By MIA FREEDMAN
At the start of the year, I had a brainwave: PODCASTS. We need to do MAMAMIA PODCASTS.
Like many of my ideas, I got very excited very quickly but was a bit short on details.
So MM’s Managing Editor Jamila and I sat down and gave it a whirl. Weirdly, we managed to talk for 20 minutes about drugs in sport. Now, my disinterest in sport is well known. And I will admit I nodded off couple of times.
For our second effort, we’ve mixed it up. More topics, more casual and shorter. We’re talking: Lena Dunham’s character being ‘too ugly’ to sleep with her hot co-star, what goes on behind the scenes on the Today Show, post-traumatic stress disorder after birth (I had it!) and the website that hooks uni students up with rich guys to pay for their education.
In next week’s podcast we will also be answering questions from you so anything you’d like us to discuss, leave in a comment below.
Enjoy it!
Any questions for Mia and Jam? Did you agree/disagree with what they said? We’re new at this, how are you enjoying the Mamamia podcasts? What would you like to hear discussed next time around?
Top Comments
Hey i liked this podcast much better ! :) I would love to hear more about your thoughts on sustainability and if this is a factor in running your business. Like do you recycle/compost/not print too much etc. I am interested in making my workplace more sustainable and just generally interested in whether other people care about this or not.
I would also like to hear about Mia's fave green smoothie recipe as i've just started making my own and am up for ideas!
Thanks, Mia, for bringing up the topic of PTSD from birth. One of the most significant issues surrounding birth trauma is the isolation, due to most women not knowing about the existence of PTSD from birth. And one of the first steps towards healing is awareness. So I can only imagine how many women you just enabled to begin the healing process, as a result of sharing your own experience so willingly. The stats are shocking, showing that one in three women are reporting a traumatic birth. So every time you promote awareness and understanding here, you are providing the opportunity for another woman to emerge out of the black hole that PTSD after childbirth can become. I've been there myself and it's no picnic. So I wanted to thank you, and let your readers (listeners??) know that there IS support out there, and it IS possible to heal. Thanks again for your honesty, and for taking on this issue, from Melissa at Birthtalk :)