The Unsuccessful Stories
Where people share the real story behind the success story.
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Bachelor star turned content creator Tara Pavlovic describes herself as a ‘professional pisstaker’. Since leaving the reality TV world, she’s cultivated a highly engaged, significant online following by documenting everything about her life- from mum life to new hobbies (did someone say drums?) and all the mundane and hilarious moments of daily life.
As someone who is an ‘open book’ and always s...
This week’s guest is Emma Hakansson, an activist, model, founder, author, advocate and more. Emma is the founding director of Collective Fashion Justice, a charity dedicated to creating a total ethics fashion system which prioritises the wellbeing of people, animals and the planet, before profit. She is also the author of three books including Total Ethics Fashion.
We talk about how she started Collective Fashion Justic...
Today's guest is Marc Ryan AKA The Beautiful Bogan.
Marc is a comedian who makes jokes about topics usually not spoken about. Marc is dedicated to normalising conversations about mental illness, drawing from his personal battles with PTSD & suicidal ideation.
He talks about living with mental illness, tasting unexpected comedy success and why he prefers performing in regional town halls, to city stages.
If yo...
Today I am joined by Andy Buchanan.
Andy has been a runner since he was a kid, growing up on the athletics track in Bendigo, in country Victoria. He holds the Australian record for the marathon, running the Valencia marathon in 2:06:22 last year.
As we discuss, Andy is relatively new to the marathon distance, the Valencia was just his sixth and his Olympic debut in Paris was his fifth.
In this episode, we talk about how...
Today I am joined by Lauren Trevan.
Lauren is a mum, author, former nurse, criminology student and domestic violence advocate. Lauren always wanted a family and thought when she had kids, she'd be happy. She found herself in a coercive controlling relationship and felt the rug pulled out beneath her, when she found out unbelievable news about what her partner had been doing. Lauren's story is one of courage, losing yourself, and f...
Today I am joined by Narelle Fraser.
Narelle was a member of Victoria Police for 27 years, 15 of those as a Detective ‘doing time’ at the Rape and Homicide Squads and Missing Persons Unit, but dedicating much of her career to investigating child abuse and sex offences.
In this episode, she talks about how her world crumbled in 2012 with an unexpected PTSI diagnosis... but how losing her beloved career, and her sen...
Everyone loves a success story. But what about the real story?
Introducing The Unsuccessful Stories.
It's a space where people talk about failure, hard lessons, unexpected challenges.. and all the messy bits you don't post on Instagram.
Your host is Journalist Shannon Schubert.
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TikTok: @unsuccessfulstories.pod
Music is by the wonderful @timothylili check hi...
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