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Julie Bishop hasn’t been a private citizen for 20 years. But a few hours after this interview was recorded, that changed. An election was called and Julie's position as the Member for Curtain came to an end. She’s been present for some of the ugliest moments in politics, both in Canberra and around the world.  And she's dealt with it all with her signature class and style. She’s also always towed the party line.  But now she can say whatever she wants and she joins Mia to do just that... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Julie Bishop Support the Witchery White Shirt Campaign here: https://www.witchery.com.au/shop/woman/clothing/white-shirt?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1-CPgPPJ4QIVVRSPCh1npgyOEAAYASAAEgJxbfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds  Listen to The Quicky episode Mia mentions here: https://omny.fm/shows/the-quicky/does-the-australian-liberal-party-have-a-women-pro  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at p

Turia Pitt has been through an enormous amount in her 31 years. She was an engineer and ultra-marathon runner when she was caught in a bushfire in 2011. She's recovered from having 70% of her body burnt, learnt to walk again, written 3 books, got engaged to her long-term partner Michael, raised millions for charity and given birth to her baby boy Hukavai. Now Turia's latest book is a gift to young women about how to maintain your self-esteem in an Instagram-obsessed comparison culture  Four years after her first No Filter interview, she joins Mia to talk about how her life has changed. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Turia Pitt https://www.turiapitt.com/  Find her book Good Selfie at any good bookstore or at apple.co/mamamia Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows he

The first time Bec Rosen met Hamish McLaren she thought he was a bit of a tosser.  Bec was a single mum who had just ended a bad marriage and, along with her three young sons, she’d moved to Blueys Beach on the NSW North Coast. Bec’s family were in the early stages of rebuilding their lives when Hamish appeared and made himself indispensable.  So indispensable in fact, that Bec and Hamish got married in 2011. And that was when Bec started to uncover the extraordinary lies her husband had told and the twisted secrets he was keeping from her and her boys. If you've listened to the podcast Who the hell is Hamish? You already know a bit about Hamish McLaren...or Hamish Watson...or any of the other names he used.  But you haven't heard all of Bec's story.  Until now... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guests Bec Rosen To hear more of Bec's story listen to Who The Hell Is Hamish by The Australian https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/who-the-hell-is-hami

Mandy Nolan has five kids to three different dads. Two of them she married and one was her defacto partner for many years. This is a woman who knows a lot about blending a family. And blending it again in a different way. And then again. The thing with blending though is that once you mix lives together, you can’t un-blend them. Once connected, the bonds Mandy and five kids have with all of their fathers and father figures are there for life in different ways. Mandy is the host of our new podcast about surviving separation and divorce….it’s called The Split and she sat down with Mia to talk about how to have a good breakup and how she manages to juggle the relationships she has with all her children’s fathers... Subscribe to The Split here.  CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Mandy Nolan Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mama

When Josh and Sean Szeps met they knew instantly they'd found "the one." How did they know? Because Josh insulted Sean. The pair met in 2011 in a dive bar in New York, moved in together in 2012, were engaged by 2013 and married in 2014. While many gay couples feel that having a relationship and a family is difficult, for Sean and Josh they felt they were always in the right place at the right time. Gay marriage became legal in the US just as they were considering getting married, the price of IVF started to come down just as they were wondering whether they should start a family. And when they decided that surrogacy was the way they wanted to go, the approval process was fast. In 2017 their twins, Stella and Cooper were born in America. The product of Josh's sperm and an egg donated by a female member of Sean's family. They've now moved to Australia and are raising their twins here. They join Mia to share their story... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to s

For the past 20 years, Mia's guest has been the voice for over a thousand victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. Right now, Lisa Flynn is representing the father of one of the choir boys who was sexually abused by George Pell at the age of 13. This boy’s young life was never the same and “R,” as he’s been known throughout the trial, withdrew from his family and began taking drugs very soon after the abuse happened. Now Pell is serving a prison term of 3 years and 8 months for the abuse of those two boys and on the day he was sentenced, Lisa sat beside R’s father in the courtroom. She joins Mia now to talk about all of it.... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Lisa Flynn from Shine Lawyers Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here.   See omnystudio.com/listene

Six months after her husband died unexpectedly, Simi Polonsky gave birth to her third child.  She was grieving the death of her husband, Shua, and celebrating the birth of her new son. And not in a million years did she think that her life would end up looking like that. Simi was born into a big Jewish family in Sydney, her father was an Orthodox Rabbi and she was one of seven kids. In her early 20s, Simi moved to New York with her sister. She married the love of her life, launched a successful business with her sister Chaya called TheFrockNYC, and started a family. And then on an ordinary day in 2017, something unexpected and shocking happened.  Her strong, healthy husband got sick and died all in the space of a couple of weeks. Simi was back in Australia at the end of last year and she shared her story with Mia... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Simi Polonsky - find her business on Instagram here https://thefrocknyc.com/  Producer: Eli

