The After Dinner Mint

Today I’m chatting with Margaret Greaves—a widow, mother and grandmother. Margaret moved to Western Australia at 12 years old when her parents became missionaries at Cundeelee, which was 160km east of Kalgoorlie, with the Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission. Margaret spent most of her life in remote areas in and around Esperance, as a midwife, child health nurse, farmer’s wife, and running a...

We’re sharing our fashion frustrations in this episode. We’re Millennials and Gen Z has opinions about what we should be wearing. We don’t want to be Regina’s Mum in Mean Girls trying to keep up with teenagers, but we also don’t want to be the Eighties Dad, who kept wearing his acid washed jeans long after everyone else moved on. We’re grappling with changing bodies and lifestyles as well as fear...

Today I’m chatting with Anna Pretorius—a mother of four, unexpected pastors wife at Kingscross Church , and Diversity and Inclusion Consultant. Anna was born in the jungle in Papua New Guinea as the daughter of missionaries and moved to Japan when she was six years old. Anna is delightfully funny and honest about the desire to be the strong one and build her own kingdom. She describes the fear und...

Today’s episode is about awe and creativity, remembering God made the world beautiful. We can image him though creating beautiful things. We tend to get stuck thinking that hobbies and creativity are only useful if they are a side hustle. So today, Maddy, Rach and Bec chat about incorporating creativity, beauty, and awe into our everyday lives. Today, Maddy, Rach & Bec explore: 🎧 Things we lo...

Today I’m chatting with Miriam da Silva—a mother of four (Mariah Hlatywayo’s Mum!), grandmother to one, former journalist who is now a Primary School teacher. Miriam was born in Sri Lanka and grew up very religious in the Catholic church. She described having faith in God, attending daily mass and reading her Bible, but not understanding the good news of the gospel or having a relationship with Je...

So today’s topic came out of our Ask Me Anything: Kids Ministry episode with Josie Rivett where one of the questions was around pathways into paid kids ministry coordinator roles. Later, I was debriefing with Amy Stopher, who said, “Pathways into paid ministry is a whole podcast topic on its own, you should interview Alexia Horton”. Turns out, not only is it a whole podcast topic, it’s Alexia’s wh...

Today I’m chatting with Bek Stone—a mother of two, physio, and BRCA2 Breast Cancer survivor from Albany, who runs the popular Instagram account @mastectomytomarathon . Bek was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 years old when her youngest daughter was 19 months old. She initially thought she had mastitis but ended up with a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction in 2025. A typical physio, who...

This is a different type of episode for us—it’s our first Ask Me Anything episode. Bec enjoyed her chat with Josie so much that she found a way to bring her back! Maddy and Bec pepper Josie with questions from women who volunteer and work in kids ministry across WA. We run the gamut of topics from rural churches to doubts about enduring in teaching kids after leadership failures. This is a delight...

Today’s interview is with Josie Rivett, a mother of four and the founder of a parachurch ministry, Living Words . She’s written an Australian curriculum for kids ministry to teach through the Bible in a year. We discuss her experience starting a PhD in education and setting up Living Words, which pushed her to trust in God’s provision more deeply after a long struggle with doubt in her teens and t...

This episode was borne out of Maddy’s experience working on staff at a church and the sheer amount of people who confessed feeling disconnected and lonely in the post-service crowd. These people knew people at church, but described feeling awkward and uncomfortable, like they were not sure if they belonged or fit in. So today, Maddy, Rach, Britt and Bec dig into our own experiences of loneliness,...

Today’s interview is with Crystal Heydenrych, who is a botanist and mother of two. Crystal described the doubts that plagued her after her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died four months later. I really appreciated Crystal’s ability to articulate her fears that God did not see her suffering and she was ultimately alone. She explained how she threw herself into researching the resurre...

This banger of a question came from our end of year survey, “How do I retain my faith while being a first responder (i.e., frontline mental health, health, child protection) when the workplace culture demands dissonance from Christian values (i.e., black humour, seeing Christians as perpetrators of abuse etc). I personally and others I know in front line work struggle to reconcile their core value...

