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Chances are you’re familiar with Lisa Messenger . This Australian entrepreneur is the CEO and founder of Collective Hub – a multimedia lifestyle platform that’s now expanded to the US, with stores selling its motivational merch. She has authored and co-authored 24 books; shares her wisdom at events all over the world; and has a devoted community of 155k followers on Instagram. In this episode, our...

After spending years trying to live up to Hollywood’s standards of the perfect body, and even battling a year-long eating disorder when she was 17, Hilary Duff decided to shift her focus to getting strong. She admits in the January issue of Women’s Health Australia: “Because of my career path, I can’t help but be like, ‘I am on camera and actresses are skinny. It was horrifying.” But now, Hil...

After the last few years of dealing with COVID and lockdowns and the climate crisis and political instability and rising interest rates, it’s so easy to lose hope. But a study from Harvard University of nearly 13,000 people in their 60s shows that hope might be exactly what we need. The researchers discovered that those who had more hope throughout their lives had better physical health, fewer chr...

If there's one person who knows how to get us excited about food, it's chef, mum, author and MasterChef alumna, Sarah Todd . From sticking to an incredibly strict and regimented diet during her modelling days to now embracing a more balanced approach that prioritises variety and phenomenal flavours, the Wanderlust Wellness Activist knows a thing or two about how to nail nutritional dishes that tas...

Pia Muehlenbeck is the OG Aussie Fitfluencer. With two million followers on Instagram and 390,000 on YouTube, she’s known for her hilarious reels and her impressive ability to lip sync viral sounds on Tiktok, and most recently, opened a holistic fitness studio called Change. Yet for Pia, through all her success, she grown to understand the importance of taking a step back, and prioritising the thi...

A new issue of Women’s Health hit the stands on Monday featuring the incredible Anna Heinrich in Seafolly, so we thought it would be a good time to revisit the chat we had with her earlier this year where she talks about how putting yourself through immense physical challenges can help you break out of your comfort zone. I hope you enjoy it. --- For most of her life, Anna Heinrich has suffered fro...

Are you eating enough? That’s the question we’re asking in today’s episode, which is all about fuelling your body and mind. Our guest is Marika Day, an accredited practising dietitian and a nutritionist, as well as the force behind fuelled – a new online nutrition and wellbeing platform in partnership with AIA Australia. In this catch-up with our managing editor Alex Davies, Marika reveals the sur...

Here’s a stat for you: up to 30 per cent of people in Australia have irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, according to Dietitians Australia. Research also suggests those with the condition have experienced an uptick in symptoms during the pandemic, thanks to all the changes brought about by these unprecedented times that have now become the norm.  If you’re nodding along right now, we think you’...

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr is now the most dominant CrossFit athlete in history after being crowned Fittest on Earth for the sixth year, and while there were rumours that this year might be her last competing, Tia isn’t done yet.  I caught up with Tia from her home in Nashville to talk about creating her dream life, the mindset that got her there, plus the training, nutrition and recovery it takes...

Alcohol had long been a part of Danni Carr’s world, from her early days growing up in central Victoria to her career as a gigging musician. Over the years, drinking impacted so many areas of her life – until one day she decided to team up with her husband and friends to go sober together. And it changed everything. Now, Danni uses her lived experience to help others, both through her work as...

This month, we’re celebrating the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 coming to Sydney by highlighting a different player each week in September. By the time Lauren Jackson retired due to injury in 2016 she was considered the greatest basketball player Australia had ever produced. She’s a four-time Olympic medallist, a three-time WNBA MVP and the only Australian player inducted into the Basketb...

This month, we’re celebrating the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 coming to Sydney by highlighting a different player each week in September. At the age of 16, Canadian Kia Nurse was already playing basketball for the national team. By 20, she made her Olympic debut at Rio and became a global role model for women in the sport. But while her long-standing career has been one of accolades and...

This month, we’re celebrating the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 coming to Sydney by highlighting a different player each week in September. When Jonquel Jones thinks back to growing up in the Bahamas, she recalls climbing mango trees at her grandmother’s house, and sneaking off to play basketball with her friends. But today, things are very different for the woman dubbed ‘the best player...

