456 Club

Cath Mahoney is back in your ears with a very special episode from Mamamia Gen X podcast, Unleashed. To all those in the 456 Club, you'll know that life in your 40s, 50s and 60s can bring some of our most complicated challenges, particularly when it comes to ageing parents and caring for the people we love. In this three-part special, Unleashed co-host Dr Ginni Mansberg shares the deeply personal story of her mum Sylvia's decision to access voluntary assisted dying. It's an intimate and honest conversation about family, love, anticipatory grief and the complexities of saying goodbye. This is part one of a three-part series, beginning one month before Ginni’s mum’s death. Listen to part two and part three here. Please take care while listening. This episode discusses voluntary assisted dying, death and grief. If this conversation brought up hard feelings and you need some help, please call Lifeline here. In your ears today is Cath Mahoney, Bruna Papandrea and Ginni Mansberg Check out our Unleashed music playlist for some feel good throwbacks! The End Bits: Take our three minute survey for a chance to win a $1,000 gift voucher AND help shape what we do here at Mamamia. Follow us on Instagram, DM us thoughts, feelings and questions @unleashed.showLove the show? Hit follow on Apple or Spotify — it helps other Gen X women find us. Executive Producer Grace RouvraySenior Producer and Audio Editor is Tina MatolovSocial Media Producer is Annaliese Todd Did you know some of our shows are now in video on the Apple Podcast app? Make sure your phone is up to date and check it out here! Get access to Very Peri, Mamamia's exclusive perimenopause series, for just $59. 25 world-leading experts, over 20 on-demand sessions, available now. We’ve sorted through the noise so you don't have to. Go to veryperi.com.au and join me today. You hot? Same. Become a Mamamia subscriber and get an all-access pass to everything we make, including exclusive podcasts and early listening, subscriber-only articles, monthly giveaways and our home workout app, MOVE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the rogue, unfiltered and slightly unhinged podcast for Gen X women who need a laugh. Forget inspirational life coach energy. Forget toxic positivity. This is the show for the woman who is looking for an antidote to the bin-fire of right now. From the brain of Mia Freedman comes a podcast that’s not inspirational in the slightest. You don’t need to learn anything or remember anything either. Just turn up. Join your smartest, most brilliant friends; Sally Hepworth, Mary Coustas, Bruna Papandrea, Grace Lam, Cathrine Mahoney, and Dr Ginni Mansberg for a bit of distraction, some helpful things, and a lot of laughs. In today's episode: Cath booked a wax...and it did not go to plan. Sally had a case of celebrity mistaken identity. Mary told a driver to get f**cked and it turned out to be her own mother, and Bruna accidentally did a little wee in a designer dress (and then had to buy it). And how was your first kiss? Because these women absolutely butchered theirs.In your ears today: Sally Hepworth, Mary Coustas, Bruna Papandrea and Cath Mahoney The End Bits: Take our three minute survey for a chance to win a $1,000 gift voucher AND help shape what we do here at Mamamia. Follow us on Instagram, DM us thoughts, feelings and questions @unleashed.showLove the show? Hit follow on Apple or Spotify — it helps other Gen X women find us. Listen to Unleashed here This show was produced and created by Mia FreedmanCreated and developed by Monique BowleyThe Executive Producer is Bree PlayerSenior Producer and Audio Editor is Tina MatolovSocial Media Producer Coco LavigneSUBSCRIBE here: Support independent women's media Did you know some of our shows are now in video on the Apple Podcast app? Make sure your phone is up to date and check it out here! GET IN TOUCHFeedback? We’re listening. Send us an email at [email protected] acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we have recorded this podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today’s episode, writer, comedian and host of Mamamia's 456 Club podcast, Cathrine Mahoney joins us to share her unfiltered experience of parenting a teenager. With her trademark humour, Cathrine Mahoney offers hilarious reality checks about what's coming in the teenage years from endless food bills to impossible-to-wake mornings, and the unexpected melancholy of the parenting moments you don't realise will be your last. Whether you're in the trenches with little ones, or watching your teenager pull away, this episode offers the perfect blend of practical wisdom and emotional validation about the parenting journey that passes all too quickly, reminding us to treasure even the challenging parts of parenting. THE END BITS Take our three minute survey for a chance to win a $1,000 gift voucher AND help shape what we do here at Mamamia. Head here to get a yearly subscription for just $39. and use the code MONTHOFTGM We’re listening! Send us a voice message, email us at [email protected] We’ve compiled all the best resources for new mums in a free newsletter. Join the mailing list. CREDITS: Host: Tegan Natoli, Annaliese Todd With thanks to Cathrine Mahoney Producer: Tina Matolov Audio Producer: Jacob Round Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello 465 Club!  You probably know Julie Goodwin’s incredible reality TV story. As the beloved MasterChef winner, cookbook author, and radio personality, she’s been a household name for years. But behind the scenes, Julie was always taking care of everyone—except herself. In this episode of our Gen X podcast MID, she opens up about her journey with mental health in recent years. If you're discovering MID for the first time, you're in luck—we've just wrapped Season 4, meaning our entire collection of conversations is waiting for you. You can listen to more MID here.  If this episode brings up anything for you Lifeline is always there on 13 11 14.  