Tonts Podcast

10/06/2024

Part Two of a conversation with the soulful indie folk singer songwriter Mietta

03/06/2024

Part One of a conversation with the soulful indie folk singer songwriter Mietta - storytelling and creating on Boonwurrung country in Australia's Mornington Peninsula. At 22 years of age, Mietta is in a season of emergence.

With deep connection to her home roots and her community she is also an education researcher, learning skills mentor, facilitator and designer of youth wellbeing and expressive writing workshops. Mietta has recently supported the beloved artists Pete Murray and Kim Churchill and has just released her first recorded single with producer and friend fellow indie folk musician Timothy Li.

You can find her playing all over the place in her home community and surrounds. For updates find her .music on instagram.

27/05/2024

Welcome to another episode of TONTS. on the road. Audio grabs from Claire's tour of the UK last year. This one is from her show in the Caves in Edinburgh Scotland with the wonderful doula and mamma medicine women's circle facilitator Roberta Giovedi. Roberta had a baby during Covid and noticed that many mothers in her community (including herself) were feeling isolated and alone.

With the help of an organisation called the Planetary Healing Centre Roberta began running women's circles for mothers in the woods near her home building space for mothers to share their stories, stitch, sit with their feet in the stream and shine a light on the darkness as well as the love they were experiencing. This speech is so powerful and felt like a rally cry to recenter mothers and children in our communities.

20/05/2024

In 2017 she published her book, S*x and God, performed internationally, was a grand slam finalist and became the first women to represent Australia at the National Poetry Slam, USA. In 2018 her poem, Witches, went viral on International scale.

A truly powerful and evocative poem from spoken word artist, Fleassy Malay. Find out more about Fleassy: http://fleassymalay.comCo-produced with Re/Culture M...

20/05/2024

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Two times TEDx speaker and viral poet, Fleassy Malay is an Internationally renowned, evocative and powerful spoken word artist, speaker and coach. A global advocate for Women’s rights, LGBTQI+ visibility, and a fierce voice for the power of authenticity and courage as a social change tool.
Founder and CEO of Melbourne’s acclaimed Women’s Spoken Word organisation and monthly event, Mother Tongue, she has guided the voices of thousands of women into the world. A passionate, powerful, vulnerable and honest performer whose words, workshops and courses leave a profound impression.

A British artist now based in Melbourne, Australia; she studied at the famous London stage institution, The BRIT School, which birthed many strong talents such as Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kae Tempest and more.
A self-identified q***r, erotic, spiritual, mother she has a theatrical and yet deeply authentic performance and writing style, renowned for captivating her audiences with depth, honesty, and humour. She now writes and presents regularly to her online community of over 20k followers with poetry, talks, and opinion pieces.

16/05/2024

The differences between alternative birth rather than hospital birth and the effects that can have on the birthing process.

14/05/2024

New episode available now.

Dr Melanie Jackson is a private midwife providing homebirth services since 2009. In 2015 she completed her PhD, called "birth outside the system: wanting the best and safest" This work sprouted academic publications and has also allowed her to work as a researcher and midwifery lecturer at Western Sydney university, as a peer reviewer for academic journals and as a project officer at the Australian College of Midwives and motivates the work she now does on her social media and youtube channels.

Melanie also hosts The Great Birth Rebellion which aims to dismantle western beliefs and management of birth and presents an evidence-based alternative to modern birth practices. They believe that calculated rebellion against medicalised maternity care is the evidence-based and preferred path to having a great birth.

Melanie is a mother of two and lives on a permaculture farm in the Blue Mountains of NSW.

04/05/2024

Accepting and teaching Matrescence so that the next people giving birth won’t be scared by what’s happening to them.

02/05/2024

We’d love to hear your experiences too if you’d like to share.
This is an excerpt from the latest episode of Tonts with Amy Taylor Kabbaz please find the full episode where ever you get your podcasts.

30/04/2024

30/04/2024

Looking back on lockdown and how we got through it. From the latest episode of Tonts with Amy Taylor Kabbaz.
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29/04/2024

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Amy Taylor-Kabbaz is a Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Journalist, Matrescence Activist and Mama of three. After more than a decade covering breaking news and current affairs for the ABC around the country, her 'traditional' career took an unexpected turn when she found herself lost, overwhelmed and diagnosed with a thyroid disease after the birth of her first daughter.

14 years - and two more babies - later, she is now the best-selling Hay House author of Mama Rising, the host of the ‘The Happy Mama Movement’ podcast (with more than 400,000 downloads), an internationally awarded Life Coach, runs numerous online programs for mothers all over the world, expert contributor to media outlets around the globe, and the creator of the #1 itunes meditations for children with more than 23 million downloads ‘Bedtime Explorers’. In 2019, she launched her world first Matrescence Facilitator Training - Mama Rising - sharing her unique formula of coaching and support into mother’s transition through matrescence. In 2022, Mama Rising was recognised by the ICF and currently has more than 200 accredited Mama Rising coaches globally.

