The Miscarriage Rebellion

Professionally trained as police officers, Britt and Taz are no strangers to navigating heavy and distressing situations—yet nothing could prepare them for the devastating, invisible grief of losing their baby girl, Hazel, at 14 weeks. In this moving episode, the 2025 winners of The Block sit down with us to share their journey through miscarriage, the silent anxiety of pregnancy after loss with t...

Welcoming a "Rainbow Baby" after pregnancy loss is a deeply layered journey—one that was entirely ignored by the commercial world a decade ago. In this episode, Sam Payne sits down with Hana Krawchuk , founder of global infant sleepwear brand Love to Dream . Hana shares how a chance meeting at the Telstra Women in Business Awards sparked a seven-year partnership with Pink Elephants, shattered reta...

In this deeply moving episode, comedian and advocate Libby Parker shares her eight-year journey through eleven pregnancy losses, navigating medical misogyny, and finding hope beyond loss. Libby opens up about trusting her intuition, using humor to break down reproductive trauma, and ultimately rewriting her family narrative through foster care. Key Topics Covered Navigating Medical Misogyny: Facin...

In this episode of The Miscarriage Rebellion , host Sam Payne brings together the visionaries behind the clinical architecture and frontline execution of the Pink Elephants Peer Support Program: reproductive health specialist Terry Diamond and foundation peer support companion Maggi MacDonald. Together, they trace the decade-long journey of transforming a raw, grassroots desire for connection into...

In this profoundly honest and necessary episode of The Miscarriage Rebellion , Sam sits down with Nine News presenter Tracy Vo. Tracy bravely pulls back the curtain on her deeply personal journey through the heartbreaking and heavily stigmatised landscape of Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR) with her baby boy, James, and her subsequent path to welcoming her beautiful rainbow baby, Mila. Tracy...

What happens when an elite corporate leader brings her strategic mind and raw personal story to the fight for reproductive rights? In this episode of The Miscarriage Rebellion , Sam sits down with Katrina Groshinski—Chairperson of Pink Elephants and Chair of top-tier law firm Minter Ellison. Katrina has spent over seven years bridging corporate enterprise with a deeply empathetic commitment to pre...

For radio presenter Christie Hayes and her husband Justin, the road to building a family was a deeply personal path marked by long periods of trying to conceive. Ready to take the next step and begin IVF treatment, they were filled with absolute delight when they discovered they had fallen pregnant naturally. Tragically, that soaring joy was met with devastating heartbreak when they suffered a mis...

For driven professionals in corporate and public life, fertility challenges and early pregnancy loss are frequently treated as private battles. Grieving under the pressure of high-performance careers often leaves parents feeling forced to carry on without pausing to process their trauma. When Maddy and Julian Simmonds chose to break their silence after enduring nine rounds of IVF and three consecu...

Keira Rumble is a mother and entrepreneur who has used her platform to share her raw lived experience with multiple miscarriages, a life-threatening heterotopic pregnancy, and the realities of medical gaslighting. By stepping into the spotlight, Keira has worked tirelessly to shatter the structural silence that leaves thousands of women feeling entirely invisible in their darkest moments. In this...

In this incredibly raw and beautiful episode of The Miscarriage Rebellion , host Sam Payne brings listeners a vital, deep-dive discussion around the realities of compound grief, partner dynamics, and true community action. Guests Arty and Will join the show to share their profound journey of enduring five consecutive early pregnancy losses—including a deeply isolating termination for medical reaso...

Reflecting on a distinguished career at the forefront of reproductive medicine, Professor Bill Ledger—former Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick—has witnessed a profound cultural shift. Early in his career, the grief of early pregnancy loss was routinely pushed into the shadows. Today, while he acknowledges a welcome, hard-won openness in public conversat...

In this incredibly special, celebratory season of The Miscarriage Rebellion , host Sam Payne welcomes Natalie Khoury to share a story that beautifully illustrates a decade of Pink Elephants' community impact. Nat opens her heart about her deeply personal journey through recurring early pregnancy loss—experiencing three heartbreaking losses in quick succession after her marriage in 2024. With immen...

