MID
Episodes
Empathy Fatigue & What To Do When You're Too Exhausted To Care
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever feel like you’re constantly the one listening, supporting, and showing up for others, until one day you hit a wall and think, I can'...
The Biggest ADHD Myths & How To Get A Diagnosis
25 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered if you might have ADHD but feel nervous about saying it out loud? Or maybe you’ve been diagnosed already, but all you hea...
Your Guide To Body Acceptance In The Age Of Ozempic
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With the rise of weight loss injections and the return of skinny culture, it feels like we’re moving backwards in the body positivity movement, ...
Pivot Club: Trading A Laptop For A Tractor - Tim Abbott’s Escape From The Cost Of Living Crisis
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you need a gap year from real life? When you’ve worked hard, climbed the corporate ladder and saved every penny to buy your fi...
Pivot Club: Turning A Redundancy Into A Pilates Empire With Tori Clapham
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the "dream job" you hustled so hard to get...suddenly disappears? You're trapped in the story of who you think you should be, convin...
Pivot Club: Meet The Nutritionist Who Founded A Swimwear Label
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you decide to take the leap with a dream you’ve been sitting on for years? For Lyndi Cohen, that dream meant pivoting into an ...
Pivot Club: From Head Of Podcasts To Student Teacher - Lize Ratliff On Walking Away From The Top
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you're not just climbing the ladder, but standing at the very top? For Lize Ratliff, that meant achieving her dream job as Head of P...
Pivot Club: Canadian Slopes To Regional NSW - Why Georgia Louise Uprooted Three Kids To Go Back To Uni
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a six-month holiday turns into a 14-year life chapter? You pack a bag for a gap year in the snow and accidentally stumble into a who...
Pivot Club: From Photography To Property - How A 'Temporary' Sea Change Cemented A New Path For Jo Yates
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, a pivot isn't triggered by a failure. Sometimes, it happens when you’re winning. You can have the perfect life on paper - the apartme...
PIVOT CLUB: From Studying Power To Holding It: Why Anne Aly Chose A Career Bigger Than Herself
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, a pivot isn’t triggered by a failure.Sometimes, it happens because you keep looking for a way to make the world a little bit fairer. ...
Introducing: This Is Why We Fight. Long Term Love & Growing Apart
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Emma & Sam have been together for many years, raising four kids in a blended family. With the last teenager about to move out of house, Emma &...
PIVOT CLUB: From World-Champion To Doctor: All Of Life’s Hurdles With Jana Pittman
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when your entire identity is built on being the best in the world? For Jana Pittman, one of Australia's most famous athletes, the singula...
Julie Goodwin Has Changed
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Change is happening to our bodies and our minds and our careers and our relationships. And sometimes, the changes we decide to make can alter a life w...
The Question You Need To Answer To Find 'Real' Success
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a life successful? Is it the promotion, the postcode, the likes that light up your phone? That’s the story we’ve been sold, isn...
The Gap Year That Saved A Marriage
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The invisible woman still leaves quite a gap when she disappears. You might not have seen her smoothing your path this morning, ensuring clean clothes...
Melissa Leong Knows How To Blow Up Her Life
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you felt it? That relentless tick-tock to get everything done, achieved, and properly ticked off before some looming birthday makes you officiall...
Paula Joye Knows There Are Two Types Of People. One Has Lost A Parent.
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know Paula Joye as someone who ran Australia’s biggest women’s magazines—and as the expert in skincare, style, and wellness that...
Dr Stacy Sims Knows What Gen X Should Be Eating, Lifting & Feeling
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stacy Sims knows more about women's fitness than pretty much anyone we've ever spoken to. She's the exercise expert who went viral for her breakfas...
FROM HOLLY: 'A love letter to my toxic friend'
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And Just Like That… it's over. Welcome to the MID view of the end of the Sex and the City universe — forever. She's been our problematic ...
"Can I Get Back Together With My Ex Best Friend?"
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of MID, we are answering the dilemmas and questions that you, our listeners, have sent us. This episode is all about midlife friendship...
"I Want A Divorce But I Can't Afford It"
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of MID, we are answering the dilemmas and questions that you, our listeners, have sent us. This episode is all about divorce and separa...
Can I Pay $500 For A New Face
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of MID, we are answering the dilemmas and questions that you, our listeners, have sent us. This episode is all about our relationship w...
The Tantalising Temptation Of My Facebook Ex
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of MID, we are answering the dilemmas and questions that you, our listeners, have sent us. This episode is all about the excitement, fe...
My Daughter-In-Law Won’t Even Join The Group Chat
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of MID, we are answering the dilemmas and questions that you, our listeners, have sent us. This episode is all about families - the mes...
I'm Afraid Of The Weight Loss Jabs
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this season of MID, we are answering the dilemmas and questions that you, our listeners, have sent us. This episode is all about our MID relationsh...
