TEA WITH JULES

Welcome to the first Current Life Edit, a brand new kind of episode where Jules and her manager and friend Lisa Johnston pull back the curtain on exactly what's going on in their lives, in real time. No guest, no script, just a handful of honest questions and wherever the answers take them. It's the kind of unfiltered, feet up chat you have with your best mate, and it might all change by next week.

In this first edit, the girls get into what's actually giving them energy right now (sunshine, pools and saunas for Jules, a secret sugar free Red Bull for Lisa), and what's quietly draining them, from the dreaded ten o'clock "what's for dinner" text to a brain that feels like the spinning wheel of death that never lands on anything. They talk about the mental load of scheduling exercise, the chaos of signing the kids up for too many sports, and the generational rabbit hole that ends with Jules realising she's not actually a millennial.

There's a lot of laughing, a little existential spiralling, a surprising new love of watching footy ahead of the grand final, and a genuinely lovely thread about wanting more time, more books and more hours to help other people.

Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.

00:00 — Welcome to Current Life Edit: Life in Real Time

00:54 — What's Giving Us Energy: Sunshine, Pools and Saunas

02:42 — Lisa's Confession: The Secret Sugar Free Red Bull

05:46 — Holding On for Daylight Savings and Longer Days

06:41 — What's Draining Us: The 10am "What's For Dinner" Text

08:02 — The Spinning Wheel of Death: A Brain That Never Stops

09:50 — Are We Millennials? Jules' Generational Identity Crisis

12:57 — What's Taking Up Brain Space: The Battle to Schedule Exercise

13:50 — Too Many Sports: The Chaos We Sign Ourselves Up For

19:12 — What We Want More Of: Time, Books and Helping People

20:30 — Why Reading a Physical Book Still Beats Everything

23:20 — What We're Excited About: Becoming Sporty Gals

24:50 — Grand Final Fever and Childhood Footy Memories

27:00 — What We're Reading: Book Club That Isn't Really About Books

29:40 — What We're Watching: New Girl, Housewives and Sterling Point

35:50 — Wrapping Up the First Current Life Edit

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Television presenter, author, entrepreneur and mum of two Sally Obermeder returns to Tea with Jules, eleven years after her first visit. The day before she welcomed her daughter Annabel, Sally was diagnosed with aggressive stage 3 breast cancer, entering motherhood while facing chemotherapy, surgery and enormous uncertainty. What she built on the other side of that is a story of pure resilience.

In this warm, funny and genuinely useful chat, Sally and Jules talk about backing yourself when you feel completely ordinary, taking the leap before you can see the other side, and the quiet belief that if she can do it, you can too. Sally opens up with real honesty about the fear that she had used up all her good luck surviving cancer, running a business through a stressful name change (Swish is now Ziish), why the bigger a business gets the heavier the load, and the pressure social media puts on all of us to do everything at once. Then the girls get practical with Sally's no fuss wellness routine, before finishing on Real Housewives of Sydney, the lesson it unexpectedly taught her, and a beautiful reminder to put yourself back on the list.

Connect with Sally Obermeder and Ziish:

Website: ziish.com

Instagram: @sallyobermeder

Sally's "how to start" guide for anyone feeling overwhelmed by where to begin (from around the 33 minute mark):

• Start simple. Don't buy everything. Pick just one or two areas you struggle with most, usually energy, skin or sleep.
• Morning: A super greens shot to bridge the gap on the vegetables most of us don't eat, plus an NAD supplement for cellular energy.
• Through the day: Add collagen to your coffee or tea for skin.
• Night: Choose one, a sleep support if you need it, or hair and gut health support if you don't.
• Also worth it in your 40s: Creatine every day (women only need three to five grams, not the 20 grams the gym myths are based on), and getting your protein up, which is where an unflavoured protein you can add to any meal comes in.