A woman’s work is never done. And author Gemma Hartley knows this. Whether she’s at home or in the office, there’s a whole layer of labour done predominantly by women that most men can’t even see. Emotional labour is being the person who notices problems, delegates solutions and makes sure life goes smoothly for everyone around her. It’s noticing there’s barely any milk left and then doing something about it - and changing the toilet paper roll when it’s run out. This work is invisible and exhausting at the same time. And it’s not just something experienced by mothers or women in relationships. A couple of years ago Gemma Hartley wrote an essay about emotional labour after a particularly disastrous Mothers Day. It went viral and it led to her writing a whole book on the subject - Gemma’s book is called Fed Up and she joins me now to talk about it... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Gemma Hartley http://www.gemmahartley.com/  Find her book

If people stop you in the street, what’s the first thing they say to you? "Hello!"? Or "How are you?" For author and journalist Carly Findlay her experience is very different. Carly was born with a rare genetic skin disorder called Ichthyosis, which affects approximately one in 200,000 newborns.  Ichthyosis causes the skin to build up and scale and when people see Carly they often ask what happened to her.  Did she get burnt?  Has she had microdermabrasion? They often think by asking, they're being kind.  But in her memoir Say Hello, she points out that despite people's best intentions that's how it feels... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Carly Findlay: https://carlyfindlay.com.au/  Buy her memoir, Say Hello, here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/say-hello-carly-findlay/prod9781460755037.html  Follow her on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/carlyfindlay/?hl=en  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999

Roxy Jacenko doesn’t like being the centre of attention. If you are one of her 230,000 Instagram followers, you might find that hard to believe. But the Sydney businesswoman insists her businesses, selfies and TV appearances aren’t about fame or attention. They’re about money. This is the second time Mia has spoken to Roxy for No Filter. The first time, Roxy’s husband Oliver Curtis was in jail for insider trading. She’d been diagnosed with breast cancer and her life was... spiraling. And this time? Well, it seems life actually got a lot worse for Roxy before it got better. She lost a lot of weight. She started taking drugs. She had an affair. And she ended up having a nervous breakdown. So when all that happens, how do you get your life back on track? Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Roxy Jacenko: https://www.instagram.com/roxyjacenko/  Buy her new book Penelope's Playground here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/penelope-s-playground-roxy-j

If you grew up in the 70s in Australia, you probably look back on that period and smile. Maybe you think of it as a simpler time or "the good old days."  But were they really? In his new book, The Land Before Avocado, journalist and broadcaster Richard Glover investigates whether the past really was as great as everyone thinks it was. As a child of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Richard takes us on a journey back to a place where every man could afford a house and every woman was known by her husband's name. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Richard Glover Read his extract on Mamamia here:  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here. This episode was made possible by Lifespace Probiotics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Christine Armstrong, author of The Mother of All Jobs, became a mother it never occurred to her she would have to give up her job. At the time, she was working in London in a high level corporate job. But after the birth of her first daughter, she realised being full-time mum AND a full-time employee was bloody hard. So, she started looking for answers. She interviewed other working mothers and found, unsurprisingly, that she wasn’t alone. Christine realised there was a conspiracy of silence from senior women about "having it all". But that it was the system that was broken, not the people in it. Three daughters, and a few jobs later, her book, The Mother of All Jobs, was born. And she joins Mia to talk about it now... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Christine Armstrong Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia N

Mia Freedman is bringing you a special episode of No Filter this week because our Executive Editor Leigh Campbell has some news... Leigh has been a high profile journalist for more than a decade. She’s worked at Cosmopolitan Magazine, Huffington Post and Mamamia. She has a huge following on Instagram and is the host of the You Beauty podcast.  But if you've been following Leigh on social media you probably know all that. What you might not know is what's been happening behind the scenes of her Instagram feed.  A couple of months ago, Leigh decided to go public with her story and that’s when things got really surprising, especially for her. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. MORE INFORMATION If you or anyone you know has been through pregnancy loss or infertility, we see you. So many women have walked this path and at Mamamia we are determined to provide as many helpful resources as possible to help you navigate the emotional, physical, financial and mental strain that infertility, pregnancy loss, st

You might remember William McInnes from Seachange, or Blue Heelers, but what you may not know about him is that he can really tell a story. He’s been doing it for the past 30 years, first as an actor and later as a writer. William has written over 11 books. A lot of them, around the themes of growing up in Australia.  And his latest, Fatherhood, is a personal tribute to Aussie dads everywhere. Mia’s conversation with William was a rollercoaster. One minute they were laughing uncontrollably, the next they were crying. William lost the love of his life, his wife Sarah in 2011. He raised their two children, Clem, and Stella by himself. He knows hardship and he isn’t afraid to share what he’s learned or get honest about his feelings.  This interview isn’t about grief or loss, it’s about a man doing the best he can for his family. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest William McInnes, find his book Fatherhood at apple.co/mamamia Producer: Elissa Rat

