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Happy New Year - No Filter listeners - how are you going so far in 2025? Did you survive the silly season? Did you make any “new year, new me” resolutions?
Maybe you’re one of the many people who chose to get through the holidays sober…or maybe you enjoyed some Christmas tipple but now you’re feeling sober-curious. Wherever you might be on the mocktail to cocktail spectrum - this conversation is for you because our guest, author and health & wellbeing coach, Sarah Rusbatch, has lived it all.
She has written a book called Beyond Booze, How to Create A Life You Love Alcohol Free’ - Sarah lived through what she describes as her own “dysfunctional relationship with alcohol” but - as you’ll hear - she’s not at all preachy, she just happens to know a lot about how hard it can be to be sober, but how good it can be on the other side.
You can follow Sarah on Instagram here. And to join Sarah’s free Facebook community please click here. The Facebook community encourages women who want support, a safe space where women are talking about booze and sobriety and how to step into their best lives.
Everything you need to know about Sarah’s book and work is here.
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CREDITS:
Host: Holly Wainwright
Executive Producer: Naima Brown
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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![Mary Pershall's Daughter Killed A Man [re-release]](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://www.omnycontent.com/d/clips/3ea926be-9be7-482a-8ac3-a44f016e43d1/e2603404-71ae-4e84-8bf7-a499005a57f4/468fe966-7e7c-482f-8ca1-b243005b9112/image.jpg?t=1733895399&size=Large&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA)
What do you do when you receive a phone call saying that your daughter has murdered someone?
Mary Pershall spent 28 years trying to shield her youngest daughter Anna from her demons. First, it was anorexia, then other mental health issues and later drug use including marijuana and ice.
But one act of rage in 2015 changed the course of Anna and her mother's life forever.
So how do you deal with the fact your daughter is a murderer?
Listen to part two of this conversation where Mia talks to Mary's sister Katie Horneshaw here.
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CREDITS:
Host: Mia Freedman
With thanks to special guest Mary K. Pershall.
Buy her book Gorgeous Girl here.
Producer: Elissa Ratliff
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Feedback: [email protected]
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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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Tara Westover was 16 when she stepped into a classroom for the first time.
She didn’t know how to talk to her peers, had never heard of the Holocaust and thought that she was sitting amongst heathens.
Today Tara holds a PHD in intellectual history and political thought from Cambridge University. She’s attended Harvard as a fellow, and has just written her first book, a memoir called Educated. So how did she get here?
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CREDITS:
Host: Mia Freedman
With thanks to special guest Tara Westover.
Producer: Elissa Ratliff
GET IN TOUCH:
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Feedback: [email protected]
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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
Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe
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![The Extraordinary True Story of Susan Francis [re-release]](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://www.omnycontent.com/d/clips/3ea926be-9be7-482a-8ac3-a44f016e43d1/e2603404-71ae-4e84-8bf7-a499005a57f4/040bd9dd-f7e9-4672-99e5-b2430054da9e/image.jpg?t=1733893910&size=Large&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA)
Never has the cliche “truth is stranger than fiction” applied more than to the woman on today's episode. You couldn’t make Susan Francis’s life up - it has too many twists.
It begins with an adoption story and the mystery of her biological parents, it includes a secret sister, a heartbreaking confrontation, unexpected love and a series of events that were so dramatic that she had to write them down in a memoir just to make sense of them. It’s called The Love That Remains.
Read an extract of The Love That Remains here.
Listen to part two of Mia's conversation with Susan here.
CREDITS:
Host: Mia Freedman . You can find Mia on Instagram here
Guest: Susan Francis
Producer: Melanie Tait
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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
Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe
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How do you prepare for prison? How do you tell your young daughters that you aren’t going to see them for a very long time?
Kerry Tucker was jailed in 2004 for one of the biggest white-collar crimes committed by a female in Victoria at the time. She’d been stealing money from her employers. She owned up to it, went through the process and spent 4.5 years behind bars in a maximum security prison away from her two daughters. Surprisingly for Kerry, jail was the making of her and she’s written a book all about it...
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CREDITS:
Host: Mia Freedman
With thanks to special guest Kerry Tucker.
Buy her book The Prisoner
Producer: Elissa Ratliff
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THE END BITS:
Listen to more No Filter interviews here and follow us on Instagram here.
Discover more Mamamia podcasts here.
Feedback: [email protected]
Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice message, and one of our Podcast Producers will get back to you ASAP.
Rate or review us on Apple by clicking on the three dots in the top right-hand corner, click Go To Show then scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on the stars at the bottom and write a review.
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
Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.