00:00 — Welcome Back, Sally Obermeder: Eleven Years On

02:14 — The Intention: If She Can Do It, So Can You

04:43 — Finding Purpose, and Why Feeling Good Changes Everything

06:07 — Life Is a Rollercoaster, Not a Steady Climb

07:52 — The Skill of Backing Yourself and Taking the Leap

11:02 — Feeling Like She'd Used Up All Her Good Luck

14:33 — How Therapy Helped Her Let Go of the Story She Was Carrying

16:22 — Ambition, and Why the Goalposts Always Move

19:48 — Jumping From Lily Pad to Lily Pad: Running on Gut Instinct

22:40 — The Highlight Reel: Why Nobody Is Really "Killing It"

24:00 — Running a Business Is Like Being a Firefighter

27:40 — The Name Change, the Trademark Battle and the Bonfire of Cash

32:36 — Getting Practical: Where to Start With Wellness

33:58 — Sally's Simple Morning and Night Routine

37:20 — Creatine, Protein and the Myths Worth Debunking

42:20 — You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup: Putting Yourself in the Loop

45:41 — Real Housewives of Sydney: How It Came About

56:41 — On the Personal Brand Pressure and Simpler Social Media Days

57:57 — Complete This Sentence: Sally's Rapid Fire Round

01:03:58 — Sally's Pearl of Wisdom: You Are Enough

01:04:15 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Strap in for a good old fashioned catch up.

In this episode, Jules sits down with her manager, dear friend and fan favourite Lisa Johnston for one of their much loved life chats. No agenda, no big lessons, just two friends, a lot of banter and some very funny stories. Consider this your permission to feel completely normal about all the chaos of everyday life.

Spring has sprung, and with it comes the great return of leg shaving, a deep and important debate about waxing versus laser, and an unforgettable confession about the rogue chin hairs that arrive out of nowhere the moment you hit a certain age. It's the kind of honest, nobody says this out loud chat that makes you feel gloriously seen.

From there the girls get into Lisa's brave new era on the netball court, the uniform reality nobody warned her about.

This is a warm, silly, feel good episode about the small stuff that makes up a real life. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in for a laugh.

00:00 — Welcome Back, Lisa Johnston

00:40 — Spring Has Sprung, and So Has the Leg Shaving

01:18 — The Great Debate: Waxing vs Laser

02:33 — Let's Talk About the Rogue Chin Hairs

05:46 — Lisa's Brave New Era: Joining a Netball Team

08:24 — The Uniform Nobody Warned Her About

10:29 — The Marathon, the Runners and a Lot of Admiration

12:02 — Could We All Benefit From a Few Gels?

14:46 — The Saga Begins: The Case of the Missing Purse

18:43 — Then the Keys Went (And They Cost a Fortune)

21:02 — And Then the AirPods

24:30 — Losing Absolutely Everything: A Very Relatable Spiral

27:11 — Lisa Comes Bearing a Gift: The Notebook

28:40 — Writing It All Down, Every Single Day

32:40 — The Netball Grand Final Heartbreak

36:34 — On Sideline Yelling and Being the Scary Coach

38:53 — Coach Lisa: Adding It to the Bio

39:50 — Words to Live By: Don't Lose Stuff

40:34 — The Theme Park and the Car Keys

41:09 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liane Moriarty is one of Australia's most loved and successful authors, the brilliant mind behind Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Husband's Secret, and so many other stories that have captivated millions of readers around the world.

Her writing is funny, clever, sometimes dark, and always incredibly observant about the way we live, love and relate to one another. And now she's returning to the world of Big Little Lies with her new novel, Big Little Truths.

In this joyful and fascinating conversation, Jules, a self confessed book lover who treats authors like rock stars, sits down with Liane to go behind the curtain of one of the great writing careers. They begin with Liane's origin story, growing up the eldest of six, and the dad who paid her a dollar a book to write stories as a child, giving her her very first publishing deal. She shares the winding road through advertising and marketing, the sisterly rivalry that lit the spark, and how she finally came to write her first novel.

Liane is wonderfully candid about the craft itself, why she doesn't read her own genre, how she treats writing like a nine to five job, where her ideas actually come from, and the panic of having an idea that's a little too close to someone else's. Liane tells the story of Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon optioning Big Little Lies, what it was like to live with her characters as they came to life on screen, the strange experience of watching someone else interpret your work, and being bored on a set surrounded by Meryl Streep, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon.

