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Miriam Margolyes is an actress, comedian, documentary maker and all-round incredible woman. If you don’t know Miriam’s name, you’ll definitely know her face. She played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter , starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet , and was the voice of Fly in Babe . She's also made many documentaries, including her latest one for the ABC, Miriam Margol...

Today's No Filter episode features a man with a beard. But it's not just any beard.  Jimmy Niggle's life changed forever 10 years ago when he was 26 and sitting at his best friends wake. As beers were being passed around and stories told, Jimmy decided to change his life. But how exactly is a beard life changing? Since that moment, Jimmy has become a bit famous but not just because of his bea...

It all started with a holiday to Thailand and a hoodie with a picture of a monkey on it.  That’s how Dotty Charles knew that the world had reached peak outrage. Dotty, also known as Ashley, Amplify Dot or A.Dot, is an English rapper, former BBC presenter and broadcaster. She's just started a new job as Lead Cultural Curator of Black Music for Apple and she's written a book called Outrag...

Australians, and now the world, have fallen in love with a man named Michael.  And if you don’t know why, you’re about to. At the end of 2019, the ABC released a four-part documentary series called Love on the Spectrum, which told the stories of young adults on the autism spectrum who were dating, in relationships and falling in love for the first time. One of those young adults o...

If you're a fan of Stan's hit show The Bold Type,  you'll definitely recognise today's guest. And if you’re not, then let me introduce you to Melora Hardin.  Melora was born into a family of actors and got her first role when she was just six years old. Since then she’s been acting, singing and dancing on shows such as The Loveboat and Transparent and movies like 27 Dresses a...

We're dropping into your feed to share an awesome episode of our new podcast, Me After You, with you. No matter how it happens, motherhood changes you forever. Me After You is the show that asks the question: So, what now?  Each episode, host Laura Byrne guides some very different women through their very different stories of life after birth. In this first episode, we’re talking Identi...

Julia Gillard has been busy this year. Very busy. She’s written a book called ‘Women and Leadership’ with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala where they speak to 8 female leaders including Jacinda Ardern and Hilary Clinton about the impact of gender on the treatment of leaders.  She's also the host of 'A Podcast of One's Own', where she leads thoughtful but fun discussions with well-kn...

To her many Instagram followers, it seemed like the 'Young Mummy' Sophie Cachia had a pretty rosy life. She had a successful influencer career and pyjama business that she had built off her Young Mummy blog, which she'd started after marrying an AFL player called Jarryd Cachia and having the first of their two kids at just 22 years old. But like most things on social media, there was a different s...

We're dropping into your feed to share an awesome episode of Lady Startup Stories with you. Flex Mami is a 26 year old slashie: she’s a DJ, TV presenter, podcast host, author and the owner of Flex Factory which makes products. She’s part of a new generation of businesswomen who have built their brand and business on Instagram and in this interview Flex and Mia Freedman discuss personal...

Rebekah Robertson had twins. Both assigned male at birth. Despite what was written on their birth certificates, Rebekah’s twins were very different to one another. And so began the story of a little person called Georgie who knew deep inside that she was a girl.  In this conversation Rebekah explains when she first realised Georgie was transgender and how she handled everything from sch...

When Teresa Palmer was nineteen, she walked into Hollywood's biggest talent agency and told them she was happy to have a career, but her biggest plans involved being a mother.  And, she hasn't gone back on that.  Even though she's scaled the heights of life as a Hollywood movie star, appearing in movies with people like Adam Sandler and Rosario Dawson, it's her family that are the focus...

This interview was recorded in January 2020. This is a story about fame and power and money and celebrity. And…..yoga. And the point at which all of those things meet is at the bare feet of a man named Bikram Choudhury. Wearing signature tiny black Speedos and his long hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, Bikram Choudhury was the king of an empire built on sweat, obsessive devotion and,...

Narelda Jacobs grew up in a big, rambunctious family. Her mother, an Irish trailblazer, came out to Australia and married Narelda's dad, a member of the Stolen Generation who went on to become a religious minister. Narelda Jacobs is a proud Whadjuk Noongar woman and there’s so much to her story: a strictly religious upbringing, four older sisters, teen pregnancy, a shotgun marriage, a divorc...

*NOTE: This interview was recorded before the Black Lives Matters protests that are sweeping the world* You fall in love with your best friend, she tells you she's terribly sick and you leave your husband to be with her. Together with her ex-wife and ex-girlfriend, you're there when she passes away 18 months later. And that's just the short version of Elizabeth Gilbert's extraordinary life over th...

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Andrew Solomon always wanted a family of his own, but he grew up in a time where that wasn't a reality for someone who was gay.  Over the years, he tried to fight his sexuality - with conversion sex sessions, with relationships with women.  When he finally accepted his true identity, Andrew met the love of his life and together (with four other parents) they created the ultimate modern f...

There’s a content warning on this episode: talk of suicide, and there’s also some graphic language Rita Therese is her pen name. Gia is her sex worker name. Her real name is a secret, to protect her privacy.  After beginning as a waitress at bucks' parties, Rita Therese has spent most of her twenties earning a living in the sex industry - as well as topless and nude waitressing, w...

If you’ve never experienced an unhealthy relationship, one where passion and power and control insidiously morphs into abuse…..this episode might confuse you. But even if you’re one of the women who has never been through that kind of relationship, is not going through it now…..I bet you know someone who has. Or is. Abusive relationships come in 50 shades. The one mo...

It was 2016 and Glennon Doyle was a wife, a mother and the author of a book called Love Warrior,  that was about to be released. The book was a memoir about repairing her marriage after discovering her husband's longterm infidelity and Oprah had chosen it for her bookclub. This was big-time. And Glennon was about to begin a national promotional tour across America. What happened on the first...

We've wanted to bring you this story for a while now - because it's a story that's played out in our extended Mamamia family.  Anne Stephens (mother of Mamamia's Clare Stephens and Jessie Stephens) was twenty-two and finishing her teaching degree when she discovered she was pregnant.  It was 1982 and things were different then. She couldn't see where she could give the baby the life she...

We've wanted to bring you this story for a while now - because it's a story that's played out in our extended Mamamia family.  Anne Stephens (mother of Mamamia's Clare Stephens and Jessie Stephens) was twenty-two and finishing her teaching degree when she discovered she was pregnant.  It was 1982 and things were different then. She couldn't see where she could give the baby the life she...

Today, I’m Skyping with Dr Norman Swan, who's become one of Australia's most well known faces during the COVID19 crisis.  Every night, he's been on our televisions keeping us up to date with the latest science on the pandemic, with his gentle Scottish accent and no nonsense warmth. His podcast Coronacast has become a daily must listen. So, what's it like with everyone listening to every...

Everyone in Australia has an opinion about Malcolm Turnbull's time as Prime Minister - including and most especially the enemies who brought him down. So, what happens when the dust has settled after being ousted in a political coup? Twice. What do you do with the rest of your life?  Malcolm Turnbull has written a book called A Bigger Picture that tells the story of his life. It's a big book...

Today, I’m Skyping with Amanda Gordon , one of Australia's most well known and well respected psychologists.   We're catching up about anxiety. Which is a real thing right now. There are real things to be anxious about: the possibility of illness, job insecurity, kids at home all day, and it goes on and on... How do you know you whether you're anxious, or have Capital A Anxiety? We...

Imagine being ousted from your community, from your family, your whole life, because of a condition you'd developed during childbirth. A condition that most Australian women can have fixed relatively quickly and easily.  Dr Catherine Hamlin wasn't having any of that. She and her husband created the legendary Hamlin Fistula Hospital and began saving women's lives back in the 1960s.  Over...