Big Stuff With Danielle Colley

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text On day one of filming The Bachelorette, Davey Lloyd walked into the mansion to meet Sam Frost off a three-day bender, running on no sleep, about to be the first man she'd ever meet.  Nine years later he'd be lying on a footpath, clinically dead, while his friends tried and failed to bring him back with CPR before the ambulance got ther...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text For years, Danielle thought life balance was the most important thing she had to teach. She wrote a book about it. She took it into keynotes and boardrooms across the country. And she wasn't wrong — the Chocolate Bar Life Theory has genuinely changed lives. But then her mum was given permission to end her life after 37 years with multiple s...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Dr Toni Reilly had a lovely enough husband. Sixteen years together, and not one single argument. By every measure, her marriage was fine — and she left anyway.  This episode was meant to be about SoulLife® Psychology, the framework Toni's spent two decades building.  Instead it became a deep, unfiltered conversation about intuition, mediums...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Two weeks before a serial killer's parole hearing, a podcast dropped. Two million downloads later, his bid was denied — and Parliament changed the law so he could never apply again.  That's not the origin story of this episode's guest.  That's just another day for her. Vikki Petraitis has spent thirty years walking into the m...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text So many people on social media rave that quitting alcohol was the best thing they ever did. Danielle is nine months sober and here to tell you that's not quite her story.  In this solo How Are You Really? episode, she gets honest about what actually changes when you stop drinking — and what doesn't — including the identity hit of no lo...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text What happens if an introvert who avoids parties decides, on purpose, to have lunch with 500 total strangers? Nick Bendel found out — one uncomfortable lunch at a time, over six years. In this conversation, Nick and Danielle talk about the lunch that left him speechless, the one where a stranger cried in the first twenty minutes, the one that end...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Dr Michelle Olaithe has spent her career inside sleep labs and university research, obsessed with what happens to the brain when sleep breaks down.  Now she's turning that expertise on perimenopause and menopause — treating sleep and hormones as the same problem, not two separate ones.  Danielle and Michelle get into testosterone (the hormo...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text When a fifty-year-old woman shaves her head, everyone assumes one of two things: midlife crisis or rebellion.  In this episode, Danielle takes you through the real timeline — from the moment she first wanted to do it, the day her mum died, through a conversation in Turkey that cracked something open, to sitting in a barber's chair on her 50...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text You're Not Stuck. You're Just Using the Wrong Method. You've read the books. Done the courses. Set the goals. Built the plan. And somehow you're still repeating the same patterns. Sound familiar? In this episode I'm talking with Tamsin Simounds — leadership coach, behaviour change expert, and author of The Experiment Min...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Isiah McKimmie is one of Australia's most sought-after couples therapists and sexologists — Masters-qualified, Gottman-trained, the person other therapists go to when they need a second opinion. In this episode, Danielle and Isiah get into what actually happens to desire, intimacy and identity during perimenopause — the pain that goes unspo...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text She was four years old when she told her mum that the man up the road had died in the night — She was right. Chezzi Denyer spent the next four decades becoming the most logical, credible, provable version of herself she could manage. She built a career in television. She worked at Sunrise. She was a journalist. And she pushed that other part of...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text What if the fight you keep having with your partner was never actually about the washing (or whatever your recurring thing is?) Channel and energy healer, Sarah McGahan, has worked with over 700 women in private healing sessions all over the world, and across all of those sessions, the same three relationship patterns kept showing up, again and...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Sophie Bretag came on this show to talk about kindness. But what she really gave us was something far more important — a front-row seat to what happens when everything you've built your identity around is taken from you, and what you discover in the silence that follows.  Two years ago, Sophie had surgery for tongue cancer — a rare diagnosi...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Six months ago, Danielle stepped back from the daily grind of running a business and gave herself something she'd never given herself before: time.  Not because she didn't know what was coming — she did — but because she decided to meet it with open hands instead of a full calendar. What followed was two books, a body of paintings, and...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text I’ve always thought of myself as someone who cannot lie. I’m a compulsive truth teller — ask anyone who knows me. But today’s guest made me realise something uncomfortable: that’s also a lie. Everyone lies. The question is whether you know when you’re doing it. And why. Dominic Thurbon is a behavioural change expert, co-founder of Alchemy Labs,...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Kate Purcell has spent much of her life in a battle with anorexia — hospitalised ten times, including seven months at a residential clinic in Perth. She has since navigated a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, survived a psychotic episode, written two books, and built a life she genuinely loves. But this is not a neat before-and-after story....

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text She had the wardrobe, the fancy car, the career leading teams across multiple markets. From the outside, Fleur Marks had built the life. And if you'd asked her how she was doing, she would have told you she was fine. She was not fine. Fleur is a globally recognised leadership strategist, speaker, and author of the brand new book The Overach...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Did you know there are over 48 symptoms of perimenopause — and the average woman is experiencing more than five of them at once, without realising any of them are hormonal? In this episode, Danielle gets into the weird, the unexpected, and the frankly baffling symptoms that can show up years before you'd ever think to look at your hormones....

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Ursula Kohler has spent 30 years being the woman behind the power. The one in the room holding it all together while everyone else loses the plot.  Through her businesses Capital EA and Bear Consulting, she has trained, supported and recruited the executive assistants and operators that keep some of Australia's most high-profile leaders fun...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Most of us walk around cataloguing what's missing. The goal we haven't hit, the body that isn't enough, the life that doesn't quite measure up yet. Kerryn Harvey woke up from a ten-day coma with one arm and saw a miracle. In 2013, Kerryn contracted necrotising fasciitis — flesh-eating bacteria — from a minor cycling accident....

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text “I love what I do… but am I limiting myself financially?” This How Are You Really? episode is inspired by a listener question that hits closer to home than most of us would like to admit. What happens when you’re motivated by meaning, impact, and being genuinely helpful… but struggle to ask for money, raise your prices, or advocate for your wort...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text We’ve never known more about relationships. Attachment styles. Red flags. Narcissism. Trauma bonds. We can diagnose a relationship in under 60 seconds… or at least we think we can. But what if all this information isn’t actually helping? In this episode, I’m joined by clinical psychologist Dr Michelle Olathe to unpack what’s really going on when...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Have you ever walked into a room — a meeting, a new job, a boardroom — and felt that quiet, creeping sense that someone is about to find you out? That somehow you've tricked your way in and it's only a matter of time before everyone works that out? That feeling has a name: imposter syndrome. And in this How Are You Really? episode, Dan...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Melinda Schneider has been on stage since she was three years old. She's released fourteen albums, won six Golden Guitars, sold out the Sydney Opera House more than once, and just debuted at number one on the ARIA charts. By every measure, she is a success story. But in this conversation, Melinda shares what was quietly happening behind all...

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text What if the clutter in your home isn't just stuff — it's a story you're still telling about yourself? In this episode, Danielle sits down with Cindy Kavanagh, former fashion photographer turned Swedish Death Cleaning practitioner, for a conversation about identity, letting go, and what's left when you strip it all back. Cindy...