Tea With Alice

Sami Shah returns to Tea With Alice to talk about multitasking, sense of self and the arguments he's having now.

Find Sami online @samishah on twitter

A behind the scenes peep at a Q and A during one of my recent Tea With Alice Salon - I only recorded my side of the convo this time, so let me know what you think.

My glamorous powerhouse cousin Lara Fraser came and sat with me over green tea to talk about online persona, instagram activism, plastic surgery, the gender politics of music production and her new international collaboration.

Find Lara on instagram etc at @djlarafraser and find her new song "In This World" with Shingai on Spotify and other music places.

Boo Dwyer spoke to me during her quarantine period about life, fulfilment, achievement, deciding whether you've 'done enough' and what that means. Loneliness, nurturing, her open door policy and not being THAT mature age student.

Jackie Kashian is a road comic, a brilliant nerd and an all round powerhouse of thoughtfulness. We talked about the road, cartwheels, the art of conversation, online dating, the stupidity of rationality and romance novels. It was a gorgeous conversation and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as i enjoyed having it.

Catherine Jones is a specialist chest radiologist and writer, living in Queensland. We talked about the differences between practical and research based help, the place of doctors and the piece she wrote for a recently published anthology.

Alice Fraser talks to a wall about fears and revelations, the function and effectiveness of advertising, half baked ideas and self.

Richard Makim on his little experimental farm, soil regeneration and saving the world, piece by practical piece.

George Dimarelos on class, communism, argumentation and emotion. Find George on social media at @georgewhatup

Hugh Mackay is a family friend, he's also the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Mackay Report 1979-2003, which later became The Ipsos Mackay Report. He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He was a weekly newspaper columnist for 25 years and is generally a social commentator and extremely thoughtful guy. I really enjoyed having the opporunity to chat with him, as he releases a pair of books together, both about love.

We had a fascinating and wide ranging chat that covered duty, society, love, age, kindness and perspective. I hope you enjoy listening to it!

You can find his books and website here: hughmackay.net.au