60: Just Eat The Damn Sausage with Comedian Harriet Moir
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What is Harriet Moir’s “Just Eat the Damn Sausage” show about and why is it important for women’s empowerment?
Hello and welcome to Talking with Emma. I'm your host, Emma Wright, the feminist health coach. And in this episode, I have an amazing guest. Her name is Harriet Moyer. She's a comedian, a writer, an actor, a podcaster, and the founder of the Women's Empowerment Experience Retreats. She is hilarious. She's real and has a way of taking challenging subjects. in making us all feel connected and seen through her ability to make us laugh. I recently saw her comedy show called Just Eat the Damn Sausage. And as I was sitting there watching it, I instantly knew I wanted to have her on the podcast to share her all with you. So Today we will be talking about her show, which builds itself to be about puberty, about periods, about pregnancy, perimenopause, piss, and processed meats.
And it is about all of those things, but it is also about so much more, which we're going to get into here today. It's about patriarchy. It's about why we are all a little bit weird about food in our bodies in a way that makes us really think and laugh. So Harriet, my friend, welcome. It is so fantastic to have you here.
I am absolutely delighted to be here chatting with you today, Emma. What a I'm the lucky one.
Oh, that is lovely of you to say that, Harriet. Listeners, you should know we know each other as friends and colleagues.
So it is I'm not always that intimate in my first greetings.
I love it. I love it. But Harriet, can you start by introducing I have introduced you a little bit to the audience, but can you introduce yourself to people so they really know not just what you do, but who you are.
Yeah, okay. So I'm I'm from Hamilton originally for my sins. I live in Dunedin, been here for about twenty three years, and I am a full-time solo mother, first and foremost, out of two uh fabulous teenage girls. Um and I have done a lot of things in my lifetime. I originally I trained as a classical singer, so I used to sing opera. And then that dream just sort of faded and um I also owned a children's and baby store for about eleven years here in Dunedin and that closed in two thousand and nineteen and then Uh I'd sort of been dabbling in music theatre and the odd bit of performing as well, but somehow, some way, I'm not even sure exactly how, since about then, about two thousand nineteen to now, I've built this career as someone who does a whole range of things.
Uh I clocked it pretty early on that most people would rather die than speak in front of a room full of people. Like most people find that absolutely like their worst nightmare. And I realized that that is my absolute happy place. And I'm really comfortable doing that. And I was like, you know what? I should make money out of that because most people, yeah, would really rather not do that. So saw it as a an asset that has value or a skill that has value and I've just sort of uh deep dived since then. So that's kind of career stuff. Uh, personally, I feel like I am someone who is uh really resilient. I've faced a lot of big challenges, particularly I was gonna say particularly in adulthood, but uh since my late teens I would say.
Um it's been There's been a lot of a lot of obstacles that I have had to overcome. And I would consider myself as being Eternally I Optimistic Maybe a bit delusional, I don't know. Um, or I don't know what it is. It's just I've I sort of have I have this ability to just pick myself up. And do what needs to be done. to get on with things.
Which is okay. No. Yeah. No, no. I I was gonna say I think it which is which I think is why the audience connects with you because You bring us into your world, you share absolutely everything the reality of being a human and you make us feel all more connected by doing that.
Yeah, I I also am a an absolutely uh unashamed overshearer. I just always have been, always will be. I don't know why. It's just it's just who I am. And As you say, like I think that I often think about back a hundred years ago or whatever, when everyone was all really buttoned up, nobody talked about anything private or personal and how I think, oh, we've you know, we must have come on along so far from that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Harriet Moir’s “Just Eat the Damn Sausage” show about and why is it important for women’s empowerment?
0:02–8:23
2
How did Harriet develop the concept and structure of her show from personal experiences?
8:23–15:37
3
Why does Harriet focus on body acceptance, puberty, periods, and perimenopause in her comedy?
15:37–22:14
4
How does the show challenge patriarchy and societal beauty standards?
22:14–28:16
5
What impact has the show had on audience members and how do they respond?
28:16–34:53
6
How does Harriet use storytelling to address topics like domestic abuse and mental health?
34:53–40:57
7
What lessons has Harriet learned about role‑modeling and parenting from her performance?
40:57–46:27
8
Where can listeners find Harriet’s future shows, podcast “Tell Me Moir,” and Women’s Empowerment Experience Retreats?
46:27–53:35
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