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Trigger Warning - this episode discusses themes of emotional abuse and trauma. If this brings anything up for you at all please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 Tickets to the live album launch are available hereThe last episode of season 3 for 2022 and I'd like to share my single Fear to Feel with you and tell you the story of La Loba the wolf woman.You can find subscribe to more music from me and listen to Fear to Feel on Spotify I'd love you to.Editing – RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic – Claire Tonti

Part Two of this beautiful conversation with author, storyteller and presenter Holly Ringland.For more from Holly you can find her here https://hollyringland.com/For more from Claire you can find her here https://www.clairetonti.com/Show credits:Editing – RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic – Avocado Junkie

Holly Ringland is a writer, storyteller, and television presenter. Her award-winning, bestselling debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, has been published in 31 countries/territories and will stream globally in 2023 as a seven-part series on Amazon Prime, starring Sigourney Weaver. In May 2019, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won The Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year. In February 2020, Holly signed a new two-book deal with HarperCollins Publishers Australia. Her second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding has just been published and is a stunning second novel of myth and magic and sisterly love.Throughout 2020, Holly travelled Australia to film Back To Nature, a visually stunning 8-episode series she co-hosted with Aaron Pedersen. Back To Nature aired to critical acclaim on ABC TV in 2021. All episodes are now streaming on ABC iView. Prior to the pandemic, Holly divided her time between Australia and the UK, where she had Australian native flowers growing in both places. In 2020 she bought a 1968 Olympic Riviera caravan, named ‘Frenchie’, her Plan B writing office based on Yugambeh land, southeast Queensland, in which Holly wrote Esther Wilding’s story.For more from Holly you can find her here https://hollyringland.com/For more from Claire you can find her here https://www.clairetonti.com/Show credits:Editing – RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic – Avocado Junkie

-Freya Lawler (naturopath) joins me again to discuss how we can care for our fertility throughout our lives and also what to do when we are faced with subfertility and the challenges to conceiving. Even if you have had children or don't plan to this conversation is so important as Freya has so much to share about our cycles and our bodies and also particularly about men's health and men's fertility. Unsurprisingly men are less likely to have their fertility explored. We talk through specific foods and herbs that can help on this road to conceiving and also how we can support and nurture women in the aftermath of miscarriage and abortion. If this episode has brought anything up for you and you are in Australia you can find support at the following organisations:1800 Respect - confidential counselling and support: 1800respect.org.auBeyond Blue - support for anxiety, depression and suicide prevention: beyondblue.org.auPANDA - support for recovery from perinatal anxiety and depression: panda.org.auFor more from Freya Lawler you can head to www.freyalawler.com.au or Instagram @freyalawlernaturoFor more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetontiShow credits:Editing – RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic – Avocado Junkie

Album Launch Tickets available here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/claire-tonti-album-launch-tickets-460602724147Freya Lawler joins me again today to deep dive into Endometriosis, a condition that effects so many women and is still chronically under diagnosed and often misunderstood. Freya Lawler is a bachelor qualified nutritionist, naturopath and natural fertility educator specialising in reproductive health, fertility and hormones. She is passionate about helping people achieve whole body wellness through a root-cause approach to women's health. In this episode we talk specifically about the paths to diagnosis for Endo, the common symptoms, what to look out for in our teenage girls who may be getting their period for the first time, methods of treatment and life style and dietary approaches that can really make a difference in you or someone you know suffers from this condition. Freya also has some wonderful resources you can access from her website and an Endometriosis starter kit that will help equip you with lots of strategies, good quality, well researched support and knowledge.For more from Freya Lawler you can head to www.freyalawler.com.au or Instagram @freyalawlernaturoFor more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetontiShow credits:Editing – RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic – Avocado Junkie

Album Launch Tickets available here:https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/claire-tonti-album-launch-tickets-460602724147Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, most recently The Younger Wife and her new release The Soulmate. Her novel, The Mother-In-Law (2019), has been optioned for a TV series by Hollywood actress and producer, Amy Poehler. Drawing on the good, the bad and the downright odd of human behaviour, Sally writes incisively about family, relationships and identity. Her domestic thriller novels are laced with quirky humour, sass and a darkly charming tone. Sally's novels are available around the globe in English and have been translated into 20 languages. She has sold more than one million books worldwide. Sally lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband Christian and her three children.For more from Sally Hepworth you can head to www.sallyhepworthauthor.com or @sallyhepworth on instagramFor more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetontiShow credits:Editing – RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic – Avocado Junkie

