You’re Gonna Want To Hear This
Marie Claire Australia presents a celebrity interview podcast featuring big-name guests and intriguing personalities. Each episode pairs interesting people in conversations that are both fun and candid, often imagining who would make the ideal fantasy dinner party list. The show promises exclusive access and entertaining, frank discussions with famous and fascinating figures.
Episodes
Why Women Need to Stop Being “Nice” with Amy Remeikis
What if being “nice” isn’t the same as being kind? And what happens when women stop making themselves smaller to keep everyone else comfortable? This week, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by political journalist, author and cultural commentator Amy Remeikis to unpack women, power, anger, civility and the pressure to
Anine Bing on Life After Divorce, Finding Herself Again & Being Happier in Her 40s
Anine Bing has spent more than a decade building the kind of fashion empire most entrepreneurs dream of, launching ANINE BING from a Los Angeles garage and turning her signature blend of Scandinavian simplicity and LA cool into a global brand. But now, the designer, entrepreneur and creative is asking a different question: what success actually look like when it feels
The Style Issue: Anne Hathaway, Bumpfluencers & Going Grey
What does it really mean to find your personal style? Our bodies change. Our lives change. So why do we expect our wardrobes to stay the same? In this special Style Issue episode of You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt and Deputy Editor Mel Gaudron take us inside the pages of the magazine's biggest fashion issue of the year, from Anne Hathaway's career renaissance to
Drawn to the Manosphere: Tarang Chawla on Fighting Misogyny with Empathy
CONTENT WARNING: This episode covers violence, death and sexual assault. In Australia, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 for 24/7 crisis support, 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 for domestic, family and sexual violence support. What does it mean to be a good man and what happens when we stop teaching boys that masculinity has to fit inside a box? This week, Marie Claire Australia Edi
Sabrina Elba on Finding Purpose, Marrying the Internet’s Husband & Building S’Able Labs
What happens when you refuse to be defined by just one version of yourself? This week, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by Sabrina Dhowre Elba for a wide-ranging conversation about beauty, ambition, heritage, purpose and finding your own path. Sabrina is a model, entrepreneur, beauty founder, activist, philanthropist and UN Goodwill Ambassador, but 
Adrianne Palicki on Friday Night Lights, Being Underestimated & Finding Her Voice
What does it mean to define yourself when so much of your life has been shaped by other people's expectations? This week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by actress Adrianne Palicki for an intimate conversation about growing up in Hollywood, finding your voice, and the women she's played who have stayed with
The Friendship Issue: Hannah Waddingham, Teen-ternity & Bad Friends
What does it really take to maintain friendships as an adult, and why do we feel like failures when they fade? In this special Friendship Issue episode of You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt and Deputy Editor Mel Gaudron go inside the pages of the new issue, from the small joys of catching up to the bigger, messier questions we're all asking: They unpack the emotion
Tash Sefton on Finding Love Again, Turning 50 & Reinventing Your Style | Part 2
Can starting over at 50 lead to the happiest chapter of your life? Continuing from part one, Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt talks to fashion entrepreneur and style icon Tash Sefton about finding love again, turning 50, and the new life she never expected to build. Tash opens up about meeting her husband Adam and the unexpected way love entered her lif
Tash Sefton on Divorce, Losing Herself & Starting Over After 22 Years | Part 1
What happens when the life you built no longer feels like your own? This is part one of a two-part conversation. Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with fashion entrepreneur, digital creator and Where Did Your Style Go? founder Tash Sefton to talk about her extraordinary career, motherhood, divorce and the experience of rebuilding your identity
The Sandwich Generation: Sarah Macdonald on Ageing Parents & the Invisible Mental Load
What happens when caring for the people who once cared for you becomes one of the biggest challenges of your life? This week Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by broadcaster, journalist and bestselling author Sarah Macdonald for an honest conversation about ageing parents, motherhood, work, grief, guilt and the invisible weight carried by so many wom
Miranda Kerr: Divorce, Destiny and the Love Story She Never Expected
What does life really look like after becoming one of the world's most famous supermodels? This week Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt is joined by Miranda Kerr for an intimate conversation about motherhood, co-parenting, building a global beauty empire, and the personal experiences that shaped the woman behind the headlines. From becoming Australia's first V
Nicole Yade: Why Leaving an Abusive Relationship Is the Most Dangerous Time
What if the most dangerous moment in an abusive relationship isn't staying, it's trying to leave? As Australia continues to grapple with the national crisis of domestic violence and violence against women, this week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt speaks with Nicole Yade, CEO of the Women and
Bianca Spender on Losing Carla Zampatti and Living With Grief: PART 2
Continuing from part one, Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt talks to designer Bianca Spender about how she protects her creative energy while running an 18-year-old Australian luxury label: splitting her days into “creative time” and “business time,” and why her most productive hours are between 5pm and 2am, once the emails stop. Bianca describes the Bianca Spender
Bianca Spender on Growing Up as Carla Zampatti's Daughter: PART 1
What does it take to earn your place in one of Australia's most famous fashion families? This is part one of a two-part conversation. Marie Claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with designer Bianca Spender to talk about growing up as the daughter of fashion icon Carla Zampatti. Bianca takes us back to her childhood: sharing a bedroom with her sister, now-federal MP Allegra Spender, the st
