Big Stuff With Danielle Colley

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Menstrual Cycle Phases, Hormones and Your Nervous System: Why We’re 20 Years Too Late.

2026-11-0501:05:46

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text I’m watching my teenage daughter go through something with her hormones right now that looks almost identical to what derailed me in perimenopause, and it’s got me questioning when this hormone journey actually starts for women — and how problematic it can be. For almost two decades, Robyn Llewellyn’s job was to help women manage their periods. As marketing director for one of the biggest period care brands in the country, she built campaig...

The Woman Who Paved the Way for Paid Maternity Leave Was Called Disruptive And Too Much

2026-10-2801:03:18

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text At 16, Avril Henry’s principal told her, “That’s the problem with girls like you. You don’t know your place.” She chose maths and economics anyway. Avril grew up in apartheid South Africa, was tear-gassed at protests, had her home raided by police, and left for Australia at 22 with two suitcases and $500. She went on to build the business case that brought paid maternity leave to Westpac in 1995, changing what working mothers in Australia c...

HAYR? My Partner Strangled Me... And I Still Victim-Blamed

2026-10-2130:14

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Content note: this episode discusses domestic violence and strangulation. When a friend told me about a domestic violence case in the news two weeks ago, I said something I’m not proud of. I wondered out loud what she might have done to set him off. My friend called it victim blaming, and she was right. The thing is, I’ve been strangled by a partner. At 20, in Bali, I blacked out with his hands around my throat, and everyone around me...

Breast Cancer Without A Lump and How It Became Cindy's Ugly Gift

2026-10-1458:09

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Cindy had her hair cut off before chemo could take it. In her words, she took control. Like she always did. She was a single mum of two who held everything together herself, until breast cancer asked her to do the one thing she’d never done: let other people hold it for her. Diagnosed with aggressive triple negative breast cancer in January 2025, after a first-ever mammogram and no lump, Cindy put her house on the market the next day....

Why Smart Women Stay In Abusive Relationships with psychologist, Faye Evans

2026-10-0701:02:41

Enjoyed this and want to let us know? Drop us a text Content note: This episode discusses domestic abuse, coercive control, threats and PTSD, and includes a brief reference to suicidal ideation. Faye Evans was 17 when she met him. He was a lecturer, 12 years older, at the university where she was studying psychology, and she was engaged by 18. Over the years that followed, control arrived in small doses and dressed itself up as care: what she wore, what she read, who she...

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