Grab Her By The Mic

A duck pecked the President of Mexico, got a Netflix meeting, and was personally rejected by FIFA - all in the same fortnight. That's this week's spiral, and it's not even the weirdest story. Han is recording from her parents' house where the school holidays are in full swing, the hormones have staged at least one coup, and a child has been caught stroking a face with a ripped-off toenail during H...

Han found her dream career change this week: not Head of People, not podcaster - bear. A Chinese zoo is hiring humans to wear bear costumes and over 100 people already applied. This week on Grab Her By The Mic , a zoo in China is openly hiring humans to dress as black bears - six hour shifts, purring only, no ventilation in the costume. Canada has given trees legal rights, prompting the internet t...

The CIA spent $20 million surgically wiring a cat for espionage. It got hit by a taxi on its first mission. That's just one of the true stories in this episode - plus Han's deep dive into Taylor Swift's Easter eggs. This week on Grab Her By The Mic , Han goes fully forensic on Taylor Swift's Easter eggs for The HyperFix , and honestly, we're not okay. It started with the Toy St...

A friend got pulled over after school drop-off and tested positive for meth. It was her ADHD medication. Han has questions. This week on Grab Her By The Mic opened with a phone call. A friend - we're calling her Poppy - got pulled over after school drop-off on a Wednesday morning, tested positive for meth, and it was the Vyvanse. Han, who is on two and a half times the dose, had several feelin...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , Han survived five birthdays in one weekend, a junior disco at an illegal decibel level, a pinata wielded like a weapon by a four-year-old, while Philsy survived a Hello Fresh salesman who stood at her door for 40 minutes in the cold while the curry went cold inside. She was late because of it. Standard. This week's Weekly Spiral accidentally became National G...

It's episode 25 of Grab Her By The Mic - a quarter of a century (kind of) of being completely unqualified in your ears - and this one has everything. We kick off Recap & Rosé in full Flubber energy (cold sores, dirty hair, a botched haircut, and a son who said "ha ha sucker" at the preschool gate), before spiralling into three Weekly Spiral stories that cover a French teenager wh...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , Han reports that her four-year-old has declared war on her personally, Philsy has a possum update that nobody asked for but everyone needed, and together they spiral through three news stories that are somehow all equally unhinged. Australian Fashion Week had a fire alarm, a woman being dragged across the runway by her ankles, and Ian Thorpe sitting front row loo...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , a friend told Han that a local high school installed a litter box for students who identify as cats. Han lost her mind about it for a week, went down a rabbit hole, and came back with something way more sinister than a rumour about cats Philsy went full correspondent mode on the 2026 Met Gala - best dressed (Kris Jenner and Cara Delevingne), worst dressed (Heidi...

Episode 22 of Grab Her By The Mic opens with a debrief that goes places. Han's husband planned a date night and she immediately suspected she was being broken up with. Philsy went to the Hunter Valley, drank a lot of wine, and returned a self-declared expert. One of them relaxed into a genuinely slow weekend. The other one is still processing it. Classic. The Weekly Spiral covers the three sto...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we're spiralling through the headlines, hyperfixating on what's actually going on in Australia right now, and playing a game that Madonna definitely inspired. In our brand new segment, the Weekly Spiral , we unpack Kim K and Lewis Hamilton's beach snog, Madonna rising from under the Coachella stage in a twenty-year-old corset (that someone then lost o...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , Philsy is fresh from Byron with a tan, a gland infection and a bag of antibiotics that have wrecked her gut. Han spent the second week of school holidays selectively pretending she didn't have children, then got sinus-infected mid-Sudafed-license-handover and survived to tell the tale.  Han's hyper fix dives headfirst into "slow motherhood" - we...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , Han deep dives into the meaning of dreams after crying at an Easter girls' lunch because of a dream she had about Philsy quitting the podcast. Yes, really. Spoiler: Philsy isn't going anywhere. The dream was fake. The emotional damage was very real. Philsy weighs in from a Byron Bay holiday, reports that she has purchased parachute pants and toe-cleavage...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we started with a wholesome morning walk up a mountain. We looked out over a beautiful view, breathed in the fresh air, and immediately started workshopping the logistics of disposing of a body. It escalated. From there we somehow made it to Recap & Rosé - a French rosé that scored 91/100 and is described as "a beautifully subtle honeysuckle pink colour....

