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Jun 16, 2019 · 51 min
19 Years Ago, Everything Changed For Benjamin Law
When Pauline Hanson was elected into politics in the mid-90s, author Benjamin Law was in high school on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. He’d grown up in a very white area. But up until that point, he hadn’t really considered his race. Sure, he was Asian Australian, but that had never really been a problem. And then, Pauline Hanson made her maiden speech in Parliament and all of a sudden, Ben’s ethnicity was associated with something negative. His family was seen as different....He was Asian Australian, his parents were divorced and he was gay. Ben Law has gone on to become one of Australia’s most respected journalists. He’s also the creator of the hit SBS show The Family Law, which is now in its third season. And he’s been in a relationship with his partner Scott for more than half his life. He’s a really interesting guy, a great ally to women, and this interview with Mia will make you laugh... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Benjamin Law 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 9, 2019 · 54 min
Georgie Dent’s Nervous Breakdown Changed Her Life For Good
When Georgie Dent was asked when her nervous breakdown began, she had to think. Really think. Was it at 19 when she found herself diagnosed with a disease she’d never heard of? Was it a few months later when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease? Was it at 24 when by all accounts, her life was perfect - working as a lawyer at a prestigious firm in Sydney and living with her then boyfriend and now husband, Nick? Or was it all of those things, combined? And did it really matter? Because it happened. At the age of 24, Georgie Dent’s life fell apart. And she found herself in a psychiatric hospital. Georgie's written a book called Breaking Badly that details this part of her life and she joins Mia now to speak about it... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Georgie Dent Find her book here https://www.booktopia.com.au/breaking-badly-georgie-dent/prod9781925712780.html 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 2, 2019 · 33 min
Reshaping Women's Faces: Meet Dr Naomi, The Doll Maker
How do you prepare for an interview with a woman who changes people’s faces for a living? You look at your face for a very long time. At least that’s what Mia Freedman did before this interview with Dr Naomi McCullum, a woman also known as the doll maker. Dr. Naomi McCullum is a cosmetic physician who runs a luxury clinic in Sydney called The Manse, where she and her team sculpt women's faces using injectables, fillers, botox, and laser. As you can imagine, Mia had a lot of questions... Just a note, this is a judgment-free interview, so leave your preconceptions at the door. If you want to hear more from Unity and Dr. Naomi, head to mamamia.com.au/video to see their interview with our incredible video team. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Dr. Naomi https://www.instagram.com/themanseclinic/?hl=en 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 26, 2019 · 52 min
Angela Bishop's Life Imploded
A lot can happen in 30 years of someone’s life. You can build a solid career. Meet the love of your life. Have a baby. Mourn the loss of your dad. Enjoy the family you’ve built. And then watch it implode. Over the past 30 years, Angela Bishop has become one of Australia’s best-known entertainment reporters. She’s been on every red carpet at every awards ceremony in Australia, Hollywood, and London. And she’s met a lot of celebrities. In fact, we wouldn’t be going out on a limb here to say she’s almost met every celebrity ever. But the past two years have been particularly devastating for Angela Bishop, and she joins Mia now to talk about it all. The ups, the downs and the moment that split her life in two. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Angela Bishop https://www.instagram.com/angelabishop10/?hl=en 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 19, 2019 · 45 min
Anxiety: A Guide
One in four adults and one in five children currently suffer from anxiety. And yet two in five people believe the condition is not a treatable mental health illness. Anxiety, defined as a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome is a debilitating illness that people still aren’t talking enough about. But today on No Filter, we’re changing that. Because today Mia Freedman is joined by Dr Jodie Lowinger, the founder and Principal Clinical Psychologist of the Sydney Anxiety Clinic to talk about how anxiety presents itself, what causes it and what people who suffer from it can do to treat it. If you’re suffering from anxiety make sure you speak to your GP and if you need support, visit Beyond Blue: https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/anxiety Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Dr Jodie Lowinger https://www.sydneyanxietyclinic.com/ 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 17, 2019 · 50 min
Bob Hawke Through The Eyes Of Blanche d'Alpuget