A New Season Of MID Is Coming... All About YOU.
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A brand new season of MID is on its way to you on the 15th of July and we are bringing you the answers to the dilemmas that YOU, our listeners, have s...
EXTRA: You Forgot to Live Overseas ‘Til Now
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you’ve always wanted to live somewhere else? What if you did it, once, and you remember the freedom and the energy released by fre...
Eat More. Sleep Colder. Lift Heavier.
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Protein, weights, sleep, oh my. Does it feel like you hit a certain birthday with a zero and everyone started yelling at you about chicken breast and ...
Icy In-Laws & 'Boring' Husbands. Marian Keyes Is Here To Help.
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chances are, you’ve read at least one Marian Keyes book, and that if you've read one, you’ve read many. Since her first novel, Watermelon,...
It's Your Clothes Though
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you need a fashion overhaul? Some grown-up clothes. Grown-up attitude. Grown-up advice? Holly Wainwright did, and she knew exactly who to call for ...
Sex, Drugs & Radical Honesty: Confessions Of An Iconic 90s Cool Girl
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 80s & 90s - they didn’t come any cooler than Ione Skye. You remember her from Say Anything, the iconic 80s teen movie, or from River&...
What Did You Pay For Your Face
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Foundation to Filler, Leigh Campbell on beauty "hell yesses" and "f*ck no's". Whether you have a 12-step skincare routine and a "derm" on speed-d...
Melinda Gates’ Divorce Started With A Whisper
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Melinda French Gates knows everyone wants to talk about her divorce. She gets it, and she's covered it her new book, Next Day, about handling life's t...
EXTRA: But Could You Really Move To A Farm?
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Ward always sensed she would need to find her purpose outside of acting - for reasons she will explain in this conversation. But she never woul...
Millions Of Women Listen To Gabby Bernstein. I Found Out Why
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gabby Bernstein is the kind of person you mention in a group chat and instantly get five voice notes back saying, “Oh my God, she changed my lif...
Attack Of The Teenage Girls
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to MID Season Five...We have a very special guest. Mia Freedman has been in countless conversations with Holly Wainwright—on mics, ...
An Exclusive Interview With The Cast Of White Lotus
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been glued to The White Lotus this season, you’re not alone. In this exclusive episode, our Head of Entertainment Laura Bro...
EXTRA: Van Life Dream Vs Reality
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Laraine’s husband died, her kids told her to stay put. Instead, she bought an RV, named her Matilda and drove away. Now, she...
What A Madam Knows About Sex That You Don't
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antonia Murphy knows more about sex than pretty much anyone I’ve ever spoken to. Antonia was raising three kids, including one with a serious di...
EXTRA: When Three Couples Move In Together
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the dream every MID woman has discussed with her best friends. You know the one. The one where you fantasise about living in a big house together...
A Real Housewife On Fake Friends & Long Marriage
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole O' Neil is a Real Housewife of Sydney. Yes, we mean the reality show. And she's also a woman dealing with a lot of what everyone else is - kids...
Every Woman Over 40 At The Pool
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the MID view of The White Lotus. The three 'midlife' friends in the latest season of the prestige TV show are a perfect thin-slice of the n...
Mid Without Motherhood
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Faith Agugu always imagined she would be a mother. But at 45, after many, many detours, she decided it was time to recognise the reality that wasn't g...
‘We Are So F-ed Up’: Caring For A Complicated Parent
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Caroline Baum and her mother Judith walked into family therapy, Caroline’s first thought was: 'We are going to eat you for breakfast&hellip...
How Holly Wainwright Reinvented Her Style After 50
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Midlife style doesn’t have to be complicated. Today, Leigh chats with Holly Wainwright, Mamamia Out Loud co-host and bestselling author, ab...
From Management To Mushrooms: Suddenly Fired At 49
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Mills had a very fabulous job, one that she had built her life and identity around for decades. But her "midlife collision" was calling w...
Rachel Griffiths Took A Sabbatical From Everything
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Griffiths says she just got through her "peak mid-hell years" and she's here to tell us how. The actor, producer, and director has had many era...
Getting Married Again After 50 First Dates
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is about love. Specifically, it’s about finding it in your MID years. Maybe for the second, fourth, first time. This is a ...
Finally The Interview: Kate Langbroek & Mia Freedman
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mia Freedman, longtime friend of Holly and co-host of Mamamia Out Loud, has stepped down from hosting No Filter after an incredible decade. She’...
Amanda Keller Knows How Lucky She Is
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back, MIDs, and please send this episode to your best friend immediately. Because it's about the power of the most important relationships in ...
The MID View Of Babygirl: Milk, Fingers, Adultery.
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MID is coming back to your ears on Tuesday 4th Feb. While you're waiting... Holly has some thoughts on Nicole Kidman's "controversial" new film, Babyg...
FROM HOLLY: The Year The World Discovered Mids
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MIDs, I couldn't sign off for the year without one more little moment with you, the women who have made my year by joining me here on this podcast for...