I am so excited to share today’s interview with you. It’s my first interview with a woman who is not one of our writers. It is SO ENCOURAGING. Mrs. Joy Young is a 96-year-old woman who served as a nurse and missionary to Aboriginal people in the Western Desert, Wyndham, and Kununurra with her husband and three children. At one point, Mrs. Young was the only medical professional for a thousand kilo...

Rach and Bec chat with Amy Stopher, who is on staff at Providence City Church, and one of our regular writers at Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner. We got a few variations of today’s topic in our end of year survey, but was asked most eloquently in this one, “It would be interesting to hear a discussion on how different Christian women are experiencing the impact of hustle culture on church life and...

Today we are chatting to the delightful M, who was previously a cross-cultural worker and GP in Middle East, but currently processing all the transitions in Argentina with her Latino husband. She is also one of our writers here at Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner . We explore M’s lifelong interest in connecting with and finding common ground with the stranger, people whom on the face of it seem quit...

Today’s topic was requested in our end of year survey. It’s not an apologetics deep dive, but more, how do I be a Christian at work without being Ned Flanders? Join us as we explore the temptations like fear of our colleagues hating us and getting left out, what it means to see all people as made in the image of God, and balancing being kind and being faithful to what the Bible says. We don’t have...

Welcome to Season 2 of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner!  We are chatting with the delightful Jill, who is a GP and cross-cultural worker in the Middle East. She is also one of our writers here at Stories. We explore the cross-section of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress, but basically: what happens when you feel like you’re being dumped by a wave, angry that you’re th...

Think of Everything to Binge This Summer as your unhinged WhatsApp group chat with your friends and all their best recommendations: books, TV, and podcast episodes. We’re here to save you from the endless scroll cycle where you can’t think of a single thing you would like to watch, or indeed anything you have ever watched. Or the aimless stroll around the library questioning if you are indeed a pe...

We are interviewing all of our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Rhianon Rae, who shares beautifully about her difficulty with vulnerability throughout her life and what God has taught her about his faithfulness and peace through seasons of doubt and church conflict as a pastor's wife. Rhianon is married to Sam and spends much of her time loving...

Loving On Your Brothers and Sisters was born from Britt texting this essay to our group chat and us collectively weeping at how beautiful and honest and encouraging it was. Join us as we debrief and process the practicalities of loving our as brothers and sisters in the church. 🎧 What it means to be brothers and sisters in Christ 🎧 Where we’ve seen this done well in our own lives 🎧 What we are...

We are interviewing all of our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Today’s guest is Pearl Roycroft, a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Perth. In today’s episode, we explore: The joys of being in nature, writing poetry and performing music. Growing up with parents who were immigrants and became Christians in their 20s, and her own slow journey to a deeper faith....

The Internet Said Everyone Else is Doing It is a light hearted debrief (with some cackles) with Maddy, Rach, and Bec about learning to parent while drowning in a sea of parenting advice online. Even if you are not a mother, just a woman casting her anxieties upon the internet and hoping for a sign, this is worth a listen as it is ultimately about growing in discernment. In today’s episode, we disc...

The After Dinner Mint is a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. Bethany Smith is a regular contributor to Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner and she shares her desire to hold on tightly to friendships after the isolation of interstate and overseas moves. She explains how God’s unchanging nature has been a comfort to h...

Thanks for listening to Season 1, Episode 13 of The After Dinner Mint, a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. Thanks for sharing your day with us! Why Do The Sads Feel So Sad ? is a deep dive into grief with a Mental Health Social Worker, a woman in ministry, and a Clinical Psych Registrar. Britt, Maddy and Bec ex...

The After Dinner Mint is a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. Maddie Richards is a singer-songwriter and a regular contributor to Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We are interviewing all our contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. In today’s episode, we explore : The slowness of the creative...