You’re Gonna Want To Hear This

What if the person who was meant to protect you was the one you needed protection from?  This week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt speaks with world champion runner Jess Denham, who is telling her story publicly after years of being unable to do so.  Raised in isolation and controlled by her parents, Jess appe...

There comes a point on Tradwife TikTok when the fantasy turns dark. The soft linen, the homemade bread and the children who never cry give way to something else: subservient wives, the manosphere, and a fight over who's allowed to be angry.  Caro Claire Burke went looking, and wrote Yesteryear, the runaway-hit novel about an American tradwife influencer who wakes up in the brutal 1850s. This...

When everyone else swam for shore, Charlie Verco paddled the other way: straight towards a great white shark. On a clear, busy Saturday morning at Coogee Beach in June 2026, the 25-year-old surf lifesaver and elite board paddler was training when a woman, Leah Stewart, was attacked just ahead of him. What he did next made headlines around the world. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains detailed...

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains themes of childhood abuse, physical punishment, sexual trauma and coercive control. If you or someone you know needs immediate assistance, call 000. For confidential 24/7 crisis support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au. Support is also available through Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 or at beyondblue....

What happens when the search for answers becomes a dangerous obsession?  Georgie sits down with journalist and author Hannah McElhinney to discuss her book Wormhole , the true story of her cousin Lauren. Lauren spent much of her life battling debilitating symptoms and collecting diagnoses including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and POTS, while struggling to find meaningful answers fr...

Have you ever stood in a room wondering why you walked in, burst into tears over something small, or lain awake at 3am completely exhausted? You’re not going crazy, and you’re not “just busy”. It could be perimenopause. Dr Mary Claire Haver is one of the world’s leading voices in women’s health: a board-certified OB-GYN, menopause specialist and #1 New York Time...

CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses mental health challenges, including suicidal thoughts and ideation. If you or someone you know needs immediate assistance, call 000. For confidential 24/7 crisis support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au. Support is also available through Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 or at beyondblue.org.au.  What if the person yo...

What if the worst thing anyone ever said to you became the story that changed your life?  This week, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt sits down with playwright, screenwriter and memoirist Lally Katz to talk about My Cursed Vagina, her brutally funny, wildly honest and unexpectedly moving memoir drawn from the past fifteen years of her life.  Before the awards, thea...

Why do so many women wake up one day and feel like they want out? In this episode of You’re Gonna Want to Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt sits down with renowned psychoanalyst and bestselling author Stephen Grosz for a conversation about love, resentment, affairs, marriage, desire, emotional labour, and the complicated reality of trying to build a life with anot...

What does it take to sit across from one of the world’s most powerful men… and not flinch? In this week’s episode of  You’re Gonna Want To Hear This , Georgie McCourt sits down with legendary British broadcaster, journalist and author Emily Maitlis for a riveting conversation about career-defining interviews, the discipline of preparation, and why the b...

What happens when one of Australia’s most recognisable wellness voices, bestselling I Quit Sugar author and TED Talk speaker Sarah Wilson, stops talking about sugar and starts talking about the collapse of civilisation? This week, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with journalist, author and activist Sarah Wilson for one of the most provocative conversations You’re Gonna Wa...

What actually gives women pleasure, and why are we still so bad at talking about it? In this special Pleasure Issue episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt and Deputy Editor Mel Gaudron go inside the pages of the new issue, from the small joys that make life better to the bigger, messier conversations: They unpack the orgasm gap, why women are still sta...

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion about abuse and trauma.  Maggie Walters has lived a life most people could barely comprehend. Diagnosed in her twenties with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, Maggie came to understand that her mind had created different parts, or “alters”, to help her survive severe childhood trauma....

For more than a decade, journalist and activist Sherele Moody has been documenting the stories too often reduced to statistics - every known Australian woman and child killed by violence. Through Australian Femicide Watch and the Red Heart Movement, her work has become a powerful, living record - one that ensures these lives are seen, named and never forgotten. But this isn’t just advocacy f...

For decades, Lisa Wilkinson has been one of the most recognisable and trusted voices in Australian media - asking the questions, shaping the national conversation, and, at times, carrying the weight of the stories she tells. But in this episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, she turns the lens inward. Lisa joins Georgie McCourt for a candid conversation about what it really takes to buil...

Paralympic gold medallist Alexa Leary joins us for one of the most raw and powerful conversations we’ve ever had. At just 19, Alexa was involved in a catastrophic cycling accident that left her with a severe traumatic brain injury. Doctors told her family she wouldn’t survive. She lost her memory, had to relearn how to walk and talk, and now describes herself as living a “second...

In this episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This,  marie claire  editor Georgie McCourt sits down with one of Australia’s most fearless, funny and enduring voices - Kathy Lette. With more than 20 bestselling novels and a career spanning five decades, Lette has built a legacy out of saying the things women are often told not to say out loud - and making us laugh while she doe...

Could you survive a volcanic eruption? It's a question Stephanie Browitt never thought she'd have to answer. And yet in 2019, a volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s White Island changed Stephanie's life forever. At just 23, she suffered burns to 70 per cent of her body and lost her younger sister, Krystal, and her father, Paul, in the tragedy. Seven years later, she's written a book about it.&...

On an ordinary morning in a Sydney apartment building, Chloe and Christine - two neighbours who barely knew each other - were violently attacked by a stranger inside their own homes. Christine, a wellness therapist and yoga teacher, had just stepped into the shared laundry. Chloe, a photographer and mother of three, was working at her desk with her front door slightly open. Within minutes, both wo...

In this episode of  You’re Gonna Want To Hear This , marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with writer and author  Belle Burden  for a conversation about love, loss - and what happens when your life changes overnight. During the early days of Covid lockdown, Belle believed she was safe inside a happy, 20-year marriage. Then, within 24 hours, everything changed. A phone...

What does it feel like to grow up knowing you don’t quite fit the system around you? In this powerful episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, actors and advocates Georgie Stone and Chloe Hayden sit down for an honest conversation about identity, difference and the long journey to understanding yourself. Both women know what it’s like to move through the world feeling “ot...

In this powerful and deeply personal episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt speaks with Danielle Bensky - a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network - about grooming, silence, survival and the long road to reclaiming your voice. Before the headlines and court cases, Bensky was a 17-year-old ballerina in New York with dreams of a career i...

Now before 2014, today’s guest, Dr Lucy Hone, was a resilience psychologist studying how people cope with stress, uncertainty and change. She was immersed in the science of flourishing, working with schools, organisations and emergency response teams – and basically, helping others navigate unwanted disruption.  And then, on a bright morning in May 2014, her twelve-year-old daught...

This week on  You’re Gonna Want to Hear This , marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with Australia’s iconic Governor-General, Sam Mostyn, for a deeply personal conversation about power, purpose and the formula for a happy life.   When the Prime Minister called to ask whether she would accept the role, Mostyn had just 24 hours to dec...

In February 2014, Rosie Batty’s life changed “catastrophically and permanently” in a way most of us can barely comprehend. Her 11 year old son Luke was murdered by his father during what should have been a normal summer cricket practice. In the hours that followed, Rosie stood in front of cameras and, with extraordinary calm and clarity, gave voice to tens of thousands of victim...