Who Cares Who You Sleep With
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if it took you until MID life to say out loud something that you’ve been trying to find the words for your whole life. Something like: “Yes, ...
Ambition Says Yes. Body Says Nup.
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does ambition die in midlife, or are we just getting started? And what happens when your drive is as strong as ever, but your body is screaming 'stop'...
Tina Arena & The Truth About "Difficult" Women
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you "difficult" if you speak your mind, or have you just grown into yourself? Do you just finally know what you want and how to ask for it? We a...
Nikki's Divorce Began With A Midnight Email
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki Parkinson's husband kept assuring her that her suspicions about infidelity were all in her head. And then one day, she got an email in the middl...
Kasey Chambers Keeps A D*ckhead List
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not an actual list of dickheads, although let’s face it, by this stage of life, we’ve all met a few of those. No, this list is for Kasey Ch...
Screw 'Slimming': A Mouthful of Radical Joy
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gen X can be funny about food. A lot of us were raised on a diet of Kate Moss, cigarettes and coffee. We were happy to talk openly about skipping meal...
Flooding, Panic & An Idiot Allergy: The Great Mid Hormone Surprise
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our first MID episode about hormones & peri & meno…we meant to do it earlier, but, you know: brain fog. For more than twenty-five...
Looking Change Right In the Eye
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To kick off Season 3 of MID we are bringing you a conversation that Holly says kind of changed her life. We think it will change yours, too. Inspired ...
Ready For More MID?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season Three Of MID with Holly Wainwright will be back in your ears on Tuesday 15th October with more conversations for - and with - Gen X women who a...
But What Have You Done To Your Face
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the last conversation of MID, Season Two, with our guest Alison Brahe Daddo. Ali was THE Australian model of the late 80s, on every magazine cove...
The Day You Disappear
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You've heard about the incredible invisible women of MID. One minute we're there, the next we're unseen by the naked eye, our voices only audible to d...
We're Best Friends. Shut Up. I Love you. Go Away.
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to MID, the podcast for Gen X women who are anything but.Today we’re talking with Gen X Aussie icons, Vika and Linda Bull, all about family,...
Liane Moriarty Has A Big Question For You
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liane Moriarty sits down with Holly Wainwright for this episode of MID. Holly and the best-selling author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall (and s...
Suddenly Irritated By Absolutely Everyone
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Angry, much? Yep, we get it. Today we’re talking to Jacinta Parsons about rage. The ABC radio presenter and author has written a sharp and clever bo...
When MID Doesn't Come With Money
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Simmone Jade McKinnon was - and is, to many - Stevie from McLouds Daughters. She joined that iconic Australian show fresh from another era-defining TV...
Finding The Joy In A Pile Of Shift
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kylie Gillies is telling Holly Wainwright about The Shift. You know, the moment when you realise things have changed - your children were tiny, and no...
From No Sex To Best Sex At 49
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Overlooked, touched-out and too tired. That's how many MID women feel about sex. It's how Leslie Morgan felt, too. At 49, her marriage ended, and afte...
MID Has A Message For You
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sex. Money. Sandwich. Season Two of MID with Holly Wainwright is coming back to your ears and your hearts on Tuesday 6th August. You're not going to w...
I Am Woman, Hear Me Giving No Shits
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By MID, you've woven a big, beautiful, messy life. Some of it joyful, some of it devastating, some of it entirely unexpected. Today's guest, the iconi...
When Your Children Aren't Children
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It goes so fast. Did you want to pinch the people who said that to you when your babies were small? And now you know it's true. Welcome to the season ...
Grief Has No Time For Your Bullshit
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By MID, you've likely lived through some loss. You know grief has no time for fancy words and clever jokes. In fact, it hasn't a lot of time for words...
Don't Tilt Your Head At My Midlife Body
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your relationship with your body might be the most complicated one you'll ever have. So says comedian and podcaster Helen Thorn. And she'd know. Helen...
The Cure For Burn-Out Is Cooked
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Burn-Out, says author Katherine May, is what happens when you repeatedly ignore your own needs. Sound familiar? The first signs are often that you can...
How Do I Know If I'm Drinking Too Much?
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most Gen X-ers did not grow up idolising 5am-rising yoga girlies. For many of us, drinking "like the boys" was almost an act of feminist pride, and ce...
The Mid Life Dating Pool Has Wee In It
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grown-up dating is a bit like the middle aisle at Aldi - full of surprises, a few hidden gems and a whole lot of sh*t you don't need. Generation X are...
Don't Call It A Breakdown
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Goodwin has had an extraordinary ordinary life. And in the last few years, she has had an extraordinary ordinary wrestle with her mental health....
MID... We're Anything But
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to MID the grown-up conversations women deserve. Ever wondered what to do when your ducks don't all fit neatly into the row they're supposed t...