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Travelling SeñoritaEP 240- Mel Bampton, Radio Host, Author, YogiMel Bampton aka Lissie Turner has packed a lot into her colourful life, from hosting at Triple J in Sydney-where she launched the popular ‘Like a Version’ series-to founding the Prana Project in Northern NSW, we chat about coming full circle in an illustrious career.2025-03-2058 min
How’d You Do It? Stories of ResilienceEpisode 23. The Mother’s Heart with Lissie TurnerEpisode 23. The Mother’s Heart with Lissie TurnerIn this powerful episode, Lissie Turner shares her deeply personal journey as a mother navigating the unimaginable pain of watching her daughter endure years of abuse in a toxic relationship. Lissie opens up about the hopelessness, rage, and grief she faced during this time and the profound impact it had on her life.Through raw and heartfelt storytelling, Lissie reflects on the tools and practices that helped her find strength, compassion, and the will to keep going, both for herself and her daughter. Her story is...2024-12-191h 24
The Radical Reframe Vashti WhitfieldA Life of Alignment - Lissie Turner on Realigning Life and Building a Purpose-Led BusinessLissie Turner delves into her journey of recognizing misalignment and embracing vulnerability to realign her life and build a purpose-led business focused on social impact. By centering her work around core values, she creates a meaningful path forward that drives both personal fulfillment and broader societal change. Join the Radical Reframe - https://www.vashti-whitfield.com/ Follow the journey and learnings - https://www.instagram.com/vashtiwhitfield/ Continue the conversation with Lissie - https://www.instagram.com/lissieturner/ https://www.lissieturner.com/ Series Produced by - www.s...2024-09-0156 min
A Grateful LifeDanni Carr - On a Trauma-informed Quest to Kick the BingeDanni Carr used to wake up some mornings with a feeling of dread, wondering if she’d remembered to put her kids to bed and what alcohol fuelled things she’d said or done the night before.After years of touring and partying with her husband Ash Grunwald, a much-loved Australian Blues Musician, the excessive binges started to take their toll and the two decided enough was enough, and they both decided to quit drinking for a year.Fast forward six years, and Danni is now the founder of the How I Quit Alcohol podcast, and is o...2024-07-0953 min
Behind The Smile with Ash ButterssEp 93. From Debauchery to Devotion, with Lissie TurnerThis week I sat down with Lissie Turner, also known as Mel Bampton from Triple J’s ‘Mel in the Morning’ and creator of ‘Like a Version’. Now an author, speaker, founder of The Prana Project and internationally accredited senior yoga teacher and therapist, Lissie shares her profound journey from a life of prominence and partying to one of sobriety, dedicated to compassionate living, mental health, and yoga therapy.
Lissie offers an unflinchingly honest look at her personal trials, including redefining her identity post-fame, navigating the complex responsibility of motherhood and dealing with what life throw...2024-04-071h 20
Real Drug TalkHer Story Will Change How You Think About Addiction!What if everything you thought about addiction was wrong?
Prepare to be heartbroken, inspired and moved by Lissie's story of addictive patterns and change.
Lissie Turner, previously known as Mel Bampton is a well-known radio presenter with a wild history of addiction giving her a unique perspective on drugs and how to change.
