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Today, I’m Skyping with Trinny Woodall: TV host, author, fashion and makeover expert, founder of beauty company Trinny London.  Trinny is isolating in her London home with her family, including her teenaged daughter Lyla and her partner, 76 year old advertising executive Charles Saatchi. Her mother, in a care home, has been diagnosed with COVID19 and is a super-carrier.  I asked her about that, and how she's going running her business from home.  You can listen to Trinny on No Filter HERE.  And you can have a great time on her IGTV HERE.  And if you’re suffering from anxiety and need some support, check out our online anxiety course with psychologist Amanda Gordon here. Credits: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly newsletter here.  Guest: Trinny Woodall  Producer: Luca Lavigne  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tracey Cox knows about sex. She's been writing about it since before she was even having it.  Her books have taught generations of women how to receive and give pleasure in a way that gives them complete agency over their sex lives, and her new book is called Great Sex Starts At 50.  She's got advice and stories for every woman's sexual appetite: and she also reveals the surprising thing that can put a dampner on your sex life.  CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Tracey Cox Producer: Melanie Tait, Luca Lavigne Technical Producer: Ian Camilleri   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, I’m Skyping with Osher Gunsberg: TV host, podcast, author, mental health advocate and new dad. He and his partner Audrey recently had a baby called Wolfie and now they’re a family of four along with Audrey’s teenage daughter from a previous marriage. Osher had been three weeks into shooting the new season of the Bachelor when the decision was taken to close down production ,clear out the bachelor mansion and send everyone home. I asked him about that, about life as a new dad and about anxiety. You can listen to the other two No Filter interviews I’ve done with Osher  HERE and HERE. And you can listen to his podcast HERE. And if you’re suffering from anxiety and need some support, check out our online anxiety course with psychologist Amanda Gordon here. Credits: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly newsletter here.  Guest: Osher Gunsberg Producer: Luca Lavigne  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We wanted to update and revisit an interview I did with Holocaust survivor, Eddie Jaku, who describes himself as The Happiest Man Alive. Today his 100th birthday (I called up his granddaughter Danielle to find out how he's planning to celebrate) but as well as that, people are looking for wisdom and perspective and joy right now. Eddie is full of life, advice and stories about a world few people remember. A world that few people survived. A world that many people want to forget about. But not Eddie. Because that dark world ended up providing him with the biggest gift he could have wished for, life. Happy Birthday Eddie. The world is better and brighter for having you in it. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Eddie Jaku. Find out more about his story here.  Editor: Elise Cooper GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first time Simi Polonsky Hoffman was on No Filter, she was deep in grief.  Her husband, Shua, had died of a sudden illness, leaving her with two children and another on the way. Simi and her sisters run a clothing line in New York City inspired by their Orthodox Jewish Faith and without Shua, she didn't know what her future looked like.  But there's a new chapter in Simi's story that we are so happy to bring you today. Join us on No Filter to hear the story of hope we all really need at the moment.  Links: The Frock NYC CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Simi Polonsky Hoffman Producer: Melanie Tait, Luca Lavigne Technical Producer: Ian Camilleri   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, I’m Skyping with Turia Pitt- mining engineer, athlete, motivational speaker, author, mother and bloody legend. I wanted to ask her about how to cope with adversity and she has some sage advice.  You can listen to the other two No Filter interviews I’ve done with Turia  HERE and HERE. And you can buy her books and courses HERE. Listen to Turia on No Filter here, and here.  Recommendations: Tiger King, Dear Edward Credits: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram and get her free weekly newsletter.  Guest: Turia Pitt Producer: Luca Lavigne  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, I’m Skyping with Alison Brahe-Daddo - the iconic Australian model who married the iconic Australian TV host, Cameron Daddo, moved to LA, had three children and then moved back home a couple of years ago to start again. Again.  Here's my first No Filter interview with Alison ‘The Original Aussie Supermodel’ and my interview with Cameron Daddo. And the podcast they do together called Seperate Bathrooms. Join Mamamia's Anxiety Course -  learn how to grow your confidence, identify your anxious triggers and reclaim your life with simple and effective strategies. Credits: Host: Mia Freedman. You can find Mia on Instagram and get her free weekly newsletter.  Guest: Alison Brahe - Daddo Producer: Luca Lavigne  Editor: Elise Cooper Executive Producer: Melanie Tait   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You may know Julia from her columns in Australian newspapers and the New York Times and from the TV where she hosts daily current affairs show, The Drum on the ABC. She’s also written several books including an award winning biography of Queen Victoria. Her latest book though, is much more personal. A few years ago, Julia's life took an unexpected twist that brought with it many challenges and led her to write a new book about finding the light. It's called Phosphorescence: On Awe And Wonder And Things That Sustain You When The World Goes Dark and it's an incredibly uplifting book all about the ways in which Julia found the light in life again and again and again, in some very unlikely places. Join Mamamia's Anxiety Course -  learn how to grow your confidence, identify your anxious triggers and reclaim your life with simple and effective strategies. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Julia Baird Producer: Melanie Tait, Luca Lavig