This month, we’re celebrating the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 coming to Sydney by highlighting a different player each week in September. Ezi Magbegor is considered among the most exciting rising stars of basketball – whether it’s in the US, Europe or back home in Oz, where she celebrated a WNBL Championship win this year with the Melbourne Boomers. But it’s with the Australian Opals th...

Have you ever felt like you were doing everything right to be healthier, and doing things that worked for you when you were younger, but no matter how hard you kept trying, you still felt blah? That’s the situation that Elle Macpherson found herself in when she met clinical nutritionist and naturopath Dr Simoné Laubscher. I’ll let Simoné get into the details of that meeting later in this episode,...

If there’s one thing we all deserve a bit more of in life: it’s pleasure. And our guest today is going to help us get exactly that. Christine Rafe is a sex therapist and sexual wellness expert for Womanizer . In this episode we talk about how to better communicate what you want in the bedroom, and tackle the first step in your pleasure quest: how to discover what it is that you actually like. We a...

Over the last two years, “survival mode” has been a constant state of being for Jesinta Franklin . But now, with a refreshed approach to her health and wellbeing, the Sydney-based model, businesswoman and Swisse ambassador has “come right”. In this episode, Jesinta chats candidly about postnatal depletion, dealing with mum guilt and why five-minute workouts are her jam. CREDITS: This podcast was h...

If you’ve ever skipped the cooldown at the end of a gym class, or pushed through another workout when you’re running on empty – guilty – this episode is for you. Because, friends, we’re talking about recovery. Professor Shona Halson is a leading expert in the fields of sport performance and recovery, who has worked with the Australian Institute of Sport and the Australian Olympic team, as well as...

This week, the fittest humans on the planet are competing in the CrossFit Games . For Aussie athlete Kara Saunders , this year’s Games will be her 10th. It’s an incredible milestone, considering she didn’t have much of a fitness routine before she discovered the sport. In this episode, Kara shares how a conversation with her mum about going to the gym changed the direction of her life and how she...

If you’re a fan of Luxe Listings Sydney, you’ll know D’Leanne Lewis, the real estate agent boss who has dominated the industry over the past 20 years. In the Amazon Prime Video series we see the single mum of two kill it with the younger agents, while also bringing up two small humans and maintaining a good fitness routine. Well, make that soon-to-be three small humans. At 50, D’Leanne – who is al...

Rewind your mind back to 2020. No, not the first optimistic month but the moment we all realised the pandemic had taken hold of the world and our lives had changed forever in ways we were yet to know. It was during that time, quarantined in South Africa and far away from her family and friends in the UK, that actor Ella Balinska spent her days in an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies that were t...

It’s been a couple of years now since Rebel Wilson completed her “Year of Health”, overhauling her lifestyle and making changes that have had a lasting positive effect on both her physical and mental health . Now if you’ve done the odd 12-week challenge in the past and then immediately slipped back into your old habits once the last session was over, you’re probably curious about how Rebel ha...

Most of us came to know Brooke Blurton from The Bachelorette , when she made headlines around the world as the first Indigenous and openly bisexual woman to take the lead in the franchise’s history. But as any one of Brooke’s 200,000 followers will know, reality TV is merely a footnote in her life story. Growing up in the country town of Carnarvon on Kuwinywardu land, Brooke’s childhood was one pu...

**In this episode, we discuss suicide ideation and postpartum depression. If you are struggling or having suicidal thoughts or worried about someone you know, please call 000, Lifeline on 13 11 14 or ruok.org.au. If you or someone you know needs support for postpartum depression, visit PANDA.org.au.** Chelsea Pottenger is a motivational speaker and accredited mindfulness & meditation coach. Sh...

There are only a handful of trainers who can claim a following like Kelsey Wells . You may even be one of her 2.4 million followers on Instagram . Well this year, Kelsey launched a program on the Sweat app called Redefine Fitness: Strength and Mindfulness . Now I assumed that the program was based on the premise that strength training could be a form of moving meditation, like yoga, because that’s...