What does it mean to define yourself when so much of your life has been shaped by other people's expectations?  

This week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by actress Adrianne Palicki for an intimate conversation about growing up in Hollywood, finding your voice, and the women she's played who have stayed with audiences long after the cameras stopped rolling. 

Nearly 20 years after Friday Night Lights first premiered, Adrianne reflects on the enduring legacy of Tyra Collette, a character who spent much of the series being underestimated and defined by others, before finally choosing to imagine a different future for herself. As the show celebrates its anniversary, Adrianne talks about reconnecting with the cast and fans, why Tyra's famous college essay still resonates with her, and the extraordinary messages she's received from women whose lives were changed by the character. 

She also opens up about navigating Hollywood as a woman, from being judged by appearances and underestimated early in her career, to the pressure to be strong, likeable and youthful.  

Adrianne also speaks about her new indie drama Due West, reuniting with fellow Friday Night Lights alumni and playing a woman forced to take control of her future when the systems around her fail. She discusses the power of independent filmmaking, the stories she wants to tell about women, and why she's drawn to characters who refuse to be defined by their circumstances. 

This is a conversation about ambition, resilience, identity, ageing, rejection and reinvention, and what happens when you stop asking other people who you're supposed to be. 

This episode covers: 

• Adrianne Palicki on the enduring legacy of Friday Night Lights 
• Why Tyra Collette still resonates with women nearly 20 years later 
• The Friday Night Lights 20th anniversary and reconnecting with the cast 
• The importance of Tyra's “define myself” college essay 
• Being underestimated and finding your own sense of possibility 
• Growing up and finding your way in Hollywood 
• Being a woman in an industry obsessed with youth and appearance 
• Rejection, ambition and redefining success 
• Ageing and finding freedom in your 40s 
• Adrianne's new film Due West 
• Reuniting with Friday Night Lights alumni on Due West 
• Producing Texas Forever: The Legacy of Friday Night Lights 
• What it means to define yourself on your own terms 

You can watch Due West on Apple TV 

Friday Night Lights 20th Anniversary Roadshow: www.plex.tv/friday-night-lights-roadtrip 

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What does it really take to maintain friendships as an adult, and why do we feel like failures when they fade?

In this special Friendship Issue episode of You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt and Deputy Editor Mel Gaudron go inside the pages of the new issue, from the small joys of catching up to the bigger, messier questions we're all asking:

They unpack the emotional labor of adult friendship, whether venting is a form of emotional misconduct or essential intimacy, the seven-year friendship statistic, what to do when you don't like a friend's partner, and the guilt of being the "bad friend." They also discuss "teen-ternity leave" — the phenomenon of mothers stepping back from careers when their kids become teenagers — and the very real cost to women's income, superannuation, and career progression.

They also cover Marie Claire's cover star Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso season four, her four-octave vocal range, perimenopause journey and why women's careers getting better in their 50s is something to celebrate.

This episode covers:

• Marie Claire Australia's Friendship Issue Hannah Waddingham cover story
• Ted Lasso season four
• The emotional labor of adult friendship
• Do friendships have to last forever?
• Am I a bad friend?
• When love takes over and friendships fall by the wayside
• In defense of venting
• Teen-ternity leave and the cost to women's careers
• Perimenopause, body image, and women in their 50s 
• Why friendship is oxygen for the soul

The May issue of Marie Claire Australia, starring Hannah Waddingham, is on sale now.

Further reading from the August Issue:

Hannah Waddingham On Ted Lasso’s New Season, Fame & Friendship

Would You Take Time Off From Your Career To Go On Teen-ternity Leave?

If you want to read more of the featured stories, including In Defence of Venting by Bek Day and Best Friends Forever? By Alexandra English grab yourself a copy of the issue!

 

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Can starting over at 50 lead to the happiest chapter of your life? 

Continuing from part one, Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt talks to fashion entrepreneur and style icon Tash Sefton about finding love again, turning 50, and the new life she never expected to build. 

Tash opens up about meeting her husband Adam and the unexpected way love entered her life after divorce. She talks candidly about self-sabotage, learning to accept kindness after being hurt, and why she believes love often arrives when you stop looking for it. She reflects on the moment she realised she had created an entirely new life for herself — and why she now sees starting again as something she would highly recommend. 

Tash also talks about turning 50, the anxiety she felt about the milestone and the beautiful way her friends and family helped her embrace it. Rather than seeing 50 as an ending, she began to recognise it as the beginning of a new chapter: one filled with love, friendship, purpose and a renewed sense of self. 