Warm, funny and full of insight, this is a real treat for book lovers and storytellers alike. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.

Connect with Liane Moriarty:

Website: https://www.lianemoriarty.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lianemoriartyauthor/

00:00 — Introducing Liane Moriarty

00:44 — Like Having Beyoncé in the Chair: Jules the Super Fan

01:36 — The Origin Story: Eldest of Six and a Family of Storytellers

02:13 — The Dad Who Paid a Dollar a Book: Her First Publishing Deal

02:28 — Dead Man's Island and the Enid Blyton Influence

03:32 — The Winding Road Through Advertising and Marketing

04:14 — The Sister Who Published First, and the Spark It Lit

07:05 — Why She Doesn't Read Her Own Genre

08:14 — Treating Writing Like a Nine to Five Job

10:00 — Where the Ideas Actually Come From

12:35 — The Panic of an Idea That's a Little Too Close

13:55 — Plotting, Pantsing and Finding the Story

17:23 — The Balance of Light and Dark in Life and Fiction

19:01 — When Your Books Aren't for Everyone

19:39 — Writing So the Reader Feels Okay at the End

22:19 — The Introvert Who Observes Everything

25:41 — Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and the Call That Changed Everything

27:19 — "If We Option It, Get Excited"

28:37 — Living With Your Characters as They Come to Life on Screen

30:23 — When a Character Is Different on Screen Than on the Page

32:03 — Why Everyone Interprets a Book Differently

34:57 — Bored on Set With Meryl Streep, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon

37:02 — Big Little Truths: The Women Are Perimenopausal Now

38:03 — The Deeper Themes: Shame, Individuality and More

38:37 — So What Are the Truths Now?

41:57 — Why the Truth Is Always Changing

42:49 — Two Audiences: The Book Readers and the Show Watchers

49:04 — The Pressure of Success and the "What Does She Do Next" Feeling

51:26 — Why She's Simply Looking Forward to the Next Book

53:04 — Her One Profound Answer, and the Birthday Party Wisdom

56:19 — If She Could Tell Her Younger Self One Thing: Wear Sunscreen

57:32 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lisa Messenger is one of Australia's most recognisable entrepreneurs, best known for building The Collective Hub into a global media brand that inspired millions of people to think differently about business, creativity and taking risks.

But Lisa has never been someone to stand still. She has spent her career reinventing herself, and today that reinvention looks a little different. The Collective Hub has evolved into a digital community and app, she's become a passionate advocate for helping people embrace AI in practical ways, and she's continuing to challenge what modern entrepreneurship can look like. She's also, in her own words, living on a farm with 29 chickens, a three-year-old, and another baby on the way.

In this warm and wide-ranging conversation, Jules and Lisa talk about reinvention, motherhood, identity, AI and what it really means to build a life that evolves as you do. Lisa opens up with remarkable honesty about the rise and the reality of The Collective Hub, growing too fast, losing control, and the brave decision to let go of the thing everyone knew her for. She and Jules go deep on the identity question that follows, who are you when the thing that defined you falls away, and how you learn to hold your achievements a little more loosely.

This is an uplifting, honest and inspiring conversation about the courage to keep becoming who you're meant to be. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.

Connect with Lisa Messenger and The Collective Hub:

Website: https://collectivehub.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisamessenger/

The Collective Hub: https://www.instagram.com/collectivehub/

00:00 — Introducing Lisa Messenger

01:14 — Setting the Intention: Anything Is Possible

01:33 — The Pinup Girl for Doing It Anyway

02:33 — Farm Life, 29 Chickens and a Baby on the Way

02:47 — Why She Says No More Than She Says Yes

05:15 — The Queen of Reinvention

06:22 — Forty Books and a Life of Curiosity

07:52 — Writing Fiction: The Story of Jess and Justin

08:15 — What's Next: The New Book, Matchstick

11:07 — Where It Began: The Collective Hub Magazine

14:50 — Growing Too Fast and Losing Control

15:21 — The Systems and Processes She Never Had

19:27 — The Brave Decision to Let It Go

22:13 — Who Am I With All of That Stripped Away?