My guest today is Lizzy Hoo WHO is many things – a writer, noodle enthusiast, designer, actor, sports lover, and rescue greyhound owner. Lizzy is also a stand-up comedian who has rapidly become one of Australia’s most exciting new voices. Lizzy only started doing stand-up in 2017, originally as a way to gain more self-confidence. Safe to say it worked out pretty well. She quickly found herself an NSW State Finalist in the national RAW Comedy competition. The very next year she was invited to perform at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival at the Sydney Opera House, with her spot broadcast on Network Ten and Foxtel’s Comedy Channel. In 2021 she performed at the Oxfam Gala and to sold out audiences at Melbourne Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival. ​For more from Lizzy Hoo you can head to www.lizzyhoo.comFor more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetontiShow credits:Editing - RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic - Avocado Junkie

Sam Buckingham is an alternative pop, folk singer songwriter based in Byron Bay, Australia. In May 2020, after receiving a Resilience Fund grant from the Australia Council, Sam Buckingham setup up a makeshift studio in her living room to start pre-production on her new album Dear John. Co-produced with long time collaborator Kent Eastwood, the album was originally going to be mostly acoustic and stripped back - a very traditional “singer-songwriter" creation. A week after pre-production began, Buckingham woke in the middle of the night and wrote a song that would completely change the course of the album.The album stemmed from the breakdown of a relationship but, at its core, Buckingham insists that Dear John is anything but a break-up record.“The relationship itself was emotionally and psychologically abusive. It was so toxic, but I didn’t know that while I was in it. I thought I was just doing something wrong” says Buckingham. “This album isn’t about the relationship though, it’s about me. I had to unlearn so much of what I thought I knew about myself, about love, and about being a woman in this world. These songs document my process of healing, learning and rising up to be the woman I want to be.”With Kate Bush, Solange, Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and Phil Collins all serving as reference points for the sound on what would become Dear John, Buckingham studied hip hop, soul, rock, pop and feminist literature to create this stunning body of work.The album’s first single Something More, released April 2021, slapped fans in the face with a captivating one-take video that saw Buckingham marching down a Byron Bay laneway commanding and demanding respect. She launched the indie-pop anthem with a six-date sold-out tour last year (no small feat in the height of the pandemic). This was followed by invitations to tour alongside Kate Miller-Heidke, Paul Kelly, Tim Freedman, The Whitlams and Ben Lee.The next single, Let It Burn, was shared exclusively with hundreds of fans that signed up to a five day online experience, where Buckingham invited the select group into her process of grieving, healing and rising up.Dear John was released 8th April, 2022 and debuted at #2 on the AIR Independent Album Charts.1800 Respect - confidential counselling and support: 1800respect.org.auBeyond Blue - support for anxiety, depression and suicide prevention: beyondblue.org.auPANDA - support for recovery from perinatal anxiety and depression: panda.org.au05:18 Start of Interview18:59 Rich Girl: Getting Back to Who You Are26:22 Dear John: The Story of Sam's Relationship (tw: domestic violence)46:44 Something More: Fighting For The Truth52:16 Untamed by Glennon Doyle01:21:42 Choosing Self LoveFor more from Sam Buckingham you can head to www.sambuckingham.comFor more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetontiShow credits:Editing - RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic - Avocado Junkie

My guest today Claire O’Rourke is an author, environmentalist and advocate, with more than two decades working in journalism, communications and campaigns across Australia and around the world. Claire helps others take action on climate change, currently as Australia Energy Transformation Program Co-Director at The Sunrise Project. Claire's first book, Together We Can, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2022.Previously Claire was National Director of Solar Citizens, a community-led renewable energy advocacy organisation. A former journalist, Claire has extensive experience advocating for social impact, including driving communications for the Every Australian Counts campaign for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and as a senior leader at Amnesty International Australia. Claire’s father worked at coal fired power stations all his career, and now she spends her days working on how we can replace them in time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and ensure that workers, communities and First Nations peoples share the benefits as the world quickly moves to clean, renewable energy.https://claireorourke.com/climate-action/https://greenelectricityguide.org.au/https://www.marketforces.org.au/superfunds/https://350.org.au/https://indigenouspeoplesorg.com.au/For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetontiShow credits:Editing - RAW Collings, Claire TontiMusic - Avocado Junkie