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , Han spirals into a full nervous system meltdown , complete with fringe-cutting, sleep deprivation, and a GP intervention that was less “gentle advice” and more “girl, stop before you accidentally unlock psychosis.” We unpack what stress actually does to your body, why millennials are apparently incapable of resting without guilt, and the deeply offensive reality...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we hand over the mic for our very first proper Her Mic Moment and honestly, we started with a good one. We’re joined by Dani from Walking Your Path , a Southern Highlands small business owner, nursing student, mum of three, and crystal woman of the people. Before we get there, Recap & Rosé delivers exactly what you’d expect from us: a neighbour’s car spontane...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic we unpack women in comedy and the subtle double standards that make the room feel different when a female comedian grabs the mic. From a Newcastle comedy night to Aussie mateship culture and workplace code-switching, we dive into why confidence and explicit humour land differently depending on who’s delivering the punchline. We also spiral into low-tox living (one...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we recover from Noah’s birthday party like it was a combat mission, unpack why kids’ parties have become miniature Met Galas, and deep-dive into the emotionally feral science of ADHD planning spirals (dopamine + time blindness + social comparison = a perfect storm). We also get swept up in Wuthering Heights discourse (because Philsy hyperfixed, mispronounced it,...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we hired a witch (for journalism), investigated whether girls’ nights are medically necessary, and questioned if ancient rituals and bedroom euphemisms are now culturally indistinguishable. We unpack suspiciously perfect wedding weather, the psychological rise of modern witchcraft, and the deeply chaotic moment when someone casually says “burying the sausage” lik...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we’re unpacking grey hair as unpaid labour, milk becoming a political personality, and the quiet realisation that everything is… slightly unwell. We deep-dive into why ageing isn’t the problem but managing it is, why women are expected to metabolise time gracefully while men simply exist, and how you can be doing “everything right” and still be betrayed by your r...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we’re unpacking a very millennial comeback, a very burnt carbonara, and the very real experience of your brain’s spam filter being completely on strike. We deep-dive into why kids’ whinging isn’t just annoying when you have ADHD, why some brains can’t filter noise, and why “just ignore it” is the least helpful sentence ever spoken. We also cover: The recent Sydne...

BONUS: Emergency Hotline - Brooklyn Beckham Just Went Scorched Earth We jumped on an emergency call to debrief the Brooklyn Beckham chaos, because it’s everywhere and the allegations are… a lot. This episode is commentary on public reporting. We don’t know these people, we weren’t there, and we’re not alleging wrongdoing - we’re reacting to what’s being reported. In this bonus ep, we unpack: Why B...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic , we’re coming to you from day three of a family holiday - also known as the exact moment everyone’s nervous system gives up. We deep-dive into the science behind why day three is when kids (and adults) lose their minds, why novelty is exhausting, and why “just relax” is the least helpful sentence ever spoken. We also cover: Why holidays don’t relax you - they just...

This week on Grab Her By The Mic, we cover absolutely everything and also nothing, including: The heatwave that is personally trying to take us out Travelling and packing for long trips with small children (a logistics exercise and a psychological thriller) Byron Bay , and the basic bitch uniform The Housemaid movie, including some extremely important questions about lips and husbands And a full,...

Welcome back to Grab Her By The Mic - the podcast for women who enter the new year with goals, intentions, and absolutely no guarantee of follow-through. This week, we’re talking New Year’s resolutions - what we want to achieve this year, what we’re pretending we’ll achieve, and why we’re making the deeply unhinged decision to hold ourselves publicly accountable so the internet can keep receipts....

Ho, ho, holy shit - it’s Christmas and we’re tired. This week, Han and Philsy recap the kind of festive chaos that makes you question every life decision you’ve ever made. Han delivers a masterclass in Christmas magic while literally shitting herself, only to wake up to an empty stocking and a fresh batch of resentment. Meanwhile, Philsy attempts “trad-wife energy” in New Zealand, visits an abatto...