Life Matters - Separate stories podcast ABC listen
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Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world. Let's talk! With trusted experts and your stories, Life Matters is all about what matters to you.
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Ask Aunty: my friends talk over each other and I can't stand it
You catch up with an old school friend and her husband for lunch. When you ask the husband questions the pair talk over the top of each other and your friend's voice gets louder and louder.
It's a distressing experience that is making you reconsider moving back to your home town, because you'll need to see more of them.
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Have you flipped the script on parenting?
The way we are as parents can be heavily influenced by our own experiences in childhood, both good and bad.
When it came to parenting your own children, how much you have stuck to or strayed from how you were parented? -
What ever happened to being formal?
When it comes to presentation and manner, Australians are pretty casual, and more of the world is following suit. Employees are pushing back against formal dress codes in workplaces, and formal dress is necessary in fewer social settings. So are we losing anything by dropping the formalities? How does our presentation change the way we relate to each other, and ourselves?
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Here's What I Know: Geraldine Turner's confidence tip for the stage of life
Geraldine Turner is a legend of the Australian stage, and has earned a lot of wisdom through her long career.
She shares her mantra for getting through stage fright, and what she's learned about figuring out a person's true character. -
The Chong family share their culinary lineage
Angie Chong’s grandfather, Chen Wing Young, is known as the man who, in the early 1940's, popularised the dim sim in Australia. Angie’s mum, Elizabeth Chong, Australia’s 'queen of Chinese Chinese cuisine', was one of the country’s first celebrity chefs. Angie has a rich cooking legacy of her own. But now, as a grandmother, how does she bring her family together over food? And, how has she evolved traditions to keep her grandkids happy whilst maintaining a strong connection to her family’s past? A conversation with three generations - Angie Chong, her mum Elizabeth Chong and her daughter Tess Duddy-Chong
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Leslie Jamison shared the splinters of a life
Our closest relationships can feel all consuming sometimes. particularly our children, but also our partners, or close friends, or parents.
It can be hard to imagine ourselves apart from them; to define ourselves, outside of those relationships.
And even when a relationship ends those connections still resonate, we are shaped by the people in our lives, as we shape their lives in turn.
In her new memoir Splinters, Leslie Jamison is sharing her story: of being a mother, a wife, a teacher, an artist, and of being herself.
Customer Reviews
Thanks! Cool podcast.
Enjoying the content. Very relevant. Where is 'Making Cents of super' part 1?
Absolutely loved DATED!
I listened to the podcast after hearing Hilary Harper on ABC Melbourne this morning.
I love Hilary on RN and listened to this as soon as I could!
It’s warm, insightful, fascinating and hopeful. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Well done, Hilary!
Love the separate stories
So great being able to pick and choose the stories I’m interested in. Short bites work well for me too rather than hour long episodes.