This interview is with Mia Freedman. I feel like Mia Freedman needs no introduction! But I will introduce her anyway.
Mia Freedman is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of the Mamamia Women’s Media Company in Australia.She very famously started Mamamia sitting at her kitchen table in the the aftermath of walking away from a big job in TV that was a TOTAL disaster.
Mamamia now has an audience of more than six and a half million women every month and is also the largest women’s podcast network in the world, with over 173 million listens and 52 different shows. Mia has written multiple books, include Strife, which was the inspiration for the recently released TV series of the same name on Binge.
She also founded Lady Start up, is a business activation course for women.
She’s great on Instagram and she got a newsletter called Babble that I reckon is home to her best work.
Mia Freedman is someone who’s consistently ahead of the curve, she takes very interesting next steps. And she’s a big of supporter of women – that’s a thing that comes across in this interview.
Five quick questions
- What is the best thing you’ve bought for less than $100 in the last 6 months?
Mini can of hairspray ($3.50). When I wear white, I spray it on the collar of anything before I wear it, the inside collar, a little bit the outside and down the chest and that means that you don’t get make-up marks on sunscreen marks on your clothes.
2 – Do have a quote or manta that resonates with you?
Out there somewhere, someone has a wound in the shape of your words.
3 – Have you ever been to a psychic? Why / why not?
No, I’ve deliberately never been to a psychic. I have a friend who’s a psychic, except sometimes she gets messages that are mangled for me.. I’m too suggestible.
I don’t go to psychics because I don’t believe them, I don’t go to psychics because I do.
4. Is variety a necessity or is it over-rated? For example would you have the same breakfast or lunch every day for 10 years.
I do. I have a green smoothie with the same thing in it every single day. I’ve had the same thing for lunch for years and then suddenly I just won’t want it anymore…
I think this is connected to my ADHD in that executive function and decision making takes up quite a lot of my energy and I prefer to reduce the number of variable…
I make as many things as easy as brushing my teeth so there’s no decision making.
5. Is there a person who has been influential on your life, though you’ve never met them or met them like, once?
Two, Glennon Doyle and Elizabeth Gilbert.
The First Time podcast 