When you meet 98-year-old Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, it’s hard not to be happy. He’s full of life, advice and stories about a world few people remember. A world few people can imagine. A world many people want to forget about. But not Eddie. Because that dark world ended up giving him the biggest gift he could have asked for; the gift of life.  On the 10th of November 1938, Eddie Jaku’s world changed forever when a group of Nazi’s knocked on his front door. Eddie was a Jew living in Germany, and for the next 12 years he was in and out of concentration camps, including Auschwitz.  He lost his mother and father and escaped and wad caught, countless times. At 98, soon to be 99 in April, Eddie is a remarkable storyteller. And on this episode of No Filter, he tells Mia everything he remembers.   Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Eddie Jaku. Find out more about his story here.  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02

Mia’s back with more candid conversations that count in 2019, and she’s kicking it off with a woman who couldn’t be more opposite to her. For the past eight years, Miriam Lancewood and her husband Peter have lived in the wilderness of New Zealand. No phones. No internet. No bed. No refrigerator. No electricity. No concept of time. They’re completely off the grid. And while that sounds terrifying to some, they wouldn’t have it any other way. So what happens when you’re thousands of kilometres away from the nearest town and you get sick...or you want to know what time it is and you don’t have a watch or a phone? As you can imagine, Mia had a lot of questions…. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Miriam Lancewood. Find her book Woman In The Wilderness at apple.co/mamamia or any good bookstore.  Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.

Welcome to the No Filter summer series, where we look back at some of our most popular interviews over the past 3 years. Today, it's Mia and Liane Moriarty talking about her life since the release of Big Little Lies, we hope you enjoy it... She’s been called the 'Obama of popular fiction'.  An author whose books all turn to gold. But at home, Liane Moriarty is considered to be a suburban housewife who writes for a hobby. Australia’s most successful author, this mother-of-two from Sydney has sold over six million books.  She's one of the few authors in the world to ever have three books on the New York Times bestseller lists at the ONE time. So how did she do it?  She joins Mia to discuss her latest book, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, and what it was like when she found out Nicole Kidman wanted to buy her bestseller. This episode was first published in September 2016. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Liane Moriarty Producer: El

Welcome to the No Filter summer series, where we look back at some of our most popular interviews over the past 3 years. When we asked you guys, our listeners, what some of your favourite No Filters were over the past few years, there were a lot of votes for Hughesy. So here we are.... Dave Hughes has one of the most iconic voices in Australian media. From hosting the Logies to touring internationally, to his radio and television show, Hughesy, as he’s affectionately known may even be the most recognisable comedian in Australia at the moment. And he reckons it’s all because he hasn’t had a drink since he was 22 years old. On this episode, he talks to me about how his career started, his friendship with radio co-host Kate Langbroek and why he really left The Project. This episode was first published in May 2016. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to special guest Dave Hughes. Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Email

Welcome to the No Filter summer series, where we look back at some of our most popular interviews over the past 3 years. Esther Perel is a relationship expert, and to this date - Mia's interview with her has had over 100,000 downloads. So we thought it would be the perfect time to revisit it... When couples therapist Esther Perel speaks to large groups of people about her area of expertise, sex and relationships - she asks the audience to raise their hands if their lives have ever been affected by infidelity. Maybe it was one of their parents. Maybe it was their own partner. Maybe it was them. Or maybe they were the third party. She says around 80 percent of the room raises their hand. Esther is an author, a psychotherapist and a self-described expert in relationships and sexuality. She has a cult following to rival that of Brene Brown or Elizabeth Gilbert, and on this episode of No Filter she speaks to Mia about why it has never been easier to have an affair, the reason happy people cheat and how infidelit

Welcome to the No Filter summer series, where we look back at some of our most popular interviews over the past 3 years. As the Pink Test is about to kick off in Sydney, we thought we'd take a listen to Jane McGrath's best friend Tracy Bevan... As our Australian Cricketers turn the SCG into a blushing meadow for the Pink Test, it's a reminder of Jane McGrath's legacy. The mother of two, and wife to cricket fast bowler Glenn McGrath formed a foundation that has changed lives. But she also forged a friendship like no other.  This is not a story about breast cancer, it's the story of Jane McGrath and her hilarious best friend, Tracy Bevan. Their relationship went to the darkest places you can imagine and then lifted them higher than they thought possible, over and over. It’s a story of how far you will go for your best friend. And how a friendship can transcend death.  This episode was first published in September 2016. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman  With thanks to spec