Hannah Richell on Surviving the Worst Day of Her Life & Finding Love Again
What happens after the worst day of your life? This week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia editor Georgie McCourt speaks with bestselling Australian author Hannah Richell, whose powerful new memoir, An Ocean and a Day, revisits the sudden death of her husband, Matt Richell, and the journey that followed. After years of writing acclai
Jess Denham: The Story She Was Never Allowed To Tell
What if the person who was meant to protect you was the one you needed protection from? This week on You're Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt speaks with world champion runner Jess Denham, who is telling her story publicly after years of being unable to do so. Raised in isolation and controlled by her parents, Jess appe
Caro Claire Burke: The Tradwife Fantasy, Explained
There comes a point on Tradwife TikTok when the fantasy turns dark. The soft linen, the homemade bread and the children who never cry give way to something else: subservient wives, the manosphere, and a fight over who's allowed to be angry. Caro Claire Burke went looking, and wrote Yesteryear, the runaway-hit novel about an American tradwife influencer who wakes up in the brutal 1850s. This
Charlie Verco: He Paddled Towards The Shark To Save Her
When everyone else swam for shore, Charlie Verco paddled the other way: straight towards a great white shark. On a clear, busy Saturday morning at Coogee Beach in June 2026, the 25-year-old surf lifesaver and elite board paddler was training when a woman, Leah Stewart, was attacked just ahead of him. What he did next made headlines around the world. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains detailed
Robbed Of Her Childhood: Bek Condello On Escaping A Cult
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains themes of childhood abuse, physical punishment, sexual trauma and coercive control. If you or someone you know needs immediate assistance, call 000. For confidential 24/7 crisis support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au. Support is also available through Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 or at beyondblue.
Health Anxiety, Chronic Illness and Online Misinformation Cost One Woman Her Life
What happens when the search for answers becomes a dangerous obsession? Georgie sits down with journalist and author Hannah McElhinney to discuss her book Wormhole, the true story of her cousin Lauren. Lauren spent much of her life battling debilitating symptoms and collecting diagnoses including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and POTS, while struggling to find meaningful answers fro
Dr Mary Claire Haver: You’re Not Crazy, It’s Perimenopause
Have you ever stood in a room wondering why you walked in, burst into tears over something small, or lain awake at 3am completely exhausted? You’re not going crazy, and you’re not “just busy”. It could be perimenopause. Dr Mary Claire Haver is one of the world’s leading voices in women’s health: a board-certified OB-GYN, menopause specialist and #1 New York Time
Emma Hardy: PMDD & The Truth About Female Rage
CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses mental health challenges, including suicidal thoughts and ideation. If you or someone you know needs immediate assistance, call 000. For confidential 24/7 crisis support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au. Support is also available through Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 or at beyondblue.org.au. What if the person yo
A Psychic Told Lally Katz Her Vagina Was Cursed - And It Changed Her Life
What if the worst thing anyone ever said to you became the story that changed your life? This week, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt sits down with playwright, screenwriter and memoirist Lally Katz to talk about My Cursed Vagina, her brutally funny, wildly honest and unexpectedly moving memoir drawn from the past fifteen years of her life. Before the awards, thea
Stephen Grosz: Why So Many Women Wake Up One Day And Want Out Of Their Relationship
Why do so many women wake up one day and feel like they want out? In this episode of You’re Gonna Want to Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt sits down with renowned psychoanalyst and bestselling author Stephen Grosz for a conversation about love, resentment, affairs, marriage, desire, emotional labour, and the complicated reality of trying to build a life with anot
Emily Maitlis: The Interview That Brought Down A Prince
What does it take to sit across from one of the world’s most powerful men… and not flinch? In this week’s episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, Georgie McCourt sits down with legendary British broadcaster, journalist and author Emily Maitlis for a riveting conversation about career-defining interviews, the discipline of preparation, and why the bes
Sarah Wilson: I Moved To Paris At 50 Looking For Love
What happens when one of Australia’s most recognisable wellness voices, bestselling I Quit Sugar author and TED Talk speaker Sarah Wilson, stops talking about sugar and starts talking about the collapse of civilisation? This week, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with journalist, author and activist Sarah Wilson for one of the most provocative conversations You’re Gonna Wa
The Pleasure Issue: Orgasms, Divorce Dating & Sarah Pidgeon
What actually gives women pleasure, and why are we still so bad at talking about it? In this special Pleasure Issue episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt and Deputy Editor Mel Gaudron go inside the pages of the new issue, from the small joys that make life better to the bigger, messier conversations: They unpack the orgasm gap, why women are still sta
Maggie Walters: I Have Dissociative Identity Disorder - Motherhood Helped Me Heal
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion about abuse and trauma. Maggie Walters has lived a life most people could barely comprehend. Diagnosed in her twenties with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, Maggie came to understand that her mind had created different parts, or “alters”, to help her survive severe childhood trauma.
