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Holly wants you to listen to Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson on Spotify.

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Group Executive Producer: Ruth Devine

Executive Producer: Emeline Gazilas

Audio Producer: Leah Porges

Video Producer: Josh Green

Junior Content Producers: Coco & Tessa

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🫠 Ever wondered why we're all so bloody tired of... well, everything? A newsletter by Anne Helen Peterson perfectly describes The Great Feminist Exhaustion and now Mia, Jessie and Holly unpack why modern feminism feels like running a marathon in quicksand.
🍒 Scrotox is trending and we're sorry you had to learn this way. Yes, it's injectables for testicles. No, we don't know why. Yes, we're all thinking the same thing about men's priorities.
📚 Plus recommendations: Mia's latest TV obsession, Jessie's organisational discovery, a new musical obsession, and Holly presents her long-awaited rebuttal in support of the controversial The Salt Path.
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Mia wants you to watch <a href="https://fave.co/4nZPlVl">Girls</a> on HBO.
Jessie wants you to look at the <a href="https://fave.co/4f57ehp">MyComms</a> app.
Holly wants you to listen to <a href="https://fave.co/4lQLCYs">Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson</a> on Spotify.
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<li aria-level="1">Listen to our latest episode:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/holly-wainwright-holiday/?utm_source=shownotes&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=mmol">Every Nosy Question About Holly&rsquo;s Holiday Answered</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Listen:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/coldplay-affair">The Coldplay Affair. And What The Internet Did Next.</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Listen:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/the-salt-path-controversy-scandal">The Salt Path Scandal That Blew Up</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Listen:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/dilemmas-sibling-scams-lies/?utm_source=shownotes&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=mmol">The Lies That We're Allowed To Tell</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Listen:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/outback-killer-bradley-murdoch">The Missing Minute &amp; The Missing Body</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Listen:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/justin-bieber-new-album/?utm_source=shownotes&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=mmol">What Is Going On With Justin Bieber?</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Listen:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/micro-efficiencies">Microefficiencies &amp; The Politics Of A Mean Group Chat</a></li>
<li>Listen:<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/diary-of-a-ceo-feminism/"> Absolutely Everything Is Feminism&rsquo;s Fault!</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Parenting Out Loud:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/this-glorious-mess/sleep-divorce-bedtime-stories">Sleep Divorce, 'Hopeless' Dads &amp; Goodnight To The Bedtime Story</a></li>
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What to read:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/feminism-in-2025/">'This podcast framed itself as a debate on feminism. It was the opposite.'</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/femosphere/">Tradwives, 'femcels' and dating strategists: Meet the women rejecting feminism.</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/what-is-micro-feminism/">'I call the dads of my students if they're sick.' 23 women on their daily acts of micro-feminism.</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/girls-cast-now/">Marriages, divorces, and a hit Netflix series: The cast of Girls, 13 years later.</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/lena-dunham-exits-polly-pocket/">Lena Dunham disappeared after starring in Girls. She&rsquo;s finally explaining why.</a></li>
</ul>
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CREDITS:
Hosts: Mia Freedman, Jessie Stephens &amp; Holly Wainwright
Group Executive Producer: Ruth Devine
Executive Producer: Emeline Gazilas
Audio Producer: Leah Porges
Video Producer: Josh Green
Junior Content Producers: Coco &amp; Tessa
Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

Australia's #1 podcast for women is where smart women come for good conversation — with an occasional side serve of chaos. Covering news, pop culture and big ideas, plus the small stuff that matters, Mamamia Out Loud is hosted by journalists and authors Mia Freedman, Jessie Stephens and Holly Wainwright. It's your daily dose of conversation that's like catching up with your best, funniest and sharpest friends in the group chat, offering conversation at its most addictive.

Australia's #1 podcast for women is where smart women come for good conversation &mdash; with an occasional side serve of chaos. Covering news, pop culture and big ideas, plus the small stuff that matters, Mamamia Out Loud is hosted by journalists and authors Mia Freedman, Jessie Stephens and Holly Wainwright. It's your daily dose of conversation that's like catching up with your best, funniest and sharpest friends in the group chat, offering conversation at its most addictive.

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The Great Feminist Exhaustion & One Of Us Has No Charisma

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