Want to get yourself a copy of Julie's incredible book Your Tim Starts Now? Click here THE END BITS  Share your feedback! Send us a voice message or email us at [email protected]  Follow us on Instagram @MidbyMamamia or sign up to the MID newsletter, dropping weekly here.  Want to go in the running to win a $50 voucher? Answer this short survey. CREDITS: Hosts: Holly Wainwright Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz Assistant Production: Sandy McIntyre Audio Producer: Jacob Round Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a special episode from Mamamia's podcast for Gen X women, MID.  This episode is all about all. Specifically, it’s about finding it in your MID years. Maybe for the second, fourth, first time. This is a story about Dr Amantha Imber, an organisational psychologist who got divorced a few years ago. When Amantha knew she wanted to re-partner, she went about it with a typical approach to efficiency - going on more than 50 first dates in her first stint of online dating. Those dates had strict rules and boundaries, time limits and schedules and… they didn’t work. So then, Amantha drew up a brief and cold-called a long list of people in her circle who might know the person she was looking for…. But… well, that didn’t work either. You can learn more about Amantha and follow her work here. You can purchase Amantha's book The Health Habit here. You can also listen to her podcast, How I Work, here. THE END BITS:  You can listen to our second ever episode was called the Mid Life Dating Pool Has Wee In it, and it was about Catherine Mahoney’s chaotic app-dating world and it was very very funny here. You can listen to our episode with Divorce & Separation coach, Nikki Parkinson, here. Share your feedback! Send us a voice message or email us at [email protected]  Follow us on Instagram @MidbyMamamia or sign up to the MID newsletter, dropping weekly here.  CREDITS: Host: Holly Wainwright Executive Producer: Naima Brown Senior Producer: Grace Rouvray Producer: Tahli Blackman Audio Producer: Jacob Round Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Friendships are some of the most important relationships in our lives, but just how much time and care are you really giving to your friendship garden? Today we chat with Bec Sparrow from the Friendship Project and Chaotic Social's Chrissy Flanagan about how to friend new friends, keep old friendships going strong and repair the connections that are fading out.  A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Rebecca Sparrow - The Friendship ProjectChrissy Flanagan - Chaotic Social CREDITSHosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine MahoneyExecutive Producer: Talissa BazazAudio Producer: Madeline JoannouSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the 456 Club we are talking about the complexities of parenting children who aren’t children. How do you maintain healthy boundaries? Can you be friends with your kid? And what do you do when you profoundly disagree with choices your adult child is making? This episode we speak with Mia Freedman, about her relationship with her adult son, becoming a grandmother, and what the experience is like transitioning from ‘ your child’s manager to their consultant’. Plus, we’re joined by Family Clinical Psychologist Jo Lamble to help us navigate ways forward when things don’t go as planned. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Mia Freedman, co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of MamamiaJo Lamble, clinical family psychologist and co-host of Help I Have A Teenager. CREDITSHosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine MahoneyExecutive Producer: Talissa BazazAudio Producer: Madeline JoannouSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From grey hair, to saggy bits and everything in between! There’s no denying our bodies change as they age and our relationship does with them as well.So how do women in their 40’s and beyond feel about their bodies? And faces? And hair? Today we’re speaking to Tracey Spicer and Virgie Tovar about all the things you’re not supposed to say about ageing bodies. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Tracey Spicer, author of Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future.Virigie Tovar, author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity.Sarah Laidlaw, Priceline Pharmacy Makeup Director. CREDITSHosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine MahoneyExecutive Producer: Talissa BazazAudio Producer: Madeline JoannouSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Growing up, your parents are your world, and sometimes sooner than you think the carers become the ones who need to be looked after. Welcome to the ‘sandwich generation’ sometimes you’re parenting young children and your parents at the same time, and all the while you are trying to hold down a job and still have a life. It’s tough, we see you and this episode is for you. This episode we are speaking to Jean Kittson, who knows the job of parenting parents so well she’s written a how-to book about it. We’ll also speak to author and podcaster Ali Daddo who is right in the middle of this tricky time. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS: Jean KittsonAli Daddo CREDITSHosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine MahoneyExecutive Producer: Talissa BazazAudio Producer: Madeline JoannouSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever felt invisible? From being overlooked for career opportunities, to being isolated from loved ones, and feeling overshadowed by children this week we get vulnerable to prove that we are in this together. Plus we chat with Carlii Lyon, a personal brand expert who helps women in their 40’s and beyond rebrand themselves to feel relevant in their lives again. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR GUESTS:Carlii Lyon, A Brand In YouAnd, Cathy, Sandra & Rose for sharing their story. CREDITSHosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine MahoneyExecutive Producer: Talissa BazazAudio Producer: Madeline JoannouSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.