The Day I Learned My Stepdad Was A Child Killer - Sherele Moody
For more than a decade, journalist and activist Sherele Moody has been documenting the stories too often reduced to statistics - every known Australian woman and child killed by violence. Through Australian Femicide Watch and the Red Heart Movement, her work has become a powerful, living record - one that ensures these lives are seen, named and never forgotten. But this isn’t just advocacy f
Lisa Wilkinson: Behind The Career You Think You Know
For decades, Lisa Wilkinson has been one of the most recognisable and trusted voices in Australian media - asking the questions, shaping the national conversation, and, at times, carrying the weight of the stories she tells. But in this episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, she turns the lens inward. Lisa joins Georgie McCourt for a candid conversation about what it really takes to buil
Alexa Leary Was Told She’d Die - Now She’s a Gold Medallist
Paralympic gold medallist Alexa Leary joins us for one of the most raw and powerful conversations we’ve ever had. At just 19, Alexa was involved in a catastrophic cycling accident that left her with a severe traumatic brain injury. Doctors told her family she wouldn’t survive. She lost her memory, had to relearn how to walk and talk, and now describes herself as living a “second
Kathy Lette: Your Husband Isn’t Forever. Your Girlfriends Are.
In this episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with one of Australia’s most fearless, funny and enduring voices - Kathy Lette.With more than 20 bestselling novels and a career spanning five decades, Lette has built a legacy out of saying the things women are often told not to say out loud - and making us laugh while she does i
Stephanie Browitt: “I Survived the Volcano. Half My Family Didn’t.”
Could you survive a volcanic eruption? It's a question Stephanie Browitt never thought she'd have to answer. And yet in 2019, a volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s White Island changed Stephanie's life forever. At just 23, she suffered burns to 70 per cent of her body and lost her younger sister, Krystal, and her father, Paul, in the tragedy. Seven years later, she's written a book about it.&
An Ordinary Day Turned Violent - This Is Chloe & Christine's Story Of Survival
On an ordinary morning in a Sydney apartment building, Chloe and Christine - two neighbours who barely knew each other - were violently attacked by a stranger inside their own homes.Christine, a wellness therapist and yoga teacher, had just stepped into the shared laundry. Chloe, a photographer and mother of three, was working at her desk with her front door slightly open. Within minutes, both wom
Belle Burden: My Husband Of 20 Years Became A Stranger Overnight
In this episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with writer and author Belle Burden for a conversation about love, loss - and what happens when your life changes overnight. During the early days of Covid lockdown, Belle believed she was safe inside a happy, 20-year marriage. Then, within 24 hours, everything changed. A phone cal
Chloe Hayden & Georgie Stone: The Kids Who Never Quite Fit In
What does it feel like to grow up knowing you don’t quite fit the system around you?In this powerful episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, actors and advocates GeorgieStone and Chloe Hayden sit down for an honest conversation about identity, difference andthe long journey to understanding yourself. Both women know what it’s like to move through the world feeling “other
Danielle Bensky: I Was A Teenage Ballerina When I Met Jeffrey Epstein
In this powerful and deeply personal episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, marieclaire editor Georgie McCourt speaks with Danielle Bensky - a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’strafficking network - about grooming, silence, survival and the long road to reclaiming yourvoice. Before the headlines and court cases, Bensky was a 17-year-old ballerina in New York withdreams of a career in da
Dr Lucy Hone: The Day My 12-Year-Old Daughter Died - and How I Survived It
Now before 2014, today’s guest, Dr Lucy Hone, was a resilience psychologist studying how people cope with stress, uncertainty and change. She was immersed in the science of flourishing, working with schools, organisations and emergency response teams – and basically, helping others navigate unwanted disruption. And then, on a bright morning in May 2014, her twelve-year-old daught
Governor-General Sam Mostyn On What Truly Makes a Life Meaningful
This week on You’re Gonna Want to Hear This, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with Australia’s iconic Governor-General, Sam Mostyn, for a deeply personal conversation about power, purpose and the formula for a happy life. When the Prime Minister called to ask whether she would accept the role, Mostyn had just 24 hours to decid
Rosie Batty: Stop Saying “Why Didn’t She Leave?”
