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Clementine Ford's Big Sister Hotline
Welcome to Clementine Ford's Big Sister Hotline: the no-nonsense feminist advice line that doesn’t mince its words but always leads with love.Best-selling author, writer, and fearless feminist trailblazer Clementine Ford returns with her newly relaunched award-winning podcast, here to guide you thro...
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How Do You Find the Energy to Smash the Patriarchy When the Patriarchy Smashes You?
This week on the Big Sister Hotline, Clem takes on the impossible weight of fighting patriarchy from within its walls. Our listener writes about a wor...
Should I Walk Away From My Addicted Ex, Even If It Feels Like Abandoning Her?
This week on the Big Sister Hotline, Clem unpacks the painful tension between love and self-protection when someone you care for is trapped in addicti...
Big Sister Meditation: On Loneliness and Belonging
This week on the Big Sister Hotline, Clem introduces a different kind of episode; a guided meditation. A gentle practice to help you sit with loneline...
Is It Worth Seeking an AuDHD Diagnosis if I’m Scared It Will Come Back Negative and Prove I’m a Shy, Lazy, Disorganised Weirdo?
This week on the Big Sister Hotline, we’re diving into the tender, complicated terrain of neurodivergence - from the anxiety of seeking an ADHD or aut...
Should I Cut Ties With My Sister After Her Cruel Remarks, Even If It Means Losing My Niece?
This week on the Big Sister Hotline, Clem is delving into the raw terrain of family conflict; when the people we’re told to love unconditionally becom...
Do Protests Actually Influence Politicians or Create Meaningful Change?
This week on the Big Sister Hotline, we’re talking about protest; why it matters, what it achieves, and how it keeps us human in fractured times. From...
Should I Keep Trying to Reconnect With a Former Work Friend Who Hurt Me?
This week on the Big Sister Hotline, Clem unpacks the heartbreak of friendship. Those moments when trust dissolves into silence, workplaces become bat...
How Do I Rebuild My Self-Worth and Parent Confidently After Leaving an Abusive Relationship?
In this episode of Big Sister Hotline, Clem responds to a listener who has just left an emotionally abusive relationship and is navigating the challen...
How Do You Make Real Friends in Your 50s When You Feel Lonely, Shy and Unsure Where to Start?
In this episode of Big Sister Hotline, Clem responds to a listener in her fifties who writes about feeling lonely and unsure how to make new friends....
Should I Have Another Baby With My Ex?
This week on The Big Sister Hotline, we hear from a listener who is nearly 40, co-parenting with her ex, and longing for another baby. They still orbi...
How Do I Trust a Potential Sexual Partner With My Body When I've Been Humiliated & Exploited In The Past?
In the first episode of the newly relaunched Clementine Ford's Big Sister Hotline, Clem dives deep into a listener's struggle with intimacy, trust, an...
Welcome (Back) to The Big Sister Hotline
Welcome to The Big Sister Hotline: the no-nonsense feminist advice line that doesn’t mince its words but always leads with love.
Best-selling au...
And Just Like That, a special crossover episode
In this special crossover episode between Big Sister Hotline and Cherchez La Femme, lifelong friends Clementine Ford and Karen Pickering have a gasbag...
Big Sister Hotline: S02E14 Feat. LAURA NAGY
This week, I talk to filmmaker, podcaster and story doula, LAURA NAGY. Laura's most recent work is a podcast series on Audible. When Laura experienced...
Big Sister Hotline: S02E13 Feat. KAREN PICKERING
CN: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault and rape, homicide and vigilantism.
Hello there everyone! I've tinkered with the format o...
Big Sister Hotline: HOW WE LOVE EXCERPT
CN: This episode contains very fleeting references to body image, eating disorders and fatphobia. It is the recollections of a teenage girl.
Wel...
Big Sister Hotline: S02E11, Feat. LAUREN LATELY
Hello, and welcome to the Big Sister Hotline! We’re back this week with the wonderful LAUREN LATELY! Lauren is a public servant and book lover who liv...
