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  • Food and Fame, Failure and Freedom: The Life Story of Australia’s First Master Chef
  • By: Julie Goodwin
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  • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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Your Time Starts Now

By: Julie Goodwin
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Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways her win was unlikely. As a child Julie adored music and art, but her career began in youth work, including in a juvenile detention centre housing troubled boys and a toxic all-male staff. After her three sons were born, she and her husband started an IT business.

Then came MasterChef - a record-breaking juggernaut of a show. The attention and opportunities that flowed from Julie's win were thrilling and overwhelming. She became a columnist for Australian Women's Weekly, a presenter on Today, published numerous cookbooks and made appearances on many shows including facing off with snakes and alligators on I'm A Celebrity . Get Me Out of Here! For years she co-hosted an award-winning breakfast radio show, and she opened a thriving cooking school.

It was by all appearances, a successful, rewarding life. But under the surface relentless pressure from Julie's outer and inner worlds was taking its toll. Struggling with depression, anxiety and addiction, with bushfires blazing and lockdowns looming, Julie found herself hospitalised in a mental health unit.

Her recovery, bumpy and circuitous, is an ongoing process that Julie tackles with tenacity. In this gloriously candid, deeply moving memoir, filled with beautiful food, astonishing people, humour and heart, Julie writes with brutal honesty about her struggles. We are brought into her story, into her unravelling and quest for healing as she seeks to resume a richly lived life.

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©2024 Julie Goodwin (P)2024 Penguin Random House Australia Audio

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Brilliantly heart-warming, heartbreaking and funny.

Beautifully written memoir. Julie bares her soul with honesty, and humour. A great read

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Thankyou 🥰🥰

Honesty and love. Thankyou Julie, for sharing your heart and life with us. You are a precious Gift of God to our lives❤️❤️

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I could not stop listening

Loved every moment of your time starts now , beautifully narrated , honest , raw , and heartwarming. There are not many audiobooks I would listen to twice yet I know this one will be the exception.

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Beautiful, open and real

Absolutely loved this book from start to finish!! Beautifully written and read by a very inspirational woman. Thank you Julie!! Bless

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captivating, emotional and beautifully written.

this retelling of Julie's life. Hard times and beautiful love stories of a growing family. once you start you won't want to stop.

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An amazing lady

I loved Julie Goodwin’s honest and interesting life story. Such a brave, mother and wife who has had a roller coaster ride of events through her life. I could not stop listening to it

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Amazing and also confronting

I absolutely loved this book by Julie. I felt the raw emotion from the page and appreciated how hard this must have been to write. I couldn’t put it away. What an amazing journey so far.

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What a truly beautiful read

This book is wonderful, inspirational, sad, dark but most of all so brave, raw, honest and ultimately beautiful. Julie is not only a great cook, my god she is a great writer.


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A brave and kind woman sharing her life story.

I knew of Julie Goodwin via her win of the first Masterchef & followed her life from time to time in media. Julie's sharing of much more here is testament to her courage and ability to show that not all life is "tv or radio" material. Thanks so much for raising awareness of mental health & how you sought & got good health help!

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Wonderfully written and told

At times confronting, this is Julie's truth. A deeper insight into someone I have followed in the public eye since 2009 and that famous Masterchef win. I went through all of the emotions whilst listening, and didn't want it to end. Thank you for helping to end the stigma around seeking treatment for mental health. Now I'm off to buy the paper version of this book.

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