Today I’m calling up Susan Carland - who is an academic, author, feminist and television presenter. She lives with her husband, Waleed Aly and their two children in Melbourne. Join Mamamia's Anxiety Course -  learn how to grow your confidence, identify your anxious triggers and reclaim your life with simple and effective strategies. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram @miafreedman and get her free weekly column here https://bit.ly/2w7wP8o  Guest: Susan Carland Producer: Luca Lavigne Editor: Elise Cooper ExecutiveProducer: Melanie Tait See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I’m calling up one of my best friends, Amelia Lester who some of you may know if you listened to the podcast we used to host together about Trump’s America called Tell Me It’s Going To Be Ok. Amelia and I met when she was the editor of the Good Weekend magazine and living in Sydney - it’s her hometown but she’s lived most of her adult life in America ever since she moved there to go to Harvard on a scholarship in 2001. She came home to Australia a few years ago for that big job but left again soon after to marry her partner who is a military doctor based in the US which is where she lives now. So what's it like living in the country that is now the #1 Corona country in the world? And what's it like being married to a doctor who is treating covid patients? We had a lot of laughs in this conversation. Enjoy. Mia xxxx Recommendations: TV: Breaking Bad,Curb Your Enthusiasm,The Office (USA), Mozart in the Jungle Cooking: Alison Roman  Credits: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here a

It's been nearly twenty years since Sara-Marie Fedele bum danced her way into the heart of any Australian who had a TV, during the first season of Big Brother.  Shortly after that, being one of the millions of Australians who fell in love with her, Mia put her on the cover of Cosmopolitan and nearly lost her job for it.  Sara-Marie paved the way, unintentionally, in so many ways: in the body positivity movement, in reality television and negotiating a life after her three months of enormous fame.  She's walked an unexpectedly fine line between public and private life over the last two decades - and Mia thought it was time to catch up. There's just no way you'll be listening to this conversation without smiling from ear to ear, pretty much the whole time.  It's time to fall in love with Sara-Marie again.  CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Sara-Marie Fedele Producer: Melanie Tait, Lucy Neville  Technical Producer: Ian Camiller

It's time now to hear about what happened to Susan next, after meeting Wayne and going to Spain with tragic consequences - to hear the first part of her story, click here. Never has the cliche “truth is stranger than fiction” applied more than to the woman on today's episode. You couldn’t make Susan Francis’s life up - it has too many twists. It begins with an adoption story and the mystery of her biological parents, it includes a secret sister, a heartbreaking confrontation, unexpected love and a series of events that were so dramatic that she had to write them down in a memoir just to make sense of them. It’s called The Love That Remains.  Read an extract of The Love That Remainshere.  CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Susan Francis  Producer: Melanie Tait  GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia, Australia's only women's media company. Y

Hey, it's Mia and I am dropping into your feed with a new series of mini-episodes of No Filter called How Are You Doing? - a special spin-off series of No Filter where I call someone to find out how they are doing in this strange new world we’re all living in. And what they're distracting themselves with! Today, I’m Skyping with Libby Trickett - the former Olympic Swimming Golden Girl with the best smile in Australia. You can listen to my No Filter interview with Libby here and read an extra from her book Beneath The Surface here. https://www.mamamia.com.au/libby-trickett-book-extract/ Recommendations Podcast: Brene Brown's Unlocking Us  TV: NBC's Parks and Recreation (streaming on Stan) TV: NBC's The Office (streaming on Stan) Libby's autobiography: Beneath The Surface  No Filter With Libby Trickett  Credits: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Libby Trickett  Producer: Luca Lavigne  Executive Producer: Melanie Tait  See omnystudi

