The Change

Dr Dimity Williams is a mother, nature lover, family doctor and advocate of nature protection for health’s sake. She is also the author of Nature, Our Medicine: How the natural world sustains us. On this episode Dr Williams chat to Cathy and Laura about writing ‘nature prescriptions’ for her patients and why just a few minutes in nature each day can help our mental and physical health. She describ...

Cathy and Laura are back for season 2!  Just a warning this episode contains a bit of swearing so don’t listen around little ears if this is a worry for you.  Catch up with Cathy and Laura as they have a change chat about all the things that have been tumbling through their minds over the season break.  They reflect on their recent birthdays, life, relationships and other things women in their mid...

Season 2 of The Change Podcast is Coming Soon! Hosts: Cathy O’Brien https://www.instagram.com/cathy_l_obrien/ Laura Jackel https://www.instagram.com/lauracjackel/ Audio Producer:  Marissa Roberts: https://www.instagram.com/marissarobertsofficial/ Thanks for listening to The Change, a fully independent podcast.  We appreciate your support and listens, so if you like what we do please tell your frie...

In this bonus episode we reflect on a fantastic first season and pull out some of our biggest learnings. Cathy explains why she feels less invisible than she did at the start of season 1 and Laura shares some of the changes she wasn’t honest about in episode 1. This is the last episode in season 1 and we’ll be back in May 2024 with more inspirational, smart women telling great stories about change...

Our last episode for season one  is with the phenomenal and incredibly accomplished Jessie Stephens. We all worked together at Mamamia and it a fabulous episode where we talk to Jessie about motherhood, writing a book (or two in Jessie’s case), being an aunty and everything in between.  Anyone who is a Mamamia follower might remember the disagreement that Mia and Jessie had about being a stay at h...

Not everyone hits 50 and feels invisible as today’s guest proves! Meet Teresa McNamara, a makeup guru and single parent to two now adult women who upended her life in her mid-forties and just a few years later was the happiest she has ever been. At 50 she married her soulmate, and at 53 she launched her YouTube channel thats filled with relatable and practical makeup and skincare tutorials.  Alway...

Imagine discovering in your mid-thirties that you were adopted and had a whole other family that had been searching for you for years?  For Louise Wilkinson, dance school director and motivational speaker, this is exactly what happened when she received a surprise letter in the mail from her biological mother.  But rather than let this shock news upend her life in a negative way, the letter and th...

Writer, mother and self-confessed over-sharer Cathrine Mahoney has been through some big changes in the last decade. She split from former NRL player and TV commentator, Andrew Johns, and began dating again in her forties.  She went from a career as a publicist to a podcaster, author and TV panel regular.  We chat to Cathrine about all of these big career and relationship changes, as well as what...

Lizza Gebilagin is a writer, podcaster and former editor-in-chief of Women’s Health magazine. She’s also a super fit mum who didn’t let a pandemic stop her pursuing her dreams!  We chat to Lizza about her huge career changes that saw her leap from magazines to digital and back again and how she really managed the motherhood juggle alongside her dream editor-in-chief job.  We discuss Lizza’s amazin...

In this extended episode we have a heartfelt conversation with Jacynth Bassett all the way from the UK, we explore her reasons for the creation of The Bias Cut. Jacynth's vision for The Bias Cut has blossomed into a beacon of change in the fashion industry in the UK and beyond.  We explore the origins of The Bias Cut, its impact on age-inclusive fashion, and the powerful narrative behind this...

When we are parents to littles we all have this vision that when our littles become big, being a parent will be somehow easier. So what happens to our sense of who we are when we get relegated to the sidelines and are no longer the participant parent in our kids' lives?  In this episode we speak with Bron about life as a mum and how this has evolved over the past nearly 20 years, and what she...

Have you heard of the term “sexually nebulous”? We hadn’t prior to speaking with Amy! This episode we speak with Amy Lovat about her big change - falling in love with her soulmate Laura after years of dating men.  Amy is the author of Mistakes and Other Lovers, founder of Secret Book Stuff and program manager of the Newcastle Writers Festival.  Credits:  Amy Lovat: https://www.instagram.com/thatam...

Have you ever wondered why some people breeze through change and others find it to be their kryptonite?  We speak to Tracey Williams a registered clinical psychologist about the psychology of change. She helps us unpack some of the big questions around change, and we also talk about how it is possible to ‘flip the script’ on change and get a little more comfortable with it even in the darkest mome...

Get to know Laura and Cathy, your hosts of The Change as we chat about some of our biggest life changes in recent times that have shocked or rocked us.  We get real about how we feel about change with no judgment or shame and we discuss our experiences and feelings about “The Change”, a life stage otherwise known as the menopause and perimenopause.  Mentions:  Cathy’s article:  'I'm in my...

The Change is a podcast about the changes in life that shake, break and make us. Coming soon to wherever you get your podcasts!