This episode is a little bit special — not only because it’s a Yeah The Gals first, but because today’s guest isn’t a gal... he’s my brother! 🧡
A big old Yeah The Bros welcome to the incredible Andrew Cooney!

There are so many reasons I love and admire this guy, but above all, Andrew is one of the best listeners I know. He’s my sounding board, my constant source of pearls of wisdom, and the person whose unconditional support has gotten me through countless moments in my adult life.

From the moment he picked up a camera at 13 (and honestly, probably even earlier), Andrew has been a creator through and through. Over the years, he has:

• Worked in photography and videography

• Owned multiple businesses

• Launched several podcasts

• Built a career in marketing

• And most recently, launched his own podcasting agency, Think Loud 🎙️

  
  

What makes Andrew even more special is his relentless curiosity for personal growth. He’s always leaned into what he calls an unconventional path to self-mastery — a deep thinker who isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo when it comes to self-discovery.

We set up a couple of mics on the front lawn of our parents' property (a place full of special memories for both of us) and had an open and honest chat about:

• His creative career journey

• Knowing when it’s time to move on professionally

• Finding the right tools in an overwhelming personal development space

• His '30 Days of Growth' vlog project

• Why empathy, listening, and creativity are his true superpowers

  
  

Andrew is the voice you didn’t know you needed — a true empath and someone who genuinely loves helping people, whether through his creative talents or just by being a safe space to land.

I am so proud of this guy, and so lucky to call him my big little brother. We hope you enjoy this very special Yeah The Bros episode. 💛

💬 We talk:

• Building a creative career from scratch

• Learning to trust the signs when it’s time for change

• Personal growth in a flooded self-development space

• Vulnerability, empathy, and leadership

• Creating a life that feels like your own

  
  

🎥 Watch us on YouTube – ⁠Yeah The Gals Podcast⁠📲 Follow us on Instagram – ⁠@yeahthegalspodcast

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Where you can find Andrew and Think Loud:Instagram (Andrew):
https://www.instagram.com/andrewcooney/

Instagram (Think Loud):
https://www.instagram.com/thinkloudagency/

Website:
https://www.thinkloudagency.com/

🧡 We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which this episode was recorded and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We extend that respect to all First Nations peoples listening today.

In this episode of Yeah The Gals, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with the lovely Jess Whatman — founder of Agent Sync — to chat all things virtual assistants and business support. 💻✨

After working for over 20 years in the real estate industry, Jess had her first introduction to VAs when the company she worked for decided to incorporate offshore assistants into their business model. Jess flew over to the Philippines to meet the VAs in person, and it quickly became her role to oversee and support them.

Building close relationships and seeing the incredible impact they had on the business, Jess knew there was something special here. Fast forward eight years, she took a leap and launched her very own agency — Agent Sync — extending virtual assistant support across a range of industries, not just real estate.

In this episode, we dive into:

• What the role of a VA actually looks like

• Debunking common myths and misconceptions

• How VAs can support businesses of any size

• The importance of building genuine relationships with both team members and clients

• How Jess grew her business from an idea to 53 VAs on the books in just 12 months!

  
  

What shines through in this chat is Jess’s genuine passion for caring for both her team and her clients. Her commitment to providing high-level support and continually evolving Agent Sync’s offering is nothing short of inspiring.

If you're a small business owner or have ever been curious about hiring a VA — this episode is a must-listen! 🎧

🎥 Watch us on YouTube – ⁠Yeah The Gals Podcast⁠📲 Follow us on Instagram – ⁠@yeahthegalspodcast⁠

Where you can find Jess and Agent Sync:Website:
https://www.agentsync.com.au/

Instagram (Agent Sync):
https://www.instagram.com/agentsync_/

Instagram (Jess Whatman):
https://www.instagram.com/jess.whatman/

🧡 We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which this episode was recorded and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We extend that respect to all First Nations peoples listening today.

