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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 podcast@mamamia.com.au

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.

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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 Project
Chrissy Flanagan - Chaotic Social

CREDITS
Hosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine Mahoney
Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz
Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou

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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 Mamamia
Jo Lamble, clinical family psychologist and co-host of Help I Have A Teenager.

CREDITS
Hosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine Mahoney
Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz
Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou

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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.

CREDITS
Hosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine Mahoney
Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz
Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou

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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 Kittson
Ali Daddo

CREDITS
Hosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine Mahoney
Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz
Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou

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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 You
And, Cathy, Sandra & Rose for sharing their story.

CREDITS
Hosts: Narelda Jacobs & Cathrine Mahoney
Executive Producer: Talissa Bazaz
Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou

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