In this podcast episode, we chat about:
- Lissie's untold icky stories of drug use
- What using drugs intravenously is like
- A Different way to think about addiction
- What the using scene is like for a women
- How to start making change
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Spirit LevelsAre you a Grey Area Drinker?Have you just finished Dry January? Thinking about Feb Fast? Can’t face either just yet? Maybe you’re a ‘grey area drinker’. This term was coined in 2018 by Jolene Park, who has trained many grey area drinking coaches. Since then, a whole world of alcohol-free, sober-pride people has populated social media, talking openly about their drinking, moderating and quitting, without the stigma attached to labels like ‘alcoholic’. For mums, in particular, it’s almost become a new women’s lib. Similarly, ‘quit lit’ has really become a popular genre of memoir in recent years.In this episode of Spir...2024-01-2945 min
A Grateful LifeLissie Turner - On Addiction and YogaHow can yoga help us to dissolve our addictive patterns?Today I’m joined by Lissie Turner (she/her), CEO of the The Prana Project, to talk about addiction recovery and yoga.In this moving interview, Lissie shares her own journey with transforming what she describes as a 22-year drinking career during her time as a presenter on Triple J Radio, into a thirst for a profoundly calmer and more humble life.We also explore a yoga therapy perspective on overcoming addiction and what we can all do to move through our addictive patterns.2024-01-231h 01
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanHow To Identify Unhelpful Intimate Relationship Patterns with Shane TurnerThis episode takes yet another plot twist, with an indepth and intimate chat between two yoga teachers, together for 13 years, having raised 6 children between them and at times, holding on for dear life.In this episode I invited in my own wingman, Shane Turner, and we put ourselves - and our relationship - under the microscope to reveal our own patterns, the conditioning that we developed through our own parent's relationships and the ones we've developed during our time together. We talk about the good, the icky and the problematic (or should I say pivotal?)....2024-01-031h 13
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanSex and Sexuality with Jo BrownWelcome to the DISSOLVING PATTERNS series of Lissie Turner Presents... where Lissie takes you deep into the wiring of the human mind, through the unhealthy, unhelpful and harmful patterns that make us suffer. Through common negative patterns around food, alcohol, social media, sex, gaming, money, drugs, politics, religion and more, as well as through the deepest most pervasive patterns around love, ego, desire, disdain and fear, Lissie will take you on a journey through the most subversive threads of the human neural tapestry to find out not only how you tick but more importantly, who you are and how...2023-11-0142 min
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanYael Stone and Joey Kellock Live From Splendour In The GrassRecently at Splendour In The Grass, the Lissie Turner Presents... podcast took to the Forum stage for the season finale, with not one but two phenomenal guests.Take a listen as we dive deeply into unexpected connections that can rock our world, boiled egg throwing, life-changing lasagne, low carbon skills, love that ambushes, action born from eczema born from anxiety, rainbows out of dolphin holes and so much more.Yael Stone is an actor and environmental action-ist - Founder of Hi Neighbour and star in Orange Is The New Black, Blaze, Firebite, One Night, Bay...2023-08-0956 min
How I quit alcohol171. Like a version, integrating the old and new with Lissie TurnerAs creator of JJJ"s like a version, Lissie Tuner aka (Mel in the morning) has lived a big trashbaggy life, the partying with celebrities and enjoying the fruits of her own success. With the recent countdown of Like A Version, Lissie has been thrown back into the public spotlight for part in creating such an iconic institution in Australian music industry. Over 10 years sober and 10 years away from that old life, Lissie and I talk about the merging of the two lives. How can we bring in the elements of what was good in our old life, refine...2023-07-2248 min
Sisters in StokeEpisode 6: Lissie Turner- Stoked on Dissolving PatternsEvery so often you just click with someone, and this was certainly my experience with today’s guest, Lissie Turner. This episode is longer
than usual and there’s a reason for that. The laughter, tears and conversation flowed as we dove deep again and again into a lot of topics and it had serious "You hang up first! No...YOU hang up first!" vibes by the end. I'm a lil' bit enamoured y'all and I hope you love it as much as we did.
Lissie Turner (also known as Mel Bampton) is a mother, grandmother, former radio...2023-04-101h 40
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanCrafting Big Energy Into Creativity with Patience HodgsonJingi Wallah! Welcome back to Lissie Turner Presents... the podcast that explores the richness of extraordinary, every day humans. That unpicks and unpacks the tricky stuff - life, death, love, getting kids off to school on time, adulting, childhood, personal tragedies and triumphs, the little and the big wisdoms that rise to the surface as we rollick along this wild human adventure.In this episode, Lissie presents the bouncy, sparkly, kind, optimistic, fun and forgiving Patience Hodgson. Most famously known as the lead singer of Brisbane band The Grates, her backstory involves a tiny, TINY island, a...2023-02-081h 15
Mel Bampton Presents...How HumanThe Great Wisdom Smorgasbord with EVERYBODYThis luscious, wisdom-filled season finale, is a pastiche of the entirety of this debut season of Lissie Turner Presents... A mind-blowing collection of story snippets, a treasure chest brimming with gems, an unbelievably awesome cast of outstanding humans and heartaching, life-affirming, life-changing, inspirational tales chopped up into bite-sized chunks of chewy goodness.As far as pods go, you'd be hard pressed to find an episode as diverse, as colourful, as informative and as stellar as this one - a showcase of excellence and a very loud reminder, that you're life is YOUR life and it is there...2022-12-211h 10