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Losing My Child, Cancer & a Heart Transplant: How Nic Russell Survived

5K views · 5d ago · 1:14:07

In 2005, Nic Russell’s two-year-old daughter, Kenzie, was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer. Months later, while Kenzie was still in treatment, Nic was diagnosed with breast cancer herself. Kenzie died just after Christmas that year. She was three.

Topics: Growing Up in Ireland & Relocating to New Zealand · Kenzie's First Symptoms & Fighting to Be Heard · Spinal Tumour Diagnosis & Childhood Cancer Battle · A Shocking Discovery: Nicola’s Own Cancer Diagnosis · Kenzie's Final Days and Saying Goodbye · The Reality of Surviving Grief & Humour as a Lifeline

Belinda Carlisle: “How Could You Stay With Me?”

7.7K views · 1w ago · 43:05

Guests: Belinda Carlisle, Kate Langbroek

A week into her sobriety, Belinda Carlisle broke down in the middle of Harrods and called her husband with one question: how could you stay with me? Belinda has lived more lives than most. She started the Go-Go’s with a group of girls from the LA punk scene who had never played a note, and within three years they had the first number one album by an all-female band who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments.

Topics: The Breakdown in Harrods & Surviving Addiction · Why the "G’day and Goodbye" Tour is the Final One · How Five Girls Knowing Nothing Built The Go-Go's · Learning to Sing & Struggling with Imposter Syndrome · Family Dysfunction & The Need to Prove Everyone Wrong · "Pretty and Plump": Toxic Media & Weight Pressures

Judith Lucy Wrote the Book on Wellness. Then She Got Cancer

24K views · 2w ago · 1:13:29

Judith Lucy wrote the book on wellness. Then she got cancer. Just days before her scheduled double mastectomy, Judith joins her longtime friend Kate Langbroek for a conversation that is as funny, frank and deeply personal as you’d expect.

Everyone Knows Rodger Corser. Almost Nobody Knows The Real Him

9.4K views · 3w ago · 59:55

Rodger Corser has played a jackaroo, a detective, a cop and a heart surgeon, and for most of his career he's been very good at not telling us much about himself. In this episode Kate gets him talking. He takes us back to the pub bands he played from age 16, and to the film school degree that was supposed to put him behind the camera. He tells the story of walking into the Rent audition with no plan and walking out with the lead, and of the notorious party cast that followed.

Koko Casey Survived A Plane Crash. She Almost Didn't Survive What Came After

10K views · 1mo ago · 1:16:02

Koko Casey was a flight nurse. She spent her career flying into disaster zones and distant countries, keeping critically ill strangers alive at 30,000 feet, until the night a routine medical retrieval turned into the plane crash she was never supposed to survive. On the 17th of November, 2009, the jet she was working on ran out of fuel in a storm off Norfolk Island and ditched into the ocean at close to 200 kilometres an hour. Koko and everyone else on board lived.

"I Didn't Know How to Deal With It": Jason Donovan on the Years That Almost Broke Him

15K views · 1mo ago · 1:04:47

Jason Donovan has spent almost forty years being reinvented in public: teen heartthrob, chart-topping pop star, tabloid cautionary tale, musical theatre mainstay. In this conversation with Kate, he finally puts it all together in his own words, including the night at LA's Viper Room he still doesn't love talking about, and what he now understands about why it happened.

Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out

10K views · 1mo ago · 1:05:56

Guest: Kate Langbroek

Jennifer Robinson has spent her career standing beside people who have found themselves up against some of the most powerful institutions in the world. The Australian human rights lawyer has represented Julian Assange and Amber Heard, and her new documentary Silenced examines what can happen to women who speak publicly about violence and abuse.

Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't.

23K views · 2mo ago · 1:03:28

Ally Langdon has spent more than 25 years at Channel Nine, reporting from war zones and natural disasters for 60 Minutes, surviving the brutal hours of breakfast television and eventually taking over one of the most coveted chairs in Australian TV as host of A Current Affair.

"I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw

9.2K views · 2mo ago · 1:03:43

Guest: Kate Langbroek

Jessie Stephens, co-host of Mamamia Out Loud and bestselling author, sits down with Kate Langbroek for a completely candid conversation about the last six months of her life. Ten weeks early, on the day she finished up for maternity leave, Jessie gave birth to twins Margot and Harry, while at home raising her toddler daughter, Luna.