22/04/2024

Welcome to another episode of TONTS. on the road. Audio grabs from Claire's tour of the UK last year. This one is from her London show with the spoken word poet Hollie Mcnish. Hollie is an award-winning poet, writer and performer. She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Slug (and other things I’ve been told to hate) and won the Ted Hughes award for new work in poetry with her poetry and parenting memoir Nobody Told Me.

She has two further poetry collections, Plum and Cherry Pie, one modern adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone and alongside fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz, co-wrote Offside, a play relating the history of UK women’s football. She loves writing and her live readings are not to be missed. Hollie is currently touring the UK at the moment and her new book Lobster is on sale now.

20/04/2024

Discussing community in creative spaces with Jasper Peach. Please find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

18/04/2024

Some parenting advice from Jasper Peach specifically for q***r parents and rainbow families. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Please find full episode where ever you get your podcasts for more info.

16/04/2024

Jasper Peach is a trans, non-binary and disabled writer, speaker and parent. They are passionate about equitable access and inclusion, focused around the dismantling of misplaced shame via storytelling. Their written work has been published in The Age, HireUp, The Big Issue, Archer, The Guardian, Verandah, Australian Poetry Journal, Meanjin, ABC and SBS online.

With a background in Auslan interpreting, broadcasting and civil celebrancy, writing has continued their personal trend of being all about communication and community. Their first book, You’ll be a Wonderful Parent, was published March 2023 by Hardie Grant and is a celebration of rainbow families of all kinds.

12/04/2024

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In this discussion Lucy explains how she felt hoodwinked by motherhood and speaking about motherhood in anything other than pastel hues remains, for the most part, taboo. For more please find Lucy’s book called Matrescence.

08/04/2024

Lucy Jones is an investigative journalist and author. She has written extensively on culture, science and na­ture. In her latest work Matrescence Lucy Jones presents her radical examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body.

These seismic effects are largely unrepresented across literature and the arts, and speaking about motherhood in anything other than pastel hues remains, for the most part, taboo. Jones offers an urgent examination of the modern institution of motherhood and seeks to unshackle parents from oppressive social norms.

06/04/2024

Clementine Ford on Witchcraft, Midwifery and Womanhood Part 2. Please find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

06/04/2024

Clementine Ford on Witchcraft, Midwifery and Womanhood. Please find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

04/04/2024

Part 2 of the kids as content discussion.

04/04/2024

The difficulties on raising children in our digital world. Find full discussion in the latest episode of Tonts.

31/03/2024

Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is the author of four books, Fight Like A Girl, Boys will be Boys, How We Love and het latest book I Don’t the case against marriage. She has been a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life and a regular contributor to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Clementine's writing explores issues of gender inequality and pop culture. Her ability to use both humour and distilled fury to lay bare ongoing issues affecting women has earned her a huge and loyal readership amongst both women and men. Clementine’s work has radically challenged the issues of men’s violence against women, r**e culture and gender warfare in Australia, while her comedic take on casual sexism and entertainment has earned her a reputation as an accomplished satirist.

Clementine’s number one mission is to speak openly and honestly about the state of the world as we live in it. She hopes to give other women the language and confidence to articulate their own feelings of frustration and anger.

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19/03/2024

TONTS. On The Road.

This episode is part of series of episodes that were recorded on the road as part of my tour of the UK and Ireland last year. In this first on the road episode I talk to the incredibly kind Sabrina Kennedy Charge nurse at the Bristol New Horizon Mother and Baby Unit. The unit is the smallest in the UK and is a 4-bed South West regional service providing treatments and interventions to meet the physical and mental health needs of mothers and their infants. Our 24-hour inpatient service supports, assists and supervises each mother to help develop the relationship with their infant. This episode is so precious to me as Sabrina explains so beautifully what it's really like inside this kind of facility and the nature of the work, caring for mothers at risk who are in deep pain and in need of compassion and support. I felt so privileged after this episode to be able to sing for the women in the unit. Such a beautiful memory.

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16/03/2024

Trigger warning for loss and grief at birth and pregnancy.
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15/03/2024

Trigger warning for loss and grief at birth and pregnancy.

Important information around statistics and the insights that can give us.

12/03/2024

Trigger warning for loss and grief at birth and pregnancy.

Larissa is a freelance illustrator with many strings to her bow. In 2021 she decided to couple her creative powers with her entrepreneurial mindset and founded the bereavement care charity Possum Portraits. This charity provides bereaved Australian parents with keepsake portrait drawings of babies lost to miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death free of charge.

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09/03/2024

Save the date! More details to come.

06/03/2024

How Bluey displays how important play is to child development with Mary Bolling from Gotta Be Done podcast.
What did you learn about parenting from Bluey?

05/03/2024

Reflecting on the Brandy episode with Mary Bolling from Gotta Be Done Podcast and what it means to people.