On the 16th of May 2019, Bob Hawke passed away peacefully in his home with his wife Blanche d'Alpuget. Today on No Filter we're revisiting Mia's chat with Blanche. Blanche d’Alpuget has spent 62 of her 74 years exploring lust, longing and a lifelong quest for love. It was 1970 in Jakarta when a then married Blanche met a then married Robert Hawke. She thought his name was Robin. Little did she knew he would go on to become the great love of her life. Six years later, in 1976, she met Robert again. Their affair began and continued on and off until 1995 when they married. In person, Blanche is extraordinarily beautiful down-to-earth, quick to laugh, searingly honest and still madly in love with the man who has - along with her career and her son - been the big love of her life. She joins Mia to talk about Bob, love and her new book On Lust and Longing… CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Blanche d'Alpuget Buy Blanche's book at apple.co/mamamia or here. Producer: Elissa Ratliff GET IN TOUCH: Call the PodPhone on 02 8999 9386. Head to https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe/ to this and all our pods delivered straight to your inbox. Email the show at podcast@mamamia.com.au Download the Mamamia Podcast App here. Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia This show is part of the Mamamia Women’s Network. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 16, 2019 · 31 min
Chloe Shorten Could Be Our Next First Lady
Today on No Filter, we're revisiting an episode that Mia did with Chloe Shorten on the 26th of April, 2017.... Chloe Shorten has attracted a lot of attention over the last few weeks. As the wife of Bill Shorten - who will potentially be our next Prime Minister - many have said that in this election campaign, they wished they could vote for Chloe. Chloe is a businesswoman, author, daughter of former Governor-General Quentin Bryce and mother of three. As a kid, she dreamed that she’d grow up, meet the love of her life, get married, have kids and grow old …..with that same person. But, like one in three marriages, Chloe’s life didn’t work out that way because her relationship fell apart. When Chloe Shorten separated from her husband of 10 years, she was concerned that it might affect her two young children. Then, when she remarried Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and blended her family, she got even more concerned. So, she went hunting for help. For books, for studies, for information about the best way to do everything from “the talk” when you sit your kids down to tell them their Mum and Dad aren’t going to live together anymore to introducing new partners, navigating custody and even, eventually introducing new step-siblings or new babies. She didn’t find a lot. So she made her own... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. Show Notes Your host is Mia Freedman. With thanks to special guests Chloe Shorten. Find her book, Take Heart, at apple.co/mamamia This podcast was produced by Elissa Ratliff CONTACT US Suggest a guest via: podcast@mamamia.com.au tweet us @mamamiapodcasts or join the conversation on facebook This show is part of the Mamamia Women’s Network Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 12, 2019 · 1 hr 2 min
Andrew Denton Opens Up
What do you really want to know? When preparing for an interview that’s the first question journalist, TV host and comedian Andrew Denton asks himself. Andrew has been interviewing celebrities and regular people for more than 20 years, first on his ABC show Enough Rope, and now on his new show on Seven, Interview. But he very rarely has the tables turned on him. Today, Andrew sits down with Mia Freedman to talk about dealing with depression, the ups and downs of his marriage to journalist Jennifer Byrne and what’s going through his head when he’s interviewing someone in front of an audience who doesn’t want to be there. It’s an interview not to be missed... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Andrew Denton Andrew Denton’s Interview airs Tuesday’s at 9pm on Seven. Catch up on 7plus. 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 11, 2019 · 26 min
Why Mother-In-Law Relationships Can Be High Drama
If you’ve ever been in a romantic relationship of any kind and you’ve been together a while, you will have probably encountered your partner’s mother. The image we have of a mother-in-law is pretty grim, generally. They don’t get great press. But for many women, their relationship with their mother-in-law is one of the most fraught in their lives and there are good reasons for this! They are intimately connected to your partner and so are you, obviously, but to one another, you’re pretty much strangers. Sally Hepworth noticed this when she started collecting stories for her latest novel, aptly called The Mother-In-Law. Women would tell her stories about their partners mothers bringing over a raw chicken after they’d just had a baby, or of mothers-in-law who have keys to their child's house and use them regularly. And so, her fifth novel was born. Sally is one of Liane Moriarty’s favourite Australian authors - she’s written five books, she has 3 children and she’s spent a long time talking to people who had issues with their mothers-in-law. So what is it about this relationship that makes it so high-drama? Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Sally Hepworth https://www.sallyhepworthauthor.com/ Buy her latest book The Mother In Law at any good bookstore now. 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 6, 2019 · 33 min
