanTwins
Eps when we discussed James Charles
Jeffree Star https://www.youtube.com/user/jeffreestar
Shane Dawson https://www.youtube.com/user/shane
Tana Mongeau https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClWD8su9Sk6GzZDwy9zs3_w
Claudia Sulewski https://www.youtube.com/user/BeyondBeautyStar
Finneas on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/finneas/?hl=en
Billy Eilish on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billieeilish/?hl=en
Estee LaLonde https://www.youtube.com/user/essiebutton
Vogue
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From the publisher's feed
This is the pop culture podcast that says exactly what you're thinking but too afraid to say.
Hosted by millennial entertainment journalists Holly Richards and Ali Cromarty, Real Talk picks apart the things everyone is talking about, and sometimes, the gals will tickle your pickle with something out of left field.
Holly and Ali are best friends in work/life who have their finger on the pop culture pulse and boy do they love to talk. They know this stuff inside and out and even if they didn't, they're never shy of giving an opinion or seven. No issue is too small, big or untouchable. Every week, Holly and Ali go deep on the latest celebrity goings on, reality TV highs and lows, who you need to follow on Instagram or what you need to be watching on Netflix.
So, in short, listen if you like fun.

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