Diet and Wellness Culture with Elle Sweetman
Elle is an integrative counsellor, psychotherapist and yoga facilitator. She's been the healer for most of her adult life. When she was diagnosed with an eating disorder two years ago, she was shocked. It never occurred to her that her relationship with food was so toxic. We delve deep into diet a…
Cookbooks And Doodles w/ Shannon Kelly-White
How does somebody go from cleaning bed pans and administering fluids to self publishing a cookbook with a penis glossary? Shannon Kelly-White is a rare, vulgar blemish in the cookbook world. Or, the world in general. She is arguably one of the funniest people on the internet and as I've now experie…
Navigating Trauma (with the Mummy Republic)
On this week’s podcast I have a chat with the inspiring Danielle Reed, host of the Mummy Republic podcast. At her 20-week pregnancy scan, Dannii was told that something was wrong. An expecting parent’s worst nightmare became her reality. Her pregnancy, birth, delivery and the life of her baby was n…
Toxic Masculinity - The Silent Epidemic
TRIGGER WARNING: For anybody who has been a victim of DFV So far this year in Australia nine women have been murdered by a man they loved. The statistics say that in Australia one woman a weekis murdered by a man due to a domestic violence related incident. So far we’ve lost nine women. And we’…
Inspiring Women: IVF with The Everyday Fifo Wife
She has been an inspiration to many. Sharing her completely raw, honest and unfiltered IVF experience. From the procedures, medications, negative pregnancy tests, positive pregnancy tests and heartbreaking miscarriages- Bron has shared it all. For those that live the world of TTC and IVF, she is a …
Birth Season Wrap Up
I created this series because I felt like yelling at the world after giving birth to my son. After what felt like ten thousand weeks of pregnancy, almost a month of pre-labour, hours upon (f-word) hours of active labour and two minutes of pushing- I had my new human and I was ready to go home six h…
What The Hell Is A Doula?
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt whilst recording this Birth series and during Motherhood in general, it’s that good support can make all the difference. On this weeks episode I had the pleasure of chatting to the beautiful Bronwyn from Kindred Birth on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Bron is a Dou…
Sheridan Austin's Story
Most of us all plan on having a natural vaginal birth. We dream of meditating our way through labour, going within ourselves, riding a freaking dolphin in our mind until all of a sudden we sneeze and a baby flies out. You might do all the hypno-birthing classes, you might eat all the right things, …
A Series of Unfortunate Births
Sarah's story is not a nice story. It’s traumatic, it’s unfair and it’s still raw. Her story is like The Series Of Unfortunate Events, if the events are the most traumatic thing you could possibly imagine. When I first read Sarah’s story it was in dot point form on an email. How can you possibly te…
Birth Can Empower Us
When Anthea emailed me with her birth story I knew that I had to have her on the podcast for a chat. I was obsessed with her passion! She felt so empowered! So in control! So in LOVE with the experience! Her perception of birth is so beautiful and inspiring. We chatted all about her birth and how o…