The conversation turns to style and the reason behind her business, Where Did Your Style Go? Tash explores why so many women lose touch with their personal style as their lives change, and why getting dressed should be about feeling like yourself rather than following trends. She shares her approach to building a wardrobe around classics, mixing vintage with contemporary pieces, and helping women understand their own style, while also discussing her relationship with social media and why authenticity matters more than chasing followers. 

This is a conversation about reinvention, identity, love and the freedom that can come with getting older. As Tash discovers, sometimes the life you build after everything changes can be even better than the one you thought you were meant to have. 

This episode covers: 

• Finding love again after divorce 
• Meeting Adam and learning to trust a new relationship 
• Self-sabotage and the fear of getting hurt again 
• Why love can arrive when you stop looking for it 
• Turning 50 and confronting the anxiety around ageing 
• The friendships that helped her embrace a new chapter 
• Starting a new life and choosing happiness 
• Why women can lose their sense of style as their lives change 
• The philosophy behind Where Did Your Style Go? 
• Building a wardrobe around classics rather than trends 
• Mixing vintage, contemporary fashion and personal style 
• Helping women rediscover who they are through what they wear 
• Using social media as a tool rather than letting it control you 
• Why she only promotes products she genuinely believes in 
• What success, happiness and purpose mean in this chapter of her life 

 

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What happens when the life you built no longer feels like your own?  

This is part one of a two-part conversation. Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with fashion entrepreneur, digital creator and Where Did Your Style Go? founder Tash Sefton to talk about her extraordinary career, motherhood, divorce and the experience of rebuilding your identity from scratch. 

Tash takes us back to the beginning, from discovering her love of fashion through her Croatian grandmother and mother, to becoming a fashion buyer, entrepreneur and one of Australia's most recognisable style voices. She reflects on more than two decades spent shaping the way Australian women shop and dress, and why she eventually walked away from parts of the fashion industry that no longer felt authentic. 

She opens up about the end of her 22-year marriage, navigating divorce with children, and rediscovering who she was outside of being a wife and mother. Tash reflects on learning to be comfortable alone, rebuilding her confidence and identity, and finding the freedom to start again. 

Tash also shares what happened when she stopped looking for love, began dating again, and discovered that a new chapter could be even better than the one she'd left behind. 

Part two continues the conversation with Tash on finding love again, turning 50, the evolution of her personal style, authenticity on social media, and why so many women reach a point in life where they no longer recognise themselves.  

This episode covers: 

• Discovering fashion through her grandmother and mother 
• Building a career as a fashion buyer, entrepreneur and digital creator 
• More than two decades shaping Australian women's approach to style 
• Walking away from parts of the fashion industry that no longer felt authentic 
• The end of her 22-year marriage 
• Navigating divorce and motherhood 
• Losing and rebuilding her sense of identity 
• Learning to have a relationship with herself 
• Finding freedom and contentment in being alone 
• Dating after divorce and rediscovering herself 
• Why she wasn't looking for love when it eventually found her 
• Starting again and believing life can get better 

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What happens when caring for the people who once cared for you becomes one of the biggest challenges of your life? 

This week Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by broadcaster, journalist and bestselling author Sarah Macdonald for an honest conversation about ageing parents, motherhood, work, grief, guilt and the invisible weight carried by so many women. 

Sarah is part of Australia's sandwich generation, caring for her 92-year-old mother and 94-year-old mother-in-law while navigating family life and a demanding media career. She opens up about the reality of caring for ageing parents, from managing the practical and emotional load to the moments of frustration, grief and unexpected joy that come with watching the people who raised you grow older. 

The conversation also explores what it means to be part of the sandwich generation: raising children, caring for ageing parents, maintaining a career and trying to hold onto a life of your own. Sarah shares why women need more recognition, support and honest conversations around caregiving, and why simply hearing the words "you're doing a great job" can mean so much. 

This episode covers:  

• Sarah Macdonald on life in the sandwich generation 
• Caring for ageing parents while raising a family 
• The invisible mental load of caregiving 
• Balancing motherhood, work and caring responsibilities 
• The impact of caregiving on women's careers 
• The career opportunities Sarah had to let go 
• Advocating for her father at the end of his life 
• The grief and guilt that comes with watching parents age 
• The emotional and practical realities of unpaid care 
• The importance of simply saying "you're doing a great job" 
• How women can prepare for their parents getting older 
• Finding moments of joy while caring for ageing parents 
• What Australia needs to do differently for unpaid carers 
• Why the sandwich generation is one of the defining issues facing women today 

You can find Sarah's podcast Club Sandwich here

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What does life really look like after becoming one of the world's most famous supermodels?  