Never has the cliche “truth is stranger than fiction” applied more than to the woman on today's episode. You couldn’t make Susan Francis’s life up - it has too many twists. It begins with an adoption story and the mystery of her biological parents, it includes a secret sister, a heartbreaking confrontation, unexpected love and a series of events that were so dramatic that she had to write them down in a memoir just to make sense of them. It’s called The Love That Remains.  Read an extract of The Love That Remainshere.  CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Susan Francis  Producer: Melanie Tait  GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia, Australia's only women's media company. You can find more of our award-winning podcasts to listen to here   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before they met one another, Kate Jones and Mandy Hose were both pregnant with twins at the same time. They each gave birth prematurely and after white-knuckling their way through the terrifying world of the newborn intensive care unit, eventually got to bring their babies home. In time, both Mandy and Kate's twins would be diagnosed with additional needs and so began a new life for their two families; lives that neither was prepared for and which would take them both to some really unexpected places. The similarities in their situations are almost unbelievable.  Somehow, Kate and Mandy found each other and forged a friendship in fire. But oh, how they make each other laugh. Now they're on No Filter, talking about how they met, and how their friendship has become an unlikely national phenomenon. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find her on Instagram here and get her free weekly column here.  Guest: Kate Jones and Mandy Hose, Too Peas In A Podcast  Producer: Melanie Tait  GET IN TOUCH: Call the P

If you have a vagina or live with anyone who has one, this episode is a must-listen. Dr Ginni Mansberg joins Mia to talk about the very unexpected things that start happening to your body as early as your late thirties and can continue for up to a decade.  Ginni is a GP in fifties who's just written a book called The M Word, which is full of things she wants everyone to know about menopause and it's little sister perimenopause. Ginni's own story is also lean-in interesting: she's mum of six to a blended family; she has her own skincare line as a side-hustle and she's a resident doctor on TV shows including Sunrise and Embarrassing Bodies.   Listen up and listen hard as, menopause is either going to happen, is happening or has happened, and Ginni has advice on how not just to survive but to thrive. The M Word  NEXT WEEK  The life giving power of female friendship - meet the Too Peas In A Podcast peas, Mandy and Kate.  CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman . You can find her on Instagram here and get her free we

Megan Gale was a superstar in Italy before Australians knew who she was.  She'd been ready to give up modelling when she landed a life-changing gig in Italy in the nineties. Her sudden fame overseas meant Australia finally learned her name and she spent a few years juggling careers in different countries. She was the face of David Jones for nearly two decades.  When the time came to start thinking about life outside modelling, she had a crack at acting and found herself cast as Wonderwoman years before the 2017 film made Gal Gadot a star.  Megan's now a Lady Startup and a mother of two, married to AFL/Survivor star Shaun Hampson. In this episode of No Filter, Megan talks Mia through her life as a model, becoming a Lady Startup and having a miscarriage... all in the public eye.  Link: https://www.themindfullife.com/ NEXT WEEK  Ginni Mansberg takes us into the world of Menopause with her new book The M Word.  CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  Guest: Ginni Mansberg Producer: Melanie Tait  GET IN TOUCH: Ca

Here are some things worth knowing about school life:  Teachers aren't on call for parents 24/7... and under no circumstances should a parent ever follow a teacher home from school to talk about their child. Seriously. That happens. Gabbie left teaching a few years ago and did odd jobs like cleaning while she wrote her first book, the best-selling 'Teacher'.  She's back now with a new book, 'Dear Parents', a sometimes uncomfortable look at how easy it is for parents to cross boundaries with teachers. In this episode, she joins Mia Freedman to talk about how parents can negotiate that relationship with the other adult in their children's lives... the teacher.  It's Gabbie's second time on No Filter, check out her first visit here: https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/no-filter/gabbie-stroud-broke-up-with-teaching/ Click here to subscribe to No Filter. We have a new podcast! If you are looking for love and are opening to trying something new, click here to listen to Eligible: https://mamamia.com.au/podcas

For anyone dreaming of starting their own business and being their own boss... the doors The Lady Startup Activation Plan are open for 2020! And we want you (and your business idea) to join us. Over six weeks, Lady Startup founder Mia Freedman will guide you through the steps you need to launch your business the right way, in a series of videos you can watch anywhere, anytime. So if you're ready to stop thinking about it, and actually take the first step towards becoming a Lady Startup click here: https://www.ladystartup.com/   We'll see you there! Not sure whether you've got an idea?  Check out the Lady Startup Idea Generator: https://www.ladystartup.com/pages/idea-generator/    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There is a stage in everyone’s life where you realise your parents are not bulletproof.  For some of us that comes when our mum or dad starts forgetting things or when they go through a period of unexpected turmoil. But for many of us, it often comes when a parent suddenly becomes unwell.  When journalist, author and screenwriter Amal Awad’s father was diagnosed with kidney failure, she made a surprising decision that changed so much for them and for her. In this episode, she joins Mia Freedman to talk about how, if we ever are going to truly get to know our parents, as people… it is going to happen in adulthood. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. We have a new podcast! If you are looking for love and are opening to trying something new, click here to listen to Eligible: https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts/eligible/ NEXT WEEK  Gabbie Stroud back in the studio to talk about what she wished parents knew about teaching. Click here to listen to the last time she was on No Filter: https://www.mamamia.com.