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Why Smart Women PodcastAnnie and Kate talk ‘ wellness’Send us a message! Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2026-01-2241 minWhy Smart Women PodcastGuys, come on. Vaccines do NOT cause autism!!!Send us a message!We challenge celebrity myths about vaccines, unpack the “too many too soon” claim, and show how grifters turned doubt into profit while measles and whooping cough return. We share practical steps to talk to hesitant loved ones and protect vulnerable kids now.• why the “Forest of the Fallen” misleads• how celebrity rhetoric fuels vaccine hesitancy• the autism link myth debunked with evidence• Andrew Wakefield’s conflicts and commercial motives• RFK Jr. and the business of misinformation• Samoa’s collapse in coverage and tragic outcomes• herd immunity explained and why...
2025-11-1750 minWhy Smart Women PodcastThe Snarky Gherkin and a Nazi walk into a bar….. Part.2Send us a message!A fast, clear walkthrough of the “Cooker Wars” timeline, from a viral march brand to four competing groups, collapsing turnouts, and a movement that sells outrage without outcomes. We map the players, the optics problem, and why economic pain makes people vulnerable to grifters.• Gaza protest optics triggering a copycat “March for Australia” wave• NSN claiming involvement and the credibility collapse that followed• Monica Smith’s rebrand to Put Australia First and calls for sponsorship• Infighting over footage, branding, and who gets the microphone• August march fiasco and Nazi presence da...
2025-11-1233 minWhy Smart Women PodcastThe Snarky Gherkin and a nazi walk into a bar……. Pt.1Send us a message!Tom Tanuki's PodcastWe unpack how a once unified protest movement fractured into rival factions and why that vacuum drew in neo-Nazi groups. We explore the psychology that keeps people in, from grief and defiance to false cures, and share practical ways to build scepticism and safety.• cooker wars defined and why the split matters• loss of clear goals and rise of hero complexes• vague slogans on migration, energy and corruption• neo-Nazi involvement and the Camp Sovereignty attack• recruitment tactics, grooming and tradwife nostalgia• Andrew Tate’...
2025-11-1031 minWhy Smart Women PodcastPlato, Nietzsche and Ryder. What a line-up !Send us a message!We explore how humour does real work: building critical thinking, lowering defensiveness, and fuelling social change, from pandemic myths to political power. Two kinds of laughter—herd and heights—show why some jokes harm and others heal, with practical ways to use comedy well.• role of laughter in learning, groups, and connection• comedy as a response to fear and frustration• philosophers on humour from Plato to Nietzsche• herd laughter versus heights laughter• political mockery, late‑night satire, and why power hates jokes• case study of Pete Evans and the cut‑...
2025-11-0550 minWhy Smart Women PodcastBush turkey taken up residence on your bed? Laugh or cry ?Send us a message!We explore how humour helps us handle stress, anxiety, and life’s clatter without ignoring pain. A rogue bush turkey sparks a deeper look at the body’s laugh response, thought defusion, and why timing and validation matter when using comedy as a coping tool.• acknowledging Country and setting the scene in Sydney• the bush turkey saga as a catalyst for laughter• why some laugh in crisis and others only later• what laughter does to the diaphragm, hormones and breath• using humour to defuse anxious thoughts and gain distance
2025-11-0335 minWhy Smart Women PodcastScepticism, Socks, And Self-ProtectionSend us a message!We turn a chaotic week—stolen bikes, a shredded laptop, and a dog’s sock surgery—into a guide to better decisions by swapping blame for causation and drama for clarity. We unpack coercive control, how to warn a friend without lecturing, and why scepticism is a safety tool against health misinformation.• shifting from blame to causation to regain control• spotting early coercive control masked as care• using calm, specific language to influence a friend• jealousy as insecurity not love• metacognition as a buffer against emotional decisions• health mis...
2025-10-2929 minWhy Smart Women PodcastSock, Surgeons, And Clear ThinkingSend us a message!Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-10-2734 minWhy Smart Women PodcastAnnie and the man in the lift.Send us a message!Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-10-2232 minWhy Smart Women PodcastFrom Ball Games To Big Ideas: How Rigidity Shrinks A LifeSend us a message!A sweltering spring day, a newly minted dog beach, and one missing ball turn into a bigger question: why do we try to control what can’t be controlled? We head to Mona Vale where hundreds of dogs sprint through the surf and most humans smile—until a few arrive with tight rules, tight lips, and the belief that public spaces should run to their personal script. That tiny friction becomes our doorway into manners, shared spaces, and the sneaky sentence that fuels so much outrage: “this shouldn’t be happening.”Support th...
2025-10-2039 minWhy Smart Women PodcastBoost Your Immune System? My Foot Patch Says HiSend us a message!If certainty had a sound, it would be the wellness aisle whispering boost, detox, and natural into your ear. We pull back the curtain on why those words feel so right—and why they so often lead us astray. With Richard Saunders from Australian Skeptics, we unpack how intuition clashes with evidence, how authority bias makes white coats and big badges persuasive, and how deepfakes and influencer snippets outpace careful science in the attention economy.Listen to Richard's Podcast - https://www.skepticzone.tv/Support the showPro...