"Cat Person": How A Short Story Changed Kristen Roupenian's Life
In December 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s life changed forever when her short story in The New Yorker went viral. ‘Cat Person’, which was published in The New Yorker‘s December 11 issue, navigates a brief relationship between a 20-year-old university student named Margot, and an older man – Robert – who she meets while working in a movie theatre candy bar. You can read it here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person It’s not a complex plot. But, like all the best pieces of fiction, it articulates aspects of life and culture in a way the rest of us have never quite been able to manage. It resonated with millions of women around the world and was just before #MeToo really took off. But it also turned Kristen's life upside down. So what does her life look like two years on? She joins Mia now... CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Kristen Roupenian https://twitter.com/kroupenian?lang=en 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 28, 2019 · 41 min
How Brooke Boney Is Changing Breakfast TV
There’s a fresh new face on breakfast TV and her name is Brooke Boney. She describes herself as a proud Gamilaroi woman. And Brooke is proud. She grew up in a housing commission, was raised by a strong single mother and is the eldest of 6 kids. So how did she end up as The Today Show’s entertainment reporter smack bang in the middle of some high drama and unimaginable public scrutiny? She joins Mia now... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest Brooke Boney https://www.instagram.com/boneybrooke/?hl=en Support the Witchery White Shirt Campaign here: https://www.witchery.com.au/shop/woman/clothing/white-shirt?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1-CPgPPJ4QIVVRSPCh1npgyOEAAYASAAEgJxbfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 21, 2019 · 1 hr 2 min
How To Spot A Digital Addiction In Your Family
Sex, drugs and rock and roll. That’s what we used to worry about when it came to the things that would mess up kids. These days the rate of things like teen pregnancy, smoking, drinking and drugs have fallen off a cliff. But they've been replaced with phones, screens, social media and video games, all of which are potentially addictive. David Gillespie knows exactly how we get addicted to these devices and why the addiction looks different in men and women. He joins Mia to talk about what’s happening to our teens and what we can do about it... Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CREDITS: Host: Mia Freedman With thanks to special guest David Gillespie You can purchase David's new book here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/teen-brain-david-gillespie/prod9781760559465.html Listen to David's last episode of No Filter here: https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/no-filter/david-gillespie-knows-how-to-spot-a-psychopath/ 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 14, 2019 · 51 min
Julie Bishop Can Say Whatever She Wants Now
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 podcast@mamamia.com.au Find any book mentioned at apple.co/mamamia No Filter is a podcast by Mamamia. Find more shows here. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 7, 2019 · 40 min
Turia Pitt Will Make You Feel Good
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 here. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 31, 2019 · 1 hr 3 min
Who The Hell Is Hamish? His Ex-Wife Doesn't Know
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-hamish/id1451470931?mt=2 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 24, 2019 · 37 min
Five Kids, Three Dads: How Mandy Nolan Blended Her Family
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 Mamamia. Find more shows here. This episode was made possible by Westpac. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 18, 2019 · 55 min
Josh & Sean: A Most Unexpected Love Story
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 special guests Josh and Sean Szeps Listen to Sean on The Baby Bubble here: Go and see Josh's comedy show #youtoo: why social media is ruining everything - tickets at comedyfestival.com.au. 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 15, 2019 · 41 min
The Woman Behind George Pell's Forgotten Victim
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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 10, 2019 · 55 min
Simi Polonsky Thought She Knew What Her Life Was Going To Be Like
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: 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. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 8, 2019 · 42 min
How Emotional Labour Makes Women Feel Exhausted
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 Fed Up 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 here. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.