This week Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by Miranda Kerr for an intimate conversation about motherhood, co-parenting, building a global beauty empire, and the personal experiences that shaped the woman behind the headlines. From becoming Australia's first Victoria's Secret Angel to founding KORA Organics, Miranda reflects on the career, family and values that continue to define her today. 

She opens up about growing up in country Australia, becoming famous in her twenties, navigating life under intense public scrutiny, and finding peace after the end of her marriage to Orlando Bloom. She also speaks candidly about raising four boys, co-parenting in a modern blended family, and how she met her husband, Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel. 

Miranda also reflects on the deeply personal experience that inspired her to launch KORA Organics. After her mother was diagnosed with tumours when Miranda was a teenager, she became passionate about nutrition, wellness and certified organic skincare, long before the wellness industry became what it is today. More than 15 years later, KORA Organics is sold in over 30 countries, with Miranda still personally involved in everything from product development to ingredient sourcing. 

This is a conversation about ambition, resilience, family, forgiveness and what success looks like beyond the runway. Miranda also shares the wellness rituals she genuinely swears by, the biohacks she believes are worth the hype, how her priorities have changed since turning 43, and why looking after yourself starts from the inside out. 

This episode covers:  

• Miranda Kerr on life beyond modelling 
• Becoming Australia's first Victoria's Secret Angel 
• Building KORA Organics into a global beauty brand 
• The family health scare that changed her life 
• Motherhood and raising four boys 
• Co-parenting with Orlando Bloom 
• Marriage, family life and Evan Spiegel 
• Fame, forgiveness and finding perspective 
• Wellness routines and biohacks that actually work 
• Turning 43 and redefining success 
• Growing up in regional Australia 
• Why authenticity has become her greatest strength 

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What if the most dangerous moment in an abusive relationship isn't staying, it's trying to leave?  

As Australia continues to grapple with the national crisis of domestic violence and violence against women, this week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt speaks with Nicole Yade, CEO of the Women and Girls Emergency Centre, whose own experience surviving family violence and coercive control has shaped decades of frontline advocacy for women and children escaping abuse. 

Before Nicole dedicated her life to helping others find safety, she was a child growing up in a home ruled by fear. As an adult, despite promising herself she'd never repeat the cycle, she found herself in an abusive relationship of her own. At 24, she fled with her five-month-old baby, leaving behind violence and stepping into homelessness because staying was no longer safe. 

In this deeply personal conversation, Nicole shares why leaving an abusive relationship is far more complicated than people often believe. She unpacks domestic violence nd the invisible barriers that keep women trapped, while drawing on decades of experience supporting victim-survivors on the frontline. 

This is a conversation about survival, resilience and rebuilding a life after trauma. Nicole also explains why domestic violence services are at breaking point and what needs to change to better protect women and children.  

If you or anyone else you know is experiencing domestic, family or sexual violence, support is available. You can call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 

JOIN THE WALK TO END VIOLENCE. Walk for WAGEC details here, Centennial Park Sydney, Sunday 13th September 2026.  

This episode covers:

• Growing up in a home shaped by domestic violence 
• Why leaving an abusive relationship is far more complex than people realise
• Coercive control and the invisible tactics that keep women trapped
• Breaking the cycle of family violence across generations
• Escaping abuse as a 24-year-old with a five-month-old baby and experiencing homelessness
• The realities of rebuilding life after domestic violence
• How children are impacted by living with family violence
• The critical work of the Women and Girls Emergency Centre (WAGEC)
• Why frontline domestic violence services remain overwhelmed
• What recovery and healing really look like after trauma
• Why domestic violence can happen to anyone
• The role men can play in preventing violence against women
• Challenging the question, "Why doesn't she just leave?"
• A message of hope for victim-survivors rebuilding their lives 

 

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Continuing from part one, Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt talks to designer Bianca Spender about how she protects her creative energy while running an 18-year-old Australian luxury label: splitting her days into “creative time” and “business time,” and why her most productive hours are between 5pm and 2am, once the emails stop. 

Bianca describes the Bianca Spender aesthetic in her own words: clothes built around freedom and movement, designed to make women feel completely themselves, or better yet, want to dance. She also shares why she kept two skin cancer diagnoses private for years, and why launching her first swimwear collection and sun care campaign felt like the right moment to speak about it publicly, including how two separate conversations with friends led her to catch both cancers early. 

