*RE-RELEASE*

We are taking a few weeks off recording while we're in Morocco, Ang is in Amsterdam and our wonderful editor Sam gets married. So to keep your ears busy, we're re-releasing some of our favourites and Harry Garside never ceases to blow our minds.

Excuse the time references, but if you missed this the first time around, it's an absolute ripper!

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Welcome back, lovely yayborhood! Thank you so much for your patience over the past few weeks – I can’t believe I was so anal about having episodes in the bank for our trip but then ended up taking a break anyway with ANOTHER super cold. I hope you’re all looking after yourselves and are keeping healthy in cold and flu season!

It worked out though, as I couldn’t think of a cooler guest to kick off the second half of the year than the legend I have in store for you today. You probably know by now that I get SOOO excited by people whose brains tick as crazily and deeply as mine likes to, so I was like a kid in a candy store with this guest and felt the least articulate I have in a long time next to his eloquence!

I am endlessly fascinated by Harry Garside and it seems most of Australia and the world shares that view and not only because he is a championship boxer who won the nation’s first medal in boxing at the Olympics in over three decades in Tokyo. While his rise to international success from losing 10 out of his first 18 fights at the humble Lilydale Youth Club is also fascinating, I still don’t think that’s the reason we’re so enamoured with him.

While Harry’s upbringing and beloved sport align very strongly with traditional ideas about masculinity and strength, it’s his unique passion for changing those stereotypes that I fell in love with complementing his training with ballet classes and wearing nail polish to some of his fights. Just when you think you’ve figured him out, he reveals a whole new facet of himself and his view on the world and I could ramble on about how much it stretched my own mind getting to have this conversation.

I’ll let you hear it for yourself as this is one of my favourites all year so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Our annual birthday reflections episode chaotically answering your questions - thank you so much for the submissions!

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Welcome to our first FOUR WAY EPISODE on the show! At this point, my memory is so bad that it’s entirely possible we’ve done one before, so ignore me if I’m incorrect – I actually love it when you guys remember things better than I do!

Anyway, I am so excited about our guests today – I was lucky enough to jump on their brand-new podcast recently and enjoyed it so much I had to turn the tables a week later. Of course, I’m talking about Tass aka Natassia - the founder of trailblazing beauty brand Conserving Beauty - and Sage, her Community and Partnerships Manager as well as right-hand woman. And since I was originally introduced to Tass by Ang, I thought she could join for the party and it was SO much fun.

You’ll hear all about the pathYAYs that led the girls both together and into Conserving Beauty in the episode, but just in case you need an introduction to the brand, it’s the game changing water(less) beauty brand that I’ve been shouting about on socials for a while now. The one with the zero-waste make up wipes that not only so effectively remove make up from the face but also DISSOLVE COMPLETELY IN WATER with patented Insta Melt fabric technology leaving no waste or micro plastics behind? Yeah, that one.

That’s just a taste of the incredible ways Conserving Beauty is focusing on their water, carbon and waste footprints with clear traceability through the supply chain without compromising on high quality products. And of course we all want to know how you actually bring an idea like that to life, let alone straight into the coveted shelves of Mecca before they’d even lauched… so listen in to find out!! I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

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Welcome back lovely yayborhood and happy International Women’s Day! I couldn’t think of a better guest to celebrate all that is wonderful and womanly than the incredible Sophie Walker from Australian Birth Stories. I suspect that many of you listeners are also among the literal millions in the Australian Birth Stories community but, in case you aren’t just yet, it is one of Australia’s most successful shows sharing honest stories of women navigating the journey to motherhood – a space where conversations, education and a safe place to share had long been missing.

I always find it so alarming how little women often understand about their bodies and Sophie herself was originally inspired to create her community by her second birth experience during which she felt unable to make informed decisions and left with significant physical and emotional trauma. She has since shared over 350 diverse stories of pregnancy, birth and postpartum covering every scenario you could think of helping so many people feel more informed and empowered to have a positive birth experience.

Once you dive into the wide world of childbirth, there is SO much to uncover and learn but of course there are 350 episodes and counting that you can tune into for those juicy details as well as Sophie’s brand new BOOK – the Complete Australian Guide to Pregnancy and Birth – which you’ll also hear about in this episode. Here, I wanted to find out who Sophie is and what led her from a Masters in Public Health with no background in media to one of Australia’s most successful podcasts. I hope you enjoy as much as I did!

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Welcome back lovely people, what a week it’s been for the yayborhood!!! Nic aka Mr YAYvidson’s return to the show last week for a hilarious Valentine’s episode – thank you all so much for listening and for the cute littlee love notes… But even more excitingly, our first in real life event in over three years and it was EVEN MORE AMAZING THAN WE COULD HAVE IMAGINED.