2025-10-1542 minWhy Smart Women PodcastMind, Body, WalletSend us a message!A glittering festival of certainty met a table of questions. We took you inside Sydney’s Mind Body Spirit Festival with pharmacist Kate Thomas and skeptic investigator Richard Saunders to test the confidence, the charisma, and the sweeping claims—everything from tarot to “age reversal” stem cell patches. What we found wasn’t just crystals and calm; it was a sales engine where scientific words get borrowed, anecdotes become evidence, and vulnerable people are nudged toward costly detours.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through...
2025-10-1324 minWhy Smart Women PodcastSeed oils made my cellulite? And other internet fairy tales we should binSend us a message!A young woman followed a fruit-only diet until her body could no longer keep up. That tragedy isn’t an outlier—it’s the end point of smaller ideas that sound reasonable, feel empowering, and get reinforced by online echo chambers. We pull on that thread to reveal how “eat clean” becomes a slippery slope, why influencer certainty beats cautious science in the algorithm, and how health halos and status battles can turn food rules into identity.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the...
2025-10-0839 minWhy Smart Women PodcastSelf-love! Simply another thing to fail at?Send us a message!Tired of being told to “love yourself first” before anything else can work? We take that sacred cow for a walk and ask a simpler, kinder question: what if love is a verb, not a mood? Annie and David unpack the pressure-packed version of self-love that dominates social media and swap it for practical actions anyone can do—no lotus pose required. Along the way we separate self-love from self-care aesthetics, look at why external validation actually matters, and explore how neutral self-respect can be more stabilising than forced affirmations.Support the sh...
2025-10-0643 minWhy Smart Women PodcastI Don’t Wear Lululemon and Other Ways to Start a FightSend us a message!Ever tried to share a life when your partner’s best hour is your worst? We dive into the everyday friction of two people on different clocks—one of us a sunrise exerciser who thrives on routine, the other a late-day creative who hits stride when the world winds down. Along the way we challenge wellness overpromises (no, stress doesn’t cause 99% of illness), keep the real science on movement and ageing, and get honest about how habits actually form: fewer pep talks, more smart design.Support the showProudl...
2025-10-0139 minWhy Smart Women PodcastSkipping Ropes and Sweaty Palms: The Awkward Art of Speaking UpSend us a message!Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-09-2931 minWhy Smart Women PodcastWhen Kevin the tortoise and Squeaky the monkey have a chat..Send us a message!Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-09-2547 minWhy Smart Women PodcastKate the pharmacist or Bree the influencer. Mmm who to trust ….?Send us a message!Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-09-221h 05Why Smart Women PodcastWhat If Your Imperfections Are Actually Human?Send us a message!What if your biggest flaws aren't flaws at all, but simply part of being human? We've all had that moment—catching a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror and immediately focusing on some perceived imperfection. That unexpected view of "tuck shop arms" (as we call them in Australia) or an unflattering angle in a video can trigger an avalanche of self-criticism. But why do we do this to ourselves?Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marke...
2025-09-1937 minWhy Smart Women PodcastSnow Leopards Don't Need Ambulances (But Humans Do) Pt.2Send us a message!What happens when a woman's desire for a "natural" birth clashes with medical reality? In this gripping episode, I share the second part of the first chapter from my upcoming book - a story that will have you holding your breath until the very end.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-09-1540 minWhy Smart Women PodcastWhen Beth Calls at 2AM, Everything Changes Pt.1Send us a message!Today's episode takes a creative turn as I share the opening chapter of my forthcoming book. Set in Sydney, Australia, this story follows three sisters whose lives have been shaped by a mysterious incident in their past and the subsequent estrangement of middle sister Beth from her siblings Harper and Emmy.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.co...
2025-09-1045 minWhy Smart Women PodcastCould a Metaphor Save your Sanity?Send us a message!Ever caught yourself saying you're "banging your head against a brick wall" or "can't get your head above the parapet"? These aren't just figures of speech—they're powerful mental frameworks that might be intensifying your anxiety without you realizing it.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-09-0847 minWhy Smart Women PodcastThe thin line between anti-vax ideology and white supremacy is getting thinner.Send us a message!When neo-Nazis take the podium at your rally and receive cheers instead of condemnation, it's time to question what movement you're truly part of. The Snarky Gherkin joins Annie McCubbin to examine the disturbing connection between Australia's anti-vax "freedom" movement and white nationalist groups that have found fertile recruiting ground among conspiracy theorists.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go...
2025-09-0351 minWhy Smart Women PodcastWhy are we so quick to say ‘ I’m not racist but…….’?Send us a message!What happens when our mental shortcuts lead us astray? In this thought-provoking episode, I dive deep into the psychology behind prejudice and how our brains create harmful generalizations about people who don't look or sound like us.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-09-0135 minWhy Smart Women PodcastActing Beyond PretenseSend us a message!Have you ever noticed how some people can command attention with seemingly effortless authenticity while others leave you feeling manipulated or confused? The secret might lie in techniques actors have been refining for centuries.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/RequestMeeting
2025-08-2739 minWhy Smart Women PodcastActing! Why Stepping Into Someone Else's Shoes Changes EverythingSend us a message!What happens when shy, self-conscious people discover they can transform into someone else through acting? In this captivating conversation between three veteran Australian actors – Annie McCubbin, Lucinda Armour, and Deborah Galanos – we explore the profound psychological journey of becoming an actor and how performance art builds confidence, resilience, and empathy.Support the showProudly sponsored by COUP — helping brands cut through the noise with bold, smart marketing. Visit the http://coup.co website or book a meeting with us at. https://go.oncehub.com/Reques...
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