Her Best Life

Her Best Life

Best friends Jackie Henderson and Gemma O'Neill are on the quest to live their best lives. Listen if you want to live yours too, or want to laugh at their attempts! Her Best Life is true girl chat. Raw, vulnerable, unfiltered conversations on topics such as sex, relationships, healing, careers and it might include some amateur astrology. Follow us @wearebestiesofficial Check out the Red Flag Project here https://www.wearebesties.com/courses Episodes each Wednesday

Episodes

August 27, 2025 14 mins

After Gemma’s recent trip to a local sex store was a little more vanilla than she’d have liked, Jackie arranged a surprise with Love Honey who have kindly gifted a selection of toys for her to spice things up! In this bonus episode, Jackie talks her through what each one does...  

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Dead rats, signs from above and disastrous stories about meeting the parents, this week’s podcast is quite the rollercoaster as Gemma prepares to take her relationship with Scott to the next level! Plus, Jackie and Gemma dissect viral TV show The Summer I Turned Pretty and how women around the world are responding to the different male characters.

Are you Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah? 

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August 19, 2025 48 mins

To start our 50th episode Gemma shares a wild story about overcoming her unlikely fear of sex stores and Jackie introduces her to anal beads! 

The ladies then answer your questions on red flag friendships, money versus happiness, addiction, making new friends as an adult and co-parenting.

Thanks to all of you lovely listeners for joining us since the start of Her Best Life!

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August 12, 2025 49 mins

Since last week’s episode Gemma has been bed bound with pneumonia and Jackie is back on the dating apps and went on a first date with someone she met with earlier this year... but will there be a second date with him? Plus, the pair talk high functioning anxiety in women and when manifesting coming true. 

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August 5, 2025 40 mins

Gemma’s been attending sex education classes at her son’s school and learned something new she couldn’t wait to share with Jackie! Plus, the Besties talk resentment in relationships, vibrating to complete gratefulness and questionable massage parlours.

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When it comes to empowering women and proving that patience and persistence pays off, nobody is doing it quite like influencer turned entrepreneur Brittney Saunders. The 32-year-old joins Jackie and Gemma this week to talk “winging it” to the top, how an unhappy childhood motivated her to make things happen and why she won’t gatekeep her secrets to success.

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July 22, 2025 36 mins

A surprising admission from Gwyneth Paltrow led to an unlikely conversation about oral sex, unfulfilling encounters and if an emotional connection guarantees sexual compatibility? Plus, Jackie’s recent trip to Fiji led to a bizarre realisation about the underwater world that Gemma was not expecting! 

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July 15, 2025 26 mins

As Gemma’s relationship with Scott grows stronger, this week she reflects on how they’ve navigated blending their families together and shares some tips she’s learned. Meanwhile, Jackie is amazed by Gemma’s surprising psychic prediction!

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This week, Jackie and Gemma debate whether cruise ships the ultimate holiday, or just a floating nightmare? Then, the girls dive into something a little deeper: the surprising impact of micro-rejections in relationships. How much do the little things really matter—and are we even aware we’re doing them?

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This week, Jackie takes her crystal obsession to a whole new level — literally halting her entire home build to bury them in the ground for “good energy.” Gemma then opens up about a recent breakdown, sharing the emotional toll of feeling completely overwhelmed. And then, Gemma reveals the truth behind Jackie’s mysterious “new man.”

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June 24, 2025 43 mins

Has the spark fizzled out of your longterm relationship? This week Jackie and Gemma are talking about spicing up your sex life with a partner, little changes you can make to bring back the intimacy, overcoming feeling undesirable and (in Jackie’s case) what not to do!

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June 17, 2025 35 mins

After completing the Big 5 run in South Africa, a very sore Gemma came straight to Jackie’s from the airport to unpack not just the run itself but what she’s learned about herself. The besties then talk determination, mental strength, and their battles with their bodies over the years. Plus, after an interesting weekend apart from Gem, Jackie is now a new woman with new hobbies, a new outlook on life and a newfound...

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Jackie and Gemma were joined by 250 of you lovely listeners for their first live show last week, and it was a night to remember! Before everybody started partying too hard, the girls recorded a live episode featuring SOME icks from Gemma’s boyfriend Scott, questions from the audience and an emotional letter that had everybody crying.

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June 3, 2025 43 mins

Be warned, this week’s episode has quite the horny start as a fantasy came true in Adelaide!

Plus, Jackie and Gemma discuss where men go wrong on dating apps and how to move on from bad relationships… no matter how much it may hurt to let go of the ‘what if’.

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It’s been a while now since Gemma got back together with her boyfriend Scott, and Jackie wanted to see how things are going… and there has been some ups and downs! Meanwhile, Jackie shares the sign from the universe that reminded her she’s on the right track as conversation jumps from mum guilt and societal pressures to feeling proud of what you’ve worked so hard to achieve. 

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May 22, 2025 3 mins

To our lovely Besties community, before Gemma heads to South Africa for her Big 5 run we’d love you all to join us for a drink at The Clovelly Hotel on Thursday, June 5 as a bit of a last minute girls night and fundraiser. Tickets are $50, you’ll get a free champagne upon arrival included with that and all proceeds go towards vital brain cancer research.

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In the second part to this week’s podcast, Gemma discusses for the first time the emotional moment she thought her friendship with Jackie may be over as their lives started going in different directions, and how they both now choose themselves everyday.

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After talking about manifesting and vision boards last week, today we want to really look into how you can vibrate at a higher level to help these things come through. Jackie and Gemma become emotional as they reflect on their own journeys, how they were able to move past their own grief and shame and how they now know they’re on the right track.

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Last year, we did an episode on manifesting where Gemma revealed what was on her vision board… but how many of those things have come true? Plus, Jackie reveals what she’s manifesting for her future – and it looks like one dream may become reality!

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In this week’s episode, Jackie opens up to Gemma about her body insecurities, the pressure she feels to look a certain way due to the criticism she faces daily and asks if you can still love yourself while wanting to look younger? It’s a very raw and vulnerable chat that Jackie and Gemma have surprisingly never had before.

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