No Filter

There’s a good reason why Ben Crowe is Australia’s most in-demand professional mentor and leadership coach.   Before he started his own business, called MojoCrowe, Ben worked in the ‘Just Do It’ team - helping Nike’s athletes work out who they are outside the sport they were famous for. He’s worked with everyone from Ash Barty, to Dylan Alcott, Andre A...

Everyone has intrusive thoughts. But if you live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? Well, it becomes something much more extreme. You get stuck on your thoughts, and you can’t move past them. And you play those thoughts on a loop, like a broken record. You’ve probably heard about OCD - although it’s widely misunderstood and misrepresented. But Relationship OCD is something you&r...

Tony Armstrong is the most talked-about new talent in the television industry right now. Everyone is talking about him. Every media company wanted to sign him. And if you don’t know who Tony is yet, you will soon. Tony is a proud Barranbinya man. He was raised by a single mum in Sydney’s West, and he started playing AFL at a young age. He made it all the way to the top. Sort of. He pla...

Hey! We've launched a new show and we want to tell you about it... Welcome to Cancelled, Mamamia’s brand new podcast that unpacks what happens to celebrities once the world turns on them. Every Tuesday Jessie & Clare Stephens discuss who’s in, who’s out and who cares, and this episode? It's all about Justin Timberlake.  His crimes?  Britney Spears Janet Jackson Kyli...

The story of Britney Spears is one we’re guessing you’re familiar with. Child star from a small town makes it big in the city, only to grow up in front of the cameras, turn into a pop icon and then breaks down from the pressure and becomes tabloid fodder.  So what actually happened to Britney Spears?  Pandora Sykes is a British journalist and the host of BBC4’s new...

No matter how much you know or care about gymnastics, you couldn’t have escaped the story of Simone Biles during the Tokyo Olympics. Every four years, we watch these young women flipping and flying high in the air in their sparkly leotards, and we seem to forget about the expectations they have riding on their shoulders, and how incredibly dangerous what they do is. The sheer physicality of...

You might know Jock Zonfrillo as the Scottish judge who wears a three-piece suit on Australia’s Masterchef. But what you might not know about Jock, is that his life story is quite simply, incredible. He’s an open book, and in this chat, he gets very vulnerable about his experiences with heroin addiction, homelessness, his three marriages, his deep passion for the culture and ingredient...

Being a teenager has changed. A lot. There’s TikTok, vaping, dick pics, snap chat maps...and all the things that were once thought as fixed - like gender and identity - are fluid and open to interpretation.  Dr Ginni Mansberg and clinical psychologist Jo Lamble have over 20 years experience as clinicians and parents. They know first hand what concerns parents today about raising adolesc...

Hugh van Cuylenberg’s job is to teach resilience. He was a primary school teacher volunteering in Northern India when he had a life-changing realisation. Despite the underprivileged community, the children were from, they were remarkably positive. But back in Australia? Well, people found it hard to be happy and they had so much. Which is how The Resilience Project came to life. He learned t...

This is an episode about pronouns but it’s not really. It’s actually about love and shame and freedom and acceptance and painful struggles and life-changing revelations. Deni Todorović grew up in regional Victoria and from a young age, Deni knew they were gay. But coming out to their Jehovah’s Witness parents in the family home? Well….it wasn’t easy. Nor was coming o...

Today, you’re going to hear a story about a family. A family just like half a million other families around Australia. A family with two people in it who have an intellectual disability. And like so many others, this story is one full of love and challenges and heartbreak and humour. This is the story of 63-year-old Michel and her 35-year-old son, Simon... THE END BITS: With thanks to The St...

This interview nearly didn’t happen, and it’s really important that you know why. A few weeks ago, Mia had her first Covid-19 vaccination and marked the occasion with a selfie she posted on Instagram. She mentioned how excited she was to be vaccinated, the wonderful experience she had at the mass vaccination hub she attended, and how lucky she felt to get her jab. But a day or two late...

Camilla Franks founded the luxury, bohemian fashion-label in 2004 as an outsider to the fashion industry. Fast forward 18 years and everyone from Oprah to Beyonce to Kylie Jenner wears her clothes. She’s a big deal. And she’s also been through a heck of a lot.  On this episode of No Filter, Mia and Camilla chat about mental health, work life balance, losing her brother, growing he...