23:05 — Attaching Your Identity to the Thing You Built

25:26 — When Fewer People Want a Piece of You

27:44 — We Meet People at Different Stages of Their Lives

32:43 — The Collective Hub Reborn as a Community and App

34:42 — Live Sessions, AI Tools and a New Digital Age

37:55 — From Technologically Inept to AI Advocate

41:04 — Model the Greats: How She Teaches AI

42:53 — Her Simple Secret: Just Keep Asking

45:20 — Getting Productive and Protecting Her Time

46:41 — The Fertility Journey: Eight Years and 18 Rounds of IVF

47:57 — Surrogacy and Welcoming a Second Baby

48:55 — The Sweetest Question From Her Son

51:57 — Why Success Means Less to Her Now

53:45 — What She Wishes More Women Knew Before Chasing Success

54:46 — Reinventing Is Fun

55:19 — Barefoot, Giggling and Truly Happy

56:16 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Nici Sweaney is one of Australia's leading voices on artificial intelligence, but what makes her story so compelling isn't just her credentials. It's her mission to make AI accessible, practical and empowering, especially for women.

She understands AI from the inside out: the algorithms, the machine learning, the data, and the biases that shape the technology we're all beginning to rely on. In 2022, as generative AI emerged, Nici had a feeling the world was about to change. She famously woke her partner up in the middle of the night to say, this is going to change everything. She was right.

Since launching AI Her Way, she has built a multi-million dollar business while raising four children, working a four day week, and teaching thousands of women how to confidently embrace AI rather than fear it. She was named Australia's Female AI Leader of the Year, featured on the Forbes Women 2025 list, and recognised by Microsoft as one of the top AI entrepreneurs to watch. Earlier this year, when Reese Witherspoon encouraged millions of women to start learning about AI, she pointed people toward just a handful of experts, including Dr Nici Sweaney.

She's also refreshingly honest about the risks. Privacy and what you should never share, the emotional attachment trap, why these tools get things wrong, and the powerful conversations she has with her own children about how they use it. If AI has ever made you feel overwhelmed, behind or a little afraid, this is the conversation that changes everything. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.

Connect with Dr Nici Sweaney and AI Her Way:

Website: https://aiherway.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ai_herway/

00:00 — Introducing Dr Nici Sweaney

01:33 — Setting the Intention: Empowerment, Not Overwhelm

02:32 — Let's Talk About the Fear Around AI

04:33 — The Real Risk: Losing Our Creativity and Critical Thinking

05:13 — Why Fear Isn't an Excuse to Step Away

06:48 — Moving Fast: Don't Become an Early Lagger

09:29 — Why Women Need to Help Shape AI Right Now

13:04 — Bias, and Why These Tools Start to Represent Us

14:47 — Privacy: What You Should Never Share

15:44 — A Real Example: Using AI to Triage Your Inbox

18:53 — The Emotional Attachment Trap

19:17 — The Morning Her Five-Year-Old Ran In

23:03 — Kids and AI: The Rules She Has at Home

23:27 — The Exercise She Set Her Eleven-Year-Old

25:24 — Why Our Kids Will Need These Skills

29:30 — Think of AI Like an Intern

29:46 — Or a Puppy You Have to Train

28:37 — Why AI Gets Things Wrong, and How to Handle It

32:03 — AI as the Operating System for Your Life

37:01 — Where to Start: Just Pick One Task

37:30 — The Magic Prompt: Ask AI to Interview You

39:38 — Is It Supposed to Be This Hard?

40:43 — A Simple Example: Making Time for Lunch

43:25 — Custom GPTs and Getting AI to Read and Write for You

47:31 — Running a Multi-Million Dollar Business With Two People

48:40 — What Actually Is an AI Agent?

