What if your health isn’t something you do, but something you are?
Kate Mason sits down with wellness journalist and author Casey Beros to trace her path from a Perth uni student obsessed with health reporting to on-air roles with ABC’s evidence-based program Tonic and a dream daily TV gig that was axed 35 episodes in—followed by a grief-soaked reset that clarified her true mission.
Casey shares how building Paper Tiger health retreats gave her real-world empathy, why she trusts slow science over fast headlines, and how her “Headlines to Live By” cut through fads: move, eat mostly whole foods, sleep, tend your mental and social health, and see your doctor.
She rejects quick fixes (and “expensive urine”), champions agency over obedience in a more horizontal model of care, and offers micro-actions—water, breath, a text to a friend, ten squats—that compound into real change.
Listen For
:32 What sparked Casey’s lifelong obsession with health journalism?
3:25 How did a bold pitch to Dr Norman Swan open the first big door?
7:12 What did Casey learn creating ABC’s evidence-based show Tonic?
14:51 How did she rebuild after a dream TV job was suddenly axed?
38:07 What “minimum viable interventions” can you start using today?
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