In 2000, Ada Nicodemou joined the cast of Home and Away, Australia’s second longest-running soap opera, after Neighbours. She signed on for a 6-month contract to play the role of Leah Patterson-Baker. But 21 years, and a few near-death experiences and a few husbands (Leah’s had way more husbands than Ada who has only had one) one of Australia’s best-known and most-loved actors is...

In September 2020, 32-year-old Annabel Walker was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of a string of fraud and deception convictions. She stole $17,000 from her former employer, hotel operator Australian Leisure Group, by using a corporate credit card. She used other people’s money to pay for rent, bills, and clothes. She sold things on Facebook marketplace but never po...

Chantelle Otten is a psycho-sex therapist who spends her days in other people’s sex lives, helping them to feel comfortable in their own skin. She’s also a Lady Startup who employs 13 sexologists in Melbourne.  On this episode of No Filter Chantelle sits down with Mia in the Mamamia studios to talk about why every relationship needs a sex menu, the conversations we should be havin...

Yumiko Kadota always dreamed of being a doctor. And it happened. She made it happen. And at first, she thrived in the high-pressure, high-performance environment of the public hospital system. Until she didn’t. It culminated in a total breakdown at which point Yumiko had no choice but to resign. On her way out, she wrote a searing, emotional blog post that gave an inside account of how a bro...

At only 36, Delta Goodrem has lived a very big life. She’s been a teen star, a cancer survivor, an actress, a judge on The Voice, and, of course, an award-winning singer. But in 2018, Delta faced one of her biggest reset moments yet, when she lost the use of her voice. She wasn’t ready to talk about it then, but she is now…. THE END BITS: With thanks to Delta Goodrem https://www...

This story starts with a dinner. Six friends are gathered to celebrate a farewell in a fancy restaurant in inner city Sydney. For one of them, a young woman in her twenties called Kirsten Bookallil it would be a last meal of sorts. Because the next day, Kirsten was having her stomach removed. Kirsten and Mia have been friends for over 20 years, and on this very raw and open episode of No Filter, K...

Justine Cullen is a former beauty editor, award-winning fashion magazine editor, and now author. And she lives a very interesting life.  On this episode of No Filter, Justine gets candid about motherhood, her life in magazines and managing the logistics of co-parenting with three good men. THE END BITS: With thanks to Justine Cullen: https://www.instagram.com/justine_cullen/?hl=en   Find...

Emma Jane Holmes grew up knowing she wanted to work in the funeral industry and be a dancer. Little did she know she’d end up doing both of things, simultaneously. In her 20s and 30s, Emma Jane worked as a mortician and an adult dancer, and on this No Filter she answers all of Mia’s questions.  So what does a mortician do? And how does she deal with death? Here’s Emma Jane H...

Introducing our new show Extraordinary Stories. If you like what you hear, head to mamamia.com.au/mplus In a chaotic Sydney share-house in the Spring of 1972, a disheveled actor was lying naked on the fraying couch of an inner-city living room. The woman who had paid Jack Thompson $400 was wondering if the actor’s left hand was really big enough to cover his modesty and get her history-makin...

Nene King is one of Australia’s most successful Magazine Queens. She’s been the Editor and Editor-In-Chief of Woman’s Day, Australian Woman’s Weekly and the Deputy Editor of New Idea. She has had an extraordinary life, but it hasn’t always been easy. In 1996, Nene’s beloved husband Patrick disappeared in a diving accident. His body was never recovered. And Nene...

In part 1 of Kyle Sandilands' No Filter interview, Australia’s highest-paid breakfast radio host spoke about his traumatic childhood, how he became homeless as a teenager, and his relationship with women. You can listen to that episode here: https://omny.fm/shows/no-filter/kyle-sandilands   In this episode, Kyle talks to Mia Freedman about feminism, fatherhood, body image, his relations...

Kyle Sandilands has lived a lot of different lives over the past 50 years. He’s been a survivor of family abuse, a scared homeless kid, a grasping regional radio presenter, a multi-millionaire celebrity, a heartbroken divorcee, a nightclub king, and someone who has nearly lost his job several times at the peak of his career.  Kyle is also - along with his breakfast radio co-host, Jackie...