In this episode of Yeah The Gals, it was an absolute bloody pleasure to have the stunning and incredibly down-to-earth Steph Luck join me for a real and raw chat about life as an influencer, content creator, and Mum of three. 💬✨

Steph became a mum at just 22 years old with the birth of her beautiful daughter, Zyla. Navigating the huge life change of motherhood — while dealing with peri and post-natal depression, and the breakdown (and later reconnection) of her relationship with now husband Dean — Steph turned to social media as an outlet to connect with other women going through similar experiences.

It was Steph’s honesty, vulnerability, and willingness to show the realness of motherhood that saw her build a loyal and growing online community. Before long, this led to collaborations with like-minded brands, and eventually, a full-time career working with management in the influencer space.

In this episode, we dive into:

• How Steph grew her personal brand authentically

• The challenges and expectations of working in the social media world

• How social media has evolved and where it’s heading

• Balancing business, life, and motherhood

• Her exciting future plans both personally and professionally

  
  

✨ PLUS, Steph and her sister Sophie have launched their own podcast Sisters Say It All — a space where they share their journeys, relationships, struggles, and offer a relatable, heartfelt place for listeners to feel heard and understood.

What I loved about this chat is how fearlessly open Steph is. She’s just as beautiful inside as she is out, and her authenticity is truly inspiring.

🎥 Watch us on YouTube – ⁠Yeah The Gals Podcast⁠📲 Follow us on Instagram – ⁠@yeahthegalspodcast⁠

Where you can find Steph:Instagram (Steph Luck):
https://www.instagram.com/stephluck_/

Sisters Say It All Podcast:
https://www.instagram.com/sisterssayitall/

🎧 Listen to Sisters Say It All on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

🧡 We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which this episode was recorded and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We extend that respect to all First Nations peoples listening today.

As we wrap up another season of Yeah The Gals, how quickly time has flown!

Its been such a pleasure chatting with another bunch of amazing women who have brought a bit of themselves to each and every episode. Ialso just want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has jumped on the yeah the gals bandwagon, I feel super bloody grateful to share these stories and hope you all have enjoyed listening! Already cant wait for season 3 where we will have another bunch of amazing gals, stories, laughs and updates!

We are finishing with a little episode done with two of my very talented and beautiful colleagues, Imogen & Chloe – where we unpack the term you may have heard and that is imposters syndrome.

Imogen is a brand and experience lead for our HIT brand here at the station. She joined commercial radio back in 2021 in her home state, Hobart, where she had multiple roles and progressed very quickly within the industry. Being nominated in 2022 for best new talent off air at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, Imogen has felt the feels of imposters syndrome for a few different reasons. Despite knowing she is a very hard working and dedicated gal, she can't help but question her achievements at times and I know its something I 100% can relate to.

My other beautiful colleague Chloe, holds the official title of Creative Writer, but she wears so many more hats than that! Within 12 months she has worked as a breakfast show producer, digital producer, recently becoming an on air announcer and is now a finalist for best new talent off air at this years Australian Commercial Radio Awards… the exact same nomination Imogen had 1 year ago.

Chloe was beautiful enough to talk through experiencing imposters syndrome personally, and how that has also translated into a professional setting. I had always thought of imposters syndrome as something work related, but realised as Chloe spoke that it is definitely a feeling that can come up outside of work too!

We chat through what actually is imposters syndrome, why we feel it, when we have experienced it, what the research says and how to deal with it.

I loved hearing Im and Chloe give their thoughts and insight in amongst the many laughs. So thank you gals for sharing and joining me in the studio!

In this episode of Yeah The Gals, I already have the biggest smile on my face introducing this gal & that is Anj Bevan – an epic Pilates instructor& founder of Fusian Pilates; a studio that has literally taken Terrigal by storm.

For Anj, doing her training in Pilates, let alone opening her own studio was never on the radar when she finished school. Coming from a family with backgrounds in marketing and communications, it came naturally for Anj to also follow in that path.

Moving from the coast to Sydney, Anj spent the next 7 years working in some awesome roles for companies like Qantas & MTV, before landing what she thought was her dream role with Google.

Like a lot of us can relate to, COVD changed Anj’s circumstances and she found herself moving back home to the coast, where after a few months she realised that there was no way she could move back!