I won’t spend much time on it this week because we recorded some audio on the night and are putting it together for a proper debrief episode with Ang about the event next week, but I just wanted to quickly reiterate just how incredibly special it was and how grateful we are to everyone who came. There was so much laughter, beautiful tears, wonderful new friendships and memories for a lifetime. And we’re doing it all again this week in Sydney for another sold out event, which still blows my mind! So we’ll have the full reflection yays of our lives episode next week for you but for now we’ve got a fascinating guest who I can’t wait to share.

I first heard of Ben Mcintosh when we joined my amazing management team at Day Management – should out to the Day family, we love you so much – and, along with nearly a million other people and counting, I very quickly wanted to know pretty much every detail about his life. He, like many others, has grown a loyal and engaged community and uses his platform to educate and positively impact others but unlike many others, it wasn’t born out of business, reality TV or nepotism – it’s through sharing his day-to-day life as a disability support worker.

In very Seize the Yay fashion, Ben spent most of his life unsure of what he wanted to do dabbling in AFL and even going to college in the US for American Football but not really knowing what his passion was. Turns out, he had been building the perfect skills for a career in disability support work as a big brother to Grace, who was born with Down’s Syndrome.

Today you’ll hear the story of how he stumbled into doing it for work and found that feeling of purpose we always talk about when you forget what time it is or don’t feel like what you’re doing is a job. His content is so endearing, empowering and educational helping demystify so much about disability – I mean I’m really only friends with him for Grace, but let’s not tell him that. I found this one so fascinating and different, and hope you guys enjoy it too! I think it night have been his very first if not second podcast ever so make sure to tag him and share to encourage him to do it more!!!

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Due to popular demand, Nic aka Mr YAYvidson is back on the show for a special Valentines Day anonymous Q&A. Hosted, of course, by Ang, this was an absolute CRACKER! Hope you enjoy as much has we did!

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Hello lovely yayborhood and welcome to our second guest episode of the year. Continuing on our musical theme to kick off 2023, we’re chasing our classical singer, Josh Piterman, with a classical pianist, Van-Anh Nguyen, and one of the country’s very best at that!

You might remember a few weeks ago, Ang and I were lucky enough to attend a Candlelight Concert where we cried our way through an hour of Van-Anh’s spine tingling renditions of Disney’s best and brightest accompanied by cellist, Aly Partridge. Well earlier that day, we actually recorded an episode too on how one actually goes from a musical childhood (which is not especially uncommon) to an internationally successful career, a deal with Universal Music, 11 albums, ARIA nominations and a dream life between LA and Australia (which is definitely less common!)

You’ll hear quickly how much I loved getting into the nitty gritty details of life as a professional pianist – how do you train your fingers? Do you insure your hands? Can you play any song you hear? I could have sat with this incredible woman for hours and watched her play for many more. I’ll include some snippets of her playing on socials so you can experience her exceptional talent and unique ability to fuse Beethoven with Britney. I hope you enjoy as much as I did!

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Finally, our first #yaysofourlives episode for the year reflecting on last year, our hopes and dreams for this year and our usual crap in between!

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Welcome back, lovely yayborhood! Oh my goodness me, it is not settling into my brain that it’s 2023.... let alone the end of January! We had the loveliest break, but we’re BACK IN A BIG WAY and have such an exciting year planned – our first IRL event is already booked in for the 16th Feb now that we have Ang back on board properly so stay tuned for more details.

On that note, you’ll be getting a dose of #yaysofourlives every fortnight and in next week’s episode we’ll follow up on Ang’s HUGE revelations from her Q&A, our reflections on last year, hopes and dreams for this year – all that "new year, new me" jazz. But for now, we have our first guest episode for the year and as you’ll hear we are SO lucky to have access to this incredible voice as it’s a precious one!

We are starting the year on a musical note, with the incredible Josh Piterman – musical theatre performer and classical crossover artist who also just happens to be – at this very moment - the actual Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. During my research, I read an older article where Josh was asked his biggest dream in the industry and it was to play the Phantom – nobody will be surprised that the way his pathYAY has developed makes me so very happy!

But even more true to seize the yay form is that he didn’t even fancy himself a career in the arts until later than you’d expect, had a few diversions in his career along the way including opening a fitness studio and so much more before finding his ultimate yay (and if you’ve heard him sing, you’ll know he’s exactly where he’s meant to be). I found it so fascinating to hear all about what it actually takes to sing professionally, protect your voice, train for shows and all that jazz so I hope you enjoy as much as I do.

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