49:16 — The Difference Between an Assistant and an Agent

53:19 — How She Designs an Agent

57:40 — Why Creativity Is Becoming Less About Technical Skill

59:42 — The Place Only Humans Can Sit

01:02:37 — The Gift of Time, and Why She Lies Awake Grateful

01:04:23 — Her Biggest Fear if Women Don't Embrace AI

01:04:54 — How You Know AI Is Being Used Well

01:05:39 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tania Doko is the powerhouse voice behind Bachelor Girl, whose music has become part of the soundtrack to Australian life.

Tania and James Roche formed Bachelor Girl in 1992, and their debut album Waiting for the Day went double platinum and won the ARIA Award for Producer of the Year. It delivered Buses and Trains, a song that won APRA Song of the Year, sits in Australia's 100 Greatest Songs, and remains one of the most played Australian songs of the past 25 years.

Now Bachelor Girl are celebrating that iconic debut with a beautiful reimagined release, featuring Delta Goodrem, Jessica Mauboy, Darren Hayes, Tommy Emmanuel and, in a full circle moment for Jules, her husband Guy Sebastian. But this conversation goes far beyond fame and songwriting.

Jules, a self confessed super fan, sits down with Tania to talk about the woman behind the voice. They explore how Tania first discovered she could sing and the natural high she has chased ever since, her Greek heritage and unconventional path into music, and the story of how Buses and Trains, a song she never dreamed would be a hit, came to capture the imagination of a nation.

Connect with Tania Doko and Bachelor Girl:

Website: https://taniadoko.com/

Bachelor Girl: https://bachelorgirl.com/

00:00 — Introducing Tania Doko of Bachelor Girl

01:08 — Jules the Super Fan Has Her Moment

05:05 — Why Music Takes Us Back Like Nothing Else

08:38 — Greek Heritage and an Unconventional Path Into Music

12:55 — Discovering She Could Sing

14:16 — The Natural High of Singing That's Never Been Replaced

18:37 — Getting Signed by Two Major Labels

21:04 — Buses and Trains: The Universal Song That Captured a Nation

21:50 — Why She Never Thought It Would Be a Hit

24:35 — Writing Songs in a Cubby House

26:34 — Finding Success in Sweden and Scandinavia

28:30 — Protecting the Voice: The Reality of Your Instrument

35:56 — The Wedding Ring Story

38:49 — Facing Burnout

40:51 — The Brave Decision to Bring Bachelor Girl Back

42:59 — Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

44:25 — The Prison Gig That Moved Her to Tears

45:52 — A Songwriter's Dream: Hearing the Album Reimagined

50:06 — Going Into Hiding, and Coming Back Out

51:39 — You Are Afraid, Reimagined With Kaylee Bell

54:06 — Singing With Guy and the Full Circle Moment

55:21 — The Meaning Behind Permission to Shine

57:00 — The Most Adventurous Project of Her Career

59:43 — A Live Moment: Stare at Real Love

01:01:46 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Content note: this episode includes discussion of the Bondi tragedy and its aftermath. Please listen with care. If you need support, Lifeline is available 24/7 on 13 11 14.

Pip Edwards is one of Australia's most recognised entrepreneurs and creative leaders. Best known for co-founding P.E Nation, she helped redefine the way women think about activewear, building a global brand that blended fashion, performance and culture. But in this conversation, it is not just about business. It is about everything that happens behind the success.

Eleven years after her very first appearance on Tea with Jules, Pip returns for a conversation that goes far deeper than fashion. She and Jules talk about where her unwavering self belief really comes from, the show must go on mentality she inherited, and the years of hard situations the universe kept sending her way.

Pip is remarkably open about the identity and purpose crisis that came with stepping away from P.E Nation, the brand that literally carried her initials. She talks about how those initials began to haunt her, the therapy and surrender it took to let go, and why standing down from the thing you built can be the bravest move of all. She shares the story of her new venture, and her powerful decision to put her voice behind breaking the silence on menopause, a topic she has been talking about openly for years before the rest of the world caught up.

And she speaks, with extraordinary honesty and grace, about the day of the Bondi tragedy. How a friend rolled her under a van and shielded her. What it does to you to be that close to something so devastating. And the profound clarity that came after, about fear, purpose, her son, and what truly matters.