Despite working in her dream role,  Anj continued to feel like she was loosing her purpose. And on a whim, she decided to complete her training g as a Pilates instructor. From running a class at her local sporting field, to moving into a community hall that continued to fill with gals and guys joining in her classes, before long she was walking into a studio space for lease with her partner Nick and realised this is where she was meant to be.

In a very short space of 6 months, Fusion has exploded to be a space for people to come and truly be a part of a community and feel that Anj is very proud of.

Anj is humble, she is fun, she is welcoming and a total vibe. The perfect recipe to lead a space where people love to be and after chatting with her I can absolutely understand why fusion has grown to what it is in such a short space of time!

It was through connection and a chance meeting that the lovely Mandy Millan and I ended up sitting in the studio with a cup of tea to chat about her career and how she got to being a successful small business mentor on the Central Coast.

‘Connection’ is a very fitting word, as it was one that came up a lot in our chat and something that Mandy does incredibly well both through connecting her clients to their customers and then her clients to each other, creating a beautiful community of like minded business owners who can all lean on each other and continue to grow.

Born in the UK, Mandy was surrounded by entrepreneurs from a young age, as both her parents and her brothers ran their own small businesses, always with an open mind.

From living in America, completing a bachelor in marketing, working in big corporate roles and running side hustles in Australia at 19, to then heading back to the UK, Mandy always felt connected to both entrepreneurship, with mindfulness and wellbeing kept at the forefront of what she believes makes a successful business, not matter the size.

Meeting her now husband Scott (a business owner himself) they decided to move back to Australia together where the business ventures and big corporate roles would continue for Mandy, and her focus on wellness and connection would play a big part in what led her to where she is today.

Entering the season of motherhood and a sea change from Sydney to the Coast, Mandy naturally moved into a consultancy space for small business owners, that would evolve into facilitating events, private mentoring and the creation of her REACH membership with the aim to help support Central Coast business owners through increasing their reach, connection and clients.

There are two things that she is fiercely driven by: achieving results as well as her passion in the wellbeing space and after chatting with Mandy its safe to say she does that very well.

Welcome back to the second part of an awesome conversation with the wonderful Abbey from Woman Kind Therapy.

In part two we continue our conversation on those seeking therapy, specifically on the fear of opening up.

We then go into more specific questions sent in by listeners, which some I could totally relate to so I am sure you will to!

Mum guilt is huge one! And I loved listening to Abbey’s perspective on the label.

She also shares her thoughts and experience working with women who are childless by choice, before discussing how to support a loved one in an unhealthy relationship.

We finish up with a question on how to approach a partner to seek therapy.

So many pearls of wisdom and so much more we could have discussed!

What I love about Abbey, is her innate ability to draw on both her practice as a therapist, while also showing the vulnerability and learns in her own lived experiences to then support others.

She finds the balance, and is still so open to learning about herself and her patients.

I’m already low key planning the next episode so please let us know your thoughts and feedback – we hope you enjoy the rest of our chat!

In this episode of Yeah The Gals we have our favourite Women'sSpecialist Therapist and all round bloody legend Abbey back for another chat in all things therapy.

Abbey joined me in the studio to discuss some of the Q&A questions and polling that was done on the Yeah The Gals Instagram.

I was super excited, as we set up to film but was then equally devastated to find out the cameras were not working! But, it just means she will have to come back for another episode which I definitely don’t mind and I am sure you gals wont either.

This is another episode that will drop in 2 parts as we covered a lot and the conversation was just too great to try and squeeze into one.

In the first part of our chat, Abbey and I deep dive into the feedback on what it means to seek therapy, when you think you should, and reasons that might stop you.

In the second part we talk through more of the specific questions that came in including thoughts on Mum guilt, support for women who are childless by choice, advice for supporting friends in toxic relationships, and broaching the topic of therapy with partners.

Abbey gives such amazing insight both from the perspective of the patient and also from her perspective as a therapist.

I could seriously listen to her speak all day, and I can guarantee that from whatever season or walk of life you are currently in, there is something that everyone could take from this amazing gal!

Thank you Abbey for brining such passion and powerful messages for the Yeah The Gals audience.