After Work Drinks

Hello gorgeous listeners. We’re very excited for this week’s episode with the truly brilliant Liv Little. Liv is the creator and former editor of gal-dem, a magazine created exclusively by women and nonbinary people of colour. gal-dem is a rare print magazine success story, building a cult audience while simultaneously helping to change up the UK’s wildly white media landscape (94% of British jour...

After we left you all last week, the wild Dominic West drama unfolded in truly unexpected ways, including a random paparazzi shoot that literally no one asked for and more people spilling the tea on his time with Lily James in Rome. Then, a story that almost tops the listener who drove 11.5 hours for a quarantine bous; a ghosting template everyone can use after a date; Grace’s worst Tinder story,...

This week we’re so excited to be speaking to the wonderful Flex Mami. Flex is a self-described multidisciplinary millennial in media: A DJ, an MTV presenter, a podcast host, a business owner of a critical thinking card game called Reflex, the owner of an e-commerce site called Flex Factory, a DIY queen, and an author to be. Plus, she’s one of our favourite Australians on the internet. We speak to...

Hello our favourite humans on planet earth and welcome to another episode. This week, Izzy's fleeing from fighting Karens on the tube, Grace is continuing to set fire to things, and we reminisce about an iconic man named Adam. Then, it's onto mindless celebrity gossip: Why is Kourtney Kardashian pulling a T-Swift/Tom Hiddleston with 20-year-old TikTok star Addison Rae? Who is the iconic celebrity...

We are so excited about this week’s episode featuring Drag Race royalty, Trixie Mattell and Katya Zamolodchikova. As any Drag Race fans will know, Trixie and Katya appeared on the seventh season of the show and went on to create their own empire, becoming two of the biggest drag celebrities on the planet, with a combined 4.3 million followers on Instagram, a YouTube show called ‘UNHhhh’, a Vicelan...

Hello everyone! Welcome to the second year of AWD, which we celebrated a week late because we had a big ol’ bust up lol. So naturally, we’re talking about friendship fights, love languages when it’s not your lover and levelling up now that we know what makes each other tick. Then it’s onto @DeuxMoi - again - because there’s been some juicy bits in the DMs this week, a lot of which includes stories...

Hello angels. This week we’re so excited to be speaking to Raven Smith. Raven is a Vogue columnist, freelance creative director, guest lecturer at Central Saint Martin’s, and the author of the best-selling book Raven’s Smith’s Trivial Pursuits. But most importantly, he’s our favourite person on Instagram. A couple of years ago his hilarious captions started to get a cult following, including...

This week, we're talking about a rumoured Harry Styles romance that we can truly get behind; the question of whether we’re all ageing right (or completely wrong); Lizzo's long-overdue Vogue cover - and the confused personal branding of post-Megxit Harry and Meghan. Then, it's onto dissecting the This Is Paris - Paris Hilton's equal parts compelling and confusing documentary/personal branding exerc...

Hello lovely humans and welcome to another weekend edition of After Work Drinks With… This week we’re speaking to the remarkable Liz Goldwyn. Liz is a member of Hollywood royalty—her grandfather, Samuel Goldwyn, helmed the iconic MGM studio and her father, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. was one of the industry’s most celebrated independent producers. But Liz took a slightly different path from the rest of her...

Welcome everyone to the first proper AWD episode in six (!) whole months, where we’re seated in the same room drinking from the same bottle of wine and ready to tell you all about our drunken emails to our idols and a very exciting celebrity sighting. Then it’s onto the two biggest digital events of the week: the Emmys and the A-list Zoom call featuring Brad and Jen, an incredible Shia LaBeouf and...

Hello lovely angels. Welcome to another episode of After Work Drinks With… This week we’re speaking to JessB, who, over the last couple of years, has been building a reputation as one of the most promising and thoughtful rappers to emerge out of New Zealand - a spotlight usually dominated by one of her male peers.  Jess has already won a bunch of awards including the Best New Zealand Act at t...

Up this week, we discuss the legend that is Naomi Osaka, how Katie Holmes is seemingly dating a Type-A Fuckboy and how Zac Efron found a cute Aussie girlfriend at a cafe. Then it’s onto the new Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, which proved what we already know (that we’re all addicts who need to go to phone rehab), while revealing some pretty scary insights into how much these apps know ab...