In the second half of this episode, Bianca reflects on some of the most defining moments of her life: the sudden and very public loss of her mother, and the loss of her father eighteen months later. She talks about the advice on grief that has stayed with her since: “it never leaves, it just visits less frequently,” and how grief reshaped her sense of courage and self-forgiveness. She closes with how she protects her time through boundaries with technology, her “swimming epiphanies,” and a final message for anyone listening: trust yourself. 

This episode covers: 

• Protecting her creative energy by separating “creative days” from “business days” 

• Why her most creative hours are 5pm to 2am, once the world switches off 

• The Bianca Spender aesthetic: designing clothes meant to free the body and “make you dance” 

• Going public with two skin cancer diagnoses after years of privacy 

• Launching her first swimwear collection and sun care campaign 

• Navigating the sudden, very public loss of her mother 

• Living with grief as an ongoing companion: “it never leaves, it just visits less frequently” 

• Finding courage and self-forgiveness in the wake of loss 

• Protecting her time with boundaries around technology 

• Her “swimming epiphanies” and other ways she switches off 

• A closing message to trust yourself 

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What does it take to earn your place in one of Australia's most famous fashion families? 

This is part one of a two-part conversation. Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with designer Bianca Spender to talk about growing up as the daughter of fashion icon Carla Zampatti. Bianca takes us back to her childhood: sharing a bedroom with her sister, now-federal MP Allegra Spender, the strip of masking tape that kept the peace between them, and discovering, decades later, that dyslexia ran through three generations of her family. 

She reflects on the lessons learned at the “School of Mum”: working in the family business from age nine, learning to say yes to everything, and what she only came to understand about her mother's leadership after becoming a parent and business owner herself. Bianca is candid about mum guilt, treating the business as her “first child,” and the four years she spent working in Paris, deliberately choosing a place where nobody knew her mother's name, so she could prove her own worth. 

She also opens up about the strict terms under which she finally joined the family label: one season, three months, twenty pieces, and an agreement that she would leave if the collection failed to sell. It's the story of how “the market decides” became the clearest and kindest way for Bianca to earn her own place, separate from her mother's approval, and how that same conviction led her to launch her namesake label. 

Part two continues the conversation with Bianca's creative process, her aesthetic, two skin cancer diagnoses, the loss of her mother, and what she's learned about living with grief - it's live right now in your podcast app!

This episode covers: 

• Sharing a room with her sister, now-federal MP Allegra Spender, and the masking tape down the middle 

• Discovering dyslexia ran through three generations of her family 

• Working in the family business from age nine instead of watching TV 

• What she only understood about her mother after becoming a parent herself 

• Wrestling with mum guilt, and treating the business as her “first child” 

• Moving to Paris for four years to prove her worth entirely outside her mother's name 

• Earning her place in the family label through a strict “market decides” trial 

• The moment her own namesake label found its own space 

• Finding the confidence to trust her own aesthetic, even when it meant disagreeing with her mother 

 

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What happens after the worst day of your life? 

This week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia editor Georgie McCourt speaks with bestselling Australian author Hannah Richell, whose powerful new memoir, An Ocean and a Day, revisits the sudden death of her husband, Matt Richell, and the journey that followed. After years of writing acclaimed novels, Hannah is telling her own story for the first time. 

In 2014, Matt drowned in a surfing accident at Sydney's Tamarama Beach, leaving Hannah widowed with two young children. For years, she focused on raising her family, continuing her writing career, and rebuilding a life that had been shattered. But privately, she was also documenting the reality of grief as she lived it. 

Now, twelve years later, those pages have become An Ocean and a Day. In this deeply personal conversation, Hannah shares why she waited so long to write this memoir, what it was like to revisit the darkest chapter of her life, and how she's learned that moving forward doesn't mean leaving grief (or love) behind. 

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This episode covers:

• The moment two police officers arrived at Hannah's door to tell her Matt had died in a surfing accident
• Breaking the news to her young children and the hardest day of her life
• Writing her first pages of grief just seven days after Matt's death
• Falling in love with Matt after he "stole" her job in London, in the shadow of 9/11
• The isolating, shame-tinged early days of widowhood and single parenthood
• Living with unbearable yearning and rebuilding a sense of normalcy for her kids
• Returning to Tamarama Beach to piece together what happened, and meeting the fisherman who witnessed it
• The freak accident that took Matt's life, explained in full
• What her children have taught her about grief, laughter, and resilience
• Leaving their Sydney home two years on, and her son's words while scattering Matt's ashes: "Daddy, be free"
• Navigating loneliness, dating, and desire again after loss
• Finding new love and remarrying, and blending two families
• Her reflections on acceptance, carrying grief as an honor, and the message she hopes readers take from her memoir: love stays, even after loss

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