Topics: The Reality of Premature Twins & The NICU · Starting a Career at Mamamia · The Shocking Difference Between Twins & Singletons · The Best Parenting Advice: Falling Down the Stairs Drunk · Postpartum Depression and Motherhood Guilt · Office Drama: Marrying the Boss's Son

The Truth About Sophie Delezio's Miraculous Life

28K views · 2mo ago · 1:10:19

Most Australians met Sophie Delezio when she was two years old, after a car crashed into her childcare centre and left her fighting for her life. She survived — and then, extraordinarily, survived a second catastrophic accident just a few years later. She grew up in hospitals, in the headlines, and in the hearts of a country that has been quietly following her ever since.

Topics: Finding Joy After Trauma · The 2003 Accident That Changed Everything · Waking Up Without Legs · The Unbelievable Second Accident · Moving to London for Independence · The Journey to Motherhood

The Pressure Behind Liane Moriarty's Big Little Truths

7.9K views · 2mo ago · 1:12:39

Liane Moriarty is one of the most successful authors in the world — the writer behind Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, Apples Never Fall and The Husband's Secret. Now, for the first time in her career, she's written a sequel: Big Little Truths, returning to Madeline, Celeste and the rest of the Big Little Lies world a decade on.

Topics: The Audacity of Casting Meryl Streep · The Terror of Writing Big Little Truths · Liane's Secret Writing Process · How Envy Launched Her Career · Real-Life Inspiration for Madeleine's Cancer Scare · Getting the Call from Nicole Kidman

Harriet Dyer Built A Hit Show. It Nearly Took Over Her Life

24K views · 2mo ago · 1:08:08

Want to listen before everyone else? Harriet Dyer spent years chasing an acting career, navigating rejection, self-doubt and the uncertainty that comes with trying to make it in one of the toughest industries there is. Then she co-created Colin From Accounts with her husband, Patrick Brammall—and everything changed.

Topics: Harriet Dyer's Secret to Surviving Shyness · Growing Up in Townsville & Finding the Stage · Dealing with Brutal Rejections & NIDA · The Harsh Reality of Acting: Invisible Man Set · Why "Colin from Accounts" is Officially Ending · Balancing Hollywood, Marriage & Motherhood

Amy Shark Got Everything She Wanted. Then She Hit The Wall

5.6K views · 3mo ago · 1:03:09

Amy Shark doesn't know how ended up here. Before the ARIA Awards, the platinum records and sold-out tours, there were years of cover gigs, day jobs, rejected demos and wondering whether it was finally time to give up. She came within days of walking away from music altogether before one song, Adore, changed everything.

Topics: Ten years since Adore, and the pedestrian life before it · Gold Coast childhood, three nans, and a lawyer at nine · Finding her voice, and Shane finding it first · Tiny gigs, the first triple J spin, and no money in it · Turning 30, then Adore, then careful what you wish for · Losing Nan

Why Dave Hughes Is Risking His Comedy Legacy For Politics

100K views · 3mo ago · 1:18:37

For more than three decades, Dave Hughes has made Australia laugh. But behind the unmistakable voice and self-deprecating humour is a man who's spent much of his life trying to understand what drives him.

Topics: Growing Up in Warrnambool & Working-Class Roots · Country Footy and Australian Drinking Culture · ADHD, University Dropout, and Abattoir Work · The Childhood Dream of Stand-Up Comedy · Quitting Alcohol and Getting Sober in 1992 · Bombing on Stage & Cracking the Comedy Code in Perth

Bek Condello Was Born Into A Cult. Escaping Was The Easy Part

9K views · 3mo ago · 1:17:44

Guest: Kate Langbroek

Bek Condello didn't choose the world she was born into. Raised inside the Geelong Revival Centre, a church she now describes as a cult, every aspect of her life was decided for her — what she believed, who she could trust, who she could marry, what she wore, and what would happen if she ever left. By the time she was an adult, she had never kissed anyone, never questioned the rules she'd grown up with, and genuinely believed the outside world was dangerous.

Topics: The Desperate Plan to Escape a Doomsday Cult · Born into an Australian Pentecostal Cult & The Fear of Hell · Traditional Roles, Homeschooling, and Silenced Voices · Extreme Childhood Discipline and the Wooden Paddle · The Terrifying Encounter with the Pastor in the Forest · Forbidden Curiosity and Awkward Sex Education