This week we’re talking to Alexis Haines, who you will probably know her by her maiden name, Alexis Neiers. Alexis was a pop culture sensation in the late noughties - star of the reality TV series 'Pretty Wild', and best known for her involvement in the infamous ‘Bling Ring’, a group of LA teens who were sentenced to prison for a string of burglaries of high profile celebrities in 2009. The case w...

Hello our favourite batch of humans. Welcome to another cross-country episode! This week, Izzy is officially back in London but Grace is galavanting in Italia. We have a frank discussion about revisiting places where you've experienced trauma, what growing up religious taught us (if anything?) and whether or not you should ever get back with your ex, a la Khloe Kardashian. Then, it's into a New Yo...

This week we are sooooo thrilled to be speaking to the iconic feminist author Naomi Wolf. This year is the 30th anniversary of her seminal book, The Beauty Myth - a book which changed both our lives (and which you would’ve heard us and AWD fave Florence Given reference many times before). We talk to Naomi about the ways beauty standards continue to oppress women, how women are pressured to be comp...

If you’re from NZ, you’ll need no introduction to the powerhouse that is Chlöe Swarbrick who was elected age 23, making her the country’s youngest MP in over 40 years and who has since gone on to become a sort of AOC figure thanks to her no bullshit nature and insistence that she doesn’t have to give up on her personality - band tees included - just to be taken seriously in parliament. Internation...

Izzy, pro surfer, has discovered a hot new gentleman who’s already pretty damn famous and Grace has finally listened to a recommendation: the brilliant new show Lovecraft Country, which we discuss on today's episode. Man Repeller founder Leandra Medine has returned to Instagram accompanied by a lengthy blog piece detailing her absence after the company was accused of racist practises. But does her...

We are so stoked that our first episode back from break is with Jari Jones, the incredible producer, model and activist whose Calvin Klein billboard, which was debuted on Juneteenth in New York City in the middle of Black Lives Matter and Pride Month, went completely viral, skyrocketing her into the spotlight - exactly where she belongs. We speak to Jari about trans inclusion in the fashion indust...

We're back, baby! Up this week: surfing Malibu with Jonah Hill and the one time a former Bachelor frontrunner slid into Grace's DMs. Then it's onto Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's new song, WAP. Is the backlash - and a petition with over 70,000 signatures - over Kylie Jenner’s cameo justified? Why are men so shocked when women talk about their own bodies? WTF is a gushie? And the hilarious viral...

This week, we’re so excited to be speaking with British journalist and feminist author Caitlin Moran, whose 2011 book ‘How To Be A Woman’ is credited by everyone from Clementine Ford to our very own Grace O’Neill as being one of the books that originally got them embracing the feminist movement. Now, another of Caitlin's books, a true-ish story of her life as an up-and-coming music journalist...

Hi! It's our final ep before our mid-year break! This week, we're fangirling over Ziwe, the comedian you need to be following, who uses comedy to discuss racism, baiting her (usually white and unsuspecting) guests in a way that’s both essential and uncomfortable to watch. Then, it's onto a brief chat about how the Melbourne woman in quarantine and the security guard, who are rumoured to be to blam...

We’re so, so excited to bring you this week’s conversation with Brandon Kyle Goodman, an actor and producer who you probably know from the likes of ‘Modern Love’ (yes, he’s kissed Hot Priest) and ‘Feel the Beat’. But more recently, Brandon has been front and centre because of his viral videos on the topic of race, some of which have garnered millions of views. Brandon has been an incredibly instru...

Hello and welcome to another episode of After Work Drinks. We're starting on a somber note today, as three of the biggest fashion magazines in Australia - coincidentally the magazines that brought us together all those years ago - are closed. We talk about the legacies of ELLE , InStyle and Harper’s BAZAAR and (try to) instil a little hope in all you aspiring young writers about the future of the...

Welcome sweet angels to another episode of After Work Drinks With. This week, we're speaking with Pandora Sykes, journalist, author and co-host of the incredibly popular British podcast, 'The High Low'. Ahead of the release of her first book, ‘How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?’, we speak to Pandora about everything from the social identity of motherhood and what it means to be 'flattened' as a...

Hello angels! We are so bloody excited for you to hear this one. On today's episode, we’re speaking to Florence Given, the British woman who became an internet sensation by encouraging women everywhere to dump their shitty boyfriends. Florence is an activist, an ally, and an author, with her first book, 'Women Don’t Owe You Pretty' (already a bestseller in the UK) out in Australia this week. We sp...