Mia Freedman
speaker
7,600 appearances
60 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3d ago
Mia Freedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I just think for fathers.
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There you can be a good father, but it's not your identity.
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Like, fatherhood is just not an identity for men.
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Yep.
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This is what Grout's about.
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Yeah.
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I'm recording the the final chapter this week.
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Um and it'll be out in in a couple of months, I think.
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Um but that's what it's about.
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It's about working out who you are when those elements of your identity
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are stripped away.
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And if you do it right, they should be.
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Like you want your children to be independent.
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You want them to leave.
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But the other thing that's different in America it's kind of more straightforward because it's pretty common for kids at the age of eighteen when they finish school to go away for college.
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Whereas in Australia it's in England is it the same?
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Yeah.
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In Australia it's much more unusual.
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to uni, it it might be a uni close to where you live.
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It's also the result of helicopter parenting because it doesn't just switch off when they turn eighteen.
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