This is an honest conversation about ambition, identity, reinvention and building a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks from the outside. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.

Connect with Pip Edwards:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pip_edwards1/

Biolae: https://www.instagram.com/biolaehealth/

If this episode raised anything for you:

Lifeline — 13 11 14 (24/7) — https://www.lifeline.org.au

Beyond Blue — 1300 22 4636 — https://www.beyondblue.org.au

00:00 — Welcome Back, Pip Edwards

01:23 — Eleven Years On: The OG Tea with Jules Guest Returns

02:14 — What's in a Name: The Meaning Behind Pip

09:11 — Clothes as a Second Skin: Style, Confidence and Owning Who You Are

12:40 — Where Does the Self Belief Come From?

13:27 — The Show Must Go On: High Standards and How She Was Raised

15:14 — Through the Hard Years, and What They Taught Her

20:00 — Building It Alone: Motherhood and Providing

22:40 — When the Initials Started to Haunt Her

25:01 — Letting Go of P.E Nation, the Brand That Was Her Baby

26:21 — The Yes Girl Who Never Learned Balance

31:13 — Add a Little Menopause to the Mix

32:33 — The Identity and Purpose Crisis

33:52 — Therapy, Surrender and Learning to Let Go

36:04 — Why Standing Down Can Be the Bravest Thing

37:45 — A New Venture and a New Chapter

39:13 — Breaking the Silence on Menopause

41:01 — The Symptoms, the Trial and Error, the Truth

45:46 — Putting Her Voice Behind the Cause

48:18 — The Day of the Bondi Tragedy

50:17 — The Friend Who Shielded Her

52:13 — Being Able to Talk About It, Through the Work

57:04 — Acceptance, and What Really Matters

58:15 — Skiing, and Crying Because She Was Alive

01:00:32 — When Her Son Came Home

01:04:45 — The Biggest Risk She Ever Took

01:06:09 — Self-Care Isn't a Joke

01:08:38 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emily Skye is one of Australia's most recognisable voices in fitness and wellbeing, but her story is about so much more than exercise.

In this warm and honest conversation, Jules sits down with Emily to talk about what really sits beneath a life that looks strong from the outside. Emily opens up about growing up as an insecure, shy girl who couldn't cope with the everyday, her later ADHD and autism diagnoses, and the years she spent chasing love and acceptance in all the wrong places before discovering that movement made her feel, in her words, like a superhero.

Emily is refreshingly real about the thing so many of us get stuck on: seeking validation from other people. Her message is simple and hard won. You cannot get worth from outside yourself. It doesn't work. Take it from her.

Together, Jules and Emily explore why feeling good matters more than looking good, how to build movement into a busy life without the guilt, and why you have to put yourself first before you can show up for everyone else. They talk about the pressure women carry, navigating hormones and menopause, the power of strength training as we age, gut health, and learning to speak to yourself the way you'd speak to your own child.

This is a conversation about confidence, self-worth and being kind to yourself in a world that constantly tells you you're not doing enough. You are. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in.

Connect with Emily Skye:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyskyefit/

Website: https://emilyskyefit.com/

00:00 — Welcome, Emily Skye

01:21 — Her Intention: You're Not Alone, and You're Not Failing

02:03 — The Shy, Insecure Girl Who Couldn't Cope

02:52 — Understanding It Now: ADHD and Autism

05:37 — Finding Fitness and Feeling Like a Superhero

07:12 — Sharing It With the World, and Chasing the Wrong Things

12:56 — The Hard Truth: Validation From Others Doesn't Work

16:05 — Why How You Feel Inside Has to Come First

17:39 — Don't Overthink It, Just Move

19:54 — You Never Regret Exercising

21:22 — Building the Habit and Setting Yourself Up to Win

22:02 — Put Your Own Oxygen Mask on First

25:09 — Feeling Good Beats Looking Good

27:06 — Hormones, Menopause and a Changing Body

29:52 — Releasing the Pressure: Why Do I Need To?