Big Sister Hotline: S02E10, Feat. RACHEL MCPHAIL
CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussion of racism, colonisation, and reference to Aboriginal deaths from Covid. There is also a question that r...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E9, Feat. YVES REES
CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussion of gender dysphoria, transphobia and a brief reference to eating disorders.
Hello, and welcome to...
Big Sister Hotline: AJA BARBER
Hello, and welcome BACK to the Big Sister Hotline! I’ve been on hiatus for a few months, partly because I was taking time off to finish my book (out o...
Introducing Everybody Knows
In November 2020, an Instagram account began to publish anonymous stories of harassment, abuse and
assault in the Australian music industry.The...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E7, Feat. Karen Pickering
CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussion of men’s violence against women, sexual assault, rape, historical allegations, and reference to suicide...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E6, Feat. ADA CONROY
CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussion of men’s violence against women, domestic abuse, domestic homicide and men’s behavioural change
I...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E5, Feat. CARA MACB
CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussion of fatphobia, eating disorders and disordered eating, sexual experiences involving men’s desires that m...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E4 Feat. KIRSTY RUTHERFORD
This week, I’m proud to welcome to the Hotline an incredible educator, anti-racism activist, mother and friend KIRSTY RUTHERFORD! Kirsty is a passiona...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E3 Feat. APRIL HELENE HORTON
APRIL HELENE HORTON aka THE BODZILLA returns to the hotline for her second appearance! April has recently become the face of Curvy Swimwear, the first...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E2 Feat. KOA BECK
This week, I'm joined by KOA BECK, author of the incredible new book, "White Feminism". The book is a blistering examination of how white feminism ali...
Big Sister Hotline: S2E1 Feat. LAURA BATES
Welcome to the very first episode of the hotline’s SECOND SEASON!
My guest this week is the extraordinary Laura Bates. She’s a writer, activist...
REPLAY! Big Sister Hotline, with SAYOMI ARIYAWANSA
Replaying this amazing episode from season 1, with human right lawyer and all round excellent person, SAYOMI ARIYAWANSA! We talk about Sayomi's work,...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 45, Feat. IJEOMA OLUO
In this very special episode of the BSH, I'm joined by the incredible IEOMA OLUO. Ijeoma is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, "So You...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 44, Feat. LOU SANZ
I'm joined this week in a special DOUBLE HEADER with one of my best friends, LOU SANZ. Lou is a filmmaker, screenwriter, creator and working mother li...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 43, Feat. DANI ADRIANA
This week’s episode features the sensational DANI ADRIANA, a noted body positivity and fat liberation activist living in far North Queensland. Dani ha...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 42, Feat. NEVO ZISIN
I was so pleased to welcome someone I admire enormously and am also proud to call friend onto the Hotline this week. NEVO ZISIN is a non-binary, Jewis...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 41, Feat. JILL STARK
This week, I’m joined by my good friend JILL STARK to talk about anxiety, lockdown and some of the tools we can use to ground us when we’re feeling fi...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 40, Feat. ALEXANDRA COLLIER
I had an excellent conversation this week with ALEXANDRA COLLIER, a writer, theatre maker and sole mother by choice. Ally is one of the growing number...
Big Sister Hotline: Bonus Episode Feat. TEDDY DUNN
Hello listeners!
So, I was TWO HOURS into the edit on this week's planned episode with Alexandra Collier and Audition crashed and swallowed ever...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 39, Feat. YVIE JONES
This week’s guest is no stranger to the limelight. YVIE JONES became a household name when she joined the cast of Gogglebox. She went on to feature in...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 37, Feat. SAYOMI ARIYAWANSA
I’m so excited to introduce you to this week’s guest! SAYOMI ARIYAWANSA is a human rights lawyer and researcher looking at the circumstances of migran...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 36, Feat. ALYSSA HO
Hello everyone! Apologies for no episode last week - I took a much needed break. But we're back this week with the very excellent ALYSSA HO, who you m...
Big Sister Hotline: Episode 35, Feat. PANDORA SYKES
How do we know we're doing it right?
This is the question that plagues so many of us, particularly with the excessive influence of social media,...