In February 2014, Rosie Batty’s life changed “catastrophically and permanently” in a way most of us can barely comprehend. Her 11 year old son Luke was murdered by his father during what should have been a normal summer cricket practice. In the hours that followed, Rosie stood in front of cameras and, with extraordinary calm and clarity, gave voice to tens of thousands of victim
Megan Gale Got Married a Year Ago - in Secret. She’s Ready to Talk.
On this week’s episode of Marie Claire’s You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, editor Georgie McCourt sits down with one of Australia’s most recognisable women - and hears her in a way we never have before. This is a show where fun and frankness is always in style. Fresh from her milestone 50th birthday and as the cover star of Marie Claire’s January issue, Megan
Jennifer Robinson and Jess Hill: The Backlash Against Survivors Is The Real Story.
Content warning: This episode contains mature and confronting themes, including domestic and family violence, coercive control, and online abuse. Listener discretion is advised. Support links are listed below. We’re releasing this episode now because while the holidays are meant to be joyful, they are consistently one of the most dangerous times of year for domestic and family violence.
Reinvention? Trinny Woodall Wrote The Manual
In this week’s episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, marie claire editor Georgie McCourt sits down with beauty entrepreneur, author and Trinny London founder Trinny Woodall for one of the most candid and compelling conversations of the season. At 60, Trinny says she feels “fucking amazing” - but getting here required reinvention, resilience and a willingness
This Is What Brittany Higgins Wants You to Understand About Sexual Assault
Yesterday, the Federal Court dismissed Bruce Lehrmann’s appeal, upholding the ruling that found he had raped Brittany Higgins in 2019. Today, Brittany Higgins’ voice feels louder than ever. In this week’s episode of You’re Gonna Want To Hear This, Brittany sits down with editor Georgie McCourt for one of the most open and unguarded conversations she has ever had. She s
Cindy Crawford and Celeste Barber Just Said What Every Woman Over 40 Is Thinking
An unlikely but perfect pairing, comedian Celeste Barber and supermodel Cindy Crawford sit down for a wildly entertaining, surprisingly raw conversation about reinvention, real bodies, and what confidence really looks like beyond the filters and the runway lights. Celebrating Marie Claire's 30th birthday in style at a unique parody cover shoot. From viral parody queen to beauty founder, and from o
Leslie Bibb On Bad Boyfriends, Big Lessons and the Imposter Syndrome that Won’t Quit
In this eye-opening, juicy episode, Leslie Bibb candidly shares her experiences with “bad boyfriends” and the “big lessons” that shaped her personal growth. She dives deep into the imposter syndrome that “just won’t quit,”alongside Georgie McCourt revealing how she confronts self-doubt in both her personal and professional life. Leslie’s authenticity
Asher Keddie and Liane Moriarty Tell the Truth About Storytelling
What a combination and creative minds! Step inside Marie Claire’s exclusive space for another candid conversation where fun and frankness takes centre stage. Australian icons Asher Keddie and Liane Moriarty dissect art, ambition, and the reality of writing and acting “complex, layered characters.”, Liane reveals: “I am really interested in when people are different than wha
Melissa Leong Has the Guts to Start Over - And She’s Telling Ronni Kahn How
Melissa Leong knows what it means to start over—and in this powerful episode of brand new podcast ‘You’re Gonna Want To Hear This’, she tells OzHarvest founder Ronni Kahn exactly how she found the guts to rip up her life and begin again. From “listening to your gut” to learning that “discomfort breeds growth,” Melissa shares candid stories of moving
Jacinda Ardern Doesn't Want You To Think She's Wonder Woman
Jacinda Ardern (former New Zealand Prime minister and author of the gripping account 'A Different Kind Of Power') joins Marie Claire Editor Georgie McCourt for an intimate and inspiring conversation about leadership, empathy, and the challenge of balancing global responsibility with motherhood. A new power of kindness and authenticity, leading with empathy. “I refuse to believe you can
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