32:47 — The Postpartum Moment That Changed Everything

33:37 — Protect Your Peace: Removing the Triggers

36:26 — Am I a Good Mum? The Questions We All Ask

38:30 — Why Strength Training Is Gold as We Age

43:30 — Gut Health and the Food That Fuels You

50:52 — Back to Basics: Keep It Simple

54:09 — Talk to Yourself the Way You'd Talk to Your Child

55:48 — Letting Go of People Pleasing

57:17 — Feeling Strongest When You Show Up for Yourself

01:00:04 — The Never-Ending To-Do List

01:00:38 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

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Content warning: This episode includes an honest discussion of depression and suicidal thoughts. Please listen with care. If you or someone you know needs support, Lifeline is available 24/7 on 13 11 14.

He's called Dr Happy. And he's lived with depression for most of his adult life.

In this genuinely profound conversation, Jules sits down with Dr Tim Sharp, clinical and coaching psychologist, founder of The Happiness Institute, best selling author and one of Australia's leading voices in positive psychology. But as Jules discovers, the power of Tim's story isn't the title. It's everything sitting behind it.

Tim built an entire career around happiness while privately battling severe depression and suicidal thoughts, and spending years believing he wasn't good enough, smart enough or worthy enough. His honesty about that gap between the public persona and the private reality is what makes this episode land so deeply.

Together, Jules and Tim unpack what happiness actually is, and why most of us have been chasing the wrong version of it. Tim explains why you're not supposed to feel good all the time, why negative emotions aren't the enemy, and why the pressure to be happy every minute of every day is quietly making us miserable. He shares the simple daily practices that genuinely move the needle, the beauty of finding joy in the mundane school run and the everyday moments, and a powerful approach to sitting with difficult feelings instead of running from them.

His final pearl of wisdom is simple, and Jules says she's printing it out for every wall in her house. Love yourself. Love others. Love the world.

This is one of those conversations that might just change what you're really searching for. Pour yourself a cup of tea, and settle in.

Connect with Dr Tim Sharp (Dr Happy):

Website: https://drhappy.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehappinessinstitute/

If this episode raised anything for you:

Lifeline — 13 11 14 (24/7) — https://www.lifeline.org.au

Beyond Blue — 1300 22 4636 — https://www.beyondblue.org.au

00:00 — Introducing Dr Tim Sharp, Australia's Dr Happy

02:27 — Setting the Intention: If This Helps Just One Person

03:20 — What Is Happiness, Really? Why We've Got It Wrong

04:32 — Positive and Negative Emotions: Why None of Them Are Bad

08:47 — The Three to One Ratio, and Why It's Not About the Numbers

09:46 — The Power of Gratitude: Noticing What We Overlook

10:45 — Finding Joy in the Mundane: The School Run and the Everyday

13:14 — Why Do We Feel We Need to Be Excited All the Time?

14:33 — Learning to Sit With Your Own Thoughts

15:22 — Lost and Found: The Story Behind Tim's Latest Book

17:46 — The Beauty of Getting Lost, and Why Failure Is Part of the Path

21:52 — Don't Think About White Polar Bears: Why Fighting Thoughts Fails

24:34 — The RAIN Method: A Practical Way to Handle Hard Emotions

29:21 — The Hardest Part: Tim on Living With Depression

32:04 — The Turning Point That Changed Everything

35:22 — Why We Hit Our Forties and Realise We Need to Reassess

38:07 — Chasing Success, Nice Things, and What Actually Fulfils Us

40:27 — Fifty Years of Research, One Answer: Other People Matter

42:30 — A Practical Happiness Check-In You Can Do Today

43:17 — Are You Choosing Happiness? The Daily Question That Matters

47:20 — Dr Tim's Pearl of Wisdom: Love Yourself, Love Others, Love the World

47:46 — Wrapping Up Tea with Jules

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Credits

Produced by ME Entertainment

Producers: @lisajohnston_, @julessebastian, @Eggoau

Sound Engineer, Video, Editor & Music: Mathew Eggleston – @Eggoau

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