Ten years ago, The Pink Elephants Support Network wasn’t born in a corporate boardroom—it started over a single, pivotal cup of coffee between co-founders Sam and Gabbi. Brought together by a shared understanding of reproductive trauma and loss, they recognised a devastatingly ignored systemic void in the Australian healthcare model. In this episode, Sam sits down with co-founder Gabbi to look bac...

In the final episode of Season 2 of the podcast , our host Sam is joined by the phenomenal Dr. Jessica Zucker a Los Angeles-based psychologist specialising in women's reproductive and maternal mental health, and the author of I Had a Miscarriage and Normalize It . Dr. Jessica shares her personal and professional worlds colliding after her own devastating loss, including the traumatic experience of...

In another deeply moving episode, your host welcomes Samantha , a beloved Peer Support Coordinator for The Pink Elephants Support Network, who shares her extensive and intensely personal journey through loss. Samantha opens up about her five-year path with IVF , multiple miscarriages, and the heartbreaking decision to undergo a termination for medical reasons (TFMR) at 18 weeks after her waters br...

In this deeply personal and insightful episode of The Miscarriage Rebellion, host Sam interviews Sarah Mitchell, a Member of Parliament for New South Wales and former Minister for Education and Early Childhood. Sarah shares her own experience of early pregnancy loss, which ignited her passion for advocating for better support and policy change for families navigating fertility journeys. This conve...

This episode is the Somali language version of the interpreted English language discussion. At Pink Elephants we wanted to thank Hinda and the Africare community for their contribution to this podcast by providing them with this version of the conversation in Somali language. Thank you! In this deeply moving episode, we are joined by Hinda and Zahra, two inspiring women from the East African commu...

In this deeply moving episode, we are joined by Hinda and Zahra, two inspiring women from the East African community in Melbourne, Australia. Zahra, a registered nurse and midwife, works with East AfriCare, a program dedicated to supporting East African women, particularly those who are vulnerable, new to the country, and facing language and educational barriers, through the experience of miscarri...

Show notes: S2 E10: Reproductive Justice: Why Miscarriage Care Must Centre Marginalized Voices In this episode, Sam chats with the founder and executive director of the Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition (EPLC) , Isy Oderberg who shares her personal journey through seven pregnancy losses which ultimately inspired her to write a book. A key focus of the discussion is the central role of Reproductive Ju...

In this episode, host Stacey welcomes Lauren Sun , Pink Elephants' Peer Support Coordinator, to discuss the profound impact of peer support and the crucial need for caring for the carers . Lauren openly shares her personal history of loss, which includes three miscarriages , an ectopic pregnancy that required emergency surgery, and a vanishing twin that resulted in the birth of her son, Marcus. Sh...

In this episode, our host Stacey has a powerful conversation with comedian Sashi Perera , who shares her journey through four miscarriages and a taxing course of fertility treatments. Sashi immediately addresses the societal pressure to be "sad all the time" when experiencing loss, noting that she rejects the equation that anything less than a successful birth equals failure. As a comedian, she ha...

In this vital episode, the host speaks with two pillars of the Pink Elephants Support Network—Chairperson Katrina Groshinsky and Board Director Emma Costello —to discuss the organization's journey from breaking the silence to achieving systemic change. Katrina and Emma reflect on how Pink Elephants has shifted its focus from simply talking about miscarriage to ensuring every woman in Australia who...

In this crucial episode, our hosts are joined by Pink Elephants Service Delivery Manager Sophie Porter to dissect the traumatic reality of the "silence of scans" and the broken models of care for early pregnancy loss, drawing on both her research and lived experience. Sophie shares that literature and community stories clearly show that when women's needs are unmet at the point of care , their gri...

In this candid episode, the host welcomes Jacqui Maloney to share her journey through recurrent pregnancy loss and her fierce advocacy for the grief community in Western Australia. Jacqui recounts the devastation of her first loss which led to intense, unmanaged anger and isolation, where her coping mechanism was to return to work immediately and silence any conversation about her grief. Two years...

In this candid and vulnerable episode, Stacey welcomes Sarah Viliamu , a fierce advocate and content creator, to discuss navigating the deep isolation of recurrent pregnancy loss and the lingering anxieties of a subsequent pregnancy. Sarah shares her personal experience of enduring a missed miscarriage and a subsequent second loss after a complicated conception journey for her second child. She sp...